- A participant floated the idea of inducing somnambulism (sleep-walking) while the subject is still awake, suggesting an experimental angle on altered states of consciousness.  
- Discussion of Elsevier’s weekend-long “planned system upgrade” prompted criticism of the publisher’s reliability and a half-serious plan to crawl Nature’s articles and seed them as a torrent for open access.  
- One user reported receiving a DMCA takedown notice relayed through a DNS administrator after the rights-holder (brainblogger.com) contacted the DNS operator first; the group agreed this bypass of direct contact was poor practice.  
- A link to “Probabilistic Models for Focused Web Crawling” (http://heybryan.org/~bbishop/docs/2008-07-31/Probabilistic%20models%20for%20focused%20web%20crawling.pdf) was shared, with the suggestion of applying the technique to traverse “lexicospace” (semantic links in WordNet) to auto-generate and refine search queries.  
- The channel’s topic banner listed key open-science resources: DIYbio.org, OpenWetWare.org, biohack.sf.net for biology tools, and the “Automated societal knowledge” experiment at heybryan.org/exp.html.