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 it. Here’s why. Humans should not be unwitting subjects in scientific experiments. Yet, our history is cluttered with examples of this. The Tuskeegee Experiment. The…
The final NJHI update–for now…..
The great folks at Grey Sky Films put together this retrospective of the Small But Mighty Communities project. We’ve said a few times that it has been a bittersweet journey with NJHI. The communities are doing such cool things and will continue to do so. Yet, the core ingredients that made that happen (the support…
Welcome to a World of Endless Possibilities with PubTrawlr
The world of data is vast and ever-evolving. With the sheer amount of information available today, it can be difficult to keep up with the latest research and evidence-based findings. However, having access to the latest data at your fingertips is essential for staying ahead of the curve. That’s why PubTrawlr is here—to provide you…
What Is Fiscal Sponsorship and How Can It Benefit Your Organization?
If you are looking for a way to get your organization’s project off the ground, fiscal sponsorship may be a good option for you. Fiscal sponsorship is a relationship in which a non-profit organization provides financial and administrative support to another organization or individual for a specific project or program. In this arrangement, the sponsored…
What to know about Institutional Review Boards
If you’re working on a research project and are unsure if you need to submit it to an IRB, there are a few key things to keep in mind. The first is that any study involving human participants must be reviewed by an IRB, regardless of the risk involved. Additionally, studies that collect data from…
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
