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Alexis Dennis

@acdennis.bsky.social
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Sociologist-Demographer at McGill University studying structural determinants of health across the life course

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Alexis Dennis @acdennis.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
🚨 New publication alert 🚨 My coauthor and I conducted a scoping review of how structural racism has been measured in quantitative studies in Canada. We synthesize the populations that are represented in prior research, how structural racism has been measured and operationalized,
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Structural Racism and Inequality in Canadian Population Health and Wellbeing: a Scoping Review
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Alexis Dennis @acdennis.bsky.social · 21/09/2025
Trump Administration to Stop Measuring Food Insecurity www.nytimes.com/2025/09/20/u...
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Trump Administration to Stop Measuring Food Insecurity
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Trevon Logan @trevondlogan.bsky.social · 12/09/2025
The history of Black travel during Jim Crow is archived at the Green Book Project. Contribute to that history. Know a neighbor or elder with Green Book memories? Invite them to share their story. Submission form here: greenbookproject.org.ohio-state.edu #GreenBookProject #CommunityMap #EconSky
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FemQuant @femquant.bsky.social · 04/09/2025
‼️PhD Funding‼️ Check out this fully-funded PhD position in Stockholm, part of the a 5-year mixed method project investing Sexual and Reproductive Outcomes of Violent Crime led by Dr. Signe Svallfors
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Alexis Dennis @acdennis.bsky.social · 28/08/2025
Students Hate Them. Universities Need Them. The Only Real Solution to the A.I. Cheating Crisis. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/26/o...
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Opinion | Students Hate Them. Universities Need Them. The Only Real Solution to the A.I. Cheating Crisis.
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Brendan Nyhan @brendannyhan.bsky.social · 21/08/2025
New job ad: Assistant Professor of Quantitative Social Science, Dartmouth College apply.interfolio.com/172357 Please share with your networks. I am the search chair and happy to answer questions!
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The Authors Guild @authorsguild.org · 19/08/2025
A federal court ruled that ANTHROPIC illegally copied MILLIONS of books to train its AI. All authors and publishers whose books were downloaded by Anthropic from pirate websites are subject to receiving compensation. This could involve your work. For more info: authorsguild.org/news/anthrop...
"Graphic with 'Anthropic' logo on left, circuit-like design. Right text reads: 'Authors: You May Be Part of This Class Action Lawsuit. Anthropic AI Lawsuit Explained.' Modern, tech-themed design."
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Alexis Dennis @acdennis.bsky.social · 19/08/2025
The quotes in this article are just wild
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Stone Center for Inequality Dynamics @umichstonecid.bsky.social · 18/08/2025
From the @theconversation.com today by @maggielevenstein.bsky.social & @johnkubale.bsky.social “Data that taxpayers have paid for and rely on is disappearing – here’s how it’s happening and what you can do about it.”‬ #academicsky #data #umich @icpsr.bsky.social @umisr.bsky.social
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Data that taxpayers have paid for and rely on is disappearing – here’s how it’s happening and what you can do about it
Detailed data that US government agencies collect and make available has underpinned research about people, medicine, science, crime, jobs, housing, climate and the economy.
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UM SRC @um-src.bsky.social · 13/08/2025
Goal-striving stress - a largely ignored stressor of blocked opportunity & dashed aspirations - is implicated in chronic pain among low income white adults, regardless of other health & economic factors myumi.ch/kPjQn @reeddeangelis.bsky.social‬ @acdennis.bsky.social ‪@umisr.bsky.social‬
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Goal-Striving Stress and Bodily Pain among Working-Age Black and White Americans - Journal of Racial and Ethnic Health Disparities
This study tests novel research questions regarding Black-White disparities in bodily pain and goal-striving stress (GSS). A largely overlooked chronic stressor, GSS measures the psychosocial strains ...
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Krutika Kuppalli, MD FIDSA @krutikakuppalli.bsky.social · 09/08/2025
What happened today at #Emory & #CDC should outrage us all. We once settled our disagreements through debate—but now, fueled by misinformation and disinformation, we are more divided than ever and innocent lives are being lost. The state of affairs in our country is truly heartbreaking.
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Aaron Sojourner @aaronsojourner.org · 29/07/2025
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Federal data has been disappearing under Trump
There’s been a “targeted, surgical removal of data sets, or elements of data sets, that are not aligned with the administration’s priorities,” said Denice Ross at the Federation of American Scientists...
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Rick Hass @rwhass.bsky.social · 09/07/2025
Come be my colleague. This is a for-real #health #equity position. I can attest to the commitment that Jefferson and Jefferson Health has maintained to this work. I have too many PhD students so now you can have some! 😜 #episky #publichealth jeffersonhealth.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/Thomas...
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Humana Professor for Health Equity, College of Population Health, Thomas Jefferson University
Job Details The Jefferson College of Population Health is recruiting a senior scholar to join the faculty as the inaugural Humana Professor of Community Health & Equity. The endowed professor will...
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Prof Nisreen Alwan @nisreenalwan.bsky.social · 04/07/2025
Behaviour change is often overrated as the ultimate solution to improve health because without social, economic & structural environments that facilitate rather than obstruct healthy choices, behaviour change remains a privilege reserved for those who have the resources to remove the obstructions.
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Nicola Low @nicolamlow.bsky.social · 05/07/2025
This 👇 #PublicHealth 🙏 @nisreenalwan.bsky.social
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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 03/06/2025
Canadians make up the largest proportion—nearly 28 percent—of international travelers visiting Florida. They also comprise the largest number of international visitors for the entire United States. But that comfortable relationship may be taking a turn.
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Canadians have cooled on US travel
Mexico is looking like a much better option.
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Elizabeth Jacobs, PhD @elizabethjacobs.bsky.social · 04/06/2025
Dr. Panagiotakopoulos said, “My career in public health and vaccinology started with a deep-seated desire to help the most vulnerable members of our population, and that is not something I am able to continue doing in this role”. www.cbsnews.com/news/cdc-off...
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CDC official overseeing COVID-19 vaccine recommendations resigns
The resignation follows an order by Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to change the agency's guidance.
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Eos @eos.org · 03/06/2025
National Academy of Sciences President Marcia McNutt just began speaking at the annual #StateoftheScience address in Washington, D.C. McNutt is expected to address the challenges researchers are facing in a rapidly changing scientific landscape. 🧵👇
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Drug Monkey @drugmonkey.bsky.social · 22/05/2025
NIH Extends the ESI eligibility window drugmonkey.wordpress.com/2025/05/21/n...
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NIH Extends the ESI eligibility window
A tiny ray of positive news has sunbeamed through the storm clouds. The NIH has announced (NOT-OD-25-114) that Early Stage Investigators (ESI) who reached the end of their eligibility from the Fall…
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Edward Nirenberg @enirenberg.bsky.social · 03/06/2025
I worry that not enough of a big deal is being made about how long-term the devastation of these budget cuts to our scientific and health agencies will be, beyond the absolute ruin they will cause in the acute period.
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Alexis Dennis @acdennis.bsky.social · 04/06/2025
Ugh www.nytimes.com/2025/06/03/c...
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The White House Gutted Science Funding. Now It Wants to ‘Correct’ Research.
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Alexis Dennis @acdennis.bsky.social · 31/05/2025
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World Scientists Look Elsewhere as U.S. Labs Stagger Under Trump Cuts
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Alexis Dennis @acdennis.bsky.social · 30/05/2025
www.nytimes.com/2025/05/30/o...
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Opinion | The U.S. Made a Terrible Mistake When It Deported This Scientist
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Reed DeAngelis @reeddeangelis.bsky.social · 29/05/2025
A new study w/ @acdennis.bsky.social et al. finds that Black adults w/ darker self-rated skin tones report diminished feelings of mattering and show signs of faster biological aging, regardless of interviewer-rated skin tone and various other social-economic factors. tinyurl.com/597nke95
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(PDF) Colorism and Health Inequities among Black Americans: A Biopsychosocial Perspective
PDF | The mechanisms generating skin-tone based health inequities among ethnic Black Americans remain poorly understood. To address this gap, our study... | Find, read and cite all the research you ne...
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Alexis Dennis @acdennis.bsky.social · 24/05/2025
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Trump Has Cut Science Funding to Its Lowest Level in Decades
The lag in funding extends far beyond D.E.I. initiatives, affecting almost every area of science: chemistry, computing, engineering, materials and more.
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Alexis Dennis @acdennis.bsky.social · 20/05/2025
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Justice Dept. to Use False Claims Act to Pursue Institutions Over Diversity Efforts
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Claes de Vreese @claesdevreese.bsky.social · 19/05/2025
Powerful action plea to not stop research by @lkfazio.bsky.social in @nature.com: “Scientists can’t solve the politicization of science on our own” In lieu of ‘systemic solutions’ “social scientists still have some options to continue research on targeted topics” www.nature.com/articles/d41...
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When the government cancels your research grant, here’s what you can do
The mass cancellation of US federal grants marks yet another escalation in political interference in science, but there are ways to keep crucial research going.
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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 19/05/2025
Hurricane season starts June 1 and if you live in a Gulf state, you need to watch this. It’s worse than you might think. The few employees still left at FEMA admit: they are not prepared. Not enough staff. Not enough supplies. Not enough leadership. Plan accordingly.
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Curious Earthling @curiouserth2-9b.bsky.social · 19/05/2025
@bmj.com @duh4healthcare.bsky.social @contrariannews.org
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Canada Healthwatch 🍁 @canadahealthwatch.ca · 08/05/2025
Canada is on track to lose its 30-year measles elimination status by the fall. Should provinces be doing more to stop this? globalnews.ca/news/1116848... @kdangerfield.bsky.social 𝗦𝗲𝗲 𝗺𝗼𝗿𝗲 𝗻𝗲𝘄𝘀: CanadaHealthwatch.ca 🍁
Microscopic image of cells – stylized for visual impact, related to measles coverage
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Alt NIH Bluesky 🧪 @altnih4science.bsky.social · 06/05/2025
Check this chart. Purple line: NIH actual budget (as passed by Congress) after 2000. This is in real (inflation-adjusted) dollars. The Trump/Vought proposal for 2026 (yellow) is catastrophic, for US science and medical cures for Americans. That's a massive drop.
NIH Budget (2025 Dollars)
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FY2026 Presidential Proposal
Fiscal Year
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Craig Spencer MD MPH @craigspencer.bsky.social · 07/05/2025
A remarkably important and timely piece in @thelancet.bsky.social by @madhupai.bsky.social, @shashikalb.bsky.social, and Nhial Deng. Essential reading for all of us in global health. "The Global North is increasingly unsafe for global health meetings" www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
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The Global North is increasingly unsafe for global health meetings
American civil rights activist Maya Angelou once wrote, “prejudice is a burden that confuses the past, threatens the future, and renders the present inaccessible”.1 At a time of unprecedented national...
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Jess Calarco @jessicacalarco.com · 07/05/2025
Indiana University is giving buyouts to retiring faculty-- but only if they agree not to badmouth the school. indianapublicmedia.org/news/iu-facu...
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IU faculty accept retirement buyouts that prohibit disparagement
About 35 Indiana University faculty accepted a payout for early retirement so long as they don’t disparage or defame IU.
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Alexis Dennis @acdennis.bsky.social · 05/05/2025
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As Trump Targets Researchers, Europe Makes a Pitch to Attract Scientists (Gift Article)
The continent’s leaders are hoping to benefit as the Trump administration cuts support for research and threatens universities such as Harvard and Columbia with the freezing of federal funds.
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Carl Zimmer @carlzimmer.com · 02/05/2025
Time to catch up on the past week’s news about science and medicine in the US. Whew. 1/10
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Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 02/05/2025
Trump signed an executive order today aimed at ending government funding for NPR and PBS. www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...
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Ending Taxpayer Subsidization Of Biased Media
By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, it is hereby ordered: Section 1.  Purpose.
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Carl Zimmer @carlzimmer.com · 02/05/2025
Nature reports that the National Science Foundation has stopped awarding new grants and allotting funds to existing ones. All of them. @colincarlson.bsky.social says that unless the freeze is lifted, it “is going to destroy people's labs.” 2/10 www.nature.com/articles/d41...
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Exclusive: NSF stops awarding new grants and funding existing ones
US science funder also plans to screen grant applications for compliance with ‘agency priorities’.
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Alexis Dennis @acdennis.bsky.social · 25/04/2025
Phew! Crisis hopefully averted for now… www.nytimes.com/2025/04/24/h...
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Federal Officials Promise to Restore Funding to Women’s Health Initiative
The decades-long research effort has contributed to thousands of research papers, altering medical care for women around the world.
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Science Magazine @science.org · 24/04/2025
Exclusive: The director of the National Science Foundation announced his resignation today, 16 months before his 6-year term ends, in a letter to staff obtained by Science. scim.ag/42vc3fn
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Exclusive: ‘I have done all I can’: NSF director announces he is resigning
Sethuraman Panchanathan, a Trump appointee who has led the agency since 2020, leaves amid mass firings and grant terminations
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Austin McCoy @austinmccoy.bsky.social · 24/04/2025
disparate impact might be the closest legal acknowledgement of structural racism we have. so, of course they're going to attack it because denying structural racism is at the core of colorblindness, white innocence, victimhood, and nostalgia, racism, resegregation, and whitewashing history
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Alexis Dennis @acdennis.bsky.social · 24/04/2025
Cancelling the longitudinal cohort studies is a devastating blow to pop health and medical research.
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achukilissa @achukilissa.bsky.social · 24/04/2025
My god. He’s gone after the Civil Rights Act!!!! www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...
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Restoring Equality of Opportunity and Meritocracy
By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, it is hereby ordered: Section 1.  Purpose.  A
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Madhu Pai, MD, PhD @madhupai.bsky.social · 16/04/2025
Members of the World Health Organization have reached an agreement to prepare the world for future pandemics after more than three years of negotiations www.reuters.com/business/hea...
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WHO says member states reach agreement to tackle future pandemics
Members of the World Health Organization have reached an agreement to prepare the world for future pandemics after more than three years of negotiations, the WHO said early on Wednesday.
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AAUP @aaup.org · 17/04/2025
“If a pact is formed, the universities shall “commit meaningful funding to a shared or distributed defense fund”. The fund will be in turn used to provide “immediate and strategic support to any member institution under direct political or legal infringement.” #defendhighered
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US universities’ faculty unite to defend academic freedom after Trump’s attacks
Indiana University leads the push for a pact among 18 institutions as Donald Trump targets diversity
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Sarah Kate Ellis @sarahkateellis.bsky.social · 16/04/2025
The Supreme Court is set to hear oral arguments next week in Kennedy v. Braidwood Management, Inc., a case that could strip away a critical piece of the Affordable Care Act, which mandates insurance companies cover preventive healthcare services at no out-of-pocket cost. glaad.org/releases/rep...
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FACT SHEET: Braidwood, SCOTUS Case Targeting PrEP, Impacting Preventative Care
On Monday, April 21st, the U.S. Supreme Court is set to hear oral arguments in Kennedy v. Braidwood Management, Inc., a case that could strip away a critical piece of the Affordable Care Act (ACA), wh...
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NPR @npr.org · 16/04/2025
All 27 scientists at this CDC lab were told their duties were "unnecessary," and now viral outbreak investigations have been halted.
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In the middle of a hepatitis outbreak, U.S. shutters the one CDC lab that could help
All 27 scientists at this CDC lab were told their duties were "unnecessary," and now viral outbreak investigations have been halted
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The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 16/04/2025
Thirty-eight of 43 experts cut last month from the boards that review the science and research that happens in laboratories at the National Institutes of Health are female, Black or Hispanic, according to an analysis by the chairs of a dozen of the boards.
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Women, minorities fired in purge of NIH science review boards
Scientists, with expertise in fields that include mental health, cancer and infectious disease, typically serve five-year terms and were not given a reason for their dismissal.
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Madhu Pai, MD, PhD @madhupai.bsky.social · 16/04/2025
Global pandemic treaty finalized, without U.S., in ‘a victory for multilateralism’ www.science.org/content/arti...
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Global pandemic treaty finalized, without U.S., in ‘a victory for multilateralism’
Three years in the making, the accord aims to increase equity and avoid errors of the COVID-19 pandemic
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Alexis Dennis @acdennis.bsky.social · 13/04/2025
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Trump Wants to Merge Government Data. Here Are 314 Things It Might Know About You. (Gift Article)
Elon Musk’s team is leading an effort to link government databases, to the alarm of privacy and security experts.
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