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Close encounters of the material kind – a new series of evening events at Medical Museion
Medical Museion has launched a new seminar series: The MUSE seminars. The idea of the seminars is to explore questions in science communication and museum practices especially where they relate to modern biomedicine. We define science communication very broadly and speakers will come from a range of backgrounds including history of [...]
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I have blogged about this topic several times: How do you get other scholars onboard Twitter? Unless they are already there, they can be difficult to convince of the benefits of Twitter. Time constraints; horror stories of misinformation, fake profiles and a channel for spreading evil rumours; and assumptions that Twitter is the essence of [...]
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If you’re out and about in Copenhagen this week you may see one of our new events postcards in a cafe or bar, featuring a paper-cut style plan of the museum, and listings for our upcoming event series, Close Encounters of a Material Kind, on the back. The absence [...]
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“I don’t have time to Tweet.” “I’m not interested in what various celebrities are doing.” “I don’t know what I would get from it.”
These are typical responses I encounter when I ask academics if the are on Twitter. And I don’t blame them for their replies. Until you’re into the Twitter world it is [...]
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As previously announced we’ve been planning a staff event with the aim of “creating and nurturing a common culture of exploiting online social media as daily working tools”. The program draft is now ready and although this is an internal event, we’re putting it out here for everyone to see:
13:00 – 13.30 Introduction [...]
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Public Health is a broad field, and finding ones place in the palette of colours that public health consists of is tricky. I have been around many corners ranging from international health, health statistics and information systems to planning of care, health policy and governance. And lately public health communication. I don’t know if I [...]
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6229 scientists have so far joined the boycot against Elsevier — see the boycot page here. They will not publish in any Elsevier journal, or will not referee articles for them, or will not do any editorial work.
It all started with mathematician Timothy Gowers open letter against Elsevier’s exorbitant prices, unreasonable subscription policy, and [...]
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At the end of January, Karin Tybjerg and I visited Dublin’s Science Gallery for the closing event of their exhibition ‘Surface Tension: The Future of Water’. The exhibition is one of Science Gallery’s contributions to the EU funded StudioLab platform, which brings together institutions including Le Laboratoire (Paris), Royal College of [...]
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"Imagine organisms living on 0.001 femtomoles of oxygen pr day. As close to zero one can come in life processes. Wow! http://t.co/NmL1RCEQ— medicalmuseion