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Next week, Steve Fuller (Dept of Sociology, University of Warwick) and Chris Renwick (Dept of History, University of York) will discuss ‘The Biological Challenge to the Social Sciences’ in Warwick: The social and biological sciences came into existence in the second half of the 19th century and have always pursued partly overlapping agendas. No one […]

Biostatistics is perhaps not the most approachable thing to people outside the biostatistics sphere, and as a discipline of Public Health Sciences it is sometimes frowned a little bit upon. Maybe because it is, even to many public health professionals, quite boring. It’s all about numbers, computer programmes, likelihoods, tests and probabilities and communicating it […]

I recently received a very nice and official looking email from a journal calling itself Sociology Study, published by David Publishing Company, USA, telling me that they had noticed that I had given a named paper at a named conference and that they would be interested in publishing this paper as an article if I […]

I have previously written about the use of blogs by students and researchers at schools of public health (I called them Schools of Public Health 2.0). One example was School of Public Health at the University of British Colombia. This week, I came across another school of Public Health Sciences that is actively using blogging […]

Asbestos causes lung cancer. Smoking is responsible to the majority of lung cancers. A specific genotype increases your risk of breast cancer, and measles is a virus that if not prevented can cause brain damage or in sever cases death. All the above statements are scientifically supported facts, identified through public health research. Unfortunately, the […]

Roland Wittje participated in the Medical Museion MUSE seminar with a paper born out of his annoyance at an observed change in the role of the curator. He described winds of change in the museum world. A change away from the traditional curator with close and specific knowledge of the objects and collections in their […]

Medical Museion has launched a new seminar series: The MUSE seminars. The idea of the seminars is to explore questions in science communication and museum practices especially where they relate to modern biomedicine. We define science communication very broadly and speakers will come from a range of backgrounds including history of science, science communication, medical […]

Billedet af Otto Brunfels (1488? -1534) er malet af Lucas Cranach den ældre (1472 – 1553), og er hentet fra The Wellcome Institutes billedsamling på nettet.

I have blogged about this topic several times: How do you get other scholars onboard Twitter? Unless they are already there, they can be difficult to convince of the benefits of Twitter. Time constraints; horror stories of misinformation, fake profiles and a channel for spreading evil rumours; and assumptions that Twitter is the essence of […]

Statens Museum for Kunst og Danmarks Medie- og Journalisthøjskole arbejder i øjeblikket sammen om at undersøge erfaringer med web-tv/online video i kultur- og museumsformidling. I den forbindelse havde jeg den ære og fornøjelse at blive inviteret på frokost af Journalisthøjskolens Peter Østergaard Sørensen i deres hovedkvarter i Emdrup. Vi havde en dejlig åben snak om web-videoernes flydende og […]

If you’re out and about in Copenhagen this week you may see one of our new events postcards in a cafe or bar, featuring a paper-cut style plan of the museum, and listings for our upcoming event series, Close Encounters of a Material Kind, on the back. The absence of ‘writing room’ on free postcards is a […]

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