- A link to modular aluminum vacuum-chamber building blocks (Ideal Vacuum) was shared as an accessible route for DIY vacuum systems.  
- The diyhpluswiki repository added a transcript of Andrew Poelstra’s 2020 MIT Bitcoin Expo talk on Taproot, expanding its open-source archive of technical cryptocurrency discussions.  
- A Springer paper on “Human remains detection dogs as a new prospecting method in archaeology” was circulated, prompting speculation that scent-trained dogs could also aid paleontological fieldwork.  
- A Science article about the Unsub tool was highlighted: by analyzing institutional usage and open-access availability, SUNY cut projected Elsevier costs from $9 M to $2 M per year while retaining ~70 % of needed papers, illustrating a data-driven strategy for open-science library economics.