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We all hate blog spam. Spam filters are a blessing — and I’m amazed how efficient they are: I rarely need to weed out the comment folder. Sometimes, however, my Akismet filter is too efficient, and therefore I use to go through the spam folder once in a while to see if there are any nuggets […]

Watch out for Nina Bjerglund’s new blog on public health science comunication via social media: http://bjerglund.wordpress.com/. She is posting frequently, the content is serious and well-written, and the topic is extremely important — because communication with the general public is a sina qua non for public health research.

Jessica Palmer (Bioephemera blog) is leaving ScienceBlogs to start on her own again. And ends her last post with the classic words ascribed to Dorothy Parker: “The cure for boredom is curiosity. There is no cure for curiosity”. She’s so right. Keep up the spirit!

Apropos the forthcoming Birkbeck workshop on pain without lesions I referred to a couple of days ago — the way the workshop is organised is quite interesting, because it reminds me of the discussion we had on this blog a few months ago about promoting best practice in organising academic meetings. The organisers of the planned pain workshop at […]

As you can see if you scroll down a bit (or search for ‘anatomy’/’anatomical’ in the search field), we have written quite a lot about different activities, both in Europe and elsewhere, around the topic of anatomical collections. The next initiative on this central topic for medical museums is a conference titled ‘Cultures of Anatomical Collections’ to be […]

It’s notoriously difficult to display invisibles in medical exhibitions. And what’s more invisible than pain? When you break a leg, the lesion is visible, but the pain is not. A mostly subjective sensation, chronic pain has few, if any, visible physical correlates. How do you display headache? I came to think about this when I heard […]

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 […]

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.

Although the United States seems be on the track of turning into an intellectually and economically failed nation, some of their universities are still among the best in the world. And among the best of the best is Yale University. Readers of this blog may therefore be interested to hear that Yale invites applications for a tenure track Assistant/Associate or […]

I forgot to tell that Biomedicine on Display is having a short summer vacation. Back again sometime in August.

A three-year Ph.D. scholarship has been announced at Medical Museion, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Copenhagen. The scholarship is part of the research project ‘Vision and touch: a material history of the world of blindness’, which deals with the history of blindness and its intricate relation to vision, representation, touch and physical objects. The […]

As Lucy wrote earlier today, Copenhagen was hit by 6 inches (150 mm) of rain last Saturday night. The basement level in all Medical Museion’s buildings were flooded by surface and sewage water — the highest water level inside was 36 inches (almost one meter)! All available staff has been working hard during the last three days to save artefacts from […]