New from me & the Science, Health & Information Clinic at @nyulaw.bsky.social: Amicus brief of Intellectual Property Scholars in xAI v. Bonta, No. 26-1591 (9th Cir.) A major appeal with consequences not just for AI transparency but all of tech & regulation Quick 🧵! 1/ papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

both the clientele and our cashier at zabar’s complimented my hat. thanks @salome.bsky.social and @cmorten.bsky.social

Just announced: OpenAI plans to lease a 9.2 gigawatt 100% fossil-fuelled data centre on Ohio. Its emissions will be between 20 - 37 MTCO2-e - somewhere between the total grid emissions of France -> Netherlands As much GHGs as 9.5 average coal plants. Will raise US total emissions by 0.5%

The first opinion of the morning is in Hikma Pharmaceuticals v. Amarin Pharma. A unanimous court holds that Amarin, a drug maker, has failed to state a claim for active infringement of its patent. www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/25p...

A horrifying new Ebola outbreak is underway. There's no approved vaccine for the new strain causing the outbreak. @sariahmed.bsky.social @mattherder.bsky.social Janice Graham & I published a paper last year on the history of J&J's Ebola vaccine—and why it divested in 2023 from new vaccine research.

karim@sariahmed.bsky.social · 10mo ago

Read our work in Social Science & Medicine on vectors, "platforms," and the political economy of vaccine development as it relates to J&J's adenoviral vector. Health research systems can be built to understand and solve public health problems, but that's not what we observed here unfortunately. 1/

Our work on the political economy of adenoviral vectors is among few papers connecting the financialization of drug development to the scientific history of ebola. Important context for thinking critically about which players are on the scene responding to the current outbreak. @cmorten.bsky.social

karim@sariahmed.bsky.social · 10mo ago

Read our work in Social Science & Medicine on vectors, "platforms," and the political economy of vaccine development as it relates to J&J's adenoviral vector. Health research systems can be built to understand and solve public health problems, but that's not what we observed here unfortunately. 1/

Community forum on Thursday morning now with eight (8!) candidates for NY12 now confirmed! Join @prep4allnow.bsky.social, @nyuengelberg.org & me for a discussion of the future of HIV care & prevention! Free and open to all! At @lgbtcenternyc.bsky.social!

Chris Morten@cmorten.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Upcoming event with @nyuengelberg.org! Community Forum on HIV Care & Prevention with candidates for NY12! Join me, @prep4allnow.bsky.social's Jeremiah Johnson & candidates for a conversation on protecting and expanding PrEP access and strengthening HIV infrastructure. Thursday May 14 10 am-noon!

Upcoming event with @nyuengelberg.org! Community Forum on HIV Care & Prevention with candidates for NY12! Join me, @prep4allnow.bsky.social's Jeremiah Johnson & candidates for a conversation on protecting and expanding PrEP access and strengthening HIV infrastructure. Thursday May 14 10 am-noon!

🚨 New from the Science, Health & Information Clinic at @nyulaw.bsky.social! 🚨 New FOIA suit on behalf of @prep4allnow.bsky.social! We uncovered the existence of a previously secret M-CRADA between Gilead & NIH, which could govern lenacapavir R&D. We're suing to get it!

Today, Patrick Lin explains how surveillance pricing is making it easier for corporations to exploit consumers, how states are starting to push back against these practices, and why those efforts are running into First Amendment challenges.

Surveillance Pricing: Exploiting Information Asymmetries

For over a century, fixed prices have made markets more transparent. Surveillance pricing threatens to reverse that progress by allowing corporations to secretly tailor prices using personal data.

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OK the fact that this was published at @lpeblog.bsky.social clarifies that I need to finally finish that article on why theoretical foundations of price discrim arguments are all messed up. Consumer surplus and info asymmetry are just free floating concepts here! lpeproject.org/blog/surveil...

Surveillance Pricing: Exploiting Information Asymmetries

For over a century, fixed prices have made markets more transparent. Surveillance pricing threatens to reverse that progress by allowing corporations to secretly tailor prices using personal data.

lpeproject.org

after much deliberation and giving AI the benefit of the doubt, Wikipedia editors have had enough of AI slop. New policy bans LLM generated content, periodt www.404media.co/wikipedia-ba...

Wikipedia Bans AI-Generated Content

“In recent months, more and more administrative reports centered on LLM-related issues, and editors were being overwhelmed.”

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Today, MSF is going public with something we've been fighting behind closed doors for months: Gilead will not sell us their new HIV drug, lenacapavir. The sticking point isn't even price, they just refuse to sell. Open letter linked + explainer 🧵1/ www.doctorswithoutborders.org/latest/gilea...

Gilead refuses to sell groundbreaking HIV prevention drug to MSF

Blocking humanitarian organizations from accessing a medical breakthrough puts vulnerable people across the world in danger.

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We in the Science, Health & Information Clinic at @nyulaw.bsky.social are honored to represent CHLP! I'm excited to share some of our work together in the weeks and months ahead!

CHLP: Center for HIV Law & Policy@hivlawandpolicy.bsky.social · 4mo ago

CHLP's S. Mandisa Moore-O’Neal and Amir Sadeghi met with the Science, Health, and Information Clinic (SHIC) at the NYU School of Law to speak with clinic students about movement lawyering and CHLP’s work advancing an abolitionist politic within the broader HIV justice advocacy ecosystem. #Team2Dream

MUST READ: 'The United States is driving a public health emergency of international concern' @mattherder.bsky.social @fatimahassan.bsky.social A Hill and @roojinhabibi.org Via @bmjmedicine.bsky.social www.bmj.com/content/392/...

The United States is driving a public health emergency of international concern

Matthew Herder and colleagues call for broader mobilisation to avoid the deaths and morbidity in low and middle income countries likely to result from recent US policy changes Announcing the United ...

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UPDATE: @statnews.com @pharmalot.bsky.social covered our Research Letter! "Researchers suggest penalties are seen by pharma companies as a cost of doing business." Glad to talk with Ed Silverman about DOJ's long-running underenforcement of the Anti-Kickback Statute. www.statnews.com/pharmalot/20...

Drug company penalties for paying kickbacks to doctors failed to dent bottom lines, analysis finds

Drugmakers that were penalized for kickbacks paid only 2.2% of their U.S. revenue generated by selling drugs that were the focus of the alleged violations during the past quarter century.

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The Amazonification of Jeff Bezos’s Washington Post continues apace.

Josh Sternberg@joshsternberg.com · 5mo ago

WaPo is using dynamic pricing for its remaining subscribers. This seems like a really bad decision. washingtonian.com/2026/03/12/t...

New Research Letter out today! "Pharmaceutical Manufacturer Kickback Resolutions and Associated Financial Penalties, 2000-2025" We studied DOJ's enforcement against illegal drug marketing and found companies paid settlement costs of just over 2% of drug revenues—a tiny fraction!

Yale CRRIT@yalecrrit.bsky.social · 5mo ago

We are excited to share a recently published article in @jamanetworkopen.com examining 25 years of kickback-related settlements between the U.S. government and pharmaceutical manufacturers (1/4)

Strongly recommend this excellent piece. It actually understates the US failure: Brazil and S. Korea aren’t outliers. Quite the opposite. Since 2010, 31 democracies have convicted or banned leaders from office. Accountability is the democratic norm. America is the sole outlier.

Adam Serwer@adamserwer.bsky.social · 5mo ago

After the arrests of powerful men across the world, you might be asking why the US has so much trouble holding its leaders accountable for lawbreaking. Since Nixon, all three branches of government have worked hard to ensure they can break the law with impunity www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

The latest cynical, destructive, anti-science move by Makary & Prasad: Blessing FDA approval of new drugs & vaccines on the basis of just one pivotal clinical trial. They promise to "spur biomedical innovation" (as always), but this will mean more unsafe & ineffective products in patients' bodies.

Jonathan Howard@joho.bsky.social · 6mo ago

MAHA: We need more replication. Also MAHA:

As I keep saying, the Epstein story is an offshore finance story. And offshore finance is about elite impunity: insistence on their wealth and their persons being protected by the law, but never being subject to the law. It's the "Every man a King" fantasy made real. people.com/jeffrey-epst...

Jeffrey Epstein Was Vladimir Putin's Wealth Manager, FBI Source Claimed in Newly Released Epstein Files

Jeffrey Epstein managed money for Russian President Vladimir Putin and Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe, among other powerful world leaders, one confidential source claimed in FBI testimony

people.com

John Roberts is not breaking from Trump and is not neutrally applying the law. Anyone pretending otherwise needs to have a long look in the mirror and reflect on what clearly core aspect of their identity needs to believe something so laughably false

Michael@fleerultra.bsky.social · 6mo ago

I think we're seeing today who is so afraid, so desperate to believe that things will be okay, that they're ready to put their faith in the author of Trump v United States to save us from Trump

we need a rom-com that unites the people in revolutionary struggle

"[L]ayoffs to CDC staff who worked on smoking meant an important survey on youth smoking and vaping — normally out in the fall — was never released." So much for MAHA. www.wsls.com/news/politic...

RFK Jr. pledged more transparency. Here's what the public doesn't know anymore

Health experts say the federal government now shares less public health data, even after Robert F_ Kennedy Jr_ promised “radical transparency.”.

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lfg

Dave Byrnes@djbyrnes1.bsky.social · 6mo ago

It's near-white out conditions in Chicago as the snow comes down, and tonight's anti-ICE/CBP rally is wrapping up in front of city hall. But not before the crowd bounces and chants, "I believe that we will win!"

Calling up your Dem senators and thanking them for doing this is how you encourage them to hold the line, no matter how low your estimation of them is

Sahil Kapur@sahilkapur.bsky.social · 6mo ago

👀 Every Senate Democrat + Collins and Murkowski just voted for the Bernie Sanders amendment to repeal the $75 billion in additional ICE funding under Trump’s “big beautiful bill.” The measure failed 49-51.

But EPA is "leviathan"

Phil Lewis@phillewis.bsky.social · 6mo ago

Georgia Fort, an independent journalist and vice president of the Minnesota NABJ chapter, was also arrested by federal agents this morning I was sent this video of agents at her door:

The war on immigrants is a contracting bonanza for Palantir, Deloitte—and a gravel contractor (coincidentally a Trump donor) who's gotten $6b to build the wall. www.ft.com/content/c741...

Companies reap $22bn from Trump’s immigration crackdown

Palantir, Deloitte and gravel company led by ally of US president among beneficiaries

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Newly unsealed evidence makes it even clearer that Rubio and Noem knew they were targeting students based solely on their political speech and that they knew this policy was unconstitutional. They just didn’t care. www.nytimes.com/2026/01/22/u...