Karin Tybjerg

The University of Copenhagen is seeking a highly motivated and talented PhD Fellow to commence January 1, 2024, at the Medical Museion, part of Department of Public Health and the Novo Nordisk Foundation Center for Basic Metabolic Research (CBMR), University of Copenhagen.

We are seeking a postdoctoral fellow with a background in philosophy of science, science studies or history of science, for a project investigating diagnostic categories at the fault line between patient bodies, research labs and the clinic.

And although the biohacking lab has gone we want to keep in mind the lessons with regard to the importance of craft and openness in science. Here’re some words from the opening on togas, lab coats and open science in the academy:

Many of the objects held by museums of science and medicine are significant because they have been used in the production of knowledge and scientific enquiry. This blog post discusses how we might display such objects in ways that draw on their potential to generate scientific knowledge as well as their cultural history and materiality. […]

When creating the concept for the exhibition The Body Collected, I investigated the use of human tissue in medicine from 19th century pathological museums to today’s biobanks containing small samples of frozen tissue. On the surface the museum and the biobank are very different kinds of places. But on closer inspection? We are easily led […]

The exhibition The Body Collected  displays the heart blood of the medical museum – the anatomical and pathological specimens – as part of a longer history on the uses of human material in medicine leading up the biopsies and blood samples in biobanks. The main exhibition principle is simple, instantly graspable and captures essential features of […]

  What is “hacking”? A way to customize one’s surroundings by readily available means.  At a recent workshop on biohacking organized by Labitat in collaboration with Medical Museion I tried a very fine hack – a web cam customized for communicating microbiology. The hack is based on an ordinary cheap web cam. With a small screw […]

Our collaborators at the biohacker space in Copenhagen, BiologiGaragen@Labitat are hosting a networking event bringing together biohackers, sociologists of science, scientists, science communicators and science policy makers. The event promises to provide an exciting maker-space, not just for lab set-ups, but also for forging connections and encouraging debate about the ways and means of making […]

Earlier this week Louise Whiteley and I visited Labitat preparing for a project that aims to combine synthetic biology, design, democracy and the museum – easy, when you are (getting to) know the right people … “Labitat is a makerspace in CPH. We are a group of people with diverse interests in technology. We are […]

The trickster is clever and mischievous, crafty and artful, charming and entertaining. He or she lives outside established hierarchies, crosses boundaries and brings objects from one realm to the other. This character sprang to mind as we were discussing the identity of Medical Museion. What should the role be for museums in general and how […]