- A Nature article and viral Twitter thread highlighted a Croatian virologist who treated her own recurrent triple-negative breast cancer by injecting the tumor with lab-grown, oncolytic-like viruses, reigniting debate on the ethics and scientific value of self-experimentation.  
- Participants argued that self-experimentation can yield otherwise unobtainable data; one noted that had the researcher tried standard therapies first, the viral treatment would have produced “useless unconvincing data for a case report.”  
- The channel linked Philip Kennedy’s 2014 self-implantation of speech-center electrodes (which temporarily cost him the ability to speak) as a historical precedent, with a PDF reference: https://arep.med.harvard.edu/pdf/Hanley_Bain_Church_2018.pdf.  
- Discussion reframed the ethics question: instead of the usual “is self-experimentation permissible,” it asked whether refusing to self-experiment—i.e., “being a coward”—has its own ethical implications.  
- John Carmack tweeted a call for hobbyists to build a proxy system that simulates Mars latency and bandwidth; channel members agreed, noting that interplanetary links will always be constrained and that local wholesale data mirrors delivered by rocket may be the most practical solution.  
- A Discord-linked image (https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/1064664282450628710/1305036857301532693/image0.png) was shared without context, possibly illustrating a technical concept.  
- A late-night question asked whether pursuing a PhD is the best route to access high-end research equipment, or if easier alternatives exist.