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Weekly Recap (March 20, 2026)

NIH NOFOs, bioRxiv, AI+writing pod, Astral+OpenAI, AI in VA, AMLC, DARPA bioattribution, future of biosecurity, AI talent at universities, brain fry…

1 hr ago • Stephen D. Turner

Would data access controls have slowed the COVID-19 response?

Proposed biological data governance and access control frameworks might face their toughest test during the crises they aim to prevent

Mar 18 • Stephen D. Turner

The Four-Hour Session Treadmill

Claude Code, "just one more prompt," and work-life balance. 300 words, 90 seconds reading time.

Mar 16 • Stephen D. Turner

Weekly Recap (March 13, 2026)

Phil Bourne, Anthropic Institute, eLife, AI@UVA / AI in Virginia, NIH genomics tech, AIxBio, AI+Rstudio, legibility, how scientists use Claude Code, how…

Mar 13 • Stephen D. Turner

From Protocol to Pipette: What Two New RCTs Tell Us About AI Biosecurity Risk

LLMs uplift novice performance on computational biology tasks, while their effect in physical laboratories remains modest and task-dependent.

Mar 11 • Stephen D. Turner

Remembering Phil Bourne

Personal reflections on a legendary scientist, leader, builder, and mentor

Mar 9 • Stephen D. Turner

Structured AI Integration as Quality Control for Peer Review

Decades of research shows that inter-rater reliability is low in grant/manuscript reviews. A new paper presents a case for institutional AI integration…

Mar 9 • Stephen D. Turner

Weekly Recap (March 6, 2026)

Biology essays, fast bio bounty, PDF accessibility in Quarto, Claude Skills for R, sex lives of neanderthals and humans, Ginkgo cloud lab, Applied…

Mar 6 • Stephen D. Turner

Helpful tools exist, and I'm not using them

I’m working on building a small table.

Mar 5 • Stephen D. Turner

Wet Bags of Atoms Teaching Sand to Think

On emergence, and the lazy dismissal of AI as "just next token prediction" as a thought-terminating reductive cliche that we need to give up.

Mar 3 • Stephen D. Turner

Frontier LLMs can design functional DNA sequences for benchtop synthesis

A look at a new RAND report: Bridging the Digital to Physical Divide - Evaluating LLM Agents on Benchtop DNA Acquisition

Mar 2 • Stephen D. Turner

Dario Amodei's "The Adolescence of Technology"

A risk-side companion to “Machines of Loving Grace” and a biosecurity primer on AI safety for people who tuned out.

Mar 1 • Stephen D. Turner

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