Stephen Turner
@stephenturner.us
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
Web: https://stephenturner.us/
Newsletter: https://blog.stephenturner.us
Key NIH review panels due to lose all members by the end of 2026 www.nature.com/articles/d41...
January 26, 2026 at 7:00 PM
Key NIH review panels due to lose all members by the end of 2026 www.nature.com/articles/d41...
MoGAAAP: a modular Snakemake workflow for automated genome assembly and annotation with quality assessment academic.oup.com/nargab/artic... 🧬💻🧪 github.com/dirkjanvw/Mo...
January 26, 2026 at 5:03 PM
MoGAAAP: a modular Snakemake workflow for automated genome assembly and annotation with quality assessment academic.oup.com/nargab/artic... 🧬💻🧪 github.com/dirkjanvw/Mo...
The review I wrote while at Colossal is part of this collection: Genome engineering in biodiversity conservation and restoration rdcu.be/e0NyH
January 26, 2026 at 3:00 PM
The review I wrote while at Colossal is part of this collection: Genome engineering in biodiversity conservation and restoration rdcu.be/e0NyH
New blog post: Scientific production in the era of LLMs. With the production process rapidly evolving, science policy must consider how institutions could evolve. doi.org/10.59350/khd... #AI
January 26, 2026 at 2:03 PM
New blog post: Scientific production in the era of LLMs. With the production process rapidly evolving, science policy must consider how institutions could evolve. doi.org/10.59350/khd... #AI
How malicious AI swarms can threaten democracy www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
January 26, 2026 at 10:41 AM
How malicious AI swarms can threaten democracy www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
RLBWT-Based LCP Computation in Compressed Space for Terabase-Scale Pangenome Analysis www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... 🧬💻🧪 github.com/ucfcbb/TeraT...
January 26, 2026 at 10:26 AM
RLBWT-Based LCP Computation in Compressed Space for Terabase-Scale Pangenome Analysis www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... 🧬💻🧪 github.com/ucfcbb/TeraT...
The figure legends and section headers in this preprint are superb: “Worst offenders account for a majority of PISS,” “PISS is prevalent at journals hosting many special issues,” “PISS is concentrated in some journals,” “PISS is concentrated in journals publishing many special issues.”
January 26, 2026 at 10:24 AM
The figure legends and section headers in this preprint are superb: “Worst offenders account for a majority of PISS,” “PISS is prevalent at journals hosting many special issues,” “PISS is concentrated in some journals,” “PISS is concentrated in journals publishing many special issues.”
Original paper: The Issue with Special Issues: when Guest Editors Publish in Support of Self: arxiv.org/abs/2601.07563 ... The figure legends and section headers in this preprint are superb.
January 26, 2026 at 10:20 AM
Original paper: The Issue with Special Issues: when Guest Editors Publish in Support of Self: arxiv.org/abs/2601.07563 ... The figure legends and section headers in this preprint are superb.
Fault-tolerant [ancient] pedigree reconstruction from pairwise kinship relations www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... 🧬💻🧪 github.com/ehuangc/repare
January 25, 2026 at 5:00 PM
Fault-tolerant [ancient] pedigree reconstruction from pairwise kinship relations www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... 🧬💻🧪 github.com/ehuangc/repare
ro-crate-rs: Development of a Lightweight RO-Crate Rust Library for Automated Synthetic Biology www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... 🧬💻🧪 github.com/intbio-ncl/r...
January 24, 2026 at 5:00 PM
ro-crate-rs: Development of a Lightweight RO-Crate Rust Library for Automated Synthetic Biology www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... 🧬💻🧪 github.com/intbio-ncl/r...
futurize: Parallelize Common Functions via One Magic Function futurize.futureverse.org #Rstats
January 24, 2026 at 11:19 AM
futurize: Parallelize Common Functions via One Magic Function futurize.futureverse.org #Rstats
Mammalian genome writing: Unlocking new length scales for genome engineering www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... 🧬💻🧪
January 24, 2026 at 10:49 AM
Mammalian genome writing: Unlocking new length scales for genome engineering www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... 🧬💻🧪
Claude in Excel claude.com/claude-in-ex...
January 24, 2026 at 10:04 AM
Claude in Excel claude.com/claude-in-ex...
Biological insights into schizophrenia from ancestrally diverse populations www.nature.com/articles/s41... (read free: rdcu.be/e0iv4)
January 23, 2026 at 5:02 PM
Biological insights into schizophrenia from ancestrally diverse populations www.nature.com/articles/s41... (read free: rdcu.be/e0iv4)
The VA ABC's marketing emails are timely. "Snow's coming, whiskey's cheap, come in while you still can"
January 23, 2026 at 4:34 PM
The VA ABC's marketing emails are timely. "Snow's coming, whiskey's cheap, come in while you still can"
Protein Language Modeling beyond static folds reveals sequence-encoded flexibility www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... 🧬💻🧪 github.com/finnlueth/pr...
January 23, 2026 at 3:01 PM
Protein Language Modeling beyond static folds reveals sequence-encoded flexibility www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... 🧬💻🧪 github.com/finnlueth/pr...
I’m breaking my own rule by not sticking to interesting science on this app. But a friend of mine living in Minneapolis texted me this 😭
January 23, 2026 at 1:04 PM
I’m breaking my own rule by not sticking to interesting science on this app. But a friend of mine living in Minneapolis texted me this 😭
Analysis of 4841 papers accepted by NeurIPS 2025 show there are at least 100 with confirmed hallucinations 🙃 gptzero.me/news/neurips/
January 23, 2026 at 10:47 AM
Analysis of 4841 papers accepted by NeurIPS 2025 show there are at least 100 with confirmed hallucinations 🙃 gptzero.me/news/neurips/
Interesting (no affiliation) www.pencil.dev
January 22, 2026 at 6:39 PM
Interesting (no affiliation) www.pencil.dev
Best Practices for Claude Code code.claude.com/docs/en/best...
January 22, 2026 at 5:02 PM
Best Practices for Claude Code code.claude.com/docs/en/best...
orthogene: a Bioconductor package to easily map genes within and across hundreds of species www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... #Rstats bioconductor.org/packages/ort...
January 22, 2026 at 3:01 PM
orthogene: a Bioconductor package to easily map genes within and across hundreds of species www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... #Rstats bioconductor.org/packages/ort...
Blog post: Biotechnology and AI: Technological Convergence and Information Hazards (Part 2) doi.org/10.59350/33t... 🧬💻🧪 #biosecurity
January 22, 2026 at 11:02 AM
Blog post: Biotechnology and AI: Technological Convergence and Information Hazards (Part 2) doi.org/10.59350/33t... 🧬💻🧪 #biosecurity
Best Practices for Claude Code code.claude.com/docs/en/best...
January 22, 2026 at 9:50 AM
Best Practices for Claude Code code.claude.com/docs/en/best...
Now that I've gone full-bore-UVA swapping out my techbro black T-shirt for a bowtie and khakis, I get to teach some of these courses starting in the Fall 🤵♂️
See more about the Genomics concentration with MSDS Student Emily Garmin datascience.virginia.edu/news/explori...
See more about the Genomics concentration with MSDS Student Emily Garmin datascience.virginia.edu/news/explori...
January 21, 2026 at 7:50 PM
Now that I've gone full-bore-UVA swapping out my techbro black T-shirt for a bowtie and khakis, I get to teach some of these courses starting in the Fall 🤵♂️
See more about the Genomics concentration with MSDS Student Emily Garmin datascience.virginia.edu/news/explori...
See more about the Genomics concentration with MSDS Student Emily Garmin datascience.virginia.edu/news/explori...