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
American Exceptionalism in Science: A tiny, tiny analysis
Morning folks. We were doing some improvement work on PubTrawlr this morning, and decided just to play around with the social services database that it pulls from. Since the metadata… Read More
The Cutting Room Floor: 5335 Days of Implementation Science
We’re getting close to resubmitting our NLP analysis of about 1700 abstracts from Implementation Science. In getting to that point, we had to trim and remove a bunch of figures… Read More
The Month in Community Psychology: January
A light month in publications. January has long been the dumping ground for movies that studios don’t really want to think about anymore. Potentially the same is true for articles?… Read More
January Retractions
This is PubTrawlr’s monthly retraction notice. At first, it appeared that the journal of Neuropsychiatric Disease and Treatment really took it on the chin with a series of article from what… Read More
Community Readiness indicators: Reflections on ‘Twitter and Tear Gas’
In the ReSOLV project, part of our task is to identify how community readiness impacts the ability of school districts to promote schools safety. In 2020, our work was disrupted… Read More
Move over Preston and Unspeakable: The Next YouTube Star is here!
PubTrawlr has been out for about three weeks now, and many of our friends have told us some variation of, “PubTrawlr is really cool, but how do you use it?”… Read More
Data Feminism: A book recommendation
Heads up: I clipped the above image from the Data Feminism website. It’s not mine. My buddy Yakov Bressler has been the source of many books recommendations that have greatly… Read More
Even More on Barriers and Facilitators
Happy Birthday, PubTrawlr! Today is the day PubTrawlr moves live and open for business. In honor of this occasion, I fired it up for one of my favorite topics; barriers… Read More
A December to Not Remember: Monthly Retractions
We’re going to start publishing notices and synthesis of monthly retractions. Science is fluid, and retractions aren’t a bad thing! It means that either something is not replicable, there are… Read More
An Introduction to Readiness
Author’s Note: So this is a draft a book chapter that didn’t really go anywhere. I might go back to it at some point, but in the spirit of emptying… Read More
Journalism and Evaluation: Long lost siblings?
Much of our work here at Dawn Chorus is qualitative. Actually sitting down and talking to people can provide huge amount of data and nuance that gets lost in the… Read More
