Mackensie duPont Crowley

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!

🎃 🌊 Happy Halloween from #URIGSO!
Still searching for a last-minute costume? Don’t worry — we’ve got you covered. ⤵️

This is some of the best work of my career

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...

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...

We did some birding with Maine Audubon (22 species), some coastal flooding community science with the Gulf of Maine Research Institute (with a rainbow), and experienced all the Maine stuff (blueberry crisp and LL Bean) 🦅 🌈 🫐 🥾 thanks @dwell-lab.bsky.social for funding my attendance!

📌 #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

“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.

Baby’s first research poster

#NoKings 13 miles offshore on Block Island, Rhode Island. 200~ people showing up to represent the smallest town in the smallest state!

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

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

If you voted for him, you've done this.

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

Organizers say 25,000 marched in Midtown Manhattan today to #MakeBillionairesPay

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.

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

Censorship Is the Authoritarian’s Dream The right to free expression must include the right to say horrible and evil things.

"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...

This history of #RVEndeavor Storymap has been my child throughout the last few months. This ship has seen things!

Our media has collapsed.

Only Teen Vogue soldiers on.

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.

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.

Comms professor, rhymes with Skunksgard :)

“You’re in graduate school to learn to skim like a motherfucker” -my new dream professor

Law Firm Pressures Brown University to Erase Research on Anti-Wind Groups

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...

Back at work after a week of vacation & 3 days concussion recovery

The 360-Degree Assault on Climate Action Is Impossibly Grim Splinter is your home for news and opinions that challenge power in our political and economic system that's becoming more unhinged each and every day.

"Climate change is the signature global challenge today... the most ill-suited people available, rich and coddled and insulated from the impacts they are already unleashing, stand on its figurative beachhead, urging the seas higher and higher."

All enlightenment leaves my person during a long car ride with my mother. Did the Buddha have to drive with his mother? Who did not believe in a blinker? And always thought she was in the slowest lane of traffic?

Taylor said I shot up in the middle of the night and said “phytoplankton…. Something fuzzy…” 3 times ☠️ I need a vacation