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The former DK-UK Postgraduate Network on Bio-studies has merged with something called PLSSG (Postgraduate Life Sciences and Society Group). This way, they say, “we can initiate local subgroups and arrangements as well as explore comparative and transnational trends”. So far the network is mainly limited to members in Denmark and the UK, but hopefully others […]

Good news for historians of medicine, viz., we are now having free online access to back issues of a number of biomedical journals at http://www.pubmedcentral.gov Here’s a excerpt from the press release from Wellcome Trust:

Just a spontaneous spin-off thought inspired by Susanne‘s project on the visualization of epidemiology — I fell across the Information Aesthetics blog with the subtitle “form follows data – towards creative information visualization”. I like the range of creative possibilities, e.g. this pic: “an interactive photo mosaic of a graphical icon or logo made up […]

The LabLit.com-website is a “labor of love” website/netzine edited by Jennifer Rohn, who has worked for 15 years in virology, cell biology, cancer research and gene therapy and has, as she says “an incurable addiction to science-related literature”. The site is “dedicated to real laboratory culture and to the portrayal and perceptions of that culture […]

The Whipple Museum of the History of Science in Cambridge has launched a new internetbased teaching aid for school children, called Gallery Challnge. See http://www.hps.cam.ac.uk/whipple/gallerychallenge. They invite to a reception on Tuesday 14th February, 1-3pm, in the Whipple Museum Main Gallery, Department of HPS, Free School Lane, Cambridge.

Sage Ross, a graduate student and blogger at Yale University’s Program in History of Medicine and Science, has distributed the interesting message below through the H-Sci-Med-Tech-list. Sage’s point is that historians of science (and medicine) would get much out of engaging more with Wikipedia, and that writing Wikipedia-entries could also be used as a teaching […]

The Museums and Galleries History Group is pleased to announce the first issue of its biannual newsletter is now online at the MGHG website, www.mghg.org, containing news of projects, publications, research and events in the field of museum and gallery history.

In our series of posts about medical museums that must be seen (for earlier presentations, see here and here), the turn has now come to the on-line Museum of Scientifically Accurate Fabric Brain Art which “exhibits the world’s largest collection of anatomically correct fabric art inspired by research from neuroscience and dissection”. This “world’s largest” […]

DR1’s program ‘Harddisken’ har lige lavet et indslag om vores blog. Undertegnet er blevet interviewet i 10 min. — om vores egen blog, om blogging-fænomenet og om blogs som forskningskommunikation. Lyt på Harddiskens hjemmeside

Here’s a slightly delayed, but interesting news item from the world of collections: the RLG (which is a non-profit Mountain View-based organization with the aim to help scholars get ‘access to research materials held in libraries, archives, and museums’) had a meeting in July 2005 under the heading ‘Libraries, Archives, & Museums—Three-Ring Circus, One Big […]

It interesting to follow different attempts to create virtual medical history archives and exhibitions on the web, even if they don’t focus on recent biomedicine/biotechnology. One can alway learn something new; in this case — which many of you probably already know of — the Max-Planck-Institute for the History of Science’s (Berlin) on-line project, The […]

One of the many European medical history museums, the Museu d’Història de la Medicina de Catalunya in Barcelona, has now produced an English version of their website. That’s more than we can provide at the moment … 🙂 They seem to be interested mainly in the period before mid-20th century. For more info, contact Dr. […]