iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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The Matrix.org Foundation @matrix.org · 08/09/2026

The schedule of talks and workshops for The Matrix Conference is now available. We can't wait to meet up with the Matrix community and ecosystem again, in Malmö - get your tickets now! 🎟️ cfp.2026.matrix.org/matrix-confe... #MatrixConf

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Madhu Pai, MD, PhD @madhupai.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

G7 nations must be ashamed of themselves “The humanitarian system has suffered one of its biggest contractions since being formed in the post-second world war era” www.theguardian.com/global-devel...

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Tens of millions of people fail to get humanitarian aid as global system crumbles

Funding cuts in 2025 left women, children, older and displaced people hard hit, with 64m fewer people receiving aid

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Kaitlin E Mara @kaitlinemara.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

This absurdist little Robert Frost vs the zombie hordes/necromancers mad libs is my fave discovery of the week: alexblechman.itch.io/stopping-by-.... Got curious about all the torment nexus memes and looked up what else @alexblechman.bsky.social had done. Thanks for the fun :)

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Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening to Steal Treasure by Alex Blechman

Can you improve the poetry of Robert Frost?

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Kaitlin E Mara @kaitlinemara.bsky.social · 26/06/2026

New on Medicines Law & Policy: Chile’s Technology and Knowledge Transfer Bill passes Congress with important commitments on socially responsible licensing, transparency

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Chile’s Technology and Knowledge Transfer Bill passes Congress with important commitments on socially responsible licensing, transparency | Medicines Law & Policy

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Kaitlin E Mara @kaitlinemara.bsky.social · 25/03/2026

Happening in 2 hours! 2:30PM CET. A briefing on the WHO negotiations on access and benefit sharing to prevent future pandemics. Register to join here (also online): tinyurl.com/brktwymv

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TCIH Coalition @tcih-coalition.bsky.social · 13/03/2026

🆕 With the Ministry of Health|Kenya, we have issued a joint statement on the outcomes of the East African Forum on #TCIM. ➡️ East African Network on TCIM is one key outcome, connecting policymakers, regulators, researchers & practitioners across East Africa. ℹ️:🔗 shorturl.at/Yeu96 #TraditionalMedicine

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East African countries join forces to advance Traditional, Complementary and Integrative Medicine (TCIM)

A joint statement issued by the TCIH Coalition and Kenya’s Ministry of Health highlights the key outcomes of the first East African Forum on TCIM (24-25 February 2026, Nairobi | Kenya)...

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Kaitlin E Mara @kaitlinemara.bsky.social · 10/03/2026

Excellent work from @lastweektonight.com on the disastrous impact of shuttering USAID. www.youtube.com/watch?v=tU8S.... Important shoutout to the excellent work by epidemiologist Brooke Nichols who has been tracking the death-toll quoted in the show: www.impactcounter.com/dashboard

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USAID: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO)

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Kaitlin E Mara @kaitlinemara.bsky.social · 31/01/2026

Putting on Technology Connections, hoping to brush up on the latest in renewable energy, and after an hour of precisely that: a clarion call to wake up and realise precisely the state of emergency we're in right now. Bravo, Alec. Well worth an hour of your time. www.youtube.com/watch?v=KtQ9...

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You are being misled about renewable energy technology.

YouTube video by Technology Connections

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Medicines Law & Policy @medslawpolicy.bsky.social · 28/01/2026

Legal tools that lower medicines prices have expanded access to medicines for over two decades, new ML&P research in @bmj.com reveals. Read about study, the most comprehensive review to-date of use of @wto.org IP rules, here: medicineslawandpolicy.org/2026/01/lega...

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Kaitlin E Mara @kaitlinemara.bsky.social · 27/01/2026

"Tens of thousands of volunteers—at the very least—are risking their safety to defend their neighbors and their freedom. Minnesotans are insisting that their neighbors are their neighbors whether they were born in Minneapolis or Mogadishu." Beautiful work @adamserwer.bsky.social @theathletic.com

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Kaitlin E Mara @kaitlinemara.bsky.social · 23/01/2026

An empty flagpole stands at WHO today where the US flat once flew, reports @healthpolicywatch.bsky.social. In a disappointingly typical more for the current administration, they are going out with a temper tantrum and a refusal to pay the org the $260.6 million they owe in dues for 2024/2025.

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Gretchen Goldman, PhD @gretchentg.bsky.social · 20/01/2026

We're one year in. The speed, scope and severity of what's happening to American science is beyond anything we've seen before. The reliability of the Federal science and technology enterprise and the people within it, has been shattered. www.nature.com/articles/d41...

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‘Shattered’: US scientists speak out about how Trump policies disrupted their careers

Researchers lay bare the human toll of lay-offs, funding cuts and attacks on science one year after the president’s return to the White House.

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Kaitlin E Mara @kaitlinemara.bsky.social · 15/01/2026

"Terrible things are happening outside. At any time of night and day, poor helpless people are being dragged out of their homes. Families are torn apart; men, women and children separated. Children come home from school to find that their parents have disappeared. Everyone is scared." (Anne Frank)

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Kaitlin E Mara @kaitlinemara.bsky.social · 19/12/2025

Really interesting article by @propublica.org . Important to note the story here isn't about generics being less reliable -- they are life-saving -- but rather about the importance of efficient and robust medicines regulatory authorities.

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Kaitlin E Mara @kaitlinemara.bsky.social · 12/12/2025

@medslawpolicy.bsky.social 's annual (highly biased) 2025 year in review is here! Read what we thought were the most important goings on in global health law & policy here: medicineslawandpolicy.org/2025/12/wrap...

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TCIH Coalition @tcih-coalition.bsky.social · 09/12/2025

➡️Millions rely on traditional care, yet it gets just 1% of research funding. 🆕The #TCIHCoalition’s new press release urges stronger #TCIM policy and investment. 🔗 tinyurl.com/2m3w6zkn #TraditionalMedicine #HealthForAll #UniversalHealthCoverage

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Kaitlin E Mara @kaitlinemara.bsky.social · 02/12/2025

Tomorrow @ellenthoen.bsky.social and several others will speak at the launch of a new Geneva Centre on Knowledge Governance @knowledgegov.bsky.social. Event will be both online and in person. RSVP here: knowledgegov.org/event/centre...

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Centre on Knowledge Governance Launch & Reception – Centre on Knowledge Governance

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Kaitlin E Mara @kaitlinemara.bsky.social · 24/11/2025

Inspiring young women. The new wave of young leadership in the US is one silver lining in all of this. www.youtube.com/watch?v=jo54...

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Trump Wrongly Indicted Me, I’ll Rightly Impeach Him | Kat Abughazaleh Speaks at Lincoln Memorial

YouTube video by Kat Abughazaleh

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Mark Hamill @markhamillofficial.bsky.social · 18/11/2025

That they have lived with this trauma & pain for so long is truly heartbreaking. How anyone can support protecting the perpetrators any longer is hard to believe & a complete disgrace! #Justice4TheEPSTEIN_SurvivorsNOW ✊

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Kaitlin E Mara @kaitlinemara.bsky.social · 10/11/2025

Shameful move by Schumer (who should really leave) and 7 other Democrats that is going to drive millions off their healthcare. What is the point of having a Democrat party that just capitulates to every awful impulse of the Republicans? This is not what voters want.

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POLITICO Europe @politico.eu · 09/11/2025

It’s been a decade since the world met in Paris and embraced a historic agreement to stop the planet’s runaway warming. Ten years on, nations are falling short of those goals. Can things be turned around? Follow our coverage of the UN's climate summit:

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COP30: UN climate summit — latest updates

News, highlights and analysis from the 2025 U.N. Climate Change Conference in Belém, Brazil

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The New Yorker @newyorker.com · 06/11/2025

One analytical model shows that, as of November 5th, the dismantling of U.S.A.I.D. has already caused the deaths of 600,000 people, two-thirds of them children. newyorkermag.visitlink.me/jUzNSc

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The Shutdown of U.S.A.I.D. Has Already Killed Hundreds of Thousands

The short documentary “Rovina’s Choice” tells the story of what goes when aid goes.

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Wemos @wemos.org · 28/10/2025

📢🔎💊 Regering, vergroot de transparantie in de farmaceutische sector. Dat is de boodschap van onze open brief die we vandaag hebben overhandigd aan het ministerie van VWS. Ondertekend door tal van organisaties en experts. Lees de brief en lijst van ondertekenaars 👉 www.wemos.org/open-brief-a...

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miamalan.bsky.social @miamalan.bsky.social · 27/10/2025

BREAKING: South Africa has become the first African country — and our medicines regulator the third worldwide — to register the revolutionary twice-a-year anti-HIV jab, lenacapavir (LEN). The shot could bring an end to Aids if enough people take it. . bhekisisa.org/health-news-...

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[BREAKING] SA becomes the first African country to register the twice-a-year anti-HIV jab — at record speed - Bhekisisa

South Africa has become the first African country — and our medicines regulator the third worldwide — to register the revolutionary twice-a-year anti-HIV jab, lenacapavir (LEN). The shot could bring a...

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Kaitlin E Mara @kaitlinemara.bsky.social · 24/10/2025

Congrats to @justtreatment.org and Right to Breathe on getting the price of a lifesaving medicine to drop from $360,000 a year to $6,375 a year. This will give children with cystic fibrosis longer, healthier lives. @medslawpolicy.bsky.social 's take is here: medicineslawandpolicy.org/2025/10/gene...

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WHO @who.int · 23/10/2025

‘The health situation in #Gaza is a crisis for generations to come’ — Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus in his latest interview with Anna Foster and BBC Radio 4's Today news programme

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Kaitlin E Mara @kaitlinemara.bsky.social · 22/10/2025

@hankgreen.bsky.social In case you haven't seen Rebecca Watson's excellent video on Avi Loeb's total obsession with aliens (every time a "Harvard prof" says it's aliens, it's the same guy): www.youtube.com/watch?v=RD8E... (re this video: www.youtube.com/watch?v=sZYS...)

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Avi Loeb, the Harvard Physicist Who Thinks It's Always Aliens

YouTube video by Rebecca Watson (Skepchick)

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Kaitlin E Mara @kaitlinemara.bsky.social · 22/10/2025

Picture worth 1000 words (none of them flattering)

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Wemos @wemos.org · 15/10/2025

💊💰🔎 What can the EU do to improve pharmaceutical transparency? Join our event with @hai-org.bsky.social at the European Parliament to discuss this critical issue. Co-hosted by MEPs Romana Jerković & @tillymetz.bsky.social. 📆 Date: 4 November, 13:00-15:00 CET ✍️ Register: forms.gle/1JhLqrNjeoe9...

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Alt CDC (they/them) @altcdc.altgov.info · 03/10/2025

In this era of hyper-partisanship, shockingly the FDA did…. a normal bureaucratic thing. Which is what it should do. FDA approved a generic version of mifepristone, an abortion med.

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FDA quietly approved a generic abortion pill ahead of shutdown

The FDA quietly approved a generic form of mifepristone, one of the two medications used in most U.S. abortions, on Tuesday.

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Kaitlin E Mara @kaitlinemara.bsky.social · 02/10/2025

Jane Goodall was one of my earliest childhood heroes and remained an inspiration all my life. I saw her speak at the UN 15 or so years ago -- one of the few speeches I've seen that moved me to tears. What an amazing woman.

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'An extraordinary legacy': Tributes after chimpanzee expert Jane Goodall dies age 91

The primatologist was a

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Geneva Centre on Knowledge Governance @knowledgegov.bsky.social · 17/09/2025

What's the future of Traditional Knowledge, given resistance to the WIPO TK Treaty? Join Wend Wendland at American University & online on 25 Sept and hear more about the Centre on Knowledge Governance. Registration: t.ly/DnrRK @pijip.bsky.social @profseanflynn.bsky.social @gvagrad.bsky.social

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