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Stephen Turner
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Associate Professor of Data Science & asst. Dean of Research at UVA School of Data Science, #Rstats enthusiast, dad, runner, guitar noise-maker. Views my own. Web: https://stephenturner.us/ Newsletter: https://blog.stephenturner.us
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Stephen Turner @stephenturner.us · Aug 29
All models are wrong; some are useful.

All LLM outputs are hallucinations. Some are useful.
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Stephen Turner @stephenturner.us · 4h
Survival by Design: The BWC’s Autopoietic Response at Fifty to a Disaggregated Biosecurity Ecosystem doi.org/10.1177/2326... 🧬🖥️🧪
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Stephen Turner @stephenturner.us · 6h
My colleagues and I here at UVA are looking to hire a skilled #Rstats developer. You'll be working with me on the project. Here's the posting: jobs.virginia.edu/us/en/job/R0...
Epidemiologist / Research Data Scientist; Infectious Diseases and International Health in Charlottesville, Virginia, United States of America | Information Management, Services & Technology at Univers...
Apply for Epidemiologist / Research Data Scientist; Infectious Diseases and International Health job with University of Virginia in Charlottesville, Virginia, United States of America. Information Man...
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Stephen Turner @stephenturner.us · 7h
It's a small grant, but a win is a win. Just got the notice of award to serve as a project coach for CSTE's Data Science Team Training program www.cste.org/page/dstt-we...
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Stephen Turner @stephenturner.us · 1d
Multimodal AI agents for capturing and sharing laboratory practice www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... 🧬🖥️🧪 github.com/MannLabs/pro...
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Stephen Turner @stephenturner.us · 1d
Apple Watch tells me I've got a 76/"High" sleep score after 4h50m. What's a "low" score look like?
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Stephen Turner @stephenturner.us · 1d
Want to be my boss? We're looking for an Associate Dean for Research here at the UVA School of Data Science apply.interfolio.com/168251 🧬🖥️🧪
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Stephen Turner @stephenturner.us · 1d
Science writing interest you? Join the team here at @uvadatascience.bsky.social see posting here: uva.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/UVAJobs/job/...
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Alex Crits-Christoph @acritschristoph.bsky.social · 2d
The full language is even worse, asking to ban gene drives and microbes as well. Would exclude work like this on modified mosquitoes: www.npr.org/2024/01/26/1...

I love the IUCN, but also, they have no political authority, this is just a suggestion. Not a good one though!
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Stephen Turner @stephenturner.us · 2d
De-extinction technology and its application to conservation: academic.oup.com/jhered/advan...
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Stephen Turner @stephenturner.us · 2d
Genome engineering in biodiversity conservation and restoration: www.nature.com/articles/s44... (free: rdcu.be/ewG5R)
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Stephen Turner @stephenturner.us · 2d
Would a ban on genetic engineering of wildlife hamper conservation? www.newscientist.com/article/2498... ... I'm biased, but I think "yes, in fact, it would". See also: 🧵
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Stephen Turner @stephenturner.us · 2d
Prediction of Polygenic Risks by Screening Thousands of Polygenic Scores www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... 🧬🖥️🧪
Prediction of Polygenic Risks by Screening Thousands of Polygenic Scores
Rationale: A polygenic score (PGS) summarizes the genetic information of a person in a single number for a trait, and its utility in genomic medicine is well-recognized. Although PGS models have been…
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Stephen Turner @stephenturner.us · 2d
Auto reply from every SRO I've been contacting this week.

Annual funding for much of the federal government expired at 11:59pm ET on Tuesday, September 30, 2025. As a result, all CSR activities have ceased due to a lack of appropriated funding, and I am currently on furlough until further notice.
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Stephen Turner @stephenturner.us · 2d
Dissecting the impact of transcription factor dose on cell reprogramming heterogeneity using scTF-seq www.nature.com/articles/s41... 🧬🖥️🧪 github.com/DeplanckeLab...
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Stephen Turner @stephenturner.us · 2d
New blog post: All Roads Lead to Philosophy blog.stephenturner.us/p/wikipedia-... ...off-topic, but interesting observation. Clicking the first link in any Wikipedia article nearly always leads to "Philosophy" in just a few steps.
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Stephen Turner @stephenturner.us · 3d
Sunday PSA: store-bought scallions regenerate in a few few days if you throw them in water.
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Stephen Turner @stephenturner.us · 3d
Redwood, thighs, … Taylor Swift forcing me to have the birds and bees convo with my tween daughter wasn’t in my 2025 bingo card 😤
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Stephen Turner @stephenturner.us · 4d
¿Y tu, Duolingo? Ojalá pueda saltarme esta unidad 😤
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Stephen Turner @stephenturner.us · 4d
I promise I won’t pollute your timeline with any more of this
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Stephen Turner @stephenturner.us · 4d
Sora (the tool) is fun.
Sora (the infinite slop social network) is the dumbest app I’ve ever used.
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UVA School of Data Science @uvadatascience.bsky.social · 6d
New from the Dean’s Blog: “Liberal Arts or STEM? It’s the Wrong Question.” Dean Phil Bourne explores how the future of education depends on interdisciplinary collaboration with data science and humanities working side by side. https://bit.ly/3K9kmGM
Dean Bourne in a business suit is standing at the end of a long wooden table in a conference room. The room features modern design elements with bright yellow chairs.
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Stephen Turner @stephenturner.us · 5d
Rapid, accurate long- and short-read mapping to large pangenome graphs with vg Giraffe www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... 🧬🖥️🧪 github.com/vgteam/long-...
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Stephen Turner @stephenturner.us · 5d
Strengthening nucleic acid biosecurity screening against generative protein design tools www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... 🧬🖥️🧪
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Stephen Turner @stephenturner.us · 5d
I need Duolingo for gen alpha
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Stephen Turner @stephenturner.us · 5d
Weekly recap (Oct 3, 2025): #Rstats updates (from rOpenSci, Blaze, R Works, RWeekly, Posit), Slidecrafting, AI highs & lows, structural variation, biotech, RAG, tinytable, "vibe work," and a few compbio and related papers blog.stephenturner.us/p/weekly-rec...
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