- Reddit’s /r/scholar subreddit is highlighted as a fast, reliable way to obtain pay-walled academic papers; users report turnaround times of one hour for requests.  
- Participants discuss automating paper acquisition by combining PhantomJS headless browsing with Zotero’s JavaScript “translators,” which already scrape bibliographic metadata and PDFs from publisher sites.  
- A GitHub repository, zotero/translation-server, is noted as a potential ready-made tool for turning any URL into BibTeX plus PDF on an academic server.  
- The Zotero translator framework documentation (http://www.zotero.org/support/dev/translators/framework) is shared as a resource for developers wanting to extend or customize scraping scripts.  
- Superkuh’s current research focus is on fabricating inexpensive near-IR birefringent single crystals, illustrating ongoing DIY materials-science experimentation within the channel.