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The Benchling Community got a new look–to celebrate, we're hosting a scavenger hunt and sweater giveaway. Here's how to participate:We've hidden some 🪼 emojis around the community. Click through our pages, enjoy our beautiful new designs, and count the number of jellyfish you see.To enter:Respond to this poll with the number of 🪼 you find. Those who find the correct number will be entered to win! Tag at least one person from your company in the comments Add a photo to your profile (if you haven't already)The contest runs through February 6th. We'll announce 20 winners on February 9th who will each receive a cozy Benchling sweater.

There is now a button on the bottom status bar (for entries, worksheets, templates/sub-templates) that opens a modal with information on the notebook and table keyboard shortcuts that we have, including a few new shortcuts to improve table navigation. Here is the complete list of keyboard shortcuts: Notebook Copy: ⌘ + C Cut: ⌘ + X Paste: ⌘ + V Undo: ⌘ + Z Redo: ⌘ + Shift + Z or ⌘ + Y Bold: ⌘ + B Italic: ⌘ + I Underline: ⌘ + U Strikethrough: ⌘ + Shift + X Link:⌘ + K Monospace: ⌘ + Shift + K Symbol: ⌘ + ; Superscript: ⌘ + . Subscript: ⌘ + Shift + . Insert section/day: ⌘ + \ Cycle header style: Ctrl +. ` Switch to next tab: ⌘ + Shift + 0

✨ Get early access to improved flowchart configuration! ✨For the past several months, we’ve been working on improving flowchart configuration, and now we want to invite you to try it out, starting in December. If you’re keen on getting early access and sharing your feedback with us, let us know by repling to this post.🙋 Why did we decide to improve flowchart configuration?We’ve heard from many of you—and candidly, from ourselves internally—that configuring a flowchart is tedious. Some examples of what we heard:“There’s so m

Have a Benchling topic that didn’t make it onto the formal Benchtalk agenda? We’ve got you covered. Open Notebooks is a new way to participate at Benchtalk 2025—a science fair-style poster showcase happening during lunch on Day 2. It's casual, low-lift, and a good way to share the things you’ve built in Benchling that others might find useful (or inspiring).No slides, no stage—just you, a poster or short demo, and the chance to connect with others who geek out over the same stuff.Some reasons to consider it: You’ve built something in Benchling that solved a problem (even a small one) You want to swap ideas with folks working on similar challenges You like the idea of sharing what you’ve done—without a whole formal presentation

Hey folks--I’m curious to hear if any of you have been watching Transcribed, our new interview series starring none other than Benchling’s very own CEO extraordinaire, @sajith.So far, he’s interviewed Patrick Hsu, Sara Kenkare-Mitra, John Tsa

Hi folks! I'm Keith and I'm part of the Technical Solutions Architecture (TSA) team at Benchling. We help our customers to build integrations on top of Benchling using the Developer Platform (Warehouse, API, events, SDK).We've been working on updating our Warehouse docs, and I'm pleased to share that these updates are now live on docs.benchling.com.The two old pages ("Warehouse Tables" and "Warehouse Table Columns") are now replaced by a single Warehouse Tables homepage, with subpages beneath that for different groups of tables (Workflows, Molecular Biology, Notebook etc). This should hopefully make it easier to find the information you're looking for! If you have any bookmarks saved that point to the old pages, we would recommend updating these to the new pages.Happy querying!

Hey folks! I wanted to share a piece of community art we created with the help of our design team, inspired by a real thread in our forums. ✨This particular thread stood out to me because of how many of you jumped in to share creative ways to streamline organizing racks within your inventories. What made it even more special was that the conversation naturally evolved into identifying a product gap—a lack of location hierarchy visualization—and ultimately led to a submitted Idea in our portal.Even though we didn’t land on a perfect workaround, it was still an incredibly valuable moment. You validated each other’s frustrations, collaborated on pos

We’ve taken steps to improve the Notebook experience by increasing table limits and in doing this we have also been able to improve the table display, performance, navigation, and export functionality in the Notebook. Here’s a look at what’s new:  Table limits are increasing from 500 rows to 1,000 rows Rows are added with an Add row button that has a numeric input field Tables have a fixed width and height to keep content structured and readable Table adjust to fit more data while staying easy to navigate, a scroll bar appears when tables exceed a certain height so you can browse without resizing, and you can scroll past tables smoothly without minimizing them Tables exceeding 500 rows will be exported as attached CSV files

This holiday season, I’m especially grateful for our incredible product team. Your dedication to the community makes this space dynamic, impactful, and truly special.Thank you for always being so responsive to my messages, indulging my wildest ideas, and serving as amazing advocates for the Benchling product. Your hard work and passion do not go unnoticed.✨No coal for any of you this year—just stockings full of gratitude and cheer!✨Happy holidays from the Benchling Online Community!​@ShawnaWolverton ​@Kyle ​@salil ​@lilyhelfrich ​@madison.fletcher ​@Tori Ehrhardt

Hey folks--just a little update but you now have the ability to subscribe to our events on the Community. You’ll get a handy dandy email whenever we post a new event so you never miss one! Check it out and subscribe today on the events page! 

It’s Security Awareness Month here at Benchling and our security team created some excellent graphics to help us remember security tips!🔒🤐Do our community members have any other security tips they can share? 

 Hey Community,We have a favor to ask! If you have 10 minutes this week, we’d really appreciate it if you could write us a review on G2. Your feedback means a lot to us and helps others discover what we’re all about.Click here to leave your review.Thank you for being such valued customers! 

Hi Community,Can you believe it? Benchtalk Boston is just 40 days away! We're counting down the days until we can finally come together, celebrate, and connect IRL.If you haven't snagged your spot yet, now's the time to jump on it—seats are disappearing fast!This year's event is jam-packed with a stellar lineup of speakers including our own community members, @Ken Robbins, @Pat.Valerio, @hanakibe, @rckc, @Mariya Gazumyan. @jrcharles, @csukuru, @mcheng!!Dive into their sessions and the full agenda here: https://benchtalk.benchling.com/b

Don’t miss this chance to hear from Head of Product Shawna Wolverton and our product managers as they walk through a comprehensive overview of our latest product features. Plus, there’s an opportunity for live Q&A!We have two sessions you can join -- Europe and Americas

Hellooooo Benchling Community 👋Joe from the Community team here. Wanted to pop in and let y’all know that we are continually inspired by the groundbreaking work our community accomplishes every day. To honor your incredible contributions to life sciences research, we’re thrilled to announce the first-ever customer awards, with winners announced at Benchtalk 2024!The Changemaker Awards are designed to celebrate the research, innovation, and excellence among our amazing customers. Whether you’re driving significant advancements in R&D, making breakthroughs with societal impact, or excelling in your use of Benchling, we want to recognize and celebrate you.How to participate:

Benchling Community!The weather is heating up and so is Benchling’s Online Community! 😎☀️🥵 We want to design the ultimate piece of Benchling apparel for the lab, the beach, and everything in between. Join our contest to help us choose a design and  for your chance to rock this exclusive piece of swag at all your summer gatherings! Design 1Design 2 Design 3🏅 Here’s how to participate: