- **Empathy and psychopathy debate**: maaku suggests that if psychopaths are immune to MDMA’s emotional effects, empathy may be structurally encoded in the connectome rather than being merely a product of neurotransmitter or hormonal balance.  
- **Mirror-neuron skepticism**: Wired article “A Calm Look at the Most Hyped Concept in Neuroscience” is shared to temper enthusiasm around mirror neurons as the sole substrate of empathy.  
- **Non-invasive deep-brain stimulation**: kanzure posts the Cell paper on “temporally interfering electric fields,” a method for stimulating deep brain regions without surgery.  
- **Artificial-ovary milestone**: Multiple links detail the first successful grafting of human pre-antral follicles onto decellularized ovarian scaffolds, offering a path to fertility preservation without re-introducing malignancy; clinical trials are 5–10 years away.  
- **Open call for makerspace biolab gear**: heath solicits $10 k equipment recommendations for a community mini-biology lab; JayDugger suggests fume hoods, glove boxes, and other safety infrastructure.  
- **Deep-learning uncertainty quantification**: kanzure shares arXiv paper “Accurate Uncertainties for Deep Learning Using Calibrated Regression.”  
- **Gene-editing summit link**: National Academies’ second international summit on human genome editing is circulated.  
- **Bitcoin privacy research**: New blind ECDSA scheme (IACR ePrint 2018/660) for transaction anonymity is highlighted.