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I denne uge arbejder vi på at skabe indhold til vores nye hjemmeside, som skal søsættes her i løbet af efteråret. Gårsdagens øvelse gik ud på at gennemsøge museets fælles drev på jagt efter flotte og repræsentative billeder, som kunne gå ind under overskrifter som ‘konservering‘, ‘medarbejdere i aktion’, ‘undervisning‘ osv.   Billederne uploadede vi […]

Hver gang jeg går til grønthandleren undrar jeg mig over teksten på skiltene. De annoncerer  ikke kun 10 æbler til 25 kroner — det er ‘flotte æbler’ man sælger. Hos nogen grønthandlere er alle varerne ‘flotte’. Men hvis alt er ‘flot’ så mister tillægsordet sin betydning. Hvis alle varer er ‘flotte’, så behøver man jo ikke nævne det. Den […]

The world is now a public health journal club richer! And this is a club not restricted to people in a specific university, from a particular workplace or with a special diploma. Everyone is free to actively join or follow it from the sidelines. Inspired by the first Twitter Journal Club, which focuses on research […]

What is it we do when we blog about research or make use other kinds of social web media in communicating research? Do we disseminate information? Are we sharing information? Are we expressing viewpoints? Do we ask questions and enter into dialogue? Are we discussing? Are we communicating? Yesterday, as reading a project description for […]

Why do researchers blog? Although it is definitely an expanding discipline, it is not yet common for researchers to share their thoughts, products and experiences through a blog – at least not in a Danish context. After some months of wondering around the world of science communication via social media it seems quite obvious to […]

The last issue of ICOM’s e-Newsletter (June-July 2011) carries a short summary of Peter Greenaway‘s presentation “The New Visual Literacy” at ICOM’s 2011 Annual Meeting, in which the British film maker showed images to encourage ‘visual awareness’ among museum people and support his dictum: ‘the image always has the last word’: Displaying his signature wit and stage presence, he spoke […]

Having had to consult my doctor, yesterday, due to an infection, I recalled a small discovery I made a few weeks ago of how the internet have given me very easy access to my personal health record with just a few clicks with the mouse. From the data I can confirm that I was alive […]

Even more thoughts after reading How We Became Posthuman (other posts are here and here). I think part of my fascination with the book is that it inadvertently articulates what I see to be a watershed change that has happened in the past ten years or so – the change from an informational paradigm to […]

Some more ramblings inspired by How We Became Posthuman (other post is here). The interface that was to transform us turned out not to be the human/machine coupling, but instead the human/biology coupling, in which the transformation of biological life inside and outside of us is the key. The Technicolor wonder of the man-as-machine has […]

Sometimes conference announcements only become interesting in the very last sentence. Like this one for “Frenemies: The love-hate relationsship between science and society”, taking place at Universiteit Twente on 14 September. Science is put in the dock, so it seems. Experts are under attack, there is public agitation on the internet. Yet we cherish expertise as never […]

Just want to spread the word that Nina Bjerglund Andersen, who’s working on a project on public health science communication through social media here at Medical Museion, has just started a blog titled Public Health Science Communication 2.0. Looking forward to see how it develops! And we’ll sure hear more about Nina’s project here.

As follow-up to my post on entering the world of possibilities which Twitter and LinkedIn presents (read post here), I just wanted to share a blog post on 10 Ways Researchers Can Use Twitter. The 10 advantages of Twitter for researchers is assembled by Salma Patel, a doctoral researcher at the University of Warwick with […]