I am trying to research "Alien artifact (acidic)" and can't seem to make anything happen. I do not have an Alien lab yet and thought that this was one of the steps to get there.

I have 119 "Small alien artifact (acidic)" items in my bag. The science says it needs 50 @ 30 seconds per lab. I cannot insert the items into my normal labs and appear to need the science to take a step toward making an alien lab which I doubt will accept these items.

How do I get this done?

Nevermind, I just knocked out the angel's exploration mod and the problem is gone.

I ran into the same issue. It's definitely something with running both Bob's and Angel's.

If you want to fix it in a game you are already running, you can use the command format from:
https://steamcommunity.com/app/427520/discussions/2/4706830261930551310/
and the names of the researches are in:
angelsbioprocessing_0.7.26\angelsbioprocessing_0.7.26\prototypes\technology\bio-processing-artifacts.lua
and they are named by color.
So the actual commands to run to force completion of the ones you can't research would be:
/c game.player.force.technologies['angels-alien-artifact-red'].researched=true
....or replace "red" with another color.