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Conventional Comments provides a framework for offering clear and actionable feedback in peer review

Running a marathon is a big deal. It takes a lot of time to train to run a good time, and it takes a while to recover. So, if you’re chasing a marathon PB (personal best) time, you need to choose which Marathon to target wisely. How can we use data to help our decision?

posit::conf(2025) & Nextflow Summit talks, bioRxiv+medRxiv AI reviews, R updates (R Data Scientist, R weekly), Claude Scientific Skills, Python package development for R users, new papers &

29 talks from the 2025 Nextflow Summit are now available on YouTube

Over 100 recorded talks from posit::conf(2025) are now available on YouTube

LLMs for learning to code, R updates (R Data Scientist, R Weekly), RAG, layoffs & AI, DuckDB for data science, Anthropic+Iceland, AI in science, AI in drug discovery, Nextflow &

It is with great excitement that we release DeepForest 2.0! This is the first major release since the project took shape in its current form. The codebase has been updated to match modern machine learning workflows, including better command line tools, configurations and package management.

I’ve dabbled a bit with napari – the python-based image viewer – but never needed to use it seriously. I had a real use case so I thought I’d write up the process of how I got going with napari, in case it helps others.

WIRED published a special issue with 17 readings from the furthest reaches of the AI age

59 new software packages, updates for genomics, single-cell transcriptomics, spatial omics, QC tooling, core I/O, GFF/CIGAR handling, much more.