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… Read More
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… Read More
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… Read More
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… Read More
We’ve got a backlog
Just a quick heads up. We’ve got a backlog of posts that we’ll be getting to; maybe even later this week? So stay tuned!
Moving downtown!
This is an enhanced reality post. We strongly recommend that you hit play on this video before reading. Got a melody in your head? Good! PubTrawlr is moving! We’ve relocated… Read More
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… Read More
Climate, COVID, Abortion: the month in health equity
Cutting-edge health equity research doesn’t just happen in scientific journals. There’s a vibrant community of practitioners, advocates, and community members with lived experience working towards better health and wellbeing for… Read More
Journals! Twitter! Newspapers! Oh my! The month in community psychology
For a recent post on Suicide Research, we broadened our data horizon considerably. In addition to pulling in the academic research, we also looked at the discussion on Twitter and… Read More
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… Read More
Quick Blog Update
We added a post counter onto each post, so you can see how many people have been reading this. This doesn’t go retrospective, so some of our most popular posts… Read More
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