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What Can We Learn from Laggards?

 Laggard – n. One that lags or lingers; a straggler. A few years ago I was working in schools helping to introduce a new behavior management system to teachers. After several months, I noticed some educators were eager to adopt new systems to support their students. Others seemed ambivalent or indifferent. A few appeared resistant to have me anywhere near […]

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Changing the Message to Decrease Vaccine Hesitancy

No bones about it. We’re getting crushed by the Delta variant of COVID-19. Or, more accurately, the unvaccinated are getting crushed by the Delta variant. This has created a cascade of direct consequences. First and foremost, people are dying. But not just dying. Dying unnecessarily. As has been noted, 99% of COVID-related deaths have been […]

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Another #impsci week: the Twitter Recap

Maybe a few days late, but here’s the update on the implementation science discussion on Twitter. Not much commentary from us this week; we’ll save that for the monthly recap. The top tweeters A new champion this week. Dr. Nick Sevdalis is pushing out the content. And the top tweets… Nice to see our friends […]

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Combating COVID Misinformation – the WHO and HOW.

Over the past week, a few pieces of information have been stuck in my head. The first is that nearly 99% of all COVID deaths in the United States are occurring in the unvaccinated. To put it bluntly, this is bonkers. We have an evidence-based, cost-effective, widely accessible method to prevent death by COVID. People […]

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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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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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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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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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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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TLDR! Community Psychology and Article Summarization

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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