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Sonia Boender

@soniaboender.bsky.social
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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

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Sonia Boender @soniaboender.bsky.social · 24/01/2025
Welcome, European Medicines Agency! 🦋 #EMA #MedSky #EpiSky 🇪🇺
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De Speld @speld.nl · 14/01/2025
GGD opent testlocaties voor blauwe bessen
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GGD opent testlocaties voor blauwe bessen
Nu er hepatitis A in zakken blauwe bessen van de Albert Heijn is aangetroffen, opent de GGD testlocaties om bessen te testen.
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European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control @ecdc.europa.eu · 08/01/2025
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
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#ESCAIDE2024 video wrap up - Day 2 | Let's talk about the ECDC Lighthouse
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WHO @who.int · 08/12/2024
Disease outbreak news on undiagnosed disease in #DRCongo bit.ly/3Zpj12M
Navy-colored graphic with white text in the middle "Undiagnosed disease Democratic Republic of the Congo". WHO Logo at the bottom, also in white.
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David Shiffman, Ph.D. 🦈 @whysharksmatter.bsky.social · 04/12/2024
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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a man with glasses and suspenders is standing in front of a group of people and says science !!
ALT: a man with glasses and suspenders is standing in front of a group of people and says science !!
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Marc Veldhoen @marcveld.bsky.social · 03/12/2024
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
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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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Sonia Boender @soniaboender.bsky.social · 02/12/2024
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
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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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Joyce Browne @joycebrowne.bsky.social · 27/11/2024
Up next, Nigel Nyamutumbu, @soniaboender.bsky.social and Lotte Schrijver regulatory and policy interventions to combat #misinformation & #disinformation. #GlobalHealth #HealthCommunication #MedEd #PublicHealth
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Joyce Browne @joycebrowne.bsky.social · 27/11/2024
🤩 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
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Sonia Boender @soniaboender.bsky.social · 27/11/2024
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
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Sonia Boender @soniaboender.bsky.social · 27/11/2024
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...
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Sonia Boender @soniaboender.bsky.social · 27/11/2024
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! 👇👇
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Jamie Zvirzdin @jamiezvirzdin.com · 24/11/2024
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:🧵🧪🔭
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European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control @ecdc.europa.eu · 21/11/2024
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?...
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#ESCAIDE2024 video wrap up - Day 1 | Prevention, cure, both?
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Sonia Boender @soniaboender.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
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
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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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Sonia Boender @soniaboender.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
Channeling my inner content creater at #ESCAIDE2024! #StayTuned #SoMe4epi #EpiSky #IDSky #SciComm #ESCAIDEcorrespondent @ecdc-eu.bsky.social
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Sonia Boender @soniaboender.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
#ESCAIDE2024 day two! ❄️
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Sonia Boender @soniaboender.bsky.social · 20/11/2024
#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
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Jay 🦋 @jay.bsky.team · 19/11/2024
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:
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Sonia Boender @soniaboender.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
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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kermit the frog is sitting on a desk with a laptop and says yaaaaaay
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Célia Souque @celiasouque.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
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
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Reuters Institute @reutersinstitute.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
🚨 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...
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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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Kai Kupferschmidt @kakape.bsky.social · 18/11/2024
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
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Sonia Boender @soniaboender.bsky.social · 18/11/2024
#OpenScience
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Sonia Boender @soniaboender.bsky.social · 18/11/2024
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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Sonia Boender @soniaboender.bsky.social · 18/11/2024
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
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Kai Kupferschmidt @kakape.bsky.social · 13/11/2024
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...
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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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Sonia Boender @soniaboender.bsky.social · 13/11/2024
👀 For those looking for more field epidemiologists 🦠🥾📊 #FETP #EPIET #EUPHEM #EIS go.bsky.app/EDqC8CG
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EAN and related FETPs members
Join the conversation
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Dr Edward Hill @edmhill.bsky.social · 12/11/2024
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...
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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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Richard M. Carpiano, PhD, MPH @rmcarpiano.medsky.social · 11/11/2024
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/
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Sonia Boender @soniaboender.bsky.social · 11/11/2024
After two years of mourning over Twitter, I am starting to get hopeful and excited about this place gaining momentum..! Hello #EpiSky #AcademicSky #SoMe4epi 🦋 With special thanks to @adamjkucharski.bsky.social for the narrative review open.substack.com/pub/kucharsk...
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Science social media is dead
Long live science social media?
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Sonia Boender @soniaboender.bsky.social · 05/11/2024
Yay! Welcome to #EpiSky, @eurosurveillance.bsky.social!! #SoMe4epi
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Sonia Boender @soniaboender.bsky.social · 26/02/2024
What a treat: attending EDMOSC24 only 200 meters from my office! Find me when you’re also researching (public) health & (mis)information 👋 Off to a great start with @profsanderlinden.bsky.social and his work on inoculation against #misinformation 💪 InfodemicManager @claesdevreese.bsky.social
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Äpplesche 💚 @aepplesche.bsky.social · 16/02/2024
😁🌔
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Sonia Boender @soniaboender.bsky.social · 04/02/2024
Super leuke #vacature voor een junior onderzoeker in ons team van de GGD Amsterdam! 🙌 Heb je een achtergrond in bv gezondheidswetenschappen of epidemiologie en wil je werken aan het thema #COVID19 en #PandemischePraatheid? 🦠📊 ➡️ werkenbij.amsterdam.nl/vacatures/a0... #EpiSky
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Sonia Boender @soniaboender.bsky.social · 30/10/2023
Almost all #pandemics of the modern era are caused by zoonoses (= infectious disease that has jumped from a non-human animal to humans) 🐒🦇🐦 ➡️🦠🦠🦠➡️🧍🏼🧍🏽‍♀️🧍🏿‍♂️ @PeterDaszak @EcoHealthNYC #PDPC2023
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Sonia Boender @soniaboender.bsky.social · 30/10/2023
Exciting day: attending the very first edition of #PDPC’s congress today: Moonshots of Pandemic & Disaster Preparedness Research 🌍🦠 Lots of wicked problems to solve! #PandemicPreparedness @marionkoopmans.bsky.social Today’s programme: www.aanmelder.nl/pdpc/wiki/92...
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Sonia Boender @soniaboender.bsky.social · 09/10/2023
Waar ligt de toekomst van online wetenschap(scommunicatie) uitwisseling? #NWD23 Twee jaar geleden schreef ik met @epihammer.bsky.social & Daniel Thomas dit stuk ➡️ Social media for field epidemiologists (#SoMe4epi): How to use Twitter during the #COVID19 pandemic www.ijidonline.com/article/S120...
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Sonia Boender @soniaboender.bsky.social · 09/10/2023
Na decennia van de witte mannen in de wetenschap, is het eerste fragment met een vrouw teruggevonden in de jaren ‘80: Cursus vrouw & computer 💻 ✨ wiki.beeldengeluid.nl/index.php/Vr... Mooie archiefbeelden van Beeld & Geluid, gepresenteerd door Eppo van Nispen bij de #NWD23
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Sonia Boender @soniaboender.bsky.social · 09/10/2023
En ja: ik ben me zeer bewust van het feit dat het platform waarop ik deze vraag stel, bepalend is #bias 
Ik heb ze overal gepost, waar ik ook te vinden ben 👇 🐦 Twitter/X x.com/soniaboender
🌫️ Bluesky bsky.app/profile/soni... (daar bent u nu)
🐘 Mastodon mastodon.nl/@SoniaBoender #NWD23
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Sonia Boender @soniaboender.bsky.social · 09/10/2023
Vandaag wordt ook mijn test om te kijken waar ik online wil zijn voor #SciComm, #WisCom, #SoMe4epi: 
 Wat is jouw favoriete platform?
(helaas geen poll mogelijk - post meteen ook even waarom 🙏) 🐦 Twitter/X 
🌫️ Bluesky
🐘 Mastodon #NWD23
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Sonia Boender @soniaboender.bsky.social · 09/10/2023
Fijn in de trein op weg naar de Nationale Wetenschapscommunicatiedag ✨
Met dikke FOMO vanwege het bomvolle programma, met meer leuks dat tijd 🙀
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#NWD23 #WetCom #SciComm
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