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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
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The Cutting Room Floor: 5335 Days of Implementation Science
We’re getting close to resubmitting our NLP analysis of about 1700 abstracts from Implementation Science. In getting to that point, we had to trim and remove a bunch of figures… Read More
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January Retractions
This is PubTrawlr’s monthly retraction notice. At first, it appeared that the journal of Neuropsychiatric Disease and Treatment really took it on the chin with a series of article from what… Read More
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Ending the 17-year gap–The Role of PubTrawlr
17 years. Research into the medical and social sciences indicates that it can take up to 17 years before a scientific finding makes its way into regular practice[1],[2],[3],[4],[5] This fact… Read More
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Shhh! It’s a secret.
Have you stumbled across this very short blog post? Well, lucky you! PubTrawlr is now live and in beta testing! Over the next few weeks, we’ll be trying out various… Read More
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101 Days of Community Psychology
I’m a community psychologist by training/degree, though like most quasi-academics, my portfolio and interests aren’t constrained to one field. This is the reality for community psychology. It is extremely broad… Read More
