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Waggoner Lab @labwaggoner.bsky.social · 11d

@nature.com CAREER @lindanordling.bsky.social
How money, politics and technology are redefining the PhD experience in 2025
www.nature.com/articles/d41...

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Kendall Powell @kendallsciwrite.bsky.social · 3d

New or starting a #STEM #PhD soon? Soak up the hindsight from those who've gone before. The best pieces of advice from @nature.com 's 2025 global PhD student survey. Expertly curated by @lindanordling.bsky.social

www.nature.com/articles/d41...

27 things we wish we’d known when we started our PhDs

Nature’s survey of PhD candidates reveals hard-won wisdom on choosing supervisors, managing mental health and surviving academic culture.

www.nature.com

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Linda Nordling @lindanordling.bsky.social · 22d

Could an African ‘eBay for data’ that allows researchers to advertise their data and specimens to other users cut the continent's dependence on repositories in the Global North?

Read about ADBEx, the tool that aims to do just that. www.researchprofessionalnews.com/rr-news-afri...

African ‘eBay for data’ challenges northern repositories - Research Professional News

New exchange keeps African samples and data local while opening access to global research collaborations

www.researchprofessionalnews.com

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Linda Nordling @lindanordling.bsky.social · Sep 4

It was a 15 min presentation, so didnt go into that much detail. Overall it seemed to improve consistency for reviewers, the long protocols taking days to read, usually.

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Linda Nordling @lindanordling.bsky.social · Sep 4

AI slashes African ethics review times from months to weeks

www.researchprofessionalnews.com/rr-news-afri...

AI slashes African ethics review times from months to weeks - Research Professional News

Sarima 2025: Online platform RHInnO reports dramatic efficiency gains after artificial intelligence integration

www.researchprofessionalnews.com

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Linda Nordling @lindanordling.bsky.social · Aug 1

Good luck - I had to double check the conversion to USD twice... It sounds like a lot in Rands but it's so little.

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Linda Nordling @lindanordling.bsky.social · Aug 1

Some relief for medical researchers hit by US federal funding cuts in South Africa:

South Africa unveils funds for research hit by US cuts www.researchprofessionalnews.com/rr-news-afri...

South Africa unveils funds for research hit by US cuts - Research Professional News

Grants will help projects continue, wind down or stay afloat while seeking alternative funds

www.researchprofessionalnews.com

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Linda Nordling @lindanordling.bsky.social · Jul 17

South Africa to tighten oversight of foreign university staff numbers amid concern that locals are losing out on academic jobs.

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South Africa to tighten oversight of foreign university staff - Research Professional News

Universities “may have been given too much latitude” in their internationalisation activities, DHET says

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Linda Nordling @lindanordling.bsky.social · Jun 12

"Bioinformatics infrastructure is as essential as a lab. But it’s often invisible or taken for granted," Nicola Mulder told me this week, speaking about Africa's new bioinformatics institute, ABI.

Interview here: www.researchprofessionalnews.com/rr-news-afri...

‘This is about long-term African data ownership’ - Research Professional News

Nicola Mulder explains how the new African Bioinformatics Institute will support African-led science

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Linda Nordling @lindanordling.bsky.social · Jun 5

Four entities reporting to South Africa’s science department pay their chief executives above Department of Public Service and Administration guidelines

Full story in link below

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Four science agencies pay chiefs above government guidelines - Research Professional News

CSIR leads quartet of bodies paying executives in excess of Department of Public Service recommendations

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Linda Nordling @lindanordling.bsky.social · Jun 3

Just over a week left to participate in Nature magazine's survey of PhD students in STEM. Active doctoral students anywhere in the world can participate, and a lucky two will win cash money! You gotta be in it to win it. Link straight to the survey: survey.walr.com/R540ZC?sampl...

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Linda Nordling @lindanordling.bsky.social · May 15

South Africa's HSRC offers 90% discount on selected stock to shift costly print runs in "unprecedented" sale

Free to read: www.researchprofessionalnews.com/rr-news-afri...

Books turned spine to the wall on a shelf

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Linda Nordling @lindanordling.bsky.social · May 9

Heartbreaking story about Sudan's trashed scientific legacy.

www.theguardian.com/global-devel...

Gleaming labs turned to rubble: scientists mourn the loss of decades of medical progress in Sudan

Universities and laboratories in Khartoum are looted or in ruins, with vital research and medicines destroyed, including pioneering work on tropical diseases

www.theguardian.com

Linda Nordling @lindanordling.bsky.social · May 8

NIH foreign policy changes expected to cause ‘chaos’ www.researchprofessionalnews.com/rr-news-worl...

NIH foreign policy changes expected to cause ‘chaos’ - Research Professional News

Inorms 2025: National Institutes of Health changes are delaying grant awards, speaker says

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Linda Nordling @lindanordling.bsky.social · May 8

This week, SAMRC president Ntobeko Ntusi told me international research funders have made substantial pledges to help South Africa plug gaps caused by US grant cuts. However, the support is conditional on government matching investments. www.researchprofessionalnews.com/rr-news-afri...

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Linda Nordling @lindanordling.bsky.social · Apr 2

Pick a disease -- any disease...

Global aid cuts raise polio resurgence fears www.researchprofessionalnews.com/rr-news-worl...

Global aid cuts raise polio resurgence fears - Research Professional News

Worldwide eradication programme on tenterhooks amid US science turmoil

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Linda Nordling @lindanordling.bsky.social · Mar 27

African science leaders unite to amplify continent's global voice www.researchprofessionalnews.com/rr-news-afri...

African science leaders unite to amplify global voice - Research Professional News

New “network of networks” aims to strengthen continent’s negotiating position and address funding challenges

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Linda Nordling @lindanordling.bsky.social · Mar 27

Unbelievable quote from USDHSS. But what's believable has shifted a lot in the last months.

“the COVID-19 pandemic is over, and HHS will no longer waste billions of taxpayer dollars responding to a non-existent pandemic that Americans moved on from years ago.”
www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Exclusive: NIH to cut grants for COVID research, documents reveal

Studies on climate change and South Africa are also on the latest list of grants to be terminated, according to updated documents obtained by Nature.

www.nature.com

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Linda Nordling @lindanordling.bsky.social · Mar 26

'They really should make a darkly satirical TV show about these absurd, degenerate, unpleasant people. Call it The White Potus.'

I love you Marina
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

It’s war and peace with Donald and Pete – and the worst group chat the world has ever seen | Marina Hyde

We absolutely won’t tolerate leaks, they said before looping in a journalist to top secret war plans. Feel safe? Me neither, says Guardian columnist Marina Hyde

www.theguardian.com

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Linda Nordling @lindanordling.bsky.social · Mar 17

Any AI-related recruitment horror stories from scientists on here? Especially interested if you feel your CV/cover letter/application was rejected by an AI "sorting hat".

DM me or email [email protected]

Linda Nordling @lindanordling.bsky.social · Mar 7

US aid cuts have stopped research projects in their tracks—here's what some global health funders are doing in response. #USAID #Wellcome #EDCTP3 #aidcuts

Global health research funders rally as Trump’s cuts bite www.researchprofessionalnews.com/rr-news-worl...

Global health research funders rally as Trump’s cuts bite - Research Professional News

Grantmakers are “exploring options” but stress they cannot replace withdrawn support from US government

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Linda Nordling @lindanordling.bsky.social · Mar 6

Super story by @sciwriabdul.bsky.social—as usual!

‘We have to become self-reliant’: African scientists respond to dramatic U.S. aid cuts | Science | AAAS www.science.org/content/arti...

‘We have to become self-reliant’: African scientists respond to dramatic U.S. aid cuts

The “brutal” loss of billions of dollars shows Africa should no longer depend on foreign donors, researchers say

www.science.org

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David Shiffman, Ph.D. 🦈 @whysharksmatter.bsky.social · Mar 3

Science journalist friends, I am available for interviews, as are the leaders of several of these societies and the UCS leadership team. 🧪

DMs open, or whysharksmatter at gmail.

David Shiffman, Ph.D. 🦈 @whysharksmatter.bsky.social · Mar 3

Today, a broad coalition of scientific professional societies who represent over 92,000 scientists are speaking out against the politicization and demonization of Federally funded science and government scientist jobs.

It was an honor to help the Union of Concerned Scientists with this! 🧪🌎

48 Scientific Societies Representing Almost 100,000 Scientists Ask Congress to Protect the Future of Science

48 scientific societies representing almost 100,000 scientists signed on to a letter asking Congress to protect the future of science

www.ucsusa.org

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Pierre de Vos @pierredevos.bsky.social · Feb 28

USAID has axed funding for HIV/Aids organisations across South Africa — a decision that stands to have devastating consequences for medical research, disease prevention, support for key populations and community-based testing and tracing. www.dailymaverick.co.za/article/2025...

USAID issues funding termination notices to key SA health programmes

USAID has axed funding for HIV/Aids organisations across South Africa — a decision that stands to have devastating consequences for medical research, disease prevention, support for key populations an...

www.dailymaverick.co.za

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Linda Nordling @lindanordling.bsky.social · Feb 24

Congratulations. no mean feat!