We are wishing everyone a fantastic new year! We'd also like to take the opportunity to thank all our partners, including the anonymous people who reviewed our #OpeneScienceCall2025! We couldn't have done it without you! 🥂 🫶

We developed a new training in Fundamentals of Natural Language Processing in Python and we would appreciate your feedback. Please have a look at our new lesson materials and help us improve them.

https://carpentries-incubator.github.io/Natural-language-processing/

Read our December newsletter with updates on projects and workshops, new blogs and of course the December Roundup. https://mailchi.mp/esciencecenter/december-2025.

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Are you interested in developing your own module in #JASP?
Join our free hackathon on 16-17 February 2026.

More information and registration:
https://jasp-stats.org/2025/11/21/apply-for-the-escience-jasp-hackathon-and-build-your-own-module-in-amsterdam/

@JASPStats

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://blog.esciencecenter.nl/strengthening-research-software-management-in-dutch-umcs-highlights-from-the-second-dreams-ee2c8d12f243

🎁✨ 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://blog.esciencecenter.nl/a-special-gift-december-5th-69f12753581d

This week we taught a pilot workshop in Natural Language Processing . We are very happy with the constructive feedback we received:
- "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."
- "Keep innovating as you are doing!"
We 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://www.esciencecenter.nl/news/november-roundup/

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://www.esciencecenter.nl/news/national-research-software-day-2025/

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 has just the scheme to remove that writers block.
https://blog.esciencecenter.nl/the-story-map-6c1ed940bd70?source=friends_link&sk=27af20c336c06d1fa926aa7df40c9bae

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

@jspijker Thank you and thank you for joining!

Some quotes from our Research Software Support Training:

🔸 "The introduction of the software management plan (SMP) tool. 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"

Interested? Subscribe to our Training Newsletter for 2026 workshop updates: https://esciencecenter.us8.list-manage.com/subscribe?u=a0a563ca342f1949246a9f92f&id=31bfc2303d

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://www.esciencecenter.nl/our-stories/

Grateful to ODISSEI for having us on their podcast! 🎙️ We enjoyed diving into this hot topic: making science more reproducible, sustainable, and efficient! Hear from our Research Software Engineers, Malte and Flavio!

Check out the episode here 👇:
https://odissei.transistor.fm/episodes/data-engineering-and-software-support-with-netherlands-escience-center

𝗩𝗮𝗰𝗮𝗻𝗰𝘆 The Netherlands eScience Center is looking for an Executive Director. A detailed profile and further information are available via Holtrop Ravesloot. Interested candidates are invited to contact reacties@holtropravesloot.nl or view the vacancy on our website https://www.esciencecenter.nl/careers/executive-director/ (in Dutch).
Apply by 23 November via reacties@holtropravesloot.nl.

𝗚𝗲𝘁 𝗶𝗻𝘀𝗽𝗶𝗿𝗲𝗱, 𝗴𝗲𝘁 𝗶𝗻𝘃𝗼𝗹𝘃𝗲𝗱!

On 25 November, we will celebrate the essential role of software in research at National Research Software Day. With keynote talks by Prof. Eric-Jan Wagenmakers and Dr. Connie Clare, as well as a broad range of topics in the parallel sessions and unconference sessions, this is a day you won’t want to miss.

𝗢𝗻𝗹𝘆 𝗮 𝗳𝗲𝘄 𝗿𝗲𝗺𝗮𝗶𝗻𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝘀𝗽𝗼𝘁𝘀!

For more info and registration 👉 https://nl-rse.org/pages/nrsd-2025

"What I created during my time at the eScience Center is not limited to one specific purpose but can immediately be deployed in other people's research. I’m proud to have made an impact in that way."
Read the interview with @fjwillemsen about his time as a PhD student at the eScience Center: https://medium.com/@esciencecenternl/8c1a55e0aedf?source=friends_link&sk=4c041100d923f0fe1c35190c972eb972

#GPU #autotuning

🍂 𝗢𝗰𝘁𝗼𝗯𝗲𝗿 𝗥𝗼𝘂𝗻𝗱𝘂𝗽
From research software funding to firefighting, from magma oceans to coding cafes: the Netherlands eScience Center had a very busy month of October.
Read all about it 👉 https://www.esciencecenter.nl/news/october-roundup-2/

The eScience Center actively engages with the global scientific community at various events and conferences, and we would love to meet you there! So if you plan on attending any of the conferences mentioned on our website, don't hesitate to contact us. https://www.esciencecenter.nl/news/meet-us-in-november-and-december/