Season 2, Episode 4 is out! Meryl Alper — Associate Professor in the Department of Communication Studies at Northeastern University — joins @rachelriskind.bsky.social and @ricksva.bsky.social to discuss why it’s so hard to give a simple definition of “autism”, how both neurodivergent and +

Season 2, Episode 3 is out! Michael Yarbrough (@mwyarbrough.bsky.social) — associate professor of Law & Society at John Jay College of Criminal Justice and sociology at the CUNY Graduate Center — joins @rachelriskind.bsky.social and @ricksva.bsky.social to talk about what it means to be +

Season 2 Episode 2 is out! We asked Rita Gehrenbeck-Shim, a teacher at Boston Day and Evening Academy, about what Boston Public Schools' new bell-to-bell smartphone restriction looks like at her school. (She spoke on her own behalf and not as a BDEA or BPS representative.)

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...

The lastest Nurturing Minds newsletter is out! Read Junk, chatarra, & screen time here: nurturing-minds.beehiiv.com/p/junk-chata...

Junk, chatarra, & screen time

Two podcasts I enjoy released new episodes this week that got me thinking about junk. Literally.

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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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