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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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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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Three Sources of Community Psychology Updates that didn’t work (and one that did)

The really important community work happens in the community, not the laboratory. To get a more robust picture of the state of community-based research and action, we’ve started looking more broadly at nontraditional sources for updates. And we’ve not been finding much! Twitter, Reddit, and news archives were all kind of a bust! This is […]

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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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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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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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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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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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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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Evidence in Plain Sight: Building a News Article Explorer

Here’s the paradox once again. Implementation Science is very top-down. That is, ideas and best practices are being pushed out into community-based settings. The implementation science field studies what makes certain settings more effective. But but but. So many ideas never make their way into academic literature because it is incredibly difficult to write and […]

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

The land you live and work on.

New Article! –> Putting all the pieces together.

Three Sources of Community Psychology Updates that didn’t work (and one that did)

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

C is for Champion

B is for Best Practice

A is for Adaptation

My favorite thing from NCI

Evidence in Plain Sight: Building a News Article Explorer

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