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Stephen Turner @stephenturner.us · 06/10/2026

Spent the last 4 days with guides and historians. Truly fascinating history. I could spend months here soaking it all in 🇲🇽

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Stephen Turner @stephenturner.us · 03/10/2026

Got near ringside seats at Lucha Libre last night in Mexico City. Impromptu decision. Hands down the most fun "sports" event I've ever been to.

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Stephen Turner @stephenturner.us · 27/09/2026

I had a lovely (cold!) ride through Shenandoah this morning with a friend. But I had to renew my National Park pass and I’m truly appalled that I have to carry this around in my wallet for the next year.

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Stephen Turner @stephenturner.us · 24/09/2026

$100 in Claude Code cloud credits claude.ai/code/claim-c...

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Stephen Turner @stephenturner.us · 23/09/2026

Demos / more info at scientist-two.github.io. I'm really looking forward to reading the paper (with an open mind!), but idk, I just can't get behind "86 papers autonomously generated across eight AI domains" as a good thing for scientific inquiry right now when we're all already drowning in slop.

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Stephen Turner @stephenturner.us · 23/09/2026

Google research: ScientistTwo: Pioneering the Human Knowledge Frontier with Autonomous AI arxiv.org/abs/2609.19644

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Stephen Turner @stephenturner.us · 22/09/2026

It's a silly measure (papers^0.75 / h-index), but happy to see I'm low on the slop index percentile 🙃 slop-index.com/researcher/3...

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Stephen Turner @stephenturner.us · 22/09/2026

Went on live TV news last night talking about AI safety and #biosecurity

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Stephen Turner @stephenturner.us · 21/09/2026

VAISI, the student-organized Virginia AI Security Initiative, has a great event lineup www.vaisi.org/events

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Stephen Turner @stephenturner.us · 20/09/2026

Sunday relief: Ctenophores Aren’t Just Beautiful. They’re Biological Wonders www.quantamagazine.org/ctenophores-...

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Stephen Turner @stephenturner.us · 18/09/2026

Join us here in the University of Virginia School of Data Science @uvadatascience.bsky.social! We're hiring a tenure track / tenured prof in LLMs (/NLP) apply.interfolio.com/191213 and data & society (social sciences, policy, humanities, law, business, etc) apply.interfolio.com/191214

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Stephen Turner @stephenturner.us · 18/09/2026

Toward autonomous science with agentic artificial intelligence www.cell.com/cell/abstrac...

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Stephen Turner @stephenturner.us · 18/09/2026

The Virtual Biotech: A multi-agent AI framework for therapeutic discovery and development www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

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Stephen Turner @stephenturner.us · 17/09/2026

When I got DOOM to run on a digital pregnancy test I thought we'd reached peak DOOM now these folks at Google have a fruit fly brain slaying demons www.nytimes.com/2026/09/15/t...

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Stephen Turner @stephenturner.us · 17/09/2026

Phil Bourne (1953–2026): from small molecules to big data—the journey of a multifaceted visionary academic.oup.com/bioinformati...

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Stephen Turner @stephenturner.us · 17/09/2026

Microsoft: "capability laundering" - a weaker unaligned model splits a harmful task into harmless-looking subquestions, asks a frontier model each one separately, combines the answers locally. CBRN attack chain raised mean rubric score from 62.3 to 83.1. arxiv.org/abs/2609.153...

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Stephen Turner @stephenturner.us · 16/09/2026

Reimagining research papers as interactive and reliable AI agents www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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Stephen Turner @stephenturner.us · 15/09/2026

Open-Weight AI Models May Increase Biological Misuse Risks www.rand.org/pubs/researc...

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Stephen Turner @stephenturner.us · 14/09/2026

Talk about a title that'll make me click papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.... 🤔 "Universities are multi-sided markets whose strategic asset is a credible warrant of quality over a credence good and AI is the first technology to disrupt this core function."

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Stephen Turner @stephenturner.us · 08/09/2026

deepmind.google.com/science/alph...

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Stephen Turner @stephenturner.us · 07/09/2026

We're ready for either La Vuelta or Halloween

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Stephen Turner @stephenturner.us · 07/09/2026

My 10yo is obsessed with roller coasters and theme parks. We sat down together over the weekend with Claude Code to build a tycoon-type game. Build fun rides, keep guests happy, make money, and expand. Alpha version still buggy. coasterlab.netlify.app

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Stephen Turner @stephenturner.us · 04/09/2026

DARPA is soliciting proposals to develop an in-silico capability for mapping all protein-protein interactions in their new "High-throughput Unmasking of Biological Interactomes with Binding Landscape Emulators” (HUBBLE) program sam.gov/workspace/co...

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Stephen Turner @stephenturner.us · 03/09/2026

Fable 5.1's prompting guide tells you how to at least partly disable Claudish by removing mannered prose platform.claude.com/docs/en/buil...

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Stephen Turner @stephenturner.us · 01/09/2026

Wife sent me the goal end state this season #9to5

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Stephen Turner @stephenturner.us · 01/09/2026

Trying to figure out how to use @posit.co cloud for assignments, but can't seem to create assignments for space viewers that allow them to copy a project. I don't want to make them collaborators, ie I don't want them to create projects others can see. forum.posit.co/t/sharing-an... #Rstats #databs

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Stephen Turner @stephenturner.us · 29/08/2026

Maybe this is common knowledge, but it wasn't to me. I was using Claude Code in ~/scripts (a little collection of convenience utils of mine) to create a python script to manipulate a pptx file. CC reached outside the project dir to find other files it could use for testing. Confirmed when asked. 1/

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Stephen Turner @stephenturner.us · 27/08/2026

Extremely cool. Some Scientists Have ‘Magic Hands’ in the Lab. This A.I. Is Learning Why: www.nytimes.com/2026/08/27/s...

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Stephen Turner @stephenturner.us · 27/08/2026

Here I thought RAM price were getting out of control...

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Stephen Turner @stephenturner.us · 23/08/2026

Beautiful morning in Shenandoah

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Stephen Turner @stephenturner.us · 22/08/2026

I sure would love to know what it is that is now making my go-to tortillas GLP-1 friendly. Maybe the same stuff that made things keto friendly a couple of years ago? Or heart healthy before that?

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Stephen Turner @stephenturner.us · 22/08/2026

Definitely picking one of these babies up and turning it into the nicest camper van on earth, with good first aid to boot.

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Stephen Turner @stephenturner.us · 22/08/2026

TIL UVA has a gov surplus store with a quite eclectic collection. I could buy a book about Mr. Jefferson's academical village for $1, or a PCR machine for 50, or an ambulance (!) for cheaper than a 10 year old Camry.

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Stephen Turner @stephenturner.us · 21/08/2026

I spent most of my time at the 2024 #Nextflow @nf-co.re hackathon working on genomeqc. Happy to see our preprint finally published: nf-core/genomeqc: a best-practice pipeline for comparing genome and assembly quality: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... 🧬💻🧪 github.com/nf-core/geno...

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Stephen Turner @stephenturner.us · 21/08/2026

A colleague sends you slides, or you sit down at a seminar, and all the slides look like this. What do you do?

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Stephen Turner @stephenturner.us · 21/08/2026

vscode in the terminal 😵‍💫 terminal-code.com github.com/zenbu-labs/t...

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Stephen Turner @stephenturner.us · 20/08/2026

Some hard-hitting plots in this article www.economist.com/graphic-deta...

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Stephen Turner @stephenturner.us · 20/08/2026

Python Polars: The Definitive Cheatsheet opensource.posit.co/resources/ch... #databs

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Stephen Turner @stephenturner.us · 19/08/2026

interesting. i went back and asked claude to generate 100 random words matching the word length distribution of my random words, give them to me in random order. still marked 100% AI

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Stephen Turner @stephenturner.us · 19/08/2026

I have no idea what this means, but it's interesting. I got ChatGPT, Claude, and Gemini to generate 100 random words. I also wrote out 100 words, first that came to mind. Pangram marked mine as human, all the others 100% AI. Words: gist.github.com/stephenturne...