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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…
23 hrs ago
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Stephen D. Turner
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AI Dry July: Aborted
Reflections on trying to go a month without AI. I made it two weeks (sort of). 5.2k words, 23 minutes reading time.
Jul 18
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Stephen D. Turner
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How to SNIFF out Good Scientific Software
New PLOS Computational Biology paper: "Ten Quick Tips to SNIFF Out Sustainable and Secure Scientific Software"
Jul 15
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Stephen D. Turner
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Turn new data into Quarto reports automatically
The {watcher} R package monitors your filesystem and run arbitrary code when files change. You can use this to automate things like creating…
Jul 15
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Stephen D. Turner
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Closing my tabs, July 10, 2026
Off switches for dual-use knowledge, the PhD admissions drop, a Brown cheating mess, the end of reading, AI labs at the bench, and planning for a "Bio…
Jul 10
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Stephen D. Turner
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My Comment on OMB-2026-0034
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Jul 7
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Stephen D. Turner
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Fewer Rungs on the Ladder
Automating the analyst's work doesn't turn analysts into principal scientists
Jul 6
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Stephen D. Turner
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Five things (July 2, 2026): AIxBio, NIH, QED
GeneBench-Pro, LLM agents and biological tools, the volition premium, NIH’s 235 flagged words, QED’s top 1%
Jul 2
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Stephen D. Turner
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June 2026
Test Driving Claude Science
Anthropic released Claude Science today. I tried it out for an AIxBio literature review and for an analysis using the IUCN Red List API with R.
Jun 30
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Stephen D. Turner
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A Claude skill for pre-submission peer review
Open-source skill to use Claude + Consensus for pre-submission mock peer review backed by citations to published, peer-reviewed literature.
Jun 30
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Stephen D. Turner
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Most gain of function research is not dangerous, and most dangerous research is not called gain of function
A new review separates a broad literature term from the narrow set of experiments biosecurity policy is meant to catch. 500 words, 2 minutes reading…
Jun 26
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Stephen D. Turner
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AI-powered Literature Review & Synthesis
Recording from my workshop last week on smarter literature review with AI
Jun 23
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Stephen D. Turner
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