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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 · 2d

I don't think this is a blue sky problem. I am seeing it in real life. Only 1 percent have ever served the country - therefore making the experience of serving rare.

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Barbra Streisand @barbrastreisand.bsky.social · 4d

This Administration’s wanton
cruelty is harming innocent citizens of our nation.

Trump administration cancels grants that support deafblind students, special education teachers • Wisconsin Examiner

Wisconsin Superintendent Jill Underly called on the Trump administration to reconsider the decision in a statement this week.

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Joanna Peña-Bickley @joannapenabickley.bsky.social · 6d

Brilliantly executed

Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 6d

New York City, I can see a future with you. And it’s one we can afford.

Our new ad just aired during The Golden Bachelor.

Joanna Peña-Bickley @joannapenabickley.bsky.social · 7d

Your voice is the 5th Vital Sign—easy to track as your steps. From Alzheimer’s to digital dementia, voice reveals decline years early. Vibes AI is building the tools to listen.

#FifthVitalSign #CognitiveHealth #DigitalDementia @vibesai.bsky.social
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Why Voice Will Revolutionize Cognitive Health: The Scientific Case for the Fifth Vital Sign - Vibes AI

Voice acts as a powerful biomarker for cognitive health, with the potential to detect early signs of decline. Despite the prevalence of Alzheimer's, diagnostic systems are inadequate. Vibes AI aims to...

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Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez @ocasio-cortez.house.gov · 7d

This is not a fight about tax credits.

This is a fight over your ability to go to a pharmacy and afford your insulin.

We have the chance to protect the health care of millions of Americans. We need to take it.

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Olivia Guest · Ολίβια Γκεστ @olivia.science · Jul 17

I added this section to my website: primarily & honestly, because sometimes I feel people are very confused about what I research or whatever. No idea if this will help. BONUS: I coded up the little sun/moon icon for toggling darkmode.

See: olivia.science#featured

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Screenshot of linked website, but after making it darkmode

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

So another words. It is a ....

Joanna Peña-Bickley @joannapenabickley.bsky.social · 11d

Leadership isn't managing today—it's anticipating tomorrow.
Proactive innovation = designing the future before problems arise. Building teams that transform how we live, work, connect.
The best leaders don't react—they invent.
#Leadership #ProactiveInnovation #DesignTheFuture

Joanna Peña-Bickley @joannapenabickley.bsky.social · 11d

The real joy? Thinking critically and building passionately. As a design engineer, I move AI from concept → code → lives changed. Every model trained, every prototype tested, every product released transforms how we think, heal, & connect.

Joanna Peña-Bickley @joannapenabickley.bsky.social · 11d

Leadership isn't about managing today—it's about looking around corners to anticipate tomorrow.
Proactive innovation means designing the future before problems arise. Building resilient teams that transform how we live, work, and connect.
The best leaders don't react—they invent.
#DesignTheFuture

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George Conway 👊🇺🇸🔥 @gtconway.bsky.social · 14d

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Joanna Peña-Bickley @joannapenabickley.bsky.social · 14d

Truth

Joanna Peña-Bickley @joannapenabickley.bsky.social · 14d

As the mother of Cognitive Experience Design, I see repetition not as redundancy but as rhythm. It’s how our brains learn, trust, and find joy. This book beautifully unpacks why patterns matter—for bees, for humans, for design.

MIT Press @mitpress.bsky.social · 17d

"One might ask: Why is repetition bound to pleasure? The answer begins with the observation that Homo sapiens is not the only creature equipped to make same/except judgments. Even bees do it. This smacks of evolution."

More Notes on Repetition and Our Brains - The MIT Press Reader

Samuel Jay Keyser on why repetition enchants the mind, and what evolution has to do with it.

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Joanna Peña-Bickley @joannapenabickley.bsky.social · 14d

A healthier info ecosystem is a design choice. Cognitive Experience Design arms us against propaganda by making bias visible, truth accessible, and confusion impossible to weaponize.

MIT Press @mitpress.bsky.social · 15d

"Propagandists often don’t care whether everyone, or even most people, really believe the specific things they are selling. They don’t have to get you to actually believe the penny is under the wrong shell. They just have to get you confused enough so that you don’t know what is true."

The Disturbing Power of Information Pollution

When we’re lulled into giving up on truth, we give up on critical thought — even dissent itself.

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Joanna Peña-Bickley @joannapenabickley.bsky.social · 14d

Got on the metro north train this morning and I’m in a car of 50 people on the Hudson River Line and half are reading 107 days by @kamalaharris.com on their way into work. #JoyfulWarriors I’m about to start a #KHive book club.

Joanna Peña-Bickley @joannapenabickley.bsky.social · 14d

Disney’s PR spin on dropping Kimmel insults everyone’s intelligence. Audiences see through the corporate tap dance. The real power shift comes when we—viewers, creators, and platforms—set the terms. When consumers lead, gatekeepers lose their grip.

Joanna Peña-Bickley @joannapenabickley.bsky.social · 14d

A pilot study in dementia patients using 15 minutes of daily 40 Hz auditory stimulation for 30 days resulted in statistically significant improvements in Mini-Cog scores for memory and attention, w/ EEG revealing increased gamma activity
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Brain responses to 40-Hz binaural beat and effects on emotion and memory

Gamma oscillation plays a role in binding process or sensory integration, a process by which several brain areas beside primary cortex are activated f…

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Joanna Peña-Bickley @joannapenabickley.bsky.social · 14d

Clinical and pilot studies have shown that daily exposure to 40 Hz auditory stimulation, such as pure tones or binaural beats, can increase gamma-band neural oscillations in the brain, which supports better memory, attention, and executive function. www.ijcmph.com/index.php/ij...

The role of 40 Hz auditory stimulation in sustaining cognitive health: a pilot study in dementia | International Journal Of Community Medicine And Public Health

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Joanna Peña-Bickley @joannapenabickley.bsky.social · 14d

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Restorative Audio

Restorative Audio refers to scientifically engineered sound, music, and audio therapeutics designed to elevate cognitive performance and brain health.

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Joanna Peña-Bickley @joannapenabickley.bsky.social · 14d

Your ancestors weren't just making music. They were prescribing medicine. Experience Resonancia: where the teponaztli drum meets modern brain therapy. Science is just catching up. @latinarepublic.bsky.social #HispanicHeritage
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Resonancia

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Joanna Peña-Bickley @joannapenabickley.bsky.social · 14d

Latino families often shoulder the caregiving burden with limited resources, experiencing higher levels of emotional distress and depression compared to other groups.⁷
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15 min Resonancia (Unguided) - Cognitive Fitness Vibe

Podcast Episode · Restorative Audio · 09/22/2025 · 16m

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Joanna Peña-Bickley @joannapenabickley.bsky.social · 14d

From Aztec healing drums to MIT labs: Experience how Resonancia is revolutionizing brain health. Press play to hear why your new daily ritual might be your best prevention tool 🎧
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Restorative Audio

We believe music is medicine. Begin your journey to cognitive health & wellness with captivating Restorative Audio. Vibes AI introduces Restorative Audio—entertainment that works with your brain's ...

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Joanna Peña-Bickley @joannapenabickley.bsky.social · 15d

Your ancestors weren't just making music. They were prescribing medicine. Experience Resonancia: where the teponaztli drum meets modern brain therapy. Science is just catching up. lnk.to/vibesaiplus

Joanna Peña-Bickley @joannapenabickley.bsky.social · 15d

A 900% projected increase in Latino #dementia cases by 2050 isn't just a health crisis—it's an economic tsunami. What if the solution has been hiding in our epigenetics? New research on 40Hz frequencies & traditional Latino music is rewriting the prevention playbook. vibesbiowear.ai/resonancia-t...

"Resonancia" Transforms Latino Families from Dementia Statistics to Brain Health Pioneers - Vibes AI

Discover how "Resonancia" by Rachel Bickley uses 40Hz frequency therapy to combat the 900% surge in Latino dementia cases. Free Hispanic Heritage Month gift.

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Olivia Guest · Ολίβια Γκεστ @olivia.science · Sep 6

Finally! 🤩 Our position piece: Against the Uncritical Adoption of 'AI' Technologies in Academia:
doi.org/10.5281/zeno...

We unpick the tech industry’s marketing, hype, & harm; and we argue for safeguarding higher education, critical
thinking, expertise, academic freedom, & scientific integrity.
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Abstract: Under the banner of progress, products have been uncritically adopted or
even imposed on users — in past centuries with tobacco and combustion engines, and in
the 21st with social media. For these collective blunders, we now regret our involvement or
apathy as scientists, and society struggles to put the genie back in the bottle. Currently, we
are similarly entangled with artificial intelligence (AI) technology. For example, software updates are rolled out seamlessly and non-consensually, Microsoft Office is bundled with chatbots, and we, our students, and our employers have had no say, as it is not
considered a valid position to reject AI technologies in our teaching and research. This
is why in June 2025, we co-authored an Open Letter calling on our employers to reverse
and rethink their stance on uncritically adopting AI technologies. In this position piece,
we expound on why universities must take their role seriously toa) counter the technology
industry’s marketing, hype, and harm; and to b) safeguard higher education, critical
thinking, expertise, academic freedom, and scientific integrity. We include pointers to
relevant work to further inform our colleagues.

Figure 1. A cartoon set theoretic view on various terms (see Table 1) used when discussing the superset AI
(black outline, hatched background): LLMs are in orange; ANNs are in magenta; generative models are
in blue; and finally, chatbots are in green. Where these intersect, the colours reflect that, e.g. generative adversarial network (GAN) and Boltzmann machine (BM) models are in the purple subset because they are
both generative and ANNs. In the case of proprietary closed source models, e.g. OpenAI’s ChatGPT and
Apple’s Siri, we cannot verify their implementation and so academics can only make educated guesses (cf.
Dingemanse 2025). Undefined terms used above: BERT (Devlin et al. 2019); AlexNet (Krizhevsky et al.
2017); A.L.I.C.E. (Wallace 2009); ELIZA (Weizenbaum 1966); Jabberwacky (Twist 2003); linear discriminant analysis (LDA); quadratic discriminant analysis (QDA).

Table 1. Below some of the typical terminological disarray is untangled. Importantly, none of these terms
are orthogonal nor do they exclusively pick out the types of products we may wish to critique or proscribe.

Protecting the Ecosystem of Human Knowledge: Five Principles

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