Melissa Morabito

Today is the release of Governor Healey's proposed FY27 state budget.

I will remind you as always, that budgets are a moral document. What we fund is what we value.

Experimental evidence that students are more likely to contest grades when they are delivered by an evaluator with a female-sounding name.

"These findings suggest that women in evaluative positions face disproportionate resistance when delivering negative assessments."

I actually got a letter back last year! Thanking me for writing and to let me know the happy outcome. It was the first time and it made my whole week.

Also, who will enforce these policies? Are we asking school staff to take cellphones away? Police?

This just made my morning

Housing is so important for mental health

It will take so long to make up for lost time too.

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.

"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...

Show Up For Our Libraries! By eliminating the only federal agency dedicated to funding library services, the Trump administration's Executive Order is cutting off at the knees the most beloved and trusted of American institutions and the staff and services they offer. ALA American Library Association. #ForOurLibraries

🚨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...

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...

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

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?

ACOG Endorsed The following documents have ACOG’s endorsement and are listed in order of endorsed date.

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...

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...

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...

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.

A bird's-eye view of a former Auschwitz II-Birkenau camp showing a wide dirt pathway flanked by parallel rows of barbed-wire fences. Groups of visitors walk along the path, surrounded by the remnants of brick structures and barracks, now reduced to foundations. Green grass contrasts with the somber history of the site, as the path leads toward a guard tower in the distance.

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.

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.

Local police don’t have to participate. www.npr.org/2025/01/24/n...

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

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.

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

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.

Ha! Tonight’s dinner.

❗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.

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.

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