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eScience Editorial Team·May 28, 2026

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 Werkhoven This blog post is being cross-posted by the Researc...

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...

Peter Kalverla·Dec 5, 2025

A special gift (December 5th)

Ode to the research software engineer 8 > Sinterklaas is a Dutch tradition featuring Saint Nicholas, who is said to arrive from Spain with his helpers and travel across rooftops to...

Pablo Rodríguez-Sánchez·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 t...

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...

Patrick Bos·Sep 25, 2025

Be like Jurriaan

Write copy-pasteable READMEs for developers The main message of this post is short: Thank you, Jurriaan H. Spaaks , for including developer’s READMEs in the zenodraft and the zenod...

eScience Editorial Team·May 20, 2025

Scientific Community Building through Workshops: the NPLinker eScience experience

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

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...

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 offer...

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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...

Carlos Martinez-Ortiz·Feb 10, 2025

Reproducible research with The Turing Way

The Netherlands eScience Center and Turing Way have long been collaborating on the common goal to improve reproducible research practices 1 A long time ago, in the far-away Amsterd...

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 reali...

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

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 cal...

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-...

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 irregula...

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...

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,...

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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 unconfe...

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...

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 s...

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...

Reggie Cushing·Mar 26, 2024

The Dystopian Mirage: Blogging’s Descent with My Involvement

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

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...

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...

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...

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, develo...

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...

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 r...

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 scienti...

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...

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...

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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...

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...

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...

eScience Editorial Team·May 16, 2023

Creating a Community by Integrating Expertise, Tools and Ideas

A personal reflection on the first NPLinker eScience workshop for Natural Product Discovery By Justin van der Hooft This blog post is written by Wageningen University & Researc...

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 t...

Patrick Bos·Apr 6, 2023

Ditching Docker Hub: serve research software with GHCR + Zenodo

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

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...

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)...

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 an...

Florian Huber·Jan 31, 2023

Build a mass spectrometry analysis pipeline in Python using matchms — part II: Spec2Vec

After “part I” which gave an introduction on how to import, process, and analyze a tandem mass spectra dataset using Python and matchms, “part II” will add Spec2Vec to the game, a...

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Florian Huber·Jan 31, 2023

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

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

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...

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...

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·Oct 27, 2022

How to manage your software

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

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. Wri...

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 To...

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...

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 patien...

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 inv...

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 gre...

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...

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/M...

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 t...

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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 f...

Adriënne Mendrik·Jun 14, 2021

#KonMari for Science? Tidying up Provenance…

The term provenance mostly originates from the art world, where it aids in authenticating historical objects. > “The primary purpose of tracing the provenance of an object or entit...

Robin Richardson·May 31, 2021

(Nano)Publish your research with Python

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

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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. H...

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 th...

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:...

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 (A...

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...

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...

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 ar...

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 h...

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 a...

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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...

Patrick Bos·Mar 18, 2020

Remote revolution at the eScience Center

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

eScience Editorial Team·Mar 12, 2020

The Research Software Alliance (ReSA) and the Community Landscape

eScience Editorial Team·Mar 11, 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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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...

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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 co...

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 a...

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 r...

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 a...

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,...

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...

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 impor...

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....

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...

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,...

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, rev...

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...

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...

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 err...

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 chem...

eScience Editorial Team·Dec 17, 2018

using agile methods in scientific software development

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

eScience Editorial Team·Dec 17, 2018

using agile methods in scientific software development 1

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

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 facil...

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...

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...

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...

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 br...

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...

Vincent van Hees·Sep 11, 2017

10 ways to keep your successful scientific software alive

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

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...

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...

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

Bring Your Own Backend

A special gift (December 5th)

The story map

Why teach calculus in the age of AI

Be like Jurriaan

Scientific Community Building through Workshops: the NPLinker eScience experience

Keeping your scientific data files small

Fast-Forward Merges on GitHub

FAIR principles: 5000 years of common sense

Reproducible research with The Turing Way

Amsterdam as seen by a weather model

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

Tackling Advent of Code

The ‘do-it-yourself’ Computed Tomography scanner

Variables, Records, Values and Objects

Beyond research

Scripting vs. Programming

Decoding Research Software Impact: A Collaborative Journey

Better scripts with typing

Procedural Programming

Henry, the City Tweaker

Brainstorming on the success of a research software catalogue

A Tale of Tallness

The Dystopian Mirage: Blogging’s Descent with My Involvement

How to ensure that others can run your code

Machine Learning Machinery for Quantum Chemistry

Navigating research software policies: Insights from the Dutch research community

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

Achieving Utopic Git History

Do you have 50.000 annotators?

ESMValTool: Recipes for solid climate science

Why your research deserves to be an R package

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

NL-RSE: What Open Science can learn from Open Source

Language Modeling: The First 100 Years

Research Ethics and Authorship: The Technological Solution

Creating a Community by Integrating Expertise, Tools and Ideas

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

Ditching Docker Hub: serve research software with GHCR + Zenodo

The bike and the laptop

The medical chatbot will not see you now

Diversity in Software: four ways to think different

Build a mass spectrometry analysis pipeline in Python using matchms — part II: Spec2Vec

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

An applied mathematician meets software engineering

Why internships have a large impact

The Data Science Centre: Digital expertise Hub at UvA

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

How to manage your software

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

A single rule for better talks

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

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

Parsing Hebrew and Syriac morphology using Deep Learning

Conversations with a chatbot about CleanX

Storyboards for science communication

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

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

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

#KonMari for Science? Tidying up Provenance…

(Nano)Publish your research with Python

Using Rust for Scientific Numerical applications: Learning from Past Experiences

Can mathematical models predict the future?

Automate chores with GitHub Actions

eScience trends from ADASS 2020

Using C++ in a web app with WebAssembly

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

Parallel R in a nutshell

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

Forcing science with brute force deep learning

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

Remote revolution at the eScience Center

The Research Software Alliance (ReSA) and the Community Landscape

Workshop Machine Learning for Research 2020 … did it work?

Parallel programming in Python

Some things that scientists can learn from the arts

Between pencil and paper

FAIR Software at the 2019 eScience Symposium

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