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You need to make AI guidelines for your lab
Generative AI is now part of academic research. A recent Nature feature found that PhD students are using AI tools daily to search the literature, write code, draft manuscripts, analyze data, and interpret results (Nordling 2026). Some use...
AI Keeps Failing at Microbiome Prediction
My lab just had journal club on a paper that sparked a great discussion: Pope et al., “Learning a deep language model for microbiomes: The power of large scale unlabeled microbiome data” (PLoS Computational Biology 2025). The paper presents...
So your paper was reviewed by AI. Now what?
Prompted by this recent question on Bluesky, I realized that receiving an AI-generated peer review is now a common occurrence – and that no one really knows what to do when it happens. So I thought I’d write down my thoughts.
You submitted...
Google's New AI Tool Can't Do Much. That's Exactly the Point
Let me start with a confession: I don’t trust AI tools for literature search and review. Like many others, I’ve been burned too many times by hallucination — references to non-existent papers, complete with a plausible title, reasonable aut...
The Autism-Microbiome Hypothesis Is Falling Apart
I believe this is one of the most important papers in microbiome science.
This new review in Neuron (Mitchell et al, 2025) systematically dismantles the gut microbiome-autism hypothesis through a critical assessment of published papers...
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