Sander W van der Laan
@swvanderlaan.bsky.social
Assist. Prof. @UMC_Utrecht @AtheroExpress | cardiovascular genetics | @AtheroNL @EAS @StrokeGenetics | father of 3 | 👨🏽💻 | @OpenSciUtrecht
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🚀 Thrilled to announce our latest #preprint on intraplaque haemorrhage (IPH) quantification and molecular 🧬characterisation of carotid plaques using deep learning. A thread 🧵👇🏽
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#CirculatoryHealth for #ALS at #UtrechtSciencePark Night Run 7 • 11. Choose a distance 5-10-15km. Join our team "Circulatory Health for ALS".
Let's do this! 💪🏽
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@umcutrecht.bsky.social #CirculatoryHealth
#CirculatoryHealth for #ALS at #UtrechtSciencePark Night Run 7 • 11. Choose a distance 5-10-15km. Join our team "Circulatory Health for ALS".
Let's do this! 💪🏽
www.vanderlaanscience.nl/posts/circul...
@umcutrecht.bsky.social #CirculatoryHealth
Circulatory Health for ALS — Van der Laan & Science
Circulatory Health for ALS: Utrecht Science Park Night Run on November 7th.
www.vanderlaanscience.nl
September 8, 2025 at 10:33 AM
Join me 👇🏽
#CirculatoryHealth for #ALS at #UtrechtSciencePark Night Run 7 • 11. Choose a distance 5-10-15km. Join our team "Circulatory Health for ALS".
Let's do this! 💪🏽
www.vanderlaanscience.nl/posts/circul...
@umcutrecht.bsky.social #CirculatoryHealth
#CirculatoryHealth for #ALS at #UtrechtSciencePark Night Run 7 • 11. Choose a distance 5-10-15km. Join our team "Circulatory Health for ALS".
Let's do this! 💪🏽
www.vanderlaanscience.nl/posts/circul...
@umcutrecht.bsky.social #CirculatoryHealth
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👇👇👇 deadline for applying to this awesome opportunity is coming up on Friday Sept 12th! www.baker.edu.au/career/head-...
Come join the Baker Heart and Diabetes Institute @bakerresearchau.bsky.social as a Lab Head in Biomedical Data Science 📣 www.baker.edu.au/career/head-...
There's never been a more exciting time to lead a research program in this area... and have work-life balance to boot!
There's never been a more exciting time to lead a research program in this area... and have work-life balance to boot!
Career opportunities at the Baker Heart and Diabetes Institute
The Baker Heart and Diabetes Institute is an independent, internationally renowned medical research facility. We have a long and distinguished history, spanning more than 97 years with our work critic...
www.baker.edu.au
September 6, 2025 at 5:54 AM
👇👇👇 deadline for applying to this awesome opportunity is coming up on Friday Sept 12th! www.baker.edu.au/career/head-...
Fed up with these invites for reviews from journals no-one reads nor is interested in. I have no high hopes... #reviewing #predatoryjournals #academia
August 25, 2025 at 10:13 AM
Fed up with these invites for reviews from journals no-one reads nor is interested in. I have no high hopes... #reviewing #predatoryjournals #academia
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🚨 Preprint Alert 🚨
"Major depression and atherosclerotic disease: linking shared genetics to pathways in blood, brain, heart, and atherosclerotic plaques. " 🧠🫀🩸 The title says it all. Great collaboration with @swvanderlaan.bsky.social . 📄 Read it here: bit.ly/4eTM8T2
"Major depression and atherosclerotic disease: linking shared genetics to pathways in blood, brain, heart, and atherosclerotic plaques. " 🧠🫀🩸 The title says it all. Great collaboration with @swvanderlaan.bsky.social . 📄 Read it here: bit.ly/4eTM8T2
Major depression and atherosclerotic disease: Linking shared genetics to pathways in blood, brain, heart, and atherosclerotic plaques
Background The increased risk of atherosclerotic diseases (stroke, coronary artery disease [CAD]) observed in depression may stem from shared pathophysiology. We examined whether: 1) major depression ...
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July 15, 2025 at 12:47 PM
🚨 Preprint Alert 🚨
"Major depression and atherosclerotic disease: linking shared genetics to pathways in blood, brain, heart, and atherosclerotic plaques. " 🧠🫀🩸 The title says it all. Great collaboration with @swvanderlaan.bsky.social . 📄 Read it here: bit.ly/4eTM8T2
"Major depression and atherosclerotic disease: linking shared genetics to pathways in blood, brain, heart, and atherosclerotic plaques. " 🧠🫀🩸 The title says it all. Great collaboration with @swvanderlaan.bsky.social . 📄 Read it here: bit.ly/4eTM8T2
The Future is Now. Jessica van Setting hosting Folkert Asselbergs and Pim van der Harst to talk about AI with ESC and funded by @erc.europa.eu.
More on www.nextgentools.eu.
#NextGen #AI #artificialintelligence #ESC #Horizon
esc365.escardio.org/event/2083
More on www.nextgentools.eu.
#NextGen #AI #artificialintelligence #ESC #Horizon
esc365.escardio.org/event/2083
ESC 365 - the cardiology knowledge hub
ESC 365 is the cardiology knowledge hub where you’ll find resources, whenever you want them from congresses, webinars, courses, publications and podcast.
esc365.escardio.org
July 10, 2025 at 8:06 AM
The Future is Now. Jessica van Setting hosting Folkert Asselbergs and Pim van der Harst to talk about AI with ESC and funded by @erc.europa.eu.
More on www.nextgentools.eu.
#NextGen #AI #artificialintelligence #ESC #Horizon
esc365.escardio.org/event/2083
More on www.nextgentools.eu.
#NextGen #AI #artificialintelligence #ESC #Horizon
esc365.escardio.org/event/2083
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“Research-integrity analysts are warning that ‘journal snatchers’ — companies that acquire scholarly journals from reputable publishers — are turning legitimate titles into predatory, low-quality publications with questionable practices”
#HigherEd #Journals 🧪 #Research
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
#HigherEd #Journals 🧪 #Research
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
Invasion of the ‘journal snatchers’: the firms that buy science publications and turn them rogue
Study finds dozens of journals that have hiked their fees and started churning out papers after being acquired by small, recently formed companies.
www.nature.com
April 17, 2025 at 10:01 PM
“Research-integrity analysts are warning that ‘journal snatchers’ — companies that acquire scholarly journals from reputable publishers — are turning legitimate titles into predatory, low-quality publications with questionable practices”
#HigherEd #Journals 🧪 #Research
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
#HigherEd #Journals 🧪 #Research
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
Tim Peters wrote a ✨ great blogpost ✨in laymen's terms on our paper. Check it out here 👉🏽 www.vanderlaanscience.nl/news/phenomicl
March 18, 2025 at 3:39 PM
Tim Peters wrote a ✨ great blogpost ✨in laymen's terms on our paper. Check it out here 👉🏽 www.vanderlaanscience.nl/news/phenomicl
Did we tell you about this news?
www.vanderlaanscience.nl/news/care-t1d
Glad for the support to be able to collaborate with @clintomics.bsky.social Suna Onengut-Gumuscu and @metecivelek.bsky.social from #UVA.
www.vanderlaanscience.nl/news/care-t1d
Glad for the support to be able to collaborate with @clintomics.bsky.social Suna Onengut-Gumuscu and @metecivelek.bsky.social from #UVA.
Unraveling the Heart of Type 1 Diabetes — Van der Laan & Science
Unraveling the Heart of Type 1 Diabetes: on our U01 grant to study the immune-link between type 1 diabetes, type 2 diabetes and cardiovascular disease.
www.vanderlaanscience.nl
March 14, 2025 at 3:48 PM
Did we tell you about this news?
www.vanderlaanscience.nl/news/care-t1d
Glad for the support to be able to collaborate with @clintomics.bsky.social Suna Onengut-Gumuscu and @metecivelek.bsky.social from #UVA.
www.vanderlaanscience.nl/news/care-t1d
Glad for the support to be able to collaborate with @clintomics.bsky.social Suna Onengut-Gumuscu and @metecivelek.bsky.social from #UVA.
And also very grateful to be part of #AtheroNETH.
www.vanderlaanscience.nl/news/atheron...
This major project is truly a remarkable collaboration involving researchers from all major university medical centers in The Netherlands.
#TeamScience #Hartstichting
www.vanderlaanscience.nl/news/atheron...
This major project is truly a remarkable collaboration involving researchers from all major university medical centers in The Netherlands.
#TeamScience #Hartstichting
AtheroNETH — Van der Laan & Science
AtheroNETH: finding biomarkers and druggable targets for personalized primary prevention.
www.vanderlaanscience.nl
March 14, 2025 at 3:42 PM
And also very grateful to be part of #AtheroNETH.
www.vanderlaanscience.nl/news/atheron...
This major project is truly a remarkable collaboration involving researchers from all major university medical centers in The Netherlands.
#TeamScience #Hartstichting
www.vanderlaanscience.nl/news/atheron...
This major project is truly a remarkable collaboration involving researchers from all major university medical centers in The Netherlands.
#TeamScience #Hartstichting
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Excited to finally share our work on attention-based multiple instance learning to quantify and characterize intraplaque haemorrhage in carotid plaque whole slide images from >2500 patients in AtheroExpress. Fun collaboration with @swvanderlaan.bsky.social and Craig Glastonbury labs.
🚀 Thrilled to announce our latest #preprint on intraplaque haemorrhage (IPH) quantification and molecular 🧬characterisation of carotid plaques using deep learning. A thread 🧵👇🏽
March 7, 2025 at 8:27 PM
Excited to finally share our work on attention-based multiple instance learning to quantify and characterize intraplaque haemorrhage in carotid plaque whole slide images from >2500 patients in AtheroExpress. Fun collaboration with @swvanderlaan.bsky.social and Craig Glastonbury labs.
🚀 Thrilled to announce our latest #preprint on intraplaque haemorrhage (IPH) quantification and molecular 🧬characterisation of carotid plaques using deep learning. A thread 🧵👇🏽
March 7, 2025 at 3:21 PM
🚀 Thrilled to announce our latest #preprint on intraplaque haemorrhage (IPH) quantification and molecular 🧬characterisation of carotid plaques using deep learning. A thread 🧵👇🏽
Reposted by Sander W van der Laan
Intraplaque haemorrhage quantification and molecular characterisation using attention based multiple instance learning https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.03.04.25323316v1
March 6, 2025 at 10:56 PM
Intraplaque haemorrhage quantification and molecular characterisation using attention based multiple instance learning https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.03.04.25323316v1
Reposted by Sander W van der Laan
Will They Come for PubMed Next? www.medpagetoday.com/opinion/seco...
Opinion | Will They Come for PubMed Next?
Here's what we lose if the administration takes away this invaluable resource
www.medpagetoday.com
March 2, 2025 at 10:19 AM
Will They Come for PubMed Next? www.medpagetoday.com/opinion/seco...
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'Exploiteren wij/zij-denken, ontmenselijken minderheden, verspreiden complottheorieën, hameren op vijandbeelden, je minder radicaal voordoen dan je bent, opjutten jongeren, heldenverering, ondermijnen rechtsstaat, kritiek verdacht maken, verzet kop indrukken – herkenbaar?'
www.nrc.nl/nieuws/2025/...
www.nrc.nl/nieuws/2025/...
Lessen trekken uit het nazisme: menselijk fatsoen blijkt uiterst fragiel
Geschiedenis: Een groot kenner van de geschiedenis van het nazisme laat zien: de mentaliteit en de technieken van Hitler en consorten zijn allesbehalve verleden tijd. The Nazi Mind zou ons aan het den...
www.nrc.nl
February 28, 2025 at 7:05 AM
'Exploiteren wij/zij-denken, ontmenselijken minderheden, verspreiden complottheorieën, hameren op vijandbeelden, je minder radicaal voordoen dan je bent, opjutten jongeren, heldenverering, ondermijnen rechtsstaat, kritiek verdacht maken, verzet kop indrukken – herkenbaar?'
www.nrc.nl/nieuws/2025/...
www.nrc.nl/nieuws/2025/...
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There is strong evidence of Russian intervention and influence in recent Western voting - not least in the USA with the election of a president who echoes Russian propaganda, fires military top brass, weakens alliances, threatens neighbours,, drops cyber security against Russia and bullies Ukraine.
March 1, 2025 at 2:32 PM
There is strong evidence of Russian intervention and influence in recent Western voting - not least in the USA with the election of a president who echoes Russian propaganda, fires military top brass, weakens alliances, threatens neighbours,, drops cyber security against Russia and bullies Ukraine.
The potential! We can easily double the *actual* data sharing by the end of this year #DutchScientists!
#ScienceMatters #OpenSciencw #OpenAccess
#ScienceMatters #OpenSciencw #OpenAccess
February 10, 2025 at 9:42 PM
The potential! We can easily double the *actual* data sharing by the end of this year #DutchScientists!
#ScienceMatters #OpenSciencw #OpenAccess
#ScienceMatters #OpenSciencw #OpenAccess
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To what extent do researchers funded by Dutch Research Council NWO and ZonMw share the research data and code underlying their publications?
Today we published an analysis based on 10.000+ papers using the open source tool Grobid: www.nwo.nl/en/news/shar...
All underlying data openly available!
Today we published an analysis based on 10.000+ papers using the open source tool Grobid: www.nwo.nl/en/news/shar...
All underlying data openly available!
February 10, 2025 at 9:10 PM
To what extent do researchers funded by Dutch Research Council NWO and ZonMw share the research data and code underlying their publications?
Today we published an analysis based on 10.000+ papers using the open source tool Grobid: www.nwo.nl/en/news/shar...
All underlying data openly available!
Today we published an analysis based on 10.000+ papers using the open source tool Grobid: www.nwo.nl/en/news/shar...
All underlying data openly available!
Interessant.
Ik bedenk mij ook dat mensen allerlei labels geven niet perse helpt ('rechts-radicaal', 'linkse rakker', etc). En dat geldt dan voor alle betrokken partijen. Waarom zou de een dan nog met ander willen praten, of andersom?
www.scienceguide.nl/2025/01/foru...
Ik bedenk mij ook dat mensen allerlei labels geven niet perse helpt ('rechts-radicaal', 'linkse rakker', etc). En dat geldt dan voor alle betrokken partijen. Waarom zou de een dan nog met ander willen praten, of andersom?
www.scienceguide.nl/2025/01/foru...
"Forum voor Democratie strijdt tegen universiteiten en wetenschappelijk onderzoek” - ScienceGuide
Uit nieuw wetenschappelijk onderzoek van de Universiteit van Oslo blijkt dat Forum voor Democratie (FvD) systematisch probeert het vertrouwen in Nederlandse universiteiten en wetenschappelijk onderzoe...
www.scienceguide.nl
January 8, 2025 at 1:40 PM
Interessant.
Ik bedenk mij ook dat mensen allerlei labels geven niet perse helpt ('rechts-radicaal', 'linkse rakker', etc). En dat geldt dan voor alle betrokken partijen. Waarom zou de een dan nog met ander willen praten, of andersom?
www.scienceguide.nl/2025/01/foru...
Ik bedenk mij ook dat mensen allerlei labels geven niet perse helpt ('rechts-radicaal', 'linkse rakker', etc). En dat geldt dan voor alle betrokken partijen. Waarom zou de een dan nog met ander willen praten, of andersom?
www.scienceguide.nl/2025/01/foru...
Good good. The Future of Science *is* Open.
Agreed: failing actually means learning. Fail fast and often, and you learn.
#openscience #rewards #recognition
www.scienceguide.nl/2024/12/niet...
Agreed: failing actually means learning. Fail fast and often, and you learn.
#openscience #rewards #recognition
www.scienceguide.nl/2024/12/niet...
Niet verzet vanuit wetenschap en politiek, maar bezuinigingen bedreigen Erkennen en Waarderen - ScienceGuide
Het Nederlandse Erkennen en Waarderen-programma, in 2019 gelanceerd om de beoordeling van wetenschapAlleen de koppen lezen, maar de informatie missen? Voor € 85, - per jaar krijgt u onbeperkt toegang ...
www.scienceguide.nl
January 8, 2025 at 1:31 PM
Good good. The Future of Science *is* Open.
Agreed: failing actually means learning. Fail fast and often, and you learn.
#openscience #rewards #recognition
www.scienceguide.nl/2024/12/niet...
Agreed: failing actually means learning. Fail fast and often, and you learn.
#openscience #rewards #recognition
www.scienceguide.nl/2024/12/niet...
Interesting findings below. But @scienceguide.bsky.social : where is the link to the actual research?
#openscience #rewards #recognition #science
www.scienceguide.nl/2025/01/narr...
#openscience #rewards #recognition #science
www.scienceguide.nl/2025/01/narr...
Narratief CV bij NWO-beursaanvragen werpt nieuw licht op excellent onderzoek - ScienceGuide
Sommige wetenschappers die voor NWO-onderzoeksbeurzen moeten beoordelen, blijven ijzerenheinig vasthouden aan publicatiemetrics, maar meestal gaat het wel goed en blijkt er door het narratieve CV lang...
www.scienceguide.nl
January 8, 2025 at 11:42 AM
Interesting findings below. But @scienceguide.bsky.social : where is the link to the actual research?
#openscience #rewards #recognition #science
www.scienceguide.nl/2025/01/narr...
#openscience #rewards #recognition #science
www.scienceguide.nl/2025/01/narr...
#microplastics are associated with #cardiovascular disease. Important news. 👇🏽
www.nejm.org/doi/full/10....
www.nejm.org/doi/full/10....
Microplastics and Nanoplastics in Atheromas and Cardiovascular Events | NEJM
Microplastics and nanoplastics (MNPs) are emerging as a potential risk factor for
cardiovascular disease in preclinical studies. Direct evidence that this risk extends
to humans is lacking. We cond...
www.nejm.org
November 23, 2024 at 9:02 PM
#microplastics are associated with #cardiovascular disease. Important news. 👇🏽
www.nejm.org/doi/full/10....
www.nejm.org/doi/full/10....
Sitting all day behind a desk? Feeling slow and tired? Try out the free and great Pomodoro Office Workout (trademark and patent pending) 👇💪
www.vanderlaanscience.nl/posts/pomodo...
You'll be primed and ready for Christmas and year's end when you start doing this *every* day.
#stayhard
www.vanderlaanscience.nl/posts/pomodo...
You'll be primed and ready for Christmas and year's end when you start doing this *every* day.
#stayhard
a man with a shaved head is wearing a black shirt and walking .
ALT: a man with a shaved head is wearing a black shirt and walking .
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November 20, 2024 at 5:54 PM
Sitting all day behind a desk? Feeling slow and tired? Try out the free and great Pomodoro Office Workout (trademark and patent pending) 👇💪
www.vanderlaanscience.nl/posts/pomodo...
You'll be primed and ready for Christmas and year's end when you start doing this *every* day.
#stayhard
www.vanderlaanscience.nl/posts/pomodo...
You'll be primed and ready for Christmas and year's end when you start doing this *every* day.
#stayhard