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How to SNIFF out Good Scientific Software

From Paired Ends (Stephen Turner's blog) – Wed, 15 Jul 2026 22:20:07 GMT

New PLOS Computational Biology paper: "Ten Quick Tips to SNIFF Out Sustainable and Secure Scientific Software"...

Genetic mapping identifies new hope for bone diseases

From RNA-Seq Blog – Wed, 15 Jul 2026 11:13:10 +0000

More than half of the genes the researchers identified have never been shown to play a role in maintaining bone health. An image of an epiphyseal plate, the area at the end of bones where new bone is ...

Turn new data into Quarto reports automatically

From Paired Ends (Stephen Turner's blog) – Wed, 15 Jul 2026 10:11:01 GMT

The {watcher} R package monitors your filesystem and run arbitrary code when files change. You can use this to automate things like creating parameterized Quarto reports....

Closing my tabs, July 10, 2026

From Paired Ends (Stephen Turner's blog) – Fri, 10 Jul 2026 20:38:33 GMT

Off switches for dual-use knowledge, the PhD admissions drop, a Brown cheating mess, the end of reading, AI labs at the bench, and planning for a "Bio Mythos" moment. 1.7k words, 8 min reading time....

The Simulator That Isn't There

From Omics! Omics! – 2026-07-10T09:14:08.954-04:00

Okay, this is one of those cases where I kvetch about other people not having built the tools I want to use - perhaps a bit of a insufferably egotistical position.Β  I mean, what gives me the chutzpah ...