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Nurturing Minds podcast

@nurturingminds.bsky.social
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A psychologist and a philosopher (and guests) discuss topics in the psychology and philosophy of parenthood.

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Nurturing Minds podcast @nurturingminds.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
For decades, research on kids' gender relied on tools built to assume gender is binary and fixed, so a nonbinary child, or one whose sense of self was true today and open tomorrow, didn't fit the instrument.
Thumbnail image of Nurturing Minds podcast, Season 2 Episode 6, features a photo of the cohosts in the upper left corner and the guest, Prof. Fernando Salinas-Quiroz, in the lower right corner. The episode title, "What a six-year-old taught a child psychologist about being nonbinary", is in the lower left corner.
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Nurturing Minds podcast @nurturingminds.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
Season 2, Episode 5 is out! @stephen-t-russell.bsky.social — a sociologist and professor at Arizona State University — joins @rachelriskind.bsky.social and @ricksva.bsky.social to talk about why adults are quicker to question a tween’s LGB identity than a straight one and why 10 is a magic number.
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Nurturing Minds podcast @nurturingminds.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
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 +
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Nurturing Minds podcast @nurturingminds.bsky.social · 05/06/2026
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 +
This is a thumbnail image of the Nurturing Minds Season 2 episode 3 interview with Dr Michael Yarbrough, entitled, "Kinship, child freedom, and who can take your fries".
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Nurturing Minds podcast @nurturingminds.bsky.social · 22/05/2026
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.)
The Nurturing Minds thumbnail image for this episode features photos of the cohosts in the upper left corner and a captioned photo of the guest, with the words, "Featuring Rita Gehrenbeck-Shim". On the left side is the episode title, "After the ban: Building sustainable smartphone policies that support students".
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Nurturing Minds podcast @nurturingminds.bsky.social · 08/05/2026
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...
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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 · 01/07/2025
The lastest Nurturing Minds newsletter is out! Read Junk, chatarra, & screen time here: nurturing-minds.beehiiv.com/p/junk-chata...
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Junk, chatarra, & screen time
Two podcasts I enjoy released new episodes this week that got me thinking about junk. Literally.
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Rachel Riskind @rachelriskind.bsky.social · 27/06/2025
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
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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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