Melissa Elliott 🍉

She/Her | PhD Candidate at Western University in Sociology. Studying social inequalities in crime and victimization.

[Melissa Elliott 🍉 @M_Elliott97]

Beyond excited to share that my first publication is now available online (and open access) at the link below. A huge thank-you to our lead author @LFrgsn for her amazing leadership and to Sin Kim for his contributions. #Victimization #MissingPersons

https://t.co/3fv9Mns6KL

[Made In Canada @MadelnCanada]

WHAT A STORY FOR PIPER 🇨🇦❤️

From ovarian cancer diagnosis in 2023 to Olympic bronze in Milano Cortina 2026. Piper Gilles & Paul Poirier delivered an inspiring performance for Canada. A true testament to resilience, grit, & unbreakable spirit.

Congratulations, Piper! @TeamCanada

[Dr. Lorna Ferguson @DrLornaFerguson]

Much of my work on missing persons has relied on police data. And that makes sense. Police hold primary responsibility for responding to and documenting these cases.

But as this work has accumulated, I have found myself pausing more often to think about what these records are designed to capture and what they are not. Police data tell us about institutional response, practice, and policy, but they are thin when it comes to missingness as it is experienced, patterned, and prevented.

Police records record policing. That may sound tautological. But when such records become a dominant source for studying a phenomenon, the distinction begins to matter in shaping what counts as knowledge. What version of missing persons are we analyzing?

This article grew out of that reflection. It introduces the idea of police data ceilings as a way of naming some limits to one of the field's dominant data sources, and asks what those limits mean for how we understand missing persons and where we might go next.

Now published👇

[CBS Sunday Morning 🌞 @CBSSunday]

Ethan Hawke tells @thattracysmith that he’s “bored by AI,” saying he prefers real human connection.

He calls AI a “plagiarizing mechanism” and jokes that while he knows it’s changing the world, he’s in “open rebellion” against it. https://t.co/LZ9EYLReGr

[RHAP @RobHasApodcast]

https://t.co/KrThNilUch 💥💥💥

[Journal for Social Thought @JST_journal]

👥 We’re actively recruiting reviewers! If you’d like to join or share feedback on how to improve the journal, we’d love to hear from you!

📖 In the coming months, we’ll also be reintroducing published works from our archives—stay tuned!

#Sociology #GradStudent #Research

[Journal for Social Thought @JST_journal]

✨ Looking for innovative ideas in sociology and the social sciences?

JST is a peer-reviewed, open access journal run by graduate students in Sociology at Western University (Canada). We publish works from grad students, post-docs, academics, and independent scholars.

[Western SOGS @westernsogs]

Interested in presenting your research to the public? Retiring with Strong Minds 💪🧠 is recruiting graduate students from ALL faculties to share their research with retirement home residents! For more information and to sign up, visit: https://t.co/8TMVxcNRMR

[Nathan Kalman-Lamb @nkalamb]

The most recent @FranceskAlbs report has profound implications for higher ed.

None is more serious than this: administrators are *personally accountable* under international law .

We explain for @AJEnglish:

https://t.co/15i6KWx2On

[Dirka Prout 🇨🇦 🇹🇹🌹 @DirkaProut]

A London Free Press reader says:

"Let the government empower police services to pick up homeless individuals and move them to a facility where they can receive treatment."

Is the disease mental illness or poverty? What is the appropriate treatment?

A rant🧵
#ldnont

[Social Sci @WesternU @westernuSocSci]

🌟 Meet Courteney Morris, a 4th-year Sociology student majoring in Indigenous Studies at Western University! As a Métis mother of three, she’s pursuing social justice after a 15-year career in hospitality. Join us in celebrating her journey! 🎓💪 https://t.co/iwB4G5SmUI

[Melissa Elliott 🍉 @M_Elliott97]

Thrilled to have #Survivor 42 winner Maryanne Oketch join the Western Winners Circle, which includes Survivor 41 winner Erika Casupanan, #BBCAN10 winner @KevinTedJacobs, and #DragRace All Stars 8 winner @jimbodragclown! 🐎💜

[Western University @WesternU]

What do #Survivor and @SchulichMedDent have in common? @maryanneoketch, Survivor 42 winner and first-year #WesternU MD student, is using lessons of perseverance and resilience from the show to help on her new adventure of becoming a physician. https://t.co/inQdEsL5ne

[Maryanne Oketch @maryanneoketch]

I’m going to be a doctor (shoutout to @thejuliacarter and @hannah_chaddha for being the blueprints)

[Derek Silva (derekcrim.bsky.social) @Derekcrim]

Thrilled to see both my friend @nkalamb AND our book in the flesh @ASAnews! “The End of College Football” is out this December. Use the code 01SOCIAL30 for 30% off.

https://t.co/TmjK1Gzfse

[Derek Silva (derekcrim.bsky.social) @Derekcrim]

so it's pretty clear -- if you're attending #congressh this year, you're blatantly crossing picket and boycott lines

if you go, even virtually, you need to own that

[mayka 🍉 @maykamaykaba]

"No pride for some of us without liberation for all of us!" — Marsha P. Johnson

#FreePalestine

[Melissa Elliott 🍉 @M_Elliott97]

Incredible news! I’ve looked up to Lorna as one of my key role models since starting my PhD. @MemorialU, you are VERY lucky to have such a dedicated and talented scholar joining your ranks.

Massive congratulations, Lorna! I can’t wait to see where your research takes you.

[Dr. Lorna Ferguson @DrLornaFerguson]

Today the Banting Postdoctoral Fellowships recipients were announced. I'm thrilled to share that I was awarded the Banting to continue my work on policing, search and rescue, and missing persons at @MemorialU with @R_Ricciardelli, starting September 2024. #BantingCanada

[Karim Wafa-Al Hussaini @DrKarimWafa]

I can’t believe what I just read…