- Jiankui He (of CRISPR-baby fame) is openly recruiting summer interns for “human embryo gene editing research” via a Gmail address, signaling renewed, above-ground activity.  
- A new Sci-Hub successor called “Standard Template Construct” (libstc.cc) is distributing post-2020 paywalled papers over IPFS; it requires JavaScript but can be scripted via a protobuf search API (POST to api.libstc.cc/summa.proto.PublicApi/search).  
- Participants debate the long-term viability of IPFS and Kademlia-style DHTs for scientific archives, noting that IPFS gateways censor, antiviruses already blacklist libstc.cc, and no robust defense against fake-download spam exists.  
- Discussion of rolling-checksum and content-defined chunking (rsync, borgbackup’s buzhash) explores how to make decentralized archives deduplicate efficiently even when files differ by only a few bytes.  
- A Nature paper on “codon language embeddings” (s42256-024-00791-0) was shared, highlighting new AI models that treat genetic sequences like natural language for protein-design tasks.  
- MIT researchers have 3-D printed fully functional electromagnets and solenoids, potentially enabling open-source, printable motors and actuators for bio-robotics projects.  
- Concern is raised that AI-generated spam and deep-fake identities could corrupt scientific communication; timestamping (OpenTimestamps) and cryptographic verification of historical datasets (e.g., Sci-Hub’s SHA-512 manifest) are proposed as countermeasures.