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An AI Manhattan Project for Science and Biotech
To be clear up front, these are my personal opinions right now, and while they will influence any future policy I have a hand in writing, they are not the position of the Biopython Project or the Open Bioinformatics Foundation where I hold a leadership role.
Introduction Following the success of our first in-person Bioconductor course in Nairobi earlier this year, we continued building momentum across the continent with Ethiopia’s first Bioconductor workshop, held in Addis Ababa from 25–29 August 2025.
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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?
All the talks from posit::conf(2025) and the 2025 Nextflow Summit are on Youtube. I embedded all the recordings into a single page for each: openRxiv (bioRxiv+medRxiv) launches a partnership with q.e.d. to enable automated AI reviews of preprints . R Weekly 2025-W46 : Writing your own ggplot2 geoms, reverse dependency check speedrun: a data.table case study, NYC election.
Last year’s Nextflow Summit was one of the best conferences I’ve been to in years. This year’s meeting was fully virtual, and all the recordings are now available on YouTube.
Over 100 recorded talks from posit::conf(2025) are now available on YouTube
Andrew Heiss: LLMs are bad and dangerous for learning how to code in this class (Data Visualization with R). The R Data Scientist November 4 2025 : R ecosystem updates, workflows & techniques, ggplot2 visuals, mapping with R, Shiny testing and QA, academic research. R Weekly 2025-W45 : Pledging my time, neon ghosts, Bioconductor release.