R updates (from rOpenSci, Blaze, R Works, RWeekly, Posit), Slidecrafting, AI highs &

Use the constructive package instead of dput() to construct R objects with idiomatic R code for human-readable reproducible examples

Today I learned you can create and customize ggplot2 visualizations using your voice alone.

Apple gets into protein folding, parsing R/Markdown and Quarto, vibe-coding an R package, AI in biosecurity and writing, nothing about AI is inevitable, conservation applications of de-extinction tech

Recap of the first R User Group event in Charlottesville VA

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