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lvilla.bsky.social
Lab Automation Engineer & co-founder of the Bay Area Lab Automators. Background in Genomics from UC Berkeley. Exp in NGS, CLIA, FDA, Clinical, Cell Therapy, Software Dev, and 2x Cat Dad. 🇲🇽🇸🇻 Views are my own.
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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

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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?

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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?

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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

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Massive loss

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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.

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

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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.

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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.

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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. 🥂

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

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Can a headline alone be eligible for a Pulitzer?

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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

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“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

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

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Favorite time of the year!

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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/...

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

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

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

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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!

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Sora is pretty cool. Storyboard in comments.

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

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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

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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

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

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