Lana Sinapayen
@sinalana.bsky.social
Japan. miscellaneous ALife researcher https://lanasina.github.io/
Research @ Sony CSL, National Institute for Basic Biology.
talking dog insta @iikocookie
Research @ Sony CSL, National Institute for Basic Biology.
talking dog insta @iikocookie
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"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.
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Brazil approves the first vaccine against dengue. The disease killed 6000 Brazilians in 2024.
This is a really remarkable achievement. I got dengue in 2015, and even with the mild case I had, it was a really miserable experience.
This is a really remarkable achievement. I got dengue in 2015, and even with the mild case I had, it was a really miserable experience.
Anvisa aprova vacina brasileira contra dengue, a 1ª do mundo em dose única.
Após 12 anos de pesquisa e cinco de testes, imunizante foi produzido pelo Instituto Butantan. Em 2024, a doença matou quase 6 mil brasileiros.
Confira a reportagem completa: glo.bo/4rf9Hvg #JN
Após 12 anos de pesquisa e cinco de testes, imunizante foi produzido pelo Instituto Butantan. Em 2024, a doença matou quase 6 mil brasileiros.
Confira a reportagem completa: glo.bo/4rf9Hvg #JN
November 27, 2025 at 2:23 PM
Brazil approves the first vaccine against dengue. The disease killed 6000 Brazilians in 2024.
This is a really remarkable achievement. I got dengue in 2015, and even with the mild case I had, it was a really miserable experience.
This is a really remarkable achievement. I got dengue in 2015, and even with the mild case I had, it was a really miserable experience.
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A town in Japan has retracted its warning of a bear sighting after discovering that a picture it had received showing the fearsome creature was generated using AI. 👉 ebx.sh/sq9eVt
November 27, 2025 at 10:08 PM
A town in Japan has retracted its warning of a bear sighting after discovering that a picture it had received showing the fearsome creature was generated using AI. 👉 ebx.sh/sq9eVt
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Nature Sci Rep publishes incoherent AI slop. eLife publishes a paper which the reviewers didn't agree with, making all the comments and responses public with thoughtful commentary. One of these journals got delisted by Web of Science for quality concerns from not doing peer review. Guess which one?
November 27, 2025 at 1:35 PM
Nature Sci Rep publishes incoherent AI slop. eLife publishes a paper which the reviewers didn't agree with, making all the comments and responses public with thoughtful commentary. One of these journals got delisted by Web of Science for quality concerns from not doing peer review. Guess which one?
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1. Pausing new submissions about AI topics for 90 days. That is, papers about AI models, testing AI models, proposing AI models, theories about the future of AI, etc. We will make exceptions for papers that are already accepted for publication (or published) in peer-reviewed scholarly journals
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November 27, 2025 at 2:54 PM
1. Pausing new submissions about AI topics for 90 days. That is, papers about AI models, testing AI models, proposing AI models, theories about the future of AI, etc. We will make exceptions for papers that are already accepted for publication (or published) in peer-reviewed scholarly journals
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In light of record submission rates and a large volume of AI-generated slop, SocArXiv recently implemented a policy requiring ORCIDs linked in the OSF profile of submitting authors, and narrowing our focus to social science subjects. Today we are taking two more steps:
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November 27, 2025 at 2:54 PM
In light of record submission rates and a large volume of AI-generated slop, SocArXiv recently implemented a policy requiring ORCIDs linked in the OSF profile of submitting authors, and narrowing our focus to social science subjects. Today we are taking two more steps:
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🔭 Comet Lemmon and the Milky Way
Image Credit & Copyright: Lin Zixuan linzx23 at mails.tsinghua.edu dot cn) (Tsinghua U.)
apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap25112...
Image Credit & Copyright: Lin Zixuan linzx23 at mails.tsinghua.edu dot cn) (Tsinghua U.)
apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap25112...
November 25, 2025 at 8:00 AM
🔭 Comet Lemmon and the Milky Way
Image Credit & Copyright: Lin Zixuan linzx23 at mails.tsinghua.edu dot cn) (Tsinghua U.)
apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap25112...
Image Credit & Copyright: Lin Zixuan linzx23 at mails.tsinghua.edu dot cn) (Tsinghua U.)
apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap25112...
Extrapolate & don't make bsky your main or only social hangout
Small changes to ‘for you’ feed on X can rapidly increase political polarisation
A week of political content can bring about a shift in views that previously would have taken t3 years
www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
Small changes to ‘for you’ feed on X can rapidly increase political polarisation
A week of political content can bring about a shift in views that previously would have taken t3 years
www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
Small changes to ‘for you’ feed on X can rapidly increase political polarisation
Study finds that a week of political content can bring about a shift in views that previously would have taken three years
www.theguardian.com
November 27, 2025 at 11:33 PM
Extrapolate & don't make bsky your main or only social hangout
Small changes to ‘for you’ feed on X can rapidly increase political polarisation
A week of political content can bring about a shift in views that previously would have taken t3 years
www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
Small changes to ‘for you’ feed on X can rapidly increase political polarisation
A week of political content can bring about a shift in views that previously would have taken t3 years
www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
Memes of the decade:
- Torment nexus
- Faces, leopards
- Torment nexus
- Faces, leopards
November 26, 2025 at 11:23 PM
Memes of the decade:
- Torment nexus
- Faces, leopards
- Torment nexus
- Faces, leopards
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“.. This is X in 2025: Potentially fake accounts crying at other potentially fake accounts that they aren’t real, all while refusing to acknowledge that they themselves aren’t who they say they are — a Russian nesting doll of bullshit.”
@cwarzel.bsky.social
www.theatlantic.com/technology/2...
@cwarzel.bsky.social
www.theatlantic.com/technology/2...
November 25, 2025 at 1:21 AM
“.. This is X in 2025: Potentially fake accounts crying at other potentially fake accounts that they aren’t real, all while refusing to acknowledge that they themselves aren’t who they say they are — a Russian nesting doll of bullshit.”
@cwarzel.bsky.social
www.theatlantic.com/technology/2...
@cwarzel.bsky.social
www.theatlantic.com/technology/2...
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ALIFE 2025's proceedings are officially published (open-access) on the MIT Press's website!
direct.mit.edu/isal/isal202...
direct.mit.edu/isal/isal202...
Volumes | ALIFE 2022: The 2022 Conference on Artificial Life | MIT Press
ALIFE 2025: Ciphers of Life: Proceedings of the Artificial Life Conference 2025 | October 2025 | Kyoto, Japan
direct.mit.edu
November 24, 2025 at 8:07 PM
ALIFE 2025's proceedings are officially published (open-access) on the MIT Press's website!
direct.mit.edu/isal/isal202...
direct.mit.edu/isal/isal202...
I hate LLMs rather more than the average person but it's surreal seeing so many bad takes about how 'AI' was created with nefarious humanity destroying goals by sociopathic techbros from day 1. That's what LLMs exemplify right now, but taking that as AI's origin story is just conspiracist thinking.
November 25, 2025 at 6:16 AM
I hate LLMs rather more than the average person but it's surreal seeing so many bad takes about how 'AI' was created with nefarious humanity destroying goals by sociopathic techbros from day 1. That's what LLMs exemplify right now, but taking that as AI's origin story is just conspiracist thinking.
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The Human Genome Project's Ethical Legal and Social Implications program dedicated more than 3% of its research budgets to this focus. Imagine 3% of public- and private- sector AI research budgets devoted to its societal impacts.
September 11, 2025 at 9:20 PM
The Human Genome Project's Ethical Legal and Social Implications program dedicated more than 3% of its research budgets to this focus. Imagine 3% of public- and private- sector AI research budgets devoted to its societal impacts.
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🧵 The summer of 2025 has been AI's "cruel summer"—wrongful deaths, dangerous therapy chatbots, medical misinformation, facial recognition failures. These aren't isolated glitches but predictable harms from systems deployed without adequate oversight. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
An ELSI for AI: Learning from genetics to govern algorithms
In the United States, the summer of 2025 will be remembered as artificial intelligence’s (AI’s) cruel summer—a season when the unheeded risks and dangers of AI became undeniably clear. Recent months h...
www.science.org
September 11, 2025 at 8:48 PM
🧵 The summer of 2025 has been AI's "cruel summer"—wrongful deaths, dangerous therapy chatbots, medical misinformation, facial recognition failures. These aren't isolated glitches but predictable harms from systems deployed without adequate oversight. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
November 24, 2025 at 11:24 PM
"We will show that the torment nexus can be used for predicting [crime/employability/IQ] from ID photos"
... a long-standing, undying obsession of academics
... a long-standing, undying obsession of academics
Sci-Fi Author: In my book I invented the Torment Nexus as a cautionary tale.
[....]
Academic: Our project, if funded by the government, will considerably improve the efficiency of the existing Torment Nexus,
[....]
Academic: Our project, if funded by the government, will considerably improve the efficiency of the existing Torment Nexus,
November 24, 2025 at 9:23 AM
"We will show that the torment nexus can be used for predicting [crime/employability/IQ] from ID photos"
... a long-standing, undying obsession of academics
... a long-standing, undying obsession of academics
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Sci-Fi Author: In my book I invented the Torment Nexus as a cautionary tale.
[....]
Academic: Our project, if funded by the government, will considerably improve the efficiency of the existing Torment Nexus,
[....]
Academic: Our project, if funded by the government, will considerably improve the efficiency of the existing Torment Nexus,
November 24, 2025 at 8:40 AM
Sci-Fi Author: In my book I invented the Torment Nexus as a cautionary tale.
[....]
Academic: Our project, if funded by the government, will considerably improve the efficiency of the existing Torment Nexus,
[....]
Academic: Our project, if funded by the government, will considerably improve the efficiency of the existing Torment Nexus,
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"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.
November 15, 2025 at 4:54 AM
"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.
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How do the genetics work on that crisp straight line?
November 22, 2025 at 2:15 PM
How do the genetics work on that crisp straight line?
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One order today so far!
"Stop Forcing AI Into Every Fucking Thing" stickers are BACK IN STOCK
Brighter than ever— a rich ketchup-y orange-red.
3" circle of thick vinyl, yours for $2
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Brighter than ever— a rich ketchup-y orange-red.
3" circle of thick vinyl, yours for $2
▶ square.link/u/BFQkzE6U
November 23, 2025 at 6:23 AM
One order today so far!
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So there you have it, twin study estimates were greatly inflated, and molecular data sets the record straight. I walk through possible counter-arguments, but ultimately the uncomfortable truth is that genes contribute to traits much less than we always thought.
November 21, 2025 at 10:34 PM
So there you have it, twin study estimates were greatly inflated, and molecular data sets the record straight. I walk through possible counter-arguments, but ultimately the uncomfortable truth is that genes contribute to traits much less than we always thought.
How do the genetics work on that crisp straight line?
November 22, 2025 at 2:15 PM
How do the genetics work on that crisp straight line?
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"It may be uncomfortable to conclude that a widely used study design has been producing spurious results. But the evidence is in, and telling uncomfortable truths is a part of doing science."
Problems with twin studies.
theinfinitesimal.substack.com/p/the-missin...
Problems with twin studies.
theinfinitesimal.substack.com/p/the-missin...
The missing heritability question is now (mostly) answered
Not with a bang but with a whimper
theinfinitesimal.substack.com
November 22, 2025 at 2:03 PM
"It may be uncomfortable to conclude that a widely used study design has been producing spurious results. But the evidence is in, and telling uncomfortable truths is a part of doing science."
Problems with twin studies.
theinfinitesimal.substack.com/p/the-missin...
Problems with twin studies.
theinfinitesimal.substack.com/p/the-missin...
This was really good. I learned a lot and I particularly liked the pet peeve section
youtu.be/xtx7x_WaZhI?...
youtu.be/xtx7x_WaZhI?...
Are fewer babies … good? A research showdown.
YouTube video by Howtown
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November 22, 2025 at 10:32 AM
This was really good. I learned a lot and I particularly liked the pet peeve section
youtu.be/xtx7x_WaZhI?...
youtu.be/xtx7x_WaZhI?...
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Scientists from the Netherlands and @bluemarblespace.bsky.social discovered a new way that molecules copy themselves with fewer errors, using “selective binding.”
#SciComm #SciNews #ALife #evosky #molevol
sciworthy.com/how-molecule...
#SciComm #SciNews #ALife #evosky #molevol
sciworthy.com/how-molecule...
How molecules copy themselves with fewer errors – Sciworthy
Researchers found that molecules can self-replicate with fewer errors by selecting similar ingredients.
sciworthy.com
November 20, 2025 at 3:03 PM
Scientists from the Netherlands and @bluemarblespace.bsky.social discovered a new way that molecules copy themselves with fewer errors, using “selective binding.”
#SciComm #SciNews #ALife #evosky #molevol
sciworthy.com/how-molecule...
#SciComm #SciNews #ALife #evosky #molevol
sciworthy.com/how-molecule...