ROUNDTABLE on Intellectual Property and Industrial Property (in the Era of Trump) Wellcome Collection, London | 19 June | 3:30-5pm GMT In-person and online & open to public With @mbarber.bsky.social @kathybowrey.bsky.social @70sbachchan.bsky.social Vitor Ido, Svitlana Lebendeko, Caoimhe Ring, me

It’s not just Gambia. We got internal cables, notes and other records that show how U.S. diplomats have intervened on behalf of Starlink in at least four other developing nations. All while the U.S. has withdrawn foreign aid from those same countries.

An urgent thought about the Cali Fund and digital sequence information #DSI #CaliFund Today I heard in a public forum for the first time claims that private entities are hesitant to contribute to the Cali Fund because of concerns that the money may fuel 'corruption'.

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I’m not going to retweet that NOAA propaganda post about deep sea mining. Instead, I’ll tell you that I don’t know a single NOAA scientist who would promote deep sea mining in this way, because the available science we have does not justify exploitation of deep sea habitats for minerals.

'People in Corby help eachother' Ratio is @lselaw.bsky.social rich, varied podcast- here Susan Marks talks to Roxana Willis about among other things, 'ethnography at home', being at Oxford and feelings in academia. @lsepoliticsblog.bsky.social @lseucu.bsky.social open.spotify.com/episode/1Cp4...

Voluntary contributions by fund and by contributor, 2024. @who.int #WHA78

Political journalist friends! Do you need some marine biology and ocean conservation expertise to explain why this latest lawlessness is also harmful and shortsighted? Let me help you find an expert source for your needs. DMs open or whysharksmatter at gmail. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/17/c...

St Ives forever.

St Ives tonight.

The Metals Company is trying to circumvent the International Seabed Authority and get the Trump administration to approve mining of the deep sea. We have to stop seeing the ocean as a place to exploit instead of a place of wonder and beauty and an essential part of our life support system.

Yet another paper making a compelling case that academic activism is entirely consistent with the roles and responsibilities of scholars There's a rich literature now and the case has been well made - let's shift the discussion from whether we should act, to how www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Was looking forward to attending ASIL - my first as panellist and BBNJ Prepcom in April. Being brown, residency in one country and citizenship of another feels precarious. Looks like I must revisit the risk-to-reward ratio assessment this weekend @marklemley.bsky.social

Book launch today - LSE is hosting the editors and authors of this hefty volume in a discussion to celebrate publication of the book. Join us! lselaw.events/event/lts-bo...

The Schmidt ocean jobs board has almost 1,000 job postings. 🧪🌎🦑🐠 jobs.schmidtmarine.org/jobs

'The point is not so much that melancholy per se; it is how the renunciation of hopes for significant and lasting change affects the prospects of such change. Fatalism is a politics because, and to the extent that, by treating actuality as though it were fate, activists help to make it become so.'

In Kenya parents who took their sick children to get tested for TB the day before Trump was inaugurated are still waiting to hear if their children are infected. People with drug-resistant TB are not being treated. A global health risk, delivered by the aid freeze www.nytimes.com/2025/03/11/h...

In a world of Matts, be a Derek.

Many of you have asked what you can do to help fight the country's dramatic slide into fascism. If you are in house counsel, here is one important thing: send all your work to Covington, Perkins Coie, and other firms willing to resist Trump and that have been made targets for that reason.

From richardgold.bsky.social: To fight U.S. tariffs, Canada should suspend U.S. patents on medicines, one expert argues www.statnews.com/pharmalot/20... via @statnews.com

WATCH, READ, LISTEN: The Strait Times’s Green Pulse podcast spoke to Dr @sivathambisetty.bsky.social who was closely involved in negotiations for the landmark Cali Fund that launched this week.

We're in what should be the final hours of COP16. And there's new informal text out on 🌱 finance, key to its success. With inputs from bloc reps, it seems way more coherent than the last draft. L: 26 Feb draft. www.cbd.int/doc/c/b198/d... R: Tonight's non-paper. www.cbd.int/doc/c/214f/6...

And you should really listen to the brilliant @sivathambisetty.bsky.social – the brains behind the revenue-sharing model underpinning the fund – here on the @straitstimes.bsky.social Green Pulse podcast. www.straitstimes.com/singapore/en...

The Cali fund is officially real! It's a historic moment to get businesses – big pharma, ag, cosmetics, neutraceuticals, AI – to pay nature for using genetic data. Which companies will be the first to speak up and pay up?

OK, let me start over. Check the America First Investment Policy released this week. What stood out? I found the prose muddled and riddled with rhetoric, making it difficult to parse policy implementation. But let me do a better service and go through it. www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...

💥The Netherlands' largest pension fund, has sold its shares in Tesla, Meta, and Alphabet (Google). The fund with US $569 billion equivolent in assets is "directing more money to companies and projects that help to improve society and the environment." #Divest www.reuters.com/markets/euro...

Delighted to share the news that the research into #copyright in the #metaverse carried out with @uenotatsuhiro is now out in print in the form of a manga in both English and Japanese. Many thanks to our manga artist Mamimo Hana and @jsps_sns for making this possible!

I mean who would've thought that ceding control, without any oversight, of earth's shared satellite orbit space to singularly rich private players would lead to monopoly power that can intervene, at will, in global geopolitics and social censorship?

I enjoyed working with Strait Times' David Fogarty and Audrey Tan to produce this podcast on the Cali Fund. #DSI #Biodiversity @lselaw.bsky.social @granthamlse.bsky.social @lsebr.bsky.social www.straitstimes.com/singapore/en...

These are such incredibly sad reports. www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/202...

Meta could have solely funded the ENTIRE WORLD'S 2022 CLIMATE FINANCE GOAL instead of this

I enjoyed working with Strait Times' David Fogarty and Audrey Tan to produce this podcast on the Cali Fund. #DSI #Biodiversity @lselaw.bsky.social @granthamlse.bsky.social @lsebr.bsky.social www.straitstimes.com/singapore/en...

This is a gorgeous infographic about the Cali Fund. Kudos to @arunacsekhar.bsky.social and @carbonbrief.org And happy to have our work referenced in it @lselaw.bsky.social www.carbonbrief.org/infographic-...

💥 Well how about that. After years of Brexiteers saying we had to leave the EU to avoid being forced into a European army… … it turns out that Brits are fine with the idea. With the UK explicitly included. A plurality of Tory voters support it - and even a fair chunk of Reform. How times change…

The strategic use of 'equity' and 'equitable' in Treaty language - in the Ocean treaty, Convention on Biological Diversity and potential Pandemic Accord - and does it mean for the Global South? www.theideasletter.org/essay/the-eq...

tragically ironic. EIS officers are fellows. They work for peanuts, travel to all sorts of places (often red states) to investigate epidemics and outbreak. Firing them saves virtually no money and will hurt public health. An EIS greatest hit for GenX: Jack in the Box & E. coli O157:H7

Join us on March 4th for this hybrid event on AI where our panel will address copyright and image rights. @lselaw.bsky.social @lsebr.bsky.social www.lse.ac.uk/Events/2025/...

matthewsag.com/thomson-reut... My initial thoughts on today’s summary judgment ruling in the Ross intelligence case.

Spain has ratified the High Seas treaty, becoming the 16th nation to do so. That's today's #OceanOptimism #EarthOptimism story!

BREAKING: @publiccitizen.bsky.social on behalf of @drsforamerica.bsky.social for the lawsuit around the removal of clinical information & data from CDC, FDA, and HHS webpages was granted a temporary restraining order - by 11:59 pm, the pages must be restored. #MedSky www.citizen.org/news/judge-g...

Who are the Ocean biodiversity, and BBNJ, Biodiversity people and accounts to follow on here? Grateful if you can repost so I can find them to form a new feed. 🙏 Ocean Treaty Biodiversity BBNJ Genetic Resources Digital sequence information Pandemic Accord Benefit sharing

Is the oceans treaty 'equitable'? You better hope not! on the 'Equity Trap' in biodiversity governance and what it means for the global south. @sivathambisetty.bsky.social @lseimpactblog.bsky.social @lsepoliticsblog.bsky.social @lselaw.bsky.social www.theideasletter.org/essay/the-eq...

The strategic use of 'equity' and 'equitable' in Treaty language - in the Ocean treaty, Convention on Biological Diversity and potential Pandemic Accord - and does it mean for the Global South? www.theideasletter.org/essay/the-eq...

I wholeheartedly recommend clearing some space in your Sunday for this tremendous piece by artist-theologian Vanessa Chamberlin on ‘wombish words’ and women’s voices open.substack.com/pub/thetunin...

Dear Friends, my Twitter account was hacked. Pls let our friends know I'm not in control of account. You can find me here. Looks like a crypto operation of some sort. The account started tweeting about crypto, but when @rappler.com.web.brid.gy @rappler.bsky.social responded, it deleted the tweets.

"Musk Aides Lock Government Workers Out of Computer Systems" Vast database: "Enterprise Human Resources Integration" Contains D.O.B. Soc Sec., appraisals, home addy, pay grades. "We have no visibility into what they are doing with the computer and data systems." "great concern" "no oversight"