Sander W van der Laan
@swvanderlaan.bsky.social
Assist. Prof. @UMC_Utrecht @AtheroExpress | cardiovascular genetics | @AtheroNL @EAS @StrokeGenetics | father of 3 | 👨🏽💻 | @OpenSciUtrecht
Tim Peters presenting our early results from genome-wide cis-eQTL analysis in 1,000+ atherosclerotic #plaques. Many #CAD associated loci have an eQTL in plaques. More to follow in the coming months. #DAS2026 @umcutrecht.bsky.social #genetics #atherosclerosis #eqtl
Athens, here I come! 🏛️🇬🇷 Excited to be attending the #EAS2026! Check out the talks and (e)posters based on AtheroExpress data. 💙 Also, register at www.atheroportal.nl for your access to #AtheroPortal. Come see 👉 invt.io/1ixb9duabzn #EAS2026 #Atherosclerosis #Athens #AtheroExpress #AtheroPortal
After lunch, Inge Stegeman, with "Open Science to Increase Reproducibility in Science: The OSIRIS Project" - osiris4r.eu Is Open Science going to solve all our problems with reproducibility? Are there benefits or harms? Let's study this! We got funding and a good group from all over Europe #WCRI2026
Yes again. Last week CDC. Now FDA. Blocking evidence of vaccine safety. www.nytimes.com/2026/05/05/u...
F.D.A. Blocked Publication of Research Finding Covid and Shingles Vaccines Were Safe
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1/8 🚀 AtheroPortal is now live! A centralized platform for exploring atherosclerotic plaque and clinical data, transcriptomics, and advanced analyses from the Athero-Express Biobank Study. 👉 www.atheroportal.nl
AtheroPortal | Plaque Multi-Omics
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Just out. Genetically determined ancestry is associated with different plaque morphology and molecular features. In collaboration with @clintomics.bsky.social. @eassociety.bsky.social @umcutrecht.bsky.social #uva #plaque #atherosclerosis #GWAS #GeneSky doi.org/10.1016/j.at...
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
Circulatory Health for ALS — Van der Laan & Science
Circulatory Health for ALS: Utrecht Science Park Night Run on November 7th.
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👇👇👇 deadline for applying to this awesome opportunity is coming up on Friday Sept 12th! www.baker.edu.au/career/head-...
Mike Inouye@mikeinouye.bsky.social · 11mo agoCome 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!
Fed up with these invites for reviews from journals no-one reads nor is interested in. I have no high hopes... #reviewing #predatoryjournals #academia
🚨 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
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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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
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.
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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...
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.
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Tim Peters wrote a ✨ great blogpost ✨in laymen's terms on our paper. Check it out here 👉🏽 www.vanderlaanscience.nl/news/phenomicl
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Sander W van der Laan@swvanderlaan.bsky.social · last yr.🚀 Thrilled to announce our latest #preprint on intraplaque haemorrhage (IPH) quantification and molecular 🧬characterisation of carotid plaques using deep learning. A thread 🧵👇🏽
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.
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.
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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
AtheroNETH — Van der Laan & Science
AtheroNETH: finding biomarkers and druggable targets for personalized primary prevention.
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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.
Sander W van der Laan@swvanderlaan.bsky.social · last yr.🚀 Thrilled to announce our latest #preprint on intraplaque haemorrhage (IPH) quantification and molecular 🧬characterisation of carotid plaques using deep learning. A thread 🧵👇🏽
🚀 Thrilled to announce our latest #preprint on intraplaque haemorrhage (IPH) quantification and molecular 🧬characterisation of carotid plaques using deep learning. A thread 🧵👇🏽
Intraplaque haemorrhage quantification and molecular characterisation using attention based multiple instance learning https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.03.04.25323316v1
'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/...
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...
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Leaders have been saying "let's make every scientists a communicator" for decades. I'd say we have evidence that isn't the answer. It's an example of the scholastic fallacy - which says scientists think everyone thinks about things the same way we do.
Jess Hardie@jesshardie.bsky.social · last yr.I am pretty tired of this argument. Journal articles and books are sometimes not widely accessible (although some are), but academics speak much more often to the public now, through the media, op eds, trade books, and public lectures, than in the past and anti-intellectualism has grown.
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
a man in a black hoodie is sitting in the stands during a basketball game and says lets gooooo .
ALT: a man in a black hoodie is sitting in the stands during a basketball game and says lets gooooo .
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Hans de Jonge@hldejonge.bsky.social · last yr.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!
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!
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...
"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...
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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...
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 ...
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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...
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...
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#microplastics are associated with #cardiovascular disease. Important news. 👇🏽 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...
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