Anna Saunders
@annasaunders.bsky.social
Lecturer in Law at the Australian National University. International law, theory and history of property, politics of science and technology. Writing on patents + climate struggle.
https://law.anu.edu.au/about/our-people/anna-saunders
https://law.anu.edu.au/about/our-people/anna-saunders
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An utter disgrace. A Trumpian level of destruction being wrought at the CSIRO under Albo.
"The environment unit, which has more than 700 full-time equivalent roles, will be reduced by 130 to 150. Four of its nine research focuses will not continue"
"The environment unit, which has more than 700 full-time equivalent roles, will be reduced by 130 to 150. Four of its nine research focuses will not continue"
Climate of fear: are CSIRO’s sweeping job cuts a sign Australia doesn’t care about the extinction crisis?
Ever decreasing funding for the globally respected government agency mirrors an industry-wide trend that could hinder scientific breakthroughs
www.theguardian.com
November 21, 2025 at 9:07 PM
An utter disgrace. A Trumpian level of destruction being wrought at the CSIRO under Albo.
"The environment unit, which has more than 700 full-time equivalent roles, will be reduced by 130 to 150. Four of its nine research focuses will not continue"
"The environment unit, which has more than 700 full-time equivalent roles, will be reduced by 130 to 150. Four of its nine research focuses will not continue"
Disturbing to see this Labor government follow in the Trumpian footsteps of defunding science, albeit in a less spectacular way.
Save the CSIRO
Our national science & research agency is now facing more job cuts than under Tony Abbott
Call on the Albanese Govt to fund the scientists & research we need to tackle big issues we face from climate to food security and everything in between
www.davidpocock.com.au/save_our_csiro
Our national science & research agency is now facing more job cuts than under Tony Abbott
Call on the Albanese Govt to fund the scientists & research we need to tackle big issues we face from climate to food security and everything in between
www.davidpocock.com.au/save_our_csiro
November 21, 2025 at 8:50 PM
Disturbing to see this Labor government follow in the Trumpian footsteps of defunding science, albeit in a less spectacular way.
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SAVE THE DATE 📣
International Society for the History and Theory of Intellectual Property (ISHTIP)
17th Annual Workshop
Intellectual Property and Democracy
25 & 26 June 2026
hosted by the Faculty of Law, University of São Paulo, Brazil.
Call for papers will be circulated soon.
International Society for the History and Theory of Intellectual Property (ISHTIP)
17th Annual Workshop
Intellectual Property and Democracy
25 & 26 June 2026
hosted by the Faculty of Law, University of São Paulo, Brazil.
Call for papers will be circulated soon.
Save the Date for the 2026 Annual Workshop – ISHTIP
ishtip.org
November 20, 2025 at 1:26 PM
SAVE THE DATE 📣
International Society for the History and Theory of Intellectual Property (ISHTIP)
17th Annual Workshop
Intellectual Property and Democracy
25 & 26 June 2026
hosted by the Faculty of Law, University of São Paulo, Brazil.
Call for papers will be circulated soon.
International Society for the History and Theory of Intellectual Property (ISHTIP)
17th Annual Workshop
Intellectual Property and Democracy
25 & 26 June 2026
hosted by the Faculty of Law, University of São Paulo, Brazil.
Call for papers will be circulated soon.
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Is shame ‘a revolutionary emotion’? I reviewed Frédéric Gros’ book Philosophy of Shame: A Revolutionary Emotion for the Aust Book Review
The review is pay-walled but you can hear me read it here: www.australianbookreview.com.au/book-reviews...
@versobooks.bsky.social @austbookreview.bsky.social
The review is pay-walled but you can hear me read it here: www.australianbookreview.com.au/book-reviews...
@versobooks.bsky.social @austbookreview.bsky.social
‘For shame: Social value of an emotion’, by Jessica Whyte | The ABR Podcast #256
This week, on The ABR Podcast, Jessica Whyte reviews A Philosophy of Shame: A revolutionary emotion by Frédéric Gros. Whyte applauds the attempt to ‘revolutionise how we think about shame’ and to cons...
www.australianbookreview.com.au
November 21, 2025 at 5:02 AM
Is shame ‘a revolutionary emotion’? I reviewed Frédéric Gros’ book Philosophy of Shame: A Revolutionary Emotion for the Aust Book Review
The review is pay-walled but you can hear me read it here: www.australianbookreview.com.au/book-reviews...
@versobooks.bsky.social @austbookreview.bsky.social
The review is pay-walled but you can hear me read it here: www.australianbookreview.com.au/book-reviews...
@versobooks.bsky.social @austbookreview.bsky.social
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London friends, speaking today Tuesday Nov 18 at 4:30pm at LSE in London. Hope to see you there!- www.lse.ac.uk/Internationa...
The First Right: Self-determination and the Transformation of 20th Century International Order
Join us for Prof Bradley Simpson's book talk 'The First Right: Self-determination and the Transformation of 20th Century International Order'
www.lse.ac.uk
November 18, 2025 at 8:54 AM
London friends, speaking today Tuesday Nov 18 at 4:30pm at LSE in London. Hope to see you there!- www.lse.ac.uk/Internationa...
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“CSIRO has announced it will slash up to 350 jobs as the national science agency grapples with long-term financial challenges … with current funding failing to keep pace with the rising costs of running a modern science agency.”
Not “challenges”. They’re choices. 😡
Not “challenges”. They’re choices. 😡
CSIRO to cut up to 350 research jobs in major overhaul
After 440 positions were slashed last year, the CSIRO has announced more staff cuts across the country in a bid to remain financially viable.
www.abc.net.au
November 18, 2025 at 6:15 AM
“CSIRO has announced it will slash up to 350 jobs as the national science agency grapples with long-term financial challenges … with current funding failing to keep pace with the rising costs of running a modern science agency.”
Not “challenges”. They’re choices. 😡
Not “challenges”. They’re choices. 😡
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Happy to have written about plastic for @thepolycrisis.bsky.social. Thanks to @70sbachchan.bsky.social for sourcing the excellent graphics. And thanks to @rebecca-altman.bsky.social and @anjakrieger.bsky.social for being my go-to's on all-things plastic.
www.phenomenalworld.org/analysis/pla...
www.phenomenalworld.org/analysis/pla...
Plastic Planet | Venus Bivar
Stalled negotiations and accelerating accumulation in the global petrochemicals industry
www.phenomenalworld.org
November 17, 2025 at 2:35 PM
Happy to have written about plastic for @thepolycrisis.bsky.social. Thanks to @70sbachchan.bsky.social for sourcing the excellent graphics. And thanks to @rebecca-altman.bsky.social and @anjakrieger.bsky.social for being my go-to's on all-things plastic.
www.phenomenalworld.org/analysis/pla...
www.phenomenalworld.org/analysis/pla...
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Important Call for Papers: 15th CJIL Conference 2026 - submit by Dec 31, 2025 on Reimagining International Law: Critical, Regional, and Transdisciplinary Perspectives (@cambridgelaw.bsky.social @cam.ac.uk 23-24 April 2026)
cambridgejournalofinternatlandcomplaw.submittable.com/submit/34024...
cambridgejournalofinternatlandcomplaw.submittable.com/submit/34024...
Cambridge International Law Journal - Call for Papers: 15th Annual Cambridge International Law Conference 2026
REIMAGINING INTERNATIONAL LAW: CRITICAL, REGIONAL, AND TRANS-DISCIPLINARY PERSPECTIVES
(In-person, Faculty of Law of the University of Cambridge, 23-24 April 2026)
ABOUT THE CONFERENCE
The Cambridge...
cambridgejournalofinternatlandcomplaw.submittable.com
October 29, 2025 at 1:51 PM
Important Call for Papers: 15th CJIL Conference 2026 - submit by Dec 31, 2025 on Reimagining International Law: Critical, Regional, and Transdisciplinary Perspectives (@cambridgelaw.bsky.social @cam.ac.uk 23-24 April 2026)
cambridgejournalofinternatlandcomplaw.submittable.com/submit/34024...
cambridgejournalofinternatlandcomplaw.submittable.com/submit/34024...
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Whoever would like to hear about the link between political theory and legall/patent law theory -here is a recording of the talk I gave last month: "After Patent Republic"
My homage and debt to Mario Biagioli whose intellect and energy I miss...
My homage and debt to Mario Biagioli whose intellect and energy I miss...
Here is the recording of the first ISHTIP online seminar of the series: "After Patent Republic".
@hyoyoonkang.bsky.social diagnoses the current shift from neoliberal US-dominant WTO era to state capitalism and multipolar neo-mercantilism, and its effect on patent law's theoretical underpinnings.
@hyoyoonkang.bsky.social diagnoses the current shift from neoliberal US-dominant WTO era to state capitalism and multipolar neo-mercantilism, and its effect on patent law's theoretical underpinnings.
November 15, 2025 at 11:06 PM
Whoever would like to hear about the link between political theory and legall/patent law theory -here is a recording of the talk I gave last month: "After Patent Republic"
My homage and debt to Mario Biagioli whose intellect and energy I miss...
My homage and debt to Mario Biagioli whose intellect and energy I miss...
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Comrades, the moving labour collective is oraganising its third summer camp, this time in Malmö: June 14-17.
We are hoping to create a space where labour scholars, lawyers, activists, unionists will collectively work on intersectional solidarity praxis and organising strategies.
Come join us!
We are hoping to create a space where labour scholars, lawyers, activists, unionists will collectively work on intersectional solidarity praxis and organising strategies.
Come join us!
November 14, 2025 at 9:23 AM
Comrades, the moving labour collective is oraganising its third summer camp, this time in Malmö: June 14-17.
We are hoping to create a space where labour scholars, lawyers, activists, unionists will collectively work on intersectional solidarity praxis and organising strategies.
Come join us!
We are hoping to create a space where labour scholars, lawyers, activists, unionists will collectively work on intersectional solidarity praxis and organising strategies.
Come join us!
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The Keynote Lectures by Isabel Feichtner and Omar Dahbour at our Land conference are now online on our youtube channel:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=5PYq...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=tkLg...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=5PYq...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=tkLg...
Prof. Isabel Feichtner: "Land, Sea, Moon: From territoriality to becoming terrestrial"
YouTube video by Critical Theory in Berlin
www.youtube.com
November 13, 2025 at 10:11 AM
The Keynote Lectures by Isabel Feichtner and Omar Dahbour at our Land conference are now online on our youtube channel:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=5PYq...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=tkLg...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=5PYq...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=tkLg...
do not sleep on this absolute belter of an article
Good to see this bad boy out in the world!! New article from me on drone delivery, AI testbeds, and the long history science and technology testing in the colony.
Online first and gloriously open access ✨
doi.org/10.1177/2976...
Online first and gloriously open access ✨
doi.org/10.1177/2976...
November 8, 2025 at 11:16 AM
do not sleep on this absolute belter of an article
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Good to see this bad boy out in the world!! New article from me on drone delivery, AI testbeds, and the long history science and technology testing in the colony.
Online first and gloriously open access ✨
doi.org/10.1177/2976...
Online first and gloriously open access ✨
doi.org/10.1177/2976...
November 5, 2025 at 5:14 AM
Good to see this bad boy out in the world!! New article from me on drone delivery, AI testbeds, and the long history science and technology testing in the colony.
Online first and gloriously open access ✨
doi.org/10.1177/2976...
Online first and gloriously open access ✨
doi.org/10.1177/2976...
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Very good @abigailboydmlc.bsky.social summary of the really, really significant data centre growth in New South Wales, Australia - something we can see directly contributing to sustaining the burning of coal in the state
www.instagram.com/reel/DQbKiv9...
www.instagram.com/reel/DQbKiv9...
November 1, 2025 at 12:39 PM
Very good @abigailboydmlc.bsky.social summary of the really, really significant data centre growth in New South Wales, Australia - something we can see directly contributing to sustaining the burning of coal in the state
www.instagram.com/reel/DQbKiv9...
www.instagram.com/reel/DQbKiv9...
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So excited to return to my alma mater as a Pritzker Fellow with University of Chicago Institute of Politics. Among a long list of activities, I will host a seminar series on "The Development of Science & Technology Within Shifting U.S.-China Relations." Details: politics.uchicago.edu/fellows/curr...
October 31, 2025 at 8:34 PM
So excited to return to my alma mater as a Pritzker Fellow with University of Chicago Institute of Politics. Among a long list of activities, I will host a seminar series on "The Development of Science & Technology Within Shifting U.S.-China Relations." Details: politics.uchicago.edu/fellows/curr...
more power to @abigailboydmlc.bsky.social drawing attention to the energy, water and land impacts of NSW data centres. these centres, and the wasteful technologies they feed, are not just pedagogically offensive but immensely destructive for climate and community
www.tiktok.com/@abigailboyd...
www.tiktok.com/@abigailboyd...
We need to talk about data centres
TikTok video by Abigail Boyd, Greens MP
www.tiktok.com
November 2, 2025 at 2:43 AM
more power to @abigailboydmlc.bsky.social drawing attention to the energy, water and land impacts of NSW data centres. these centres, and the wasteful technologies they feed, are not just pedagogically offensive but immensely destructive for climate and community
www.tiktok.com/@abigailboyd...
www.tiktok.com/@abigailboyd...
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anyone who boosts AI has to explain to me why this is worth it
October 31, 2025 at 1:31 AM
anyone who boosts AI has to explain to me why this is worth it
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Terrific theme and host faculty for this year’s @ishtip.bsky.social - save the date and looking forward!
📣 SAVE THE DATE 📣
International Society for the History and Theory of Intellectual Property (ISHTIP) 17th Annual Workshop
Intellectual Property and Democracy
25 & 26 June 2026,
hosted by the Faculty of Law, University of São Paulo, Brazil.
Call for papers will be circulated in November.
International Society for the History and Theory of Intellectual Property (ISHTIP) 17th Annual Workshop
Intellectual Property and Democracy
25 & 26 June 2026,
hosted by the Faculty of Law, University of São Paulo, Brazil.
Call for papers will be circulated in November.
October 28, 2025 at 11:03 PM
Terrific theme and host faculty for this year’s @ishtip.bsky.social - save the date and looking forward!
Terrific theme and host faculty for this year’s @ishtip.bsky.social - save the date and looking forward!
📣 SAVE THE DATE 📣
International Society for the History and Theory of Intellectual Property (ISHTIP) 17th Annual Workshop
Intellectual Property and Democracy
25 & 26 June 2026,
hosted by the Faculty of Law, University of São Paulo, Brazil.
Call for papers will be circulated in November.
International Society for the History and Theory of Intellectual Property (ISHTIP) 17th Annual Workshop
Intellectual Property and Democracy
25 & 26 June 2026,
hosted by the Faculty of Law, University of São Paulo, Brazil.
Call for papers will be circulated in November.
October 28, 2025 at 11:03 PM
Terrific theme and host faculty for this year’s @ishtip.bsky.social - save the date and looking forward!
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Call for papers for a workshop on Economic Aspects of the Constitution: www.gla.ac.uk/media/Media_...
October 23, 2025 at 11:52 AM
Call for papers for a workshop on Economic Aspects of the Constitution: www.gla.ac.uk/media/Media_...
Not to be missed! This afternoon for those on UK/European time.
Date: Wednesday 22 October 2025 | Time: 3.00pm (London – BST)
After Patent Republic
Speaker: Hyo Yoon Kang
After Patent Republic
Speaker: Hyo Yoon Kang
After Patent Republic – Hyo Yoon Kang (University of Warwick) – ISHTIP
ishtip.org
October 22, 2025 at 9:19 AM
Not to be missed! This afternoon for those on UK/European time.
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nächste Woche, 23./24.10., Book Launch und Workshop zu Stadt-Land-Boden in Würzburg www.jura.uni-wuerzburg.de/fileadmin/02...
October 19, 2025 at 3:27 PM
nächste Woche, 23./24.10., Book Launch und Workshop zu Stadt-Land-Boden in Würzburg www.jura.uni-wuerzburg.de/fileadmin/02...
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I am giving a talk in a week on “After Patent Republic” as part of the International Society for the History and Theory of IP @ishtip.bsky.social seminar series.
All welcome and you can register here (it’s online)
All welcome and you can register here (it’s online)
After Patent Republic – Hyo Yoon Kang (University of Warwick) – ISHTIP
ishtip.org
October 15, 2025 at 7:14 AM
I am giving a talk in a week on “After Patent Republic” as part of the International Society for the History and Theory of IP @ishtip.bsky.social seminar series.
All welcome and you can register here (it’s online)
All welcome and you can register here (it’s online)
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Does your university have a contract with Grammarly? Write to the decision-maker asking if they think the university should be paying for a tool that is fast integrating features that can only be used for academic misconduct and cognitive offloading and request they drop the contract.
It is not "attribution and sourcing" to generate post-hoc citations that have not been read and did not inform the student's writing. Those should be regarded as fraudulent: artifacts testifying to human actions and thought that did not occur.
www.theverge.com/news/760508/...
www.theverge.com/news/760508/...
October 11, 2025 at 5:57 PM
Does your university have a contract with Grammarly? Write to the decision-maker asking if they think the university should be paying for a tool that is fast integrating features that can only be used for academic misconduct and cognitive offloading and request they drop the contract.