The idea of a decentralized microblogging social media service with extensible protocols sounds like something the lab automation community should rally around. Are you on Bluesky or Threads (different protocol but same idea) and post about lab auto, biotech and/or techbio?
If so, I’d like to follow you.
PLR is on bluesky: @pylabrobot.bsky.social on Bluesky
+1 follow, also great to finally meet the other day. Cheers!
Why not Twitter 
I looked at Bluesky but the userbase is just not there so the discoverability would be very low. Twitter has communities now so we could start one there?
Tech bio and institutions are slowly migrating. There are science starter packs that folks can follow. The decentralized nature of the technology is appealing on it’s own. A future with cross platform protocols and being able to upload algorithms seems ideal.
FYI - @lvilla.bsky.social
If you join let me know so I can add you to a lab automation starter pack.
Hi everyone, I just made a feed on bluesky as well. I’m not yet an active poster there, but I thought it’d be helpful to try crafting a feed to follow: Lab Automation
Also feel free to follow me: @sammytomp.bsky.social
One of the things I’m liking about bluesky so far is the transparency of the platform, so to continue in that I’ll share the regex pattern I’m using to generate the feed:
\b(?:lab(?:oratory)? automation|lab robotic(?:s)?|workcell(?:s)?|pipett(?:ing|or)|
high-throughput|liquid handler(?:s)?|Hamilton (?:Venus|robot|instrument|STAR|STARlet|prep)|
Tecan(?: Evoware)?|Biomek|plate reader(?:s)?|spectrophotometer(?:s)?|LabVIEW|
SoftMax Pro|automation software|pipette tips?|microplates?|reagent(?:s)?|well plates?|
PCR setup|DNA extraction|cell culture|sample prep|liquid handling|AI in labs?|
machine learning in labs?|robotics in labs?|IoT in labs?|digital lab)\b
I’m far from a regex expert though, so if anyone has any ideas on refining the pattern let me know! Unfortunately there’s no support for look-ahead/behind so the context analysis is pretty limited.
I love it. Let me control my feed and algo too.
My Lab Auto Starter Pack: Bluesky
Also incredibly cool seeing the “Rise of the Skywalkers” via the scientific community as an actual metric (@altmetric.com on Bluesky)
