- The IndieBB crowdfunding campaign (Indiegogo) aimed to create a beginner’s kit for DIYbio/synbio, but participants questioned whether the €16 k raised was only for a basic cloning plasmid backbone and lamented that earlier offers of free BioBricks had been ignored.  
- Discussion of promoter quality in BioBricks: participants asked whether any new, genuinely useful promoters had emerged for synthetic-biology work.  
- A GitHub repository (https://github.com/rricot/codon-reader) was criticized for distributing source code as a RAR archive instead of a proper version-controlled format.  
- A practical workflow for PDF malware inspection was shared: use Ghostscript with pdfinflt.ps to decompress the PDF, then manually inspect the resulting PostScript for embedded JavaScript.  
- Paperbot delivered several requested papers, including a 2007 Science article on directed evolution (doi:10.1126/science.1138838), a Nature Communications piece (doi:10.1038/ncomms2988), and a Lancet study (doi:10.1016/S0140-6736(02)11602-3), illustrating the channel’s routine use of open-access mirrors such as libgen and diyhpl.us.  
- Gradstudentbot’s humorous, evasive replies (“I’m writing the abstract,” “I hope they kick me out”) were praised as an accurate simulation of real graduate-student behavior.