Ben Miles

@michellearning @baym Right moving single eppendorfs around is the ambitious vision? There’s automated plate scale centrifuges available. Agilent v spin, hrb microspin, bionex hiG. Gotta think scale.

@baym No. Building custom hardware is the unambitious vision. That’s how China wins.

I'm sure this is cool but man, I get so depressed whenever I see a lab robot arm moving in human0-like ways to operate machines built clearly for the limitations of human hands and movement Come on, we gotta be more ambitious than that, right?

@michellearning How big?

The next industrial revolution isn’t software. It’s science.

@ericmigi Ok thank you!

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I am having so much fun creating little watchfaces like this 😀

@CultivariumFRX @AdamMarblestone Could this be built on the @Ginkgo cloud lab for lower costs or more scaling? Maybe concerns about novel strains?

There's no theory for getting DNA into an arbitrary microbe. We built a system that designs experiments, hands them to a robot, and learns from the results. 8.6x over state of the art. Hermes, the AI Scientist. Venture Cafe London, Thursday, April 2nd.

@pumpikano @MarathonTheGame @Ginkgo Ginkgo has some pre-canned protocols, one of which is an image to colonies pipeline using acoustic liquid handling cloud.ginkgo.bio/protocols/fluo…

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Sekiguchi Genetics fan art for @MarathonTheGame I made from genetically engineered E. coli, via the cloud lab @Ginkgo #marathon #fanart

@SethSHowes This is the opentrons playbook from a decade ago, all for competition driving costs down on automation

10/ I basically see a massive arbitrage in biological infrastructure rn.

1/ Lab automation is insanely mispriced. Today I visited a London-based biomaterials startup running large-scale bacterial screens. They use a colony picker that costs $95,000

@jrkelly @Ginkgo @OpenAI Great to see, we need this. Good luck!

Excited to launch the @Ginkgo Cloud Lab service today! Recently, GPT-5 ordered experiments from Ginkgo's autonomous lab in our work with @OpenAI below -- now we're making our lab available to users (or their AI models) in the cloud to order lab experiments and get back data online. Play around with it now! You can ask our agent about your protocol and it will do its best to evaluate if we can run it and what it would cost. cloud.ginkgo.bio/protocols To start we've launched 3 Ginkgo Certified Protocols, two around cell free protein expression and one to make bacterial pixel art 😀 We will be adding new protocols weekly -- at first ones we certify, but eventually users will order whatever experiment they want as long as we have the needed equipment on our autonomous lab! We hope that Cloud Labs will someday allow anyone to be a scientist with their own lab just like personal computers and cloud data centers democratized programming and the web. More in thread 🧵and happy to answers Qs if you post!

I have been enjoying the @MarathonTheGame server slam and am so enjoying the visual style

Live here → pubmed.sekgen.xyz

Built a permissionless biomedical research API where agents pay $0.01–$0.10/query in USDC on @base No API keys. No accounts. No subscriptions. Just an HTTP header. 11 endpoints: trending topics, emerging research, key papers, author analytics. Live now on x402 @CoinbaseDev

@CoinbaseDev Do some science with x402 at pubmed.sekgen.xyz

Last week we shipped Agentic Wallets, our first ever wallet infrastructure built specifically for AI agents. Combined with our x402 Bazaar, your agent can search and pay for skills, APIs, and services using stablecoins. See it in action! 👇

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Coding 2026 feels more like playing StarCraft tbh

@MachinePix its giving metal gear

Boarding an offshore oil rig with an Ampelmann E-type fully motion-compensated gangway.

Missed opportunity by @valaratomics for “Make America Nuclear Again” we could have been mana-maxing

@TheCraigHewitt @CoinbaseDev @openclaw This is cool, guardrails would have been nice in the awal package

Built with: - Node.js CLI (commander + inquirer) - Wraps npx awal under the hood - Stores config in ~/.openclaw/wallets/ - JSONL transaction log (append-only) - Interactive setup wizard Website: pinch.sh GitHub: github.com/TheCraigHewitt… @CoinbaseDev @OpenClaw — who wants to test this?

I built an Open Claw 🦞 crypto wallet integration. One command to give any @OpenClaw agent a wallet: pinch create --agent=janet --provider=coinbase --limit=100 Built on @CoinbaseDev's AWAL, launched literally yesterday. Here's what it does 🧵

@CoinbaseDev nice, awal has been great for testing, I'm providing biomedical literature analytics with x402 at pubmed.sekgen.xyz/docs

Introducing Agentic Wallets, our first ever wallet infrastructure built specifically for autonomous agents. Give your agent the power of a wallet. Let your agent manage funds, hold identity, and transact onchain without human intervention. 🧵

x402 api for scientific literature trends pubmed.sekgen.xyz/docs. More info on x402 agent wallets here coinbase.com/developer-plat…

Here's an x402 compatible API for analyzing scientific publishing trends. Docs have agent affordances to make it easier to read. Agents can use a wallet and hit the endpoints to perform different analyses across topics.