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18 articles · Latest July 9, 2026

Stijn Heldens·Jul 9, 2026

How to Maximize your Science per Watt: Energy-Efficient GPU Computing at ISC 2026

> GPUs power many of today’s large-scale scientific simulations, data analysis workflows, and AI applications. However, all that computing power comes at a huge cost: energy usage....

eScience Editorial Team·Feb 11, 2026

Enabling best practices for sustainable software in the Natural & Engineering sciences (SS-NES)

Enabling best practices for sustainable software in the Natural & Engineering sciences (SS-NES) Authors: Roel Janssen, Jason Maassen and Carlos Martinez-Ortiz With the availabl...

eScience Editorial Team·Dec 9, 2025

Strengthening Research Software Management in Dutch UMCs: Highlights from the Second DReaMS Community Meetup

Strengthening Research Software Management in Dutch UMCs: Highlights from the Second DReaMS Community Meetup Written by Anna Niehues, Özgün Balaban, Magnus Palmblad, Mariia Steeghs...

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...

Carlos Martinez-Ortiz·Feb 10, 2025

Reproducible research with The Turing Way

The Netherlands eScience Center and Turing Way have long been collaborating on the common goal to improve reproducible research practices 1 A long time ago, in the far-away Amsterd...

eScience Editorial Team·Dec 20, 2024

Out of office: holiday mode activated

As the year winds down, the Netherlands eScience Center editorial team will be taking a short hiatus for the holidays to recharge and prepare for an exciting year ahead. While we’...

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·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...

Deekshitha·Jul 26, 2024

Decoding Research Software Impact: A Collaborative Journey

Decoding Research Software Impact: A Collaborative Journey On 23 April 2024, the first ‘National Research Software Day’ took place in Hilversum, the Netherlands. During the unconfe...

eScience Editorial Team·Nov 28, 2023

Navigating research software policies: Insights from the Dutch research community

Navigating research software policies: Insights from the Dutch research community Imagine you’re a researcher who developed a brilliant piece of software that may be useful to many...

eScience Editorial Team·Sep 21, 2023

Do you have 50.000 annotators?

Do you have 50.000 annotators? Written by eScience Center Fellow, Daniela Gawehns Photo by Shutterstock During ICT.open 2023, I organized a workshop for 40 computer scientists on r...

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·Jun 8, 2023

NL-RSE: What Open Science can learn from Open Source

NL-RSE meetups are bimonthly events where the Dutch community for Research Software Engineers comes together to learn new skills or hear inspiring talks by experts in the field of...

eScience Editorial Team·May 16, 2023

Creating a Community by Integrating Expertise, Tools and Ideas

A personal reflection on the first NPLinker eScience workshop for Natural Product Discovery By Justin van der Hooft This blog post is written by Wageningen University & Researc...

Adriënne Mendrik·Jun 14, 2021

#KonMari for Science? Tidying up Provenance…

The term provenance mostly originates from the art world, where it aids in authenticating historical objects. > “The primary purpose of tracing the provenance of an object or entit...

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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eScience Editorial Team·Mar 12, 2020

The Research Software Alliance (ReSA) and the Community Landscape

eScience Editorial Team·Mar 11, 2020 Some of the issues we’ve had in assembling this list are: How much interest in software does an organization need to have to be listed? When is...