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It’s been a while since I wrote one of these summaries. Chalk it up to new projects, new opportunities, and a lack of time to simply sit down and do the analyses. If you’ve enjoyed these and found them helpful, please let us know in the comment below or reach out to us at jon@pubtrawlr.com […]
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Our analysis of the recent trends in academic articles, news articles and tweets.
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At this year's American Public Health Association conference, we tracked the event's tweets and found some interesting trends. Here are our findings!
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Yes, this post will save you $1,200! That’s $1,200 in the cost of registration and the cost of your time that you don’t have to spend! Before I get into the specific results, I want to go up on a soapbox. Over the past two years, the virtual conferences I’ve been a part of, both […]
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For those of us who straddle between research and practice, it may not be enough to keep abreast of the scientific literature. It’s important, of course–PubTrawlr was founded on that assumption. And yet, there is so much more discourse out that that can help practitioners understand the on-the-ground conditions. And by understanding these, maybe we […]
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Cutting-edge health equity research doesn’t just happen in scientific journals. There’s a vibrant community of practitioners, advocates, and community members with lived experience working towards better health and wellbeing for all. For this month’s health equity recap, we looked beyond the journals to pull in Twitter and the mainstream news. Let’s break these sources down […]
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For August, we went a little deeper in the whole “discourse space” on suicide. In addition to the scan of the published academic literature and Twitter trends, we also pulled some data from Reddit. While the Reddit analysis is more of a work in progress, it shows some interesting insights into the types of things […]
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There are plenty of good ideas about how to solve complex social problems. One of the major levers is policy. And the people responsible for brokering between local needs and large-scale, national implementation are the U.S. Congressional Representatives.
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Let’s go Socratic for a second. What does it mean to be an implementation practitioner? By that, if you were a person who was interested in getting good ideas into practice, what are the fundamental skill or first principles you need to adopt? The Center for Implementation has the answer. When I was going over […]
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What does recent Twitter say about implementation science? Well, one common thread was that Implementation Practice includes enabling relationship-building, developing a common language, defining roles, and dedicating resources. That was a pretty clear thread in the network plot below. What else can we say about the Twitter chatter on #impsci.
Read more →I’m an Olympic junkie. Let the record show that the great and legendary Villanova Track and Field team has had an Olympian every cycle since 1948! Let’s go, Pat Tiernan! Here’s a very brief look at a tiny sample (n=15000) of Olympic Tweets this morning, with the hashtag #olympics. In the coming weeks, we’ll also […]
Read more →A key aspect of community-based work is participation. People on the ground, such as community members, service recipients, and those providing services, should have a say in the types of interventions that are implemented. And, as we’re seeing throughout the United States, this is super tough work for public health because sometimes that say goes […]
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