Stephen Turner 🦋 @stephenturner.us
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Assoc Prof & Dean of Research at UVA School of Data Science. Views my own. Mostly cross-posts from 🦋. Newsletter: https://t.co/qGepdBtVme.
Charlottesville, VA
Joined February 2009
Yesterday was my last day at @Colossal Biosciences. Next month I'm re-joining the faculty at the University of Virginia @UVA as Associate Professor of Data Science and asst. Dean of Research! @uvadatascience
https://t.co/lw60w8U7sf
blog.stephenturner.us
Some personal news: I'm joining the University of Virginia as Associate Professor of Data Science and Assistant Dean of Research in UVA's new School of Data Science.
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gffutilsAI: An AI-Agent for Interactive Genomic Feature Exploration in GFF files https://t.co/n68s7nnsuw 🧬🖥️🧪 https://t.co/Gr2RcmcICF
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“excited to announce I’m joining Anthropic”
Human beings are called to be co-workers in the work of creation, not merely passive consumers of content generated by artificial technology. Our dignity lies in our ability to reflect, choose freely, love unconditionally, and enter into authentic relationships with others.
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New blog post / deeper dive on recommendation 2. A Measured Approach to AI+Biosecurity: The "If-Then" Framework from the 2025 NASEM report, The Age of AI in the Life Sciences: Benefits and Biosecurity Considerations.
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A Measured Approach to AI+Biosecurity: The "If-Then" Framework from the 2025 NASEM report, The Age of AI in the Life Sciences: Benefits and Biosecurity Considerations.
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Quoting Kevin Roose @kevinroose (NYT / Hard Fork): "I'm not going to listen to opinions about AI from people who don't use AI."
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I'm not going to listen to opinions about AI from people who don't use AI.
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Q&A: In the AI age, why are the humanities still relevant?
news.virginia.edu
At UVA, fewer students are majoring in liberal arts, gravitating instead to STEM courses. But the College’s dean argues that AI needs the humanities.
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State of AI: An Empirical 100 Trillion Token Study with OpenRouter https://t.co/mb9IQMh70m ...interesting looking at how different models are used for programming versus.. ahem... uh.. "role play"
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"Palantir is expanding its reach into the Education Department, where the data analytics and software giant is helping develop the agency’s new portal for universities across the country to report foreign donations."
fedscoop.com
The company is not publicly listed as part of the new portal project in federal spending records.
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Pretty sure this was already happening in stealth anyway. UKRI opens up grant proposal data to explore using AI to smooth peer review
chemistryworld.com
Surging applications has led the UK's main funder to look at ways to reduce the burden on reviewers
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Unrelated / different developers / different use case: https://t.co/d7PgGIEqmc recently sponsored one of our Charlottesville Data Science meetups. I tried the tool on myself and it was actually quite good...
knowyourdeveloper.ai
Know Your Developer™ (KYD) verifies software developers using OSINT and permissioned data to generate a trust score. Companies reduce fraud; developers prove credibility. Trust in code starts with...
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Cevian Labs / CVParsa looks interesting. I imagine some faculty search committees are already stealth-reviewing applicants with general purpose AIs. https://t.co/YddraUwEom
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Redefining Biological Weapons: Expanding the BWC to Incorporate Infrastructure Harm and Cyber-Biothreats https://t.co/1j2mokFF0P
#biosecurity
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Impact of the 23andMe bankruptcy on preserving the public benefit of scientific data https://t.co/XULAaTzsTp 🧬🖥️🧪 read free: https://t.co/cEKZmoYeKP
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bronko: ultrafast, alignment-free detection of viral genome variation https://t.co/DCEhaZBRGr 🧬🖥️🧪 https://t.co/BstlH8vSpe
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Weekly Recap (December 4, 2025): #Rstats updates (R Data Scientist, R+AI conference, RWeekly, rOpenSci), Posit open source investments, AI in academia, science, biology, and labor, science funding cuts, bedder bedtools, many new papers https://t.co/jeCURUna0p 🧬🖥️🧪
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LorBin: efficient binning of long-read metagenomes by multiscale adaptive clustering and evaluation https://t.co/WWYDJyEBF2 🧬🖥️🧪 https://t.co/1qnq6Xh2UN
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polars-bio—fast, scalable and out-of-core operations on large genomic interval datasets https://t.co/TWoanSvo8K 🧬🖥️🧪 https://t.co/oh1ce49oxp
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Benchmarking cell type and gene set annotation by large language models with AnnDictionary https://t.co/bwOGbZehS7 🧬🖥️🧪 https://t.co/3eXkBXnRQO
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