Stephen Turner retweeted
Today, we released the National Policy for Nucleic Acid Synthesis Screening to protect American biotechnology innovation while reducing the risk of misuse.
This policy establishes a new, government-wide screening requirements for synthetic DNA and the equipment used to make it. s selling nucleic acid sequences and synthesis equipment know their customers and prevent the malicious use of these materials and tools.
This policy strengthens our Nation’s biosecurity posture by establishing rigorous U.S. government-wide procurement screening and physical security standards for synthetic biology. It replaces outdated “self-attestation” systems with robust, independent verification. It creates a dynamic, SI-powered screening layer that assesses the biological risk from nucleic acid sequences, allowing the U.S. to anticipate and prevent malicious use and help stop dangerous gain-of-function research.
@NIST will issue rigorous new screening standards and @HHSGov and @USDA will certify synthetic biology providers. Together, these measures will strengthen American biosecurity, safeguard responsible innovation, and establish a global standard for safe and transparent synthetic biology tools and research.
This policy establishes a new, government-wide screening requirements for synthetic DNA and the equipment used to make it. s selling nucleic acid sequences and synthesis equipment know their customers and prevent the malicious use of these materials and tools.
This policy strengthens our Nation’s biosecurity posture by establishing rigorous U.S. government-wide procurement screening and physical security standards for synthetic biology. It replaces outdated “self-attestation” systems with robust, independent verification. It creates a dynamic, SI-powered screening layer that assesses the biological risk from nucleic acid sequences, allowing the U.S. to anticipate and prevent malicious use and help stop dangerous gain-of-function research.
@NIST will issue rigorous new screening standards and @HHSGov and @USDA will certify synthetic biology providers. Together, these measures will strengthen American biosecurity, safeguard responsible innovation, and establish a global standard for safe and transparent synthetic biology tools and research.
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Stephen Turner retweeted
It's time, calling for a “Rebuild American Science Act”:
- Double the NIH & NSF budgets
- Limits on executive interference
- End forward funding
- Rebuild the research training pipeline
- Full transparency of success rates
- Permanent H-1B fee exemption for universities
- Double the NIH & NSF budgets
- Limits on executive interference
- End forward funding
- Rebuild the research training pipeline
- Full transparency of success rates
- Permanent H-1B fee exemption for universities
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Stephen Turner retweeted
The Shelf Life of LLM findings: Most claims about LLMs don’t hold up a few months after publication via @strnr
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Most claims about LLMs don’t hold up a few months after publication blog.stephenturner.us/p/llm-claims-s…
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AI advice and expert judgment blog.stephenturner.us/p/ai-advice-an…
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October 2026 links: Tacit knowledge, AI and #biosecurity, field building, chat with DNA, #Nextflow, AI in academia and science, #Rstats package development, peer review blog.stephenturner.us/p/october-2026…
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Stephen Turner retweeted
We are excited to announce our partnership with University of Virginia's Aikyam Lab, part of the School of Data Science @uvadatascience, alongside @_cagarwal and @strnr.
The Mace AI Fellowship in Trustworthy Computing funds AI safety research at the school.
The Mace AI Fellowship in Trustworthy Computing funds AI safety research at the school.
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I wrote this morning in the UVA AI Exchange newsletter about Claude Code’s new code modernization plugin, rewrites in #bioinformatics, and the fact that you can just build stuff now aiatuva.substack.com/p/rewriting-sc…
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Follow up demonstration: Comparing Virginia degree programs with SCHEV’s ROI data aiatuva.substack.com/p/virginia-uni…
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Stephen Turner retweeted
@rust_ruslan @phylogenomics If you haven’t already seen it - a recent post from @strnr on SubStack is also pretty timely and related to this: open.substack.com/pub/stephentur…
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Stephen Turner retweeted
Lots of debate this week on whether journals should ban AI in peer review.
We actually tested this in our new preprint, and the results were pretty clear to me.
For context, I've reviewed for most of the big journals and evaluated 1,000 human reviews as an editor. I love to ce.
TLDR: From now on I won't do any peer review without AI. For clinical trials, I'd even call human-only review dangerous 🧵
We actually tested this in our new preprint, and the results were pretty clear to me.
For context, I've reviewed for most of the big journals and evaluated 1,000 human reviews as an editor. I love to ce.
TLDR: From now on I won't do any peer review without AI. For clinical trials, I'd even call human-only review dangerous 🧵
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Anthropic is not pitching Normal Technology blog.stephenturner.us/p/anthropic-s1… (cc @random_walker @sayashk)
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AI Reviews Might Beat Human Peer Reviews doi.org/10.59350/006kh…
A limited demonstration that AI reviews can do the job of human reviewers at improving papers. Deciding what to publish still needs an accountable editor with human reviewers they trust.
A limited demonstration that AI reviews can do the job of human reviewers at improving papers. Deciding what to publish still needs an accountable editor with human reviewers they trust.
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Very good essay. You can read it in 5 minutes. I wrote some of my own thoughts on this over the weekend.
What Counts as Impact? doi.org/10.59350/006jq…
What Counts as Impact? doi.org/10.59350/006jq…
Some of my thoughts about the surge in AI-generated papers, why this feels like a completely new kind of problem, and what this means for how we evaluate science in biology.
Out now in PLOS Biology:
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Personal essay, weekend edition: I’m Skeptical of AI Disclosures blog.stephenturner.us/p/ai-disclosur…
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AI in the workplace vs. AI in education blog.stephenturner.us/p/ai-workplace…
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Academic life & discourse, #biosecurity, AIxBio, creativity, peer review, Thomas Jefferson blog.stephenturner.us/p/september-20…
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Generative AI for Biosciences: Emerging Threats and Roadmap to Biosecurity arxiv.org/abs/2510.15975 🧬🖥️🧪
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