Melissa Morabito
@profmorabito.bsky.social
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Professor of Criminology & Justice Studies
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"Cellphones are not the root cause of educational or mental health problems"
www.bostonglobe.com/2025/07/14/o...
www.bostonglobe.com/2025/07/14/o...
School cellphone bans won’t turn back the clock - The Boston Globe
Instead of banning cellphones, we should be looking for ways they can help our kids.
www.bostonglobe.com
Summertime means the puffin loafing ledge is once again streaming from Seal Island, #Maine, so I'm intermittently peeping in on my favorite birds/animals. 😍
Montana is investing $300 million to help those with severe mental illness from cycling through ERs, state psychiatric facilities, jails and homelessness. Advocates say they also need stable housing.
How psychiatric patients get caught in a cycle of homelessness and spotty care
Montana is investing $300 million to help those with severe mental illness from cycling through ERs, state psychiatric facilities, jails and homelessness. Advocates say they also need stable housing.
www.npr.org
Some of the stats in here are really striking. Per one paper, federal investments in R&D account for at least a fifth of all productivity gains in the U.S. economy since World War II. And the societal return for every $1 invested in the sciences is *conservatively* estimated at $5.
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"America’s enemies have long known that a united America cannot be laid low, but a divided America will cannibalize itself for you." www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...
Read the resignation letter by former NIH official Nate Brought
Brought is the former director of the National Institutes of Health’s Executive Secretariat.
www.washingtonpost.com
Unquestionably, major policy changes, edicts and directives handed down by the new Trump administration will upend lives. But I've also been struck by the widespread efforts to erase/whitewash history. Stick with me for a pretty shocking series of events from just the past few weeks.
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Not just the National Institutes of Health, now the National Science Foundation is put on pause.
Reminder: research is a multi-step process. Pausing the peer review panels by itself creates months of delay.
Reminder: research is a multi-step process. Pausing the peer review panels by itself creates months of delay.
I’m an NSF panel reviewer that was scheduled to meet today. Just got notice that all NSF panels were canceled today. I reviewed some innovative proposals in support of students. Devastating if these scholars don’t get to do this work. For the love of science & students I hope this is just a delay.💔
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Nsikan Akpan
@monscience.bsky.social
· Jan 22
All NIH study sections canceled indefinitely. This will halt science and devastate research budgets in universities.
"A study of federally funded research projects in the United States estimated that principal investigators spend on average about 45% of their time on administrative activities related to applying for and managing projects rather than conducting active research"
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
If you don’t know what this case is:
Woman gets restraining order against violent ex.
He violates it. She calls cops. They don’t come by.
Repeat several times.
Eventually, he murders her and daughters.
Family sues cops, said had obligation to respond and failed.
SCOTUS? “Nah, no obligation.”
Woman gets restraining order against violent ex.
He violates it. She calls cops. They don’t come by.
Repeat several times.
Eventually, he murders her and daughters.
Family sues cops, said had obligation to respond and failed.
SCOTUS? “Nah, no obligation.”
Castle Rock v Gonzalez
youre okay, you just need a loaded baked potato 💜