Rick Wierenga
@rickwierenga
autonomous research at @retrobio_. creator of @PyLabRobot. former youtube star
we need more lab automation discussion on x so i made a lab automation community x.com/i/communities/…
We should ban humans from BSL4 labs and do all the work robotically instead. We need people working on developing defenses against the worst human diseases like Ebola — but to put actual humans in those labs with these viruses every day and then send them home to their…
how companies should respond to people writing open source drivers for their machines!
It is here! thanks to @hzlmshmn
tomorrow we might have a first Thermocycler in PLR!
great post by Marielle on reverse engineering: discuss.pylabrobot.org/t/reverse-engi…
codex & co kind of destroyed this every time i think of a good first issue, i might as well put the issue description in codex and it will do it pretty well might be a problem for people wanting to get into new projects. all the simple stuff is done by AI, and projects don't…
PLR will have issues labeled “good first issue” to make it easier for new people to start contributing
We have a PLR related job board on the forum now! discuss.pylabrobot.org/c/jobs/8
another one: 2025 PhD Resident - AI for Lab Automation(Early Stage BiologyProject) at google x x.company/careers/808090…
cool to see more and more job postings name PyLabRobot!
this is implemented on the frontend (Imager) level, so works with all PLR compatible microscopes! this helps make science more reproducible
new auto exposure API/implementation in PLR: use a custom evaluation function, or take one from PLR's library (we have max_pixel_at_fraction and fraction_overexposed right now)
if you are wondering why github feels slower and more buggy in recent years it's because they transitioned to react news.ycombinator.com/item?id=335767…
i think having to iterate in a simple* PR is what deters people from making more in the future. especially if there are multiple rounds of changes requested. it is overwhelming time consuming and just annoying simple* meaning adding/redoing something that already has parallels.…
the tiny part of experiment code that you contribute to a library (whether plr, an internal library or something else) will compound over time to accelerate future experiments it might cost a little bit of extra time now to clean up the code and make it more general purpose, but…