Congratulations to all the recipients including TRIDENT Principal Investigator Ravi Menon, FCAHS, FRSC...critical support needed to enhance cutting edge research!

(3 of 3) Our strike and the work of our bargaining team clearly showed we would not accept anything less than a contract that recognized our value. When we fight, we WIN ✊

Congratulations! Standing together and having fun doing it paid off! We hope to achieve a similar result with our employer McGill University soon. Let’s make it happen!

Cool event McGill Faculty of Law | Faculté de droit this Friday 5:30pm in the moot court; a book talk with Florian Bobin. Bobin writes about Omar Blondin Diop, a Senegalese activist who led the May 1968 demonstrations in Dakar. Blondin died  in 1973, killed by the Senghor regime. McGill Centre for Human Rights and Legal Pluralism The LPE Project

Florian Bobin a écrit un livre sur Omar Blondin Diop, militant de gauche sénégalais impliqué dans les manifestations de mai 68 au Sénégal. Il a été assassiné en 1973 alors lorsqu’il était en prison par le gouvernement Senghor.

James Baldwin Response to “Why must you always concentrate on color?”

Vaccines save lives.

We congratulate our colleague Adelle Blackett for her interview in the CAUT Bulletin on employment equity: caut.ca/bulletin/2024/…

"Ontario is our richest and most populated province, and yet students from India alone channelled more money – $2-billion, in fact – into its higher-education system in 2023 than the province did." Breznitz Dan

I had the absolute best time discussing politicians’ unauthorized use of songs & what musicians can do about it with Kevin Casini for NUSL CLIC ⚖️ @[email protected] on tuesday (look at my face!!) so grateful to prof casini for the conversation & the folks who joined us for asking such great questions 🥰

Everybody wants poor countries to grow, but we also want to base policy on credible research. My article in Asterisk synthesizes five facts from the careful empirical lit on firms in developing countries – which IMO overturns the aid world's focus on small businesses. 🧵/

Social media is not reality: -While only 3 % of active accounts are toxic, they produce 33% of all content! -A mere 0.1 % of users share 80% of fake news -74 % of all online conflicts are started in just 1 % of communities. sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

McGill agrees to drop legal challenge of law faculty union, ending strike theglobeandmail.com/canada/article…

The printing press didn’t just share ideas—it fueled a wave of witch hunts across Europe. New research led by SFI’s Kerice Doten-Snitker (Kerice Doten-Snitker) shows that social networks & a witch-hunting manual played a key role in the persecutions that resulted in the deaths of some 45,000

One of the many uplifting stories behind today’s (richly deserved) Nobel in protein prediction is the steadfast 50-year commitment by governments around the world to support the generation of freely-available, high-quality data for genes and proteins. Taxpayers, take a bow!

#OpenScience works!

My article on keeping patent law human-centred is out on SSRN. Comparative IP law, legal history, and philosophy. ssrn.com/abstract=49481… Michigan Law School, Law and Mobility Program, @IPSANZ,UC Law San Francisco HSTLJ, #IP, #patents, #DABUS, #Thaler.