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7 articles · Latest January 16, 2025

eScience Editorial Team·Jan 16, 2025

My experience of getting codechecked

6 By eScience Fellow Eduard Klapwijk This year I was finalizing and publishing one of my own research projects. My coauthors and I took many steps to make the project as reproducib...

Barbara Vreede·Aug 30, 2023

Why your research deserves to be an R package

1 If after reading this post you are motivated to make your own R package, consider joining our upcoming workshop! Free tickets are now available. If you are an R user, think about...

Peter Kalverla·Aug 21, 2023

Lilio — a calendar package for machine learning with time series data

Designed with the S2S community, available for everyone These are just some of the questions that scientists in the field of sub-seasonal to seasonal (S2S) weather and climate pred...

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...

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...

Florian Huber·Nov 10, 2020

Being a minority in fancy coding land: a Windows user.

How I slowly went from my imposter-syndrome hiding to accepting what I am. A Windows user, at least most of the time. (Don’t worry, this is NOT one of those Linux vs. Windows posts...

Vincent van Hees·Sep 11, 2017

10 ways to keep your successful scientific software alive

Imagine, you invest a lot of time and energy in the development of a piece of scientific software. The work pays off and scientists start to use your software in their research. Ho...