Darby Saxbe

@darbysaxbe.bsky.social

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Professor of Psychology @ University of Southern California. Studies brain, body, & behavior changes in new parents. My book Dad Brain: The New Science of Fatherhood and How it Shapes Men's Lives, comes out June 9 on Flatiron Books/Macmillan.

Swedish advertisement for paternity leave featuring a muscular man holding a baby
Darby Saxbe and Brad Lander holding up the book Dad Brain
Screenshot of NPR website with headline "The new science of 'dad brain'"
Image of figure depicting brain changes in new mothers
Screenshot from viral Australian skincare Tiktok showing a woman in a pink sweater and the caption "Bring back gender pay gap"
Protester holding a sign that says “Resisting tyrants is patriotic.”
Selfie of poster attending USC rally
Screenshot of Substack post title, The left-right happiness paradox
Still from the show "Andor" depicting storm troopers about to descend on peaceful protesters in Ghorman.
Cartoon from the early 1900s illustrating drunken Irish and German criminals stealing a ballot box and tipping off an election riot. They are wearing barrels saying "Irish Whisky" and "Lager Bier."
Early 1900s cartoon depicting Italian and Slavic immigrants "Direct from the Slums of Europe Daily." The immigrants are depicted looking like rats scurrying under Uncle Sam's feet and the caption reads "The unrestricted dumping ground."
Screenshot of Ralph Nader's arguments from his book, The Case Against Free Trade.
Headlines describing Chinese attempts to buy influence through Trump coin, Trump properties
Heritage foundation screenshot stating that government funding of higher education is "providing incentives to delay family formation"
Flyer for the Stand Up for Science rally featuring an image of a Statue of Liberty
Decision tree that has been sent to Program Officers at NSF
list of banned keywords
Picture of extremely attractive parental brain researchers in lab space at UCSB
Figure showing accuracy of emotion ratings of masked and unmasked faces by sad, scared, and angry facial expressions. Masked faces were rated less accurately, and this effect was strongest for sad masked faces.