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Nicolien van der Linden
@nicolinevdl.bsky.social
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#AnalyticalServices, #Science-Metrix @RELX | bibliometrics | former Immunologist | Disinformation risk analysis | scuba diver and goldsmith when time allows
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nicolinevdl.bsky.social
There’s a clear link between our diet, health and planetary health.
thelancet.com The Lancet @thelancet.com · Oct 3
The world produces enough food, yet billions lack access to healthy & sustainable diets. A new EAT–Lancet report presents a science-based approach to improve health, safeguard our environment & provide for a projected 9.6 billion people by 2050.

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Cover of the 2025 EAT–Lancet report, featuring an image of a person scooping up green vegetables in their hands from a large plate. The report quote: “The targets of the EAT–Lancet Commission for healthy people on a healthy planet with just food systems can only be met through concerted global action and unprecedented levels of transformative change.”
October 5, 2025 at 7:48 AM
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researcheracad.bsky.social
On July 11th at 12pm UTC, join @researcheracad.bsky.social and @senseaboutsci.bsky.social for a webinar addressing how early career researchers can respond to opposition, misrepresentation, and harassment.

Register now: http://spkl.io/63321A6PJV

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June 26, 2025 at 12:00 PM
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nintscheke.bsky.social
One intesting takeaway: Only a tiny number of super-users are swamping social media with disinformation in a broadly concerted way. We need to develop better, broader alliances to counter-effect those and uncover the mostly monetary(+power) motives driving this deliberate division

#EASE2025
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easeeditors.bsky.social European Association of Science Editors @easeeditors.bsky.social · May 14
Why is it so urgent to act against misinformation?

Nicolien van der Linden shared:

"If we can’t agree on what disinformation is, how can we fight it? What exactly are we combating?"

#EASE2025 #Disinformation #EASEoslo #ScientificPublishing
May 15, 2025 at 9:42 AM
nicolinevdl.bsky.social
The publication of Science used to be based on trust, but we can no longer afford this.
May 19, 2025 at 7:09 AM
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phillbjones.bsky.social
One reason it's so hard to fight disinformation is that experts don't agree on the definition -
@vetpathophile.bsky.social #easeconference
May 14, 2025 at 2:49 PM
nicolinevdl.bsky.social
Tackling climate crisis will increase economic growth www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Tackling climate crisis will increase economic growth, OECD research finds
Third of global GDP could be lost this century if climate crisis runs unchecked, says report
www.theguardian.com
March 27, 2025 at 8:50 AM
nicolinevdl.bsky.social
Een buitengewoon slecht idee dat het virus de kans geeft om nog gevaarlijker te worden
www.hln.be/buitenland/d...
“Desastreus idee”: Amerikaanse minister van Volksgezondheid Kennedy wil vogelgriep zijn gang laten gaan in kippenbedrijven
De Amerikaanse minister van Volksgezondheid Robert F. Kennedy Jr. denk erover om de vogelgriep (H5N1) vrij zijn gang te laten gaan in pluimveebedrijven. Bedoeling is om te zien of sommige kippen immuu...
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March 24, 2025 at 10:59 AM
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“A bloodbath’: HIV field is reeling after billions in U.S. funding are axed”

www.science.org/content/arti...
‘A bloodbath’: HIV field is reeling after billions in U.S. funding are axed
USAID’s promises to support lifesaving efforts are broken, putting millions in peril
www.science.org
March 2, 2025 at 1:21 AM
nicolinevdl.bsky.social
We all need to think more carefully about when to give populists publicity. In most cases, it will only serve their agenda.
January 10, 2025 at 8:38 AM
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who.int
WHO continues to fight against misinformation and disinformation—a great challenge to global health. Governments, health agencies, and partners need to safeguard public trust by responding to misinformation and disinformation directly and effectively.
Battling misinformation and disinformation naccurate information about diseases, treatments and vaccines undermines trust in science and public health. It threatens global health by distorting public perception and eroding confidence in evidence-based policies. During emergencies and conflicts, misinformation exacerbates health crises by fostering confusion and fear and diverting resources from a coordinated response. This erosion of public trust is leaving populations vulnerable to preventable diseases and fueling inequities.
December 31, 2024 at 9:47 AM
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holdenthorp.bsky.social
Breakthrough of the Year is lenacapavir, which provides six months of HIV prevention in a single injection. This is the third time Science has named an HIV/AIDS intervention as the Breakthrough of the Year. Here's my editorial with links to the full package and quotes from Angels in America.
The great work continues
In the highly acclaimed 1991 play Angels in America, which explores AIDS in the United States in the 1980s, one of the characters muses about the nature of knowledge and novelty: “Imagination can’t cr...
www.science.org
December 12, 2024 at 7:27 PM
nicolinevdl.bsky.social
Measles outbreaks are a preventable disaster.
November 23, 2024 at 6:58 PM
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Join my wonderful team!
November 20, 2024 at 9:31 PM
nicolinevdl.bsky.social
Let’s give the blue app a try! I hope to see most of my X-friends here again to discuss Evaluation (how to make it more fair and inclusive), Disinformation (how to prevent it) and Bibliometrics (anything new and innovative)
November 18, 2024 at 7:07 AM