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Linda Nordling

Cape Town based journalist. Editor @ResearchAfrica

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  • Young Africans ‘welcome aid cuts’ as opportunity for self-reliance

    1 week ago | researchprofessionalnews.com | Linda Nordling

    Image: African Academy of SciencesAfrican academy representative tells Harvard seminar that young people are happy to “let USAid go”Young Africans view recent funding cuts to US development aid as a chance for the continent to become more self-sufficient, according to a senior figure at the African Academy of Sciences.

  • South African science faces ‘extreme crisis’, academy warns

    2 weeks ago | researchprofessionalnews.com | Linda Nordling

    Academy leaders plead for government support as US cuts cause “severe” impacts on science communitySouth African science “faces a moment of extreme crisis” due to actions carried out by the US federal government, the leadership of the country’s science academy has warned.

  • US cuts ‘could set HIV response back a decade’ in South Africa

    2 weeks ago | researchprofessionalnews.com | Linda Nordling

    Scientists warn of 65,000 additional deaths and 300,000 more infections over the next four yearsThe withdrawal of US HIV/Aids funding from South Africa could result in almost 300,000 additional infections and up to 65,000 extra deaths over the next four years, scientists have warned. Failure to fill the gaps in the long term could see more than two million additional infections and over 700,000 extra deaths in the next two decades, the scientists—from South Africa and the US—added.

  • Sexual harassment thrives in silence, even in gender-equality hotspots

    3 weeks ago | nature.com | Linda Nordling

    Sweden might rank among the top countries in the world in terms of gender equality, but a study from a major university has revealed that most sexual-harassment cases still go unreported in the country. The study1, published in March in PLOS ONE, looked at answers to a general questionnaire sent out to all students and staff at Lund University.

  • Sowing solutions: my quest to save Kenya’s maize from a devastating invader

    4 weeks ago | nature.com | Linda Nordling

    “I’m a plant pathologist at the Kenya Agriculture and Livestock Organization in Machakos, east of Nairobi. For more than a decade, I’ve been working on a sustainable way to control Striga, a parasitic weed that damages farmers’ crops here in Kenya. This photo, taken in January this year, shows me holding a Striga plant in a maize field in western Kenya, where Striga infested 73% of farms in 2009. It steals nutrients through the crops’ roots, sometimes destroying entire harvests.

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Linda Nordling
Linda Nordling @lindanordling
11 Apr 25

RT @NatureCareers: Researchers jubilant over swift ministerial response to rule they say would hamper international recruitment. By @lindan…

Linda Nordling
Linda Nordling @lindanordling
17 Mar 25

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] https://t.co/X69LrGGGD5

Linda Nordling
Linda Nordling @lindanordling
16 Dec 24

Yup. https://t.co/hYLpPHVu4u https://t.co/HEqDfS741O