Slightly Changing Focus
Quick site update here. Many of the syntheses articles I’ve been putting together are going to be migrating over to PubTrawlr. They align better with PubTrawlr’s mission around use of… Read More
Recent Trends in Health Equity Research
Let’s start at the beginning. Health outcomes can vary for no other reason than where people are born. And this isn’t even a “developed” vs. “developing” country distinction. In the… Read More
February-March Evaluation Research
What’s been going on with evaluation? Well, click here and head on over to PubTrawlr to find out! We wanted to call out this specific article on quality of life,… Read More
Update Log: PubTrawlr Improvements
We just pushed some improvements out on the free tier of PubTrawlr. While many of them are cosmetic, there are three main ones to call out. Journal Weighting. We now… Read More
Data and Power
Data in itself is extremely powerful, and provides us with evidence that can motivate change. While this is absolutely necessary for progress, we must still consider the “power” that the… Read More
Docking into a Safe Harbor: Now Open
We wouldn’t be where are without the amazing open source communities that thrive around the internet, full stop. Anytime I had a debugging problem when putting together PubTrawlr or Readiness… Read More
February in Community Psychology
For such a short month, there’s a lot of new research. Check out PubTrawlr’s monthly synthesis of key community psychology journals at the button below. One article that stood out… Read More
February Retractions Report: Retraction Report!
The groundhog predicted six more weeks of winter, so we’re down to the last two. I, for one, will welcome the ever-unpredictable March to the year. As expected, it was… Read More
Using readiness for children support services
The Judge Baker Children’s Center (JBCC) up in Boston are among the leaders in evidence-based support and implementation. Starting about 6ish years ago, I began to work with them around… Read More
Following up on IHI’s Stories of COVID
A few groups that I’m working with have an interest in developing repositories of stories. The idea is that by collecting community-initiated improvement projects, we can tap into creative thinking… 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
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
