DCC Spring Training Days 2026 - LCRDM.nl DCC SPRING Training Days will have its sixt edition in 2026. A variety of topics  (11) are offered by your colleagues: from Linked Open Data to Engagement with DMPS, from Pedagogical Skills to…

Join us at the DCC Spring Training Days 2026:
- 23 April: Basic Principles of Linked Open Data and SPARQL by Eva Lekkerkerker
- 12 May Practical Pedagogical Techniques by Fenne Riemslagh and Pablo Rodriguez-Sanchez

Learn more and register: lcrdm.nl/evenementen/...

Call for Research Software Sustainability Fellows (RSSF 2026) - eScience Center Apply to our Fellowship Programme! Together with Open Science NL, we are seeking 20 professionals who are passionate about research software and able to act as an ambassador for research software sust...

📣 Become an eScience Center Fellow!
Together with @opensciencenl.bsky.social, we're seeking 20 ambassadors for #researchsoftware sustainability.

Each Fellow will receive:
➡️ €2.000
➡️ In-kind expertise to support
➡️ A boost to existing initiatives or activities

Apply by 11 June: shorturl.at/VFBPN

𝗥𝗲𝘀𝗲𝗮𝗿𝗰𝗵 𝗦𝗼𝗳𝘁𝘄𝗮𝗿𝗲 𝗦𝘂𝗺𝗺𝗲𝗿 𝗦𝗰𝗵𝗼𝗼𝗹: 𝗚𝗼𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗯𝗲𝘆𝗼𝗻𝗱 𝗡𝗼𝘁𝗲𝗯𝗼𝗼𝗸𝘀
Centre for Digital Humanities - Utrecht University June 29-July 3 Utrecht
Learn how to create your own software solutions to research problems.
Registrations are open - deadline to apply: 1 May 2026 👉 buff.ly/j69ID3Z

The eScience Center recently contributed to developing an open-access Rapid Evaluation Framework (REF) that dramatically speeds up the evaluation of climate models. Read the press release (cross-post from the Coupled Model Intercomparision Project): 👇️
www.esciencecenter.nl/news/scienti...

FOSDEM 2026: Observations and key takeaways Three NLeSC RSEs walk into an open-source conference...

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.

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We are thrilled to announce that our SwiftMHC work, led by Dr. Li Xue’s Structural Bioinformatics Group, is published in Cell Reports Methods, co-authored by our RSE Cunliang Geng.
A major step toward faster, more scalable, and sustainable AI for biomedical research. buff.ly/tFq7yQx

On 9 and 10 April we will be at NWO NAC, the Dutch Earth and Environmental Sciences Conference. Meet Yifat Dzigan, our Section Head Sustainability & Environment and follow a workshop by senior RSE Meiert Grootes about RS-DAT on Thursday 16:30 hrs and Friday 13:45 hrs. nwonac.nl/programme-it....

Workshop 𝗜𝗻𝘁𝗿𝗼𝗱𝘂𝗰𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝘁𝗼 𝗚𝗲𝗼𝘀𝗽𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗮𝗹 𝗥𝗮𝘀𝘁𝗲𝗿 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗩𝗲𝗰𝘁𝗼𝗿 𝗗𝗮𝘁𝗮 𝘄𝗶𝘁𝗵 𝗣𝗵𝘆𝘁𝗵𝗼𝗻: get hands-on experience with the most popular Python tools in the open community.

21 & 22 April in Amsterdam

Registration for the workshop closes 15 April so register now!
www.esciencecenter.nl/event/introd...

Join us for the 2026 #NWO ICT.OPEN!
On 15 April Fenne Riemslagh and Carlos Martinez will host an interactive session: 'How can Software Management Plans boost your research?'
buff.ly/YCDm4iu
Or join our Product Development Lead Jason Maassen on the Exhibition floor on 16 April: buff.ly/3RGNfkf

🗓️ DON'T FORGET! We're hosting an online information event on 9 April from 13:00 to 15:00 CET to talk all about the Call for Open and Sustainable Research Software 2026.

Be sure to register here for the information event:
www.eventbrite.nl/e/call-for-o...

Congratulations to the participants of the GPU Programming workshop, who are now ready to start their journey into the world of programming GPUs.
Make sure you know about next year's workshop in time & subscribe to our Quarterly Training Newsletter: esciencecenter.us8.list-manage.com/subscribe?u=...

Getting started with Julia is relatively easy but making Julia code that runs fast is not so straightforward. The workshop Efficient Computing in Julia (14-15 April) teaches best practices as well as making Julia code performant.

Registration closes April 8!
www.esciencecenter.nl/event/effici...

Bring your own backend A pattern for sustainable research software collaboration

The best frontend code is the code your collaborators never have to touch.

With the BYOB (Bring Your Own Backend) approach you can let scientists run their own Python backend simply with a link.

By our engineer Stefan Verhoeven.

medium.com/@eScienceCen...

📢 Last call for researchers!

Have you sent in your project proposition for the 2026 Open eScience Call? The deadline is tomorrow!

Don't want to miss out on the chance to collaborate with Research Software Engineers on your projects!

Apply here: www.esciencecenter.nl/calls-for-pr...

Cloud-Native Data in Natural and Engineering Sciences Join the first CLOUD‑NES symposium to identify gaps, barriers, and priorities for cloud-native data access and processing in the NES domain!

𝗛𝗼𝘄 𝗰𝗮𝗻 𝗰𝗹𝗼𝘂𝗱 𝗻𝗮𝘁𝗶𝘃𝗲 𝘁𝗲𝗰𝗵𝗻𝗼𝗹𝗼𝗴𝗶𝗲𝘀 𝘁𝗿𝗮𝗻𝘀𝗳𝗼𝗿𝗺 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝘄𝗮𝘆 𝘄𝗲 𝗽𝘂𝗯𝗹𝗶𝘀𝗵, 𝗮𝗰𝗰𝗲𝘀𝘀, 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗽𝗿𝗼𝗰𝗲𝘀𝘀 𝗿𝗲𝘀𝗲𝗮𝗿𝗰𝗵 𝗱𝗮𝘁𝗮 𝗶𝗻 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗡𝗮𝘁𝘂𝗿𝗮𝗹 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗘𝗻𝗴𝗶𝗻𝗲𝗲𝗿𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗦𝗰𝗶𝗲𝗻𝗰𝗲𝘀? Join the 𝗖𝗟𝗢𝗨𝗗-𝗡𝗘𝗦 𝗦𝘆𝗺𝗽𝗼𝘀𝗶𝘂𝗺 in Utrecht for a full day of inspiration, and collaboration!

1 April 2026 09:00–17:00 hrs
👉 cloudnes-symposium-2026.eventbrite.nl

Did you miss the Information Session for the 2026 Open eScience Call? Not to worry, we have it on tape for you. If you did attend the session, the recording is a handy reminder: www.youtube.com/watch?v=7z3T...
The closing date for the submission of Project Propositions is 𝟯𝟬 𝗠𝗮𝗿𝗰𝗵 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟲, 𝟭𝟰:𝟬𝟬 𝗖𝗘𝗧.

📣 Registration for the Introduction to Geospatial Raster and Vector Data with Phython workshop is now open!
👉️ 21 & 22 April in Amsterdam
👉️ Learn how Phython tools can be used to carry out practical geospatial data analysis tasks

Register here:
www.esciencecenter.nl/event/introd...

Together w/ @opensciencenl.bsky.social we are excited to announce the call for Open and Sustainable Research Software 2026 is now open! 🎉
👉️ ~2000 in-kind contribution of RSE time
👉️ Up to €25.000 for workshops, training, community-building activities

MORE: www.esciencecenter.nl/calls-for-pr...

Do you need code to be fast and portable? Consider using Julia to write code that can run fast, anywhere. In this blog, Bart Schilperoort explains how to write Julia code than can run on any GPU, and why you would want to do that.
👉 blog.esciencecenter.nl/3710cc8362da...

“I love complex and challenging problems and as a Research Software Engineer I'm always looking at ways to make my solutions more generally applicable.”
What’s it like to work at the eScience Center?
Check out Djura's story: 👉 www.esciencecenter.nl/our-stories/...

Winners of the eScience Center-Lorentz Competition 2026 Announced  - eScience Center Last August, the Lorentz Center and the Netherlands eScience Center invited researchers to apply for the eScience Center-Lorentz Competition 2025. The call sought ambitious proposals to tackle the…

How do we turn distributed AI infrastructure into a unified scientific instrument?

The winner of the 2026 eScience Center-Lorentz Competition—"Beyond Models"—aims to do just that. The team will host an intensive workshop at @LorentzCenter w/ dedicated support from our #RSEs. Congrats to the team! 🎉

Give Me Data, yesterday! The ability to search for packages from the terminal is taken for granted by most Linux users. See how NLeSC RSE Ole has tackled the problem on Nix - a special case!

The ability to search for packages from the terminal is taken for granted by most Linux users. See how NLeSC RSE Ole has tackled the problem on Nix - a special case!

blog.esciencecenter.nl/give-me-data...

Please fill in @society-rse.org's 2026 International RSE Survey.
You don’t need to be called an RSE to complete the survey. If you develop software for academic research as part of your work, they want to hear from you.
@nl-rse.bsky.social

www.software.ac.uk/news/2026-in...

Sign up for a 20-hour interactive workshop to strengthen your use of Open Educational Resources in your training practices. The workshop is taught by Angelos Konstantinidis , educational advisor at the University of Groningen. Registration is open now - only 25 spots available: buff.ly/JsmYVj1

❗️ Don't forget to sign up for the GPU Programming workshop on 17 + 18 March. Registration closes on Tuesday 9 March. www.esciencecenter.nl/event/gpu-pr...

Online Information Event for the Open eScience Call (OEC) 2025 Empowering researchers across all disciplines through advanced research software.

📢 Are you joining us?
Our information session for the Open eScience Center 2026 call starts at 14:00! Ask all your burning questions and learn more about what it’s like to work with the eScience Center on your research project. Sign up: buff.ly/DTxrV76

Research Software Directory Receives Funding from Open Science NL  - eScience Center Open Science NL has awarded funding to the Research Software Directory (RSD) aimed at building and enhancing national research infrastructure.

@opensciencenl.bsky.social has awarded funding to 45 projects aimed at building and enhancing national research infrastructure. The Research Software Directory will play a major role in five of these projects, reflecting the growing role of research software!
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If you are considering submitting a proposal for the Open eScience Call 2026 and are new to the eScience Center, we strongly recommend attending the online information event on 5 March. There, we will inform you about the specific aims of the Open eScience Call.
Register now👉 buff.ly/DTxrV76

Making LLMs Work for Science 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 audiences.

LLMs can be genuinely useful tools when they’re pointed at the right problems, with the right constraints and the right human oversight. Scientific communication is one of those problems.

Check out this blog piece by our engineer Jesse García:
blog.esciencecenter.nl/making-llms-...

Planning on submitting a proposal for Open eScience Call 2026? Read Peter Kalverla's blog first to set your project up for success 👇
blog.esciencecenter.nl/5-tips-for-w...