• Interactive voice synthesizer “Pink Trombone” (http://dood.al/pinktrombone/) was shared as a playful but powerful web-based articulatory speech synthesizer; participants noted it would benefit from a sequencer interface for musical or experimental use.

• A Nature Communications paper was circulated showing that fossilization chemically transforms vertebrate hard-tissue proteins into N-heterocyclic polymers, offering new methods for long-term biomolecule preservation and paleoproteomics (https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-018-07013-3).

• An arXiv preprint on “Why software projects need heroes” (1100+ projects analyzed) was linked, prompting discussion on leadership patterns in open-source biology and transhumanist tool development (https://arxiv.org/abs/1904.09954).

• Two open-source cryptographic libraries for threshold ECDSA were posted: Kzen-networks/multi-party-ecdsa and cfromknecht/tpec (2P-ECDSA), relevant for decentralized funding and secure multi-party computation in citizen-science or biohacker collectives.

• A PMC review on “Humanized mice as unique tools for human-specific studies” was shared, underscoring their growing role in preclinical testing of gene therapies, nootropics, and other human-augmentation interventions (https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6061174/).

• Fred Wilson’s blog post “Opting out of the legacy model” (https://avc.com/2019/04/opting-out-of-the-legacy-model/) was circulated, framing open-source and decentralized approaches as strategic exits from traditional institutional constraints—viewed by the channel as relevant to bio-startup and DIY-transhumanist ventures.