- A used 1.5 T GE Signa MRI machine was listed on eBay for ~US $141 shipping, illustrating the falling cost of high-field imaging hardware.  
- kanzure circulated three foundational papers on ultra-low-field and zero-field MRI techniques that use SQUID sensors and novel pulse sequences to enable portable, low-cost brain imaging.  
- A blog post titled “Don’t buy sequencers” (meenta.io) was shared, arguing that plummeting per-run sequencing prices now make ownership less economical than on-demand access.  
- Rob Carlson’s tweet highlighted engineered laundry enzymes that cut washing-machine energy use by ≥50 % when cycles are run in cold water, showcasing an early commercial bio-economy win.  
- Erlich’s tweet declared PDF “dead-walking,” predicting Jupyter-style reproducible notebooks will replace static papers in quantitative science.  
- MIT Technology Review’s 2018 CRISPR outlook piece was linked, forecasting the first in-body human gene-editing trials.  
- A Nature Communications paper on dual-colour, high-throughput whole-brain connectome imaging with cellular-level landmarks was posted as a new tool for large-scale neuroanatomy.  
- Discussion of “realtruebioethics.com” (a non-link) served as a sarcastic critique of restrictive, safety-first bioethics narratives.