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Wellesley Centers for Women @wcwonline.bsky.social · 18h ago

Senior Research Scientist Linda Charmaraman was quoted in a @nytimes.com / @nytwirecutter.bsky.social article that compiled expert advice on how parents can best steer their child's engagement with technology. #devpsy #cyberpsychology #phdsky #womeninstem

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IN THE NEWS
A Step-by-Step Tech Guide for Parents Who Live in the Real World
The New York Times

Wellesley Centers for Women @wcwonline.bsky.social · 4d ago

Senior Research Scientist Jennifer Grossman wrote for @msmagazine.com about the critical importance of fathers taking part in their child's sex education. #GenderSky #EduSky #WomenInSTEM

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IN THE NEWS
Back to School Means Back to Sex Ed. Fathers Need to Be Part of the Conversation.
Ms.

Wellesley Centers for Women @wcwonline.bsky.social · 4d ago

Read the article here: msmagazine.com/2026/08/22/f... #GenderSky #EduSky #WomenInSTEM

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IN THE NEWS
"As families settle into the back-to-school season-and teenagers encounter new classes, friendships, relationships and pressures-the work of guiding adolescents through questions about sex, consent and relationships becomes especially visible. Too often, that work still falls primarily to mothers.
To disrupt this gendered imbalance and foster healthy sexual development for adolescents, we must actively engage fathers in the work of talking to their teens about sex, consent and relationships."
Ms.

Wellesley Centers for Women @wcwonline.bsky.social · 4d ago

Senior Research Scientist Jennifer Grossman wrote for @msmagazine.com about the critical importance of fathers taking part in their child's sex education. #GenderSky #EduSky #WomenInSTEM

Wellesley Centers for Women @wcwonline.bsky.social · 2w ago

▶️ Kate Price was featured on the podcast Root For Each Other, where she discussed her experience as a child sex trafficking survivor. Here, Kate discusses survivors' relationships with other survivors and how trauma and culture stop survivors from empathizing with each other. #GenderSky #PsycSci 💡📚

Wellesley Centers for Women @wcwonline.bsky.social · 4w ago

International Scholar-in-Residence @pashtanadurrani.bsky.social was featured in a @glblctzn.bsky.social article about her life and her organization @learnafghan.bsky.social's work to fight for Afghan girls' right to education. #GenderSky #WomenInSTEM #EducationalResearch

IN THE NEWS
Pashtana Durrani Won the Global Citizen Prize Three Years Ago. Here’s How She’s Using It to Help Thousands More Access Education in Afghanistan.

Wellesley Centers for Women @wcwonline.bsky.social · 4w ago

International Scholar-in-Residence @pashtanadurrani.bsky.social was featured in a @glblctzn.bsky.social article about her life and her organization @learnafghan.bsky.social's work to fight for Afghan girls' right to education. #GenderSky #WomenInSTEM #EducationalResearch

Wellesley Centers for Women @wcwonline.bsky.social · 4w ago

For Mail & Guardian, Dr. Nyasha Karimakwenda and Wits University postdoctoral fellow Dr. Thatshisiwe Ndlovu wrote about the social and cultural change needed to end violent forms of abduction marriage (colloquially known as 'ukuthwala') in South Africa. #GenderSky #Lawsky #SocSky

Wellesley Centers for Women @wcwonline.bsky.social · last mo.

▶ Senior Research Scientist Linda Charmaraman provided insight into social media's impact on youth mental health during @aljazeera.com's coverage of the United States' legal battle with Meta. Watch the full interview here: mediaview.aljazeera.com/video/cbXqbi...

Wellesley Centers for Women @wcwonline.bsky.social · last mo.

▶ Senior Research Scientist Linda Charmaraman provided insight into social media's impact on youth mental health during @aljazeera.com's coverage of the United States' legal battle with Meta. Watch the full interview here: mediaview.aljazeera.com/video/cbXqbi...

Wellesley Centers for Women @wcwonline.bsky.social · 2mo ago

▶ In this clip from Nila Ibrahimi's 'NexusTalk with Nila', International Scholar-In-Residence @pashtanadurrani.bsky.social discusses what the international community can do to assist the fight for Afghan girls' education. Watch here: youtu.be/L7xCfGHzUZY #EduSky #WomenInSTEM #EdTech #MENAstudies

Wellesley Centers for Women @wcwonline.bsky.social · 2mo ago

▶ In this clip from Nila Ibrahimi's 'NexusTalk with Nila', International Scholar-In-Residence @pashtanadurrani.bsky.social discusses what the international community can do to assist the fight for Afghan girls' education. Watch here: youtu.be/L7xCfGHzUZY #EduSky #WomenInSTEM #EdTech #MENAstudies

Wellesley Centers for Women @wcwonline.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Since 2005, Senior Research Scientist Nan Stein has researched, written and evaluated Shifting Boundaries (SB): Lessons on Relationships for Students in Middle School, a sexual harassment/teen dating violence prevention intervention for schools. [1/3] #EduSky #SciPol #WomenInSTEM #DevPsy #SchlPsych

Wellesley Centers for Women @wcwonline.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Since 2005, Senior Research Scientist Nan Stein has researched, written and evaluated Shifting Boundaries (SB): Lessons on Relationships for Students in Middle School, a sexual harassment/teen dating violence prevention intervention for schools. [1/3] #EduSky #SciPol #WomenInSTEM #DevPsy #SchlPsych

Wellesley Centers for Women @wcwonline.bsky.social · 2mo ago

The Massachusetts Early Childhood Exchange recently visited WCW! ECX is a partnership among three founding organizations (MECPRC, The Rennie Center, and @sfc-ma.bsky.social) to ensure MA state leaders have the research and evidence needed to inform early childhood policymaking. #ECEC #EduSky #PAsky

Wellesley Centers for Women @wcwonline.bsky.social · 2mo ago

🔎 New Publication! Senior Research Scientist Linda Charmaraman contributed to a study assessing the relationships between adolescents with social anxiety and their dogs. Read the study's article here: bit.ly/adolescentdog #WomeninSTEM #DevPsy #SciPub #SocialPsyc

New in Publications
An Idiographic, Mixed Methods Approach to Understanding Adolescent-Dog Relationships in the Context of Social Anxiety
Megan K. Mueller, Jasmine Mote, Eric Anderson, Brianna Paquette, Siyu Zhang, Angelique Zhong, Jordanne Brown & Linda Charmaraman
How do the relationships adolescents with social anxiety have with their dogs affect their ability to cope with stressors? This study uses an idiographic, mixed methods approach to explore adolescent-dog relationships in real-life contexts.
https://bit.ly/adolescentdog

Wellesley Centers for Women @wcwonline.bsky.social · 2mo ago

🔎 New Publication! Senior Research Scientist Linda Charmaraman contributed to a study assessing the relationships between adolescents with social anxiety and their dogs. Read the study's article here: bit.ly/adolescentdog #WomeninSTEM #DevPsy #SciPub #SocialPsyc

Wellesley Centers for Women @wcwonline.bsky.social · 2mo ago

[1/3] We were delighted to welcome Carolyn M. Elliott '59, the founding director of the Wellesley Center for Research on Women (later WCW), to Simpson Cottage this week. #WomenInSTEM #SciPol #PhDsky

Wellesley Centers for Women @wcwonline.bsky.social · 3mo ago

We are delighted to announce the appointment of Laura Mamo, Ph.D. as the next executive director of the Wellesley Centers for Women! Currently the director and a professor of public health at the Health Equity Institute at @sanfranciscostate.bsky.social, Laura will join WCW in September. [1/3]

Announcing Our New Executive Director!
Laura Mamo, PHD

Wellesley Centers for Women @wcwonline.bsky.social · 3mo ago

As the Executive Director, Laura will play a key leadership role in advancing WCW’s core mission: to drive meaningful progress for women and girls through research and action. She will also be a professor in the @wellesley.edu Department of Sociology, pending successful tenure review. [2/3]

Wellesley Centers for Women @wcwonline.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Read Wellesley College's announcement of her appointment here! www.wellesley.edu/news/wellesl... #scipol #edusky #womeninstem #phdsky [3/3]

“Laura is an outstanding scholar and an institution builder with a proven track record of establishing partnerships and programs that enable interdisciplinary, community-based, policy-relevant research,” said Coile, who is also Lia Gelin Poorvu ’56 Dean of the College and Stanford Calderwood Professor of Economics. “Her scholarship and her ability to mentor and support researchers in all career stages, combined with her targeted advocacy work, make her the ideal strategic leader for this role.”
“I’m excited to build on WCW’s work and continue contributing theoretically grounded, empirical research that can drive solutions for women, gender equity, and communities,” said Mamo. “I can think of no better place to be than alongside my colleagues at WCW, and I look forward to all that we will accomplish together.”

Wellesley Centers for Women @wcwonline.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Join the Youth, Media, and Wellbeing Lab for a FREE Virtual Digital Wellbeing & AI Literacy Workshop! This week-long experience is designed for middle school girls and allies to explore self-image & mental wellbeing in the age of AI. 🗓 July 20 – 24 ⏰ 1 – 3pm ET 📍 Online (Join from anywhere!) #edusky

Wellesley Centers for Women @wcwonline.bsky.social · 3mo ago

We are delighted to announce the appointment of Laura Mamo, Ph.D. as the next executive director of the Wellesley Centers for Women! Currently the director and a professor of public health at the Health Equity Institute at @sanfranciscostate.bsky.social, Laura will join WCW in September. [1/3]

Wellesley Centers for Women @wcwonline.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Senior Research Scientist Linda Charmaraman, Ph.D. is featured in a @snexplores.bsky.social article by @kathrynhulick.substack.com on a new study showing that more than half of US teens use AI-based chatbots to complete their homework. Read here: www.snexplores.org/article/teen... #edusky #edtech

IN THE NEWS
At least half of U.S. teens use chatbots for homework and more

IN THE NEWS
‘More than half of U.S. teens use AI, according to the survey — mainly to get information or help with schoolwork. Dharunish says he and his friends often use AI to walk them through solving difficult problems in math or chemistry. “I find it really helpful,” he says, “because I learn a new way to do a problem.” However, he adds, “I never let the AI do all the work for me.”

Not all students take that approach. Six in 10 of the surveyed teens say students at their school cheat with AI, using it either somewhat often or very often.’

Wellesley Centers for Women @wcwonline.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Senior Research Scientist Linda Charmaraman, Ph.D. is featured in a @snexplores.bsky.social article by @kathrynhulick.substack.com on a new study showing that more than half of US teens use AI-based chatbots to complete their homework. Read here: www.snexplores.org/article/teen... #edusky #edtech

Wellesley Centers for Women @wcwonline.bsky.social · 3mo ago

For @africasacountry.bsky.social, Research Scientist Nyasha Karimakwenda, Ph.D. wrote about the systematic erasure of LGBTQ+ Africans across the continent, and the LGBTQ+ African activists resisting this suppression. Read the article here: africasacountry.com/2026/06/refu... #gendersky #lgbtstem

IN THE NEWS
“African queers are often confronted by the claim that their existences are un-African; a detestable product of Western influence. And so African leaders and others expend considerable energy in attempting to do away with queerness through various tools of violence: rhetorical, legal, political, physical, religious, and sexual. At the same time that queer Africans are subjected to violence and live with the unrelenting spectre of it, they must also find ways to resist. It is a liminal existence, but one that demonstrates that queer Africans are permanently fixed within the continent’s bounds despite concerted efforts to effect their erasure.”

Wellesley Centers for Women @wcwonline.bsky.social · 3mo ago

For @africasacountry.bsky.social, Research Scientist Nyasha Karimakwenda, Ph.D. wrote about the systematic erasure of LGBTQ+ Africans across the continent, and the LGBTQ+ African activists resisting this suppression. Read the article here: africasacountry.com/2026/06/refu... #gendersky #lgbtstem

Wellesley Centers for Women @wcwonline.bsky.social · 3mo ago

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Wellesley Centers for Women @wcwonline.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Your contributions allow us to advance gender equality, social justice, and human wellbeing through our high-quality research, theory, and action programs. Together, we can continue to shape a better world for generations to come! Donate: wcwonline.org/donate #womeninstem #gendersky #socsky #scipol

Wellesley Centers for Women @wcwonline.bsky.social · 3mo ago

For @theconversation.com, Senior Research Scientist Jennifer Grossman, Ph.D. wrote about the generational increase in fathers' willingness to discuss sexual health with their children. Read the article here! theconversation.com/dads-today-t... ( #devpsy #socsky #womeninstem #edusky )

IN THE NEWS
Dads today talk more freely with their teens about sex and relationships

IN THE NEWS
“Fathers’ increased involvement in parenting extends to talking with their teens about sex and relationships, and research shows that both fathers and teens see benefits to this.

Fathers see it as key to supporting their teens’ healthy development, while teens value their fathers’ perspectives and experiences. While many fathers worry that their daughters don’t want to talk with them about sex and relationships, research shows that daughters want to hear from their fathers about these topics.”