Stephen Turner

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AI Reviews Might Beat Human Peer Reviews https://t.co/4hrYa0acqp

A limited demonstration that AI reviews can do the job of human reviewers at improving papers. Deciding what to publish still needs an accountable editor with human reviewers they trust.

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I wrote this morning in the UVA AI Exchange newsletter about Claude Code’s new code modernization plugin, rewrites in #bioinformatics, and the fact that you can just build stuff now https://t.co/RJoPA66gwL

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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? https://t.co/Pz8P0agYwa

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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:
https://t.co/FNV3L5My72

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Personal essay, weekend edition: I’m Skeptical of AI Disclosures https://t.co/rzPdgQqnsB

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@bryan_johnson Dm me I got you

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AI in the workplace vs. AI in education https://t.co/FMuil1MBjj

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Academic life & discourse, #biosecurity, AIxBio, creativity, peer review, Thomas Jefferson https://t.co/itWfowtoO4

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Generative AI for Biosciences: Emerging Threats and Roadmap to Biosecurity https://t.co/90KifkoMlH 🧬🖥️🧪

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The Tidyomics Ecosystem https://t.co/UmYulwf49P An introduction to the tidyomics ecosystem, including principles, core packages, publications, and community resources for tidy omic analysis. #Rstats

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AI-driven formative assessment and adaptive learning in data-science education: Evaluating an LLM-powered virtual teaching assistant https://t.co/JJAhxIAWQ0

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A powerful framework for differential co-expression analysis of general risk factors https://t.co/a5yoET5AQ2 🧬🖥️🧪 #Rstats pkg: https://t.co/vtq1O5RYyg

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R+AI. Nov 12–13. Online. Cheap ($25-70) #Rstats https://t.co/ucWhf8XWsg

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SNiPgenie: a tool for microbial SNP site detection from WGS data https://t.co/8kXo5qBLJ7 🧬🖥️🧪 https://t.co/7D5VmDEbt2

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Governance strategies for biological AI: beyond the dual-use dilemma https://t.co/yvg4MwMXKe #biosecurity 🧬🖥️🧪

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Critical Artificial Intelligence Literacy for Psychologists https://t.co/aIyQEnQNjZ

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How to develop good research questions https://t.co/cj3oATdLqJ (free: https://t.co/TAmZGpQhmq) 🧬🖥️🧪

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Democratizing AI scientists using ToolUniverse https://t.co/txJ6YHyHRM https://t.co/GuSHPE7Dhj

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The Sovereign Tech Fund invests $450,000 in R Foundation to Enhance R’s Sustainability and Security https://t.co/bnXrSCWu82 #Rstats

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ggdiceplot: ggplot2 implementation for the diceplot plotting library https://t.co/kz4VxyqLR7 🧬🖥️🧪 #Rstats