- A university-hosted open-access PDF repository (adl.serveftp.org) was physically seized after a DMCA notice, underscoring the legal vulnerability of hosting freely-accessible scientific literature.  
- Participants demonstrated a two-line Gremlin query that runs PageRank on SEC-derived CEO/board networks (theyrule.net dataset) to surface the most “powerful” individuals in corporate governance graphs, highlighting practical graph analytics for power-structure research.  
- New DIYbio resources were announced: the physical lab space http://bio.tmplab.org and coverage in PSFK and Singularity Hub articles on citizen-driven health innovation.  
- The open-source “Zerkin Glove” (zerkinglove.com) was presented as a low-cost alternative to the stagnant ~$8 k commercial data-glove market, while an open rTMS concept paper (http://home.tu-clausthal.de/~vttsc/OpenrTMS/Concept.pdf) was circulated for non-invasive brain stimulation hardware.  
- Discussion of biological magnetoreception pointed to cryptochrome-based mechanisms and a 1992 science-fair experiment showing accelerated plant growth near buried magnets, prompting renewed interest in DIY magnet-sensing implants and requests for more first-hand neodymium implant reports.  
- Wisconsin’s http://fpgacad.ece.wisc.edu was shared as a free, open CAD tool flow for FPGA research and education, complementing calls for an open-science laboratory-equipment taxonomy to accelerate hardware sharing.