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Very good essay. You can read it in 5 minutes. I wrote some of my own thoughts on this over the weekend.
What Counts as Impact? doi.org/10.59350/006jq-a4y25
Some of my thoughts about the surge in AI-generated papers, why this feels like a completely new kind of problem, and what this means for how we evaluate science in biology.
Out now in PLOS Biology:
journals.plos.org/plosbiolog…
Personal essay, weekend edition: I’m Skeptical of AI Disclosures blog.stephenturner.us/p/ai-d…
Academic life & discourse, #biosecurity, AIxBio, creativity, peer review, Thomas Jefferson blog.stephenturner.us/p/sept…
Generative AI for Biosciences: Emerging Threats and Roadmap to Biosecurity arxiv.org/abs/2510.15975 🧬🖥️🧪
The Tidyomics Ecosystem tidyomics.github.io/tidyomic… An introduction to the tidyomics ecosystem, including principles, core packages, publications, and community resources for tidy omic analysis. #Rstats
AI-driven formative assessment and adaptive learning in data-science education: Evaluating an LLM-powered virtual teaching assistant arxiv.org/abs/2509.20369
A powerful framework for differential co-expression analysis of general risk factors academic.oup.com/bioinformat… 🧬🖥️🧪 #Rstats pkg: github.com/ajbass/kdca
SNiPgenie: a tool for microbial SNP site detection from WGS data pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/article… 🧬🖥️🧪 github.com/dmnfarrell/snipge…
Governance strategies for biological AI: beyond the dual-use dilemma cell.com/trends/biotechnolog… #biosecurity 🧬🖥️🧪
Critical Artificial Intelligence Literacy for Psychologists osf.io/preprints/psyarxiv/dk…
How to develop good research questions nature.com/articles/s41562-0… (free: rdcu.be/eJ8A1) 🧬🖥️🧪
Democratizing AI scientists using ToolUniverse arxiv.org/abs/2509.23426 github.com/mims-harvard/Tool…
The Sovereign Tech Fund invests $450,000 in R Foundation to Enhance R’s Sustainability and Security r-consortium.org/posts/sover… #Rstats
ggdiceplot: ggplot2 implementation for the diceplot plotting library github.com/maflot/ggdiceplot 🧬🖥️🧪 #Rstats
ggdiagram: Object-Oriented Diagram Plots with ggplot2 wjschne.github.io/ggdiagram/… #Rstats
LLMs4All: A Review on Large Language Models for Research and Applications in Academic Disciplines arxiv.org/abs/2509.19580 (304 pages!)
‘Completely shattered.’ Changes to NSF’s graduate student fellowship spur outcry science.org/content/article/…
