Lana Sinapayen
@sinalana.bsky.social
京都で人工生命の研究してます。Kyoto. ALife researcher https://lanasina.github.io/
Artificial Life, Astrobiology, Visual Illusions; views my own. Research @ Sony CSL, National Institute for Basic Biology.
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Artificial Life, Astrobiology, Visual Illusions; views my own. Research @ Sony CSL, National Institute for Basic Biology.
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Lana Sinapayen
@sinalana.bsky.social
· Feb 20
“Good science ends when you become more attached to your solution
than to the problem.”
Me - 2018
than to the problem.”
Me - 2018
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And the guy, now waving his shovel dangerously close to your face, begins shouting, “Why are you anti-shovel! Shovels are the future! Resistance to shoveling is futile! I and all my friends own trillions in shovel equity! I’m performing surgery on everyone’s mom!”
November 19, 2025 at 9:06 PM
And the guy, now waving his shovel dangerously close to your face, begins shouting, “Why are you anti-shovel! Shovels are the future! Resistance to shoveling is futile! I and all my friends own trillions in shovel equity! I’m performing surgery on everyone’s mom!”
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HEADS UP: CDC website now officially asserts that vaccines may cause autism.“Studies supporting a link have been ignored by health authorities.” Also says the “vaccines do not cause autism” header remains b/c of an agreement with Cassidy.
November 20, 2025 at 2:53 AM
HEADS UP: CDC website now officially asserts that vaccines may cause autism.“Studies supporting a link have been ignored by health authorities.” Also says the “vaccines do not cause autism” header remains b/c of an agreement with Cassidy.
November 19, 2025 at 2:30 PM
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There's got to be SOME hypothesis that makes our experiment useless. THINK!
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November 18, 2025 at 11:30 PM
There's got to be SOME hypothesis that makes our experiment useless. THINK!
COMIC ◆ www.smbc-comics.com/comic/stats-3
PATREON ◆ www.patreon.com/ZachWeinersm...
STORE ◆ smbc-store.myshopify.com
COMIC ◆ www.smbc-comics.com/comic/stats-3
PATREON ◆ www.patreon.com/ZachWeinersm...
STORE ◆ smbc-store.myshopify.com
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soviet law prevented him from traveling to actually see mayan script like all the other mayan scholars but turns out he had no problem sitting in leningrad studing some priest's tracings from the 1500s that another catholic guy annotated in 1853 en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yuri_Kn...
November 19, 2025 at 2:55 AM
soviet law prevented him from traveling to actually see mayan script like all the other mayan scholars but turns out he had no problem sitting in leningrad studing some priest's tracings from the 1500s that another catholic guy annotated in 1853 en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yuri_Kn...
Colors of Life in the Clouds: Biopigments of Atmospheric Microorganisms as a New Signature to Detect Life on Planets like Earth
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Colors of Life in the Clouds: Biopigments of Atmospheric Microorganisms as a New Signature to Detect Life on Planets like Earth
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A riveting overview of spider cognition.
Jumping spiders may dream, and for all we know they might dream about humans since many live in our houses. Or of the moon, since they have the visual acuity to perceive it in the sky!
youtu.be/_QF6kaOAuYg?...
Jumping spiders may dream, and for all we know they might dream about humans since many live in our houses. Or of the moon, since they have the visual acuity to perceive it in the sky!
youtu.be/_QF6kaOAuYg?...
Spider Cognition: How Tiny Brains Do Mighty Things
YouTube video by Travis McEnery
youtu.be
November 17, 2025 at 11:35 AM
A riveting overview of spider cognition.
Jumping spiders may dream, and for all we know they might dream about humans since many live in our houses. Or of the moon, since they have the visual acuity to perceive it in the sky!
youtu.be/_QF6kaOAuYg?...
Jumping spiders may dream, and for all we know they might dream about humans since many live in our houses. Or of the moon, since they have the visual acuity to perceive it in the sky!
youtu.be/_QF6kaOAuYg?...
Am I correct to believe that tamed cheetahs are not at all dangerous? I always see rescue/care staff/research staff interacting with them in shorts, hand feeding them without gloves etc. You don't ever see staff in the same space as lions or other big cats, including smaller wild cats.
November 17, 2025 at 6:40 AM
Am I correct to believe that tamed cheetahs are not at all dangerous? I always see rescue/care staff/research staff interacting with them in shorts, hand feeding them without gloves etc. You don't ever see staff in the same space as lions or other big cats, including smaller wild cats.
Imagine everytime you ask for academic feedback on academic matters to your mentor, he convinces himself you are actually asking for sex and it's appropriate to "play hard to get" by not actually giving feedback.
Welcome to "academia while female"
Welcome to "academia while female"
November 17, 2025 at 5:17 AM
Imagine everytime you ask for academic feedback on academic matters to your mentor, he convinces himself you are actually asking for sex and it's appropriate to "play hard to get" by not actually giving feedback.
Welcome to "academia while female"
Welcome to "academia while female"
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Specially designed bricks that provide safe nesting spaces for swifts are being installed on properties around Shirebrook Valley as part of a council-funded environmental scheme.
Sheffield charity given grant to fit 'swift bricks' in homes
The Sheffield Swift Network was given £7,000 by the council for a project to help the birds nest.
www.bbc.co.uk
November 17, 2025 at 1:18 AM
Specially designed bricks that provide safe nesting spaces for swifts are being installed on properties around Shirebrook Valley as part of a council-funded environmental scheme.
My favorite!
【リング型シュークリーム】
ビアードパパは19日より、アーモンドプードルを練りこんだリング型のシュークリーム「パリブレスト」を期間限定で販売する。波打った形状による高低差で、表面はカリッと、中はふんわりの異なる食感が特長。(ORICON)
#ビアードパパ #シュークリーム
ビアードパパは19日より、アーモンドプードルを練りこんだリング型のシュークリーム「パリブレスト」を期間限定で販売する。波打った形状による高低差で、表面はカリッと、中はふんわりの異なる食感が特長。(ORICON)
#ビアードパパ #シュークリーム
表面はカリッ＆中はふわふわの“ダブル食感” ビアードパパからリング型シュークリームが期間限定登場
シュークリーム専門店ビアードパパは19日より、『パリブレスト』（税込260円）を期間限定で販売する。
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November 17, 2025 at 1:06 AM
My favorite!
What a thread!
If you are not in academia, you might not know this, but job interviews used to be held at conferences IN HOTEL ROOMS. Women candidates in a hotel room alone with often all-male committees. People sitting on beds! The horror stories I've heard.
I thing I sometimes thing about is that university departments were still doing job interviews in hotel rooms in the mid aughts
November 16, 2025 at 10:43 PM
What a thread!
This looks awesome and it's for a good cause
This year we have sold 31% of the advent calendars that we sold last year 😓
The art is so pretty and colorful 🥺
The facts are so good 🥺
Eels are so cool 🥺
Get an eel facts advent calendar at EelFacts.net
The art is so pretty and colorful 🥺
The facts are so good 🥺
Eels are so cool 🥺
Get an eel facts advent calendar at EelFacts.net
November 16, 2025 at 2:26 PM
This looks awesome and it's for a good cause
Reposted by Lana Sinapayen
This year we have sold 31% of the advent calendars that we sold last year 😓
The art is so pretty and colorful 🥺
The facts are so good 🥺
Eels are so cool 🥺
Get an eel facts advent calendar at EelFacts.net
The art is so pretty and colorful 🥺
The facts are so good 🥺
Eels are so cool 🥺
Get an eel facts advent calendar at EelFacts.net
November 9, 2025 at 2:24 PM
This year we have sold 31% of the advent calendars that we sold last year 😓
The art is so pretty and colorful 🥺
The facts are so good 🥺
Eels are so cool 🥺
Get an eel facts advent calendar at EelFacts.net
The art is so pretty and colorful 🥺
The facts are so good 🥺
Eels are so cool 🥺
Get an eel facts advent calendar at EelFacts.net
What non-amazon platforms do you buy your ebooks from? Often ebooks dot com doesn't have the title I'm looking for
November 16, 2025 at 2:13 PM
What non-amazon platforms do you buy your ebooks from? Often ebooks dot com doesn't have the title I'm looking for
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What's an *amazing* scifi book you've read *recently*?
November 15, 2025 at 11:50 PM
What's an *amazing* scifi book you've read *recently*?
"Well adapted to" often goes with "dependent on". I think it's a consequence of the no free lunch theorem.
November 15, 2025 at 10:40 AM
"Well adapted to" often goes with "dependent on". I think it's a consequence of the no free lunch theorem.
"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.
The venn diagram of people who think kids can't enjoy good media and people who think AI generated videos have great acting is a circle, so for sure children cartoons are going to be the biggest victim of AI generated content.
November 15, 2025 at 3:05 AM
The venn diagram of people who think kids can't enjoy good media and people who think AI generated videos have great acting is a circle, so for sure children cartoons are going to be the biggest victim of AI generated content.
Reposted by Lana Sinapayen
DNA Sequencing Reveals Hitler Was Type Of Fern
DNA Sequencing Reveals Hitler Was Type Of Fern
BATH, ENGLAND—Saying the discovery shed new light on the infamous German dictator’s life, University of Bath researchers revealed DNA sequencing Friday showing that Adolf Hitler was a type of fern. “A...
theonion.com
November 14, 2025 at 11:00 PM
DNA Sequencing Reveals Hitler Was Type Of Fern
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A group of scientists has called on EC president Ursula von der Leyen to retract a statement she made suggesting A.I. would soon reach parity with human intelligence. Her statements were based on marketing statements from US Tech firms not empirical evidence or real proof. #ResistAI
Stop overhyping AI, scientists tell von der Leyen | Euractiv
Open letter criticises the Commission President for remarks earlier this year – when she anticipated AI would “approach human reasoning” in 2026
www.euractiv.com
November 10, 2025 at 1:22 PM
A group of scientists has called on EC president Ursula von der Leyen to retract a statement she made suggesting A.I. would soon reach parity with human intelligence. Her statements were based on marketing statements from US Tech firms not empirical evidence or real proof. #ResistAI
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November 14, 2025 at 10:22 PM
Making a Blue Gas You’ve Never Seen Before – Trifluoronitrosomethane
YouTube video by Advanced Tinkering
youtu.be
November 14, 2025 at 3:43 AM
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I've done a lot of work in Python this fall, and it hasn't endeared me to the language at all. Why does stuff have to be so complicated when you're doing it in Python?
blog.genesmindsmachines.com/p/python-is-...
blog.genesmindsmachines.com/p/python-is-...
Python is not a great language for data science. Part 1: The experience
It may be a good language for data science, but it’s not a great one.
blog.genesmindsmachines.com
November 13, 2025 at 4:16 PM
I've done a lot of work in Python this fall, and it hasn't endeared me to the language at all. Why does stuff have to be so complicated when you're doing it in Python?
blog.genesmindsmachines.com/p/python-is-...
blog.genesmindsmachines.com/p/python-is-...