A perfect place to pick-up arguments for why scientists should be on social media
‘An Introduction to Social Media for Scientists‘. I have wanted to mention this article published in PLOS Biology ever since it came out in April 2013, but somehow never got around to it. But as I reread it earlier this week, I was reminded how this article must be mentioned on a blog like mine.
An Introduction to Social Media for Scientists is written by Holly M. Bik and Miriam C. Goldstein from University of California Davis and University of California San Diego and is an excellent place to start for researchers considering trying out social media or for enthusiasts of social media for science communic...
Source: Biomedicine on Display - August 1, 2013 Category: Medical Scientists Authors: Nina Bjerglund Andersen Tags: public health science communication benefits blogs Facebook guide guidelines Holly M. Bik improving communication Miriam C. Goldstein PloS PLOS Biology professional networking research communication research efficiency science Source Type: blogs
What does Britain’s Science Media Centre (SMC) think of social media for science communication?
Most people working with science communication will probably have heard about Britain’s Science Media Centre (SMC) and perhaps also about its front woman Fiona Fox. In case you’ve never heard of it or can’t really remember what it is about the scientific journal ‘Nature’ recently published a news feature on SMC and Fiona Fox which gives a good overview of the centre, its concept and the critic it faces.
Science Media Centre (SMC) is an independent press office that works to get scientific voices into media coverage and policy debates. By doing so the aim is to improve the accuracy with whic...
Source: Biomedicine on Display - July 31, 2013 Category: Medical Scientists Authors: Nina Bjerglund Andersen Tags: public health science communication Fiona Fox journalism journalists Nature research communication researchers science communication @en Science Media Centre scientists SMC Social media Source Type: blogs
Social media, research and museum curatorship — a concrete example
Discussions with Rebekah Higgitt(@beckyfh) sometimes extend over 15-25 turns with up to a handfull of interlocutors.
But even if the chat relayed above is pretty mundane, it illustrates some of the experiences a growing number of users of social media for academic and curatorial purposes have made:
Social media allow for instant discussion: Within a few minutes Jaipreet, Nathaniel, David and I were engaged in a conversation about a neglected topic (the representation of smell) in the history of STM and STM museums.
Social media increase the chances of contacts between researchers and curators considerably: The four of ...
Source: Biomedicine on Display - July 30, 2013 Category: Medical Scientists Authors: Thomas Söderqvist Tags: blogging curation history of medicine material studies museum studies public outreach senses smell social web media Twitter Source Type: blogs
Objects first – thoughts on a deeper engagement with materiality
A few months ago, I gave a small talk at an internal seminar here at Museion where I presented some thoughts about how to further our engagement with objects and how to take materiality more seriously. Here is the talk:
Not just a museum with things, but a museum about thingness – possible strategies for a deepened engagement with materiality
At the “It’s Not What You Think”-workshop, we sat an eclectic mix of 40 museum professionals, philosophers, artists, historians, STS scholars, social scientists, science communicators and much more, down at 4 tables with 4 groups of objects – a collection of human remain...
Source: Biomedicine on Display - July 29, 2013 Category: Medical Scientists Authors: Adam Bencard Tags: artefacts collections INWYT material studies museum studies Source Type: blogs
PhD position in Science Communication and Synthetic Biology at KU
Following my last blog post about a 1yr research job in Leiden looking into relations between bio-art and science communication, more exciting scholarship news… Our neighbours the Department of Media, Cognition, and Communication at the University of Copenhagen are currently advertising a PhD scholarship in science communication with a focus on synthetic biology:
The student will work alongside Maja Horst, Sarah Davies, and Sune Holm to carry out and analyse experiments in public engagement with synthetic biology. The role would therefore be suitable for those with backgrounds in STS, science communication practice,...
Source: Biomedicine on Display - July 25, 2013 Category: Medical Scientists Authors: Louise Whiteley Tags: biotech graduate courses jobs/grants public engagement science communication studies Studiolab Source Type: blogs
Research Opportunity: Analyze Bio-Art Interventions as Science Communication
The Waag Society, Amsterdam, Museum Boerhaave, Leiden, and University of Amsterdam, have released a call for applications for a 10 month project exploring the use of Bio-Art as a science communication strategy, potentially leading to a PhD project.
The relation between art-science and strategies for public engagement raises some fascinating and underexplored questions about how different goals, outputs, and modes of working can be put into constructive (or perhaps usefully de-structive) interaction with each other. I’m looking forward to following the project, and to exploring this and related questions at the Lor...
Source: Biomedicine on Display - July 10, 2013 Category: Medical Scientists Authors: Louise Whiteley Tags: art and biomed art and science displays/exhibits future medical science and technology history of medicine jobs/grants public engagement science communication studies Source Type: blogs
Trends in making a career in German science communication
Internships, coincidences, childbearing and passion for communicating seems to be key themes in making a career in science communication in Germany. At least those are some of the conclusions I made when attending Science Communication Career Day at Heidelberg University last week.
The Career Day was all in all a good experience. Logistically well organised and with an interesting bunch of speakers. There was even ‘fancy new media’ involved. A hashtag (#scicomcareerday) had been assigned and it was enthusiastically noted when 20 tweets had been reached and later on 50 tweets! Being beginners in using this it w...
Source: Biomedicine on Display - July 10, 2013 Category: Medical Scientists Authors: Nina Bjerglund Andersen Tags: public health science communication EMBL heidelberg university Heidelberg University Graduate School internships research communication science communication @en Source Type: blogs
The material life-course of a scientist
Discussion: The Pleasures and Perils of Biography
- Georgina Ferry, author of Dorothy Hodgkin: A Life (1998) and Max Perutz and the Secret of Life (2007)
- Andrew Nahum, author of Frank Whittle: Invention of the Jet (2005) and Senior Keeper at the
Science Museum
- Henry Hemming, author of In Search of the English Eccentric (2008), and a forthcoming biography of the inventor, educationalist and writer Geoffrey Pyke
(12.00 Lunch)
13.00 Biography Case Studies
- Salim Al-Gailani (University of Cambridge), ‘Domestic Science: Life Writing, Religion and Medical Identity in Edinburgh around 1900’
- Kelly O’Donnell (Yale Univ...
Source: Biomedicine on Display - July 5, 2013 Category: Medical Scientists Authors: Thomas Söderqvist Tags: abstracts biography museum studies Source Type: blogs
How to start a 40 person interdisciplinary conversation in 3 hours
At the It’s Not What You Think-workshop this March we experimented with a number of changes to the traditional format of academic meetings. One of the key things we knew we wanted with the workshop was to bring together a properly interdisciplinary group of people –not just scholars from different academic disciplines, but also artists working with different forms of expression and in very different contexts. While everyone shared a common interest in the materiality of medicine and ways in which to communicate about it, the participants approached the problem in about as many different ways as there were people. T...
Source: Biomedicine on Display - July 3, 2013 Category: Medical Scientists Authors: Adam Bencard Tags: aesthetics of biomedicine art and biomed conferences INWYT Source Type: blogs
Exploring science communication in… Heidelberg, Germany
When I moved to Bonn, Germany six months ago it was with great ambitions of exploring the German (Public Health) science communication community. Somehow time flew by and different job opportunities, unexpected travels, practicalities and even sickness kept me from getting started on my exploring.
But last week, into my inbox dropped an email with an update from one of the LinkedIn groups I follow (it’s called Science Communication). The headline was Career Day in Heidelberg: Science Communication and Journalism. After orienting myself on a map and finding Heidelberg to be only two hours train ride from Bonn, I dec...
Source: Biomedicine on Display - July 1, 2013 Category: Medical Scientists Authors: Nina Bjerglund Andersen Tags: public health science communication conference German Cancer Research Center Germany Heidelberg Heidelberg University Graduate School journalism journalists research communication science communication @en Source Type: blogs
Le Reader est mort, vive le Feedly
Are you reading this via our RSS feed? Then according to our feed statistics there’s a 70% chance you’re using Google Reader. And if you hadn’t noticed the warning when logging in, here’s a friendly reminder:
That’s right. After 1 July 2013 there will be no more Google Reader. So for the ~300 of you still using it to access our feed, it’s time to look for an alternative. There are numerous great sources online on what reader might be the best, so I won’t spend time on describing everyone of them. But I will give one recommendation which is my personal favorite and the one I’...
Source: Biomedicine on Display - June 26, 2013 Category: Medical Scientists Authors: Daniel Noesgaard Tags: web resources feed Feedly Google Reader posts rss subcription Source Type: blogs
Facelift for our website
It’s been more than a year and a half since we launched our new website. In other words, it’s hardly new anymore. However, it still does feel new because we keep working on it and updating it all the time. The frontpage contents are a reflection of what goes on in our museum and what the staff are working on at the moment. But, we still feel that it might be time for a – shall we call it – minor facelift?
Some considerations so far:
Making the navigation bar float at the top of the screen
Making the logo banner smaller / less dominant
Making the feature banner less wide, so that the sidebar can be ...
Source: Biomedicine on Display - June 20, 2013 Category: Medical Scientists Authors: Daniel Noesgaard Tags: web resources Source Type: blogs
Newsletter from Medical Museion
Click here for the newsletter, in Danish and English.
6th newsletter from Medical Museion in 2013.
“Seminar with Professor Bruno Strasser on Thursday, June 20th”
“Museum opening hours and tours this summer”
“Lucy Lyons’ exhibition ‘Experiences of Aging’ at Panum”
“The popular biohacking lab mentioned by DR. Lab exhibition period extended”
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Source: Biomedicine on Display - June 17, 2013 Category: Medical Scientists Authors: Lasse Frank Tags: news newsletter Source Type: blogs
Hands on (and sometimes off) in object investigation session
As the It’s Not What You Think: Communicating Medical Materialities workshop in March, we experimented with different formats – from quick-fire intro presentations to break the interdisciplinary ice, to a hands-on object investigation session.
In the object session (video here), participants were sorted into four groups, and entered an empty exhibition room to find one table per group, covered with acid-free tissue on which perched groups of objects selected from Museion’s collections. The four groups had been curated under the themes ‘metal’, ‘chemical’, ‘bodily’, a...
Source: Biomedicine on Display - June 7, 2013 Category: Medical Scientists Authors: Louise Whiteley Tags: aesthetics artefacts conferences haptics human remains INWYT medical scientific instruments senses Source Type: blogs
Systematic review: Social media for health communication
Back to the real world after two weeks in amazing Japan and an unplanned setback due to a rather bad infection leading to a stay in hospital, I revisited a link in my Twitter profile to a recently published article in the Journal of Medical Internet Research. It didn’t take more than reading the title to know that this article could be interesting – at least for someone like me:
“A New Dimension of Health Care: Systematic Review of the Uses, Benefits, and Limitations of Social Media for Health Communication”
Based on 98 original research studies the authors have set out to review published literatu...
Source: Biomedicine on Display - June 3, 2013 Category: Medical Scientists Authors: Nina Bjerglund Andersen Tags: public health science communication communicating science health communication research Journal of Medical Internet Research research communication science communication @en Social media Source Type: blogs
