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Do Drunk Mice Sire Weird-Looking Offspring? – Quentin André
A recent piece in The Atlantic argues fathers-to-be should abstain from alcohol when trying to conceive. The science that underpins this recommendation has some issues.
Ten fathers took extended leave to care for their babies – how their family life changed
Fathers became more involved in the often invisible domestic work needed to keep family life running smoothly.

Parenting - Fable | Stories for everyone
Delivering the world’s best social experience with exceptional stories in service of mental wellness.




Locating Family Values: A Field Trial of the Whereabouts Clock: (Nominated for the Best Paper Award)
Harry Harlow
Harry Frederick Harlow was an American psychologist best known for his maternal-separation, dependency needs, and social isolation experiments on rhesus monkeys, which manifested the importance of caregiving and companionship to social and cognitive development. He conducted most of his research at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, where humanistic psychologist Abraham Maslow worked with him for a short period of time.

Lessons from Mastodon's False Start: Understanding AT Protocol and Bluesky's Dilemma - Nightflight
New paradigm for psychology just dropped
OR: the ideas your mother warned you about

KFF/The Washington Post Survey of Parents: Polling Insights on the MAHA Movement | KFF
These findings from the KFF/Washington Post Survey of Parents shed light on parents who support the Make America Healthy Again movement, including the issues they see as top concerns for their children's wellbeing and their attitudes when it comes to vaccines and government regulations on food.


[UNLOCKED] How Fascism Works (a Michael Parenti Reading)
Experimentally manipulating social media abstinence: results of a four-week diary study
Social media use has a weak, negative association with well-being in cross-sectional and longitudinal research, but this association in experimental studies is mixed. This investigation explores wh...

I wrote a blog post on the science behind The Atlantic's "no alcohol for fathers-to-be" piece. quentinandre.net/posts/drunk-mice-and-their-of…
Do Drunk Mice Sire Weird-Looking Offspring? – Quentin André
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