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The Galaxy Zoo team have just spread the news that the first scientific paper using Zoo 2 data has been submitted (to Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society). Doesn’t mean it’s published yet, but it’s nevertheless a great step for the Galaxy Zoo citizen science projekt — and an inspiration for other participatory science […]

For the record, here’s my introductory words at the opening of our new exhibition, ‘Healthy Aging: A Lifespan Approach’, last Monday: Last year, the Faculty of Health Sciences established a brand new exhibition area in the main building, paid for by a generous donation from the Kirsten and Freddy Johansen Foundation. The Dean, Ulla Wewer, asked Medical […]

Last Monday, we opened our latest exhibition, ‘Healthy Aging: A Life Span Approach’ in the main building of the Faculty of Health Sciences — produced by myself together with Bente Vinge Pedersen and Ion Meyer, and with the help of Jonas Bejer Paludan, Camilla Undén, Nanna Gerdes and Jacob Kjærgaard (all from Medical Museion); the showcase design and […]

I sidste uge åbnede vi en ny udstilling på Panum instituttet (se Camillas blogpost her) og i kølvandet på åbningen lancerede vi også et mindre reklamefremstød. Her på Museion har vi efterhånden prøvet forskellige tiltag for at lokke besøgende til  (med varierende succes). Således har vi benyttet os af udsendelse af direct-mails, reklamer i forskellige blade, postkort (go-cards) m.m. I sidste uge […]

Sanjoy Bhattacharya (Reader at the Wellcome Trust Centre for the History of Medicine at UCL) invites us all to participate in a webinar organised in connection with the first event of the 2010 series of the World Health Organization Global Health Histories Seminars (you can see the full list of seminars here). The topic of […]

Science Museum in London is again announcing opening for Visiting Research Fellowships (£16,000 for eight months) and Short-Term Research Fellowship (£2,000 per month for a maximum of three months), both between May 2010 and May 2011) — see here or contact Peter Morris at peter.morris@nmsi.ac.uk. Deadline for applications (to Peter) is Friday 26 February.

Since the snow descended upon Copenhagen a month ago everybody has been walking around wrapped up in scarfs and woollen clothing, trying to avoid the snowdrifts. Personally, my thoughts wander off to a warmer place — more specifically Southern France, where I took some needed holiday last summer and visited, among other things, the two medical museums in Toulouse. […]

Kort før jul lancerede jeg en lille julequiz. Se mere her. Baggrunden var, at to af mine venner havde foræret mig en historisk sprøjte som jeg gerne ville have mere information om. Jeg lovede desuden at jeg ville annoncere vinderen den 2. februar, men da vi har haft travlt med at sætte en ny udstilling op på Panum Instituttet havde jeg næsten glemt det. Denne quiz […]

Last year we announced the upcoming conference ‘Wissenschaft im Museum – Ausstellung im Labor’ which Anke te Heesen and Margarete Vöhrunger are organising in Tübingen 8-9 April. Now the final programme has been announced — it includes, among other things, a presentation growing out of our ‘Biomedicine on Display’ project and the exhibition ‘Split + […]

Last September, we announced the call for an upcoming meeting on digestive history in Dublin 30 April–1 May. Now it has materialised with a programme. As expected most talks are about 19th and early 20th century, with one exception — Katherine Angel (Warwick University) who will speak about “A Very Simple Answer: Causal Reasoning in […]

Indlæg skrevet af Camilla Undén (Tak til Jonas for lån af privat blog) Det er nu blevet tid til at debutere som blogger på “Museionblog”, og i den anledning har Jonas været så venlig at stille sin blog til rådighed, mens jeg venter på at blive oprettet.. Jeg vil begynde med en lille beskrivelse af […]

For nogle uger siden skrev jeg i anledning af en konkurrence om navnet på KUs nye intranet som afløser for det gamle intranet (kaldet PUNKT KU). Jeg foreslog ‘Closed Access’ fordi tidens ånd selvfølgelig er open access og fordi det meste som lægges på intranet med fordel kan lægges ud til open access. Intet pynter på et universitet som et […]