Linda Nordling is a science journalist and editor based in Cape Town, South Africa. She is the editor of Scientific African Magazine and founding editor of Research Africa. She writes about science, education, medicine and development—and the politics and intersections between all four—for a number of international publications including Nature, Science and The Guardian. She has mentored several African science journalists. She has a special interest in how African research is portrayed globally as well as in the lived experience of scientists in the Global South.