AI

Closing my tabs, July 10, 2026

Off switches for dual-use knowledge, the PhD admissions drop, a Brown cheating mess, the end of reading, AI labs at the bench, and planning for a "Bio…

Jul 10 • Stephen D. Turner

Fewer Rungs on the Ladder

Automating the analyst's work doesn't turn analysts into principal scientists

Jul 6 • Stephen D. Turner

Five things (July 2, 2026): AIxBio, NIH, QED

GeneBench-Pro, LLM agents and biological tools, the volition premium, NIH’s 235 flagged words, QED’s top 1%

Jul 2 • Stephen D. Turner

Test Driving Claude Science

Anthropic released Claude Science today. I tried it out for an AIxBio literature review and for an analysis using the IUCN Red List API with R.

Jun 30 • Stephen D. Turner

A Claude skill for pre-submission peer review

Open-source skill to use Claude + Consensus for pre-submission mock peer review backed by citations to published, peer-reviewed literature.

Jun 30 • Stephen D. Turner

Six Things: June 18, 2026

Cal Newport on doom trolling, SecureBio's benchmark dashboard, RAND on biodesign audit trails, the anti-scaling law in drug development, local models…

Jun 18 • Stephen D. Turner

Policy on the AI Exponential

Another (short) essay by Dario Amodei

Jun 16 • Stephen D. Turner

Open tabs (June 12, 2026)

TBR in AIxBio, AIxEdu, AIxLabor, AIxWriting, and other essays & papers

Jun 12 • Stephen D. Turner

Five Things (June 5, 2026): AIxBio, and a Red Alert for US Science

Open-closed model gap, evals in the biorisk hierarchy, DARPA AI Forge, refusal benchmarks, OpenAI’s Rosalind Biodefense

Jun 5 • Stephen D. Turner

AI deskilling is real. I'm going a month without it. 900 words, 4 minutes reading time.

Jun 1 • Stephen D. Turner

Free Claude Courses from Anthropic

17 free, self-paced courses from Anthropic covering Claude, Claude Code, the API, MCP, agent skills, and subagents, plus AI fluency tracks for…

May 31 • Stephen D. Turner

Five Things (May 29, 2026): AI & writing, ESM

Writing and thinking, the despair of the professor, ESMFold2 and a world model of proteins, Pope Leo on AI, NIH’s foreign co-author crackdown

May 29 • Stephen D. Turner

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