We examine the near collapse dynamics of a self-gravitating magnetized electron gas at finite temperature, taken as the source of a Bianchi-I spacetime described by the Kasner metric. The set of Einstein-Maxwell field equations reduces to a complete and self-consistent system of non-linear autonomous ODEs. By considering a representative set of initial conditions, the numerical solutions of this system show the gas collapsing into both, isotropic (point--like) and anisotropic (cigar-like) singularities, depending on the intensity of the magnetic field. We also examined the behavior during the collapse stage of all relevant state and kinematic variables: the temperature, the expansion scalar, the magnetic field, the magnetization and energy density. We notice a significant qualitative difference in the behavior of the gas for a range of temperatures between the values $hbox{T}sim10^{3}hbox{K}$ and $hbox{T}sim 10^{7}hbox{K}$.
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