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eScience Editorial Team·May 15, 2026

Co-Designing a Roadmap for Training on Research Software Templates and Code Auditing

Training materials are most effective when they are created hand-in-hand with the communities who will actually use them. Photo of the eventBy Manuel G. Garcia and Serkan Gigin. Tr...

Peter Kalverla·Dec 5, 2025

A special gift (December 5th)

Ode to the research software engineer 8 > Sinterklaas is a Dutch tradition featuring Saint Nicholas, who is said to arrive from Spain with his helpers and travel across rooftops to...

Netherlands eScience Center·Nov 6, 2025

From PhD Student to Auto-Tuning GPU Expert. Meet Floris-Jan.

Floris-Jan Willemsen has been a PhD student at the Netherlands eScience Center since 2021, working on auto-tuning GPU software as part of the CORTEX project under the supervision o...

eScience Editorial Team·Oct 23, 2025

Why companies win by investing in Open-Source Software

Why would a for-profit company want to invest in Open-Source Software? Our collaborator, prof. Eric-Jan Wagenmakers will tell you why. CC-BY license from: Kojima T, Oishi K, Matsub...

Carsten Schnober·Jul 10, 2025

Could AI be (in) FAIR?

Open Science is driven by FAIR principles. Made for data, adapted for software, how can they survive the current wave of "Artificial Intelligence"? Resistance from those selling it...

Pablo Rodríguez-Sánchez·Feb 20, 2025

FAIR principles: 5000 years of common sense

The FAIR acronym stands for Findable, Accessible, Interoperable and Reusable. If you are a researcher, certainly you’ve heard about FAIR principles. FAIR data, FAIR software, … It...

eScience Editorial Team·Dec 6, 2024

How much research output is really open, and how can we tell?

Written by Esther Plomp, Meron Vermaas, Carlos Martinez-Ortiz, Nemo Andrea, Ewan Cahen, Felix Weijdema, Dorien Huijser, Marta Teperek, Bjørn Bartholdy & Ana Parrón Cabañero. Du...

eScience Editorial Team·Dec 5, 2024

How is research software managed at UMCs? Insights from a first meetup

Written by eScience Center Fellow Thomas Pronk On October 7th, 2024, the Digital Competence Centers (DCCs) of the seven Dutch University Medical Centers (UMCs) had a meetup, joined...

eScience Editorial Team·Aug 22, 2024

Research software is critical to the future of AI-driven research

By Michelle Barker, Kim Hartley, Daniel S. Katz, Richard Littauer, Qian Zhang, Shurui Zhou, Jyoti Bhogal Cross-posted from ReSA and the Digital Research Alliance of Canada Photo cr...

Lieke de Boer·Jun 27, 2024

Transparency in research... and football

A strategy for dealing with subjectivity in research, and in football, is to expose it. The VAR system in football allows the referee to scrutinise video footage of players, decide...

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eScience Editorial Team·Mar 19, 2024

The FAIR for Research Software Principles after two years: an adoption update

By Michelle Barker, Leyla Jael Castro, Bernadette Fritzsch, Daniel S. Katz, Carlos Martinez-Ortiz, Anna Niehues, Alexander Struck, Qian Zhang Click here for citation information fo...

Peter Kalverla·Sep 11, 2023

ESMValTool: Recipes for solid climate science

ESMValTool: Recipes for solid climate science This story was coauthored by Peter Kalverla and Bouwe Andela Like an artisan chef can improvise a delicious meal, so too can a scienti...

Lieke de Boer·Apr 20, 2023

Researchers are not born engineers — why are they expected to know how to code?

I refuse to be too hard on my past self. It’s understandable that researchers, who juggle multiple projects and deadlines, do not have the time, energy or resources to become codin...

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...

Candace Moore·Feb 16, 2023

The medical chatbot will not see you now

Dr. Candace Makeda Moore, RSE and medical doctor, lays out what she believes the potential pitfalls and problems of AI chatbots in medicine are: closed source, discrimination, (ir)...

Florian Huber·Jan 31, 2023

Build a mass spectrometry analysis pipeline in Python using matchms — part II: Spec2Vec

After “part I” which gave an introduction on how to import, process, and analyze a tandem mass spectra dataset using Python and matchms, “part II” will add Spec2Vec to the game, a...

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Eva Viviani·Dec 19, 2022

Ceci n’est pas une peinture — making art with AI

Over time, the model ultimately learns how to discriminate between these two groups (Van Gogh vs. other) and outputs the probability that a new observation belongs to the Van Gogh’...

eScience Editorial Team·Nov 22, 2022

Software in the spotlight: launching the Research Software Directory

The RSD has been in use by the Netherlands eScience Center as a prototype for several years. Open source software for research lies at the heart of the mission of the Center. The e...

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Pablo Rodríguez-Sánchez·Jun 30, 2022

A single rule for better talks

If I had to take a single lesson from event managing, it would be this one: enforce the timing of your events. It can be awkward at times, but it is worth it. Photo by Alexandar To...

Gijs van den Oord·Dec 14, 2021

The new IPCC assessment report: stakes have been raised

In PRIMAVERA, a Horizon 2020 project, we focused upon the I/O machinery in a big European climate model EC-Earth. In particular, we were asked to come up with a solution to make th...

Patrick Bos·Nov 16, 2021

Combining ZeroMQ & POSIX signals

Use ppoll to handle EINTR once and for all Eventually, I found this article on EINTR in ZeroMQ by Martin Sustrik (ZeroMQ creator) himself. More precisely, in the comment section Am...

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...

Robin Richardson·May 31, 2021

(Nano)Publish your research with Python

Using nanopub, a high-level, user-friendly python interface to the nanopublication network For example, if you want to e.g. search for all nanopublications containing the text Pico...

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Felipe·Apr 14, 2021

Using Rust for Scientific Numerical applications: Learning from Past Experiences

Every experienced programmer knows that both their productivity depends on the abstraction level of the language. The fewer lines of code you write, the fewer bugs you introduce. H...

Netherlands eScience Center·Jul 23, 2020

Get up to speed with software sustainability — the WOSSS19 report and a look to the future

The audience discussed topics raised by the introductions, and as part of this they wrote material for the report in a process adapted from the speed blogging approach. Those who s...

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Netherlands eScience Center·Jun 8, 2020

Evidence for the importance of research software

● Recognising the importance of software in research: Research Software Engineers (RSEs), a UK example — Study is a case study that discusses the current challenges faced by RSEs a...

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Peter Kalverla·Mar 25, 2020

6 months of eScience: 6 lessons worth sharing

On the road towards FAIR and reproducible science. Ever find yourself hesitating to send that important email, cursor hovering over the send button? For me, it’s grown into a curio...

Ben van Werkhoven·Dec 2, 2019

FAIR Software at the 2019 eScience Symposium

An important part of giving proper attribution is to make your software citable and to cite others when you build upon their work. Stephan and others have developed the Citation Fi...

Carlos Martinez-Ortiz·Oct 3, 2019

NARCIS connects to the Research Software Directory

Software now officially listed as a research output The “FAIR Software Route” website will be presented by DANS and eScience Center at the eScience Symposium this November. Watch o...

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Florian Huber·Jul 15, 2019

King - Man + Woman = King ?

Some of the best known examples used to explain the power of prominent Natural Language Processing tools (like Word2Vec) only seem to work with some cheating. One of the most impor...

Florian Huber·Jun 14, 2019

big questions — small data.

At the eScience Center our mission is to “digitally enhance science”. How to do this other than by the biggest tech-superpowers of our time: super-computing, big-data, and of cours...

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...

Faruk Diblen·Jan 16, 2018

spot visual scientific data analytics made easy

If you are using scientific visualization tools in your work then you should read this post. If you are developing a visualization code for your scientific data then you must defin...

eScience Editorial Team·Dec 20, 2017

introducing nl-rse

Bootstrapping the community of Research Software Engineers in the Netherlands. Research software has become an indispensable instrument for virtually every academic researcher. A c...

Ronald van Haren·Aug 23, 2017

predicting temperatures in your street

The next big thing in weather forecasting Example of a high resolution weather forecast at 500m (right) and 100m (left) resolution eScience Research Engineers at the Netherlands eS...

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Co-Designing a Roadmap for Training on Research Software Templates and Code Auditing

A special gift (December 5th)

From PhD Student to Auto-Tuning GPU Expert. Meet Floris-Jan.

Why companies win by investing in Open-Source Software

Could AI be (in) FAIR?

FAIR principles: 5000 years of common sense

How much research output is really open, and how can we tell?

How is research software managed at UMCs? Insights from a first meetup

Research software is critical to the future of AI-driven research

Transparency in research... and football

The FAIR for Research Software Principles after two years: an adoption update

ESMValTool: Recipes for solid climate science

Researchers are not born engineers — why are they expected to know how to code?

eWaterCycle: Anecdotes of a FAIR expedition

The medical chatbot will not see you now

Build a mass spectrometry analysis pipeline in Python using matchms — part II: Spec2Vec

Ceci n’est pas une peinture — making art with AI

Software in the spotlight: launching the Research Software Directory

A single rule for better talks

The new IPCC assessment report: stakes have been raised

Combining ZeroMQ &amp; POSIX signals

Literate Programming in Science

(Nano)Publish your research with Python

Using Rust for Scientific Numerical applications: Learning from Past Experiences

Get up to speed with software sustainability — the WOSSS19 report and a look to the future

Evidence for the importance of research software

6 months of eScience: 6 lessons worth sharing

FAIR Software at the 2019 eScience Symposium

NARCIS connects to the Research Software Directory

King - Man + Woman = King ?

big questions — small data.

how do we evaluate research software to meet different requirements

spot visual scientific data analytics made easy

introducing nl-rse

predicting temperatures in your street

Combining ZeroMQ & POSIX signals