Founded by lisbet rausing and peter baldwin, arcadia supports charities and scholarly institutions to preserve cultural heritage, protect the environment, and promote open access. Since 2002, we have awarded more than $598 million in grants to projects around the world.

Let there be (LED) light! Celebrating with the @IlluminatedRiv the lighting of the first four bridges: London, Cannon Street, Southwark and Millennium. Great to be part of this transformative public artwork. theguardian.com/artanddesign/2…

The plan to mine the world’s research papers: nature.com/articles/d4158… A news feature on the work of our grantee @carlmalamud to liberate information locked behind paywalls 🔓

All Irish scholarly publications resulting from public-funded research will be openly available by default from 2020 onwards #OpenAccess #FAIRdata #OpenResearch 🇮🇪 dbei.gov.ie/Djei/en/News-A…

We support @TompkinsConserv to buy & restore land in South America. To ensure its protection, they donate the land & work w/ governments to create national parks. A new donation of 11,500ha will expand the Iberá National Park, a unique marshland-grassland ecosystem in Argentina

Supreme Court to debate: Who owns the law? Celebrating the huge achievement of @carlmalamud and his team at Public.Resource.Org! The Law©? nyti.ms/2XBCDCA

TODAY: Dr Mandana Seyfeddinipur, director of the Endangered Languages Documentation Programme @ELARarchive, will be talking about why the digital is blessing and curse for threatened languages. 6-8pm at @KingsCollegeLon @IMLR_News digitalmodernlanguages.wordpress.com/2019/05/14/tue… Photo: Henriëtte Daudey

Honoured to support early-career conservationists: award-winning teams will work in the Pacific Ocean & the Caribbean Sea to identify and protect crucial habitat for hammerhead sharks @FaunaFloraInt @CLPawards @timknightwriter phys.org/news/2019-06-s…

Announced: winners of the @Global_Heritage & @TheJMKaplanFund ‘From Training to Implementation’ awards! The @EAMENA123-trained recipients will document vulnerable #heritage in Tunisia, Libya, Iraq & Jordan & provide recommendations for its protection eamena.arch.ox.ac.uk/awards-by-ghf-…

Congratulations to our Advisory Board member Charles Conn on his new role as CEO of Oxford Sciences Innovation @OSI_Updates!

Last Whispers - @Lena_Herzog’s project about the mass extinction of languages, created in collaboration with the Endangered Languages Documentation Programme @ELARarchive @SOAS - is showing this Friday 14 June at @FordTheatres in LA #IndigenousLanguages fordtheatres.org/calendar/last-…

"The activism of Carl Malamud and Public.Resource.Org [...] has been crucial in providing the public with vital access to essential government information”.Congrats @carlmalamud on winning the @aallnet Public Access to Government Information Award!! aallnet.org/wp-content/upl…

What is earth journalism, and how can we effectively report on the alarming issues we face without being alarmists? @JamesFahn @earthjournalism @Internews & @schapiro on writing about the #ClimateCrisis internews.org/updates/planet… …Interview & image: @leahptw @californiamag