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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
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Stephen D. Turner
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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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Weekly Recap (March 27, 2026)
NSF AI readiness, AGI forecasts, White House AI policy framework, NIH genomics technology, statistical rethinking, context anchoring, R+Quarto, NOFO…
Mar 27
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Stephen D. Turner
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Adding Alt Text in Quarto with Claude Code
Emil Hvitfeldt published a Claude Code skill giving you a new slash command to create alt text for digital accessibility for all of your figures in your…
Mar 25
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Stephen D. Turner
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De-slop the text you shouldn't be writing anyway
A Claude skill to remove all the AI patterns from AI-generated text. Useful for the bureaucratic writing you don't want to write anyway.
Mar 22
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Stephen D. Turner
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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…
Mar 20
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Stephen D. Turner
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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
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Stephen D. Turner
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The Four-Hour Session Treadmill
Claude Code, "just one more prompt," and work-life balance. 300 words, 90 seconds reading time.
Mar 16
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Stephen D. Turner
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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
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Stephen D. Turner
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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
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Stephen D. Turner
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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
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Stephen D. Turner
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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
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Stephen D. Turner
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