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

Not behind, but at the forefront: On feeling overwhelmed by AI progress, and why that means you're exactly where you need to be.

The science of responsible innovation, rv (uv for R), just quit, R updates (R Data Scientist, R Works), 5 things in biosecurity, why benchmarking is hard, open science (?), papers &

R + AI, uv, RAG+Zotero, Quarto books, Codex in Positron, Positron assistant &