Hi guys, and sorry for abandoning the mod without a word.
For those who updated this mod for newer versions of the game, thank you!
I'm not a very active Factorio player these days, but seeing as this mod became quite popular I'd like it to live on. Hence I've added SirTony as a collaborator on the project. A new Github repo has been created for this project. It used to reside in a more messy repo with several mods, but now it can be found here: https://github.com/canidae/auto-research