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Joanna Peña-Bickley

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Bioinformatics Nerd. Coder. Inventor. Critical Thinker. Design Engineer Pioneering Generative AI that democratizes Brain Health as CEO at Vibes AI + Fellow @ AI Design Corps | Alum: Alexa, Amazon, IBM & Uber | https://linktr.ee/joannapenabickley

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Joanna Peña-Bickley @joannapenabickley.bsky.social · Jan 22

Being featured at the Forbes / MIT Media lab Imagination In Action event with Yann LeCun, Stephen Wolfram, Sasha Luccioni and Lex Fridman. Listening to Vibes AI right now to recenter my excitement.

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Joanna Peña-Bickley @joannapenabickley.bsky.social · 1d

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JoySpan

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i agree 100%

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Barbra Streisand @barbrastreisand.bsky.social · 2d

UK fans - out in paperback now for the first time. amzn.to/4o7Rduh

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Elizabeth Cronise McLaughlin @ecmclaughlin.bsky.social · 2d

Epstein Ballroom it is.

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Julie Cohen ❌👑 @filmmakerjulie.bsky.social · 2d

I’m responding with a simple message to universities that send me contribution requests: Not a penny til you publicly announce you won’t sign the Trump compact. (The admin presented compact to 9 schools but has said all are welcome to join).
NO $ TO CAPITULATORS.

Email exchange between alum office and Julie stating “not a penny” message above.

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Joanna Peña-Bickley @joannapenabickley.bsky.social · 2d

AI chatbots used for mental health support systematically violate professional ethical standards despite being designed with therapeutic prompts, according to groundbreaking research presented today at a major artificial intelligence conference bioengineer.org/new-study-re...

New Study Reveals AI Chatbots Frequently Breach Mental Health Ethics

As large language models (LLMs) like ChatGPT increasingly serve as informal mental health advisors, a groundbreaking study from Brown University uncovers troubling ethical shortcomings inherent in

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Joanna Peña-Bickley @joannapenabickley.bsky.social · 8d

This is brilliant!
We have a shared B-day! Happy Birthday!!! @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social

Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 8d

An important message to the people of New York City.

More information at zohranfornyc.com/birthday

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Kara Swisher @karaswisher.bsky.social · 8d

Read this and then I think you’ll agree that the monstrous Ghislaine Maxwell should not have one day of peace the rest of her wretched life www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

‘Prince Andrew believed having sex with me was his birthright’: Virginia Giuffre on her abuse at the hands of Epstein, Maxwell and the king’s brother

In an extract from her posthumous memoir, Virginia Roberts Giuffre remembers the day an ‘apex predator’ recruited her from Mar-a-Lago, aged just 16; how she was trafficked to a succession of wealthy a...

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Barack Obama @barackobama.bsky.social · 10d

California, this November 4th, the whole country is counting on you.

Prop 50 puts our elections back on a level playing field, preserves independent redistricting over the long term, and lets the people decide.

So return your ballot today. Vote yes on 50.

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Joanna Peña-Bickley @joannapenabickley.bsky.social · 10d

My vibe this morning music.apple.com/us/album/nue...

NUEVAYoL by Bad Bunny on Apple Music

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Joanna Peña-Bickley @joannapenabickley.bsky.social · 12d

New research from Anthropic reveals a startling vulnerability in artificial intelligence systems: just 250 carefully crafted malicious documents can compromise LLMs, challenging fundamental assumptions about AI security and raising urgent questions about the safety
www.anthropic.com/research/sma...

A small number of samples can poison LLMs of any size

Anthropic research on data-poisoning attacks in large language models

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Joanna Peña-Bickley @joannapenabickley.bsky.social · 12d

Justices Christine Donohue, Kevin Dougherty, and David Wecht will face voters on November 4 in retention elections that could reshape Pennsylvania's highest court ahead of the 2026 midterms
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These Pennsylvania court races are usually sleepy. This year, they're drawing millions in spending.

Three Democratic-backed justices are up for a "retention" vote in November. If they all lose, it could deadlock the top court in a critical swing state for years.

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Joanna Peña-Bickley @joannapenabickley.bsky.social · 12d

Google has officially expanded its viral Nano Banana AI image editing tool beyond the Gemini app, integrating the popular feature into Google Lens and AI Mode in Search as of October 11, 2025. 9to5google.com/2025/10/11/g...

Nano Banana image editing comes to AI Mode and Google Lens

Nano Banana has been a hit in the Gemini app, and Google is now bringing image editing and generation to AI Mode, as well as Google Lens.

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Joanna Peña-Bickley @joannapenabickley.bsky.social · 12d

Kamala Harris has consistently called for the protection of civilians and humanitarian aid in Gaza, while condemning violence from all sides. Reducing that to a soundbite or conspiracy is not “holding leaders accountable,” it’s spreading distortion.

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Joanna Peña-Bickley @joannapenabickley.bsky.social · 12d

If you care, channel that energy into civic action, not noise. Because the more we let ignorance dominate the conversation, the less chance we have of influencing policy at all.

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Joanna Peña-Bickley @joannapenabickley.bsky.social · 12d

You want human rights respected? That starts with showing up, voting, and supporting leaders who engage seriously with complex crises — not heckling without facts.

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Joanna Peña-Bickley @joannapenabickley.bsky.social · 12d

misinformation itself — it’s how it poisons public understanding, drives people away from participating, and depresses voter turnout. When people stay home based on falsehoods, they hand over the future to those who don’t share their values

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Joanna Peña-Bickley @joannapenabickley.bsky.social · 12d

Reducing that to a soundbite or conspiracy is not “holding leaders accountable,” it’s spreading distortion.

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Joanna Peña-Bickley @joannapenabickley.bsky.social · 12d

This is one of the most unhinged + uninformed posts I've seen in a while. What happened at that book signing is exactly why we’re in the situation we are now — loud, misinformed voices drowning out facts and nuanced policy.

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Rachel Maddow @maddow.msnbc.com · 13d

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/11/u...

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Joanna Peña-Bickley @joannapenabickley.bsky.social · 12d

I completely fell out.

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Elizabeth Cronise McLaughlin @ecmclaughlin.bsky.social · 12d

There are still a lot of people out there who want some magnetic leader to rise and lead them, and don’t realize that the longer they wait to take initiative to get involved themselves, the longer this nightmare will continue.

If you want something done, do it!

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Joanna Peña-Bickley @joannapenabickley.bsky.social · 12d

That young women is Completely 💯 misinformed and dangerously unhinged.

Joanna Peña-Bickley @joannapenabickley.bsky.social · 12d

on Thursday, alleging the company illegally used thousands of copyrighted books from “shadow libraries” to train its Apple Intelligence AI model

Joanna Peña-Bickley @joannapenabickley.bsky.social · 12d

Two neuroscientists, Susana Martinez-Conde and Stephen Macknik from SUNY Downstate Health Sciences University, filed a proposed class action lawsuit against Apple in California federal court kfgo.com/2025/10/10/a...

Apple sued over use of copyrighted books to train Apple Intelligence

By Blake Brittain (Reuters) -Apple was hit with a lawsuit in California federal court by a pair of neuroscientists who say that the tech company misused thousands of copyrighted books to train its App...

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