- Channel debated creating a 10–50 TB distributed repository for illicit academic literature, concluding that LibGen’s 8 TB corpus (~832 k e-books) already shows poor seeding (only one seeder for the 800-torrent Pirate Bay bundle), undermining “build it and they will come” assumptions.  
- A mobile-proxy Android app was proposed to harvest papers from university Wi-Fi and auto-upload them, but participants warned that universities would quickly revoke access, making the approach short-lived.  
- Technical discussion covered ROM-dumping Illumina sequencing machines: users fear warranty loss, and no public firmware dump has yet been released.  
- The NEURON simulator training course was criticized for its $1,350 fee, highlighting barriers for PhD students despite prominent faculty involvement.  
- An open-source adjustable-volume straw pipette design was shared on Thingiverse to enable reproducible, low-cost lab work.  
- A 10,000-video worm-behavior dataset of segmented C. elegans (wild-type and mutant) was offered with extracted locomotion features for open research use.  
- Participants proposed evolving the channel’s Paperbot into a collaboratively tagged, searchable archive, noting that Zotero metadata quality exceeds manual tagging and that gamified up-votes/comments might sustain curation.  
- Discussion of JP Aerospace’s kilometer-scale stratospheric “airships-to-orbit” and MHD propulsion concluded that the concept lacks a credible energy source and has no published vacuum-chamber tests.