• A new price-tracking site (offers.p212121.com) was highlighted for comparative shopping of laboratory reagents, aiming to reduce costs for open-source biology projects.  
• A microfluidics paper reported generation of >30 billion 45 µm droplets per hour, suggesting scalable platforms for high-throughput biological assays.  
• Discussion of an open-source BCI project using OpenBCI and P300 paradigms; FourFire plans to contact the author to improve setup simplicity and usability.  
• Skepticism was voiced about EEG-based BCIs, noting low bit-rates and lack of clear theoretical limits, prompting a call for better performance data.  
• A 70 nm-resolution histology effort was mentioned that is slicing ~150 donated brains whose owners had IQ tests in the 1930s–40s, potentially linking early-life cognition to late-life neuroanatomy.  
• A SIGGRAPH paper on “Pteromys” was shared: a design tool that couples machine-learned aerodynamic models with interactive optimization to let novices create 3-D-printable free-flight gliders without wind-tunnel testing.  
• cluckj, newly PhD’d in Science & Technology Studies, discussed participant-observer research on “amateur/DIY/parascientist” biology communities such as Genspace, framing it as epistemic ethnography.  
• A debate arose over whether Karl Popper’s falsifiability and “non-coercion” principles translate from philosophy of science to everyday argumentation and cooperation strategies.