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October 2026

October 2026 links
Tacit knowledge, AI and biosecurity, field building, chat with DNA, Nextflow, AI in academia and science, R package development, peer review
 • Stephen D. Turner
Anthropic is not pitching Normal Technology
Anthropic’s S-1 prospectus describes ambitions for biology that go well beyond helping scientists write code and summarize papers.
 • Stephen D. Turner
Podcast Recommendations Oct 2026
Down to a Science, UVA SDS Data Points, AI Exchange at UVA. One episode recommendation from each.
 • Stephen D. Turner
AI Reviews Might Beat Human Peer Reviews
A limited demonstration that AI reviews can do the job of human reviewers at improving papers. Deciding what to publish still needs an accountable…
 • Stephen D. Turner
What Counts as Impact?
Bean-counting published papers and impact factors was always a flawed proxy. Generative AI made it much worse.
 • Stephen D. Turner
I’m Skeptical of AI Disclosures
800 words, 3.5 minutes reading time
 • Stephen D. Turner
Artificial Intelligence and the Future of Biosecurity, Volume II
Volume II of a special research topic in AI and Biosecurity
 • Stephen D. Turner
AI in the workplace vs. AI in education
Quoting Dan Willingham: Students should only use AI for things that they already know how to do well.
 • Stephen D. Turner
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