- A YouTube video of the Attune NxT non-clogging flow cytometer was shared as an example of a “Rube Goldberg” hardware setup (ebowden, 04:16).  
- kanzure pointed the channel to Crowd Supply as a curated list of open-source hardware projects worth tracking (05:30).  
- heath circulated a visual tutorial on Evolution Strategies (otoro.net blog post) and later linked the first round of GP-write pilot-project presentations on YouTube; kanzure noted these videos were supposed to remain unpublished (13:44, 18:39–19:53).  
- Discussion of Bacillus subtilis as a high-yield secretory host for recombinant protein production arose while transcribing the GP-write session audio (18:39–18:42).  
- Participants lamented TechShop’s sudden U.S. bankruptcy, emphasizing the loss of the only widely accessible advanced fabrication space beyond laser cutters (20:55–21:13).  
- heath highlighted a PLOS Biology survey finding that, among 441 biomedical papers from 2000–2014, only one supplied a full protocol and none provided complete raw data, underscoring reproducibility problems (21:20–21:21).  
- nsh, kanzure, and fenn debated the difficulty of extracting mathematical notation from PDFs; proposed fixes ranged from OCR-to-math-markup to embedding copyable plain-text layers and rating PDFs for “copy-pasteability” (13:56–14:39).