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Joining Science Online London 2011 was for me my first time in real life to meet up with people working in the area of online science communication. The conference tagline “How is the web changing science?” and the title itself was as spot on and appealing as possible. But did the two days in London […]

Alive I carry a picture of a dead woman’s head in my memory. My encounter with her took place in King’s College’s Gordon Museum in London on a sunny afternoon last spring. I don’t exaggerate if I say she had an enormous impact on me. She has forever burned an impression of herself onto my retina. This […]

Science Online London 2011 will surely not be able to give the answer to how the web is changing science. For that there are too many answers. But I do look very much forward to joining others in London 2. and 3. September to listen to different perspectives of what role the communicative possibilities web2.0 […]

The battle for the Danish voters has begun. On 15th September elections for the Danish Parliament takes place. Politicians, political experts, aggressive journalists etc. are therefore all over the place. Yesterday, I watched a little bit of the debate between the political party leaders on the nationwide TV station TV2. In addition to the politicians’ […]

As part of the Institute of Public Health at University of Copenhagen I received today in my inbox an electronic copy of the institute’s monthly newsletter. The 16 pages long newsletter is sent as a pdf file and gives an overview of what has happened at the institute since the last newsletter. There are one-page […]

I denne uge arbejder vi på at skabe indhold til vores nye hjemmeside, som skal søsættes her i løbet af efteråret. Gårsdagens øvelse gik ud på at gennemsøge museets fælles drev på jagt efter flotte og repræsentative billeder, som kunne gå ind under overskrifter som ‘konservering‘, ‘medarbejdere i aktion’, ‘undervisning‘ osv.   Billederne uploadede vi […]

The world is now a public health journal club richer! And this is a club not restricted to people in a specific university, from a particular workplace or with a special diploma. Everyone is free to actively join or follow it from the sidelines. Inspired by the first Twitter Journal Club, which focuses on research […]

What is it we do when we blog about research or make use other kinds of social web media in communicating research? Do we disseminate information? Are we sharing information? Are we expressing viewpoints? Do we ask questions and enter into dialogue? Are we discussing? Are we communicating? Yesterday, as reading a project description for […]

Why do researchers blog? Although it is definitely an expanding discipline, it is not yet common for researchers to share their thoughts, products and experiences through a blog – at least not in a Danish context. After some months of wondering around the world of science communication via social media it seems quite obvious to […]

Having had to consult my doctor, yesterday, due to an infection, I recalled a small discovery I made a few weeks ago of how the internet have given me very easy access to my personal health record with just a few clicks with the mouse. From the data I can confirm that I was alive […]

As follow-up to my post on entering the world of possibilities which Twitter and LinkedIn presents (read post here), I just wanted to share a blog post on 10 Ways Researchers Can Use Twitter. The 10 advantages of Twitter for researchers is assembled by Salma Patel, a doctoral researcher at the University of Warwick with […]

Are public health experts, researchers, enthusiast to be found online? This is a question that I have tried to answer over the last couple of months. Having a master degree in Public Health Sciences myself, I must admit that until a few months ago I did not pay much attention to what the world of […]