Announcing: Reading Scientific Articles like a Scientist
Reading scientific articles can be difficult because they are often dense and filled with jargon. They also concisely present complex findings, making them difficult to understand. Finally, scientific articles sometimes… Read More
Reflections on Status as a Service, and the conundrum of Social Capital
Guest post by our incredible friend and colleague, Kalie Wertz. Read all about her on our About page! “Numbers lend an air of legitimacy and credibility” – and yet, social… Read More
Reaching the Outcomes you want from Training
We’ve been preparing to roll out some virtual trainings on our rmc2.org platform in the coming weeks. Because of that, it’s helpful to take a step back and think about… Read More
A great example of engaging with the public on science
We love Reddit here. Like most websites that encompass a wide range of tops, there’s some great stuff on Reddit, and some really terrible stuff. We also love engaging with… Read More
How many $$$$$ is your title worth?
RWJF maintains a database of all awards they have granted since 1972; a number that comes up to around 30,000 awards. We’ve been looking more deeply at what wasn’t funded… Read More
Digging into some CDC data
This is another one of those live blog post that I write while I do some data analyses. I hope you find this interested to see how we approach the… Read More
Analyzing change using the Pathways to Population Health Compass
This is another one of those “writing a blog while I’m working” blogs. For the Rhode to Equity project, we administered three waves of the P2PH Compass. This tool actually… Read More
Effective Twitter Use Among PA Congressional Representatives
In our work for the RISE project, we have been looking at how different organizations have used Twitter to spread public health messages. These organizations aren’t the only ones with… Read More
A new dawn (chorus)
Welcome back, my friends, to the show that never ends! We’re so glad you could attend, come inside, come inside. After several months of development, we’ve relaunched the Dawn Chorus… Read More
Solving a large data cleaning problem: an experiential live blog
10:11 p.m. About five hours ago, a dear colleague said to me, “We need to have this data cleaned for the reports, oh, and it’s also going to be shown… Read More
Notes on “Notes on Effective Altruism”
I first came across the effective on Lex Fridman’s podcast where he interviewed William MacAskill. In a nutshell, effective altruism is the practice of making decisions based on the greatest… Read More
TA can work….if we study it well.
Our friend and colleague Victoria Scott just published a large scoping review on TA effectiveness evidence. She writes: Advances in the science and practice of TA hinge on understanding which… Read More
