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The week in #healthequity.

A little bit late today. We just got off a great kickoff call with the Rhode Island Department of Health to help build capacity for population-level health equity. And, as a bonus, we get to work with the team at WE in the World.

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Commentary

Catching up with…Suicide Research: July 2021

A recent social media post grabbed my attention. The government of Japan appointed a Minister of Loneliness to address increasing suicide rates. This trend is, in part, driven by rising rates among women. Tetsushi Sakamoto will be responsible for implementing policy-based solutions to help reverse the trend. Japan is not the first country, though, to […]

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Social media analysis

What Twitter said last week about #Impsci.

Much of the Twitter chatter last week was a generation in a discussion that focused on collaboration in…..well, you can see the question at right. Our top tweeters? Why, it’s our former colleague, Dr. Heather Brandt! We worked with Dr. Brandt on organizational readiness assessment for colorectal cancer screening a while back. If you’d like […]

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Social media analysis

The week in #sustainability

Sustainability means different things to different people. In my home field of implementation science, it refers to the conditions that allow interventions to mainstream and perpetuate over time. For my friends over at Envest AM, it refers to fosters conditions that allow ongoing use of resources. But what’s Twitter say about this?

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Social media analysis

The week in #MedTwitter

We try to keep on top of a few key social media trends. #Medtwitter is generally the most lively and the most diverse of the topics we monitor.

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PubTrawlr News

We’re recruiting skilled bloggers!

As we move to get 101 Days of Science ready to launch, we’re looking to keep growing our content to help people make sense of the science. We’re hiring freelance bloggers to share their insights and perspectives.

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Commentary

June in Community Psychology

Not once, but twice this week, we had the opportunity to share one of our favorite community psychology stories/parables: Lenny Jason’s classic work in Dog Litter. If you don’t know the story, check out the link or track down the original articles. The basic story is this: Dr. Jason wanted to work on a community […]

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Commentary

SCRA 2021 Recap

Well, that was different. As many, many, many commentators have noted, the COVID-19 pandemic has brought the promise and challenge of virtual meetings to the forefront. On the one hand, the cost (not just monetary) for participation is much, much lower. This can make attendance and discussion more equitable for more people. On the other […]

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Commentary

June 2021 Retraction Report

The Journals of Cellular Biochemistry and Cellular Physiology continue/accelerate the purge that we talked about last month. Nearly 70 articles between them! You take those away and it’s been a pretty quiet month. Here’s the full list of articles in pdf form.

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Commentary

Income Inequality and Educational COVID Response

Over a year out, how did schools do in responding to COVID? The truth is we don’t quite know yet; maybe it was good, maybe it was terrible? I based a large part of my failed candidacy for my local school board on the premise that we needed to find out the impact so we […]

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