Automation Saves Your Bacon (with Alex Rimmer)

<p><em>&quot;I wouldn’t describe DOE as easy — I’d describe it as extremely worthwhile.”</em></p><p><br></p><p>🎙️The latest episode of “The Next Experiment” is here!</p><p><br></p><p>This time, Markus and Phil sat down with Alex Rimmer, who brings a clear and practical perspective on DOE in biology – and some truly memorable lines about why experimentation so often fails to scale.</p><p><br></p><p>Alex talks about discovering DOE out of necessity, not theory. When nothing else worked, DOE became the only way to make progress. </p><p><br></p><p>A few great quotes:</p><p>🔹 “Biology is basically the study of interactions that we largely don’t study interactions for.” </p><p>🔹 “I had a need to make a media and absolutely no idea how to get that to work via traditional non-DOE methods.” </p><p>🔹 “Automation on its own won’t be enough; it’s what you apply with that automation that really matters.”</p><p><br></p><p>If you care about scalable experimentation, media development, or the practical reality of doing modern biology, this episode is full of insight.</p>