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Nurturing Minds podcast @nurturingminds.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

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The psychology and philosophy of parenthood

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Nurturing Minds podcast @nurturingminds.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

Fernando Salinas-Quiroz (they/she; Tufts University) joins Nurturing Minds on what those tools missed, "gender math," and nonbinary kids. 🎧

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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

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Nurturing Minds podcast @nurturingminds.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

We get into Stephen’s research into many dimensions of sexual identity, sexual orientation formation, and family acceptance. And we ask whether it’s finally time to take down our bedroom posters of Leo DiCaprio.

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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

neurotypical parents can support an autistic child, and what she’d do if she were the Czarina of Vaccines. Find + follow the show on your favorite podcast-dispensing app, or use this RSS Feed link to add the podcast to your player directly: feed.podbean.com/nurturingmin...

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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

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Nurturing Minds podcast @nurturingminds.bsky.social · 05/06/2026

intentionally childfree, how we think about family and kinship too narrowly, and why many of our care relationships don't have names — or policies to support them. +

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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

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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

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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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