Stephen Turner
stephenturner.us
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
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All models are wrong; some are useful.

All LLM outputs are hallucinations. Some are useful.
Reposted by Stephen Turner
Si te dedicas como yo a la docencia de bioinformática, esto te interesa. Este paquete genera conjuntos de datos realistas para realizar análisis de variantes y transcriptómica. Ideal para prácticas en ordenador individualizadas.
Eduomics: a Nextflow pipeline to simulate -omics data for education www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... 🧬🖥️🧪 github.com/lescai-teach...
December 1, 2025 at 9:11 PM
Eduomics: a Nextflow pipeline to simulate -omics data for education www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... 🧬🖥️🧪 github.com/lescai-teach...
December 1, 2025 at 7:02 PM
Frontiers | From pandemics to preparedness: harnessing AI, CRISPR, and synthetic biology to counter biosecurity threats www.frontiersin.org/journals/pub...
Frontiers | From pandemics to preparedness: harnessing AI, CRISPR, and synthetic biology to counter biosecurity threats
Biosecurity threats, which include natural outbreaks, laboratory accidents, and intentional bioterrorism, are a major issue for global health security. The i...
www.frontiersin.org
December 1, 2025 at 5:04 PM
LorMe: a streamlined and interoperable R framework for end-to-end microbiome analysis www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... #Rstats 🧬🖥️🧪 github.com/wangnq111/Lo...
December 1, 2025 at 3:00 PM
Papers from the NeurIPS 2025 Workshop on #Biosecurity Safeguards for Generative AI: doi.org/10.59350/ep7... 🧬🖥️🧪
December 1, 2025 at 1:34 PM
Conservation Genomics—Making a Difference onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... #consgen
December 1, 2025 at 10:56 AM
Literally just asked Chat about my Brother printer “why does it say paper jam when there is no paper jam?”
November 30, 2025 at 8:17 PM
RegEvol: detection of directional selection in regulatory sequences through phenotypic predictions and phenotype-to-fitness functions www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... 🧬🖥️🧪 github.com/mrrlab/RegEvol
November 30, 2025 at 5:00 PM
Reposted by Stephen Turner
We’re doing testing on jailbreaking most of the modern Agentic interfaces today at @mlcommons.org. You can take a look at some of our artifacts here: mlcommons.org/ailuminate/j...

Suffice it to say, these types of exploits are real (as you’ve noted), very dangerous (again, noted) & persistent
AILuminate Jailbreak - MLCommons
The v1.0 AILuminate benchmark from the MLCommons AI Risk & Reliability working group is the first AI risk assessment benchmark developed with broad involvement from leading AI companies, academia, and...
mlcommons.org
November 30, 2025 at 2:41 PM
Ovo, an Open-Source Ecosystem for De Novo Protein Design www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... 🧬🖥️🧪 github.com/MSDLLCpapers...
November 29, 2025 at 5:00 PM
Reliable Identification of Homodimers Using AlphaFold www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... 🧬🖥️🧪 github.com/SarahND97/al...
November 28, 2025 at 7:00 PM
Mapping spatial gradients in spatial transcriptomics data with score matching www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... 🧬🖥️🧪 github.com/chitra-lab/S...
November 28, 2025 at 5:00 PM
plinkQC: An Integrated Tool for Ancestry Inference, Sample Selection, and Quality Control in Population Genetics www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... 🧬🖥️🧪 R package meyer-lab-cshl.github.io/plinkQC/ #Rstats
November 28, 2025 at 3:01 PM
Reposted by Stephen Turner
November 27, 2025 at 6:05 PM
November 27, 2025 at 8:03 PM
Optimized k-mer search across millions of bacterial genomes on laptops www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... 🧬🖥️🧪
November 27, 2025 at 7:03 PM
Comparative metagenomics using pan-metagenomics graphs www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... 🧬🖥️🧪
November 27, 2025 at 5:01 PM
Pregame backyard hike zen
November 27, 2025 at 4:03 PM
10,239 whole genomes with multi-omic and clinical health information as the Korean population multi-omic reference dataset www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... 🧬🖥️🧪
November 27, 2025 at 3:00 PM
Genome region aware CADD thresholds for noncoding variant prioritization academic.oup.com/nargab/artic... 🧬🖥️🧪
November 26, 2025 at 7:01 PM
Transforming Biological Foundation Model Representations for Out-of-Distribution Data www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... 🧬🖥️🧪
November 26, 2025 at 5:03 PM
AI-Generated “Slop” in Online Biomedical Science Educational Videos: Mixed Methods Study of Prevalence, Characteristics, and Hazards to Learners and Teachers pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC... 🧬🖥️🧪
November 26, 2025 at 3:02 PM
Weekly Recap: #Rstats updates (R Data Scientist, R+AI conference, R weekly), Claude 4.5 Opus, Genesis Mission, AI+science, AI updates (Posit, AI Data Scientist), missing heritability, AI+edu, biotech, AIxBio, new papers doi.org/10.59350/04c...
Weekly Recap (Nov 26, 2025)
R updates (R Data Scientist, R+AI conference, R weekly), Claude 4.5 Opus, Genesis Mission, AI+science, AI updates (Posit, AI Data Scientist), missing heritability, AI+edu, biotech, AIxBio, new papers
doi.org
November 26, 2025 at 10:58 AM
$96 for 4 movie tickets is wicked
November 26, 2025 at 10:45 AM
The Era of Agentic Organization: Learning to Organize with Language Models arxiv.org/abs/2510.26658
November 25, 2025 at 7:02 PM