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Research

Our research programs emphasize the principles of methodological pluralism, in pursuit of discovering new ways in which science can be done, across all domains of scientific inquiry.

Our objectives are two-fold:

To discover new ways that science can be done (scientific methodology)

Explore radical domains of science, that are often systematically ridiculed

Big Sister Lab Bench

Technical sketch of the Big Sister Lab Bench scientific workspace

Big Sister is a publicly available, commercial tool, developed by our for-profit arm — a scientific workspace embedded with cameras, sensors, and computer vision, that seek to capture, and visualize the entire end-to-end scientific process.

Big Sister enables rich data infrastructure in-situ, and can augment the researcher, support improved experimental reproducibility, capture full R&D pipelines, improve lab documentation and ultimately serve to enhance methodological creativity.

We liken Big Sister to the 'chess engine' for scientific research — a helpful companion that one can rely upon to examine interesting experimental paths that perhaps one might not have considered without sufficient tooling to lean on.