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37 articles · Latest April 23, 2026

Faruk Diblen·Apr 23, 2026

Provenance in the age of AI: Why we need AI Declarations for more transparency

In research, if our methodology is not transparent, our results are not verifiable. Using AI to help generate code or synthesize data is dramatically affecting transparency, sustai...

eScience Editorial Team·Mar 18, 2026

Give Me Data, Yesterday

I want this data, and I want it yesterday!This post is adapted, with the author’s permission and collaboration, from this post in his personal blog. This is a quest. A quest for t...

Jesse Gonzalez·Feb 26, 2026

Making LLMs Work for Science: How AI-Powered Storytelling Helps Researchers Communicate Their Software

Large language models get a lot of attention in research for what they might replace. We wanted to explore what they can enable: better, faster scientific communication that actual...

Patrick Bos·Sep 25, 2025

Be like Jurriaan

Write copy-pasteable READMEs for developers The main message of this post is short: Thank you, Jurriaan H. Spaaks , for including developer’s READMEs in the zenodraft and the zenod...

Flavio Hafner·May 6, 2025

Benchmarking LLM fine-tuning on different HPC systems

43 > Authors: Flavio Hafner (Netherlands eScience center), Mattie Niznik (Princeton Research Computing), Malte Lüken (Netherlands eScience center), Alessandra Maranca (Princeton Un...

Suvayu·Mar 13, 2025

A debugging journey into the unknown (part I)

Faced with a buggy library, most people will just give up and wait for a patch to be released. Certainly not our engineers. NASA/JPL-CaltechIt all started with a colleague trying t...

Olga Lyashevska·Jan 23, 2025

How to run a containerized Agent-Based Model on HPC

This blog was written by Faruk Diblen and Olga Lyashevska. Imagine you are preparing Torta Caprese for your friend’s birthday. You have a recipe that consistently delights everyone...

Lourens Veen·Nov 27, 2024

Is scientific software the new land grab?

3 Scientific software platforms are not always as open as they look at first sight. Avoid getting locked in with this advice! “Do you know what CodeOcean is? Should I do this?” As...

eScience Editorial Team·Nov 26, 2024

From Pandemic Response to Package Development

By Fenne Riemslagh We had the pleasure of sitting down with Kirsten Bulsink, a data scientist at the Dutch National Institute for Public Health and the Environment (RIVM). Our disc...

eScience Editorial Team·Nov 14, 2024

Why should you care about reproducible code — and how to get started?

On 23 April 2024, the first ‘National Research Software Day’ took place in Hilversum, the Netherlands. During the unconference part of the program, Eduard Klapwijk ran the session...

eScience Editorial Team·Sep 19, 2024

National Research Software Day: National Infrastructures for Sustainable Software

Written by Luisa Orozco, Daniela Gawehns, and Carlos Martinez-Ortiz The first National Research Software Day already took place more than five months ago in Hilversum, on 23 April...

Peter Kalverla·Sep 5, 2024

(Un)wieldy workflows with WRF

(Un)wieldy workflows with WRF Streamlining experiments with the Weather Research and Forecasting model The Weather Research and Forecasting model, WRF for short, is a beautiful pie...

Lourens Veen·Aug 1, 2024

Scripting vs. Programming

Lourens Veen·Apr 26, 2023 Any remaining differences are usually due to particular features supported by certain languages. In R for example, you can write down a statistical model...

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Carlosmurilorocha·Jun 27, 2024

Quantum Computing for Quantum Chemistry with qc2

Quantum Computing is a rapidly evolving field that has the potential to transform the way we approach complex computational problems. Quantum Chemistry stands out as a prime applic...

Carlos Martinez-Ortiz·Oct 26, 2023

Open Science Festival: What infrastructures do we need to preserve research software?

written by Luisa Orozco, Daniela Gawehns, and Carlos Martinez-Ortiz Introduction Earlier this year, the 2023 edition of the Dutch Open Science Festival was held. We (the eScience C...

Stef Smeets·Jun 20, 2023

Reduce, reuse, recycle: save the planet one GitHub action at a time

Reduce, reuse, recycle: save the planet one GitHub action at a time 53 Written by Stef Smeets and Sander van Rijn. Photo by Ralph (Ravi) Kayden on UnsplashAsk any environmentalist...

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Rob van Nieuwpoort·Mar 21, 2023

Defining the roles of research software

Examples: In the biochemistry realm, software is used for modeling molecules for use in a next-gen diagnostics or therapeutics: we want to design some molecule in software with som...

Pablo Rodríguez-Sánchez·Mar 16, 2023

The bike and the laptop

Reflections on machines that help you Photo by Cale Weaver on Unsplash Students pay attention (sometimes) I was 17, my face was covered in acne and my hair was (awkwardly) long. I...

Peter Kalverla·Mar 9, 2023

eWaterCycle: Anecdotes of a FAIR expedition

The journey of a group of hydrologists and research software engineers after FAIRer research software. A grand challenge This story begins in April, 2019. A group of hydrologists a...

eScience Editorial Team·Mar 2, 2023

Minds for Mobile Agents: speeding up social distancing simulations

This blog post is written by University of Amsterdam researchers Charlotte Tanis and Andrew Heathcote, who participated in the Small-Scale Initiative for Software Performance Optim...

eScience Editorial Team·Nov 23, 2022

The Future of Research Software

By Michelle Barker (Research Software Alliance (ReSA)), Neil Chue Hong (Software Sustainability Institute UK), Maria Cruz (Dutch Research Council), Daniel S. Katz (National Center...

Abel Soares Siqueira·Nov 3, 2022

10 examples of embedding Julia in C/C++

The trapezoid function has 4 arguments, therefore we have to use the general jlcall that we mentioned before. The arguments of jlcall are the function, an array of jlvaluet argumen...

Patrick Bos·Jul 19, 2022

What do entropy, entanglement, cosmology, life, and fake news have in common?

Report on the Information Universe 4 conference (Answer to the above question below obligatory excruciatingly long-winded intro!) In the past week, I have rediscovered writing. Wri...

eScience Editorial Team·Mar 31, 2022

How machine learning could help Simone to play Ludo

Simone is a 12 year old girl. She loves to play Ludo with her mum, dad and her little brother. However, when she pushes the dice switch in the middle of the Ludo board game, she c...

Abel Soares Siqueira·Feb 11, 2022

Can Python with Julia be faster than low-level code?

Part 3 of the series on achieving high performance with high-level code Here comes a new challenger: It is Julia. Photo by Joran Quinten on Unsplash ( https://unsplash.com/photos/M...

Sven van der Burg·Dec 21, 2021

Still coding texts by hand for social science text analysis? Use Doccano instead to speed up the process!

Sven van der Burg·Dec 21, 2021 Coder-centered: It is designed to make the coder’s life as easy as possible. You view one text at a time at the center of your screen. All you have t...

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Ben van Werkhoven·Nov 25, 2021

Kernel Tuner tutorial at Supercomputing 2021

A view of St. Louis from the Gateway Arch. Photo by Floris-Jan Willemsen. November 2021 — Together with my colleagues, Alessio Sclocco, Stijn Heldens, and Floris-Jan Willemsen, we...

Peter Kalverla·Sep 21, 2021

Pandemic-proof: shaping the future of scientific exchange

The 2021 (virtual) meeting of the European Meteorological Society started off with the collaborative Future Science Cafe. Inspired by the rapid developments in remote collaboration...

Johan Hidding·Jul 7, 2021

Literate Programming in Science

Photo by Prateek Katyal on Unsplash 2\. The How This is part 2 in a series on Literate Programming in Science. If you haven’t yet, please read part 1 “The Why”. > Literate program...

Fakhereh (Sarah) Alidoost·Jan 23, 2020

Environmental processes are linked, but how?

An introduction to copulas. Climate change challenge badge, FAO Competition for natural resources such as water and land is increasing due to population growth, industrial developm...

eScience Editorial Team·Dec 17, 2019

The success of reliable integration of renewable energy

Countries, companies and individuals are increasingly aware of the need to keep our world clean by supporting sustainable energy. The landscape is evolving rapidly. Of the various...

Ronald van Haren·Feb 5, 2019

fairifying ewatercycle

Towards reproducible science and better flooding forecasts Growing populations, economies, industries and urbanization are increasing the demand for water, while extreme weather sp...

Jurriaan H. Spaaks·Dec 20, 2018

portable hpc workflows with snakemake and xenon

Migrate your scientific workflows to different remote machines in minutes instead of days Image courtesy of WallpaperUP Scientific workflows are often coupled to the computer syste...

eScience Editorial Team·Dec 3, 2018

how do we evaluate research software to meet different requirements

Software written to solve research questions gains more recognition as a research result of its own and requires evaluation in terms of usability as well as its potential to facil...

eScience Editorial Team·Nov 29, 2018

nice hydrographs for everyone from everyone

“Nice hydrographs! Can you now compare your model to ‘that other hydrology groups model’?” The phd student suppresses the urge to roll her eyes. Her supervisor is asking her to go...

Janneke van der Zwaan·Aug 1, 2018

jump start your python project with this template

Spend less time creating high quality software Use our python template to build better software. At the Netherlands eScience Center, we believe that better software leads to better...

eScience Editorial Team·Jul 11, 2018

the end of theory for earth sciences

“The end of theory.” This is the title of an article in Wired Magazine 10 years ago. No theory needed, the data deluge allows us to extract any knowledge by exploring data. This ne...