'Have to' is doing a lot of work here. We don't even have to provide on-street storage for private cars really. We've chosen to.

The glitz and glamour of a Davos-style event with vague promises of 'advancing science' distracts from the elephant in the room which is Novo Nordisk Foundation is unlikely to (voluntarily) solve problems @novonordisk caused.

I have a dayjob so will keep it to just the last year. 1/🧵

For those interested in this topic, you can also check out this open-access article in Journal of Law and the Biosciences, which I wrote with Bea Brown, Annamarie Beckmeyer, Patti Zettler: 'Mifepristone, Preemption, and Public Health Federalism.' academic.oup.com/jlb/article/9/…

Today, we share David Pozen's recent thoughts about the increasing power of university presidents, and the need to develop a more democratic model of internal governance.

A must-read to understand what is unfolding on campuses across the country.

lpeproject.org/blog/seeing-th…

Also tx to folks outside MSF:
I am an enthusiastic reader of everything Chris Morten writes (policy relevance? rigor? creativity? spiciness? yes & yes & yes & yes), but if you missed it, please check out this paper on clinical trial cost transparency.
papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cf… 4/4

Catching up from a week on the road, but thanks The Times Of India Rema Nagarajan for this great q&a with the wonderful Roz Scourse on our research on clinical trial cost transparency and the newly launched Transparency CORE toolkit. 1/4

timesofindia.indiatimes.com/home/sunday-ti…

Faculty need to reassert the academic mission and take back the university from central administrators who are not faithful to our shared values. Essential reading by my brilliant law colleague David Pozen on the presidentialization of Columbia University: balkin.blogspot.com/2024/05/seeing…

BPRA has been on the books for a whole year now, but NY Power Authority has yet to hold any public meetings to consult New Yorkers on the energy future we want to see. So we got the ball rolling ourselves last week with a big town hall at Brooklyn College! Read on for a recap ⚡️🧵

Governor Hochul, of course black kids in the Bronx know the word computer. Do you know why the $273 million for EmpireAI doesn’t include a penny for education and workforce development in underserved communities, like we proposed? See our plan here: bit.ly/4drdBKJ

Columbia University is letting in press right now, but not their own student press. We’re being refused access to our own campus for the third day in a row.

Department of Justice has now posted its hundreds of great slides from closing arguments. I’ll share 13 slides that tell story imho captured by this list.
First, if search defaults don’t matter, why pay approx $30B, 40% of revenue to maintain them? 1/13

The idea that the government should ban citizens from accessing foreign media because of its (purported) viewpoint is totally inconsistent with the most basic democratic and free-speech principles. This is a practice that has long been associated with the most repressive regimes.

Thanks Senate Armed Services Committee Elizabeth Warren for inviting me to testify.

Drug shortages are a complex issue, but here is my best attempt at condensing into 5 minute opening remarks 1) key challenges 2) why public sector manufacturing is an essential part of any solution.

youtu.be/er0udFsyONI?fe…

“We are in another crisis of research access to data” says Gabriel Nicholas of Center for Democracy & Technology, citing Twitter’s $4,200/month API, Reddit selling data to gen AI companies, & Meta’s ending Crowdtangle. “But this crisis is happening very slowly, and that’s what makes it really scary.”

I am genuinely shocked anyone would tolerate this behavior by a public servant. Mayor Eric Adams is this ethical? Is this professional? Does this reflect the kind of service you expect from your administration? What kind of institutional culture does this reflect and tone does it set?

So fun to see Patti Zettler's paper quoted a bunch in the opinion! '...the mere fact that a state law regulates the practice of medicine as to that drug does not give the law an automatic free pass to avoid a preemption challenge. See Patricia J. Zettler, Pharmaceutical Federalism...

Huge pills win in NC: 'The provisions of the NC law that prohibit health care providers other than physicians from prescribing the drug, require in-person prescribing, dispensing, & administering, mandate the scheduling of an in-person follow-up appointment . . . are preempted.'

FYI, this event has been postponed, in light of Columbia’s closure of its campus to non-Columbia visitors and other recent events.
My co-organizers and I intend to reschedule at a future date.

Temperature departures over the first quarter of 2024...

🔴 - warmer than average
🔵 - colder than average

Questions about the data: data.giss.nasa.gov/gistemp/faq/. Code for the data: data.giss.nasa.gov/gistemp/source…