Melissa Morabito
@profmorabito.bsky.social
Professor of Criminology & Justice Studies
Also, who will enforce these policies? Are we asking school staff to take cellphones away? Police?
"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
July 15, 2025 at 9:16 AM
Also, who will enforce these policies? Are we asking school staff to take cellphones away? Police?
This just made my morning
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. 😍
July 11, 2025 at 11:15 AM
This just made my morning
Housing is so important for mental health
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
April 16, 2025 at 10:31 PM
Housing is so important for mental health
It will take so long to make up for lost time too.
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.
March 31, 2025 at 8:56 PM
It will take so long to make up for lost time too.
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"When most Americans think about our great universities, they probably don’t think about the origins of lasers, FM radio or bar codes..." 1/ www.nytimes.com/2025/03/24/o...
Opinion | Universities Gave Us the iPhone, the Jet Engine and Gatorade. We’re Tossing That Away.
The postwar compact on research that powered America’s economic and military dominance is under threat.
www.nytimes.com
March 24, 2025 at 10:32 AM
"When most Americans think about our great universities, they probably don’t think about the origins of lasers, FM radio or bar codes..." 1/ www.nytimes.com/2025/03/24/o...
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🚨NEW🚨: Donald Trump is attempting to strip away federal support for libraries. We will NOT let that happen.
Last night the President signed an order to gut the Institute of Museum & Library Services. But together, we know we can show up & defeat it.
Full EO: www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...
Last night the President signed an order to gut the Institute of Museum & Library Services. But together, we know we can show up & defeat it.
Full EO: www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...
March 15, 2025 at 1:41 PM
🚨NEW🚨: Donald Trump is attempting to strip away federal support for libraries. We will NOT let that happen.
Last night the President signed an order to gut the Institute of Museum & Library Services. But together, we know we can show up & defeat it.
Full EO: www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...
Last night the President signed an order to gut the Institute of Museum & Library Services. But together, we know we can show up & defeat it.
Full EO: www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...
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Please consider submitting to a special issue on police responses to violence against women, co-edited with Tara Shelley www.emeraldgrouppublishing.com/calls-for-pa...
Police Response to Violence Against Women
The special issue will review police response to violence against women, identify challenges to police response, highlight effective response strategies, and consider intersectionality, disability, an...
www.emeraldgrouppublishing.com
February 2, 2025 at 10:54 PM
Please consider submitting to a special issue on police responses to violence against women, co-edited with Tara Shelley www.emeraldgrouppublishing.com/calls-for-pa...
Wow
"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
March 7, 2025 at 12:35 PM
Wow
Shocking but not shocking? I feel for the federal workers who spend their days in these spaces.
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.
February 9, 2025 at 8:15 PM
Shocking but not shocking? I feel for the federal workers who spend their days in these spaces.
The entire samhsa.gov website is gone? Can anyone else access it?
SAMHSA - Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration
An official website of the United States government
samhsa.gov
February 6, 2025 at 2:20 PM
The entire samhsa.gov website is gone? Can anyone else access it?
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The American College of OB/GYN’s website is now hosting the critical documents purged by the CDC
This is what every professional medical organization should be doing right now
#MedSky
www.acog.org/clinical/cli...
This is what every professional medical organization should be doing right now
#MedSky
www.acog.org/clinical/cli...
ACOG Endorsed
The following documents have ACOG’s endorsement and are listed in order of endorsed date.
www.acog.org
February 4, 2025 at 2:16 AM
The American College of OB/GYN’s website is now hosting the critical documents purged by the CDC
This is what every professional medical organization should be doing right now
#MedSky
www.acog.org/clinical/cli...
This is what every professional medical organization should be doing right now
#MedSky
www.acog.org/clinical/cli...
Please consider submitting to a special issue on police responses to violence against women, co-edited with Tara Shelley www.emeraldgrouppublishing.com/calls-for-pa...
Police Response to Violence Against Women
The special issue will review police response to violence against women, identify challenges to police response, highlight effective response strategies, and consider intersectionality, disability, an...
www.emeraldgrouppublishing.com
February 2, 2025 at 10:54 PM
Please consider submitting to a special issue on police responses to violence against women, co-edited with Tara Shelley www.emeraldgrouppublishing.com/calls-for-pa...
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The Internet Archive has to date downloaded 500 terabytes of US government websites, which it crawls at the end of every presidential term. The whole archive is fully searchable. This effort's housed by a donation-funded nonprofit, not a branch of the US government. blog.archive.org/2024/05/08/e...
End of Term Web Archive – Preserving the Transition of a Nation | Internet Archive Blogs
blog.archive.org
February 1, 2025 at 12:58 AM
The Internet Archive has to date downloaded 500 terabytes of US government websites, which it crawls at the end of every presidential term. The whole archive is fully searchable. This effort's housed by a donation-funded nonprofit, not a branch of the US government. blog.archive.org/2024/05/08/e...
This is not good news.
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.💔
January 27, 2025 at 7:16 PM
This is not good news.
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Auschwitz was at the end of a long process. It did not start from gas chambers.
This hatred was gradually developed by humans. From ideas, words, stereotypes & prejudice through legal exclusion, dehumanization & escalating violence... to systematic and industrial murder.
Auschwitz took time.
This hatred was gradually developed by humans. From ideas, words, stereotypes & prejudice through legal exclusion, dehumanization & escalating violence... to systematic and industrial murder.
Auschwitz took time.
January 27, 2025 at 10:00 AM
Auschwitz was at the end of a long process. It did not start from gas chambers.
This hatred was gradually developed by humans. From ideas, words, stereotypes & prejudice through legal exclusion, dehumanization & escalating violence... to systematic and industrial murder.
Auschwitz took time.
This hatred was gradually developed by humans. From ideas, words, stereotypes & prejudice through legal exclusion, dehumanization & escalating violence... to systematic and industrial murder.
Auschwitz took time.
Local police don’t have to participate. www.npr.org/2025/01/24/n...
Local governments across U.S. signal they won't aid Trump migrant crackdown
Local government officials around the U.S. signal they won't assist — and in some cases they'll actively oppose — the Trump administration's efforts to conduct a massive deportation of migrants.
www.npr.org
January 25, 2025 at 12:14 AM
Local police don’t have to participate. www.npr.org/2025/01/24/n...
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NIH appears to have canceled/postponed all of its study sections—the independent review panels that approve federal grants for health research.
Such grants fund the work/salaries of 300k people at more than 2,500 institutions
Such grants fund the work/salaries of 300k people at more than 2,500 institutions
All NIH study sections canceled indefinitely. This will halt science and devastate research budgets in universities.
January 22, 2025 at 9:27 PM
NIH appears to have canceled/postponed all of its study sections—the independent review panels that approve federal grants for health research.
Such grants fund the work/salaries of 300k people at more than 2,500 institutions
Such grants fund the work/salaries of 300k people at more than 2,500 institutions
Not sure that I ever saw the full poster before today.
January 11, 2025 at 8:17 PM
Not sure that I ever saw the full poster before today.
This is why large research firms have an advantage. They have staff dedicated to these tasks.
"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/...
January 5, 2025 at 2:03 AM
This is why large research firms have an advantage. They have staff dedicated to these tasks.
New article out ‘Police Reform and Involuntary Hospitalization’ looking at one of hidden responsibilities of local police departments academic.oup.com/policing/art...
Police reform and involuntary hospitalization
Abstract. Involuntary hospitalization to receive a psychiatric evaluation is a serious mental health and legal matter that often requires involvement from
academic.oup.com
January 3, 2025 at 6:48 PM
New article out ‘Police Reform and Involuntary Hospitalization’ looking at one of hidden responsibilities of local police departments academic.oup.com/policing/art...
My students are always shocked by the outcome of this case.
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
December 23, 2024 at 1:47 AM
My students are always shocked by the outcome of this case.
Ha! Tonight’s dinner.
youre okay, you just need a loaded baked potato 💜
December 17, 2024 at 7:56 PM
Ha! Tonight’s dinner.
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❗New research on prosecutors!
The Prosecutors and Politics Project has just released a new report:
A National Study of Prosecutor Elections and Campaign Contributions: 2018-2019
Key findings include changes in contested vs uncontested prosecutors, as well as a big increase in $$$ raised.
The Prosecutors and Politics Project has just released a new report:
A National Study of Prosecutor Elections and Campaign Contributions: 2018-2019
Key findings include changes in contested vs uncontested prosecutors, as well as a big increase in $$$ raised.
December 13, 2024 at 4:14 PM
❗New research on prosecutors!
The Prosecutors and Politics Project has just released a new report:
A National Study of Prosecutor Elections and Campaign Contributions: 2018-2019
Key findings include changes in contested vs uncontested prosecutors, as well as a big increase in $$$ raised.
The Prosecutors and Politics Project has just released a new report:
A National Study of Prosecutor Elections and Campaign Contributions: 2018-2019
Key findings include changes in contested vs uncontested prosecutors, as well as a big increase in $$$ raised.
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Not a coincidence to achieve record low gun violence in same years as record highs in:
☀️ Paid youth summer jobs participation
👶 Universal pre-K access
🏘️ Affordable housing & homeownership investment
👩🍳 Small business creation
🌳 Parks programming
👩🏫 BPS early college & career seats
☀️ Paid youth summer jobs participation
👶 Universal pre-K access
🏘️ Affordable housing & homeownership investment
👩🍳 Small business creation
🌳 Parks programming
👩🏫 BPS early college & career seats
Boston broke a record last year for fewest homicides. It’s on track to do it again.
As of Dec. 10, Boston has reported just 22 homicides – a little over half of the 40 it had just two years ago.
www.csmonitor.com
December 12, 2024 at 12:52 AM
Not a coincidence to achieve record low gun violence in same years as record highs in:
☀️ Paid youth summer jobs participation
👶 Universal pre-K access
🏘️ Affordable housing & homeownership investment
👩🍳 Small business creation
🌳 Parks programming
👩🏫 BPS early college & career seats
☀️ Paid youth summer jobs participation
👶 Universal pre-K access
🏘️ Affordable housing & homeownership investment
👩🍳 Small business creation
🌳 Parks programming
👩🏫 BPS early college & career seats