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PubTrawlr at TecBridgeBP20

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 […]

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Commentary

Three ways to get the full text of any research article for free

The best way to engage deeply with scientific research is to read the articles. Unfortunately, scientific articles are sometimes locked behind paywalls. Although many journals provide a per article purchase option, the prices can often run up to $40 US. Pricing like this put the content out of the reach of many people who might […]

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PubTrawlr News

Pull Up a Seat to a Safe Harbor

We wouldn’t be where are without the amazing open source communities that thrive around the internet, full stop. Anytime I had a debugging problem when putting together PubTrawlr or Readiness Learning Systems, I could almost always get back on the right track by going through posts on Stack Overflow or Medium. So why isn’t there anything like that for […]

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Commentary

The Month in Suicide Research (and Reporting)

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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Commentary

C is for Champion

Whenever we go into a new setting, one of our first tasks is to find the people who to be our cheerleaders. These are your key opinion leaders, the person or persons who are your examples, your innovation-specific project leaders, and innovation advisors. These are the people who are going to, well, champion the change.  […]

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Commentary

B is for Best Practice

Let’s make no bones about it. We only want to implement things that will work. We want to select and implement changes with evidence that they will make a difference for the people in our communities. Implementation A-Z is our ongoing series about making the concepts of implementation science straightforward and accessible. So how do […]

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Commentary

A is for Adaptation

A brief introduction. Implementation science is the study of how to get good ideas into practice. Over the past twenty or so years, there has been a huge amount of academic effort spent studying the factors and variables that impact how different evidence-based practices get out into the community. There have been millions of dollars, […]

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PubTrawlr News

Moving downtown!

This is an enhanced reality post. We strongly recommend that you hit play on this video before reading. Got a melody in your head? Good! PubTrawlr is moving! We’ve relocated to the O’Pake Institute’s business accelerator at Alvernia University in downtown Reading, PA. We are super exciting to be part of the inaugural class of […]

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Commentary

My favorite thing from NCI

In the US, the major federal funder of implementation science research is the National Cancer Institute. They have a full section, the Consortium for Cancer Implementation Science (CCIS) dedicated to getting good things into practice and understanding how to do it better. I recently came across this infographic, which is really the best distillation of […]

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