- Empa released open-source “FEBIP Codes” for simulating continuum models of focused-electron-beam induced processing, enabling nanofabrication researchers to model electron-beam chemistry and deposition dynamics.  
- A 2018 review paper, “Chemistry for electron-induced nanofabrication” (PMC6009412), was circulated as background reading on the physical chemistry underlying FEBIP techniques.  
- Dante Labs is offering 30× whole-genome sequencing for ~US $200; community sentiment is that 100× coverage is the minimum clinically useful depth, and no public sensitivity/specificity metrics are yet available.  
- Rossum (AI OCR startup) announced a US $4.5 M raise and invited pro-bono or scientific use-cases for its high-accuracy document-parsing API, with suggestions ranging from climate-data extraction to mining 30 TB of scientific PDFs.  
- “Bringing microscopy by sequencing into view” (Andrew Ellington et al., Trends in Biotechnology 2019) was shared as a new approach that uses DNA barcoding and sequencing to achieve super-resolution microscopy.  
- Discussion of open-source table-extraction tools included Tabula for PDF tables and the broader challenge of automatically harvesting structured data from decades of scientific literature.  
- A long-running hard-sci-fi timeline/story titled “Future History” (jrmooneyham.com) was rediscovered; it mixes futurist predictions with a narrative of post-Singularity humans fleeing AI pursuers toward the galactic center.