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Implementation Science writing buddies!

Now I’m not great at writing academic articles, but many people are. Last year, Dr. Scott and I published our NLP review of articles in about 1700 articles published in Implementation Science, the premier outlet for those interested in research into getting research into practice (yes, it can sometimes seem a bit like navel-gazing.) In […]

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Looking at research on Community Health Workers

The problem with being super busy is that I rarely get time to sit down in right. A problem no one can relate to, I’m sure. Our sister organization, The Dawn Chorus Group is going to be contributing to an evaluation of an initiative to increase the number of community health workers in a specific […]

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Coming Soon — Research Papers on DEMAND!

Inspired by a few of our valued colleagues, we’ve been working on single search white papers. Our goal is that people who just want a deep dive on a topic can do so without any other commitment. Great for students, family members, anyone who is interested in more than you can get by browsing google […]

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The Role of Resilience in Psychopathology

Many public health organizations have a specific focus on resilience. For example, the Philadelphia Department of Behavioral Health (DBHIDS, 2011) specifically promotes resilience by saying that it is, “a protective process which enables individuals to reach good outcomes even though they have endured significant adversities. Resilience is a common phenomenon arising from ordinary human adaptation […]

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Get to know your measurement scales

You may come across a variety of methods to assess a variable during a study. This article will describe the four primary kinds of measurement scales and provide some examples of them. Nominal scale A nominal scale assigns a name or label to a category. These variables are categories that tell what something is, like […]

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Scraping the news for insights

Health equity is a major topic and research focus over the past few years. And with good reason! For those of us who want wellbeing to improve in our communities, we can’t have that happen unless we working for improved outcomes for all. For that reason, health equity is more than an academic topic. Working […]

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Getting Acquainted with ArXiv

The ArXiv (pronounced “archive”) is a digital library that archives papers in physics, computer science, mathematics, and other scientific disciplines. It was established because not many journals would accept emails for submissions, so scientists wanted to have their work published as soon as possible. Preprints are one method of achieving this goal. A preprint is […]

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Using AI to sort through evaluation research

Let’s talk evaluation. I haven’t done a summary of evaluation in a long time, and since we’re dialing up a really big project with our friends at RISE, it’s as good a time as any to see what’s been going on in the evaluation field. I would hypothesize that the ratio of evaluation practitioners to […]

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It’s been a while!

Is busyness ever a valid excuse? Probably not. We’ve been working on a ton of underlying improvements that we plan to showcase when we launch our next update. We plan on having improved topic modeling and, for 101 Days of Science Subscribers, the ability to synthesize what’s been written in the mainstream media. This helps […]

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Some stream of consciousness thoughts on the passing of Aaron Beck

The influential and transcendental psychologist Aaron Beck died on October 31st at the age of 100. His work and research on Cognitive Behavioral Therapy have influenced and improved, without exaggeration, millions and millions of lives. I started out in substance abuse treatment about 15 years ago. This was in Philly, and Beck was based at […]

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