I'm VERY excited to announce that I'm writing a book for @Flatironbooks! It'll be about the neurobiology of fatherhood & how fatherhood transforms men's lives. Thanks to stellar @WMEBooks agents @alexanderjkane & @RossGail. Reach out if you have dad stories or research to share!

I have a new essay up about how we frequently blame feminism for family breakdown and other drawbacks of late-stage capitalism. I also started making indie rock recommendations, which I tried and failed to put behind a paywall. Smash that subscribe button!.

Trading women is not a universal or typical feature of traditional societies! Women in hunter-gatherer societies contribute productive labor to their communities and are very rarely “traded or captured.” Women are not “built to be traded” any more than men are built to trade them.

Just posted a new essay about why left-wingers are miserable and how the Democrats should use the insights of clinical psychology to build a happier movement.

Our federal government is currently spending more money on jailing and deporting childcare workers than on fixing our broken, patchy childcare system.

My new Substack is about the paradox of the partisan happiness gap: conservatives are happier than liberals, but left-wing societies produce happier people.

RT @pettsric: Want men to do more housework? Encourage them to take paternity leave! In a new paper with @DanielCarlson_1 and Chris Knoeste….

RT @manorlaboratory: My lab’s 5-year NIH R01 grant, awarded to study gene therapy for hearing loss, was abruptly terminated. I want to shar….

The Republicans are trying to pass a bill that kicks people off their healthcare, cuts education, makes energy more expensive, & blows up the deficit so that we can give billionaires a tax cut, and we're supposed to be mad at Mamdani for (checks notes). universal childcare?.

It's disingenuous to say that politicians ought to ask moms what they want without acknowledging that we do have data on what moms want, and it's more affordable childcare.

In a country where the majority of mothers with young children actually DO work, refusing to support public investment in childcare because those moms would secretly rather stay home (but can't afford to do so) is not solving anyone's problems.

It's gaslighting to insist that our current privatized, austerity-based approach to parenting (defunding Head Start, holding on to our outlier status as the only country with no federal paid parental leave) is actually responsive to parents' needs.

"In contrast, Dutch parents get “proportional subsidies” that allow them to afford prorated childcare scaled for the hours they need. This makes it easy to balance days at work with days at home." If moms want to stay home more, let's actually support that as a public good,.

From my article: "These shorter work hours are coupled with flexible childcare that is heavily subsidized by the Dutch government. In the U.S., many childcare centers have long waitlists and require a full-time commitment to hold onto a spot.".

I agree that asking moms what they want is an excellent idea when creating policy. It's clear from many, many studies of parental stress and mental health that mothers are happier & healthier in "socialist" countries that treat children as worthy of public investment.

Moms can also stay home with their kids longer in "socialist" countries. In Nordic countries, an 18 month maternity leave is the norm - whereas in the U.S., a quarter of new moms go back to work TWO WEEKS after giving birth given our lack of a healthy safety net.

This piece ignores that part-time work - the arrangement that 32% of mothers say they want - is actually much more common in countries you'd consider "socialist." The secret is healthcare that's not tied to employment, and affordable, flexible childcare.

RT @MortezDehghani: My new op-ed in the @nytimes. I argue that Iranians are caught in a state of “moral paralysis,” a psychological trap s….

This is true. Also, the NIH uses a definition of diversity that includes veterans, people from rural areas, and people whose parents did not go to college. Many Trump voters would be eligible for Diversity Supplements from NIH!.

A few months ago I posted about cuts to medical research & got many comments here about how the deficit was too big + we needed to spend less. Now we're prepared to spend billions on ICE + a potential war. Money flows when we are terrorizing people at home or bombing them abroad.

The Iraq War cost over a TRILLION dollars and it was built on a lie. Imagine if - 20 years ago - we had invested that money into early childhood education, or climate mitigation, or scientific and medical research, or building housing? Where would our country be now?.