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CSV to Canvas Quiz
I vibe coded an app to convert text / CSV files into importable Canvas quiz item banks
 • Stephen D. Turner
August 2026 links #1
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Codon usage bias for prose
Anthropic is now watermarking Claude's output. The mechanism is statistical (not lexical) and a detection hit doesn't mean what most people will assume.
 • Stephen D. Turner
I'm Hiring: Postdoc in AI + Biosecurity
I have a grant starting in September to set up a new AIxBio / biosecurity program, and I'm hiring a postdoc in AI biosecurity evaluation and study…
 • Stephen D. Turner
Trailmix: record and transcribe webinars and meetings locally on your Mac
I built a Mac app that records and transcribes web events giving you a diarized transcript along with video and audio-only recordings. Everything stays…
 • Stephen D. Turner
pdfdown: in-browser PDF to markdown
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July 2026

July 2026 Links
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Screening for Function, not just Sequence
A proposed successor to IARPA's FunGCAT program
 • Stephen D. Turner
ARPA-H 101
Primers on how ARPA-H (and other ARPAs) are different than your typical NIH/NSF research programs and proposals
 • Stephen D. Turner
Containers Rot Too
What happens when you try to rebuild containerized bioinformatics tools from five years of software papers
 • Stephen D. Turner
Prompt injection defenses open a biosecurity gap
The low-authority treatment of external content that helps LLMs resist hijacking with prompt injection also defeats biosecurity warnings built into…
 • Stephen D. Turner
Benchmarking AI Biosecurity Refusals
Refusal ≠ safety. What 3 recent evals reveal about risk discrimination, over-refusal, and concealed hazards Bonus: we could do some interesting economic…
 • Stephen D. Turner
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