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[flickr id=”8025994737″ thumbnail=”small” overlay=”true” size=”medium_800″ group=”” align=”right”]I øjeblikket bliver udstillingen: Fedme – Hvad er problemet?, sat op i tre nyrenoverede rum på Medicinsk Museion. De tre rum præsenterede tidligere de nu nedlagte mangeårige udstillinger: Det Kgl. Frederiks Hospital, Det. Kgl. Frederiks Apoteks officin og kirurgiens historie. Apotekerofficinet har imidlertid fået lov til at blive stående […]

This is unfortunately a retrospective review, as I just caught the closing days of Bone at the Florence Nightingale Museum on my recent trip to London. But given the always-strange scenario of blogging about objects that most readers will likely never encounter in the flesh (or at least, in close proximity to their glass cases), I thought […]

Science communication and the internet is becoming a topic all over the world. Also France are tuning in on it. A conference next week at the Pasteur Institute brings people together to discuss how science communicated via the internet can help bring science to a wider public. The conference which is entitled ‘Communiquer la science […]

Årets største firmafest: DHL-stafetten er skudt i gang. Fredag aften. Sidst i August. Vejret er perfekt. Stemningen er høj og hyggesnakken går lystigt mellem de mange bokse fyldt med KU-løbere heriblandt IFSV’s løbere i blå bluser, klar til at løbe 5 x 5 km. Et mål knytter alle sammen, nemlig logoet – Towards a common […]

Communicating science is so often focused on transferring knowledge from experts to members of the public. More and more often it is also associate with engaging and communicating with the public. But still with a focus on what the public or the common man gets out of this. But what’s in it for the scientist? How […]

The second module of the course in Public Health Science Communication focused on Translating Science to Traditional Media. On paper a nice and concrete topic – but both choosing literature for the syllabus and preparing for the class proved a little bit more challenging. Because what does ‘translating science’ mean? And is there a recipe […]

Last Friday I visited Wellcome Collection’s current exhibition Superhuman: Exploring Human Enhancement from 600 BCE to 2050. Feeling rather less than superhuman after a sweaty bike ride from Tooting, I entered the delightfully air-conditioned exhibition space and an absorbing – if at times gut-wrenching – mosaic of objects, films, and texts, providing glimpses into the […]

For the second module of the course in Public Health Science Communication we’ll be looking at the Translation of public health science to traditional (and new) media. I have asked the students to find and bring examples of public health sciences communicated in news articles, YouTube videos, blog posts, TEDtalks etc. but I was hoping […]

The course Public Health Science Communication went live Wednesday last week! And based on the first experiences it survived the encounter with the students, is still in good shape and looking forward to moving on to module two this coming Wednesday. Since the concept “public health science communication” is still not a household concept and does to […]

The registration deadline for the upcoming symposium on scientific visualization in Copenhagen, Tuesday 25 September and Wednesday 26 September 2012, is Friday 14 September. You Need To See This — Pushing the boundaries of scientific visualization should be of interest to everyone interested in how science is visualized, especially at the cellular and molecular level, in science, in […]

I et enormt studie netop publiceret, spredt over 30 artikler i tre forskellige tidsskrifter (Nature, Genome Research og Genome Biology), har 442 forskere fra over 32 forskellige institutioner i det såkaldte ENCODE-konsortium kastet nyt og spændende lys over såkaldt “junk” DNA. Altså den del af vores arvemateriale som vi hidtil ikke har kunne tilskrive nogen funktion. De har […]

I’m organizing a 4 day PhD course at Medical Museion in March, as part of the Medical Science and Technology Studies Graduate Programme. The course, ‘Pushing the Boundaries of Science Communication’, is described below: Science communication always involves questions of translation and persuasion, asking how accurately technical knowledge can be communicated to non-expert audiences, and […]