Curator of the History of Medicine @ Norsk Teknisk Museum, Oslo; formerly BPS Curator of Psychology @ Science Museum, London; all tweets my own
Joined August 2011
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1 Sep 2023
#eahmh23 poster presentation by doctoral student Niklas Feix about the tuberculosis and HIV co-epidemic in Tanzania
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29 Aug 2023
Getting ready for the arrival of 295 guests from five continents tomorrow - grateful to my community for amazing papers! Keynotes open to all! virtual.oxfordabstracts.com/…. Marks the closing of four years of adventures with the @Biomedicalizat1 project. Welcome to Oslo! #EAHMH23
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Powerhouse panel at #eahmh23 on historians” responsibility in the pandemic: Jeremy Greene, Christoph Gradmann, Laurence Monnais, Dora Vargha, Guillaume Lachenal, and Warwick Anderson.
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30 Jan 2023
Sad news. We’ve received notice to vacate our premises at Bethnal Green by the end of this week. As a property guardianship, we’ve always been aware that we may be asked to leave with very short notice. We’re disappointed that it has come so soon.
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21 Dec 2022
Want to work with me at Norsk Teknisk Museum / Nasjonalt Medisinsk Museum? Do you speak Norwegian and English? It’s a full-time, permanent job. Check out the job description here: finn.no/job/fulltime/ad.html… Could this be you or someone you know?
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14 Sep 2022
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Hey there #ActuallyAutistic adults, what are some things you've implemented in your home to make it more accessible to yourselves?
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12 Sep 2022
Since non-autistics are constantly misunderstanding what a special interest is, here's a thread about what my SpIn is and is not.
1. My special interest is a passion.
My special interest is not a hobby.
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11 Sep 2022
It's #WorldSuicidePreventionDay!
As a suicidologist and someone who has experienced chronic suicidality since age 9, I want to offer some insights that mainstream prevention orgs don't often share. 🧵
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11 Sep 2022
I was today years old when I discovered there’s a heated greenhouse in Oslo built in 1876 expressly to coax a single species of giant waterlily to bloom. And it still blooms, every year. Why is this not on every list of top things to see in Oslo?
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17 Aug 2022
Whatzit? Found the proverbial black box: no identifying marks and no visible controls. I suspect it may have been homemade at Norway’s national hospital — at least we know it came from there.
See picture: It’s connected (by a thick homemade three-wire cable two meters long)…
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17 Aug 2022
…to another smaller black box with a small round disk of black paper mounted on it. Can remove the paper disk and see a component inside (pictured) but I don’t recognize what it is.
Any guesses as to what this is?
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20 Aug 2022
opened both boxes:
big box = 10 batteries voltage regulator
small box = photomultiplier tube rated for UV light (RCA type 1P28, from early 1950s)
So it’s some sort of sensitive UV detector. Maybe part of it (with dials and/or controls) is missing.
But why? In a hospital?
14 Aug 2022
So far 5 people in my city, Oslo, have joined wait list for the new book-club app Klerb (not a dating app: a way to meet local people with similar taste in books). When that number gets to 100, they’ll roll out the app here.
For more info & to sign up: warmstart.me/waiti/f91c2b45-…
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21 Apr 2022
In Nov 2018, my museum received an unsolicited email from 2 dancers in Oslo interested in making work about embryology.
Today & over the coming 9 days, they will perform the resulting work in @TekniskMuseum’s new medical gallery, Life & Death. Info here: bodycartography.org/portfoli…
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