AI-generated genomes, R news for my posit::conf() FOMO, biosecurity, mirror life, teaching and AI, ELSI for AI, in defense of CRAN, Anthropic Economy Index, OpenAI report on how people use ChatGPT
Why the discussion surrounding mirror life echoes past scientific "shocks," and how adaptive governance, not outright bans, can foster responsible innovation.
AI in academia, $1B NSF cut, AI+biosecurity, bacterial DNA from mammoth bones, understanding LLMs and their math, bioacoustics for conservation, Synthetic Eden, lots of R/AI updates, CRISPR horses...
Quoting from Olivia Guest et al. (2025) "Against the Uncritical Adoption of AI Technologies in Academia."
In Google's new paper, "An AI system to help scientists write expert-level empirical software" an AI supposedly "invents" new methods in bioinformatics and infectious disease modeling & forecasting.
Dotfiles, VM setup scripts, R "verse" packages, and dev containers
NIH budget, AI, R, Bluesky & Science, state of biotech, AI in higher ed, R packages Top 40, structural variation, statistical power, Python documentary, Manhattan Project, tidymodels, ...
Biobank-scale relatedness estimation, SNP calling and phasing with long RNA-seq reads, predicting expression-altering promoter mutations with DL, cross-species filtering for comparative genomics, ...
RAND corp AIxBio report, AI accelerating: GPT-4b for stem cell reprogramming; AI is slowing down; UVA SDS on Bluesky; LLMs and education; Python needs R's CRAN;
Developing an R package using the OpenAI Codex agent in Positron
Using R and the GitHub API to get licensing information for GitHub repos for sequencing-related companies, one-shot with GPT-5.