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No, we haven’t abandoned our post

Morning, folks. We’re knee-deep in preparation for the APHA conference in about 10 days. As part of that prep, we’re been implementing a pretty substantive overhaul of the design of PubTrawlr, along with a few UX improvements, like predictive searching. Those should all be rolling out, well, within the next 10 days. So, stay tuned […]

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Social media analysis

A Brief Twitter Recap of #GIC2021

The Global Implementation Conference has just wrapped. Despite my own personal ambivalence toward online gatherings, the whole thing went on without a hitch. The content was great; the presentations and storyboards led to dynamic interactions…it was FUN. In lieu of abstract harvesting, let’s take a brief minute to look at some of the words and […]

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PubTrawlr News

Webscraping for Contextual Data

Here’s something a little outside our normal content. We are presenting this week (May 3, 2021) on the use of web-scraping to better understand context. While this doesn’t concern the translation of scientific findings, it does concern how these findings are implemented. We’ve long noted that the stuff that PubTrawlr does is just the first […]

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Using PubTrawlr’s Quick Search

The great people at the O’Pake Institute helped us to put together this demo video on how to use PubTrawlr’s Quick Search. Check it out and give it a go yourself. My son would be bummed out that it wasn’t set to Coffin Dance, but what can you do?

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Retractions

The Cardinal’s Revenge: April’s Retraction Notice

Another month, another fresh batch of retraction. Twenty-Five articles were retracted by journal editors this month.  Before we get to the results, I want to focus on a non-retracted article that got some press earlier this month and prompted a fair amount of pushback.

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Should I Stay or Should I Go? How Do We Retain Our Teachers?

“Should I stay or should I go? If I go, there will be trouble, And if I stay it will be double. So come on and let me know.” – The Clash For as long as I have worked in education, I’ve heard the grim statistic that half of U.S. teachers leave the profession after […]

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April’s Monthly Review of Systematic Reviews

We’re in a transitional phase here at PubTrawlr as we move to get our 101 Days of Science and monthly newsletters up and running.  Part of that will include much more dynamic and interactive formatting. So, in the meanwhile, I decided to do something cheekily meta this afternoon: a review of journals focused on reviews! […]

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10 tips to help you catch up on the pile of articles you haven’t read

In spring of 2018, I left my quasi-academic position to start The Center for Implementation. As I began planning my time and prioritizing what I needed to do most, I realized that I had fallen behind on keeping up to date with the literature. A large part of my work involves training and supporting people […]

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How Fractions Help Us See the Big Picture

My oldest daughter is a fifth-grader and is learning about fractions and percentages in her math class this year. She made a big conceptual leap from whole numbers to fractions. The lessons she is learning on comparing and interpreting fractions may prepare her to understand and appraise risks better than most adults.

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Less words, more action. Comments on Brownson et al.

A recent article is making rounds in the Twitter circles I follow: Brownson et al’s Implementation science should give higher priority to health equity. Because so much of PubTrawlr’s work is about both implementation science AND equity, let’s deconstruct what this article is saying.

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PubTrawlr Need Writers!

We want to make science accessible. Part of that is helping people understand how science is generated and what findings mean. Come help us spread knowledge far and wide. We are seeking writers to generate blogs and educational infographics for PubTrawlr. We pay per blog with incentives for the number of hits. Click on this […]

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Cross-posting on health equity.

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 US, zip codes can be a huge predictor of health outcomes. This has been known for a long time and a major driven force in […]

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