Teaching Scicomm to Marie Curie PhD students
I might worry a bit excessively before and be afraid that I won’t be able to give an interesting talk or teach students anything, but then while I’m doing it and afterwards I realize that I really enjoy it. Teaching.
Its been a year now since the public health masters course in Public Health Science Communication at University of Copenhagen took off. Since it finished in December 2012 I have only taught science communication a few times. Last week I got a new dosage of interaction with students to discuss the communication of science.
I was invited to give an introduction to science communication to a group o...
Source: Biomedicine on Display - October 4, 2013 Category: Medical Scientists Authors: Nina Bjerglund Andersen Tags: public health science communication Lab science Marie Curie Actions PhD students radiolab research communication science communication @en Social media the great sperm race writing tip Source Type: blogs
Notes on object agency
As I wrote last week, Thomas and I are trying to work up a paper on the rhetoric of object agency (preliminarily entitled ‘Do Things Act?’). Here are a few thoughts from the reading process:
Most reasonable and clearheaded account of object agency so far:
Lambros Malafouris’ work on nonhuman agency. He has co-edited a very useful volume (Material Agency: A Non-Anthropocentric Approach with Carl Knappett) in which he has a paper called At the Potter’s Wheel: An Argument for Material Agency, which provides a reasoned, well-argued and detailed argument for how agency “is a property or possession neither ...
Source: Biomedicine on Display - October 3, 2013 Category: Medical Scientists Authors: Adam Bencard Tags: aesthetics Source Type: blogs
Potential PhD Position in Neuroscience Communication Studies
I’m preparing a grant application for the Danish Humanities Research Council, which if successful will include a PhD position in science communication/media studies.
The project investigates ontologies of mind/brain in neuroscientific studies of hunger and obesity, via philosophical analysis, media studies, and exhibit making. The specific direction of the science communication/media studies PhD will be developed by the candidate within this framework. The project is based at Medical Museion (www.museion.ku.dk), which (as regular readers of this blog will know) holds an interdisciplinary medical humanitie...
Source: Biomedicine on Display - October 2, 2013 Category: Medical Scientists Authors: Louise Whiteley Tags: jobs/grants philosophy of medicine public engagement science communication studies Source Type: blogs
Skal du have studenterjob på Medicinsk Museion?
Hvis nogen leder efter et godt studiejob er det her måske noget. Medicinsk Museion søger i øjeblikket 4 nye omvisere/servicemedarbejdere på museet op via KUs jobportal (søg på Medicinsk Museion). Vi bestræber os på at have en blandet flok af fagligheder repræsenteret – det vigtigste er, at vores medarbejdere har lyst til at bidrage til arbejdet på et museum, der ikke er helt almindeligt. Et kig rundt på hjemmesiden her kan give en fornemmelse af, hvilke udstillinger og aktiviteter vi har.
Opslagets fulde ordlyd kan læses herunder, men ansøgningen skal sendes ind via førnævnte hjemmeside.
O...
Source: Biomedicine on Display - September 16, 2013 Category: Medical Scientists Authors: Bente Vinge Pedersen Tags: general Source Type: blogs
Do things act?
In 2010, Thomas and I wrote a paper titled ’Do Things Talk?’, published in Susanne Lehmann-Brauns, Christian Sichau, Helmuth Trischler (eds.), The Exhibition as Product and Generator of Scholarship (the volume is available as a .pdf here). In the paper, we discussed the problems and pitfalls surrounding the still current ‘things that talk’ rhetoric. Our central observation in the paper was as follows:
What we suggest, then, is that the current ‘things that talk’-vocabulary may have something to do with wanting to pay attention to the thing-ness of things – their ‘bony materiality’ and yet keep one’s lan...
Source: Biomedicine on Display - September 13, 2013 Category: Medical Scientists Authors: Adam Bencard Tags: blogging Do things act? material studies Source Type: blogs
Newsletter from Medical Museion
Click here for the newsletter, in Danish and English.
7th newsletter from Medical Museion in 2013.
“Martial Arts event, September 19th”,
“Operating room around 1900 – new exhibition opens in September”,
“New associate professor in medical science communication”,
“Videos from ‘The Data Body on the Dissection Table’ now online”,
“The Gene Gun lent to Ars Electronica in Linz”,
“History of medicine in Radio P1″,
“Evaluation of The Natural History Museum in Berlin”,
“Pill Dress in the making”.
If you want to r...
Source: Biomedicine on Display - September 6, 2013 Category: Medical Scientists Authors: Lasse Frank Tags: news newsletter Source Type: blogs
Forskning og livsløb – har kreativiteten en udløbsdato? Debatdag på Medicinsk Museion den 8. oktober.
Et af aldringsforskningens mere komplicerede emner er kompetence og kreativitet set i et livsperspektiv. Hvornår kan man “toppe” – og inden for hvad? Bibeholdes kreativiteten og energien til at tænke nyt gennem hele livet? Og hvad med udviklingen af modenhed og de egenskaber der beskrives med aldringens plusord?
Center for Sund Aldring afholder en debatdag om emnet:
Tirsdag 8. oktober 2013, kl. 9 – 17.
Medicinsk Museion, Bredgade 62, 1260 København K
Formålet med dagen er, at:
Formidle viden om fremherskende traditioner, opfattelser og holdninger til forskning, kreativitet og livskarriere – set i et kult...
Source: Biomedicine on Display - September 4, 2013 Category: Medical Scientists Authors: Thomas Söderqvist Tags: aesthetics Source Type: blogs
Video: Pill Dress in the making
How do you create a larger-than-life dress out of pills? This short film shows artist Susie Freeman of Pharmacopoeia doing just that. Knitting on her old industrial machine, comparing pill fabrics, and putting them on the dress base.
Together with Dr. Liz Lee she has weaved a dress made of ten years of prescription pills for two women, one from Denmark, the other from the UK, with metabolic syndrome, i.e., the combination of, among other diseases, type-2 diabetes, hypertension, and obesity.
The artwork tries to visualize and provoke our understanding of life with this complex cluster of metabolic diseases, using the pill ...
Source: Biomedicine on Display - September 3, 2013 Category: Medical Scientists Authors: Astrid Mo Tags: aesthetics art and biomed art and science art and medicine metabolic syndrome pharmacopoeia Source Type: blogs
Video recorded talks from the event “The Data Body on The Dissection Table” now online!
’The Data Body on the Dissection Table’ took place at Medical Museion on June 4th. The video recordings of the event talks are now online! See links below.
The collection of body data is a growing field. How do we grab hold of this data? How do we make sense of it and communicate it to others? See and hear Professor Albert-László Barabási, Professor and Artist François-Joseph Lapointe, Associate Professor Annamaria Carusi, and Artist and Research Director Jamie Allen talk about how contemporary artists and designers give our ‘data body’ material form through images, sound, and touch. What kind of tools are...
Source: Biomedicine on Display - August 24, 2013 Category: Medical Scientists Authors: Lasse Frank Tags: Data Body events medical humanities philosophy of medicine video The Data Body Source Type: blogs
The assembly of objects – the Kuleshov Effect in exhibitions
I am currently in the process of formulating some thoughts on objects in collections (read more here and here) which I hope will coalesce into a proposal for an object-oriented exhibition. While thinking and reading about what happens when objects are put in exhibitions, I came across a useful concept from film theory: The Kuleshov Effect.
The Kuleshov Effect is a well-documented and often referenced concept in film-making, accredited to the Soviet film editor Lev Kuleshov. During the 1920s Kuleshov made a film showing an actor, edited together with a plate of soup, a dead woman, and a woman on a recliner. Supposedly, au...
Source: Biomedicine on Display - August 20, 2013 Category: Medical Scientists Authors: Adam Bencard Tags: aesthetics curation displays/exhibits material studies Source Type: blogs
Pharmacopoeia Pill Dress -coming soon
However outré, none of the brands at this month’s fashion fair have what we will have soon: A dress made entirely out of pills woven into fine, black fabric. Spectacular and (thought) provoking, the art work tries to visualize the cluster of metabolic diseases such as diabetes and cardiovascular conditions (often referred to as ‘metabolic syndrome’), as well as related complications like depression and pain, that is one of the great health problems of our time.
In the art work, the 10 year medical records of two women living with chronic metabolic diseases, come together to form one larger-than-life pil...
Source: Biomedicine on Display - August 19, 2013 Category: Medical Scientists Authors: Astrid Mo Tags: aesthetics of biomedicine art and biomed art and science pharma industry visualization art and medicine london artists metabolic syndrome pharmacopoeia pill dress Source Type: blogs
ScienceOnline CLIMATE
I am really not a climate expert or anything close but I am a fan of the ScienceOnline non-conference format, so I thought I’d just promote a bit the ScienceOnline Climate which runs today and tomorrow (15-16 August 2013) in Washington DC, USA.
ScienceOnline is about science communication using social media and other new media to communicate research and science understood in its broadest term. It’s mission is to cultivate the ways science is conducted, shared, and communicated online. It brings together a diverse group of researchers, science writers, artists, programmers, and educators who conduct or communi...
Source: Biomedicine on Display - August 15, 2013 Category: Medical Scientists Authors: Nina Bjerglund Andersen Tags: public health science communication #scioclimate #scio12 conference non-conference research communication scicomm science communication @en ScienceOnline Social media Source Type: blogs
Become the ‘Ultimate Expert’ in Social MEDia
I need to update my business card with a new title. I am now a certified ‘Ultimate Expert’ in the use of social media in Medicine. This is a title I have achieved after completing the final module of the free online Social MEDia Course offered by Webicina.coma or more specifically by Bertalan Mesko, MD, PhD, a self-declared Medical Futurist, and founder of Webicina.com
The course is a spin-off of a university course offered to medical and public health students at the University of Debrecen, Hungary since 2008. Bertalan Mesko’s created the course as a response to the lack of digital literacy among docto...
Source: Biomedicine on Display - August 14, 2013 Category: Medical Scientists Authors: Nina Bjerglund Andersen Tags: public health science communication Bertalan Mesko Hungary medicine prezi Social media Social MEDia course training University of Debrecen WEBicina youtube @en Source Type: blogs
Tweet your science!
I have several times thought about putting together a list of resources about social media for science communication, that would be handy to refer others to and useful for myself. I figured it should include published literature and blog posts about social media for science communication and guides on how to use it. But with new things published almost every day and life in general it has never really happened.
BUT luckily someone else have been working on such a database, focusing mainly on Twitter! Lunched just a few days ago Tweet your Science sets out to diffuse scientists’ hesitation of getting on board social ...
Source: Biomedicine on Display - August 6, 2013 Category: Medical Scientists Authors: Nina Bjerglund Andersen Tags: public health science communication Twitter for sciene communication database @en evidence guide Kimberley Collins research researcher resources science communication @en Social media tweetyourscience University of Otago Source Type: blogs
Not just object-centered or object-driven but also object-oriented
Mia Ridge wrote a very nice blog post recently on object-centered and object-driven approaches in the context of online exhibitions. Mia asks whether the object-driven exhibition format that most museums employ might clash with the object-centered practices that most often drive online exhibition.
I won’t comment directly on Mia’s interesting question of whether there is “a potential mismatch between the object-driven approach that exhibitions have trained museum audiences to expect and the object-centred approach they encounter in museum collections online” but rather examine the distinction between object-cente...
Source: Biomedicine on Display - August 5, 2013 Category: Medical Scientists Authors: Adam Bencard Tags: aesthetics Source Type: blogs
