An Attempt at Understanding Web3
Contributed by Kalie Mayberry To understand the decentralization of the internet and the concepts that fall within its scope, it is helpful to look at the bigger picture of how the internet has come to this point. Who are the people who started this rhetoric of decentralization? What form is it taking? How has it…
This Week in Public Health.
The robots have been busy. As the last two years have demonstrated, public health moves lightning fast. New articles and evidence are being generated all the time. And it’s near impossible for any professional, whether in an academic, NGO, or governmental setting, to stay up to date. No more! We are excited to launch This…
Research Weaving: An infographic
As part of the SBIR, we are going to be tasked with pulling together lots of different sources of textual and metatextual data to determine the state of the science. The people over at Campbell are kings and queens of this process, but I recently found work by Nakagawa et al (2019) that outlines how…
Finishing this up? Another late-night SBIR blog.
9:23 p.m. In a minor miracle, two out four of my children are asleep right now. That means I can start pounding away on this application much earlier than I had anticipated. What we’re doing is putting in a series of objects that take PubTrawlr to the next level—far beyond it’s current capabilities. This is…
Let’s do another late-night grant-writing blog!
Over the past month or so, we here at Dawn Chorus have been going full steam getting a proposal together for an NIH SBIR. No matter the outcome, we’ve learned a ton doing the background research for this proposal that will really improve the next version of PubTrawlr once we’re ready to deploy it. The…
Design Thinking and Community-Based Research
The NJHI project is wrapping up. As I put together the final report, I spread out all the data sources and artifacts that we’ve collected over the last few years. We’ll have much more to say about NJHI once that report is done. But in the meanwhile, I found something that the great Linn Vizard…
New Paper by Dr. Guhlincozzi
Our friend and colleague just published a new paper on the importance of recruiting and supporting diverse sources in geosciences. Check out the full text (hooray for open access!) below! Grappling with barriers in geosciences from the lens of two Latina geoscientists
Oh, and here’s our black metal logo
It’s the spookiest of months, so it’s the time to break out our black metal logo. I’m not as comfortable putting this up front anymore, but we should still celebrate it. Would you like this (or the PubTrawlr black metal logo) on a t-shirt? Just reach out to us! Just absolutely brutal.
The reason to work with Dawn Chorus
Before we begin, please press play on the following video to accompany your reading. Our friend and colleague David Zimmerman pointed us to a just published study on the impact of birdsong on mental health; Birdsongs alleviate anxiety and paranoia in healthy participants The study was about how sounds can affect mood, state paranoia, and…
Cross-country Promoting with Envest
Last Friday, I had the pleasure of meeting up with James Osborn, founder of Envest Asset Management. Envest handles all of Dawn Chorus investing and retirement planning. Envest is also, as far as we know, the only B-corp focused on financial management in the state of Connecticut. James and I go back a long time.…
Exciting news for open access research data
We welcome a guest post from our colleague Rebecca Sax! The scientific research community is notoriously siloed and competitive. Even after the rapid, global collaboration resulting in the COVID-19 vaccine in 2020, health research is still bogged down by opaque publication processes and limited access to results. We wrote about this in October 2020, and…
Tenure Track Academic Salaries at the University of Alaska: Anchorage
Can you believe that some HR departments don’t share salary information? Anyway, instead of working on actual work, I played around with this data that was shared on the Community Psychology listserve (thanks to Lily Cohen). My question is “Who is the lucky Assistant Professor?” Answer: This Guy
