After Babel
Jon Haidt, Sophie Winkleman, Brooke Istook, Lyman Stone, Carmen Lim, Michael Toscano, Seth Kaplan, Ravi Iyer, Zach Rausch, Emma Park, Marco Gui, Jean M. Twenge, Grant J. Bailey, Nathan Witkin, Giovanni AbbiatiA free weekly newsletter where Jon Haidt and his team make sense of how technology is reshaping society — and offer practical guidance on how we can respond.
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Intro from Jon:
When I arrived at the University of Virginia in September 1995 for my first academic job, I was assigned to teach Psych 101, a large lecture class. I loved it. I loved synthesizing broad and dive...
Thank You, Frances Haugen
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Introducing the Tech & Society Lab at NYU Stern
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The Many Lines of Evidence That Social Media is Not Safe For Teens
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Are Phone-Free Schools Working?
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Professor at NYU-Stern
Actress and campaigner against screens for children
I spent 12 years trying to make technology safer for children. It wasn't enough. President/CSO of Heat Initiative. Mother of three. Children and Machines is where I work through what I've learned, and what I'm still figuring out.
Lyman Stone is the Director of Research of the consulting firm Demographic Intelligence, the director of the Pronatalism Initiative at the Institute for Family Studies, and has a PhD in Sociology from McGill University
Senior Research Scientist of the Tech & Society Lab at NYU Stern. Quantitative researcher with a background spanning econometrics, educational measurement, and psychometrics at Cambridge, and energy economics in Oxford.
Michael Toscano is Director of the Family First Technology Initiative at the Institute for Family Studies, co-founder of the Faith Family Technology Network, and a member of the Policy Council for the Alliance for a Better Future.
Seth D. Kaplan, a Professorial Lecturer at the Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS) at Johns Hopkins University, is the author of Fragile Neighborhoods.
Data Scientist & Moral Psychologist. Now @ http://PsychOfTech.org + USC Neely Center. Former Civic Integrity/AI/Newsfeed @ Facebook, Cofounder @ Ranker/CivilPolitics. Google Scholar: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=7vzqWBYAAAAJ&hl=en
Senior Research Scientist at NYU Stern. Lead Researcher for the New York Times Bestseller, The Anxious Generation. Managing Director of the Tech and Society Lab at NYU Stern. Editor of the After Babel Substack.
Emma Park is a Research Associate under Dr. Jonathan Haidt and Zach Rausch at NYU. She is currently pursuing a B.A. in Psychology at Stanford University.
Professor of Media Sociology and Director of the "Digital Transformation and Wellbeing Lab" at the University of Milano-Bicocca. President of the "Patti Digitali" (Digital Pacts) Foundation.
Author of 10 Rules for Raising Kids in a High-Tech World (2025), iGen (2017), and Generations (2023, paperback 2025) and professor of psychology at San Diego State University.
Nathan Witkin is a Research Scientist studying AI and Social Media at NYU Stern's Tech and Society Lab. He writes about philosophy, politics, and technology at his Substack, Arachne.
Professor of Sociology, University of Brescia (Italy)
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