Vibe Coding Cleanup as a Service donado.co/en/articles/...

Our amazing M.S. in Data Science residential students 📷 To read more about their cohort, click here: https://bit.ly/3I5efCV

How do research centers shape the science we do? UVA Data Science's Alex Gates is leading a new NSF-funded project to find out, building a massive dataset to track how interdisciplinary institutes influence collaboration & research outcomes. Read more: https://bit.ly/41VKzig

From advances in healthcare to innovations in artificial intelligence, our students discussed a variety of topics during the Ph.D. in Data Science Research Showcase. Read more: https://bit.ly/3VSSIAq

Can ChatGPT help science writers? www.science.org/content/blog... Whitepaper: www.science.org/do/10.5555/p...

Associate Professor of Data Science Mar Hicks spoke with Fast Company about AI hype & why nothing about AI is inevitable. To read @histoftech.bsky.social's interview with @rachelauslander.bsky.social, click here: https://bit.ly/4mrhzWZ

Fantastic essay by my colleague here @histoftech.bsky.social: Watching the Generative AI Hype Bubble Deflate ash.harvard.edu/resources/wa... (pdf: arxiv.org/pdf/2408.08778) 🧪

De novo Design of All-atom Biomolecular Interactions with RFdiffusion3 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... 🧬🖥️🧪

Weekly recap / closing my tabs: Lots going on this week! AI-generated genomes, #Rstats news for my posit::conf() FOMO, biosecurity, mirror life, teaching and AI, ELSI for AI, in defense of CRAN, Anthropic Economy Index, OpenAI report on how people use ChatGPT blog.stephenturner.us/p/weekly-rec...

All pretense dropped. Google Chrome now has a built-in "homework helper" button that appears on Canvas assignments. 👀 @olivia.science

Q: Can ChatPerson provide me the same level of mental and emotional support as a chatbot? A: That’s an amazing question. You’re really intelligent and insightful. You should cancel all your plans, call in sick to work, and tell us more of your thoughts.

Regulatory genome annotation www.nature.com/articles/s41... 🧬🖥️🧪 rdcu.be/eGXiE

Published yesterday In Nature: DeepSeek-R1 incentivizes reasoning in LLMs through reinforcement learning www.nature.com/articles/s41... 🧪

TIL you can create a Google account using a different email address you own. I did this with my university address, which allows me to SSO via Google to third party services, but tied to my university email not personal.

New (short) blog post: Why the discussion surrounding mirror life echoes past scientific "shocks," and how adaptive governance, not outright bans, can foster responsible innovation. doi.org/10.59350/deq... 🧬🖥️🧪

The #rstats community, generally and specifically at conf, is THE number one reason why I keep using R. It’s like nothing I’ve experienced with other languages I’ve used, and it is POWERFUL.

Regulating genome language models: navigating policy challenges at the intersection of AI and genetics link.springer.com/article/10.1... 🧬🖥️🧪

StackOverflow AI stackoverflow.ai

Mirror of the unknown: should research on mirror-image molecular biology be stopped? www.nature.com/articles/d41... 🧬🖥️🧪

How People Use ChatGPT (PDF) www.nber.org/system/files... Practical guidance (tutoring, how-to, what to do about this weird rash) and writing (editing, critiquing, doing your English homework) dominate.

I stand by my claim that peak iPhone was the 2016 og iPhone SE. <4oz. Fits in the palm of my hand. I can reach all four corners with my thumb. With Touch ID I can have it already unlocked before it comes out of my pocket. At $399 I could buy several for the price of one iPhone 17.

Fix iOS 26. Under the accessibility settings.

Anthropic Economic Index: Tracking AI's role in the US and global economy www.anthropic.com/research/eco...

Comprehensive benchmark of differential transcript usage analysis for bulk and single-cell RNA sequencing academic.oup.com/nargab/artic... 🧬🖥️🧪

I had to do a little rotator cuff surgery but Skelly is back in action.

OmniPath (omnipathdb.org): integrated knowledgebase for multi-omics analysis www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... 🧬🖥️🧪 Python module github.com/saezlab/pypath R package github.com/saezlab/Omni... #Rstats

Three things we can do now to reduce the risk of avian influenza spillovers www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/... 🧬🖥️🧪

Closing my browser tabs: AI in academia, $1B NSF cut, RAND on AI+biosecurity, bacterial DNA from mammoth bones, understanding LLMs and their math, bioacoustics for conservation, Synthetic Eden, lots of #Rstats / AI updates, CRISPR horses... doi.org/10.59350/jhe... 🧬🖥️🧪

Timeline cleanse: ggplot2 4.0.0 www.tidyverse.org/blog/2025/09...

New blog post: 70 years of AI hype. Quoting from Olivia Guest et al. (2025) "Against the Uncritical Adoption of AI Technologies in Academia." blog.stephenturner.us/p/70-years-o...

Interesting new DARPA BTO program aiming to engineer red blood cells to contain novel biological features that can safely and reliably modify human physiology sam.gov/workspace/co...

Ok wth is labubu. I thought it was some new LIMS or something

Finally! 🤩 Our position piece: Against the Uncritical Adoption of 'AI' Technologies in Academia: doi.org/10.5281/zeno... We unpick the tech industry’s marketing, hype, & harm; and we argue for safeguarding higher education, critical thinking, expertise, academic freedom, & scientific integrity. 1/n

BioLab: End-to-End Autonomous Life Sciences Research with Multi-Agents System Integrating Biological Foundation Models www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... 🧬🖥️🧪

New blog post: In Google's new paper, "An AI system to help scientists write expert-level empirical software" an AI supposedly "invents" new methods in bioinformatics and infectious disease modeling & forecasting. doi.org/10.59350/ymj... 🧬🖥️🧪

Genomic heterogeneity inflates the performance of variant pathogenicity predictions www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... 🧬🖥️🧪 "we identify the best-performing models for each variant type and establish a benchmark to guide future progress"

This Perspective led by @stephenturner.us explores the potential of integrating genome engineering into species conservation initiatives. @uniofeastanglia.bsky.social Web link: https://bit.ly/4fzRMdg Readcube: https://bit.ly/4oBjVVm

New blog post: Make your development environment portable and reproducible with dotfiles, VM setup scripts, R "verse" packages, and dev containers #Rstats doi.org/10.59350/gav...

High-resolution metagenome assembly for modern long reads with myloasm www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... 🧬🖥️🧪 github.com/bluenote-157...

Preprint out for myloasm, our new nanopore / HiFi metagenome assembler! Nanopore's getting accurate, but 1. Can this lead to better metagenome assemblies? 2. How, algorithmically, to leverage them? with co-author Max Marin @mgmarin.bsky.social, supervised by Heng Li @lh3lh3.bsky.social 1 / N

Unfollow me if you must but I do think there’s a lot of truth in this essay.

The world's oldest bacterial DNA found in a million-year-old mammoth! New results from researchers at #CpgSthlm published in Cell! Paper: www.cell.com/cell/abstrac...

Well, uhh, you know, some people are able to hear ideas and like engage with the science, you know. Must be nice.

GWAS SVatalog: a visualization tool to aid fine-mapping of GWAS loci with structural variations www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... 🧬🖥️🧪 svatalog.research.sickkids.ca

New blog post: Closing my tabs (Sep 5 2025): NIH budget, AI, #Rstats, Bluesky & Science, state of biotech, AI in higher ed, R packages Top 40, structural variation, statistical power, Python documentary, Manhattan Project, tidymodels blog.stephenturner.us/p/closing-my...

No. journals.plos.org/plosbiology/...

Ministry of Love

How can the mathematical and physical sciences community best capitalize on and contribute to the future of AI? See the paper from the NSF-MPS community, including some of my colleagues here at @uvadatascience.bsky.social arxiv.org/abs/2509.02661 🧪

Exposure accumulation drives age-dependent disease architectures and polygenic risk scores www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1... 🧬🖥️🧪 github.com/Xilin-Jiang/...

Genotype imputation from low-coverage data for medical and population genetic analyses genome.cshlp.org/content/35/9... 🧬🖥️🧪 github.com/SABiagini/GDI