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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 […]

Once again, Twitter uncovered for me a small treasure box on the web. By following a link in a tweet I found a box full of stories of how social media and medicine and public health can benefit from each other. The treasure box is part of the NEJM (New England Journal of Medicine) 200 […]

At our next event on Thursday evening, accompanying the opening of new exhibition Experiences of Ageing, we’ll be inviting guests to investigate some of the overlooked aspects of medicine with their pen, lens, and hands. We’ll be exploring the quiet spaces that surround the drama of medical objects, everyday medical devices that are often ignored, […]

Social media is a gift to science communication. I am quite convinced about that. But is it particularly relevant for Public Health Science Communication? As many of the blog posts on this blog illustrates there is huge value and potential in using social media for public health science communication. And not only to disseminate research, […]