Stephen Turner 🦋 @stephenturner.us@strnr

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Joined February 2009
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My relationship with AI is changing

When the facts change, I change my mind. What do you do, sir?

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Generative AI for Biosciences: Emerging Threats and Roadmap to Biosecurity arxiv.org/abs/2510.15975 🧬🖥️🧪
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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
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AI-driven formative assessment and adaptive learning in data-science education: Evaluating an LLM-powered virtual teaching assistant arxiv.org/abs/2509.20369

AI-driven formative assessment and adaptive learning in...

This paper presents VITA (Virtual Teaching Assistants), an adaptive distributed learning (ADL) platform that embeds a large language model (LLM)-powered chatbot (BotCaptain) to provide dialogic...

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A powerful framework for differential co-expression analysis of general risk factors academic.oup.com/bioinformat… 🧬🖥️🧪 #Rstats pkg: github.com/ajbass/kdca

A powerful framework for differential co-expression analysis of general risk factors

AbstractMotivation. Differential co-expression analysis (DCA) aims to identify genes in a pathway whose shared expression depends on a risk factor. While D

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R+AI. Nov 12–13. Online. Cheap ($25-70) #Rstats rconsortium.github.io/RplusA…
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SNiPgenie: a tool for microbial SNP site detection from WGS data pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/article… 🧬🖥️🧪 github.com/dmnfarrell/snipge…
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Governance strategies for biological AI: beyond the dual-use dilemma cell.com/trends/biotechnolog… #biosecurity 🧬🖥️🧪
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Critical Artificial Intelligence Literacy for Psychologists osf.io/preprints/psyarxiv/dk…
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How to develop good research questions nature.com/articles/s41562-0… (free: rdcu.be/eJ8A1) 🧬🖥️🧪
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Democratizing AI scientists using ToolUniverse arxiv.org/abs/2509.23426 github.com/mims-harvard/Tool…
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The Sovereign Tech Fund invests $450,000 in R Foundation to Enhance R’s Sustainability and Security r-consortium.org/posts/sover… #Rstats
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ggdiceplot: ggplot2 implementation for the diceplot plotting library github.com/maflot/ggdiceplot 🧬🖥️🧪 #Rstats
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ggdiagram: Object-Oriented Diagram Plots with ggplot2 wjschne.github.io/ggdiagram/… #Rstats
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LLMs4All: A Review on Large Language Models for Research and Applications in Academic Disciplines arxiv.org/abs/2509.19580 (304 pages!)
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‘Completely shattered.’ Changes to NSF’s graduate student fellowship spur outcry science.org/content/article/…

‘Completely shattered.’ Changes to NSF’s graduate student fellowship spur outcry

The announcement comes months later than usual, leaving many would-be applicants stranded

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Enhancing genome recovery across metagenomic samples using MAGmax academic.oup.com/bioinformat… 🧬🖥️🧪 github.com/soedinglab/MAGmax
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Opportunities and considerations for using artificial intelligence in bioinformatics education academic.oup.com/bioinformat… 🧬🖥️🧪
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PatchWorkPlot: simultaneous visualization of local alignments across multiple sequences academic.oup.com/bioinformat… 🧬🖥️🧪
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Reference genome choice compromises population genetic analyses cell.com/cell/fulltext/S0092… 🧬🖥️🧪
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