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Melissa Sterry @melissasterry.bsky.social · 06/12/2025

Seminal constructs in architectural and urban resilience to wildfire modelled on functional traits of species that have evolved to live with wildfire. #design #wildfires #resilience www.panarchiccodex.com/concepts

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Melissa Sterry @melissasterry.bsky.social · 06/12/2025

Pyrophytic Thinking | Learning from Life how to live with wildfire as we enter a new Fire Age. #wildfires #design designforwildfire.substack.com/p/pyrophytic...

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Pyrophytic Thinking

Learning from Life how to live with wildfire as we enter a new Fire Age.

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Melissa Sterry @melissasterry.bsky.social · 23/07/2025

Worked on a UK-based science / STEM, design or innovation research project and had your original ideas plagiarised, stolen, misappropriated, or miscredited? Share your story anonymously with #OriginalMindsRightfulCredit campaign here www.surveymonkey.com/r/D2Z5FXH #IPtheft #plagiarism #moralrights

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Survey on Intellectual Property (IP) Theft in Science, Technology, Engineering, Design, and Innovation

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Melissa Sterry @melissasterry.bsky.social · 23/07/2025

Our Original Minds, Rightful Credit campaign is sharing one case study a week to illustrate the range of ways that research in the UK is being plagiarised, stolen, misappropriated, and miscredited. Find a few we've shared so far here originalmindsrightfulcredit.com/case-studies #Plagiarism #IPTheft

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Original Minds. Rightful Credit

The campaign for those who have been miscredited or overlooked

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Melissa Sterry @melissasterry.bsky.social · 23/07/2025

Our latest Original Minds, Rightful Credit campaign case study is live. In this instance, it's a case of plagiarism of a publication in a way that constitutes passing off. RightfulCredit.com #IPtheft #plagiarism #OMRC

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Melissa Sterry @melissasterry.bsky.social · 03/07/2025

Look forward to it Bill. If you're looking for reviewers, let me know.

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Melissa Sterry @melissasterry.bsky.social · 03/07/2025

Our latest Original Minds, Rightful Credit campaign case study is live. In this instance, a design researcher's IP was stolen by Masters degree students, and used in a project incubated by their university. Find out more about our campaign at RightfulCredit.com #IPtheft #plagiarism #OMRC

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Melissa Sterry @melissasterry.bsky.social · 15/06/2025

Our latest Original Minds, Rightful Credit campaign case study in instances of intellectual property theft, research plagiarism, and misappropriation of research in science, wider STEM, design, and innovation in the UK is live. #OMRC #plagiarism

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Melissa Sterry @melissasterry.bsky.social · 04/06/2025

Introducing the second case study in our Original Minds, Rightful Credit campaign series highlighting how IP theft, research plagiarism, and misappropration of original ideas does harm in research in #science, #design, #innovation originalmindsrightfulcredit.secureserversites.net/case-studies

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Melissa Sterry @melissasterry.bsky.social · 04/06/2025

How does IP theft, research plagiarism, and misappropriation impact science, wider STEM, design and innovation in the UK? Read the first of our Original Minds, Rightful Credit campaign case studies here originalmindsrightfulcredit.secureserversites.net/case-studies #IPtheft #research #STEM #science

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Original Minds. Rightful Credit

The campaign for those who have been miscredited or overlooked

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Melissa Sterry @melissasterry.bsky.social · 29/05/2025

Introducing the Original Minds, Rightful Credit case studies series - Shedding Light on Intellectual Property Misappropriation in UK Research and Innovation www.melissasterry.com/news/intelle... #IPtheft #researchplagiarism

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Melissa Sterry @melissasterry.bsky.social · 25/04/2025

Share your reflections on pivotal innovators, transformative ideas, and pressing challenges, as well as opportunities in nature-inspired design and bio-innovation. www.bioratorium.com/sector-surve... #biodesign #biomimicry #natureinspired #bioinspired #design

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Design for Wildfire @designforwildfire.bsky.social · 25/04/2025

For news and updates on Design for Wildfire school - launching later this year - subscribe at the link. www.panarchiccodex.com/design-for-w... #wildfire #resilience #biomimicry #design #fireecology

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Melissa Sterry @melissasterry.bsky.social · 05/03/2025

Labour was handed the election on a plate. A landslide win because their opposition was so dismal even many life-term supporters wouldn't vote for them. Yet, Reeves, with Starmer's blessing, is making such a mess of this that Labour likely wont win next time around. It's all a travesty.

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Melissa Sterry @melissasterry.bsky.social · 05/03/2025

Though the headline of that article speaks to something we've known for a long time, it makes it no less sobering. History repeating itself.

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Melissa Sterry @melissasterry.bsky.social · 05/03/2025

Having listened to some of my ad hoc livestreams, some folks suggested I set up a Substack, so I have. I'll be sharing some 'Late Night Scribblings' in my notebook soon. Subscribe here melissasterry.substack.com #substack

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Melissa Sterry @melissasterry.bsky.social · 04/03/2025

The word is out, I'm launching Design for Wildfire school later this year. Find an outline at the link. www.panarchiccodex.com/design-for-w...

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Melissa Sterry @melissasterry.bsky.social · 03/03/2025

Business Insider's latest documentary reviews The Line. Featuring contributions from peers including Philip Oldfield and myself, you can watch it open access at the link. www.youtube.com/watch?v=gi24... #cities #architecture #sustainability #ethics

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Satellite Images Reveal The Reality Of Saudi Arabia's $2 Trillion Megacity In The Desert

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Melissa Sterry @melissasterry.bsky.social · 19/02/2025

If it's anything like every other AI tool it will simply magnify pre-existing inequalities and problems more generally. Just like ChatGPT, just like Wikipedia, just like every other major tech tool - every last one of which has failed, abjectly, to push back against inequality in research.

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Melissa Sterry @melissasterry.bsky.social · 17/02/2025

Agree. Originators are facing it from all angles, but appropriation and theft of the value of works is particularly concerning. You might be interested in a campaign that colleagues and I have just launched with a survey in the UK. www.linkedin.com/pulse/open-l...

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Open Letter to Professionals in Research, Development, and Innovation

Dear Colleagues, Too often, we hear from people whose contributions have been miscredited or overlooked. We are reaching out to all professionals engaged in research, development, and innovation acros...

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Melissa Sterry @melissasterry.bsky.social · 15/02/2025

... we'd probably get 'an inquiry' that lasted years and resulted in nothing. Like Grenfell.

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Melissa Sterry @melissasterry.bsky.social · 15/02/2025

I agree. I think it's clear we've had massive under-imagination and uninvestment in transport in cities for now many years. We need Victorian levels of ambition. We can see this is a 'Jaws' scenario, it'll take disasters hitting before public officials take action, and even then...

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Melissa Sterry @melissasterry.bsky.social · 15/02/2025

If something in this space comes in, I will be in touch, as you'd have valuable insights to bring to the research.

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Melissa Sterry @melissasterry.bsky.social · 15/02/2025

I tried to get some funding for research into this - to create a report that scoped the issue in detail. Upshot was that the party said they would like the report pro bono, so it never happened. Hopefully before long someone somewhere will see fit to probe the problem properly...

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Melissa Sterry @melissasterry.bsky.social · 15/02/2025

However, I don't anticipate the will happen, because on this, as with most issues, there is little to suggest it will, either here in the UK or in Europe. What could that lead to? I think the US is indicative of the answer to that question.

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Melissa Sterry @melissasterry.bsky.social · 15/02/2025

On this issues, and on many issues, there is a palpable distrust of officials and of those calling the shots. I think that distrust will deepen unless issues like this one engage wide-ranging perpsectives and voices, and consider all equally.

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Melissa Sterry @melissasterry.bsky.social · 15/02/2025

I have also discussed this topic with many people that live outside of cities, including very remote places. None of those individuals felt that the issues of cars and transport is being dealth with satisfactorily. All felt that many decision-makers are clueless...

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Melissa Sterry @melissasterry.bsky.social · 15/02/2025

...including classic car owners, and those that identify as 'car lovers'. I have discussed it with those with mobility issues. I have discussed it with victims of crime, including mugging and sexual assault, and more.

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Melissa Sterry @melissasterry.bsky.social · 15/02/2025

Essentially, not a single one has given the issue the time, space, and diversity of perspectives that needed to fully scope the challenge, let alone design robust outcomes. I have discussed the topic of car ownership with many and diverse people,...

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Melissa Sterry @melissasterry.bsky.social · 15/02/2025

As relates to cars, and indeed all transport issues as relate to cities, and to wider society, I don't consider any of the debates or discussions yet held to be comprehensive enough.

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Melissa Sterry @melissasterry.bsky.social · 15/02/2025

As you will know, it's very well documented how gender issues are largely unaccounted for in urban design. Essentially, men design most of the built environment, and women have to live in that environment.

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Melissa Sterry @melissasterry.bsky.social · 15/02/2025

Essentially both the individuals worked in silos and they rarely engaged in any depth with anyone beyond those silos. Certainly, they evidenced that that had no understanding of the way gender impacts on the issue.

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Melissa Sterry @melissasterry.bsky.social · 15/02/2025

Both in terms of their understanding of why many members of the community value private car ownership, and logistics as relate directly to cities, and with relation to the design and engineering issues.

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Melissa Sterry @melissasterry.bsky.social · 15/02/2025

I once debated the issues of cars and cities at the Oxford Climate forum. The individuals I was debated with were two middle class middle aged men. They advocated for a ban on cars in cities. I advocated against a ban on cars in cities. I found that their perspectives were very narrow...

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