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Rachel Riskind

@rachelriskind.bsky.social

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Nurturing Minds podcast@nurturingminds.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Season 2, Episode 1 is out! We talked with Profs. Nancy Deutsch and Bethany Teachman, co-directors of TYDE (tyde.virginia.edu), about what their research says–and doesn’t say–about social media and teen mental health. nurturingminds.podbean.com/e/what-resea...

What Researchers Actually Know About Smartphones and Teen Mental Health | Nurturing Minds

Nancy Deutsch and Bethany Teachman — co-directors of the Thriving Youth in a Digital Environment Initiative (TYDE) at the University of Virginia — join Vance and Rachel to talk about what the research...

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Rachel Riskind@rachelriskind.bsky.social · last yr.

Guilty as charged: "...go to your nearest café and look to your left, then to your right. A hundred percent of those people are slathering [the em dash] across sentences like adding more cheese to a risotto that’s already drowning in parmesan—without tasting, without thinking, without remorse."

The Em Dash Responds to the AI Allegations

“In recent months, a curious fixation has emerged in corners of academia: the em dash. More specifically, the apparent moral panic around how it is...

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Rachel Riskind@rachelriskind.bsky.social · last yr.

Nurturing Minds is a lively new podcast co-hosted by philosopher @ricksva.bsky.social and academic psychologist @rachelriskind.bsky.social. 1/n vance-rachels-newsletter.beehiiv.com/subscribe

Nurturing Minds: The Podcast: The Newsletter: The Musical: The Series

This newsletter accompanies the Nurturing Minds podcast about the psychology and philosophy of parenthood by Vance Ricks, PhD and Rachel G. Riskind, PhD.

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Rachel Riskind@rachelriskind.bsky.social · last yr.

This Pride 🏳️‍⚧️ 🏳️‍🌈 , please consider sending $18, $180, or $1800 their way to fund trans power and joy. Fer is one of the most qualified people to be doing this work. donorbox.org/trans-power-...

Fund Trans Power & Joy! 🎉 - Fernando Salinas-Quiroz's Fundraiser on Donorbox

💜 I Wish I Had a School Like This💜 Ojalá hubiera ido a una escuela así...I’m Dr. Fer Salinas-Quiroz (they/she).Soy la Dra. Fer Salinas-Quiroz (elle/ella).I’m part of a community that’s been told to di...

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Jess Calarco@jessicacalarco.com · last yr.

This is the weaponization of the supermom myth--the idea that kids are under threat and that the only way to keep them safe is for moms to sacrifice themselves (i.e., by spending hours researching to keep kids safe from vaccines, rather than trusting the government to keep kids safe from measles).

Richard M. Carpiano, PhD, MPH@rmcarpiano.medsky.social · last yr.

4/ He promotes what sociologists call "intensive parenting," as a superior way to ensure kids are safe. That's a time/labor-intensive & stressful form of parenting many US *mothers* feel pressured to follow due to cultural norms/expectations around mothers as primary caregivers. ...

Screenshot from the NYT article linked in first post of this thread, describes comment by RFK Jr.: “I would say that we live in a democracy, and part of the responsibility of being a parent is to do your own research,” the health secretary said, in response to a question from a woman in the audience who asked how he would advise a new parent about vaccine safety. “You research the baby stroller, you research the foods that they’re getting, and you need to research the medicines that they’re taking as well.”
Rachel Riskind@rachelriskind.bsky.social · last yr.

I gave @theradr.bsky.social's Good Trouble Checklist love the best way I know how: converting it into a spreadsheet with estimates of time, money, and impact and columns for tracking priorities and progress. Please share widely, Make a Copy, and edit as needed. docs.google.com/spreadsheets...

Template: Ruttenberg's Good Trouble Checklist as Chart

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Rabbi Danya Ruttenberg@theradr.bsky.social · last yr.

The Egyptian pro-democracy activist Wael Ghonim said, "The power of the people is greater than the people in power." This is a checklist of things you can do, probably should do, resources, ideas, ways to move forward. “I just don’t know what to do!!” shouldn’t be something you say now. Here:

Tim Hodgson@timhodgson.bsky.social · last yr.

It is 2002. I am 18 years old. We are in a once-in-a-generation economic crisis. It is 2008. I am 24 years old. We are in a once-in-a-generation economic crisis. It is 2020. I am 36 years old. We are in a once-in-a-generation economic crisis. It is 2025. I am 41 years old. We are in a—

image of watchmen's doctor manhattan, a superhero who is entirely blue and nude, sitting on a rock, small in frame, on what is depicted to be a very pink version of the surface of the planet mars. he looks pensive.
Whitney Robinson@whitneyepi.bsky.social · last yr.

This is also what worries me most for the long-term success of our country. A lot of these new policies can be turned on or off… But scientific capacity isn’t like that. It’s a decades-long investment. Damage it like this and it’s weak for a generation

Ben Casselman@bencasselman.bsky.social · last yr.

Tariffs get all the attention, but ask economists what they're really worried about and many will point to the Trump administration's cuts to federal support for the sciences, including canceling grants and revoking student visas. #EconSky www.nytimes.com/2025/03/31/b...

Darby Saxbe@darbysaxbe.bsky.social · 2y ago

🚨BREAKING. From a program officer at the National Science Foundation, a list of keywords that can cause a grant to be pulled. I will be sharing screenshots of these keywords along with a decision tree. Please share widely. This is a crisis for academic freedom & science.

list of banned keywords
Philip N Cohen@philipncohen.com · 2y ago

12. "In 2020 [in the US] there were an estimated 6,290 high-heel related emergency department visits involving women ages 15-69, down from 16,000 per year in 2016-2019." www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1...

Pandemic-related decline in injuries related to women wearing high-heeled shoes: Analysis of U.S. data for 2016-2020

Background Wearing high-heeled shoes is associated with injury risk. During the COVID-19 pandemic, changes in work and social behavior may have reduced women’s use of such footwear. Methods This stud...

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