Netherlands eScience Center

Earlier this month @pabrod.bsky.social and Prof. Lisandra Costiner met with the Conservation and Research directors of the @museodelprado.es. to explore the access possibilities to their digital collection for our digital humanities projects. 🖼️ Thanks for a great conversation and a wonderful visit!

'FAIRifying' Research Outputs Webinar on November 10: discover best practices and existing resources to make your research outputs (data & software) FAIR. More information and registration: www.eventbrite.nl/e/fairifying... @4turesearchdata.bsky.social

❗ Reminder! The deadline for submitting your one-page expression of interest in the eScience Center Lorentz Competition is Sunday 25 October! For more information, visit the official call page at the @lorentzcenter.bsky.social website: www.lorentzcenter.nl/escience-cen...

The deadline to apply for our #vacancies is fast approaching! If you want to work as a RSE in Life Sciences, or Social Sciences & Humanities, send us your CV, a letter of motivation, and a link to an active GitHub account (or an alternative) before 𝗢𝗰𝘁𝗼𝗯𝗲𝗿 𝟮𝟮𝗻𝗱: www.esciencecenter.nl/vacancies/

🌍 Advancing research software through global collaboration: Highlights from #IRSC26 👉 blog.esciencecenter.nl/posts/2026-1... A blog by Michelle Barker (Better scientific software) and Kim Hartley (@researchsoftware.bsky.social). #mustread #researchsoftware

Tools come and go - programming languages, IDEs, frameworks, and now AI ✨. Check out Ole Mussmann's blog post as he unpacks what it means to be a Research Software Engineer in the era of AI-generated code! blog.esciencecenter.nl/posts/2026-1...

Did you use to work at the eScience Center, and would you like to reconnect with former colleagues and meet new members of the eScience Center team? eScience Center alumni are organising a meetup on November 5th 👉 www.eventbrite.nl/e/escience-a... Help spread the word by sharing this post!

I gave a talk about AI & research software today at @esciencecenter.bsky.social with some of my experiences and a lot of other people's, with lots of questions & few answers, but perhaps some useful ways of thinking about how to get to answers doi.org/10.5281/zeno... #AI #ResearchSoftware #RSEng

"IT professionals are the linchpin of modern research." Read the interview with our director Menno Rasch in I/O Magazine. 👇️ www.iomagazine.nl/IO_magazine_...

Thank you to everyone who joined us for the celebration of #InternationalRSEDay yesterday in Amsterdam. We had a great afternoon with lectures, networking and of course: cake 🎂 Shout-out to the NL-RSE core team for a fun and informative meetup!

Come meet the eScience Center at National Open Science Festival at Delft University of Technology! We will share our stories. our experiences, and our resources, and help make connections. Hope to see you on October 14th🤞 opensciencefestival.nl

Pioneering software engineer Margaret Hamilton passed away last week. She coined the term 'software engineering,' helping to establish software development as a legitimate engineering discipline. For this, and for all her other achievements, we are very much in her debt. www.bbc.com/news/article...

Happy International Research Software Engineer Day! www.youtube.com/watch?v=kLzU... #internationalRSEday

RSE Francesco Nattino will be at #CNG2026 in Snowbird, Utah Oct 6–9. He'll share lessons on building and benchmarking cloud-native datasets in a hands-on workshop, and presenting what we're trying to achieve with the #CLOUDNES project. Will we see you there? More info on CLOUD-NES: cloudnes.org

𝗪𝗲 𝗮𝗿𝗲 𝗵𝗶𝗿𝗶𝗻𝗴! We have vacancies for Research Software Engineers in Life Sciences, and Social Sciences & Humanities. Do you want to work at the forefront of cutting-edge international research? Apply now! www.esciencecenter.nl/vacancies/ The deadline for applications is 22 October 2026.

Join the highly interactive, 2-day workshop at the Netherlands eScience Center in Amsterdam on parallel programming in #Python on Tuesday 13 and Wednesday 14 October. Deadline for registration is 7 October: www.esciencecenter.nl/event/parall...

𝗡𝗟-𝗥𝗦𝗘 𝗺𝗲𝗲𝘁-𝘂𝗽 𝗼𝗻 𝗢𝗰𝘁𝗼𝗯𝗲𝗿 𝟴𝘁𝗵: 𝗰𝗼𝗺𝗲 𝗰𝗲𝗹𝗲𝗯𝗿𝗮𝘁𝗲 𝘄𝗶𝘁𝗵 𝘂𝘀! On 8 October 2026, on the 6th International RSE Day, we are organising a local @nl-rse.bsky.social meet-up. Have a look at the preliminary programme and book your spot here: nl-rse.org/events/2026-...

Meet us at #NWOPhysics in Veldhoven! On Monday 5 October Gijs van den Oord and Jaro Camphuijsen will be present at our booth to answer your questions. On Tuesday 6 October you can meet up with Jaro and @George Dadunashvili to find out what the eScience Center can do for you. Will we see you there?

Registration is open for the ODISSEI Conference 2026 🎉 A special edition marking 10 years! Join us 24 Nov, 09:00–18:00 at Jaarbeurs, Utrecht. Admission is free 🆓 Keynotes by @arnoutvanderijt.bsky.social (EUI) & Ana-Andreea Stoica ( Max Planck Institute) 🎤 👉 odissei-data.nl/event/odisse...

Are you struggling to train machine learning models because of insufficient data? Check out Simone Ciarella's guide on how synthetic data generated by readily available diffusion models can get you out of a pickle! blog.esciencecenter.nl/posts/2026-0...

Join the @opensciencenl.bsky.social online orientation session for the upcoming Open Science Infrastructure call on 26 October 2026. The session will provide practical information about the call, with plenty of opportunity to ask questions: www.openscience.nl/en/calendar/...

The Deep Learning workshop was a success, thanks to our participants and teachers Robin, @carschno.bsky.social, Angel and Alexander. Would you like to take this course as well? Subscribe to our newsletter and to know when we offer it again: esciencecenter.us8.list-manage.com/subscribe?u=...

Only a few days left to nominate a researcher or research team for the Dutch Data Prize. This year it's not just about FAIR data but also FAIR software! 𝗗𝗲𝗮𝗱𝗹𝗶𝗻𝗲 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝗻𝗼𝗺𝗶𝗻𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝗶𝘀 𝟯𝟬 𝘀𝗲𝗽𝘁𝗲𝗺𝗯𝗲𝗿. researchdata.nl/en/dutch-dat...

Join the highly interactive, 2-day workshop at the Netherlands eScience Center in Amsterdam on parallel programming in #Python on Tuesday 13 and Wednesday 14 October. Deadline for registration is 7 October: www.esciencecenter.nl/event/parall...

Yesterday our director Menno Rasch and community manager @neocarlitos.bsky.social had a great meeting with #TDCC-LSH at #Health-RI. We quickly discovered that there are quite a few opportunities to work together and will definitely continue our conversation in the future.

𝗡𝗟-𝗥𝗦𝗘 𝗺𝗲𝗲𝘁-𝘂𝗽 𝗼𝗻 𝗢𝗰𝘁𝗼𝗯𝗲𝗿 𝟴𝘁𝗵: 𝗰𝗼𝗺𝗲 𝗰𝗲𝗹𝗲𝗯𝗿𝗮𝘁𝗲 𝘄𝗶𝘁𝗵 𝘂𝘀! On 8 October 2026, on the 6th International RSE Day, we are organising a local @nl-rse.bsky.social meet-up. Have a look at the preliminary programme and book your spot here: nl-rse.org/events/2026-...

The Lorentz Center and the @esciencecenter.bsky.social invite researchers to join the eScience Center-Lorentz Competition 2026. This year the focus is on: -Digital sovereignty in research- Moren information: www.lorentzcenter.nl/escience-cen...

A fruitful day at the @opensciencenl.bsky.social network event for granted projects for Research on open science. We are involved in one project in particular, GUIDE-ME, but are very interested in hearing about other initiatives and to see how we can support other projects. @neocarlitos.bsky.social

RSE Faruk Diblen released rseng-agent-skills: 67 Research Software Engineering practices packaged into native agent skills so AI coding agents follow the research software best practices and open-science standards while writing code, not after the fact. Check it out: github.com/fdiblen/rsen...

What would a sovereign digital research landscape look like and what does it take to enable, build and sustain it? The eScience - Lorentz Center Competition call is for a workshop with a focus on Digital Sovereignty: www.lorentzcenter.nl/escience-cent

Limestones hold crucial records of Earth’s climate history. But gaps in the fossil record may affect our inference on the natural succession of the species found in limestone strata. eScience Center RSEs developed CarboKitten jl. to solve this problem: www.esciencecenter.nl/news/carboki...

The WeatherGenerator Service Call 2026 is now open! Awarded projects will receive up to three Person-Months of time from Netherlands eScience Engineers. Deadline for application is 16 October, 14:00 CET. Apply here 👉 www.esciencecenter.nl/calls-for-pr...

We had a meetup with Research Software Management (RSM) professionals across the Dutch University Medical Centers (UMCs). Read all about it here: blog.esciencecenter.nl/posts/2026-0...

It’s a wrap for the International #ResearchSoftware Conference. Thanks to our 110+ attendees, presenters & sponsors: @amazonwebservices.bsky.social, @softwaresaved.bsky.social, US NIH, @ncsaatillinois.bsky.social, @esciencecenter.bsky.social, NWO, @schmidtsciences.bsky.social, @society-rse.org.

Only one week left to sign up for our on-site workshop Introduction to Deep Learning on 22 September. Deadline is Wednesday 16 September!

Registration for the Research Software Support Training closes 11 September! Participants affiliated with Dutch research institutions pay just €50 for 5 online sessions on consecutive Tuesday mornings; participants from industry pay just €200. 👇

Last chance! The deadline for application is 𝟲 𝗦𝗲𝗽𝘁𝗲𝗺𝗯𝗲𝗿 2026.

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Are you attending the International Research Software Conference (IRSC) on 7 and 8 September? We would love to meet you there. If you haven't registered yet, do so here 👉 www.researchsoft.org/irsc/about/

The eScience Center is based on the work of its Research Software Engineers. But how do they see their work exactly: as research, engineering, or both? We have asked them! blog.esciencecenter.nl/posts/2026-0... By bsky.app/profile/cars...