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What PubTrawlr will achieve

Scientific knowledge is all around us, but it can be difficult to understand and use it. The sheer size, complexity, and uncertain quality of scientific literature make it difficult for good ideas to spread. This is unacceptable. Science is a public good. It is funded by the public so that the public can benefit from […]

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Why your feedback is more valuable than you think……..

Starting this week, we’re rolling out a simpler feedback widget. Look how friendly it is! But our purpose is two-fold. Sure, we want to know how the website is doing and how to improve it. That is one of our core values — we are always improving until we hit that Platonic Ideal. More excitingly, […]

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101 Days of Implementation Science is HERE

After a long and winding road, we are finally launching 101 Days of Science. We know that many of you have topics that you wish you could stay on top of. There are so many development and new findings coming out that no one person can realistically follow new research. My own article readiness list […]

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Scraping the news for insights

Health equity is a major topic and research focus over the past few years. And with good reason! For those of us who want wellbeing to improve in our communities, we can’t have that happen unless we working for improved outcomes for all. For that reason, health equity is more than an academic topic. Working […]

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Getting Acquainted with ArXiv

The ArXiv (pronounced “archive”) is a digital library that archives papers in physics, computer science, mathematics, and other scientific disciplines. It was established because not many journals would accept emails for submissions, so scientists wanted to have their work published as soon as possible. Preprints are one method of achieving this goal. A preprint is […]

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It’s been a while!

Is busyness ever a valid excuse? Probably not. We’ve been working on a ton of underlying improvements that we plan to showcase when we launch our next update. We plan on having improved topic modeling and, for 101 Days of Science Subscribers, the ability to synthesize what’s been written in the mainstream media. This helps […]

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Some stream of consciousness thoughts on the passing of Aaron Beck

The influential and transcendental psychologist Aaron Beck died on October 31st at the age of 100. His work and research on Cognitive Behavioral Therapy have influenced and improved, without exaggeration, millions and millions of lives. I started out in substance abuse treatment about 15 years ago. This was in Philly, and Beck was based at […]

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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 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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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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