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Community Psychology Topical Interest Group Business Meeting: Planning for the future

Cross-posting because a lot of people who come to this site also have an interest in applied research. It’s been a busy year for the American Evaluation Association’s Community Psychology Topical Interest Group. Over the past few years, we have grown from just a small group of disconnected professionals to an established organization with, who […]

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Social Media Recap of APHA 2021

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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Some stream of consciousness thoughts on the passing of Aaron Beck

The influential and transcendental psychologist Aaron Beck died on October 31st at the age of 100. His work and research on Cognitive Behavioral Therapy have influenced and improved, without exaggeration, millions and millions of lives. I started out in substance abuse treatment about 15 years ago. This was in Philly, and Beck was based at […]

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Matt’s Glamour Shot

Just a pic of Matt rocking the booth. Hat’s off to our director of sale for pulling off an incredible design and execution of our APHA experience!

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In case you missed it, the last 5000ish days of Implementation Science.

Happy six-month birthday to this article, 5335 days of Implementation Science: using natural language processing to examine publication trends and topics! Written by myself and Dr. Victoria Scott, we talked about ways to leverage NLP to makes sense of large amounts of literature. While the methods that we used here can seem complicated on the surface, […]

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Turning 17 years in minutes

We were able to make a presentation about the promise of PubTrawlr, and all the progress that we’ve made. Check it out below!

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APHA Expert Panel (a sneak preview!)

In about four hours, we’re giving a short talk on PubTrawlr and the overall value. To preserve them for posterity, here are the slides I’ll be talking from.

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Upgrades GALORE!

Right in time for the American Public Health Association Conference, we wanted to announce several major user improvements to PubTrawlr. Our sleek new landing page Together with Hammer Marketing and Mind Design and Development, we have a clean new look to help guide your scientific searches. Predictive searching Maybe you know what you’re looking for, […]

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This post will save you $1200 USD (or, why virtual conferences have been so disappointing).

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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The land you live and work on.

Our sister company, The Dawn Chorus Group, is involved in many community-based research and evaluation projects. This work is part of our larger overall mission of getting good ideas into practice. More and more, our partner meetings are beginning with an indigenous peoples’ land acknowledgment. A land acknowledgment speaks to, and about, the original inhabitants […]

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New Article! –> Putting all the pieces together.

Together with colleagues from the Universities of North Carolina Chapel Hill and Charlotte, along with the Institute for Healthcare Improvement, we are super stoked to finally see Blending Participatory Action Synthesis and Meta-Ethnography: An Innovative Approach to Evaluating Complex Community Health Transformation in print! Here’s the plain language gist of this. Community health improvement initiatives […]

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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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Community Psychology Topical Interest Group Business Meeting: Planning for the future

Some stream of consciousness thoughts on the passing of Aaron Beck

Matt’s Glamour Shot

In case you missed it, the last 5000ish days of Implementation Science.

Turning 17 years in minutes

APHA Expert Panel (a sneak preview!)

Upgrades GALORE!

The land you live and work on.

New Article! –> Putting all the pieces together.

No, we haven’t abandoned our post

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