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Making 3D Real: How 3DLab Is Bringing Scientific Data to Life

Imagine trying to understand the structural integrity of a Roman ruin, or the complex vascular network of a biological organ, by looking at a flat map or static 2D photographs. You might get the general idea, but the depth, the context, and the reality are lost in translation. W...

Jun 25, 2026·Thijs van Lankveld

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Research Software Engineers in the Age of GenAI: Same Value, Changing Practice

Stephan Druskat, Michelle Barker, Ian Cosden, Cunliang Geng, Robert Haines, Daniel S. Katz, Joseph Shingleton, Ben van W...

May 28, 2026

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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...

May 15, 2026

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Provenance in the age of AI: Why we need AI Declarations for more transparency

In research, if our methodology is not transparent, our results are not verifiable. Using AI to help generate code or sy...

Apr 23, 2026

eScience Editorial Team·Apr 9, 2026

FOSDEM 2026: Observations and key takeaways

If you missed FOSDEM 2026 — the largest conference dedicated to open-source software — you can still absorb some of the experience as shared by NLeSC RSEs Flavio Hafner, Ole Mussmann and Faruk Diblen...

eScience Editorial Team·Mar 26, 2026

Bring Your Own Backend

A pattern for sustainable research software collaboration By Stefan Verhoeven. Image source https://www.pnnl.gov/news-media/new-nationwide-modeling-points-widespread-racial-disparities-urban-heat-stre...

eScience Editorial Team·Mar 18, 2026

Give Me Data, Yesterday

I want this data, and I want it yesterday!This post is adapted, with the author’s permission and collaboration, from this post in his personal blog. This is a quest. A quest for the right tool for th...

Jesse Gonzalez·Feb 26, 2026

Making LLMs Work for Science: How AI-Powered Storytelling Helps Researchers Communicate Their Software

Large language models get a lot of attention in research for what they might replace. We wanted to explore what they can enable: better, faster scientific communication that actually reaches the right...

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 available constellation of d...

Bart Schilperoort·Jan 15, 2026

Use Julia to write code that runs on any GPU

Use Julia to write code that runs on any GPU 10 How to write Julia code than can run on any GPU, and why you would want to do that. As the name implies, the main use of Graphics Processing Units is to...

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-Turchina, and the D...

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 deliver small gifts...

Pablo Rodríguez-Sánchez·Nov 26, 2025

The story map

A framework for story-building We are all natural-born storytellers. Or at the very least, storylisteners. The same drive lies behind a gathering around the fireplace, a night at the movies or listeni...

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 of Rob van Nieuwpoort...

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, Matsubara Y, Uchiyama Y, F...

Pablo Rodríguez-Sánchez·Oct 9, 2025

Why teach calculus in the age of AI

Why would I learn to compute a derivative by hand when Artificial Intelligence can do it for me? Photo by Shubham Sharan on Unsplash If you’re reading this, you’ve probably taken a calculus course bef...

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 zenodraft GitHub action r...

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 proposal stage. Here...

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 as a solution for a...

Flavio Hafner·Jun 27, 2025

Empirically evaluating privacy in machine learning I: Introduction

Research in the social and health sciences often relies on accessing data sourced from statistical agencies or healthcare organizations. Such data sets contain sensitive information, which requires re...

Flavio Hafner·Jun 17, 2025

Empirically evaluating privacy in machine learning II: Hypothesis testing

Using statistics to think like a hacker, so we can avoid them! Image from page 182 of “Elements of statistics” (1954). Licensed under creative commons.This post is the second in a series on evaluating...

Flavio Hafner·Jun 17, 2025

Empirically evaluating privacy in machine learning III: functional & gaussian differential privacy

1 Using statistics to think like a hacker, so we can avoid them! The Greek letter lambda, symbol of functional programming.This post is the third in a series on differential privacy and machine learni...

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 community-supported workflow...

Flavio Hafner·May 6, 2025

Benchmarking LLM fine-tuning on different HPC systems

43 > Authors: Flavio Hafner (Netherlands eScience center), Mattie Niznik (Princeton Research Computing), Malte Lüken (Netherlands eScience center), Alessandra Maranca (Princeton University), Matthew S...

Bart Schilperoort·Apr 22, 2025

Keeping your scientific data files small

Keeping your scientific data files small An RSE’s guide to NetCDF compression If you’ve ever watched a crawling progress bar while transferring research data, or received a dreaded ‘storage quota exce...

Suvayu·Apr 22, 2025

Solving the mystery of the missing symbols! (part II)

This is the conclusion to the story I wrote about earlier. In that earlier post, we were investigating why the MingW-w64 build of DuckDB fails to export the C-API symbols in the final DLL. We identifi...

eScience Editorial Team·Mar 25, 2025

Introduction to Deep Learning with Python

Written by Sven van der Burg, Carsten Schnober, Sarah M. Brown and Toby Hodges Engineers and instructors at the eScience Center have developed lots of open source lesson materials for the workshops we...

Suvayu·Mar 13, 2025

A debugging journey into the unknown (part I)

Faced with a buggy library, most people will just give up and wait for a patch to be released. Certainly not our engineers. NASA/JPL-CaltechIt all started with a colleague trying to update their Julia...

Bart Schilperoort·Mar 12, 2025

Sharing MATLAB models with everyone

MATLAB is still commonly used in many scientific fields, despite its closed-source nature. While many (technical) universities used to teach coding using MATLAB, more and more are moving away from it,...

ole·Feb 21, 2025

A Helpful Noob

Photo by Keiteu Ko on Unsplash Introduction Yesterday, my colleague Faruk asked me to conduct a Hallway Test for the NLeSC/python-template he is working on: he just grabbed me off the hallway and ask...

ole·Feb 21, 2025

Fast-Forward Merges on GitHub

The year is 2025 CE and GitHub.com still can’t do “fast-forward” merges via its web-interface. But you can; I’ll show you how. Photo by Joakim Honkasalo on UnsplashGithub.com offers version-control-as...

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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 may sound as another...

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 Amsterdam Science Park, the...

Carsten Schnober·Jan 28, 2025

A Different Game

3 According to a panel of football experts, the world's best male player of the year 2024 was Rodri. The choice is naturally debatable, but even if you put him together with other stars like Erling Ha...

Olga Lyashevska·Jan 23, 2025

How to run a containerized Agent-Based Model on HPC

This blog was written by Faruk Diblen and Olga Lyashevska. Imagine you are preparing Torta Caprese for your friend’s birthday. You have a recipe that consistently delights everyone, but you want to en...

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 reproducible as possible. Beca...

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’re away, we’ve curat...

Peter Kalverla·Dec 10, 2024

Amsterdam as seen by a weather model

Visualizing local climate zones in 3D with the Cityblocks package What sets a weather model apart from a video game? While video games prioritize stunning visuals over strict realism, weather models f...

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. During the Open Scienc...

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 by representatives...

eScience Editorial Team·Dec 3, 2024

Tackling Advent of Code

By Ewan Cahen Advent of Code 2024 has started this week! If you are not familiar with Advent of Code, it’s an annual coding challenge created by Eric Wastl. It’s like an advent calendar for coding cha...

eScience Editorial Team·Dec 3, 2024

The ‘do-it-yourself’ Computed Tomography scanner

By Francien Bossema Researchers developed a method to use existing X-ray imaging facilities for Computed Tomography (CT) scanning Photo by Cara Shelton on Unsplash This is a cross-post from our fellow...

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 a Research Software...

eScience Editorial Team·Nov 26, 2024

From Pandemic Response to Package Development

By Fenne Riemslagh We had the pleasure of sitting down with Kirsten Bulsink, a data scientist at the Dutch National Institute for Public Health and the Environment (RIVM). Our discussion covered her j...

eScience Editorial Team·Nov 14, 2024

Why should you care about reproducible code — and how to get started?

On 23 April 2024, the first ‘National Research Software Day’ took place in Hilversum, the Netherlands. During the unconference part of the program, Eduard Klapwijk ran the session about the importance...

Lourens Veen·Nov 7, 2024

Variables, Records, Values and Objects

14 The Engineering Corner A blog-within-a-blog on the transition from writing simple scripts for yourself to writing larger programs with and for others. TEC appears on an irregular schedule driven by...

eScience Editorial Team·Oct 30, 2024

Beyond research

Beyond research ‘Beyond research’ is a new mini-series we are starting on the eScience Center blog. We want to give you some insight into the interests, hobbies and accomplishments of our colleagues....

eScience Editorial Team·Oct 24, 2024

From Corridor Coincidences to Cellular Cartography: The grlc Story

1 This is the story of grlc, a tool that transforms complex linked data queries into user-friendly web interfaces. We interviewed grlc’s developers Albert Meroño-Peñuela and Carlos Martinez-Ortiz, to...

Candace Moore·Oct 3, 2024

The magic of teaching about the anti-magic of generative AI

On the use and abuse of generative artificial intelligence by students Photo by Owen Beard on Unsplash Recently, I taught the pilot workshop Medical Image Processing in Python. The room was full of po...

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 2024. Following an i...

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 piece of research softw...

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 credit: TheMezereon Th...

Lourens Veen·Aug 1, 2024

Scripting vs. Programming

Lourens Veen·Apr 26, 2023 SubscribeRemember me for faster sign in Any remaining differences are usually due to particular features supported by certain languages. In R for example, you can write down...

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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 unconference part of the pr...

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 in time to park my...

Lourens Veen·Jul 5, 2024

Better scripts with typing

1 The Engineering Corner A blog-within-a-blog on the transition from writing simple scripts for yourself to writing larger programs with and for others. TEC appears on an irregular schedule driven by...

Lourens Veen·Jul 5, 2024

Procedural Programming

The Engineering Corner A blog-within-a-blog on the transition from writing simple scripts for yourself to writing larger programs with and for others. TEC appears on an irregular schedule driven by wo...

Carlosmurilorocha·Jun 27, 2024

Quantum Computing for Quantum Chemistry with qc2

Quantum Computing is a rapidly evolving field that has the potential to transform the way we approach complex computational problems. Quantum Chemistry stands out as a prime application area, with ant...

Lieke de Boer·Jun 27, 2024

Transparency in research... and football

SubscribeRemember me for faster sign in 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 footag...

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Peter Kalverla·Jun 21, 2024

Henry, the City Tweaker

Imagining the future of urban planning 5 > This blogpost is our (winning 🎉) submission to Destination Earth’s challenge to envision the future use of their platform. The story is set in 2050, when “u...

eScience Editorial Team·Jun 12, 2024

Brainstorming on the success of a research software catalogue

Brainstorming on the success of a research software catalogue 1 Researchers reflect on the whys and hows of scientific software catalogues Created with DALL-E. Timestamp: 2024–04–23 14.57.58 Prompt: C...

Erik Tjong Kim Sang·May 28, 2024

A Tale of Tallness

In the past two centuries, the Dutch have become the tallest people of the planet. What factors caused this remarkable development? This is the central research question in the work of Björn Quanjer o...

Sander van Rijn·May 14, 2024

Python’s timeit: Find the fastest code in no time

Trains are fast, and your code should be too. Or is it the other way around? — Photo by LUM3N on UnsplashEvery programmer wants their programs to run a little faster. While optimizing your whole code...

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 recording of a Fast...

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 with a dilemma — to mai...

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 for this article. The...

Flavio Hafner·Feb 27, 2024

How to manage your IP address in Python

> This post is the first of a series of blog posts arising from a collaboration between the eScience Center and the ODISSEI Social Data Science Team. You can find this text also at https://odissei-sod...

Pablo Rodríguez-Sánchez·Feb 13, 2024

Differentiation without subtraction

54 A surprising application of complex numbers Photo by charlesdeluvio on Unsplash Some time ago I came across one of those ideas that makes you wonder: “why nobody told me about this before?” Those o...

Malte Lüken·Feb 1, 2024

Causal Inference in JASP: The Process Module

By Malte Lüken, Julia M. Rohrer, Thijs Vroegh, Johnny van Doorn, and Eric-Jan Wagenmakers This post is also published on the JASP blog. In a recent blog post, we announced the development of a JASP mo...

Alessio Sclocco·Jan 16, 2024

Talking about energy-efficient GPU computing at SC23

1 November is the time for Supercomputing, or SC as it is called nowadays, and in 2023 the largest High-Performance Computing (HPC) conference in the world took place in Denver, USA, from the 12th to...

eScience Editorial Team·Dec 12, 2023

How to ensure that others can run your code

6 By Julian Gonggrijp This blog was originally written for the Utrecht University (UU) website by Scientific Programmer Julian Gonggrijp. We enjoyed this useful blog post, and hope you will too! If yo...

Nicolas Renaud·Dec 6, 2023

Machine Learning Machinery for Quantum Chemistry

Machine learning techniques are impacting all areas of science, and molecular simulations are not spared. This blog post shows how to make use of the tools and techniques developed for machine learnin...

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. Maybe it’s a singl...

Peter Kalverla·Nov 21, 2023

Cracking the (moisture) tracking code

An exclusive interview with our project partners This post is part of a series on our 2021 Small Scale Initiative Call in Software Performance Optimization. This week’s highlight: “Optimizing tracking...

Pablo Rodríguez-Sánchez·Nov 9, 2023

Automatic differentiation from scratch

A surprisingly simple and elegant way to teach your computer how to perform derivatives, with some Julia (and Python) examples Photo by Crissy Jarvis on Unsplash First, a disclaimer Automatic differen...

Ji Qi·Nov 6, 2023

How Easy It Can Be to Whip Up Your Own Orange3 Widget: A Chatbot Adventure with HuggingChat!

4 Are you ready to dive into the captivating world of Orange3 widgets and unleash your inner chatbot whisperer? 🚀✨ Whether you’re a coding connoisseur or a newbie explorer, developing your own widget...

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 reports on the progr...

Kody Moodley·Nov 2, 2023

The Orange3 data mining platform for the Social Sciences and Humanities

The Orange3 data mining platform for the Social Sciences and Humanities Why aren’t more SSH researchers using and extending the platform? Orange is an open-source Python-based data mining application...

Carlos Martinez-Ortiz·Oct 26, 2023

Open Science Festival: What infrastructures do we need to preserve research software?

written by Luisa Orozco, Daniela Gawehns, and Carlos Martinez-Ortiz Introduction Earlier this year, the 2023 edition of the Dutch Open Science Festival was held. We (the eScience Center and Leiden Uni...

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=88f3dac86d55ac1833f66165bc6634c2) by...

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Abel Soares Siqueira·Oct 19, 2023

Achieving Utopic Git History

AKA being UGHly In a previous blog post, we defined The Utopic Git History (UGH). To refresh our memory, a simple definition of a UGH is - Atomic git commits (smallest commit that completes the task)...

Kody Moodley·Oct 12, 2023

the orange3 data mining platform as a research tool

Why aren’t more SSH researchers using and extending the platform? Orange is an open-source Python -based data mining application with a graphical user interface (GUI). It allows people with no knowled...

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-datatree. Here, we at...

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 reproducibility in co...

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 scientist create new insigh...

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 researchers use the...

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 this scenario: How...

Peter Kalverla·Aug 21, 2023

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

Designed with the S2S community, available for everyone SubscribeRemember me for faster sign in These are just some of the questions that scientists in the field of sub-seasonal to seasonal (S2S) weat...

eScience Editorial Team·Jul 10, 2023

Summer is here, and so are large language models.

Welcome to the technological revolution of 2023, where the landscape of communication and information processing has been forever transformed. Photo by Google DeepMind on Unsplash The early months of...

Florian Huber·Jun 26, 2023

Mcfly: An easy-to-use tool for deep learning for time series classification

A new mcfly 3.0 release is out. See how it works and how it can help you to apply deep learning to time series classification. Florian Huber·Apr 15, 2020 Once the models are generated, they will be tr...

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Stef Smeets·Jun 20, 2023

Reduce, reuse, recycle: save the planet one GitHub action at a time

Reduce, reuse, recycle: save the planet one GitHub action at a time 53 Written by Stef Smeets and Sander van Rijn. Photo by Ralph (Ravi) Kayden on UnsplashAsk any environmentalist what you can do to...

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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 Open Science, Open S...

Carsten Schnober·Jun 1, 2023

Language Modeling: The First 100 Years

ChatGPT has become the symbol for a new wave of Artificial Intelligence. New models with even stronger conversational skills are released on a weekly basis, and the world discusses about their impact...

Candace Moore·May 25, 2023

Research Ethics and Authorship: The Technological Solution

Dr. Candace Makeda Moore discusses the potential for distributed version control as a tool to prevent questionable authorship practices. Recently I read a story in Retraction Watc h about a service se...

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 & Research Assistant Professo...

Aron·May 4, 2023

Molecular Simulations using Machine Learning, Part 3

24 In the first part of this series we looked at the physics of simulating molecules, and went from quantum mechanics to something that is more efficient to solve, namely density functional theory and...

Lieke de Boer·Apr 20, 2023

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

SubscribeRemember me for faster sign in 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 resou...

Aron·Apr 13, 2023

Molecular Simulations using Machine Learning, Part 2

In this post, I will walk through the process of designing a model used in molecular simulations, from essential to state of the art. This is the second part of a series on using machine learning for...

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, and especially as a r...

Aron·Mar 31, 2023

Molecular Simulations using Machine Learning, Part 1

Simulation of water molecules from Wikipedia. Are you curious about how scientists study the properties of materials, proteins, and drugs? It all starts with molecular simulation. By creating virtual...

Rob van Nieuwpoort·Mar 21, 2023

Defining the roles of research software

SubscribeRemember me for faster sign in Examples: In the biochemistry realm, software is used for modeling molecules for use in a next-gen diagnostics or therapeutics: we want to design some molecule...

Pablo Rodríguez-Sánchez·Mar 16, 2023

The bike and the laptop

Reflections on machines that help you Photo by Cale Weaver on Unsplash Students pay attention (sometimes) I was 17, my face was covered in acne and my hair was (awkwardly) long. I was sitting in a hig...

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 and research software...

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 Optimization. Their team’...

Sonja Georgievska·Feb 23, 2023

The hidden dangers of using XAI carelessly

Congrats! Your ML model is finally XAI-ready. But before you start patting yourself on the back, have you pre-processed your features? If so, watch out for those SHAP values, they might have been “pro...

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)reproducibility and...

Johan Hidding·Feb 2, 2023

Diversity in Software: four ways to think different

Photo by Steve Johnson on Unsplash Diversity in Software: four ways to think different Diversity is a hot topic. Let’s talk about diversity in Software. Hackers need to wake up and face the truth: 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 machine learning too...

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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 a quick introduction...

Pablo Rodríguez-Sánchez·Jan 26, 2023

An applied mathematician meets software engineering

How software engineering practices helped me bridge the gap between mathematics and other fields Photo by Mick Haupt on Unsplash From industry to academia Let’s go backward to 2015. Back then, I had a...

eScience Editorial Team·Jan 19, 2023

Why internships have a large impact

Photo by Scott Graham on Unsplash One and a half years ago I finished my internship at the eScience Center. Based on my own experiences and those of others around me, I think that internships are a u...

eScience Editorial Team·Jan 12, 2023

The Data Science Centre: Digital expertise Hub at UvA

This week, we interviewed Lisa Yu, Community Manager of the Data Science Center (DSC). The DSC is a coordinating hub within the University of Amsterdam (UvA) Library, launched in 2021. The need for so...

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’s category. To do so...

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, for eight years now,...

Sonja Georgievska·Dec 16, 2022

Small-scale initiative in Machine Learning 2021: how did it go?

Photo by "My Life Through A Lens" on Unsplash Small-scale initiative in Machine Learning 2021: how did it go? Introducing a series of blog posts on our collaborative projects in machine learning Here...

Malte Lüken·Dec 13, 2022

Immaculate Speech and Hallucinations

When (not) to use OpenAI’s Whisper to transcribe audio in a social sciences project Using Whisper off-the-shelf in this case might bias the results because it tends to “polish” the structure and coher...

Aron·Dec 8, 2022

Interview with chatGPT

Good morning chatGPT, I will be interviewing you for a blog post of the Netherlands eScience Center, a research institution that builds and applies software to enhance the use of computing and digital...

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 for Supercomputing A...

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 eScience Center colla...

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Johan Hidding·Nov 10, 2022

Unweaving legacy code using Entangled

For a Research Software Engineer, dealing with legacy code is seen as a chore: dirty work, but a necessary evil. But the truth is, every time I read someone else’s code, I learn something. Using Entan...

Abel Soares Siqueira·Nov 3, 2022

10 examples of embedding Julia in C/C++

SubscribeRemember me for faster sign in The trapezoid function has 4 arguments, therefore we have to use the general jlcall that we mentioned before. The arguments of jlcall are the function, an array...

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 input from many member...

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. With that, I mean to ha...

Pablo Rodríguez-Sánchez·Oct 12, 2022

Mathematics and biology: a symbiosis?

Lessons learned, from a mathematician among biologists. Photo by ThisisEngineering RAEng on Unsplash Preamble In the period 2015–2019, I was hired as a mathematician by a biology department in order t...

Pablo Rodríguez-Sánchez·Sep 8, 2022

Fun with elevators: a tutorial

Most modern cell phones contain an accelerometer. And that’s good news if you are curious about all the data around you Photo by Waldemar Brandt on Unsplash Some years ago I did a secondment at the Fr...

eScience Editorial Team·Aug 16, 2022

Our favourite high performance programming tools

Does your code need a performance boost? Ask us! Photo by Alenka Skvarc on Unsplash We hope you are relaxed and enjoying your holiday period. We really do. So it may seem ironic that this blog post is...

eScience Editorial Team·Aug 2, 2022

Our favourite Python tools for research

Photo by Ethan Robertson on Unsplash Ah, summer. A time to relax, go on holiday, and learn new things. At the eScience Center, we love summer. And we love Python. So, for summer, we’ve put together o...

Florian Huber·Jul 22, 2022

Mimicking Intelligence: AI imitation crisis

The next generation language models will still just be enormeous parrot-systems that imitate intelligent behavior. But they will feel like much more to us. Florian Huber·Jun 24, 2022 Philosophically a...

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Patrick Bos·Jul 19, 2022

What do entropy, entanglement, cosmology, life, and fake news have in common?

Report on the Information Universe 4 conference (Answer to the above question below obligatory excruciatingly long-winded intro!) In the past week, I have rediscovered writing. Writing really hurts, y...

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 Todov on Unsplash A bi...

Florian Huber·Jun 24, 2022

Welcome to the AI imitation crisis

The next generation language models will still just be enormeous parrot-systems that imitate intelligent behavior. But they will feel like much more to us. Let’s get this straight out of the way: Curr...

eScience Editorial Team·Jun 13, 2022

Studying political symbolism in Turkish TV dramas with machine learning

Studying political symbolism in Turkish TV dramas with machine learning eScience Editorial Team·Jun 10, 2022 SubscribeRemember me for faster sign in Faced with a challenge of this type, Machine Learni...

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eScience Editorial Team·May 23, 2022

The mystery of glass: why machine learning can help us

This blog is part of our blog series: The Small-Scale Initiative on Machine Learning, how did it go?, where groups who were invited to participate in a project with eScience Center Research Software E...

Sonja Georgievska·May 13, 2022

Reusable software in the era of AI: why sometimes you must reinvent the wheel

> In traditional software development, reinventing the wheel is a cardinal sin. But AI has changed the picture. In AI-based software development the traditional reusable components, like data aggregat...

eScience Editorial Team·May 9, 2022

A machine learning approach to laughter

SubscribeRemember me for faster sign in Our mentors at the eScience Center (Patrick Bos, Florian Huber, and Jisk Attema), provided us with practical guidance in the use of such libraries, which provid...

Stef Smeets·May 4, 2022

Forget about Jupyter Notebooks — showcase your research using Dashboards

SubscribeRemember me for faster sign in The snippet below generates some data (a normal distribution), fits it, and creates a matplotlib plot out of it. It takes three parameters, muin, stdin, and siz...

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. Fog consists of drople...

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Sven van der Burg·Apr 14, 2022

A letter to my parents about my experience in a machine learning consultancy project

What does a Research Software Engineer do? This is not always easy to answer, but when your parents are asking, you definitely want to give a nice answer A fountain pen writing on a piece of paper. De...

eScience Editorial Team·Apr 11, 2022

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

SubscribeRemember me for faster sign in 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...

eScience Editorial Team·Mar 31, 2022

How machine learning could help Simone to play Ludo

Simone is a 12 year old girl. She loves to play Ludo with her mum, dad and her little brother. However, when she pushes the dice switch in the middle of the Ludo board game, she cannot properly contr...

Elena Ranguelova·Mar 21, 2022

How to find your Artificial Intelligence explainer

Here, we will use the LRP method to illustrate the principle of determining which features in an input contribute most strongly to the output of a trained DNN model. In this example, the input to the...

eScience Editorial Team·Mar 11, 2022

How to find your rubber duck: Using machine learning to understand a changing sea

SubscribeRemember me for faster sign in To get a quick start, they applied for the eScience Center Small-Scale Initiative (SSI), and were awarded consultancy on their project titled “Machine Learning...

eScience Editorial Team·Mar 11, 2022

Parsing Hebrew and Syriac morphology using Deep Learning

State-of-the-art technology meets ancient literature This blog is part of our blog series: The Small-Scale Initiative on Machine Learning, how did it go?, where groups who were invited to participate...

Candace Moore·Mar 7, 2022

Conversations with a chatbot about CleanX

Why this open-source imaging library can help radiologists and the engineers who want to work with them Alec Smartbot:👋 Please let me introduce myself. I am a state of the art greatly enhanced AI age...

Victor Azizi·Feb 28, 2022

Writing non-questionable Fortran (Part 1)

Luckily gfortran (I’ll stick to gfortran, although many commercial/non-open compilers have similar flags, but named differently) has compiler flags available that disallow such legacy behaviour. The f...

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Peter Kalverla·Feb 21, 2022

Storyboards for science communication

A modern publication format for the hybrid metaverse Originally used by movie directors, a storyboard consists of a series of images that, together, form a story. In the European Climate Prediction s...

Abel Soares Siqueira·Feb 11, 2022

Can Python with Julia be faster than low-level code?

Part 3 of the series on achieving high performance with high-level code Here comes a new challenger: It is Julia. Photo by Joran Quinten on Unsplash ( https://unsplash.com/photos/MR9xsNWVKvo ), modifi...

Abel Soares Siqueira·Jan 26, 2022

Speed up your Python code using Julia

Part two of the series on achieving high performance with high-level code Python holds the steering wheel, but we can make it faster with other languages. Photo by Spencer Davis on Unsplash , modified...

Abel Soares Siqueira·Jan 19, 2022

How to call Julia code from Python

A three-part series on achieving high performance with high-level code Caption: Astronaut carrying Python and Julia. Photo by Brian McGowan on Unsplash ( https://unsplash.com/photos/MR9xsNWVKvo ), mod...

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 exactly fit the job th...

Sven van der Burg·Dec 21, 2021

Still coding texts by hand for social science text analysis? Use Doccano instead to speed up the process!

Sven van der Burg·Dec 21, 2021 SubscribeRemember me for faster sign in Coder-centered: It is designed to make the coder’s life as easy as possible. You view one text at a time at the center of your sc...

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Gijs van den Oord·Dec 14, 2021

The new IPCC assessment report: stakes have been raised

SubscribeRemember me for faster sign in 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...

Faruk Diblen·Dec 3, 2021

cffinit: NOW is the time to get more recognition for your software!

Creating software citation files using cffinit by Abel S. Siqueira and Faruk Diblen (Netherlands eScience Center) Modified photo of a cinema by Jake Hills on Unsplash https://unsplash.com/photos/23LET...

Ben van Werkhoven·Nov 25, 2021

Kernel Tuner tutorial at Supercomputing 2021

A view of St. Louis from the Gateway Arch. Photo by Floris-Jan Willemsen. November 2021 — Together with my colleagues, Alessio Sclocco, Stijn Heldens, and Floris-Jan Willemsen, we travelled to the la...

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 Ambroz Bizjak suggeste...

Pablo Rodríguez-Sánchez·Sep 29, 2021

Decorators in R

Decorators have been made quite popular by Python but, did you know they also exist in R? Photo by Lenny Kuhne on Unsplash Decorators are typically used to extend the behaviour of a function in an ele...

Peter Kalverla·Sep 21, 2021

Pandemic-proof: shaping the future of scientific exchange

The 2021 (virtual) meeting of the European Meteorological Society started off with the collaborative Future Science Cafe. Inspired by the rapid developments in remote collaboration forced upon us by t...

Peter Kalverla·Sep 20, 2021

Plotting gridded data on a web map: Python and/or Javascript?

SubscribeRemember me for faster sign in But what if you want to plot your own data? While there are many resources on how to use existing tile or web-map services, I struggled to find out how to make...

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 programming /ˈlɪtəɹət ˈpɹəʊ...

Maarten van Meersbergen·Jun 17, 2021

Visual Storytelling for data science

Maarten van Meersbergen·Jun 7, 2021 When conducting research, the data collected can in itself be exciting and meaningful, but when it is presented as spreadsheets or bullet points it can be too borin...

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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 entity is normally to pro...

Robin Richardson·May 31, 2021

(Nano)Publish your research with Python

Using nanopub, a high-level, user-friendly python interface to the nanopublication network SubscribeRemember me for faster sign in For example, if you want to e.g. search for all nanopublications cont...

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Fakhereh (Sarah) Alidoost·May 11, 2021

Lesson development blitz

SubscribeRemember me for faster sign in 5. Testing lessons designed by freepik https://stories.freepik.com/The coordinator asks some of the researchers in the community to use the tutorial and to repo...

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. However, an increase...

Pablo Rodríguez-Sánchez·Mar 18, 2021

Can mathematical models predict the future?

Photo by John Moeses Bauan on Unsplash Let me start right away with a question: do you think that the future can be predicted? When formulated like this, this question makes us think of crystal balls...

Patrick Bos·Mar 5, 2021

Automate chores with GitHub Actions

How I keep my Heroku web-app’s data up-to-date automatically Scientists, open source developers, and basically probably most people, have to deal with one common obstacle in life: lack of funds to do...

Felipe·Feb 22, 2021

A Quick and Dirty Pytest Cookbook

SubscribeRemember me for faster sign in As an alternative to the above snippet, you can install and run the pytest-mypy-plugins. Testing the documentation Testing the documentation is a must have. The...

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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 harness their powers for...

Felipe·Jan 15, 2021

Building a Web Service to Manage Scientific Simulation Data Using GraphQL

Therefore, the Ceiba web service needs to handle two kinds of requests by the client: read-only queries and mutations on the datasets. These “queries” and “mutations” can be easily describe with Graph...

Hanno Spreeuw·Nov 23, 2020

eScience trends from ADASS 2020

eScience trends from ADASS 2020 Scaling up compute and storage resources are not going to be the biggest hurdles. 8 My general feeling about this conference What a delight ADASS (Astronomical Data Ana...

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!) I work at the Net...

Patrick Bos·Nov 10, 2020

Coalition polls for the people with Coalitiewijzer

Build interactive web apps with polling data, Voilà & Heroku My first attempt at actual visualization was to make another grid, but this time consisting of 150 HTML widgets, one for each seat. The...

eScience Editorial Team·Oct 27, 2020

C++ web app with WebAssembly, Vega, Web Worker and React

SubscribeRemember me for faster sign in To generate the Vega-Lite specification we can write a function like so To wrap the Vega-Lite visualization in React component we will use useRef to get a DOM e...

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Pablo Rodríguez-Sánchez·Oct 22, 2020

How is the end of daylight saving time going to affect me?

Photo by insung yoon on Unsplash It happens every year. Twice. And it can be pretty annoying. I am talking about the clock shift to re-adapt our schedules to wintertime or summertime. But did you kno...

eScience Editorial Team·Oct 9, 2020

Help! My C++ web app is not responding

By Stefan Verhoeven, Christiaan Meijer, Faruk Diblen, Jurriaan H. Spaaks, and Adam Belloum. In an earlier blogpost we discussed how to run C++ code on the web using JavaScript. We created a web app th...

eScience Editorial Team·Oct 9, 2020

Interact with your C++ web app using React forms

By Stefan Verhoeven, Faruk Diblen, Jurriaan H. Spaaks, Adam Belloum, and Christiaan Meijer. In a previous blog post, we compiled the C++ algorithm into WebAssembly. In the current blog post, we will c...

eScience Editorial Team·Oct 9, 2020

Spice up your C++ web app with visualizations

By Stefan Verhoeven, Faruk Diblen, Jurriaan H. Spaaks, Christiaan Meijer, and Adam Belloum. In a previous blog we found the root of an equation using the Newton-Raphson algorithm implemented in C++ an...

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 a wider audience, by...

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, as with any job mos...

Florian Huber·Sep 1, 2020

Machine learning for research — use it or refuse it? Two flowcharts to help you decide.

Machine learning (in particular deep learning) started to become extremely hot 5–10 years ago. Now, this trend has fully reached most academic fields outside computer science as well. But will it also...

Florian Huber·Sep 1, 2020

Machine learningAI for Research — use it or refuse it

Pablo Rodríguez-Sánchez·Aug 17, 2020

Parallel R in a nutshell

Photo by Marvin Meyer on Unsplash Loops are, by definition, repetitive tasks. Although it is not part of the definition, loops also tend to be boring. Luckily for us, computers are good at performing...

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 spoke or contributed...

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Sonja Georgievska·Jun 18, 2020

Machine learning: when it is easy & when it is difficult

SubscribeRemember me for faster sign in Hey, should I draw a wild curve that splits all points exactly? But how am I sure that the curve will split properly all new points that I haven’t seen, that it...

Sonja Georgievska·Jun 18, 2020

Machine learning when it is easy & when it is difficult

A crash course in machine learning; only high-school level of math is required before reading. Photo by Element5 Digital on Unsplash Machine learning (ML) is about having the computer learn how to con...

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 and policy conclusion...

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Sonja Georgievska·Apr 25, 2020

Forcing science with brute force deep learning

SubscribeRemember me for faster sign in When we are children, we lack patience. When we grow up, “we lack time”. Not all is bad, of course. Once trained, the deep neural networks are very fast when us...

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Sonja Georgievska·Apr 25, 2020

Why AI will not replace experts

SubscribeRemember me for faster sign in Let’s take a few steps back. It is 1990 and a team of medical researchers equipped with a statistician is performing a randomized control study91656-U/fulltext)...

Netherlands eScience Center·Apr 2, 2020

Can we teach AI’s speech by simulating young children’s ability to learn spoken language?

8 Today, we can´t imagine life without voice controlled intelligent systems such as Siri, Google Assistant, car navigation systems and other applications. Such systems use a speech understanding compo...

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 curious habit. I particul...

Pablo Rodríguez-Sánchez·Mar 18, 2020

A mathematician in quarantine

Flattening the curve, and why you should stay at home Photo by History in HD on Unsplash I write this entry at the beginning of the COVID19 crisis in Europe. I am not a medical expert and, thus, the r...

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 scientists. Communication i...

eScience Editorial Team·Mar 12, 2020

The Research Software Alliance (ReSA) and the Community Landscape

eScience Editorial Team·Mar 11, 2020Subscribe 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 an organiz...

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Patrick Bos·Feb 12, 2020

Combining ZeroMQ & POSIX signals

Use ppoll to handle EINTR once and for all What my first experience trying to send out signals was like. Can anybody hear me? Photo by Jason Rosewell on Unsplash I have been dabbling in using and mixi...

Florian Huber·Feb 11, 2020

Workshop Machine Learning for Research 2020

For one full week we worked with 6 research teams from different disciplines to explore if and how machine learning could help them answer their research question(s). Here is a brief summary of what w...

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Florian Huber·Feb 11, 2020

Workshop Machine Learning for Research 2020 … did it work?

Evaluating our one-week hands-on workshop on applying machine learning to research. 5 Stimulate diverse teams and be aware of (gender-)biases.We wanted to attract diverse teams and in particular avoid...

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Florian Huber·Feb 7, 2020

Monopolizing AI

The field of machine learning and AI is facing an increasing divide. Florian Huber·Feb 4, 2020 16 Last edit: 07/02/2020 It seems contradictory at first. On the one hand, deep learning has become incre...

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Fakhereh (Sarah) Alidoost·Jan 23, 2020

Environmental processes are linked, but how?

An introduction to copulas. Climate change challenge badge, FAO Competition for natural resources such as water and land is increasing due to population growth, industrial development, agricultural in...

Johan Hidding·Jan 16, 2020

Parallel programming in Python

SubscribeRemember me for faster sign in Depending on your level of Python expertise, you might implement such an algorithm in different ways. In an introductory Python course we could write this funct...

Pablo Rodríguez-Sánchez·Jan 8, 2020

Some things that scientists can learn from the arts

Artists and scientists have more in common than you may think Ascidiacea (1899) by Dr. Ernst Haeckel via Wikipedia Knowledge isn’t easy to classify. Where does mathematics finish and physics begin? Wh...

eScience Editorial Team·Dec 17, 2019

The success of reliable integration of renewable energy

Countries, companies and individuals are increasingly aware of the need to keep our world clean by supporting sustainable energy. The landscape is evolving rapidly. Of the various mechanisms considere...

Pablo Rodríguez-Sánchez·Dec 16, 2019

Are you a researcher? You may not know it yet, but good software skills are just what you need

SubscribeRemember me for faster sign in The previous example may look like (and actually is) quite silly. But remember that code is alive. Something that today is a simple function tomorrow may be mor...

Pablo Rodríguez-Sánchez·Dec 16, 2019

Experiences of a computational evangelist

What I’ve learned spreading the gospel of computational best practices among scientists Photo by NESA by Makers on Unsplash Just a few days ago, I gave a talk at the FAIR (Findable, Accessible, Intero...

Peter Kalverla·Dec 11, 2019

Between pencil and paper

How artistic elements can enrich scientific writing SubscribeRemember me for faster sign in I did a similar thing with figures. Matplotlib has this awesome package that let’s you render all plots in a...

eScience Editorial Team·Dec 9, 2019

Managing the crowd: a big data approach

Crowd disasters have taken many lives. The Love Parade disaster (Duisburg, 2010), the Ellis Park Stadium disaster (Johannesburg, 2001), the PhilSports Stadium stampede (Manila, 2006) are just a few re...

Ben van Werkhoven·Dec 2, 2019

FAIR Software at the 2019 eScience Symposium

SubscribeRemember me for faster sign in 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 devel...

Netherlands eScience Center·Nov 28, 2019

Accelerating the search for dark matter

Astronomical observations show that roughly 80% of the mass of the universe is made up of dark matter, a material that cannot be directly observed because emits no light or energy. Although dark matte...

eScience Editorial Team·Nov 28, 2019

Optimizing plasma sources through numerical simulation

Optimizing plasma sources through numerical simulation Cold plasma sources are promising devices for the transformation of carbon dioxide into methane and other value-added chemicals. These sources h...

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 conference is to bring t...

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, (the first one bein...

Carlos Martinez-Ortiz·Oct 3, 2019

NARCIS connects to the Research Software Directory

Software now officially listed as a research output SubscribeRemember me for faster sign in The “FAIR Software Route” website will be presented by DANS and eScience Center at the eScience Symposium th...

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Florian Huber·Sep 24, 2019

Highlights from the European Conference on Machine Learning 2019

ML highlights and trends as seen at ECML-PKDD 2019 (16–20 September, Würzburg, Germany) The conference’s cryptic name is due to the fact that it is a merger of two conferences: the European Conference...

eScience Editorial Team·Jul 18, 2019

Using deep neural networks to understand molecular interactions

Photography: Michiel Wijnbergh | wijnbergh.nl Dr. Lars Ridder, Prof. Alexandre Bonvin, Dr. Nicolas Renaud, Dr. Li Xue, Dr. Sonja Georgievska The human body contains trillions of cells. These cells, wh...

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 important fields for appl...

Johan Hidding·Jul 2, 2019

why all you’ll ever need is markdown

an introduction to Pandoc Photo by Daniel McCullough on Unsplash Markdown is widely used for writing up documents. It is supported by many blog engines, GitHub readme, you name it. There are many vari...

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 Park in Potsdam But...

Sonja Georgievska·Jun 20, 2019

turning a panda into a cat!

Why adversarial examples are not scary…but are most likely useful “Is it a bird? Is it a plane?” A child who never saw Superman might mistake him for a bird or a plane. On the other hand, who knows wh...

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 course: deep learning! Bu...

Sonja Georgievska·Jun 12, 2019

explainable ai exit or infinite loop

> Let us simplify before we try to explain Photo by Franck V. on Unsplash Before we start, let’s make it clear: by AI here I mean computational statistics, and by explainable — well, I don’t really kn...

Johan Hidding·Jun 3, 2019

breaking the barrier fluid simulations parallel-in-time.

Parallel flows — Photo by Sergey Pesterev on Unsplash These days computers are growing faster only by adding more cores and increasing parallelism of the programs. As an example, suppose we are compu...

Felipe·May 29, 2019

some thoughts about developing software for scientific applications

> …The children would remember for the rest of their lives the august solemnity with which their father, devastated by his prolonged vigil and by the wraith of his imagination, revealed his discovery...

Patrick Bos·May 23, 2019

democracy

Dimensional reduction. Who doesn’t love it? Everybody does! On that note: EU election week! Time to map our complex individual preferences to one of a few packages of lumped together stances. Luckily,...

eScience Editorial Team·Apr 4, 2019

understanding global corporate networks

Members of the CORPNET group at the University of Amsterdam Frank Takes is an assistant professor at Leiden University and member of the CORPNET group at the University of Amsterdam, where he was pre...

Florian Huber·Mar 4, 2019

superhuman blog post

#demystifyAI series (this small series aims at putting important AI-related aspects into perspective) Why you shouldn’t be afraid of AI tools occasionally performing superhuman in some tasks. And why...

Ronald van Haren·Feb 5, 2019

fairifying ewatercycle

Towards reproducible science and better flooding forecasts Growing populations, economies, industries and urbanization are increasing the demand for water, while extreme weather spurred by climate cha...

Johan Hidding·Jan 30, 2019

enTangleD

a bi-directional Literate Programming tool © Alessandra Sequeira, Entanglement ( http://sinapsisequeira.blogspot.com/ ) I present enTangleD (github.io pages), a tool for pain free literate programming...

Patrick Bos·Jan 23, 2019

c++ compile-time exceptions

Debugging C++ templates should be less surreal and horrible C++ programmers in their natural habitat, building awesome things and staring at walls of error text. A C++ template error can be pages long...

Felipe·Jan 9, 2019

dealing with dragons and monsters best practices for handling legacy code

> “So comes snow after fire, and even dragons have their endings.” > ― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Hobbit Typical debugging session When I started my PhD in the field of computational chemistry I was given th...

Jurriaan H. Spaaks·Dec 20, 2018

portable hpc workflows with snakemake and xenon

Migrate your scientific workflows to different remote machines in minutes instead of days Image courtesy of WallpaperUP Scientific workflows are often coupled to the computer systems for which they we...

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, is still young and u...

eScience Editorial Team·Dec 17, 2018

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Janneke van der Zwaan·Dec 12, 2018

Testing shell commands from Python

What to do with these shells? How do you test shell commands? Recently, I came across several cases where I wanted to run shell commands for testing, but couldn’t find a tutorial about how to do it f...

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 Stephan Druskat (Hum...

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 facilitate high-impact an...

eScience Editorial Team·Nov 29, 2018

nice hydrographs for everyone from everyone

“Nice hydrographs! Can you now compare your model to ‘that other hydrology groups model’?” The phd student suppresses the urge to roll her eyes. Her supervisor is asking her to go back into code-hell...

Maarten van Meersbergen·Sep 27, 2018

Why more scientists should attend SIGGGRAPH for inspiration!

This year I was lucky enough to be able to travel to the city of Vancouver to attend the SIGGRAPH 2018 conference, the annual conference on computer graphics convened by the ACM SIGGRAPH organization...

eScience Editorial Team·Sep 26, 2018

analyzing the ‘life’ of newspapers with machine learning

Marcel Broersma, professor of Media and Journalism Studies and Director of the Research Centre for Media and Journalism Studies (CMJS) at the University of Groningen Photography: Elodie Burrillon | h...

Carlos Martinez-Ortiz·Sep 17, 2018

Want to organize a workshop on image processing

A list of resources to kick-start your workshop I wanted to organize a workshop on image processing for PhDs in the medical domain. I usually use Software Carpentry lessons in my workshops, but there...

Elena Ranguelova·Sep 6, 2018

is an escience research engineer simply a computer scientist in disguise

My personal view on the differences between Computer Scientists and eScience Research Engineers Can a wolf change its mind by changing its coat? The origin of this proverbial question comes from the L...

Patrick Bos·Sep 3, 2018

50 times faster data loading for pandas no problem

Loading irregular data into Pandas using C++ Irregular pandas If Python is the reigning king of data science, Pandas is the kingdom’s bureaucracy. As recognized by Pandas creator Wes McKinney himself,...

Atze van der Ploeg·Aug 14, 2018

why use an fpga instead of a cpu or gpu

The (dis)advantages of Field Programmable Gate Arrays Recently, Intel bought Altera, one of the largest producers of FPGAs. Intel paid a whopping $16.7 billion, making it their largest acquisition eve...

Patrick Bos·Aug 6, 2018

floating (point) butterfly effect

Searching for tiny bugs that cause big problems I know it’s a bug, but it’s so pretty… what harm could it do? Last year, I took a few weeks to look into floating point round-off errors in RooFit, the...

Janneke van der Zwaan·Aug 1, 2018

jump start your python project with this template

Spend less time creating high quality software Use our python template to build better software. At the Netherlands eScience Center, we believe that better software leads to better research. We wrote...

eScience Editorial Team·Jul 12, 2018

what we can learn from tomatoes — feeding the planet with improved plant breeding

From left to right: PhD candidate Gurnoor Singh at Wageningen University and Research, Dr. Richard Finkers from the Wageningen Plant Research institute and Dr. Arnold Kuzniar from the Netherlands eSc...

eScience Editorial Team·Jul 11, 2018

the end of theory for earth sciences

“The end of theory.” This is the title of an article in Wired Magazine 10 years ago. No theory needed, the data deluge allows us to extract any knowledge by exploring data. This new empiricism receive...

Carlos Martinez-Ortiz·Jun 12, 2018

Flavour your linked data with garlic

Explore linked data collections via Web-API’s — zero coding required! Linked data is growing in importance — and rightly so: it facilitates machine readability of data, making it easier for machines t...

Patrick Bos·Jun 5, 2018

blobs, bumps, clouds and clusters

Statistical fluke or scientific evidence? Definitely a blob. Another earth-shattering discovery is on the horizon. Evidence was found for a new fundamental particle! The times we live in! Coming from...

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 Burrillon Our work is dri...

Erik Tjong Kim Sang·Mar 20, 2018

active learning

Computers perform better than humans in arithmetic and chess but if there is one task in which humans are superior it is image processing. But for how long? In 2015 there was a breakthrough in comput...

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 definitely read this blog...

eScience Editorial Team·Dec 20, 2017

digital technologies to analyze eyewitness accounts of mass violence

Dr. Susan Hogervorst, historian, assistant professor in historical culture and history didactics, Open University of the Netherlands, and researcher at Erasmus University Rotterdam Photography: Elodi...

Hanno Spreeuw·Dec 20, 2017

escience is about being bold enough to ask the right questions at the right time

The 2017 eScience Principal Investigator Day. Photography: Elodie Burrillon/HUCOPIX Almost three years ago, I started working at the Netherlands eScience Center and I have gradually come to a better...

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 case in point: survey...

Ben van Werkhoven·Dec 18, 2017

Writing Testable GPU Code

Anyone involved in software development has probably heard someone say “testable code is better code”. While I was a bit skeptical at first, I now have to admit that I agree. One of the reasons it may...

eScience Editorial Team·Oct 18, 2017

teaching machines to recognize cancer

Jeroen de Ridder, Associate Professor at the University Medical Center Utrecht Photography: Elodie Burrillon | http://hucopix.com Jeroen de Ridder is Associate Professor at the University Medical Cen...

Carlos Martinez-Ortiz·Oct 17, 2017

Demagification of Python, Git and Shell

Teaching researchers essential skills for digital science With increasing number of data sources and digital tools playing a key role in today’s scholarly research, mastering the essential skills to e...

Lourens Veen·Oct 5, 2017

free as in free market

Or why the GNU General Public License is open for business When you release your software on the Internet for others to use, you need to choose a license for it. One issue you might want to consider i...

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. However, the growing u...

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 eScience Center are co...

Maarten van Meersbergen·Aug 7, 2017

Reading News, visually.

The StoryTeller application gives you a different perspective on the news A screenshot from the StoryTeller application. Shown here is a co-participation graph for entities that participate in events...

eScience Editorial Team·Jul 17, 2017

an ambition for the global astronomical community

Making the data produced by the rejuvenated Westerbork Telescope more open for, and delivered faster to, the astronomical community Joeri van Leeuwen, Dutch astrophysicist, ASTRON and University of Am...

Maarten van Meersbergen·Jul 3, 2017

binge-watching science on youtube the good, the epic and the brilliant

With some help, its algorithms can be trained to find you the good stuff A decade ago, my favorite TV channel used to be the Discovery channel. I spent hours watching shows like How it’s made, Mythbus...

eScience Editorial Team·Jun 21, 2017

what is the impact of visualization on science

Scientific visualization impacts all research disciplines. Understanding our past, dealing with the challenges of climate change, discovering dark matter, and analyzing human behavior are all areas wh...

Lourens Veen·May 23, 2017

a license to science

The Beastie Boys were Licensed to Ill, James Bond had a licence to kill. I want a license to science. Science, it is said, is standing on the shoulders of giants. We scientists design experiments, col...

eScience Editorial Team·Apr 3, 2017

how can network analysis lead to a new way of studying court decisions

Gijs van Dijck, Professor of Private Law, Maastricht University Photography and text: Elodie Burrillon / HUCOPIX Gijs van Dijck is a young professor of Private Law at Maastricht University. For the l...

Dafne van Kuppevelt·Mar 20, 2017

mcfly time series classification made easy

A deep learning approach for time series Deep learning is hot. It is the state-of-the-art method for object recognition in images and video, and was an important component of the AI system that beat t...

Niels Drost·Mar 13, 2017

Reproducible Science The Common Workflow Language

Screenshot of the eWaterCycle forecast workflow, as produced by Cylc Why standards are more important than software, and how these will help to make science more reproducible. This blog is in part ba...

Lode Kulik·Mar 2, 2017

Five reasons why the eScience Center blog helps science

We think it is important that as many academic researchers as possible benefit from what we do. We think it is important that as many academic researchers as possible benefit from what we do. We put...

Vincent van Hees·Feb 28, 2017

So I wanted to be a Research Software Engineer

Rewind to 2008. I loved science. I loved technology. I wanted to combine the two worlds. However, looking back, I must admit: It ain’t easy being a developer of scientific software (a.k.a. research so...

Patrick Aerts·Feb 21, 2017

Reaching for the sky Wishes for the European Open Science Cloud

‘The cloud’ is one of the hottest tech topics of our time. It’s therefore no surprise that European Commission has also jumped on the bandwagon. Big time! Last year, the European Commission launched...

Rob van Nieuwpoort·Feb 9, 2017

First Light! … again! Shiny new receivers for the Westerbork telescope.

Radio Telescopes at Westerbork by Johan Wieland Great news! The new and improved Westerbork telescope in the northeast of the Netherlands has seen first light! If you are into radio astronomy, or if...

Patrick Bos·Feb 6, 2017

Travis caching and incremental builds

Update (Aug 7, 2018): added a section at the bottom with new configuration settings and an added time-out step for extending build times beyond the 50 minute limit to bootstrap your build cache. Orig...

Maarten van Meersbergen·Feb 6, 2017

What games can teach you (about science)

If you know me at all, you have probably heard me talk about computer games at least once. Games are such a huge part of how I spend my free time, it is hard for me to not talk about them in the best...

Carlos Martinez-Ortiz·Feb 6, 2017

What happened during the “Historic newspapers as ‘big data’” congress

On Friday 20th of January 2017, the Royal Library (a.k.a. Koninklijke Bibilotheek or KB) hosted the second congress on Historic newspapers as big data, with the central topic of Concept Drift. Slides...

Johan Hidding·Feb 3, 2017

Easier Docker in Python

Docker is a tool that creates a stack of virtual environments on top of a running Linux kernel. This allows you to run tools (and web services) in an encapsulated environment. I use Docker to call bi...

Lode Kulik·Feb 2, 2017

Breaking jargon barriers at Talking eScience 2017

From the humanities to computer science: Our team of eScience Research Engineers and eScience Principal Investigators What do ecology, psychology and medical science have in common? And what digital...

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