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An AI-ready lab notebook for life science doesn’t need to be complex or expensive • How-to: An ELN+LIMS built in Notion + Airtable
An AI-ready lab notebook for life science doesn’t need to be complex or expensive
How-to: An ELN+LIMS built in Notion + Airtable
erikaaldendeb.substack.com
November 20, 2025 at 9:46 AM
An AI-ready lab notebook for life science doesn’t need to be complex or expensive • How-to: An ELN+LIMS built in Notion + Airtable
How to make a microbe for Mars, one step at a time • Our engineering roadmap 🚀🦠
How to make a microbe for Mars, one step at a time
Our engineering roadmap 🚀🦠
pioneerlabs.substack.com
November 20, 2025 at 9:46 AM
How to make a microbe for Mars, one step at a time • Our engineering roadmap 🚀🦠
What Biology Can Learn from Physics • Predictive models as billion dollar moonshots.
What Biology Can Learn from Physics
Predictive models as billion dollar moonshots.
www.asimov.press
November 20, 2025 at 9:46 AM
What Biology Can Learn from Physics • Predictive models as billion dollar moonshots.
Erika's quick-start guide to research nonprofits • You do NOT need permission from a university to do research (!!)
Erika's quick-start guide to research nonprofits
You do NOT need permission from a university to do research (!!)
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November 20, 2025 at 9:46 AM
Erika's quick-start guide to research nonprofits • You do NOT need permission from a university to do research (!!)
Erika Update #12: Traction is the key to curiosity-driven research • Traction = question + tool
Erika Update #12: Traction is the key to curiosity-driven research
Traction = question + tool
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November 20, 2025 at 9:46 AM
Erika Update #12: Traction is the key to curiosity-driven research • Traction = question + tool
Erika Update #11: Finally a breakthrough! If you can’t beat it, measure it • Sanity is restored
Erika Update #11: Finally a breakthrough! If you can’t beat it, measure it
Sanity is restored
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November 20, 2025 at 9:46 AM
Erika Update #11: Finally a breakthrough! If you can’t beat it, measure it • Sanity is restored
Erika Update #10: Honestly, it’s often faster to do it by hand • A cautionary tale of how scripting is not always worth it
Erika Update #10: Honestly, it’s often faster to do it by hand
A cautionary tale of how scripting is not always worth it
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November 20, 2025 at 9:46 AM
Erika Update #10: Honestly, it’s often faster to do it by hand • A cautionary tale of how scripting is not always worth it
Erika Update #8 & #9: A first solid result, this definitely doesn’t work! • The first step is admitting you have a problem
Erika Update #8 & #9: A first solid result, this definitely doesn’t work!
The first step is admitting you have a problem
erikaaldendeb.substack.com
November 20, 2025 at 9:46 AM
Erika Update #8 & #9: A first solid result, this definitely doesn’t work! • The first step is admitting you have a problem
Erika Update #7: Evolution is a tightrope walk • Success is a balance between extinction and complacency
Erika Update #7: Evolution is a tightrope walk
Success is a balance between extinction and complacency
erikaaldendeb.substack.com
November 20, 2025 at 9:46 AM
Erika Update #7: Evolution is a tightrope walk • Success is a balance between extinction and complacency
Erika Update #6: A taxonomy of emotions in science • Science is an exercise in acquired taste
Erika Update #6: A taxonomy of emotions in science
Science is an exercise in acquired taste
erikaaldendeb.substack.com
November 20, 2025 at 9:46 AM
Erika Update #6: A taxonomy of emotions in science • Science is an exercise in acquired taste
Erika Update #5: DNA detective • The trials and tribulations of managing DNA maps
Erika Update #5: DNA detective
The trials and tribulations of managing DNA maps
erikaaldendeb.substack.com
November 20, 2025 at 9:46 AM
Erika Update #5: DNA detective • The trials and tribulations of managing DNA maps
Erika Update #4: How much "proof" is needed for a proof-of-concept? • Finicky results are effectively irreproducible in life science
Erika Update #4: How much "proof" is needed for a proof-of-concept?
Finicky results are effectively irreproducible in life science
erikaaldendeb.substack.com
November 20, 2025 at 9:46 AM
Erika Update #4: How much "proof" is needed for a proof-of-concept? • Finicky results are effectively irreproducible in life science
If you want to live forever, start by curing menopause • The obvious anti-aging opportunity no one is talking about
If you want to live forever, start by curing menopause
The obvious anti-aging opportunity no one is talking about
erikaaldendeb.substack.com
November 20, 2025 at 9:46 AM
If you want to live forever, start by curing menopause • The obvious anti-aging opportunity no one is talking about
Erika Update #3: Cultivating Scientific Taste • Why will you succeed where others have failed?
Erika Update #3: Cultivating Scientific Taste
Why will you succeed where others have failed?
erikaaldendeb.substack.com
November 20, 2025 at 9:47 AM
Erika Update #3: Cultivating Scientific Taste • Why will you succeed where others have failed?
Erika Update #2: Three-out-of-four is pretty good reproducibility in life science • View the literature with skepticism
Erika Update #2: Three-out-of-four is pretty good reproducibility in life science
View the literature with skepticism
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November 20, 2025 at 9:47 AM
Erika Update #2: Three-out-of-four is pretty good reproducibility in life science • View the literature with skepticism
Erika Updates #0: A Publishing Experiment • Look behind the curtain of a PhD project
Erika Updates #0: A Publishing Experiment
Look behind the curtain of a PhD project
erikaaldendeb.substack.com
November 20, 2025 at 9:47 AM
Erika Updates #0: A Publishing Experiment • Look behind the curtain of a PhD project
Automation is coming to life science • We are moving toward a new paradigm of reproducible, scalable research.
Automation is coming to life science
We are moving toward a new paradigm of reproducible, scalable research.
erikaaldendeb.substack.com
November 20, 2025 at 9:47 AM
Automation is coming to life science • We are moving toward a new paradigm of reproducible, scalable research.