Moving downtown!
This is an enhanced reality post. We strongly recommend that you hit play on this video before reading. Got a melody in your head? Good! PubTrawlr is moving! We’ve relocated… Read More
My favorite thing from NCI
In the US, the major federal funder of implementation science research is the National Cancer Institute. They have a full section, the Consortium for Cancer Implementation Science (CCIS) dedicated to… Read More
Climate, COVID, Abortion: the month in health equity
Cutting-edge health equity research doesn’t just happen in scientific journals. There’s a vibrant community of practitioners, advocates, and community members with lived experience working towards better health and wellbeing for… Read More
Journals! Twitter! Newspapers! Oh my! The month in community psychology
For a recent post on Suicide Research, we broadened our data horizon considerably. In addition to pulling in the academic research, we also looked at the discussion on Twitter and… Read More
Evidence in Plain Sight: Building a News Article Explorer
Here’s the paradox once again. Implementation Science is very top-down. That is, ideas and best practices are being pushed out into community-based settings. The implementation science field studies what makes… Read More
Quick Blog Update
We added a post counter onto each post, so you can see how many people have been reading this. This doesn’t go retrospective, so some of our most popular posts… Read More
Reddit, Twitter, and more: August in Suicide Research
For August, we went a little deeper in the whole “discourse space” on suicide. In addition to the scan of the published academic literature and Twitter trends, we also pulled… Read More
Reading (and Understanding) Scientific Articles
So you’ve started using PubTrawlr and you’re ready to dive deeper. You follow some links to the primary source, open them up….and it’s gobbledygook. Take a deep breath. This is a very… Read More
A useless history of the “Frameworks are Like Toothbrushes” quote
This morning, I was about to tweet the super insightful quote: Frameworks are like toothbrushes. Everyone has one, but nobody wants to use someone else’s. and got to thinking about… Read More
The hidden (and not so hidden) messages your congressional representative is communicating.
There are plenty of good ideas about how to solve complex social problems. One of the major levers is policy. And the people responsible for brokering between local needs and… Read More
A roadmap for community transformation
Nobody ever said change is easy. Community-level change is our best bet for chipping away at pervasive health inequities, yet each community is nestled inside local, regional and national attitudes,… Read More
Never require answers to survey questions.
The headline is the thesis statement. Do not require answers to survey questions. That is, never make any answer to any question required for completing a survey. Never. Don’t do… Read More