Katherine Marcal

Assistant Professor of Social Work @RutgersSSW | System dynamics, family homelessness, child well-being | @WUSTL alum | @CWBRNetwork member

[Rutgers CSHP @RutgersCSHP]

For #FindingsFriday, we want to share with you an insight from a recent study authored by our @RutgersSSW and Housing & Health Equity Cluster colleague @DrMarcal.

The study explores the nexus between maternal #mentalhealth and #housing stability: https://t.co/aV1azxbBeL

[Katherine Marcal @DrMarcal]

My newest article in Psychiatry Research finds that postpartum moms who can pay the rent, with or without subsidies, are lower risk for depression. Affordable housing is good for maternal mental health!

https://t.co/Yt2G8KZALH

[Katherine Marcal @DrMarcal]

Does…. does she think eggs come from the uterus?

[Miss Belle @BelleDreamer7]

I don’t know who taught you this but this is not correct. The menstrual cycle is a procedure that is both building the uterus to allow for healthy housing of the blastocyst until birth AND producing the egg for reproduction. The cycle goes through shedding the lining if pregnancy does not occur, creating the egg and developing the lining. Again and again. There is no point in the menstrual or where subpar embryos are spontaneously aborted. That doesn’t happen. Whoever told you this, did you disservice. Miscarriages are horrific events that sometimes have no reason but are not a part of the menstrual cycle. A cycle is the same again and again, a miscarriage is not.

[Katherine Marcal @DrMarcal]

An embryo is not a child. An embryo is not even a pregnancy. Please bffr. https://t.co/BEx0v5X2OI

[Katherine Marcal @DrMarcal]

The cost of ignoring women’s pain is so very high. My best friend was diagnosed with terminal cancer at Christmas 2021 after suffering with unexplained, excruciating pain that was minimized by her doctors for weeks. Her son is two.

https://t.co/WzX5IpMh1v

[Katherine Marcal @DrMarcal]

We are eager to expand this work to understand implications for 1) Eviction reform, 2) Affordable housing stock, 3) Mental health

[Katherine Marcal @DrMarcal]

https://t.co/2MosxnTrvx

Our new study out in System Dynamics Review evaluates impacts of the eviction moratorium and Emergency Rental Assistance Program on observed and unobserved housing trends.

[Katherine Marcal @DrMarcal]

Our model projects continuation of these trends - plus increased evictions - in the coming months without intervention.

[Katherine Marcal @DrMarcal]

Buying a house in 2023

[Jordan Grimes (on Bluesky @cafedujord) @cafedujord]

Someone just asked how giving homeless people homes will solve homeless, and reader, I screamed

[Katherine Marcal @DrMarcal]

“Parents are investing in society… Yet while we’re investing in society, society is not investing in us.”

1. Paid leave
2. Affordable childcare
3. Breastfeeding support

https://t.co/ESfBZo5Hbo

[Katherine Marcal @DrMarcal]

@drefb1 I would do Oppenheimer first then Barbie as a palate cleanser

[Kevin Finnerty @timeimmemorial_]

Scientists at Rutgers have constructed a 3D model depicting what the ideal male body looks like

[Jaclyn A. Siegel, PhD @jacasiegel]

I used to think academia was my calling -- the thing that I was meant to do. But I am increasingly thinking that my calling is going to the beach and I am meant to relax and enjoy a fruity little beverage in the sunshine.

[Katherine Marcal @DrMarcal]

@drefb1 Omg! Congrats Emma and Paul!!

[Katherine Marcal @DrMarcal]

Going to miss this magical place

[Las Vegas Locally 🌴 @LasVegasLocally]

On Saturday afternoon a man robbed a store on the Strip and then tried to escape from police by diving into the Bellagio Fountains.

[Katherine Marcal @DrMarcal]

Can't wait to collaborate with @emmytiderington and the rest of the faculty at @RutgersU on interdisciplinary efforts to reduce housing insecurity and homelessness, promote equity, and train the next generation of social workers and activists

[Katherine Marcal @DrMarcal]

I'm still in shock that they 1) created my dream position and 2) actually hired me for it... but delighted to share that I will be joining @RutgersSSW as an Assistant Professor and part of the Housing & Health Equity Cluster this summer!