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The journal Angewandte Chemie recently published an article which, among other things, showed the download statistics for a chemical research article published in their journal over time: A Communication that was published online in EarlyView on Wiley InterScience (now called Wiley Online Library) on a Friday had the highest number of “full-text downloads” that very same day. The […]

Medical Museion is looking for a new academic member of staff who would like to develop our web-based biomedical science communication. You must have a science background (medicine, human biology, biochemistry etc.) + experience with, and interest in, web-based communication, especially through social web media. You must be able to communicate in both English and Danish. See the announcement here: http://www.museionblog.dk/vi-s%c3%b8ger-en-specialist-i-webbaseret-forskningskommunikation.

The Scientist has listed its choice of top ten biomedical innovations in 2010. Things like the first single-molecule real-time sequencer from Pacific Biosciences, a handheld automated cell counter from EMD Millipore, and eight other smart technical gadgets and methods, which will surely speed up research. But will they also speed up the global economy? The Scientist seems to believe so: As the global economy […]

“Schenken heisst Anderen etwas von dir zu geben” (to give means to give something of yourself to others): Biomedicine on Display wishes all our readers a merry xmas and a very happy new year. (thanks to Roger Cooter, UCL, for the xmas card we’ve borrowed this image from)

Well done, but the fingers are creepy. [biomed]NhnYipRAp3M&feature=player_embedded[/biomed] Thanks to Street Anatomy.

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I cannot resist this wonderful comment on the writing style of Giorgio ‘bare-life’ Agamben (or rather the crowd of Agambians): 1. Take a suitably lengthy, informative, and arcane wikipedia entry – my suggestion is this on Noah’s Ark. 2. Use as many of the original language reference and most arcane features in said entry to trace […]

The increased digitalisation of science and technology is problematic for museums as institutions for the preservation of the material cultural heritage. The reasons is that we usually think of digital information as something ‘immaterial’, a mere collection of zeros and ones that —as Jean-François Blanchette (Dept. of Information Studies, UCLA) points out—are considered “wholly independent from the particular […]

If we didn’t have a history of museums, but wanted to invent them now: a museum invented now would be conversational and authoritative – here’s this thing, and here’s why it’s cool (my emphasis) (from here)

After reading Fierce Biotech’s evaluation of the Top 10 Phase III Failures of 2010, I’m convinced that Phase III trials are more exciting than goose-pimple horror movies or the ups and downs of the NYSE. If a pharma company succeeds, there’s lots (lots!) of money in the waiting. But losses can be excruciatingly high too. Fierce Biotech’s list […]

Some conference announcements are distributed a year in advance, others just come all too late. Like the workshop on ‘Tacit Knowing: Manual Knowledge in Art, Science and Technology’ which will be held 15-16 December at the Internationales Kolleg für Kulturtechnikforschung und Medienphilosophie, Bauhaus-Universität Weimar. The workshop will focus on Polanyi’s notion of ‘tacit knowing’, i.e. the […]

The new thing in canned meat is unicorn: (from Aman Agah at Street Anatomy) Maybe the next thing is stem cell relish.