• 101 Days of Implementation Science

    101 Days of Implementation Science

    Let’s resurrect another old post! This was published back in August 2020. It’s not quite Labor Day in the US, but the last days of summer are winding down. Last… Read More

  • 101 Days of Evaluation: August 25, 2020

    101 Days of Evaluation: August 25, 2020

    Another resurrected post from the past! Lately, I’ve been focused on better ways to synthesize the academic literature. Even when I was a graduate student (and the job description was… Read More

  • Evolving and Innovating: Layr Research and Our Commitment to Bridge the Gap Between Research and Practice

    Evolving and Innovating: Layr Research and Our Commitment to Bridge the Gap Between Research and Practice

    Hello everyone, I’m thrilled to be sharing some exciting news with you today. We’re turning a new page in our journey, and I am honored to usher in this transformative… Read More

  • Finding the Right Balance: Balancing Quality and Efficiency in Topic Modeling Analysis

    Finding the Right Balance: Balancing Quality and Efficiency in Topic Modeling Analysis

    Have you ever wondered how scientists and researchers analyze big amounts of text data? Well, they use a technique called topic modeling! We recently used this method while applying for… Read More

  • Exciting news for open access research data

    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… Read More

  • Recent Trends in Health Equity Research

    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

    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

    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

  • Docking into a Safe Harbor: Now Open

    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

    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!

    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

  • Following up on IHI’s Stories of COVID

    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