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
Getting to Know: Allison Herb
Dawn Chorus employee #2 (or possibly #1) recently told her story to the Alvernian. Read all about her journey at the link below!
Did we submit to Y Combinator? We did.
Imposter syndrome is a funny thing. Lots of really successful people have it, so that should make it normative. But it’s not. I still worry that we could be doing much better, that we could be doing much more. One of the Gold Standard accelerator programs is Y Combinator. Big name companies like Stripe, Coinbase,…
SCRA career chat featuring Jon
Hey all! Fifteen years ago I didn’t know what evaluation or community psychology were. Now, I feel like I’ve found a professional home that allows me to think, be creative, and really work hard on meaningful problems in our communities. How did I get here? Well, come on over to the SCRA community chat next…
Dawn Chorus Swag is available!
More than TWO people have reached out to us about obtaining the most fashionable stuff around. So, we’re excited to announce that our new swag is now available for purchase! We’ve got t-shirts, sweatshirts, pullovers, and more. So show your support for community-based research and pick up some of our new gear today. Our swag…
Bringing the team together
Updates to come, but here’s a glamour shot.
PubTrawlr getting a TV shout-out? Well, let’s get prepared
Our friends at O’Pake will be on Innovation Wins next week and asked if they could give us a shout-out. They wanted some information and talking points, so it’s as good a time as any to get another blog post together. How did PubTrawlr start? There’s the underlying scientific need for PubTrawlr, but I think…
How to Read Scientific Articles like a Scientist
Last week, Julia Moore of The Center for Implementation had the pleasure to talk about our systems to work more effectively through academic publications. Below you can find the slides, the recording, the transcript, and some extra goodies and commentary. The recording The Transcript We edited this transcript for clarity and ease of reading. Okay,…
