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This week in AIxBio (April 30, 2026)
Biosecurity risks from chatbots, $500M for cell-modeling data, AI-designed recombinases hit pharma, FDA streams trial data in real time, and a…
Apr 30 • Stephen D. Turner
I asked Claude to write a fake scientific paper
It looked convincing, but AI as a reviewer was able to call out the nonsense.
Apr 26 • Stephen D. Turner
Weekly Recap (April 24, 2026)
ggsql, web to markdown, Claude Code pricing, GPT-5.5, AIxBio hackathon ideas, flu vaccine, NIH, Qwen, AI literacy, biosecurity, research security.
Apr 24 • Stephen D. Turner
Privacy filter: OpenAI's open-source PII scrubber
OpenAI's Apache-licensed PII scrubber and a uv/Python script to run it.
Apr 23 • Stephen D. Turner
Data Science Team Training
Building data science capacity in the public health workforce: A free e-book for public health practitioners upskilling in data science.
Apr 23 • Stephen D. Turner
Do the carbon math. Make ethically cautious but socially adventurous choices. Try something.
Quoting Charlie Loyd's remarks from the Potato pansharpening environmental impact analysis
Apr 22 • Stephen D. Turner
Students Think AI Hurts Their Thinking. They Use It Anyway.
A recent RAND survey finds rising AI use alongside rising skepticism among students.
Apr 20 • Stephen D. Turner
Weekly Recap (April 17, 2026)
Opus 4.7, GPT-Rosalind for bio, what's a PhD for?, NIH chatbot research, code review for data, git, Sam Altman, Satoshi Nakamoto, Posit Assistant vs…
Apr 17 • Stephen D. Turner
FOCUS Prompt for Summarizing Academic Papers
Trying a very detailed prompt from the FOCUS paper (find, organize, condense, understand and synthesize) for summarizing academic papers.
Apr 15 • Stephen D. Turner
AI is learning to engineer biology. Our safety systems aren't keeping up.
Republishing my recent article from The Conversation
Apr 10 • Stephen D. Turner
AI-Assisted Customer Screening for DNA Synthesis Orders
A new preprint shows AI can handle legitimacy verification at a fraction of the cost.
Apr 2 • Stephen D. Turner
Weekly Recap (April 2, 2026)
AI automating AI research, AI + being PI, DL course, Neion Bio, NIH highlighted topics, TIP, Python type checking in Positron, R updates, biosecurity…
Apr 2
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