You cannot have missed it, and if you did, you know about it know. We're marching for science. Originating in the USA, the marches are spreading around the world, also in Europe. More than 400 was the count a week ago. One by one, European cities joined with initiatives. Science March Stockholm was the first to get my interest, but Science March Amsterdam followed soon after. So, no reason to return to Stockholm this April. Here's a map with all planned marches around the world:

Zooming in on Europe (well, part of it), we get this map:

Quite a bit of choice. We see several countries with multiple marches. The Netherlands shows the Amsterdam march, but ideas have been posed to organize a Science March in Maastricht too.

Well, I will be marching.

Already many months ago I joined a bio.tools (doi:10.1093/nar/gkv1116) workshop in Amsterdam, organized by Gert Vriend et al (see this coverage). I learned then how to register services, search, and that underneath JSON is used in the API to exchange information about the services. One neat feature is that bio.tools allows you to specify a lot of detail of the service calls.

eNanoMapper has ended. It was my first EC-funded project as PI. It was great to run a three year Open Science project at this scale. I loved the collaboration with the other partners, and like to thank Lucian and Markus for their weekly coordination of the project! Lucian also reflected on the project in this blog post. He describes the successful completion of the project, and we partly thank that to the uptake of ideas, solutions, and approaches by the NanoSafety Cluster (NSC) community.

Following the example by Henry Rzepa, here an announcement of a meeting with a great program organized by the Beilstein Institut in Germany. The meeting does also mean I cannot attend another really important meeting, WikiCite, which has a partial overlap :(

At the Open science and the chemistry lab of the future meeting meeting I will represent ELIXIR, which is quite a challenge as they are doing so much, and I only have so much time to cover that.
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