- A debate on DIY lab automation compared a high-precision 2–10 nL “pipetbot” with a simpler 1–25 mL open-source syringe robot, concluding that an affordable micropipetting robot would be more broadly useful than yet another cheap PCR machine.  
- kanzure scraped and mirrored ≈260 k files from the Quartzy lab-inventory database at http://diyhpl.us/~bryan/irc/quartzy/, releasing the reagent-catalog data for open reuse.  
- Participants criticized the secrecy surrounding previous FBI/DIYbio “code of conduct” workshops and expressed skepticism about the upcoming NYC event (day 1 at FBI HQ, day 2 at Genspace) producing any public transparency.  
- A Bay Area tour of Halcyon Molecular was scheduled for 20 July; the company positions itself in the longevity/rejuvenation space while competing with Pacific Biosciences, Ion Torrent, and nanopore startups in next-gen sequencing.  
- fenn described self-experiments combining cordyceps and the Zone diet and argued for an automated food parser to correlate post-prandial glucose, energy levels, and macronutrient ratios.  
- Life Extension Foundation’s $15 k banner-ad purchase on H+ Magazine was mocked after analytics showed only ~150 clicks in a year, implying a customer-acquisition cost above $35 k and raising doubts about transhumanist-brand advertising ROI.  
- CERN’s open-hardware drawing directory (http://edms-service.web.cern.ch/edms-service/CDD/) and a Chinese blog post on CERN’s open-source hardware initiatives were shared as resources for open bio-hardware design.  
- The channel brainstormed a DIY-bio themed anime series as an outreach/education project, half-jokingly suggesting it could absorb “all of Peter Thiel’s money.”