- Texas A&M’s Knife-Edge Scanning Microscope Brain Atlas (http://kesm.cs.tamu.edu) was highlighted as a high-resolution open resource for whole-brain imaging and connectomics.  
- Participants discussed the shrinking pool of EZproxy credentials available to the Sci-Hub shadow library, dropping from ~50 to 11 active university proxies, and floated recruiting students via Craigslist to replenish access.  
- A request for the 1995 paper “PMID 7562497” was fulfilled in seconds via Sci-Hub, prompting surprise that some PubMed-indexed articles still lack DOIs.  
- The channel debated the concept of hiring humans as “external working memory” to offload large, dynamic todo lists, concluding that current human-to-human communication bandwidth is too low to make the practice efficient.  
- Kanzure’s personal todo backlog—described as multi-megabyte text files—was used as a case study; items included writing open-source parsers/generators for binary formats, PDF manipulation, and Z80 assembly.  
- A Haskell project, pdf-toolbox (https://github.com/Yuras/pdf-toolbox), was surfaced as a promising open-source library for incremental PDF editing and watermark removal, with support for FlateDecode and cross-reference streams.