A Brief Twitter Recap of #GIC2021
The Global Implementation Conference has just wrapped. Despite my own personal ambivalence toward online gatherings, the whole thing went on without a hitch. The content was great; the presentations and… Read More
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Webscraping for Contextual Data
Here’s something a little outside our normal content. We are presenting this week (May 3, 2021) on the use of web-scraping to better understand context. While this doesn’t concern the… Read More
Using PubTrawlr’s Quick Search
The great people at the O’Pake Institute helped us to put together this demo video on how to use PubTrawlr’s Quick Search. Check it out and give it a go… Read More
The Cardinal’s Revenge: April’s Retraction Notice
Another month, another fresh batch of retraction. Twenty-Five articles were retracted by journal editors this month. Before we get to the results, I want to focus on a non-retracted article… Read More
Should I Stay or Should I Go? How Do We Retain Our Teachers?
“Should I stay or should I go? If I go, there will be trouble, And if I stay it will be double. So come on and let me know.” –… Read More
April’s Monthly Review of Systematic Reviews
We’re in a transitional phase here at PubTrawlr as we move to get our 101 Days of Science and monthly newsletters up and running. Part of that will include much… Read More
10 tips to help you catch up on the pile of articles you haven’t read
In spring of 2018, I left my quasi-academic position to start The Center for Implementation. As I began planning my time and prioritizing what I needed to do most, I… Read More
How Fractions Help Us See the Big Picture
My oldest daughter is a fifth-grader and is learning about fractions and percentages in her math class this year. She made a big conceptual leap from whole numbers to fractions…. Read More
Less words, more action. Comments on Brownson et al.
A recent article is making rounds in the Twitter circles I follow: Brownson et al’s Implementation science should give higher priority to health equity. Because so much of PubTrawlr’s work… Read More
PubTrawlr Need Writers!
We want to make science accessible. Part of that is helping people understand how science is generated and what findings mean. Come help us spread knowledge far and wide. We… Read More
Cross-posting on health equity.
Let’s start at the beginning. Health outcomes can vary for no other reason than where people are born. And this isn’t even a “developed” vs. “developing” country distinction. In the… Read More