Chelsea Conaboy
@cconaboy
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MOTHER BRAIN: How Neuroscience Is Rewriting the Story of Parenthood (OUT NOW!). Formerly @PressHerald, @BostonGlobe, @PhillyInquirer & @ConMonitorNews.
Portland, Maine
Joined April 2009
RT @darbysaxbe: In 1980, a bipartisan Congress passed the Science and Engineering Equal Opportunities Act of 1980, which authorized the Nat….
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RT @NextBigIdeaClub: Becoming a parent changes your brain, but not in the way you think, says @cconaboy .
bookoftheday.nextbigideaclub.com
Chelsea Conaboy shares 5 key insights from Mother Brain: How Neuroscience Is Rewriting The Story of Parenthood.
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Looking forward to this one:.
I’ve been keeping an exciting secret that I’m finally ready to share:. My first book, The Daycare Myth: What We Get Wrong About Early Care and Education (and What We Should Do About It), will be published this fall by @TCPress at @Columbia University. Focused on the disconnect
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RT @JoanAlker1: See ⬇️ and 😭. Texas just published their Medicaid disenrollment #s for 2023 - the state terminated coverage for 1.33 millio….
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RT @storyofwoman_: Ever wondered if the so-called "maternal instinct" is a scientific reality or a societal construct? The latest #episode….
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RT @storyofwoman_: Explore @cconaboy's enlightening book, "Mother Brain," as guest host @cardenasm dives deep into the science and societal….
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RT @itspeterbrown: Wild Robot fans! Check out my interview with science writer Chelsea Conaboy (author of Mother Brain) where we dig deep i….
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Thanks to @rmc031 for highlighting Mother Brain and for her thoughtful essay on really facing the realities of modern motherhood—the struggle and the potential for joy and growth. You can read it here:
vox.com
To our generation, being a mom looks thankless, exhausting, and lonely. Can we change the story?
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There is no mom gene. There are biological processes—like pregnancy and neurobiological responses to the powerful stimuli that babies provide (whether or not we birthed them)—that fast-track our development as caregivers.
want to give a tweet shoutout to @cconaboy's book Mother Brain, which if you read my essay know made a big impression on me.
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RT @Tiffany_L_Green: I’m looking for recommendations for neurodivergent researchers that work in reproductive health. Specifically looking….
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"Republican lawmakers who let them do it" << here in Maine, Democrats too.
Things America has that no peer nation has:. A gun lobby that’s perverted the Second Amendment.Republican lawmakers who let them do it.Easy access to guns for all civilians.A gun homicide rate thats 26 times higher than any peer nation.
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RT @SteveCollinsSJ: Just want to make it clear to a world that doesn't know Lewiston that it is typically a safe, interesting place with a….
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RT @shannonrwatts: It’s almost like giving people weapons of war and then putting them on the honor system isn’t working….
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