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Take a look at the brand new Journal of Visualized Experiments which wants to publish video films of experimental work to help apply laboratory protocols. The “YouTube for test tubes”, as news (at) nature writes. The editors’ explicit aim is to help researchers reproduce biomedical experimental procedures, but it certainly has museological applications as well. These videos is a reminder […]

Another interesting aspect of multi-participant-generated scientific papers is that they will make it more difficult to retain traditional means (e.g.,co-authorship in articles in high impact peer-reviewed journals) for evaluating scientific research performance. As one report to the National Science Foundation said already six years ago: “the shift from multidisciplinary to integrated research … will require changes […]

Tonight I am going to bed in company with a month-old (26 October) issue of Nature which carries the article that reports on the sequence of the honeybee genome. There are about 50 different species genomes sequenced or in the process of sequencing at the moment, but this is clearly one of the more interesting because of […]

The Office of NIH History has posted a job listing for their new Director. For more information go to www.usajobs.gov and search for vacancy #OD-07-146557-DE. The job closes on January 26, 2007, and is expected to be filled next spring. See also the new issue of their Newsletter.

Just got this from one of the organizers — looks like an interesting meeting to all of us who work on visualisation: Visualising Nature: Making Images and the Production of Biological Knowledge from Early Modern Natural History to Contemporary Life Sciences Ischia Summer School on the History of the Life Sciences Ischia, 3 July – 10 […]

Apropos the recent debate about the reliability of Wikipedia — take a look at the Uncyclopedia which already has about 175 articles on science (including a very instructive one on “intelligent rotation”). The Uncyclopedia is perhaps not as subtle as The Onion, but with a little help from its friends it could be turned into […]

The ultimate Google project is to turn all textual and numerical representations of the world – all books, manuscripts etc. – into searchable digital format. Great! But what is lost in the process? In a commentary in the 6 October issue of the TLS (“Such attics cleared of me: Saving writers’ manuscripts for the nation”, pp. […]

Der bliver afholdt et PhD-kursus om “Kroppen som æstetisk og medicinsk fænomen” den 20.-22. november på Københavns Universitet (KUA og Medicinsk Museion). De seneste års interesse for sammenhængen mellem kunst og videnskab er baggrunden for dette kursus om kropsbilleder i medicin og kunst. Ved nedslag i forskellige historiske perioder vil vi på kurset undersøge forbindelser […]

The exhibition “Diagnose [Kunst]: Die Medizin im Spiegel der zeitgenössischen Kunst” which opened at the art museum in Ahlen, Germany, on 22 October (and runs until 14 January 2007) seems to be more about medicin in contemporary art than contemporary medicine in contemporary art (see further http://www.kunstmuseum-ahlen.de/ausstellungen/diagnose_kunst_01.html):

Dansk Medicinsk-historisk Selskab belønner hvert år en studenteropgave inden for det medicin- og helsehistoriske område i bredeste forstand, herunder også odontologi og farmaci. Studenterprisen er på kr. 10.000. Præmien kan tildeles en eksamensopgave, f. eks. bachelor- eller OSVAL-opgave, der er blevet bedømt i det år, præmien uddeles i. Dog er specialer undtaget. Både studerende og […]

The first witness seminar to be held in Denmark (at least to my knowledge!) was held last week at the Panum Institute. Nine Danish medical doctors, either retired or in the final years of their career, gathered to discuss the historical development of the therapeutic procedure that had been central to their professional activities, and […]

2nd Annual Symposium of the Postgraduate Life Sciences and Society Network, 14-17 January 2007, hosted by the Medical Museion The symposium will focus on how the recent biosciences challenge and reconfigure formerly stable categories: The social and the biological, the nature/culture dichotomy and the human/animal boundaries are increasingly blurred and become populated by hybrids, cyborgs […]