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With the production process rapidly evolving, science policy must consider how institutions could evolve

If you read Paired Ends because you care about how biology, technology, and society co-evolve, this story was written for you.

AIxBio, Claude's Constitution, UK AI+Science, exams with chatbots, R updates (Posit, R Data Scientist, R Weekly), reading what Adam Kucharski is reading, AI vs reality at Salesforce, papers+preprints.

Part 2 summarizing chapters from "Biotechnology and AI: Technological Convergence and Information Hazards" from the NATO Advanced Research Workshop on AI and biotechnology convergence

A new study in Nature finds that AI adoption correlates with faster career ascent and higher citation impact, while the semantic spread of entire fields subtly contracts around fewer topical regions.

A laboratory safety benchmark finds retrieval augmented generation (RAG) can make strong models worse.

AIxBio, biotech 2025, Claude Code, Positron tips, cell fate engineering, academic slop, AI in health & life sciences research, R updates (R Data Scientist, R Weekly), RAG in R, papers &

AIxBio is here: Navigating the pacing problem and the future of global biosecurity

This week OpenAI and Anthropic launched their health/bio updates. While both companies are leaning into consumer-facing health concierges, Claude now has better tooling for life science researchers.

Reply to ‘Genome engineering for conservation might be a game changer but only with the incorporation of Indigenous voices’ in Nature Reviews Biodiversity