- A short Imgur link (https://imgur.com/gallery/MXtiz7i) shows a fine-pitch soldering hack: a bare copper wire with clear insulation is jumpered between two pins on a board-edge connector, illustrating the level of hands-on hardware work common in the channel.

- A YouTube clip (https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=20&v=rLr9mck7eM) demonstrating ultraviolet corona discharge from high-voltage power lines was shared, prompting a follow-up that ~6–7 years ago a power company repurposed an Israeli gun-flash detection system for the same purpose; the contributor built a MATLAB-based GUI that processed the UV video feed and generated automated fault reports.

- The 2018 iGEM Giant Jamboree was noted for 24–28 October in Boston; links to the team meet-ups page (http://2018.igem.org/Teams/Meetups) and the program abstracts (http://2018.igem.org/Giant_Jamboree/Program/Abstracts) were provided, though it was observed that the abstracts page appeared unchanged from 2017.

- Aurorasaurus, a citizen-science project that crowdsources aurora sightings via Twitter, Facebook, and its mobile app, was highlighted along with the related Reddit community r/atoptics (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aurorasaurus, https://www.reddit.com/r/atoptics/).

- A brief aside on naming conventions in atmospheric science referenced “Steve,” the whimsical placeholder name that stuck for a newly discovered atmospheric optical phenomenon (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve_(atmospheric_phenomenon)).