Author: Jon Scaccia

I Ran for School Board, Lost, and Still Won

Let’s start with values. I think it’s pretty important to have an impact in the places that we live. Although a lot of my work, including PubTrawlr, has a global… Read More

Explain It Like I’m Five: Machine Learning & Kids’ Behavioral Health

My colleague Ali Jaffar sent me this recent article: A machine learning approach for identifying predictors of success in a Medicaid-funded, community-based behavioral health program using the Child and Adolescent… Read More

5 Things That Should Be in Every Scientific Abstract

In scientific literature, the word abstract is an oxymoron. Allow me to explain. When I think of the word “abstract,” I think of words like: implicit, subtextual, emotional. But a… Read More

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… Read More

Checking In With: Health Equity Research

We were at a conference earlier this week that focused on implementing evidence-based practices to effectively address health equity. It’s a big problem because there’s a lot of evidence out… Read More

The GIC special. April in Implementation Science

The GIC conference just kicked off, and it’s stupendous to be able to connect with implementation researchers and practitioners the world over. We wish we would have gotten a screenshot… Read More

Explain It Like I’m Five: 5335 Days of Implementation Science

Our Advisory Board member Dr. Victoria Scott and I (Jonathan) recently put out an article on some of the methods we use here at PubTrawlr. We also both have kids… Read More

April Showers bring May Articles. The Month in Community Psychology

We’re trying out a new format this month as we here at PubTrawlr transition to a new architecture. You’ll still be able to find the most up-to-date synthesis and recommendations…. Read More

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… Read More

It is possible to make no mistakes and still lose

In one early-ish episode of Star Trek: The Next Generation, Captain Picard confronts the android Commander Data in his quarters. Although Data has no emotion, he is mired in self-doubt… Read More

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… Read More

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… Read More