A new Consensus Study Report from the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine is now available: The Age of AI in the Life Sciences: Benefits and Biosecurity Considerations.

Accepted papers from the NeurIPS 2025 Workshop on Biosecurity Safeguards for Generative AI (BioSafe GenAI 2025)

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An AI Manhattan Project for Science and Biotech

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Conventional Comments provides a framework for offering clear and actionable feedback in peer review

All the talks from posit::conf(2025) and the 2025 Nextflow Summit are on Youtube. I embedded all the recordings into a single page for each: openRxiv (bioRxiv+medRxiv) launches a partnership with q.e.d. to enable automated AI reviews of preprints . R Weekly 2025-W46 : Writing your own ggplot2 geoms, reverse dependency check speedrun: a data.table case study, NYC election.

Last year’s Nextflow Summit was one of the best conferences I’ve been to in years. This year’s meeting was fully virtual, and all the recordings are now available on YouTube.

Over 100 recorded talks from posit::conf(2025) are now available on YouTube

Andrew Heiss: LLMs are bad and dangerous for learning how to code in this class (Data Visualization with R). The R Data Scientist November 4 2025 : R ecosystem updates, workflows & techniques, ggplot2 visuals, mapping with R, Shiny testing and QA, academic research. R Weekly 2025-W45 : Pledging my time, neon ghosts, Bioconductor release.

WIRED recently published a special AI issue at wired.com/ai-issue . Here are all the stories from that issue.