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Weekly recap (Oct 17, 2025)

Bioconductor on GPUs, tidyomics, Quarto 1.8, Anthropic red-teaming on AIxBio, PGS in the clinic, Shock Doctrine in genome engineering, GenAI for data…

Oct 17 •

Most graduate students propose to do too much

Quoting Claus Wilke

Oct 16 •

Asymmetries in Biosecurity

RAND Report: Why biology still favors the offense in biosecurity

Oct 15 •

Positron: data explorer exports dplyr code

Positron allows you to export dplyr/SQL code for actions you take in the data explorer (like sorting and filtering)

Oct 13 •

Weekly recap (Oct 10, 2025)

AI x biosecurity, R updates (Blaze, RWeekly, R Consortium), genome engineering & conservation, AI & labor, RAG, Lost Science, AI in medicine, ggplot2…

Oct 10 •

All Roads Lead to Philosophy

Successively clicking the first link in a Wikipedia article almost always leads to Philosophy

Oct 6 •

Weekly recap (Oct 3, 2025)

R updates (from rOpenSci, Blaze, R Works, RWeekly, Posit), Slidecrafting, AI highs & lows, structural variation, biotech, RAG, tinytable, "vibe work…

Oct 3 •

Construct objects with idiomatic R code

Use the constructive package instead of dput() to construct R objects with idiomatic R code for human-readable reproducible examples

Oct 2 •

September 2025

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