Kathy Bowrey
@kathybowrey.bsky.social
Politics of IP, open knowledge, law & humanities, citizen science
It would be good if the complicity of some researchers and the resistance by others to this was acknowledged here. It’s not a self replicating system.
January 7, 2026 at 2:18 AM
It would be good if the complicity of some researchers and the resistance by others to this was acknowledged here. It’s not a self replicating system.
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The deadline for paper proposals has been extended to
🗓️ 16 January 2026!
We would be grateful if you could forward this call to your respective networks, particularly those in the humanities.
Please find details for the call for paper here: ishtip.org/forthcoming-...
🗓️ 16 January 2026!
We would be grateful if you could forward this call to your respective networks, particularly those in the humanities.
Please find details for the call for paper here: ishtip.org/forthcoming-...
December 22, 2025 at 10:57 AM
The deadline for paper proposals has been extended to
🗓️ 16 January 2026!
We would be grateful if you could forward this call to your respective networks, particularly those in the humanities.
Please find details for the call for paper here: ishtip.org/forthcoming-...
🗓️ 16 January 2026!
We would be grateful if you could forward this call to your respective networks, particularly those in the humanities.
Please find details for the call for paper here: ishtip.org/forthcoming-...
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now extended to 16 Jan - please share!
Reminder that @ishtip.bsky.social is now calling for papers for the 17th annual workshop: this year hosted by the University of São Paulo on the theme of 'Intellectual Property and Democracy', 25-26 June 2026.
Abstracts due 22 Dec 2025. Join us!
Abstracts due 22 Dec 2025. Join us!
December 22, 2025 at 11:44 AM
now extended to 16 Jan - please share!
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Please join us for a timely discussion on intellectual property and democracy (and other IP theory and history matters) in June in Brazil!
Details on CfP:
Details on CfP:
📣 Call for Papers for the 2026 Annual ISHTIP Workshop is out now 📣
Theme: Intellectual Property and Democracy
When: 25-26 June 2026
Where: Faculty of Law, University of São Paulo, Brazil
Abstract & CV deadline: 22 December 2025
More details:
ishtip.org/forthcoming-...
Theme: Intellectual Property and Democracy
When: 25-26 June 2026
Where: Faculty of Law, University of São Paulo, Brazil
Abstract & CV deadline: 22 December 2025
More details:
ishtip.org/forthcoming-...
Call for Papers for the 2026 Annual ISHTIP Workshop – ISHTIP
ishtip.org
December 1, 2025 at 2:33 PM
Please join us for a timely discussion on intellectual property and democracy (and other IP theory and history matters) in June in Brazil!
Details on CfP:
Details on CfP:
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The notion that "95% of people who responded to the survey are against this" can be glossed as "no clear consensus" is even more absurd than the usual "pretty damn absurd" usual baseline for uk politics.
“This is an overwhelming show of support for the commonsense position that AI companies should pay for the resources they use'.
www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
Boost for artists in AI copyright battle as only 3% back UK active opt-out plan
Liz Kendall faces pressure from campaigners as she tells parliament there is no clear consensus on issue
www.theguardian.com
December 16, 2025 at 9:04 AM
The notion that "95% of people who responded to the survey are against this" can be glossed as "no clear consensus" is even more absurd than the usual "pretty damn absurd" usual baseline for uk politics.
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warning: reading this piece will leave you outraged
"Code of Practice is failing to protect human rights. This draft relies on faulty logic that dramatically limits the ways in which AI developers would need to mitigate human rights risks from their AI models"
www.techpolicy.press/human-rights...
"Code of Practice is failing to protect human rights. This draft relies on faulty logic that dramatically limits the ways in which AI developers would need to mitigate human rights risks from their AI models"
www.techpolicy.press/human-rights...
Human Rights are Universal, Not Optional: Don’t Undermine the EU AI Act with a Faulty Code of Practice | TechPolicy.Press
The Code of Practice draft takes a step backward due to its weak approach to human rights protections, write Laura Caroli, Laura Cabrera, and David Harris.
www.techpolicy.press
December 15, 2025 at 6:51 PM
warning: reading this piece will leave you outraged
"Code of Practice is failing to protect human rights. This draft relies on faulty logic that dramatically limits the ways in which AI developers would need to mitigate human rights risks from their AI models"
www.techpolicy.press/human-rights...
"Code of Practice is failing to protect human rights. This draft relies on faulty logic that dramatically limits the ways in which AI developers would need to mitigate human rights risks from their AI models"
www.techpolicy.press/human-rights...
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I wanted dinner recommendations so I scraped 13,000+ London restaurants and accidentally discovered Google Maps is running a shadow economy. Anyway here's a dashboard and a political economy thesis: open.substack.com/pub/laurenle...
How Google Maps quietly allocates survival across London’s restaurants - and how I built a dashboard to see through it
I wanted a dinner recommendation and got a research agenda instead. Using 13000+ restaurants, I rebuild its ratings with machine learning and map how algorithmic visibility actually distributes power.
open.substack.com
December 9, 2025 at 7:53 AM
I wanted dinner recommendations so I scraped 13,000+ London restaurants and accidentally discovered Google Maps is running a shadow economy. Anyway here's a dashboard and a political economy thesis: open.substack.com/pub/laurenle...
Yep. I did that too.
December 9, 2025 at 9:17 AM
Yep. I did that too.
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RESOURCE: training materials for all things Open oercommons.org/hubs/ukrn
The UK Reproducibility Network
oercommons.org
December 5, 2025 at 5:35 AM
RESOURCE: training materials for all things Open oercommons.org/hubs/ukrn
“It was then – in a twist that still feels ridiculous to write – that a letter arrived from the Duchy of Cornwall, one of the monarchy’s oldest feudal estates, on behalf of the deli owner as her landlord…a plot twist so colonial that I had to check whether the East India Company had been revived”
December 4, 2025 at 7:48 AM
“It was then – in a twist that still feels ridiculous to write – that a letter arrived from the Duchy of Cornwall, one of the monarchy’s oldest feudal estates, on behalf of the deli owner as her landlord…a plot twist so colonial that I had to check whether the East India Company had been revived”
“The deli owner was working with a PR company to amplify her case so it wasn’t long before local and national journalists started getting in touch.”
December 4, 2025 at 7:46 AM
“The deli owner was working with a PR company to amplify her case so it wasn’t long before local and national journalists started getting in touch.”
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Since AI slop is again all over Scientific Reports, a thread on the economics of grey-zone publishing.
Why does slop keep getting published? What does it mean for science? How can we stop this?
Background readings:
Understand the strain: tinyurl.com/2b6wxx5r
Stop the drain: tinyurl.com/3jfscscy
Why does slop keep getting published? What does it mean for science? How can we stop this?
Background readings:
Understand the strain: tinyurl.com/2b6wxx5r
Stop the drain: tinyurl.com/3jfscscy
November 30, 2025 at 11:10 AM
Since AI slop is again all over Scientific Reports, a thread on the economics of grey-zone publishing.
Why does slop keep getting published? What does it mean for science? How can we stop this?
Background readings:
Understand the strain: tinyurl.com/2b6wxx5r
Stop the drain: tinyurl.com/3jfscscy
Why does slop keep getting published? What does it mean for science? How can we stop this?
Background readings:
Understand the strain: tinyurl.com/2b6wxx5r
Stop the drain: tinyurl.com/3jfscscy
Reposted by Kathy Bowrey
📣 Call for Papers for the 2026 Annual ISHTIP Workshop is out now 📣
Theme: Intellectual Property and Democracy
When: 25-26 June 2026
Where: Faculty of Law, University of São Paulo, Brazil
Abstract & CV deadline: 22 December 2025
More details:
ishtip.org/forthcoming-...
Theme: Intellectual Property and Democracy
When: 25-26 June 2026
Where: Faculty of Law, University of São Paulo, Brazil
Abstract & CV deadline: 22 December 2025
More details:
ishtip.org/forthcoming-...
Call for Papers for the 2026 Annual ISHTIP Workshop – ISHTIP
ishtip.org
December 1, 2025 at 2:31 PM
📣 Call for Papers for the 2026 Annual ISHTIP Workshop is out now 📣
Theme: Intellectual Property and Democracy
When: 25-26 June 2026
Where: Faculty of Law, University of São Paulo, Brazil
Abstract & CV deadline: 22 December 2025
More details:
ishtip.org/forthcoming-...
Theme: Intellectual Property and Democracy
When: 25-26 June 2026
Where: Faculty of Law, University of São Paulo, Brazil
Abstract & CV deadline: 22 December 2025
More details:
ishtip.org/forthcoming-...
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CAUL negotiations with Elsevier need academic support.
Until this dispute is resolved:
“Do not submit to Elsevier journals.
Do not review for Elsevier.
Pause your work on Elsevier editorial committees…
Withdraw your (free) labour. It is the simplest and most powerful statement that you can make.”
Until this dispute is resolved:
“Do not submit to Elsevier journals.
Do not review for Elsevier.
Pause your work on Elsevier editorial committees…
Withdraw your (free) labour. It is the simplest and most powerful statement that you can make.”
"They’ve already struck an in-principle deal with T&F that all Australian and Aotearoa New Zealand university research published by T&F can be freely accessed by members of the public from 1 Jan 2026. This is kind of huge." Um, yeah it is! #highered #academicsky researchwhisperer.org/2025/11/25/l...
Librarians versus the world
Photo of London’s National Art Library by Sebastien LE DEROUT on Unsplash Here at the Research Whisperer, we love librarians. They are smart, dedicated people who want to help you with your researc…
researchwhisperer.org
November 28, 2025 at 7:03 AM
CAUL negotiations with Elsevier need academic support.
Until this dispute is resolved:
“Do not submit to Elsevier journals.
Do not review for Elsevier.
Pause your work on Elsevier editorial committees…
Withdraw your (free) labour. It is the simplest and most powerful statement that you can make.”
Until this dispute is resolved:
“Do not submit to Elsevier journals.
Do not review for Elsevier.
Pause your work on Elsevier editorial committees…
Withdraw your (free) labour. It is the simplest and most powerful statement that you can make.”
Reposted by Kathy Bowrey
The US is committing extrajudicial murders on the high seas in breach of international human rights law, and possibly international criminal law. These actions should be condemned by all nations, including Australia and NZ; I can find no evidence of such. anzsilperspective.com/murder-on-th...
Murder on the High Seas by the Trump Regime | ANZSIL Perspective
anzsilperspective.com
November 27, 2025 at 9:42 PM
The US is committing extrajudicial murders on the high seas in breach of international human rights law, and possibly international criminal law. These actions should be condemned by all nations, including Australia and NZ; I can find no evidence of such. anzsilperspective.com/murder-on-th...
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Join me in Cambridge for the CRASSH Symposium on Science Diplomacy — a chance to think with scholars across STS, HPS, sociology, IR & socio-legal studies. #STS @4sweb.bsky.social @joyzhang.bsky.social @samhistsci.bsky.social @hyoyoonkang.bsky.social www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/48677...
Science diplomacy in a time of fractured institutions - CRASSH
Centre for Research in the Arts, Social Sciences and Humanities
www.crassh.cam.ac.uk
November 27, 2025 at 8:08 AM
Join me in Cambridge for the CRASSH Symposium on Science Diplomacy — a chance to think with scholars across STS, HPS, sociology, IR & socio-legal studies. #STS @4sweb.bsky.social @joyzhang.bsky.social @samhistsci.bsky.social @hyoyoonkang.bsky.social www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/48677...
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The IP course materials just update themselves some years www.theguardian.com/music/2025/n...
The real Slim Shady? Eminem sues Australian company Swim Shady for trademark infringement
Eminem claims consumers may mistakenly think he is linked to the Sydney beach brand – but Australia is no stranger to lawsuits from US rappers
www.theguardian.com
November 18, 2025 at 5:38 AM
The IP course materials just update themselves some years www.theguardian.com/music/2025/n...
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Today! Registration is still open.
Please join us for the next seminar in our online seminar series:
Making and Marketing Biocultural Heritage in Agriculture: From the Andean Community to Asia
with Rosemary Coombe and David Jefferson
Nov 17, 2025 07:00 PM (London).
Local time zones are displayed when you register below:
Making and Marketing Biocultural Heritage in Agriculture: From the Andean Community to Asia
with Rosemary Coombe and David Jefferson
Nov 17, 2025 07:00 PM (London).
Local time zones are displayed when you register below:
Welcome! You are invited to join a meeting: Making and Marketing Biocultural Heritage in Agriculture: From the Andean Community to Asia - Rosemary Coombe and David Jefferson. After registering, you w...
Proprietary claims over seeds, crops, agricultural methods, and culinary knowledge exist as important forms of biocultural heritage in socioecological initiatives. These novel proprietary claims, exis...
uqz.zoom.us
November 17, 2025 at 7:04 AM
Today! Registration is still open.
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EXCELLENT graphic on the drain of scientific publishing! zenodo.org/records/1759...
November 15, 2025 at 4:04 AM
EXCELLENT graphic on the drain of scientific publishing! zenodo.org/records/1759...
“The increasing use of AI is enabling publishing scams to fabricate entire teams of fake executives and use the identities of real authors to create a highly deceptive corporate facade.”
www.theguardian.com/books/2025/n...
www.theguardian.com/books/2025/n...
Lost in the plot: how would-be authors were fooled by AI staff and virtual offices in suspected global publishing scam
Book publishing websites in Australia, the UK and New Zealand appear to be using fake testimonials and AI staff pages to lure aspiring writers into handing over their money
www.theguardian.com
November 16, 2025 at 8:33 PM
“The increasing use of AI is enabling publishing scams to fabricate entire teams of fake executives and use the identities of real authors to create a highly deceptive corporate facade.”
www.theguardian.com/books/2025/n...
www.theguardian.com/books/2025/n...