Lana Sinapayen
@sinalana.bsky.social
Japan. miscellaneous ALife researcher https://lanasina.github.io/
Research @ Sony CSL, Associate Prof. National Institute for Basic Biology.
talking dog insta @iikocookie
Research @ Sony CSL, Associate Prof. National Institute for Basic Biology.
talking dog insta @iikocookie
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Lana Sinapayen
@sinalana.bsky.social
· Nov 15
"It's ok if I post disinformation because it could be true"
"It's ok if I misrepresent a thing as happening now even if the article is 5 yo, because it's probably worse now"
It's ok if I mislead people, because I'm on YOUR side.
Rings a bell? Unfollow and block them. Poison to your community.
"It's ok if I misrepresent a thing as happening now even if the article is 5 yo, because it's probably worse now"
It's ok if I mislead people, because I'm on YOUR side.
Rings a bell? Unfollow and block them. Poison to your community.
Reposted by Lana Sinapayen
LLM AI means you need more persistent experts and more sceptical generalists to spot fake stories like this www.platformer.news/fake-uber-ea.... It’s a metacognition issue of certainty and confidence.
Debunking the AI food delivery hoax that fooled Reddit
A “whistleblower” tried to corroborate his viral post with AI-generated evidence. This is how I caught him. PLUS: Grok's image-generation crisis, and the rapture over Claude Opus 4.5
www.platformer.news
January 6, 2026 at 9:15 AM
LLM AI means you need more persistent experts and more sceptical generalists to spot fake stories like this www.platformer.news/fake-uber-ea.... It’s a metacognition issue of certainty and confidence.
Reposted by Lana Sinapayen
Ah, so this is where all those stereotypical stock photos are taken?
January 6, 2026 at 6:20 AM
Ah, so this is where all those stereotypical stock photos are taken?
Not all mornings are this chatty but here's an unedited 8 am convo with my button dog Cookie:
C: Like Paw Walk
Me: Ha ha, like paw walk? Later, I shower, then we walk.
C: Like Head Walk
M: You like all your body parts to walk? Do you like your butt to walk?
C: -__-
1/2
C: Like Paw Walk
Me: Ha ha, like paw walk? Later, I shower, then we walk.
C: Like Head Walk
M: You like all your body parts to walk? Do you like your butt to walk?
C: -__-
1/2
January 5, 2026 at 11:47 PM
Not all mornings are this chatty but here's an unedited 8 am convo with my button dog Cookie:
C: Like Paw Walk
Me: Ha ha, like paw walk? Later, I shower, then we walk.
C: Like Head Walk
M: You like all your body parts to walk? Do you like your butt to walk?
C: -__-
1/2
C: Like Paw Walk
Me: Ha ha, like paw walk? Later, I shower, then we walk.
C: Like Head Walk
M: You like all your body parts to walk? Do you like your butt to walk?
C: -__-
1/2
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I was thinking about what CO₂ observations on Mauna Loa — the longest real time measurement we have (i.e., not from ice cores) — mean for humanity and how we should regard it.
www.sfchronicle.com/opinion/open...
www.sfchronicle.com/opinion/open...
July 29, 2025 at 10:40 AM
I was thinking about what CO₂ observations on Mauna Loa — the longest real time measurement we have (i.e., not from ice cores) — mean for humanity and how we should regard it.
www.sfchronicle.com/opinion/open...
www.sfchronicle.com/opinion/open...
January 5, 2026 at 3:07 PM
I was asked today how I deal with the idea of "impact" on society, as someone drawn to fundamental science.
My answer has 2 parts.
1. I don't. I don't mind if my science doesn't change our daily life. If tomorrow I find proof of life on a faraway planet, nothing changes, but it's still important 😲
My answer has 2 parts.
1. I don't. I don't mind if my science doesn't change our daily life. If tomorrow I find proof of life on a faraway planet, nothing changes, but it's still important 😲
January 5, 2026 at 2:42 PM
I was asked today how I deal with the idea of "impact" on society, as someone drawn to fundamental science.
My answer has 2 parts.
1. I don't. I don't mind if my science doesn't change our daily life. If tomorrow I find proof of life on a faraway planet, nothing changes, but it's still important 😲
My answer has 2 parts.
1. I don't. I don't mind if my science doesn't change our daily life. If tomorrow I find proof of life on a faraway planet, nothing changes, but it's still important 😲
Reposted by Lana Sinapayen
The last year was very hard as my father was dying. It became that much harder when I discovered that AI played a role in amplifying his physical pain, and perhaps hastening the end of his life. It wasn’t easy to write about what happened, but I’ve tried.
open.substack.com/pub/buildcog...
open.substack.com/pub/buildcog...
The role of AI in the death of my father
A sad strange story
open.substack.com
January 5, 2026 at 12:54 PM
The last year was very hard as my father was dying. It became that much harder when I discovered that AI played a role in amplifying his physical pain, and perhaps hastening the end of his life. It wasn’t easy to write about what happened, but I’ve tried.
open.substack.com/pub/buildcog...
open.substack.com/pub/buildcog...
Today is the last day of our surprise calendar! Now that all windows can be open, did you find any cool links or learned anything new?
The ALife newsletter team made a holiday calendar with 12 days of ALife vignettes on the theme of "homecoming".
Come open the first 5 days!
app.myadvent.net/calendar?id=...
Come open the first 5 days!
app.myadvent.net/calendar?id=...
ALife Holiday Calendar
ALife Newsletter has created an advent calendar for you! Happy holidays! :)
app.myadvent.net
January 5, 2026 at 1:48 PM
Today is the last day of our surprise calendar! Now that all windows can be open, did you find any cool links or learned anything new?
Reposted by Lana Sinapayen
January 5, 2026 at 1:27 PM
Reposted by Lana Sinapayen
Chubu Electric Power may have cherry-picked data to submit to a nuclear watchdog causing it to review safety standards at the Hamaoka power plant in Shizuoka Prefecture to be based on weaker earthquake projections.
Cherry-picked quake data may have been submitted for Hamaoka nuclear plant
Chubu Electric Power President Kingo Hayashi says the data could have caused a review of safety standards at the Shizuoka plant to be based on weaker quake projections.
ebx.sh
January 5, 2026 at 1:31 PM
Chubu Electric Power may have cherry-picked data to submit to a nuclear watchdog causing it to review safety standards at the Hamaoka power plant in Shizuoka Prefecture to be based on weaker earthquake projections.
Reposted by Lana Sinapayen
The ‘Christmas tree worm’ evolved one of the ocean’s strangest senses: it can see with its gills. 👀 apple.news/AF2qdDcDpQ5W...
How the 'Christmas tree worm' evolved one of the ocean’s strangest senses — BBC Science Focus Magazine
Meet the bizarre underwater worm that looks like a Christmas decoration and sees through its gills. December 24, 2025 A game I like to play while scuba diving or snorkelling on a tropical coral reef i...
apple.news
December 25, 2025 at 5:58 PM
The ‘Christmas tree worm’ evolved one of the ocean’s strangest senses: it can see with its gills. 👀 apple.news/AF2qdDcDpQ5W...
Reposted by Lana Sinapayen
Scientific funding is a net negative: "European taxpayers will have spent more on the funding process than on the funding itself, and the scientific ecosystem has been drained"
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
Point of no returns: researchers are crossing a threshold in the fight for funding
With so little money to go round, the costs of competing for grants can exceed what the grants are worth. When that happens, nobody wins.
www.nature.com
January 4, 2026 at 8:56 AM
Scientific funding is a net negative: "European taxpayers will have spent more on the funding process than on the funding itself, and the scientific ecosystem has been drained"
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
I feel very dumb but somehow I can't figure out how to look up the answer to this question.
I sample a bunch of points from a 3D space. Each sample has xyz coordinates, and a vector of 10 values representing its chemical composition.
I sample a bunch of points from a 3D space. Each sample has xyz coordinates, and a vector of 10 values representing its chemical composition.
January 4, 2026 at 8:50 AM
I feel very dumb but somehow I can't figure out how to look up the answer to this question.
I sample a bunch of points from a 3D space. Each sample has xyz coordinates, and a vector of 10 values representing its chemical composition.
I sample a bunch of points from a 3D space. Each sample has xyz coordinates, and a vector of 10 values representing its chemical composition.
Reposted by Lana Sinapayen
For researchers interested in semantic change over years and decades...
I've created a toolkit — lexichron — for measuring long-term shifts in word meanings using Google Ngrams and other corpora (e.g., COHA, COCA).
Here's the public GitHub repo:
github.com/eric-d-knowl...
🧵
I've created a toolkit — lexichron — for measuring long-term shifts in word meanings using Google Ngrams and other corpora (e.g., COHA, COCA).
Here's the public GitHub repo:
github.com/eric-d-knowl...
🧵
GitHub - eric-d-knowles/lexichron
Contribute to eric-d-knowles/lexichron development by creating an account on GitHub.
github.com
January 4, 2026 at 2:49 AM
For researchers interested in semantic change over years and decades...
I've created a toolkit — lexichron — for measuring long-term shifts in word meanings using Google Ngrams and other corpora (e.g., COHA, COCA).
Here's the public GitHub repo:
github.com/eric-d-knowl...
🧵
I've created a toolkit — lexichron — for measuring long-term shifts in word meanings using Google Ngrams and other corpora (e.g., COHA, COCA).
Here's the public GitHub repo:
github.com/eric-d-knowl...
🧵
Reposted by Lana Sinapayen
I’m at Times Square, where an emergency “No War On Venezuela” protest just took to the street. Easily a thousand people here in real-feel 20°F weather.
“No more coups, no more wars, Venezuela’s not yours!”
“No boots on the ground no bombs in the air, U.S. out of everywhere!”
“No more coups, no more wars, Venezuela’s not yours!”
“No boots on the ground no bombs in the air, U.S. out of everywhere!”
January 3, 2026 at 8:02 PM
I’m at Times Square, where an emergency “No War On Venezuela” protest just took to the street. Easily a thousand people here in real-feel 20°F weather.
“No more coups, no more wars, Venezuela’s not yours!”
“No boots on the ground no bombs in the air, U.S. out of everywhere!”
“No more coups, no more wars, Venezuela’s not yours!”
“No boots on the ground no bombs in the air, U.S. out of everywhere!”
Reposted by Lana Sinapayen
this kinda stuff is prohibited in the EU thanks to all the "red tape" that's "slowing down innovation" that big tech constantly complains about
January 3, 2026 at 10:56 PM
this kinda stuff is prohibited in the EU thanks to all the "red tape" that's "slowing down innovation" that big tech constantly complains about
Reposted by Lana Sinapayen
Rule/Yule 30 cellular automaton with a "band-pass" filter every few iterations. Done in the Bash shell using bitwise math, so each row/state is a single number of 63 bits.
#cellularautomaton #rule30 #bitwiseoperators #textmodeart #oldskool #retrocomputing #unixshell #xmastree #joulu6
#cellularautomaton #rule30 #bitwiseoperators #textmodeart #oldskool #retrocomputing #unixshell #xmastree #joulu6
December 9, 2025 at 12:15 PM
Rule/Yule 30 cellular automaton with a "band-pass" filter every few iterations. Done in the Bash shell using bitwise math, so each row/state is a single number of 63 bits.
#cellularautomaton #rule30 #bitwiseoperators #textmodeart #oldskool #retrocomputing #unixshell #xmastree #joulu6
#cellularautomaton #rule30 #bitwiseoperators #textmodeart #oldskool #retrocomputing #unixshell #xmastree #joulu6
Reposted by Lana Sinapayen
The way the press is treating chatbots, like they have agency and they “know” things all of a sudden, crossed the line recently from dumb and obsequious to something else entirely. Treating them as alive and making conscious decisions is an almost religious belief. It won’t age well.
January 3, 2026 at 2:52 AM
The way the press is treating chatbots, like they have agency and they “know” things all of a sudden, crossed the line recently from dumb and obsequious to something else entirely. Treating them as alive and making conscious decisions is an almost religious belief. It won’t age well.
Reposted by Lana Sinapayen
I don't think you non-science people realize what it takes to get a grant funded by NIH. Started experiments in Sept 2021 to generate 3 new mouse mutants to model human disease. Prelim dara shows they have relevant disease phenotypes worthy of study. Need a small grant first to characterize /1
January 2, 2026 at 3:19 AM
I don't think you non-science people realize what it takes to get a grant funded by NIH. Started experiments in Sept 2021 to generate 3 new mouse mutants to model human disease. Prelim dara shows they have relevant disease phenotypes worthy of study. Need a small grant first to characterize /1
Reposted by Lana Sinapayen
When I explain to people what is involved with writing a successful grant, they simply don’t believe me.
I explained it once to a famous person from Pixar, and he looked me square in the eye and said: You mean all the cancer and Alzheimer’s grants work that way? You’ve gotta be &$%#ing kidding me!
I explained it once to a famous person from Pixar, and he looked me square in the eye and said: You mean all the cancer and Alzheimer’s grants work that way? You’ve gotta be &$%#ing kidding me!
I don't think you non-science people realize what it takes to get a grant funded by NIH. Started experiments in Sept 2021 to generate 3 new mouse mutants to model human disease. Prelim dara shows they have relevant disease phenotypes worthy of study. Need a small grant first to characterize /1
January 3, 2026 at 1:14 AM
When I explain to people what is involved with writing a successful grant, they simply don’t believe me.
I explained it once to a famous person from Pixar, and he looked me square in the eye and said: You mean all the cancer and Alzheimer’s grants work that way? You’ve gotta be &$%#ing kidding me!
I explained it once to a famous person from Pixar, and he looked me square in the eye and said: You mean all the cancer and Alzheimer’s grants work that way? You’ve gotta be &$%#ing kidding me!
Reposted by Lana Sinapayen
From 3/4 of a century of reading news articles…. If it has a question in the headline, forget about it; if it has a visual and words, pay attention to the words; if the first paragraph is stupid, the remainder will be too.
January 2, 2026 at 8:49 PM
From 3/4 of a century of reading news articles…. If it has a question in the headline, forget about it; if it has a visual and words, pay attention to the words; if the first paragraph is stupid, the remainder will be too.
So I've posted about seeing disinformation.
But let's say you're the one who's been caught reposting a lie, an AI fake, or other disinformation... You fell for it! And someone called you out, it's probably not the 1st time!
What now?
Some remedial steps 🧵 ↓
But let's say you're the one who's been caught reposting a lie, an AI fake, or other disinformation... You fell for it! And someone called you out, it's probably not the 1st time!
What now?
Some remedial steps 🧵 ↓
"It's ok if I post disinformation because it could be true"
"It's ok if I misrepresent a thing as happening now even if the article is 5 yo, because it's probably worse now"
It's ok if I mislead people, because I'm on YOUR side.
Rings a bell? Unfollow and block them. Poison to your community.
"It's ok if I misrepresent a thing as happening now even if the article is 5 yo, because it's probably worse now"
It's ok if I mislead people, because I'm on YOUR side.
Rings a bell? Unfollow and block them. Poison to your community.
January 3, 2026 at 2:38 AM
So I've posted about seeing disinformation.
But let's say you're the one who's been caught reposting a lie, an AI fake, or other disinformation... You fell for it! And someone called you out, it's probably not the 1st time!
What now?
Some remedial steps 🧵 ↓
But let's say you're the one who's been caught reposting a lie, an AI fake, or other disinformation... You fell for it! And someone called you out, it's probably not the 1st time!
What now?
Some remedial steps 🧵 ↓
Reposted by Lana Sinapayen
It’s no guarantee but the first thing you should do if you see an outrageous story that’s just an image or screenshot or video with no link to a reputable source is to check the replies and see if someone is saying “that’s an AI fake.” And then don’t spread it either way because it’s not sourced.
January 2, 2026 at 7:40 PM
It’s no guarantee but the first thing you should do if you see an outrageous story that’s just an image or screenshot or video with no link to a reputable source is to check the replies and see if someone is saying “that’s an AI fake.” And then don’t spread it either way because it’s not sourced.
Reposted by Lana Sinapayen
Happy new year! I wanted to share my new Python package called chatter that streamlines the process of applying AI/ML models to animal communication 🦜🦇🐋🐵👨🌾 masonyoungblood.github.io/chatter/
January 2, 2026 at 4:59 PM
Happy new year! I wanted to share my new Python package called chatter that streamlines the process of applying AI/ML models to animal communication 🦜🦇🐋🐵👨🌾 masonyoungblood.github.io/chatter/
Reposted by Lana Sinapayen
We do call it twenty twenty six is the thing
January 2, 2026 at 4:37 AM
We do call it twenty twenty six is the thing