- OpenWetWare is revealed to host the BioBricks Foundation site (bbf.openwetware.org), highlighting its role as an early open-source biology infrastructure.  
- A DIYbio meetup in Newcastle is announced via Eventbrite (diybioncl.eventbrite.com), illustrating the global spread of community biology events.  
- Exome sequencing is now offered for $2,000 by Axeq (axeq.com), marking a significant price drop in personal genomics services.  
- Ingenuitas is introduced as a new initiative to build an open-innovation ecosystem for computer vision, data acquisition, and robotics in manufacturing (ingenuitas.com).  
- Backyard Brains demonstrates remote-controlled cockroaches (Makezine blog), showcasing low-cost neuroscience experimentation for education and biohacking.  
- Blue Brain Project funding is reported to have been cut by IBM after claims of simulating a cat cortex; Cajal Blue Brain (cajalbbp.cesvima.upm.es) is noted as a related Spanish effort.  
- OpenCog is criticized as “Prolog written in Lisp with multivalue logic,” with skepticism about its ability to achieve AGI in polynomial time; NEURON simulation software is recommended as a more practical tool for neural modeling.  
- PeerEvaluation.org is shared as a platform for open peer review of scientific work, aiming to decentralize academic publishing.  
- H+ Magazine seeks a new editor at $400/month, described as mostly “pestering authors and rejecting shitty articles.”