Netherlands eScience Center

New blog! ✍️ The DReaMS community is committed to advancing research software management (RSM) through training, and emphasising the importance of sustainability, version control, and FAIR and Open Science. Read the account of the community meetup: https://lnkd.in/dxk_p5Rk Thomas Pronk Mariia Steeghs-Turchina Anna Niehues

🎁✨ This Sinterklaas, the eScience Center unwraps a poetic tribute to research software engineers — the quiet heroes behind FAIR, reliable science. Read our festive ode! https://lnkd.in/eWdCH-Ze

In a pilot workshop this week we taught our new lesson materials about Natural Language Processing for the first time. We are very happy with the positive and constructive feedback we received from our group of participants. Some quotes: 🔹 "You guys did a terrific job ;) Keep innovating as you are doing!" 🔹 "I thought that it was an excellent workshop. The instructors were enthusiastic and able to make the complicated concepts digestible." 🔹 "The work flow with short instruction and exercises is very useful. I think the workshop could be a bit more tailored to specific audiences." We take all the feedback at heart and after some adjustments will be offering the workshop in 2026. We'll keep you posted!

It's been a busy November at the eScience Center! A month filled with seminars, conferences and workshops and the eScience Center was very busy gathering and disseminating knowledge. In our November Roundup we share just a few of the interesting events organised in the research software community. 👉 https://lnkd.in/eRtd9qUu

National Research Software Day 2025 was a great success, thanks to the professional organisation by @TU Delft and NL-RSE and, of course, the funding provided by TU Delft, #LCRDM and @Open Science NL. There was substantial input from the eScience Center, and we took home many insights and much inspiration – not to mention a 2000 euro prize to develop a new training! Read our account of the day: https://lnkd.in/eba5CwzA

At the eScience Center we pride ourselves on sharing stories about our work and our projects. We sometimes need a little push to get started, especially when you have a lot of ideas in you head. RSE @pabrod as just the scheme to remove that writers block. https://lnkd.in/e3EnaEYX

National Research Software Day was a succes in itself, but it was an especially memorable day for Fenne Riemslagh: she won the TDCC-NES funding of 2000 euros for starting-up a soft skill training in 2026. We will share more about the details of her plan next year!

Happy to have had informative, lively discussions with another group of software enthusiasts at our Research Software Support Training! Some quotes about what their favourite topic was: 🔸 "The introduction of the software management plan (SMP) tool. I was already wondering if such a thing would be around and this will be helpful in supporting researchers." 🔸 "The thought provoking discussions, and role playing grumpy researchers who do not want to fill in an SMP." 🔸"Difference between research software vs. software used in research. Licensing. Distribution. Version control." If this sparks your interest, subscribe to our Training Newsletter for 2026 workshop updates: https://lnkd.in/etiDNbMU Fenne Riemslagh Ewan C. Björn Ole Mußmann

What’s it like to work at the eScience Center? Hear it directly from the people who work here. 👉 check out Jason's story: https://lnkd.in/eNG5Q_Pu Jason Maassen

Grateful to ODISSEI - Open Data Infrastructure for Social Science and Economic Innovations for having us on their podcast! 🎙️ We enjoyed diving into this hot topic: making science more reproducible, sustainable, and efficient. Curious about what we’ve been working on together? Check out our recent projects 👇 - NetAudit: https://lnkd.in/ejU_QisA - PreFer fertility prediction challenge: https://lnkd.in/eKkNNPHu - Modeling life outcomes: https://lnkd.in/eZYcX5cr