“The greatest scientists are artists as well”, Albert Einstein once said. But how can scientists communicate their results more effectively through art? One of the most common ways of communicating science today is through a one-dimensional focus on visuals such as graphs, illustrations and images. These often lack aesthetics and thereby fail to catch attention, crippling the intended message and impact.

How do we enhance interest in our research by communicating through art, i.e. in an aesthetic fashion that draws not only on vision but on all five senses of human perception?

Listen as junior researchers within the field of diabetes and an expert discuss possible solutions to this challenge.

Episode info

Postdocs

• Daniel Ibsen, Postdoc, Aarhus University, Denmark

• Anne-Marie Wegeberg, Postdoc, Aalborg University, Denmark

Expert

• Louise Whiteley, Associate Professor in Medical Science Communication and Curator at Medical Museion and the NNF Center for Basic Metabolic Research

Host

• Gretchen Repasky, Communications Director, Nordic EMBL Partnership for Molecular Medicine and University of Helsinki

The postdocs represent the challenge group of

• Fiona Roberts, Postdoc, University of Copenhagen, Denmark

• Helene Bæk Juel, Postdoc, University of Copenhagen, Denmark

• Ineke Luijten, Postdoc, University of Edinburgh, United Kingdom

• Markus Hodal Drag, Postdoc, University of Copenhagen, Denmark

• Sabri A. Rial, Postdoc, University of Montreal, Canada

Publisher

Danish Diabetes Academy

Producer

Kontekst & Lyd

Resource list

• How art and science intersect - Zayan Guedim
  https://edgy.app/where-art-and-science-intersect

• Why art and science are more closely related than you think - Dave Featherstone
  https://www.forbes.com/sites/quora/2016/03/16/why-art-and-science-are-more-closely-related-than-you-think/#3c04cbbb69f1

• Ten simple rules for better figures - Nicolas P. Rougier , Michael Droettboom, Philip E. Bourne
  https://journals.plos.org/ploscompbiol/article?id=10.1371/journal.pcbi.1003833

• Using Science's Aesthetic Dimension in Teaching Science - Maura Flannery
  https://www.jstor.org/stable/3332723?seq=1#metadata_info_tab_contents

• A house of collaboration: investigating the intersections of art and biomedicine - Ken Arnold, Adam Bencard,  Bente Vinge Pedersen, Thomas Söderqvist, Karin Tybjerg, Louise Whiteley
  https://bit.ly/3u8SzfM