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52 articles · Latest March 26, 2026

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-dispari...

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 t...

eScience Editorial Team·Feb 11, 2026

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

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

eScience Editorial Team·Dec 9, 2025

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

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

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...

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 o...

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·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...

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...

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...

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-...

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 disc...

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...

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...

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...

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 cr...

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...

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: 2024–04–2...

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 wor...

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...

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:...

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...

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...

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 2...

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’...

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·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 e...

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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...

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 we...

Netherlands eScience Center·Jun 8, 2020

Evidence for the importance of research software

● Recognising the importance of software in research: Research Software Engineers (RSEs), a UK example — Study is a case study that discusses the current challenges faced by RSEs a...

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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 curio...

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...

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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...

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....

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 chemic...

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 ce...

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 Amsterd...

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

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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·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:...

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 quest...

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...

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...

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 Rotterda...

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 gradual...

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 c...

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 Un...

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 eS...

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 Ho...

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 des...

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 U...

Collaboration

Bring Your Own Backend

Give Me Data, Yesterday

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

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

A special gift (December 5th)

From PhD Student to Auto-Tuning GPU Expert. Meet Floris-Jan.

5 tips for writing a successful eScience Center proposal

Introduction to Deep Learning with Python

A Different Game

How is research software managed at UMCs? Insights from a first meetup

The ‘do-it-yourself’ Computed Tomography scanner

From Pandemic Response to Package Development

Beyond research

From Corridor Coincidences to Cellular Cartography: The grlc Story

National Research Software Day: National Infrastructures for Sustainable Software

Research software is critical to the future of AI-driven research

Henry, the City Tweaker

Brainstorming on the success of a research software catalogue

A Tale of Tallness

How to manage your IP address in Python

Cracking the (moisture) tracking code

Investing in people: anticipating the future of research software

Coming Soon: Conditional Process Models in JASP

The hidden dangers of using XAI carelessly

The Data Science Centre: Digital expertise Hub at UvA

Ceci n’est pas une peinture — making art with AI

The Future of Research Software

Software in the spotlight: launching the Research Software Directory

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

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

Evidence for the importance of research software

6 months of eScience: 6 lessons worth sharing

The Research Software Alliance (ReSA) and the Community Landscape

The success of reliable integration of renewable energy

Accelerating the search for dark matter

Optimizing plasma sources through numerical simulation

Using deep neural networks to understand molecular interactions

understanding global corporate networks

using agile methods in scientific software development

using agile methods in scientific software development 1

analyzing the ‘life’ of newspapers with machine learning

is an escience research engineer simply a computer scientist in disguise

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

research and software perspectives from different communities

digital technologies to analyze eyewitness accounts of mass violence

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

introducing nl-rse

teaching machines to recognize cancer

predicting temperatures in your street

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

a license to science

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

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