BRIC, University of Copenhagen, 8 February, 2018

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Hi guys,

Thanks for a great day in a room where we could overlook the building where I once did the lab work for my Master’s thesis.  Below you will find the lecture slides in pdf format as well as a motley but useful collection of links.

Feel free to get in touch if you’re preparing a talk or have questions about your communication strategy. Good luck with your studies, research, networking, and communication!

O.

olle@bergman.com
se.linkedin.com/in/ollebergman/en
@torbern

My slides

2018-02-08_Copenhagen

A beta version of a new online document

A recent piece by yours truly

LinkedIn

Rhetoric

Useful stuff

Books on scientific peer-to-peer communication

Crastina

I currently put a lot of effort in Crastina—a networking platform for the exchange of knowledge, skills, experience, and opinion regarding scientific communication and science dissemination. The primary target group is early career scientists, but here you can find stuff which is useful for everybody with an interest in communication. (The name comes from Scientia Crastina, Latin for ‘The Science of Tomorrow’)

There are several ways to engage in the Crastina network activities – please get in touch if you’re interested.

A stream where a group of beavers lives, close to my home in Eskilstuna, February 2018.
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SENE 2017, Łódź, 24 November 2017

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Hi everybody,

Thanks for inviting me to the conference. It was very interesting to meet you and to get valuable feedback and experience regarding the subject of communication.

O.

My slides

Politechnika Łódzka, 23 November 2017

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Hi everybody,

Thanks for a great morning with many interesting questions and comments. I think the document we produced together is a great to-do list.

O.

Files

2017-11-23_Lodz

The workshop document

 

 

BioFrontiers Summit 2017, Copenhagen, 16 November 2017 Copy

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Hi everybody,

Thanks for a great evening in Copenhagen and a very interesting event.

O.

My slides

Musical Monday #1: Musical storytelling, part 1

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This Monday: songs that tell a sad or dramatic story.

The tragic love between an egyptologist and a mummy

“Love as a game of power, with one loser and one winner, and the entanglement of tenderness and cruelty. But yet: the one forsaken find her happiness in her delusion. Her martyrdom is her pride.”

(Josh Ritter: The Curse)

A modern Bonnie & Clyde or True Romance couple

“It seems so simple – five holdups, romance and fun, retiring to Mexico. But the love game of some people is the PTSD of others.”

(Joe Purdy: Outlaws)

A junkhouse tragedy

“A story that is a riddle. If you understand who the milkman is, you will get it. But then, perhaps, the thrill is gone.”

(The Raconteurs: Carolina Drama).

 

 

Musical Monday is a playlist game where Olle Bergman uses some of his favourite music as the pieces. The rules are random and everybody is a winner.

The world keeps existing

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I read this line by Sylvia Plath, and felt that I had to disagree:

”I shut my eyes and all the world drops dead;
I lift my eyes and all is born again.”

It’s a wonder of a healthy brain – i.e. a brain which is neither affected by illness or stress, nor under the influence of drugs – to maintain a coherent view of the outside world without breaks in the timeline. When we close our eyes, we keep getting input from our other senses, and it all makes sense.

What Plath describes is more like the experience described by my son when he had one of his longer epileptic abscence seizures: ”It felt like being dead,” he said. A reminder that we should all value our sanity and a proper physiological function of the CNS.

Birgittadagen, sen eftermiddag
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spetsar ögonlocken
på solens sista strålar

minnen fladdrar
i en rödgul gardin

runt omkring
har hösten ägt rum
i stillhet

en bölja av guld
frusen mot brynen

ett kar av blod
tippat över molnen

snart kan det sägas
snart kan det skrivas

MORS: QUO SERIOR AMARIOR

snart var det sagt
snart var det skrivet

må de döda
välsigna mig
med sin värdighet

 

Noter

Skriven på tåget.

Tåget Göteborg–Eskilstuna den 8 oktober. Släpljus på Sörmlands skogsbryn i sena eftermiddagen.

Status: 2

Denna version: oredigerad

 

The love poetry of Matthew Ryan

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Summer is slowly fading away out there in the neglected reality while I’m busy putting abstractions together with the help of a keyboard and a cup of Twinings Earl Grey.

To keep me motivated, or something like this, I’m listening to some albums by Matthew Ryan. You can say that many of his songs are not really songs. You can say that there is a Bono hidden somewhere in his voice (in my eyes Bono is the most overrated singer in current popular music). But then you just have to listen to his love poetry and surrender.

 

Maybe once in a hundred million years
Has there been one like you, my dear
So bright, so pure, so clear
The torch that lights my way

YOUR MUSEUM

She’s standing in the doorway
She’s taking off my shirt
No one could have told me
One day this would hurt

THE WORLD IS …

 

I can’t even tell if this is shitty poetry or not – I can only feel its impact. Damn, I’m an incurable romantic.

 

 

Solna, 15 Juni 2017

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It was great to meet you, this warm June day in Stockholm! Below, you will find my PPt slides as well as some links which may be useful.

Good luck with your summer projects. As I said: feel free to email me for feedback on your PPt slides or poster design.

O.

olle@bergman.com
se.linkedin.com/in/ollebergman/en
@torbern
instagram.com/generalblom

My slides

A PPt for scientific presentations

This template is based on chapter 16 in Matt Carter’s Designing Science Presentations. Matt is an assistant professor of biology at Williams College, Massachusetts and a great guy!

Presentations

Posters

June evening in Råby-Rekarne socken, east of Eskilstuna. In the distance, two cranes were dancing in the marshy fields.

 

Łódź, 8 Juni 2017

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Cześć!
It was great meeting you all at the Innovation Forum event University and Industry: we speak different languages but say the same thing.

Please feel free to get in touch for questions and suggestions – I believe that Poland has a very strong future in science and tech due to your amazing human resources.

/Best,

Olle B.
olle@bergman.com
LinkedIn

My main messages

• See things from the target group’s perspective.

• Get the point across, not a thousand details.

• Explain what you can do, rather than what you have done.

• Be humble and prepared to learn.

• Build trust, founded in competence, drive and perseverance.

My slides

2017-06-08_lodz