- A dinner meeting with Pete Binfield, the managing editor of PLoS (Public Library of Science), was arranged, highlighting ongoing engagement between open-access science advocates and the transhumanist community.  
- Todd Huffman is recruiting programmers for a destructive whole-brain emulation project; the approach uses a diamond microtome to slice neural tissue while simultaneously imaging the freshly cut surface, enabling high-resolution 3-D reconstruction.  
- The minduploading.org wiki page “WBE-social-SFN” was shared as a reference for the social and technical roadmap toward whole-brain emulation.  
- An fMRI study on self-paced writing of simple dots (Rektor et al.) was circulated, suggesting interest in low-level motor-cognition paradigms that could inform brain–computer-interface calibration.  
- The channel’s topic banner lists key open-science and DIY-bio resources: DIYbio.org, OpenWetWare, the BioHack toolset, and the “Automated societal knowledge” experiment at heybryan.org/exp.html.