Orion Mowbray

Of course it does. Now find out how it works for peer reviewers!

“Many of us simply want to focus on our research without the messiness of public engagement. And that might be part of the problem.”

Nailed it

Participant incentive. Or…do the cognitive dissonance paradigm after the incentive.

Held off, but had this same feeling last week. Call it grantsmanship or whatever, some times I am awestruck how much work goes a truly strong application.

Arrest so and so, jail so and so... this is a CONSTANT refrain in this country and y'all constantly ignore who the people who are ACTUALLY arrested and jailed are.

Justice Jackson nails where we are right now:

“Your argument turns our justice system into a catch me if you can kind of regime from the standpoint of the Executive where everybody has to have a lawyer and file a lawsuit in order for the government to stop violating people’s rights.”

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Are sheriffs easing off traffic tickets to sway voters? New study says yes Traffic fine revenues drop during sheriff elections, hinting at strategic enforcement tied to reelection efforts.

Are sheriffs easing off traffic tickets to sway voters? New study says yes

Congrats!

Yes and how institutions will pivot almost seamlessly to pursue it.

The notice says "Funding Opportunities: None"

I'm on a listserv to receive weekly funding opportunities from the #NIH, which is usually long and descriptive. This is what it says now. I've NEVER seen it like this before. #SaveOurScience

Manufacturing an “Autism Crisis”: Critical Reflections on the Kennedy Hearings and a Call for Disability Justice in Social Work Published in Journal of Evidence-Based Social Work (Ahead of Print, 2025)

A timely response and outline for disability justice-centered practices from Kathryn Wright and Kathryn Wright
'Manufacturing an “Autism Crisis”: Critical Reflections on the Kennedy Hearings and a Call for Disability Justice in Social Work' www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... #disability #disanthro

More than the price of eggs, milk, housing, healthcare, or education. More than general inflation. The biggest reason people struggle financially is our rising income and wealth inequality.

Very low food security n= 132 24.8%. Low food security n=101 18.9% Marginal food security n=90 16.9% High food security n=210 39.4%

Happy Social Work Month!

More students in #SocialWork practicums report losing weight due to food insecurity than receive any kind of $$ compensation for 400+ hours of labor.

1/4 of practicum students are at very low food security, with less than 40% of students food secure.

#Payment4Placements

Mike spotted this before the rest of us. 🫡

Publications from 2025 are shared more on Bluesky than on X/Twitter.

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The Blue Report is amazing. The most clicked on articles are right here

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I’m in, but only for Joe

Superb guidance for right now. Do something.

JUST IN:

Federal judges orders HHS, CDC, and FDA to restore “by no later than 11:59 pm” today their websites and datasets to pre-January 30th status.

storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

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A Primer on Indirect Cost Rates

Congratulations!

As editor of @jebsw.bsky.social, my official position is and will always be: Make me.

Washington is full of rule-following valedictorians who were inspired by the West Wing and did Model UN and moot court and studied their heroes and who believe in using government to help people.

That's nice, but you need to learn how to swing on the illiterate bullies who steal lunch money.

Fully agreed. We need more people with conviction to not follow these orders

How? With compassion and understanding, wherever I am. You can believe that

Being born into poverty negatively affects children’s behavior Children born into poor families are more likely to act out. But children from well off families misbehave when raised in poor neighborhoods.

"When children are very young, children and their families are highly affected by the lack of safety and resources, such as access to daycare, quality education, and stable jobs, in poor neighborhoods." -Soobin Kim, UGA's School of Social Work postdoctoral researcher.

news.uga.edu/being-born-i...

Call to join JEBSW Editorial Board

In my role as Editor for the Journal of Evidence Based Social Work, I'm sharing the cal to join our Editorial Board. To apply, submit a cover letter and CV to Dr. Orion Mowbray at omowbray@uga.edu by January 31, 2025.

Self-control and limited willpower: Current status of ego depletion theory and research Ego depletion theory proposes that self-regulation depends on a limited energy resource (willpower). The simple initial theory has been refined to emp…

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Baumeister et al have another paper out defending ego depletion theory.

www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

They recently published paper called: Ego Depletion is the Best Replicated Finding in All of Social Psychology

(wowzers!!)

lupinepublishers.com/psychology-b...

Web Scraping Basics for Social Work Researchers: Methods and Applications Understanding the use of API for data collection Many websites offer Application Programming Interfaces (APIs) that provide structured access to their data. Utilizing APIs is often more straightfor…

I've written a post on using web scraping 👩‍💻 for social work research. It covers tools, methods, examples, ethics, and learning resources for collecting data.

Please take a look if you are interested in computational approaches in social work research😊 #SWtech

nariyoo.com/web-scraping...

We are hiring tenure track faculty in our new social work program at UD! Please help us get the word out by sharing.

Assistant professor: careers.udel.edu/en-us/job/50...

Faculty director: careers.udel.edu/en-us/job/50...