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On the 27. of April we opened our new exhibition ‘Experiences of Ageing‘ featuring drawings and objects from a 2-year postdoctoral research fellowship by the London artist Lucy Lyons. At the opening seminar Lucy gave a general introduction to her work in artistic research and to the exhibition. Watch this short video from the opening to find out […]

Vores egen Nina Bjerglund Andersen skal tale om sociale medier og folkesundhedsvidenskabelig forskningskommunikation i forbindelse med årsmødet i Foreningen for Kandidater i Folkesundhedsvidenskab (FKFSV): The Lancet er på Twitter, CDC [Center for Disease Control] i USA kører en aktiv Facebook-side og BMJ [British Medical Journal] har mere end 15 blogs kørerende parallelt til deres tidsskrift. Sociale […]

D. 24. maj er der igen aftenskonsultation på Museion og denne gang handler det om gentests. Vi vil føre en lille gruppe mennesker bag scenen til en gentest og kigge på, hvad der rent faktisk sker, når folk frivilligt sender deres DNA verden rundt for at lære mere om deres helbred og fremtid. Vi skal […]

Social media “likes” healthcare. This is the title of a recently launched report from PwC’s Health Research Institute (HRI). The subtitle; From marketing to social business, reveals that the report is focused on the role of social media in health care business. It does however have some interesting findings which are relevant also seen from […]

Social media presents several advantages to public health science communication. But it would be wrong not to acknowledge that there are also challenges to the media. Below I have listed some of them. As with the advantages, I am sure there are many more challenges than those below, so please do add to the list […]

Medicinsk Museion overtog for et par år siden de blindehistoriske samlinger fra Institut for Blinde og Svagsynede (IBOS). De er godt dokumenterede og blandt de bedste af sin slags i verden. Samlingerne indeholder genstande og billeder der illustrerer de problemer der er forbundet med et liv med et alvorligt handicap, men også den udvikling der […]

The other day I blogged about some of the similarities I see between public health sciences and social media. Similarities which makes social media particular relevant for public health science communication. Apart from the similarities, I have been trying to put together a list of other advantages of social media for science communication, which I […]

En samtale på Twitter ansporede mig forleden til at kigge nærmere på vores Youtube-statistik. Vi har en temmelig populær video liggende som handler om et helt specielt tvillingepræparat. Videoen har indtil nu haft over 150.000 visninger. Men hvis man kigger på retention-statistiskken, altså hvor længe bliver folk hængende, ser det således ud: Hvis man derimod […]

En af mine yndlingsblomster, Fuchsia, har fået navn efter en noget stridbar herre, lægen Leonhart Fuchs (1501-1566) fra Tübingen.
Han er berømt for sin bog De historia stirpium (om planternes historie) om 500 planter med naturtro illustrationer.

Last week, I wrote how several scientific journals and publishers are opening their eyes to Twitter. The confirmation of the relevance on Twitter also in relation to peer-reviewed journals comes in many different forms. This weekend, I came across a tweet giving another example : If you click on the link in the tweet (or […]

For about two years now, a group of us here at the Museion has been running a reading group on materiality. It has been on a hiatus for a while, but we are now getting back into the swing of it. Traditionally, we meet on Monday mornings every 2-3 weeks to get the philosophical juices […]

Yesterday, David Pantalony from University of Ottawa and the Canada Science and Technology Museum gave a talk in Medical Museion’s MUSE seminar series titled ‘Examine first, ask what it is later: The multiple interpretations of 20th century scientific artifacts’. David’s presentation gave rise to an intense discussion and an interesting stream of twitter-comments that are eternalised on Storify […]