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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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Good ideas and interesting findings are a dime in a dozen. The really critical challenge, at least to us, is getting these ideas into practice where they can impact more people. This is why we’re so into implementation science as a means of working toward equity. By fostering the conditions that enable effective implementation, we […]
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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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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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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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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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How long is your reading list? Mine is obscene. This is a challenge because the written word is still the major way that we share and communicate ideas. For those of us who work in the space of ideas, being able to write and read is the coin of realm. Our good friend Julia Moore […]
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I was reading some commentary on Axios this morning that remarked on the “dizzying pace of this milestone.” It’s a wonderful reminder that while progress can be slow, action can be fast.
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Community Psychology is all about participation and action. We want to take good ideas and make sure they have their intended impact. A major part of that mission is making sure these good ideas get out of journals and into the hands of community-based research and practitioners. As part of our sponsorship of this week’s […]
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PubTrawlr is sponsoring SCRA Conference 2021! Only one week until the biennial Society for Community Research and Action Conference starting on June 22. SCRA is Division 27 of the American Psychological Association, focusing on Community Psychology. If you’re anything like my sons or my wife, you likely have no idea what community psychology is.
Read more →Recently, we wrote about recent trends in health equity research. Health equity is growing in prominence among researchers and community practitioners because, well, health outcomes are different for different populations. At PubTrawlr, we find this unacceptable and immoral.
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There’s an urgent need for mental health researchers and practitioners to stay up to date with research on suicidology. Practitioners, though, often struggle to find time to really dig into recent findings. Inspired by some of our recent work tracking health equity, along with the welcome news that suicides seemingly declined during early days of […]
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