Stephen Turner 🦋 @stephenturner.us

It's been real folks. I've been posting regularly here for 17 years, but will be no longer. You can find me on 𝐵𝑙𝑢𝑒𝑠𝑘𝑦 at @𝘀𝘁𝗲𝗽𝗵𝗲𝗻𝘁𝘂𝗿𝗻𝗲𝗿.𝘂𝘀, and get email updates from my newsletter: blog.stephenturner.us. So long, and thanks for all the fish 🫡

Generative AI for Biosciences: Emerging Threats and Roadmap to Biosecurity arxiv.org/abs/2510.15975 🧬🖥️🧪

The Tidyomics Ecosystem tidyomics.github.io/tidyomicsBlog/… 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/bioinformatics… 🧬🖥️🧪 #Rstats pkg: github.com/ajbass/kdca

R+AI. Nov 12–13. Online. Cheap ($25-70) #Rstats rconsortium.github.io/RplusAI_websit…

SNiPgenie: a tool for microbial SNP site detection from WGS data pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC12… 🧬🖥️🧪 github.com/dmnfarrell/sni…

Governance strategies for biological AI: beyond the dual-use dilemma cell.com/trends/biotech… #biosecurity 🧬🖥️🧪

Critical Artificial Intelligence Literacy for Psychologists osf.io/preprints/psya…

How to develop good research questions nature.com/articles/s4156… (free: rdcu.be/eJ8A1) 🧬🖥️🧪

Democratizing AI scientists using ToolUniverse arxiv.org/abs/2509.23426 github.com/mims-harvard/T…

The Sovereign Tech Fund invests $450,000 in R Foundation to Enhance R’s Sustainability and Security r-consortium.org/posts/sovereig… #Rstats

ggdiceplot: ggplot2 implementation for the diceplot plotting library github.com/maflot/ggdicep… 🧬🖥️🧪 #Rstats

ggdiagram: Object-Oriented Diagram Plots with ggplot2 wjschne.github.io/ggdiagram/inde… #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/articl…

Enhancing genome recovery across metagenomic samples using MAGmax academic.oup.com/bioinformatics… 🧬🖥️🧪 github.com/soedinglab/MAG…

Opportunities and considerations for using artificial intelligence in bioinformatics education academic.oup.com/bioinformatics… 🧬🖥️🧪

PatchWorkPlot: simultaneous visualization of local alignments across multiple sequences academic.oup.com/bioinformatics… 🧬🖥️🧪

Reference genome choice compromises population genetic analyses cell.com/cell/fulltext/… 🧬🖥️🧪