Celebrated International Lab Automation Day with a 24 hour hackathon at Studio 45 where be built MCP servers for robots and integrated them into agentic workflows. Folks flew in from Boston, Denver, Seattle, Houston and more to come together and build at the edge. #labautomation

SF New Event Alert: Build in public, learn in public, level up as a community. It's never been easier to build and building is without a doubt the best way to learn. if the only constant in our industry is change, how are you making the space & time to keep up with these changes?

The number one question I get asked is, "how can I break into automation?" The number two question I get asked is, "how can I make that next leap?" My answer is generally the same, "Come to our hackathons." Why?

We are co-hosting our third AI x Lab Automation hackathon in San Francisco to kick off International Lab Automation Day & SF Deep Tech Week: lu.ma/3ys6obhi

Massive loss

Unfortunately being heads down as an IC (for some reason VP's & founders still seem to have unlimited time even when they're heads down) means that even within that month or two, you miss out on a lot of research and updates.

Impossible to imagine a future where agents aren’t some of the first “workers” at startups.

Using @anthropic.com Claude Code and this is what agents should feel like day to day. Simple terminal, easy to prompt. Curious to see how it does with DI and self generation of Swagger comments. Vibe coding is here to stay.

It's clear when folks aren't familiar with or using the technologies they're hyping. You may have interviewed or spoken with 100 experts to arrive at a conclusion that supported your initial hunch but did you talk to the correct 100 people? I doubt it.

I've been hibernating since #SLAS, I've been grinding & pushing through professional & personal deadlines. Lab automation remains a domain that still requires a whimsical and dizzying array of skillsets. Currently using my first "free" day to read through a backlog of papers, blogs and code. 🥂

Excellent to see self-driving laboratories as one of the technologies to watch in 2025: www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Can a headline alone be eligible for a Pulitzer?

Always happy to talk about lab automation! I had a lot of fun sitting down for this podcast, thanks for having me @nabilwrites.bsky.social

“You sit in between three of the biggest problems in the [biotech] industry.” I love this insight from @lvilla.bsky.social – co-founder of Bay Area Lab Automators – on why a career in biotech lab automation is so compelling. Catch the full conversation here: youtu.be/oT8VnQ_UNNo

After visiting an autonomous lab, saw this view from Lawrence Berkeley National Lab at @ucberkeleyofficial.bsky.social

Favorite time of the year!

or even "people are actually pretty rational and not that impressionable." All of this seems quite ahistorical and unscientific, even in the context of Meta's own history and own research. Do the ads influence people but not the malicious posts? It doesn't hold water. 5/7

Co-hosting a FREE, all-day workshop in San Francisco prior to #SLAS. Learn #SiLA and #AnIML standards with practical examples (real & cloud based instruments) and datasets. Great opportunity to upskill and fix your lab! #LabAutomation Check out the details here: www.linkedin.com/feed/update/...

Holidays & Community 🥰 that’s what it’s all about in the end!

I'm about to rebrand all my cron jobs to AI agents and raise a $100,000,000 seed round.

Patiently waiting for @stiles.io to learn about the OpenAI API @golang.org library.

Attending SLAS 2025 in San Diego? Is there an event meetup map? Trying to figure out the optimal date & time for a bootstrapped event. Tag or share if you know anyone!

Sora is pretty cool. Storyboard in comments.

Of course I am going to refactor my code before the holiday break. 😅

Join the Bay Area Lab Automators and @techbio.bsky.social for our Year-End Community Celebration in San Francisco on December 19th! lu.ma/urgc9y2e

Join us for a special meetup! 🧬🤖💙 TechBio Transformers is partnering with Bay Area Lab Automators for an event on Dec 19th in SF at Southern Pacific Brewing. Have questions? Contact our SF regional leads, Adam Ferguson and Jack Morel, on the TBT Slack! lu.ma/urgc9y2e

The #labautomation project that I’ve been working on won an award for Technology Innovation from Fierce Life Sciences: fiercelifesciencesinnovationawards.fiercelifesciences.com/fiercelifesc...

The Rise of Skywalkers

When I read papers involving automation I cringe at how patently untrue some of the claims seem to be but then I remember that a lot of that is due to the relatively large moat that remains when it comes to knowledge and exp with the overwhelming amount of hardware and software that is available.

Something that was discussed and developed further during the AI x Lab Auto hackathons. An AI can take a set of protocols (verbal or written) and easily translate them into a "machine" code when given a blueprint but what it cannot do is discern the next level of intent or context to that action.

The ~*dream*~: "Historically, every make and model of robot was an island: the code you used to control one couldn’t control another. But researchers are now dreaming of a day when a single artificial intelligence can control any type of robot."

Generated my own starter pack of lab automation folks who are engineers, scientists founders, or researchers in the space or adjacent to it. Lab Auto will vary from lab to lab and project to project. Diversity of ideas and skill sets are required, lmk if you want to be included. go.bsky.app/RwgzPtL

Awesome profile of the work out of Stanford by Manu Prakash. Very fortunate to have had him at our last meetup for what was an incredible talk. Hardware & science needs to about enable all, not just some.

In a little over a year, the Bay Area Lab Automators hit 700 members on LinkedIn. 🤯 We’ve had 2 AI x Lab Auto hackathons, multiple vendor events, no vendor hangouts, panels, a holiday party, and more handshakes than I can remember. Grateful for community and the friends I’ve made a long the way!

I'll be on this panel tonight talking about lab automation and AI. 🤖 lu.ma/ifj60r0y?tk=...