Sonia Boender
@soniaboender.bsky.social
Health Scientist & Field Epidemiologist, PhD 🦠 epidemics & infodemics 💬 Senior Researcher & Team Lead @ Dep Infectious Diseases #PublicHealth Service Amsterdam 🤝 Amsterdam UMC & @vuamsterdam.bsky.social; 🇪🇺 @ema.europa.eu
Welcome, European Medicines Agency! 🦋 #EMA #MedSky #EpiSky 🇪🇺
European Medicines Agency@ema.europa.eu · 2y agoHey, nice to meet you! We’re the European Medicines Agency or simply EMA, and we make sure medicines in Europe are safe and effective. We talk about new medicines in the EU, latest health advancements, public and animal health news and much more. Follow us #health www.youtube.com/watch?v=UJl-...
Circling back (😉) to #ESCAIDE2024 - #DYK that we have launched the #ECDCLighthouse - a Community of Practice for social & behavioural sciences in infectious disease prevention? Watch our #ESCAIDE correspondent @soniaboender.bsky.social talk to #ECDC's John Kinsman about it ⬇️ youtu.be/M0AhqeFhHoo
#ESCAIDE2024 video wrap up - Day 2 | Let's talk about the ECDC Lighthouse
YouTube video by ECDC
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Science friends 🧪🌎🦑, @altmetric.com tracks Bluesky posts now! Quote or reply to this post with a link to the paper you’re best known for or most proud of, and a brief plain-language summary of what you found and why it matters! Let’s fill Bluesky with SCIENCE!
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Finland is winning the war on fake news. What it’s learned may be crucial to Western democracy Reminder post: an anti-fake news initiative launched by Finland’s government in 2014, aimed at teaching residents, students, journalists and politicians . edition.cnn.com/inte... 1/5
Finland is winning the war on fake news. What it’s learned may be crucial to Western democracy
Russia's neighbor has developed a plan for countering misinformation. Can it be exported to the rest of the world?
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Very cool special issue of ViceVersa on #misinformation & health! 📰 www.viceversaglobal.com/misinformati... It covers the wisdom of last week's line-up of the symposium: Navigating Truths: Demystifying Mis- and #Disinformation in (Global) Health - find me on page 18-21! #EpiSky #InfodemicManager
Misinformation & Health Special edition magazine - Vice Versa Global
Professor Mutsvairo discusses the rise of misinformation in global health with insights from Africa, the West, and innovative Dutch solutions
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Up next, Nigel Nyamutumbu, @soniaboender.bsky.social and Lotte Schrijver regulatory and policy interventions to combat #misinformation & #disinformation. #GlobalHealth #HealthCommunication #MedEd #PublicHealth
🤩 today’s symposium is one big reminder why #GlobalHealth and #Health people NEED to work with other disciplines to understand and respond to the rise of #misinformation and #desinformation. Fantastic talks by @dannagal.bsky.social and Sander van der Linden. #ClimateInformation #HealthPromotion
Let’s start with a test: Think you can beat #misinformation? Try this #MisinformationSusceptibilityTest It only takes 2-5 minutes! ➡️ yourmist.streamlit.app #InfodemicManager #KCGH
Sonia Boender@soniaboender.bsky.social · 2y agoIt’s warm and cosy inside here at the KCGH Symposium 🍂 Navigating Truths: Demystifying Mis- and #Disinformation in (Global) Health #PublicHealth #EpiSky #AcademicSky www.kcgh.nl/activiteiten...
It’s warm and cosy inside here at the KCGH Symposium 🍂 Navigating Truths: Demystifying Mis- and #Disinformation in (Global) Health #PublicHealth #EpiSky #AcademicSky www.kcgh.nl/activiteiten...
Gisteren was ik bij #NCHIV #NCHIV2024, het nationale congres over #hiv in Nederland Kwam er zelf niet aan toe om te posten, maar @pieter020.bsky.social wel! 👇👇
I write a monthly science column for some awesome small-town newspapers in rural New York. My main goal is to actively and diplomatically push back against pseudoscience. I'm the wife of a U.S. diplomat, so I know a few things about diplomacy:🧵🧪🔭
Day 1 of #ESCAIDE2024 conference summed up in one place: www.escaide.eu/en/news-even... Keeping up in the theme of Day 1, our #ESCAIDE correspondent @soniaboender.bsky.social asked Camille Jacqueline about her views on the concept of prevention vs. cure. Watch it here: youtu.be/EtIfexWFG38?...
#ESCAIDE2024 video wrap up - Day 1 | Prevention, cure, both?
YouTube video by ECDC
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Soooo many #DutchDiseaseDetectives at #ESCAIDE2024!! 😱 Gotta catch em all! 🦠 Who’s on BlueSky? 🦋 Read more & join the Dutch Applied Infectious Disease Epidemiology Group (DAIDEG) 👉 www.epidemiologie.nl/en/activitie... Core DAIDEG-team @almatostmann.bsky.social Raïssa Tjon-Kon-Fat, Sonia Boender
Dutch Applied Infectious Disease Epidemiology Group (DAIDEG) - Vereniging voor Epidemiologie
The Dutch Disease Detectives: Dutch Applied Infectious Disease Epidemiology Group (DAIDEG) The Dutch Applied Infectious Disease Epidemiology Working Group (i.e., Dutch Disease Detectives) aims to unit...
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Channeling my inner content creater at #ESCAIDE2024! #StayTuned #SoMe4epi #EpiSky #IDSky #SciComm #ESCAIDEcorrespondent @ecdc-eu.bsky.social
#ESCAIDE2024 opening with Dr Pamela Rendi-Wagner “Preparedness is much more than response. It is also #prevention. The P is also in the #ECDC although it is not spelled. One of the most public health elements is prevention.” @ecdc-eu.bsky.social
Bluesky now has over 20M people!! 🎉 We've been adding over a million users per day for the last few days. To celebrate, here are 20 fun facts about Bluesky:
What a great day for #PublicHealth #GlobalHealth on BlueSky: The #WHO ánd #ECDC joined!! 🌍 World Health Organization @who-global.bsky.social 🇪🇺 European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control @ecdc-eu.bsky.social #EpiSky #IDSky #MedSky #SoMe4epi 😷🩺🧪🦠 🛟
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Very excited to be on the way to #ESCAIDE in Stockholm, and in particular to meet old and new EPIET/EUPHEM fellows 😄 On that note, if you are related to the fellowship and are not on this starter pack, let me know! go.bsky.app/EDqC8CG
🚨 Big news today at the Institute We are seeking a new lead author for the Digital News Report Next year’s edition will be the last one led by Nic Newman, who launched the report in 2012. Here’s what the role requires and how to apply reutersinstitute.politics.ox.ac.uk/news/reuters...
The Reuters Institute is seeking a new lead author for the Digital News Report
Next year’s edition will be the last one led by Nic Newman, who launched the report in 2012. Here’s what the role requires and how to apply.
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Looks like Bluesky will cross 20 million users some time before I wake up tomorrow morning ET. The platform had 10 million users 2 months ago. It had about 15 million users a week ago. bsky-users.theo.io
Let’s talk numbers! 👉 Ask yourself whether you really need numbers to support your main message 👉 Explain numbers in practical terms 👉 Avoid percentages 👉 Choose simpler math concepts.
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Cannot wait to meet my favourite bunch of infectious disease epi’s, public health professionals and all other lovely attendees of #ESCAIDE in #Stockholm and here in the #EpiSky and #AcademicSky 🙌 It’s time for #ESCAIDE2024! 🦠🇪🇺🌍 @eurosurveillance.bsky.social
Meanwhile over at the other place… “We think that the benefits of being on X are now outweighed by the negatives and that resources could be better used promoting our journalism elsewhere.” www.theguardian.com/media/2024/n...
Why the Guardian is no longer posting on X
We will stop posting from our official editorial accounts on the platform, but X users can still share our articles
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👀 For those looking for more field epidemiologists 🦠🥾📊 #FETP #EPIET #EUPHEM #EIS go.bsky.app/EDqC8CG
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1/ ❓Government-led and academia-led infectious disease modelling groups: Who should perform which tasks and when? #IDsky #EpiSky 📄 For discussion on this question, see this recently published article in Epidemics. ✍️ By Rachael Pung & @adamjkucharski.bsky.social doi.org/10.1016/j.ep...
Building in-house capabilities in health agencies and outsourcing to academia or industry: considerations for effective infectious disease modelling
Infectious disease models provide a systematic way to estimate crucial features of epidemic dynamics and explore different transmission and control sc…
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New to Bluesky? A helpful tip in case you didn't know: instead of hashtags, you can just add emojis or certain terms to ensure you reach topic-specific feeds & save characters in posts. E.g., my usuals: 🛟 or public health 🩺 or medsky 🧭 or bioethics 🧪or science 📉📈 or econsky 😷 or episky 1/
