Mackensie duPont Crowley
@mdupontcrowley.bsky.social
Digital comms | marathon runner | researching climate & sea level rise messaging in local news @ URI | Narragansett Bay lover
Me in my 6-9pm class on Tuesdays after working 8-3 and hitting class 330-5 💤
photos of Trump sleeping through yesterday's Oval Office event via Andrew Harnik of Getty
November 7, 2025 at 7:24 PM
Me in my 6-9pm class on Tuesdays after working 8-3 and hitting class 330-5 💤
Someone who’d experienced food insecurity told me that being able to season their basic donated pantry items was the only thing that made them feel human 🌶️
If you’re donating this season, consider adding small comforts like spices, coffee, tea. They nourish more than just the body!
If you’re donating this season, consider adding small comforts like spices, coffee, tea. They nourish more than just the body!
November 7, 2025 at 12:27 AM
Someone who’d experienced food insecurity told me that being able to season their basic donated pantry items was the only thing that made them feel human 🌶️
If you’re donating this season, consider adding small comforts like spices, coffee, tea. They nourish more than just the body!
If you’re donating this season, consider adding small comforts like spices, coffee, tea. They nourish more than just the body!
This is some of the best work of my career
🎃 👻 Happy Halloween! Last-minute costume idea: giant tubeworm. 🦑 🌊
November 4, 2025 at 2:30 PM
This is some of the best work of my career
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After repeatedly requesting permission and following all the official guidelines, Catholic bishop, priests, sisters and lay people were refused permission to distribute Communion to migrants in ICE detention center, on All Saints Day. A religious freedom issue: www.ncronline.org/news/ice-aga...
ICE again prevents Chicago Catholics from bringing Eucharist to immigrant detainees
More than 2,000 faithful gathered to pray outside the Broadview ICE Detention Center Nov. 1, but the group's main request — to bring Communion to detainees — was rejected by federal immigration offici...
www.ncronline.org
November 2, 2025 at 7:55 PM
After repeatedly requesting permission and following all the official guidelines, Catholic bishop, priests, sisters and lay people were refused permission to distribute Communion to migrants in ICE detention center, on All Saints Day. A religious freedom issue: www.ncronline.org/news/ice-aga...
📌 #NEOSEC’s 2025 #OceanLiteracy Summit in Freeport, Maine, where I presented research about how Rhode Island newspapers have framed sea level rise over the last decade, & share some ideas about how they can expand that coverage to contextualize it within the lived experiences of their communities.
October 31, 2025 at 2:10 AM
📌 #NEOSEC’s 2025 #OceanLiteracy Summit in Freeport, Maine, where I presented research about how Rhode Island newspapers have framed sea level rise over the last decade, & share some ideas about how they can expand that coverage to contextualize it within the lived experiences of their communities.
It’s light and love to everyone until I start to browse my hometown’s Facebook community forum
October 30, 2025 at 4:10 PM
It’s light and love to everyone until I start to browse my hometown’s Facebook community forum
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“It’s not my job to feed someone else’s kids.”
It kind of is. That’s what you do when you’re part of a social species, dude.
It kind of is. That’s what you do when you’re part of a social species, dude.
October 29, 2025 at 6:48 AM
“It’s not my job to feed someone else’s kids.”
It kind of is. That’s what you do when you’re part of a social species, dude.
It kind of is. That’s what you do when you’re part of a social species, dude.
Baby’s first research poster
October 27, 2025 at 2:12 AM
Baby’s first research poster
I was catching strays in the Taylor Swift album review chat last night, too bad my millennial ass was fast asleep
October 3, 2025 at 12:46 PM
I was catching strays in the Taylor Swift album review chat last night, too bad my millennial ass was fast asleep
The gen-z-ification of the State Dept
October 3, 2025 at 2:17 AM
The gen-z-ification of the State Dept
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In a landmark ruling in our case against the Trump admin on the deportation of international students for protected speech, Judge William Young rejected the government’s justification for the wearing of masks by ICE agents as
“disingenuous, squalid & dishonorable.”
#AAUPvRubio
@knightcolumbia.org
“disingenuous, squalid & dishonorable.”
#AAUPvRubio
@knightcolumbia.org
October 2, 2025 at 5:55 PM
In a landmark ruling in our case against the Trump admin on the deportation of international students for protected speech, Judge William Young rejected the government’s justification for the wearing of masks by ICE agents as
“disingenuous, squalid & dishonorable.”
#AAUPvRubio
@knightcolumbia.org
“disingenuous, squalid & dishonorable.”
#AAUPvRubio
@knightcolumbia.org
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If you voted for him, you've done this.
September 26, 2025 at 1:47 AM
If you voted for him, you've done this.
Offshore turbines let Block Island shut down soot-spewing, earsplitting diesel generators. There were other benefits, too.
www.nytimes.com/2025/09/22/c...
www.nytimes.com/2025/09/22/c...
A Rhode Island Wind Farm Changed Their View. And Their Lives, for the Better.
www.nytimes.com
September 23, 2025 at 1:12 PM
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If you are doing any kind of #engagement, this new guide helps you to examine your work and teaches you how to make it more equitable and inclusive.
#SciComm @big-stem-network.bsky.social
#SciComm @big-stem-network.bsky.social
The reflexivity workbook : for individuals who are interested in or already doing science communication/engagement & want to make their efforts more equitable and inclusive. #scicomm
Download here www.reflexivityworkbook.org
A great ressource by @andrea-isabel.bsky.social & @moefeliu.bsky.social 👏
Download here www.reflexivityworkbook.org
A great ressource by @andrea-isabel.bsky.social & @moefeliu.bsky.social 👏
Reflexivity Workbook | Enhance Science Communication
Download tools for equitable, inclusive science communication. Ideal for both new and experienced science communicators focused on public engagement.
www.reflexivityworkbook.org
September 23, 2025 at 1:06 PM
If you are doing any kind of #engagement, this new guide helps you to examine your work and teaches you how to make it more equitable and inclusive.
#SciComm @big-stem-network.bsky.social
#SciComm @big-stem-network.bsky.social
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Organizers say 25,000 marched in Midtown Manhattan today to #MakeBillionairesPay
September 21, 2025 at 2:54 AM
Organizers say 25,000 marched in Midtown Manhattan today to #MakeBillionairesPay
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NEW: The Pentagon told journalists it will require them to pledge they won’t gather any information — even unclassified — that hasn’t been expressly authorized for release, and will revoke the press credentials of those who do not obey. @washingtonpost.com
Pentagon demands journalists pledge to not obtain unauthorized material
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth is imposing strict new rules that would severely limit the ability of journalists to report on the Pentagon.
www.washingtonpost.com
September 19, 2025 at 10:57 PM
NEW: The Pentagon told journalists it will require them to pledge they won’t gather any information — even unclassified — that hasn’t been expressly authorized for release, and will revoke the press credentials of those who do not obey. @washingtonpost.com
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"More professors in the United States have been fired for controversial views in the past week than any other week in all of American history."
www.insidehighered.com/opinion/colu...
www.insidehighered.com/opinion/colu...
Censorship Is the Authoritarian’s Dream
The right to free expression must include the right to say horrible and evil things.
www.insidehighered.com
September 19, 2025 at 10:24 AM
"More professors in the United States have been fired for controversial views in the past week than any other week in all of American history."
www.insidehighered.com/opinion/colu...
www.insidehighered.com/opinion/colu...
This history of #RVEndeavor Storymap has been my child throughout the last few months. This ship has seen things!
⬇️ From the very beginning, #RVEndeavor was a first responder to urgent ocean challenges. Explore more from the first cruise and other milestones as #RVEndeavor wraps up its final cruise before retirement: buff.ly/VIhLhAH
R/V Endeavor
Celebrating nearly 50 years.
buff.ly
September 19, 2025 at 2:21 PM
This history of #RVEndeavor Storymap has been my child throughout the last few months. This ship has seen things!
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Our media has collapsed.
Only Teen Vogue soldiers on.
Only Teen Vogue soldiers on.
September 16, 2025 at 5:49 PM
Our media has collapsed.
Only Teen Vogue soldiers on.
Only Teen Vogue soldiers on.
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For University of Rhode Island ocean engineering student Jake Bonney, remotely operated vehicles keep him anchored to the sea, even as he navigates his own uncharted waters.
A skiing accident left a R.I. PhD candidate paralyzed. But he’s still exploring shipwrecks – and probing the ‘unknown’ - The Boston Globe
For University of Rhode Island ocean engineering student Jake Bonney, remotely operated vehicles keep him anchored to the sea, even as he navigates his own unchartered waters.
www.bostonglobe.com
September 11, 2025 at 12:41 PM
For University of Rhode Island ocean engineering student Jake Bonney, remotely operated vehicles keep him anchored to the sea, even as he navigates his own uncharted waters.
“You’re in graduate school to learn to skim like a motherfucker” -my new dream professor
September 9, 2025 at 11:39 PM
“You’re in graduate school to learn to skim like a motherfucker” -my new dream professor
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Brown University Professor @timmonsroberts.bsky.social said his students found that groups fighting offshore wind “have chosen to get in bed with some of the most anti-environment and anti-climate actors.” He called the letter “strategic harassment to shut me up."
www.nytimes.com/2025/08/25/c...
www.nytimes.com/2025/08/25/c...
Law Firm Pressures Brown University to Erase Research on Anti-Wind Groups
www.nytimes.com
August 26, 2025 at 2:05 AM
Brown University Professor @timmonsroberts.bsky.social said his students found that groups fighting offshore wind “have chosen to get in bed with some of the most anti-environment and anti-climate actors.” He called the letter “strategic harassment to shut me up."
www.nytimes.com/2025/08/25/c...
www.nytimes.com/2025/08/25/c...
Back at work after a week of vacation & 3 days concussion recovery
August 14, 2025 at 5:54 PM
Back at work after a week of vacation & 3 days concussion recovery