Kendra Maas, PhD
@dnakendra.bsky.social
Queer scientist mom r nerd gardner she/her
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Universal healthcare would save Americans $450B ANNUALLY but requires dismantling systemic racism & that scares too many unmelinated folks so we continue to suffer as is.
December 1, 2025 at 5:41 PM
Universal healthcare would save Americans $450B ANNUALLY but requires dismantling systemic racism & that scares too many unmelinated folks so we continue to suffer as is.
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Hey UConn, protect academic freedom! Faculty labor is union labor. GA labor is union labor. @higheredlabor.bsky.social
December 1, 2025 at 7:09 PM
Hey UConn, protect academic freedom! Faculty labor is union labor. GA labor is union labor. @higheredlabor.bsky.social
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November 30, 2025 at 7:51 PM
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FTA: "It failed to identify the key signs [of mental illness], mentioned mental health concerns only briefly, and stopped doing so when instructed by the patient. Instead, it engaged with the delusional beliefs and inadvertently reinforced the individual’s behaviours."
ChatGPT-5 offers dangerous advice to mentally ill people, psychologists warn
ChatGPT-5 offers dangerous advice to mentally ill people, psychologists warn
Research finds OpenAI’s free chatbot fails to identify risky behaviour or challenge delusional beliefs
ChatGPT-5 is offering dangerous and unhelpful advice to people experiencing mental health crises, some of the UK’s leading psychologists have warned.
Research conducted by King’s College London (KCL) and the Association of Clinical Psychologists UK (ACP) in partnership with the Guardian suggested that the AI chatbotfailed to identify risky behaviour when communicating with mentally ill people. Continue reading...
www.theguardian.com
November 30, 2025 at 12:14 PM
FTA: "It failed to identify the key signs [of mental illness], mentioned mental health concerns only briefly, and stopped doing so when instructed by the patient. Instead, it engaged with the delusional beliefs and inadvertently reinforced the individual’s behaviours."
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So what’s going on is that the federal government is running a massive domestic spying operation and getting local cops to do their dirty work once a car is stopped. They call this siloing of data “walling” it off from their true source.
November 22, 2025 at 7:25 PM
So what’s going on is that the federal government is running a massive domestic spying operation and getting local cops to do their dirty work once a car is stopped. They call this siloing of data “walling” it off from their true source.
The littles would happily just ride the train all day
November 29, 2025 at 9:56 PM
The littles would happily just ride the train all day
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Headlines like this are extremely dangerous. Because moms of young kids are the people who make the bulk of the vaccine decisions for famillies. And for a lot of them, "reading the news" looks like scrolling past headlines on social media in the spare moments of the chaos of caring for kids.
November 29, 2025 at 3:13 PM
Headlines like this are extremely dangerous. Because moms of young kids are the people who make the bulk of the vaccine decisions for famillies. And for a lot of them, "reading the news" looks like scrolling past headlines on social media in the spare moments of the chaos of caring for kids.
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Experts say it’s highly unusual for the White House to tell agents to give up custody of potential evidence in an investigation, as it did with the Tates.
“I’ve never heard of anything like that in my 30 years working,” an ex-DHS official said.
“I’ve never heard of anything like that in my 30 years working,” an ex-DHS official said.
The White House Intervened on Behalf of Accused Sex Trafficker Andrew Tate During a Federal Investigation
Federal authorities were chided for seizing electronic devices from Tate and his brother, and told to return them, records and interviews show. Experts said the intervention was highly inappropriate.
www.propublica.org
November 28, 2025 at 4:00 AM
Experts say it’s highly unusual for the White House to tell agents to give up custody of potential evidence in an investigation, as it did with the Tates.
“I’ve never heard of anything like that in my 30 years working,” an ex-DHS official said.
“I’ve never heard of anything like that in my 30 years working,” an ex-DHS official said.
Over cooked my pie crusts but at least the cranberry custard was delicious.
November 27, 2025 at 10:39 PM
Over cooked my pie crusts but at least the cranberry custard was delicious.
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I'm old.
If you're not, listen to this.
Get a guitar or some drums, or a trumpet. Pick up a brush, a pencil, some clay or a welder.
Just make shit. It doesn't have to be good (eventually it will be) just make music, art or write or whatever.
It's literally never been more important.
If you're not, listen to this.
Get a guitar or some drums, or a trumpet. Pick up a brush, a pencil, some clay or a welder.
Just make shit. It doesn't have to be good (eventually it will be) just make music, art or write or whatever.
It's literally never been more important.
November 27, 2025 at 4:21 AM
I'm old.
If you're not, listen to this.
Get a guitar or some drums, or a trumpet. Pick up a brush, a pencil, some clay or a welder.
Just make shit. It doesn't have to be good (eventually it will be) just make music, art or write or whatever.
It's literally never been more important.
If you're not, listen to this.
Get a guitar or some drums, or a trumpet. Pick up a brush, a pencil, some clay or a welder.
Just make shit. It doesn't have to be good (eventually it will be) just make music, art or write or whatever.
It's literally never been more important.
Kid1 is taking a college level blueprints class. They've been working on this assignment all day and doing such a good job figuring out how to 2d render a complex 3d mockup.
November 27, 2025 at 4:51 AM
Kid1 is taking a college level blueprints class. They've been working on this assignment all day and doing such a good job figuring out how to 2d render a complex 3d mockup.
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Vicente has been missing for seven weeks after being taken into DHS’ custody and experiencing a medical emergency.
His family has no answers on where he is or if he is safe.
The Trump Administration cannot get away with disappearing people.
His family has no answers on where he is or if he is safe.
The Trump Administration cannot get away with disappearing people.
November 27, 2025 at 12:50 AM
Vicente has been missing for seven weeks after being taken into DHS’ custody and experiencing a medical emergency.
His family has no answers on where he is or if he is safe.
The Trump Administration cannot get away with disappearing people.
His family has no answers on where he is or if he is safe.
The Trump Administration cannot get away with disappearing people.
I forgot to buy frozen pie crust so made some. I know it's not hard but my homemade crust usually slumps during blind baking (this is a custard pie). Baking pros-what am i doing wrong?
November 26, 2025 at 11:26 PM
I forgot to buy frozen pie crust so made some. I know it's not hard but my homemade crust usually slumps during blind baking (this is a custard pie). Baking pros-what am i doing wrong?
I imported my former spouse. The interview was both terrifying and no big deal. The backlog was so long we'd been married 4 years by the time we got our interview (applied the week after we we married). The system sucks and is designed to suck and now people are being torn apart because of backlogs.
I need everybody to read this and understand what’s going on. These are spouses of US citizens in the country legally. They have entry clearance and green cards, they’ve passed background checks and have no criminal records. ICE is taking them anyway.
Gift link:
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/26/u...
Gift link:
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/26/u...
Green Card Interviews End in Handcuffs for Spouses of U.S. Citizens
www.nytimes.com
November 26, 2025 at 9:14 PM
I imported my former spouse. The interview was both terrifying and no big deal. The backlog was so long we'd been married 4 years by the time we got our interview (applied the week after we we married). The system sucks and is designed to suck and now people are being torn apart because of backlogs.
Oil is nice, water is life. We've made a very bad trade.
Salt water laced with cancer-causing chemicals, a byproduct of oil and gas drilling, keeps shooting out of the ground in Oklahoma.
Experts say it means even more wastewater is spreading underground, poisoning the state’s water supply.
With @readfrontier.bsky.social
Experts say it means even more wastewater is spreading underground, poisoning the state’s water supply.
With @readfrontier.bsky.social
Toxic Wastewater From Oil Fields Keeps Pouring Out of the Ground. Oklahoma Regulators Failed to Stop It.
Salt water laced with cancer-causing chemicals, a byproduct of oil and gas drilling, is spewing from old wells. Experts warn of a pollution crisis spreading underground and threatening Oklahoma’s drin...
www.propublica.org
November 26, 2025 at 2:36 AM
Oil is nice, water is life. We've made a very bad trade.
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5/ Over and over, all over the country, that's all it took: a traffic stop.
We counted around 150 kids who ended up in federal shelters — oftentimes separated from their families — because they were in a vehicle that got pulled over.
We counted around 150 kids who ended up in federal shelters — oftentimes separated from their families — because they were in a vehicle that got pulled over.
ICE Sent 600 Immigrant Kids to Detention in Federal Shelters This Year. It’s a New Record.
Under a zero tolerance policy, the first Trump administration separated immigrant children from their families at the U.S.-Mexico border. New data suggests separations are happening all over the count...
www.propublica.org
November 25, 2025 at 2:06 AM
5/ Over and over, all over the country, that's all it took: a traffic stop.
We counted around 150 kids who ended up in federal shelters — oftentimes separated from their families — because they were in a vehicle that got pulled over.
We counted around 150 kids who ended up in federal shelters — oftentimes separated from their families — because they were in a vehicle that got pulled over.
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DOGE was always a very thinly disguised con to dress up data theft and extraction class destruction of federal corporate oversight as innovative, and it's important to remember that part of the reason it worked so well is that the press helped legitimize it
hey don't be so hard on yourselves; it delivered oceans of sensitive government and citizen data to billionaires
Musk’s DOGE Quietly Killed Off After Delivering Almost Nothing
The agency disbanded eight months ahead of schedule.
www.thedailybeast.com
November 24, 2025 at 2:42 PM
DOGE was always a very thinly disguised con to dress up data theft and extraction class destruction of federal corporate oversight as innovative, and it's important to remember that part of the reason it worked so well is that the press helped legitimize it
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Elon Musk donated $277 million to Trump so he could steal the federal government’s data, dismantle the nation’s infrastructure, and stop foreign aid from going to nonwhite people. It’s a quid pro quo breathtaking in scope, corruption, and damage, & completely unprecedented in American history.
Bye bye, “DOGE”.
It no longer exists as a “centralized entity”, according to the Office of Personnel Management.
@reuters.com
www.reuters.com/world/us/dog...
It no longer exists as a “centralized entity”, according to the Office of Personnel Management.
@reuters.com
www.reuters.com/world/us/dog...
November 23, 2025 at 3:29 PM
Elon Musk donated $277 million to Trump so he could steal the federal government’s data, dismantle the nation’s infrastructure, and stop foreign aid from going to nonwhite people. It’s a quid pro quo breathtaking in scope, corruption, and damage, & completely unprecedented in American history.
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One of the bragging rights that the US ed system had in the 20th century is that we didn't have education tracks. Essentially, any kid could go to a CC or state school & major in whatever they wanted to (obviously an oversimplification). I fear this aspect of the American dream is dying.
November 23, 2025 at 4:47 PM
One of the bragging rights that the US ed system had in the 20th century is that we didn't have education tracks. Essentially, any kid could go to a CC or state school & major in whatever they wanted to (obviously an oversimplification). I fear this aspect of the American dream is dying.
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Really important to stress that the Crown Jewels of the US higher education system were never the Ivies or elite SLACs (other countries have equivalents of these) but the well-funded, large, cheap, and excellently staffed public state university systems bringing high quality education to the masses.
One of the bragging rights that the US ed system had in the 20th century is that we didn't have education tracks. Essentially, any kid could go to a CC or state school & major in whatever they wanted to (obviously an oversimplification). I fear this aspect of the American dream is dying.
November 23, 2025 at 5:18 PM
Really important to stress that the Crown Jewels of the US higher education system were never the Ivies or elite SLACs (other countries have equivalents of these) but the well-funded, large, cheap, and excellently staffed public state university systems bringing high quality education to the masses.
Let's go!
'Suddenly exposed' DOGE employees fear prosecution after Musk abandoned them: report
www.rawstory.com/doge-employe...
www.rawstory.com/doge-employe...
'Suddenly exposed' DOGE employees fear prosecution after Musk abandoned them: report
Current and former Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) staffers are growing increasingly concerned that the work they did slashing government programs and eliminating jobs will come back to hau...
www.rawstory.com
November 22, 2025 at 7:54 PM
Let's go!
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Kavanaugh should personally have to pay for all the broken windows, bandages and tow fees that called trivial.
The teenager told officers he was a U.S. citizen, but an officer broke the car’s driver’s side window and detained him. In a video, the boy can be heard telling an officer that he is a citizen, to which the officer replies, “Get out of the car” and “I don’t care.”
www.oregonlive.com/portland/202...
www.oregonlive.com/portland/202...
High school senior, a U.S. citizen, detained by ICE in Oregon
The 17-year-old was held more than five hours Friday in an ICE facility, his brother said.
www.oregonlive.com
November 22, 2025 at 5:10 PM
Kavanaugh should personally have to pay for all the broken windows, bandages and tow fees that called trivial.
Tried to figure out a way to get my teen to a ct town about an hour away. There is no public transit option that less than 5hrs for a 1 hr drive.
November 22, 2025 at 7:28 PM
Tried to figure out a way to get my teen to a ct town about an hour away. There is no public transit option that less than 5hrs for a 1 hr drive.
People who work with Hela, does this look realistic?
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I tried an even harder example on Gemini Pro image generation and this is quite scary/amazing. I asked for a microscopy image of around 20 HeLa cells, GFP tagged 20% nuclear, 10% membrane, +1 nuclear staining, + overlap. Image below and prompt in the following post.
November 22, 2025 at 2:18 AM
People who work with Hela, does this look realistic?
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There are many people in the ND community that either can't or don't feel comfortable speaking out about Kennedy, so i think it's incumbent on those of us who can to do so to help protect those of us who cannot. Our neurodiversity isn't our problem, our problem is this quack has so much power. 6/x
November 21, 2025 at 8:18 PM
There are many people in the ND community that either can't or don't feel comfortable speaking out about Kennedy, so i think it's incumbent on those of us who can to do so to help protect those of us who cannot. Our neurodiversity isn't our problem, our problem is this quack has so much power. 6/x