• Move over Preston and Unspeakable: The Next YouTube Star is here!

    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

    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

    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

    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

    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

  • The Month in Quality Improvement

    The Month in Quality Improvement

    I’ve recently gotten involved in the ECHO project, which helps to build COVID-19 and improvement capacity in nursing homes across the United States. This recent Axios article shows that this… Read More

  • The Last Month in Evaluation (with some thoughts on AEA)

    The Last Month in Evaluation (with some thoughts on AEA)

    It’s been a minute since we took a look at the evaluation literature. There’s a lot of stuff that gets published with no way to comb through it all. Click… Read More

  • The Last Month in Community Psychology

    The Last Month in Community Psychology

    It’s a been a long 30 days. For those of us involved in community-based projects and social justice initiatives, it can be exhausting to just stay on top of the… Read More

  • A Ghost of Research Past: Developing a measure for R=MC2

    A Ghost of Research Past: Developing a measure for R=MC2

    A few years ago, I was involved in a project to develop a readiness measure based in the R=MC2 framework. I developed this model back in grad school, and continued… Read More

  • Reading (and understanding) Scientific Articles

    So you’ve started using PubTrawlr and you’re ready to dive deeper. You follow some links to the primary source, open then up….and it’s gobbledygook. Take a deep breath. This a… Read More

  • Will QCA ever happen?  The Promises of the Dark Carnival.

    Will QCA ever happen? The Promises of the Dark Carnival.

    In Ray Bradbury’s Something Wicked This Way Comes, a mysterious carnival comes to town and promises to grant the secret desires of the residents…at a price. Researchers have these desires,… Read More