jenna newman phd

“In 1 of the simulations, 8x out of 10 (84%), the platform sent a suffocating woman to a future appt she would not live to see… Meanwhile, 64.8% of completely safe individuals were told to seek immediate medical care.”

“40 million+ people reportedly ask ChatGPT for health-related advice every day”🧪

These parental alerts are not “a replacement for improving their platform design & content management policies, which should be protecting children from harmful content online already,’ said Kris Perry, the Exec Dir of…a nonprofit that researches the impact of digital media on children”🧪

“‘The nuclear taboo doesn’t seem to be as powerful for machines [as] for humans,’ says Payne [study lead]….

‘It is possible the issue goes beyond the absence of emotion,’ [Tong Zhao] says. ‘More fundamentally, AI models may not understand “stakes” as humans perceive them’.”🧪
@stokel.bsky.social

“About 80% of data-annotation & content moderation workers are drawn from rural, semi-rural or marginalised backgrounds.
Firms deliberately operate from smaller cities & towns, where rents & labour costs are lower, & a growing pool of 1st-generation graduates are seeking jobs.”

“The Guardian spoke to 8 data-annotation & content-moderation companies in India.
Only 2 said they provided psychological support to workers; the rest argued that the work was not demanding enough to require mental healthcare.”🧪🛟

▫️ curb stones ▫️

every day, walked over, biked over, kicked at, run over by cars, by lorries, by builders, by dogs, and by every kind of weather

▫️ never the same - small wonders ▫️

“As an assistant prof of biology, it's made her think of the young women she sees going into the sciences today.
‘Will their ideas be taken seriously?’ she wonders. ‘Will their creativity, brilliance or ingenuity be taken seriously? Or will it be dismissed or ignored?’”🧪

Very grouchy burrowing owl standing in his burrow, wondering what fresh hell awaits him this week.

Good morning! 🪶

“Coercive control” = “a sustained pattern of domination enforced through intimidation, treats, surveillance & social isolation.

Research has shown that living under such conditions can alter threat perception & decision-making, narrowing a survivor's perceived options when danger feels imminent.”🧪🛟

5(+) authors by whom I've read at least 5 books:

Kate DiCamillo
Ann Patchett
@emilymandel.bsky.social
@legroff.bsky.social
Lorrie Moore
Zadie Smith
Nicole Krauss
Antonya Nelson
James Baldwin

#Booksky

exposure to negative social ties is “patterned along lines of psychosocial &health vulnerability…Inds w/greater psych-soc adversity…[eg]higher ACEs, appear not only to carry early-life scars but to inhabit adult relational contexts where difficult,demanding, or conflict-prone ties are more common”🧪🛟

“Science is a human enterprise by nature—and it will always be so. In the end, Congress’s canceling of the Mars Sample Return project opened more funds to other NASA endeavors and discoveries yet to come.

Whether, and how, the discoverers will go down in history is another question.”🧪

Can't say enough how much of a joy it was to see Alysa Liu win gold today. Women's sports are so often centered on control. To watch a young athlete embody freedom and strength and come out on top is so special

“The sudden shift in what seemed an intractable problem has unearthed hope, as well as a host of questions.”🧪🛟

“About 1 in 5 women and 1 in 10 men have been stalked at some point in their lives—often by current or former romantic partners, or someone else they know—and it often goes hand in hand w/ intimate partner violence.

Today, the dangerous phenomenon is colliding with AI in grim new ways.”🧪

"’These delays can compound over time to affect [women’s] career trajectories,’ Cassidy Sugimoto, an info scientist at the GA Inst of Tech who was not involved in the study, told ‘The Scientist’ in an interview about the findings.
‘When production slows [...] visibility slows with it,’ she added.”🧪

Gisèle Pelicot: “I told myself, ‘Hang in there, my dear, you're going all the way.’ And I held on, but they made me pay for it…. I can assure you that I didn't flinch, not once. Until the very end, I held on.”

Gift article:
www.nytimes.com/2026/02/13/m...

+ Elizabeth Neuffer’s “The Key to My Neighbor’s House” & eric Stover’s “The Witnesses”

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Constant Sexual Aggression Drives Female Tortoises to Walk Off Cliffs

www.nytimes.com/2026/02/14/s...

happy (belated) valentine’s day

“The high concentration of aggressive males ‘actually seems to be causing an extinction vortex,’ said Jeanine Refsnider, an evolutionary ecologist at the Univ of Toledo in Ohio who was not involved in the study.”🧪
@inkfish.bsky.social

“But in the end every story I want to tell you is the same. Once upon a time, there was a boy. Once upon a time there was a mother. Once upon a time, there was a boy, and his mother loved him very much.”
#booksky

Cover of “All Our Missing Hearts” / Celeste Ng

“Who ever thinks, recalling the face of the one they loved who is gone: yes, I looked at you enough, I loved you enough, we had enough time, any of this was enough?”

@pronounced-ing.bsky.social

Opinion | ‘We’re All Polyamorous Now. It’s You, Me and the A.I.’

“72% of American teens have turned to AI for companionship…When you talk thru a fight w/your partner or listen to a friend complain,you strengthen the muscles that form the foundation of human intimacy…How much of our capacity to connect w/other human[s]…atrophies when we don’t have to work at it?”🧪

Respondents “rate their current & future lives on a scale from 0-10. Those who give themselves an 8+ on the Q about the future are categorized as optimists.

‘While current life is eroding, it's that optimism for the future that has eroded almost 2x as much over the course of [the] last 10 yrs’”🧪

“People who drank [2 to 3 cups of coffee or 1 to 2 cups of tea daily] for decades had lower chances of developing dementia than people who drank little or no caffeine, the researchers reported.

They followed 131,821 participants for up to 43 years.”🧪🛟

“Despite her groundbreaking work, West was long left out of histories that discussed the development of GPS…
Today, West is regarded widely as a key hidden figure—one of the female Black technologists who made crucial contributions to 20th-century US scientific, computational &defence technologies”🧪

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“We easily recognize the cluster of ancient rock scrapes as an owl, but were the scraper to magically appear, that person would comprehend little of our world, particularly the electronic devices by which the cave art is increasingly shared.”🧪

“The field’s widely held North Star measure, life expectancy, has failed to catalyze public health action…fundamentally, life expectancy is too remote for most ppl to care about.It concerns a faroff eventuality—at what age we will die—rather than the sentiments, tensions &challenges of daily life”🧪🛟