Today, AVAC staffer Samantha Rick delivered a statement during a high-level US HHS meeting. 'Without civil society having access to the proceedings, it is difficult for civil society to advocate around their own government’s positions.' Full statement 📢 avac.org/blog/avacs-sam…

The global average temperature has been at record warm levels for the last 10 consecutive months.

NYC is run by Eric Adams—former NYPD—and we have the largest police department in the country, so it makes no sense that whenever something happens in this city, it’s blamed on progressives and leftist belief systems that have never been implemented.

🔔‼️Publication alert‼️🔔 This week, Chris Morten Salome Viljoen and I released our paper 'Researcher Access to Social Media Data: Lessons from Clinical Trial Data Sharing' in Berkeley Technology Law Journal!

Couldn't be more excited for this paper to be out in the world.

🚨EVENT ANNOUNCEMENT!🚨
I'm co-hosting an event w alex (@PublicPatent) & Knight First Amendment Institute!
On the public right of access to court records, w focus on patent & other 'tech law' cases!
Next month! May 10! At Columbia & online!
Details below!
Tweetstorm TK later this week! :)

Bloomberg Law on the KEI, UACT and UAEM request that CMS use its Section 202 and 1498 authorities to authorize the sale of generic versions of the prostate cancer drug enzalutamide.

news.bloomberglaw.com/health-law-and…

This is awful. And exactly the reason we should be worried about other 150-year old laws, presumed unconstitutional during the Roe era, coming back to life. (I'm talking about Comstock).

March 2024 is now the 10th consecutive month of new global temperature records 🔥

More info on March's climate summary from Copernicus ECMWF ERA5 data: climate.copernicus.eu/surface-air-te…

Or even less - locally produced sofosbuvir/daclatasvir regimens in Pakistan are down to $34 per cure.

At this price, the money Gilead makes in just 23 days could treat the entire world.

New research shows training LLMs on exponentially more data will yield only linear gains. So as Silicon Valley seeks ever more data, compute, energy and human works for AI systems, the improvements will be marginal at best. Something tells me this new info isn't going to stop it.

Not clear to me how honoring a respected journalist who was killed for her journalism would be 'taking sides'--except taking the side of press freedom, which is surely the side we should all be on? themediamix.co/p/the-overseas…

Important work by Ian Liu, Aaron Kesselheim, and Eddie Cliff.

sure would be nice if the libraries were open today

Strict borders for humans, no borders for capital.
hamiltonnolan.com/p/the-real-imm…

Summer-style heat is piling into Europe right now. Unprecedented for this early in April.

Watch how Storm Kathleen acts like a giant engine that scoops the heat out of Africa and pushes it across Europe. Many records are about to fall...

Libraries are closed on Sundays

When Eric Adams ran for mayor, he promised to build 300 miles of protected bike lanes in his first term. More than half way through it, just 59.6 miles have been installed.

Some say pharma patent thickets not concerning b/c high tech thickets even bigger. Relying on industry characteristics & empirical evidence on continuation patents, S. Sean Tu & I explain argument wrong and pharma thickets designed to be anticompetitive. papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cf…

Eric Adams trying to figure out why so many people talk about how they think the subway is less safe than it actually is.