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Hyo Yoon Kang 강효윤
@hyoyoonkang.bsky.social
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I write and teach critical intellectual property, theories, law & humanities & history of science in the UK university titanic. Mostly unserious here. Private account. hyoyoonkang.com
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Hyo Yoon Kang 강효윤 @hyoyoonkang.bsky.social · Aug 20
Happy this is happening, hope to see many of you IP and IP related nerds online!
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Int Society for the History & Theory of Intellectual Property @ishtip.bsky.social · Aug 20
We are very pleased to announce the 2025/6 ISHTIP Online Seminar Series, which brings together scholars from around the world who explore intellectual property issues from theoretical and historical angles.

Please find below the programme, dates for your diary, registration links ⬇️
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Hyo Yoon Kang 강효윤 @hyoyoonkang.bsky.social · 14h
don't be fooled by the false binary btw US biomedical research not getting returns and NHS collective drugs price bargain for every patient in the UK. US public won't see the benefits of UK patients no longer having access to certain medications, but big pharma will. this is not about patients.
UK to offer to pay more for drugs to placate Trump and pharma groups
Prime minister’s chief business adviser Varun Chandra due to hold talks in Washington next week
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Hyo Yoon Kang 강효윤 @hyoyoonkang.bsky.social · 3h
I like your and also others' realisation how connections still exist despite not being in touch or seeing one another for a long time.
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Hyo Yoon Kang 강효윤 @hyoyoonkang.bsky.social · 3h
Stu 🖤
I hope you remember how much I admired Last Call
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Hyo Yoon Kang 강효윤 @hyoyoonkang.bsky.social · 13h
i suspect so, still trying to figure out what it is, but think you and some others who have also suggested this are on to something.
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Hyo Yoon Kang 강효윤 @hyoyoonkang.bsky.social · 13h
the goal should be that US prices need to come down, as well as other nations' prices decreasing or staying affordable. it's not either/or. the trump narrative is misleading.
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Hyo Yoon Kang 강효윤 @hyoyoonkang.bsky.social · 13h
anyway Trump's policy is doing a lot of literal killing - fast and slow - around the world
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Hyo Yoon Kang 강효윤 @hyoyoonkang.bsky.social · 13h
this is not about US gvt or federal institutions obtaining more returns for their NSF funding for biomedical research either. After so much dismantling of the infrastructure of biomedical research funding, this is a straight forward transfer into pharmaceutical corporations' revenues.
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Hyo Yoon Kang 강효윤 @hyoyoonkang.bsky.social · 13h
patrick vallance, the current UK science minister, is a high profile revolving doors personage, as ex chief R&D officer of GSK, then chief gvt science advisor. if steven shapin termed the novel biotech personage "scientific-entrepreuneur", vallance is an arch type of corporate-scientist-politician.
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Hyo Yoon Kang 강효윤 @hyoyoonkang.bsky.social · 14h
not so easy there, but possible. thanks.
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Hyo Yoon Kang 강효윤 @hyoyoonkang.bsky.social · 14h
don't be fooled by the false binary btw US biomedical research not getting returns and NHS collective drugs price bargain for every patient in the UK. US public won't see the benefits of UK patients no longer having access to certain medications, but big pharma will. this is not about patients.
UK to offer to pay more for drugs to placate Trump and pharma groups
Prime minister’s chief business adviser Varun Chandra due to hold talks in Washington next week
on.ft.com
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Hyo Yoon Kang 강효윤 @hyoyoonkang.bsky.social · 14h
true.
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Hyo Yoon Kang 강효윤 @hyoyoonkang.bsky.social · 14h
true.
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Hyo Yoon Kang 강효윤 @hyoyoonkang.bsky.social · 14h
still trying... but thank you for the advice!
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Hyo Yoon Kang 강효윤 @hyoyoonkang.bsky.social · 14h
to know what it wants is the issue i guess
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Hyo Yoon Kang 강효윤 @hyoyoonkang.bsky.social · 14h
can't do now because of work but when there is a window.
but it's a long trip. and also not sure how and for how long we'll be enjoying each other's company. genuinely don't know bec sometimes nostalgia may be deceptive
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Hyo Yoon Kang 강효윤 @hyoyoonkang.bsky.social · 14h
should i go and see my best friend from my teen years who i haven't seen in decades living so far away in a life so different from mine who i haven't seen in over a decade before the end of year or just leave it until i retire when our lives may be less so drastically different
genuine question
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Hyo Yoon Kang 강효윤 @hyoyoonkang.bsky.social · 15h
+1
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dead manu walking @profchander.bsky.social · 17h
if we know each other i probably owe you an email and i'm sorry
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Hyo Yoon Kang 강효윤 @hyoyoonkang.bsky.social · 17h
the linen suit and white jeans brigade
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Hyo Yoon Kang 강효윤 @hyoyoonkang.bsky.social · 17h
*english
not a single post today without a spello. am writing hastily because i am hungry. will eat.
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Hyo Yoon Kang 강효윤 @hyoyoonkang.bsky.social · 17h
every time i put on a jumper, and don't even want to
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Hyo Yoon Kang 강효윤 @hyoyoonkang.bsky.social · 17h
mid-brow literary festivals in engish sprouting across the globe, some as part of a franchise, and the price of tickets is a lot by local standard
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Hyo Yoon Kang 강효윤 @hyoyoonkang.bsky.social · 17h
also the cortazar story with the jumper - now i make sure not to be near a window when putting one on now
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Hyo Yoon Kang 강효윤 @hyoyoonkang.bsky.social · 17h
indelible mental imprints
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Leila Essa @leilaessai.bsky.social · 1d
Huge admiration for Naoise Dolan. (Also imagining what any of the German PENs would have to say about a German author joining the flotilla.)
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Irish Literary Times @irishlittimes.bsky.social · 1d
Irish PEN/PEN na hÉireann Irish PEN/PEN na hÉireann is gravely concerned about the detention of writer Naoise Dolan...The flotilla was illegally intercepted last night and seized by armed Israeli forces in international waters.
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Thousand Madleens flotilla Statement - Irish PEN/PEN na hÉireann
8 October 2025 Irish PEN/PEN na hÉireann Irish PEN/PEN na hÉireann is gravely concerned about the detention of writer Naoise Dolan, one of several Irish citizens taking part in the Thousand Madleens f...
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Christina Tudor-Sideri @dreamsofbeing.bsky.social · 1d
For the inaugural issue of Draught Journal @draughtjournal.bsky.social:

On Bookmarks and Other Ruins—a reflection on the bookmark as a fragile site of memory, desire, and incompletion, accompanied by images of my own bookmarks.

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On Bookmarks and Other Ruins
<p>There is something indescribably intimate about the act of interrupting one’s reading, the act of marking one’s place in a book, a subtle gesture t
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