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April 25, 2022 · 5 min read
We’ll have a lot to say about our TecBridge experience in the coming days; what we learned, what we tried about, and how we bounce back from disappointment. In the meanwhile, here’s an article about the event in the Times Leader. It’s pretty good, but I can’t help but wonder why the editor selected that […]
Let’s hit the talking points once again. Science is a public good. You, yes you, our reader, have a right to the information that is produced by researchers (nearly always funded with public funds). There is a moral imperative for us to do the best we can for people by using the best possible strategies. […]
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PubTrawlr is in New Orleans for the Medical Librarians’ Association 2022 conference. I mean, really. Two things that are right up our alley are medical research and the people who curate it. We were super stoked to share our story with a whole new group of people. And yeah, there were some bumps in the […]
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I was lucky enough to be asked to join Drs. Julia and Gill Strait to talk about community psychology, but also the ways in which implementation can be improved. And, hey!, that’s what we are trying to do here about PubTrawlr. Oh, but we covered so much more ground, including: Evolution of substance abuse treatment […]
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We’ll have a lot to say about our TecBridge experience in the coming days; what we learned, what we tried about, and how we bounce back from disappointment. In the meanwhile, here’s an article about the event in the Times Leader. It’s pretty good, but I can’t help but wonder why the editor selected that […]
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Looking for a couple of hours? PubTrawlr is hiring! We have a pretty active blog but we have vastly underutilized direct email marketing. We need a motivated and creative individual, with experience in Mailchimp or similar software platforms, to coordinate our direct outreach to potential customers. This person would: Design an email template for a […]
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Nearly ten years ago, I was part of a paper that attempted to distill syntheses of implementation frameworks down into a usable tool. And that tool was pretty good! You can still find it here, but you’ll have to do some of the paywall shenanigans to get at it. The syntheses paper itself is super […]
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This morning, we added three new features to our quick search. But first, let’s talk about why we did it. Premise One We want to make science more approachable. To do so, we must remove as many roadblocks to interacting with the primary articles in which the discoveries are reported. Part of PubTrawlr’s goal is […]
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Is time a flat circle? On the one hand, yes, the PubTrawlr team with support from a ton of people I’ll enumerate in a future post, is back in the TecBridge Business Plan Competition! On the other hand though, no. We’re in a much different place than 13ish months ago. Our design is cleaner and […]
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For the past few years, I’ve been interested in contributing to my local town’s school board. There are a lot of reasons for this. Public education is the biggest social intervention in America, so there’s an opportunity for a huge amount of impact and reach. COVID has shown us that the public education system can […]
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