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26 articles · Latest December 5, 2025

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...

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...

Peter Kalverla·Aug 28, 2025

5 tips for writing a successful eScience Center proposal

22 Over the years, we’ve worked on a wide range of collaborative projects through our open calls. The most successful ones? They tend to have a few things in common right from the...

eScience Editorial Team·May 20, 2025

Scientific Community Building through Workshops: the NPLinker eScience experience

This blog post is written by Wageningen University & Research Assistant Professor Justin van der Hooft, who participates in the Open eScience Call 2021. His project “A communit...

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...

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...

Christiaan Meijer·Apr 5, 2024

Masking time-series for eXplainable AI

Why did my Machine Learning (ML) model make this decision? Is it paying attention to the right elements of the data we give it? Figure 1: In the signal on the left, the spike is a...

Reggie Cushing·Mar 26, 2024

The Dystopian Mirage: Blogging’s Descent with My Involvement

The Dystopian Mirage: Blogging’s Descent with My Involvement Photo by Steve Johnson on Unsplash Within the tumultuous realm of digital content creation, bloggers are confronted wit...

Abel Soares Siqueira·Oct 25, 2023

The Utopic Git History

If you love this article and can’t wait to read more about The Utopic Git History, please see this follow-up article(/achieving-utopic-git-history-4cc2a1fd3107?sk=88f3dac86d55ac183...

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Peter Kalverla·Oct 5, 2023

Analysis-ready climate data with ESMValCore

The “Easy IPCC” blog done differently Co-authored by Bouwe Andela In a recent blog post, Tom Nicholas presented a nice walkthrough of reproducing a famous IPCC figure with xarray-d...

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...

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...

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...

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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Florian Huber·Jan 31, 2023

Build your own mass spectrometry analysis pipeline in Python using matchms — part I

Python is a very powerful language and brings the potential for designing computational mass spectrometry analysis workflows of any desired type and complexity. Here, you can find...

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...

Ben van Werkhoven·Oct 20, 2022

Versioned documentation using only GitHub actions and GitHub pages

Today, I tried something new. Something that I wanted to have for quite a while for one of the main software projects that I’m working on. And that is: versioned documentation. Wit...

Stef Smeets·Jan 5, 2022

What is in the eScience toolbox: Stef on his favourite meshing library

Question: Hi Stef, for this blog series we are looking to highlight our developer’s favourite libraries. Stef: As research software engineers we always get excited by tools that ex...

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...

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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Patrick Bos·Feb 19, 2021

Twitter Bots, for Science!

How to build a bot to show Covid-19 vaccination progress Twitter bots have a really bad rep. Troll armies, spam, fake news… You name it, a bot’s done it. But what if we could harne...

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...

Hanno Spreeuw·Oct 21, 2019

eScience trends from ADASS 2019

The 2019 Conference on Astronomical Data Analysis and Software Systems (ADASS, 353 participants) took place in Groningen between 6 and 10 October, 2019. The aim of this annual conf...

Carlos Martinez-Ortiz·Oct 18, 2019

RSEConUK 2019

written by Niels Drost, Mateusz Kuzak and Carlos Martinez-Ortiz UK-RSE conference took place from the 17th to 19th of September 2019. This was my second RSE conference of the year,...

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...