Research Software

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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...

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...

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’...

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...

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...

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...

Lourens Veen·Jul 18, 2024

What Research Software Engineers can learn from Taylor Swift

14 It’s Friday night, 5 July 2024. After some out-of-this-world pizza and a couple of drinks with colleagues, I’m on my way to catching a late train home. I get to the station just...

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·Nov 2, 2023

Investing in people: anticipating the future of research software

Authored by Kim Hartley and Michelle Barker Photo credit: ADORE.Software at the International Research Software Funders WorkshopThis article was cross-posted on Adore.software and...

Malte Lüken·Aug 31, 2023

Coming Soon: Conditional Process Models in JASP

By Malte Lüken, Thijs Vroegh, Johnny van Doorn, and Eric-Jan Wagenmakers This post is also published on the JASP blog. Photo by Huma Kabakci on Unsplash Many students, teachers and...

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...

Patrick Bos·Apr 6, 2023

Ditching Docker Hub: serve research software with GHCR + Zenodo

Or pay the price… that Docker Hub may charge you Scrooge McDuck who throws a Docker container in the trash in the style of Disney… according to Stable Diffusion. As a researcher, a...

eScience Editorial Team·Dec 16, 2022

Machine Learning as a tool for political speech analysis

The following example of a sentence from Putin’s invasion-speech may clarify what CM annotation of texts involves: ‘The purpose of this operation is to protect people Effect who, f...

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...

eScience Editorial Team·Oct 27, 2022

How to manage your software

Today the Netherlands eScience Center and NWO released a Practical Guide to Software Management Plans (SMPs). The Software Management Plan Working Group developed the Guide with in...

eScience Editorial Team·Apr 22, 2022

Using machine learning to tell apart rain, snow, hail and fog from cell tower data

Using machine learning to tell apart rain, snow, hail and fog from cell tower data eScience Editorial Team·Apr 21, 2022 Next, we explored whether CMLs can be used to detect fog. Fo...

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eScience Editorial Team·Apr 11, 2022

Can machine learning help us improve stroke rehabilitation? A step towards personalized therapy

Along the way, the biggest issue was our data set itself. Because data collection of human movements is a job that takes time and our patient group is small, we only have a limited...

eScience Editorial Team·Oct 9, 2020

Using C++ in a web app with WebAssembly

By Stefan Verhoeven, Faruk Diblen, Jurriaan H. Spaaks, Adam Belloum, and Christiaan Meijer. Let’s say you have some C++ code laying around that you would like to make available to...

Lourens Veen·Sep 28, 2020

Use-after-free? No more with Valgrind

In my long career as a code detective, I have seen it all. I have travelled the high Cs, found Rubies and wrestled Pythons, and walked the alleyways of Fortran at night. Of course,...

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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Patrick Bos·Mar 18, 2020

Remote revolution at the eScience Center

Tools and practices for collaborating from home One of the core values of the Netherlands eScience Center is collaboration. We work with teams and even whole communities of scienti...

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...

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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·Jun 24, 2019

derse 2019 first conference for research software engineers in germany

written by Carlos Martinez-Ortiz and Florian Huber Facts What: First Conference for Research Software Engineers (RSE) in Germany When: 4-6 June 2019 Where: Albert Einstein Science...

eScience Editorial Team·Dec 17, 2018

using agile methods in scientific software development

Photo: www.unsplash.com Software plays an increasingly important role in all aspects of the modern scientific enterprise. The practice of developing scientific software, however,...

eScience Editorial Team·Dec 17, 2018

using agile methods in scientific software development 1

Photo: www.unsplash.com Software plays an increasingly important role in all aspects of the modern scientific enterprise. The practice of developing scientific software, however,...

Jurriaan H. Spaaks·Dec 11, 2018

the research software directory and how it promotes software citation

Improve the findability, citability, and reproducibility of research software By Jurriaan H. Spaaks, Stefan Verhoeven, Tom Klaver, Jason Maassen, (Netherlands eScience Center) and...

eScience Editorial Team·Apr 13, 2018

research and software perspectives from different communities

Last week the Principal Investigators collaborating with the eScience Center’s team came together to share experiences on collaborative research projects. Photography: Elodie Burri...