Reddit, Twitter, and more: August in Suicide Research
For August, we went a little deeper in the whole “discourse space” on suicide. In addition to the scan of the published academic literature and Twitter trends, we also pulled… Read More
Category: social media analysis
The hidden (and not so hidden) messages your congressional representative is communicating.
There are plenty of good ideas about how to solve complex social problems. One of the major levers is policy. And the people responsible for brokering between local needs and… Read More
The Core Competencies: The Week in #impsci
Let’s go Socratic for a second. What does it mean to be an implementation practitioner? By that, if you were a person who was interested in getting good ideas into… Read More
Implementation Science is not cross-disciplinary. The week in #impsci Twitter
What does recent Twitter say about implementation science? Well, one common thread was that Implementation Practice includes enabling relationship-building, developing a common language, defining roles, and dedicating resources. That was… Read More
A very small sample of Olympic Tweets
I’m an Olympic junkie. Let the record show that the great and legendary Villanova Track and Field team has had an Olympian every cycle since 1948! Let’s go, Pat Tiernan!… Read More
The week in #healthequity
A key aspect of community-based work is participation. People on the ground, such as community members, service recipients, and those providing services, should have a say in the types of… Read More
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…. Read More
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… Read More
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… Read More
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… Read More
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… Read More
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.