- A JavaScript-based “nano-grants” generator was shared at http://lachlan.bluehaze.com.au/nanoshite/nano_grants.html to automate small-grant applications.  
- Practical PCB-assembly discussion highlighted that QFP-packaged microcontrollers are easier to hand-solder than dense 0402 passives, and even experienced builders enlarge part spacing to avoid re-flow defects.  
- Ultra-low-profile DIL IC sockets were sought for flush PCB mounting; one proposed hack is to dissolve cheap socket plastics (PBT, nylon, polysulfone) with acetone, methylene chloride, DMSO, or phenol to salvage the machined pins.  
- “Neural dust” was critiqued: two prerequisites—(1) a biocompatible magnetic material with a Curie temperature compatible with living tissue, and (2) ultrasound heating resolution fine enough to magnetically steer individual motes through the entire brain—were judged likely to cause cell death or mechanical damage.  
- A connectome-derived hexagonal CNN model of the Drosophila visual system was linked: https://arxiv.org/abs/1806.04793.  
- The 2018 Cell Reports paper “Psychedelics Promote Structural and Functional Neural Plasticity” was circulated as evidence for psychedelic-induced neuroplasticity.  
- The 2011 Battelle report quantifying the $796 B economic impact of the Human Genome Project was posted: https://www.battelle.org/docs/default-source/misc/battelle-2011-misc-economic-impact-human-genome-project.pdf.  
- A Dropbox archive of open-access DIY ultrasound neuro-stimulation papers was provided: http://diyhpl.us/~bryan/papers2/neuro/ultrasound/.