Stephen Turner 🦋 @stephenturner.us

Staying Current in Data Science and Computational Biology: 2026 Edition. Part 3 in a series of posts going back 14 years. doi.org/10.59350/2naqr…

Weekly Recap (March 20, 2026): NIH NOFOs, bioRxiv, AI+writing pod, Astral+OpenAI, AI in VA, AMLC, DARPA bioattribution, future of #biosecurity, AI talent at universities, brain fry, AI+bioinformatics, #Rstats updates, agentic engineering. doi.org/10.59350/dvrsj…

BioML-bench: Evaluation of AI Agents for End-to-End Biomedical ML biorxiv.org/content/10.110… 🧬🖥️🧪

Finding easy regions for short-read variant calling from pangenome data academic.oup.com/gigascience/ar… 🧬🖥️🧪

Reference-based variant detection with varseek biorxiv.org/content/10.110… 🧬🖥️🧪 github.com/pachterlab/var…

Evaluating multi-ancestry genome-wide association methods: Statistical power, population structure, and practical implications cell.com/ajhg/fulltext/… 🧬🖥️🧪

How AI is helping advance the science of bioacoustics to save endangered species deepmind.google/discover/blog/… Paper: Perch 2.0: The Bittern Lesson for Bioacoustics: arxiv.org/abs/2508.04665 Code: github.com/google-researc…

Against the Uncritical Adoption of AI Technologies in Academia doi.org/10.5281/zenodo…

An ELSI for AI: Learning from genetics to govern algorithms science.org/doi/10.1126/sc…

The ChatGPT Fact-Check: exploiting the limitations of generative AI to develop evidence-based reasoning skills in college science courses journals.physiology.org/doi/full/10.11…

Enhancing LLM-Based Short Answer Grading with Retrieval-Augmented Generation arxiv.org/abs/2504.05276

The Ideation-Execution Gap: Execution Outcomes of LLM-Generated versus Human Research Ideas arxiv.org/abs/2506.20803… 🧬🖥️🧪 I.e. AI-generated scientific hypotheses lag human ones when put to the test science.org/content/articl…

A One-Page Primer on: Statistical Power from @carlislerainey carlislerainey.com/blog/2025-08-3…

ChatGPT as a Virtual Laboratory Teaching Assistant in Undergraduate Biology link.springer.com/article/10.100…

ChatGPT in Data Visualization Education: A Student Perspective arxiv.org/abs/2405.00748

The 4+1 Model of Data Science arxiv.org/abs/2311.07631

The Earth BioGenome Project Phase II: illuminating the eukaryotic tree of life frontiersin.org/journals/scien… 🧬🖥️🧪

Predicting ChatGPT Use in Assignments: Implications for AI-Aware Assessment Design arxiv.org/abs/2508.12013

Scientists no Longer Find Twitter Professionally Useful, and have Switched to Bluesky academic.oup.com/icb/advance-ar…

EdgeHOG: a method for fine-grained ancestral gene order inference at large scale nature.com/articles/s4155… 🧬🖥️🧪 github.com/DessimozLab/ed… In combination with FastOMA, it enables the reconstruction of ancestral gene orders for thousands of genomes

What counts as plagiarism? AI-generated papers pose new risks, and researchers argue over whether ‘novel’ AI-generated works use others’ ideas without credit. nature.com/articles/d4158…