Netherlands eScience Center

In his second installment of the investigative series, Suvayu delves deeper into the enigmatic case of missing symbols that can perplex developers. 🕵️♂️ Discover how advanced debugging tools and meticulous analysis can shed light on these elusive issues, ensuring robust and reliable code. Read the full blog here:

Netherlands eScience Center Research Software Engineers are now presenting their work at the poster session of NAC. Come talk to us!

We are sharing our last Fellow Feature for the 2024-2025 Fellowship season. Last but not least, we are showcasing the project from Peter-Paul Zwetsloot. Peter-Paul is exploring whether a federated learning infrastructure is feasible for the future national cardiomyopathy register. Learn more about his experience as a Fellow at the eScience Center. #FellowFeature #eScienceCenter

In the latest blog, we learn how the open-source benchmark compares training speed across different supercomputers, including secure environments. Key takeaways? Hardware differences drive performance gaps and multi-GPU scaling is efficient. Learn more:

Today is that strange day, again. We moved our clocks an hour forward, and for a couple of days everything will feel weird. Why we do this? I'll try to visually explain it with this #rstats visual simulation: https://lnkd.in/dYftyb-Q Much more context in this piece I wrote for the Netherlands eScience Center blog: https://lnkd.in/eQuvuJW #DaylightSavingTime

We are excited to share Henk Cremers as the latest Fellow Feature at the Netherlands eScience Center. As an Assistant Prof. at the University of Amsterdam's Clinical Psychology program, Henk focuses on the neurobiological basis of personality and psychopathology, particularly behavioral control of stress as a resilience mechanism. His project focuses on mental health research software that makes data more accessible.

Over the past years, eScience Center RSEs have worked hard on lesson materials for the 'Introduction to Deep Learning course. Now, the lesson is peer-reviewed and published in The Carpentries Lab. Read all about the lesson and our experience with the process in this blog! Want to go directly to the lesson? Check it out here: https://lnkd.in/ehbjRaSt #carpentries #deeplearning

This week SURF newsletter covered their past year's events and achievements. I am pleasantly surprised to find Lieke de Boer, Deekshitha M and my faces in the center of Highlights 2024. Detailed highlights here: https://lnkd.in/eEVc6zAN The photo is from the SURF Research Day 2024. The next event is in May 2025, I highly recommend participating in it: https://lnkd.in/eu2mcm3k

Happy to represent Netherlands eScience Center at NAC NWO in Noordwijk Conference Centre Leeuwenhorst. Come meet us at our booth.

We published the long-awaited report on Professionalizing the role of Research Software Engineers in the Netherlands! Thanks to Pamela Wochner, Margriet Miedema, Julie Beardsell DPhil, Jill Briggeman, Thomas Abeel, Marta Teperek, Dan Rudmann, PhD, Martine de Vos for their hard work! And thanks to the Society of Research Software Engineering and Research Data Management community for their feedback and input! The report can be found here: https://lnkd.in/dRXZ9wNd. Spread the word to anyone who may benefit from or want to boost RSE professionalization! Main points: - RSEs are embedded in Dutch research institutions in different ways. Some have permanent contracts, others worry about job security and career progression. - If we want more security for RSEs in these positions, we need to make funders, policy makers and institutional management aware of the importance of RSEs. - RSEs do work that is in line with the strategic goals and mission of all research-performing organizations that we looked at in the report. If you are interested in working on the issues of sustainable funding and standardized job profiles for RSEs in the future, please fill out this form: https://lnkd.in/d5RGDTUZ We would love to strengthen the community further!