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Dylan Gee, PhD @dylanggee.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

The ABCD Study at Yale is hiring a new post-baccalaureate research assistant! This is a great position to gain hands-on research experience in the field and to learn more about adolescent brain and behavioral development! 🧠 @theabcdstudy.bsky.social candlab.yale.edu/sites/defaul...

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Tobias Gerstenberg @tobigerstenberg.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

The Stanford Psychology Department is having a search for a tenure-track Assistant Professor with a research focus on developmental and/or social psychology. Application deadline is 10/15. More infos here: facultypositions.stanford.edu/jobs/assista...

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Assistant Professor, Psychology - Stanford University, California, United States

The Department of Psychology at Stanford University is seeking applicants for a tenure-track Assistant Professor position, with a research focus on developmental and/or social psychology. In addition ...

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Adani Abutto @adani.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

Do we need to ban children’s access to AI, or do we need to design it better? Is that a false binary? I learned so much about the answers to these questions in my recent conversation with Prof. Nomisha Kurian! open.spotify.com/episode/6FxG...

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Stanford Vision and Perception Neuroscience Lab @stanfordvpnl.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

VPNL is at #CCN2026 !! Check out our lab members' presentations this week :)

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Cognitive Science Society @cogscisociety.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

Hyowon Gweon @hyogweon.bsky.social delivers her #CogSci2026 keynote, ‘Distinctively Human Intelligence: Thinking, Learning, and Communicating About the Self’, exploring the cognitive foundations of how humans think, learn, and communicate about themselves.

Hyowon Gweon stands behind a clear lectern delivering a keynote presentation during CogSci 2026. Behind her, a large slide titled “What does it mean to be intelligent?” contrasts learning from one’s own experiences with learning from and communicating with others, highlighting concepts such as perception, prediction, generalization, social learning, language, and explanation. The slide also includes sections on what children know and how they think and learn, with references to developmental psychology and cognitive science research.

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Mike Frank @mcxfrank.bsky.social · 05/06/2026

We'd like to invite researchers to consider two new opportunities to engage with the LEVANTE network, a multi-disciplinary group studying learning variability using coordinated tools! If you don't know about LEVANTE, you can learn more at levante-network.org/

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Homepage - Levante

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Adani Abutto @adani.bsky.social · 30/05/2026

Ever wondered what you need to do to blow away journal reviewers and academic talk audiences with content that is both maximally fun AND maximally informative? Tune in & you might just learn the secret formula... 👀 Thank you for humoring me and coming on!! @ebonawitz.bsky.social

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Mike Frank @mcxfrank.bsky.social · 06/04/2026

Come join us! We have two research coordinator positions open with the Stanford IRISS predoctoral program, a program designed to mentor students for graduate study: LEVANTE: careersearch.stanford.edu/jobs/iriss-p... BabyView: careersearch.stanford.edu/jobs/iriss-p... (deadline 5/1)

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IRiSS Predoctoral Researcher in School of Humanities and Sciences, Stanford, California, United States

The Stanford Institute for Research in the Social Sciences (IRiSS) is seeking Predoctoral Researchers to participate in our 2026-2027 cohort. The...

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Tomer Ullman @tomerullman.bsky.social · 09/04/2026

happy #CDS2026 to those who celebrate!

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Judy Fan @judithfan.bsky.social · 08/04/2026

The Cognitive Tools Lab at Stanford (cogtoolslab.github.io) is recruiting two new research staff members to join in AY 26-27. Full-Time Lab Manager: forms.gle/UVwfx5wbY9Km.... IRiSS Predoc Researcher: iriss.stanford.edu/predoc/2026-.... Please share widely in your networks, thank you!!

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about the lab – cognitive tools lab

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Sam Gershman @gershbrain.bsky.social · 10/02/2026

If you work at the intersection of computational neuroscience and machine learning, consider applying for this postdoc position (January 2027 start date): academicpositions.harvard.edu/postings/15868 An opportunity to work with a great group of people across Harvard, MIT, and UC Berkeley.

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Mike Frank @mcxfrank.bsky.social · 05/02/2026

I am flabbergasted I am by how much vibe coding has expanded my capacities as a scientist and teacher. In the last few weeks, I've mocked up class demos of a live turing test, generated cross-references for an encyclopedia, and prototyped new tablet tasks for developmental psych. It's wild.

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Stanford Psychology Podcast @stanfordpsypod.bsky.social · 06/02/2026

NEW EPISODE OUT! In this episode, @adani.bsky.social chats with Prof. Tamar Kushnir about how we use our imagination to think about the past, make sense of the present, and plan for the future! open.spotify.com/episode/273a...

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169 - Tamar Kushnir: The Power of Imagination

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Mike Frank @mcxfrank.bsky.social · 18/12/2025

Very excited to share the first empirical paper from LEVANTE: we describe the LEVANTE core tasks, a set of nine open source tasks for measuring learning and development in kids ages 5-12 years. osf.io/preprints/ps... 🧵

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Tomer Ullman @tomerullman.bsky.social · 15/12/2025

oh what fun it is to have this paper out :)

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Melissa Kline Struhl @mekline.bsky.social · 08/12/2025

This is a fundraising post! An anonymous donor is matching contributions to Children Helping Science up to 100K through the end of the year - if it's in your giving budget, please consider supporting open science infrastructure! giving.mit.edu/search/node/... Details below...

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Fund Search Results | Giving to MIT

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Judy Fan @judithfan.bsky.social · 06/12/2025

What a pleasure speaking with Chris Piech, Denise Pope, and Dan Schwartz about AI & Education on "School's In," (youtube.com/watch?v=lL07...) recorded live at Stanford Open Minds in LA (openminds.stanford.edu/los-angeles)!

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AI and the future of human learning | School's In Podcast

YouTube video by Stanford Graduate School of Education

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Cameron Ellis @camerontellis.bsky.social · 21/11/2025

We are recruiting a lab manager/research assistant to start in early 2026! The successful candidate will conduct awake infant fMRI, meet cute babies, and join a fun team! More details (e.g. responsibilities): soc.stanford.edu/people/#join... Apply here: careersearch.stanford.edu/jobs/social-...

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People – Scaffolding of Cognition Team

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Stanford Psychology Podcast @stanfordpsypod.bsky.social · 22/11/2025

NEW EPISODE OUT! In this episode, Adani @adani.bsky.social chats with Dr. Susan Engel from Williams College about curiosity, invention, her journey into developmental psychology, and her latest book, The Intellectual Lives of Children! 🎧LISTEN NOW: open.spotify.com/episode/06WD...

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164 - Susan Engel: Do We Become Less Curious As We Grow Older?

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Adani Abutto @adani.bsky.social · 07/11/2025

So excited that this latest podcast episode with Adam Benforado is now out: open.spotify.com/episode/6v4J...!

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162 - Adam Benforado: How prioritizing kids benefits us all

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Yang Xiang @yangxiang.bsky.social · 19/09/2025

Now out in Cognition, work with the great @gershbrain.bsky.social @tobigerstenberg.bsky.social on formalizing self-handicapping as rational signaling! 📃 authors.elsevier.com/a/1lo8f2Hx2-...

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Mike Frank @mcxfrank.bsky.social · 16/09/2025

A first blogpost from the LEVANTE team, introducing our global project perspective. A good intro if you're interested in learning more about cross-cultural developmental data collection using LEVANTE. levante-network.org/global-colla...

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Global Collaboration to Capture Variability in Child Development - Levante

Ensuring that children around the world can flourish is one of the most important goals of our time. Developmental science has made major strides in understanding how children grow, learn, and thrive ...

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Adani Abutto @adani.bsky.social · 27/08/2025

So cool to see our project, spearheaded by Igor Bascandziev, featured in Harvard's 'Usable Knowledge'!

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Tobias Gerstenberg @tobigerstenberg.bsky.social · 25/07/2025

The Causality in Cognition Lab is pumped for #cogsci2025 💪

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Mike Frank @mcxfrank.bsky.social · 23/07/2025

Looking forward to #cogsci2025 next week - here's a list of presentations from my lab!

Presentation list for language and cognition lab at CogSci 2025.

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Mike Frank @mcxfrank.bsky.social · 01/07/2025

Experimentology is out today!!! A group of us wrote a free online textbook for experimental methods, available at experimentology.io - the idea was to integrate open science into all aspects of the experimental workflow from planning to design, analysis, and writing.

Experimentology cover: title and curves for distributions.

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Junyi Chu @junyi.bsky.social · 06/06/2025

Delighted to announce our CogSci '25 workshop at the interface between cognitive science and design 🧠🖌️! We're calling it: 🏺Minds in the Making🏺 🔗 minds-making.github.io June – July 2024, free & open to the public (all career stages, all disciplines)

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Mike Frank @mcxfrank.bsky.social · 30/05/2025

If you haven't been looking recently at the Open Encyclopedia of Cognitive Science (oecs.mit.edu), here's your reminder that we are a free, open access resource for learning about the science of mind. Today we are launching our new Thematic Collections to organize our growing set of articles!

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Mike Frank @mcxfrank.bsky.social · 20/05/2025

We're still accepting apps for our research scientist position with LEVANTE (levante-network.org). This position is ideal for folks wanting to be the interface between a cool scientific project and an awesome team of software developers. Think of it as a technical product manager, but for science!

We are seeking a Research Scientist for a large-scale project on developmental data collection with children ages 2-12 called LEVANTE (Learning Variability Network Exchange). LEVANTE is a global research network to improve our understanding of variability in learning and development through coordinated data collection. The project is funded by the Jacobs Foundation; learn more at http://levante-network.org.

This position is a mix of scientific work and work with a software development team: we are looking for someone to act as the interface between the scientific goals of the project and our team of ~6 software engineers who work to implement different aspects of our web platform including researcher management, tasks and surveys, and data processing. We expect the role to be ideal for someone with technical experience from their scientific work and an interest in building good tools for other scientists through software development.

This position is appropriate for recent PhD grads and candidates with postdoctoral experience; exact title and compensation will be relative to experience post-PhD. The RS will contribute to – and have the opportunity to lead on – research products including papers and presentations. The LEVANTE team is a large and lively group pushing the boundaries of cross-cultural developmental measurement through a combination of technical innovation and psychometrics. The RS will also be part of the Language and Cognition Lab at Stanford, a broad interdisciplinary group interested in using data to understand human development.

Requirements for the position include:
- some kind of scientific software development experience (examples include developing experiments, computational models, or complex data analyses)
- theoretical knowledge of psychology or a related discipline (e.g., cognitive science, neuroscience), ideally doing behavioral measurements of some kind
- project management experience on a technical or scientific project with multiple participants

Additional optional qualifications include:
- experience with modern database-backed web applications
- experience with measure development or psychometrics
- R data analysis experience

Applicants should submit a current CV, a short (~1 page) coverletter stating their qualifications for the position, and a link to a github account (preferred) or other code sample.

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PHD Comics @phdcomics.com · 17/05/2025

The Imposter Syndrome 🧵 1. The Attack

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Elizabeth Bonawitz @ebonawitz.bsky.social · 01/05/2025

If you're at SRCD please consider checking out these talks and posters featuring members of the CoCoDev lab and our awesome collaborators. #SRCD2025

a list of various presentations from the Bonawitz lab at SRCD

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Tobias Gerstenberg @tobigerstenberg.bsky.social · 29/04/2025

This is a spectacular talk by my colleague @judithfan.bsky.social 🧠 🎨 🤖 "Cognitive tools for making the invisible visible" 🎬: www.youtube.com/watch?v=AF3X...

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Prof. Judy Fan: Cognitive Tools for Making the Invisible Visible

YouTube video by MIT Quest for Intelligence

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Stanford Psychology Podcast @stanfordpsypod.bsky.social · 10/04/2025

HELLO Bluesky! First post here to share our NEWEST episode! This week, Elizabeth @imelizabeth.bsky.social chats with Dr. Kendrick Kay on the groundbreaking Natural Scenes Dataset and discusses the behind-the-scenes considerations that went into its creation. open.spotify.com/episode/6cGq...

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150 - Kendrick Kay: Large-scale fMRI Datasets and What to Consider

Stanford Psychology Podcast · Episode

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Elizabeth Jiwon Im @imelizabeth.bsky.social · 10/04/2025

my first time joining @stanfordpsypod.bsky.social as a co-host! It was super cool to talk with Kendrick. Go listen to it 🤩

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Adani Abutto @adani.bsky.social · 27/03/2025

Excited that this is finally out!! So glad I got to tag along on this project when I first came to the US just about two years ago :)

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Society for Philosophy and Psychology @socphilpsych.bsky.social · 25/03/2025

Mind over Matter: Consistency Monitoring and Domain-Specific Learning 📣 From Igor Bascandziev, Adani Abutto, Caren Walker & Elizabeth Bonawitz

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Frontiers | Mind over matter: consistency monitoring and domain-specific learning

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Mike Frank @mcxfrank.bsky.social · 06/03/2025

AI models are fascinating, impressive, and sometimes problematic. But what can they tell us about the human mind? In a new review paper, @noahdgoodman.bsky.social and I discuss how modern AI can be used for cognitive modeling: osf.io/preprints/ps...

Figure 1. A schematic depiction of a model-mechanism mapping between a human learning system (left side) and a cognitive model (right side). Candidate model mechanism mappings are pictured as mapping between representations but also can be in terms of input data, architecture, or learning objective.

Figure 2. Data efficiency in human learning. (left) Order of magnitude of LLM vs. human training data, plotted by human age. Ranges are approximated from Frank (2023a). (right) A schematic depiction of evaluation scaling curves for human learners vs. models plotted by training data
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MIT Kids Brains @kidsbrains.bsky.social · 03/03/2025

The Saxe Lab @ MIT is hiring! We seek one lab manager to start in summer 2025. Research in our lab focuses on social cognition (learn more on saxelab.mit.edu). Please apply at: tinyurl.com/saxe2025 (Job ID 31993). Review of applications starts on March 24, 2025. Sharing appreciated. Thank you!

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Saxelab Social Cognitive Neuroscience Laboratory at MIT |

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Tomer Ullman @tomerullman.bsky.social · 13/02/2025

Hello! I'm looking to hire a post-doc, to start this Summer or Fall. It'd be great if you could share this widely with people you think might be interested. More details on the position & how to apply: bit.ly/cocodev_post... Official posting here: academicpositions.harvard.edu/postings/14723

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Mike Frank @mcxfrank.bsky.social · 10/02/2025

Now hiring for two lab manager positions at Stanford! Hyo Gweon and I are coordinating joint searches since our labs collaborate frequently. Please join us! careersearch.stanford.edu/jobs/researc... and careersearch.stanford.edu/jobs/lab-coo...

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Charley Wu @thecharleywu.bsky.social · 14/01/2025

📢 I will be joining @tuda.bsky.social & @hessianai.bsky.social as a W3 Professor of Comp.Cog.Sci. I'll bring my #ERC project "C4: Compositional Compression in Cognition and Culture” & will receive funding from a LOEWE professorship. Hiring soon at all levels! 👀 www.tu-darmstadt.de/universitaet...

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Human thinking as a model for Artificial Intelligence

The cognitive scientist Dr Charley Wu has been awarded a LOEWE start professorship at TU Darmstadt. His work focuses on the question of how artificial intelligence (AI) can use human learning strategi...

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Bria Long @brialong.bsky.social · 13/12/2024

I’m still recruiting for this position — please get in touch if you’re interested in working together!

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Noah Emery, PhD @noahemery.bsky.social · 21/12/2024

Since this is back… Unfortunately, academic inflation and toxic productivity culture has all but done away with this. The effects of this on science advancement will be seen for generations. Slowing down and thinking deeply is essential to solve complex problems and it’s undervalued at every level

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Elizabeth Bonawitz @ebonawitz.bsky.social · 18/12/2024

Sincere thanks to Carolina Ruggero and the Harvard Graduate School of Education Media team for inviting me to talk with them about curiosity. They took a casual conversation and with some media magic turned it into a great little clip! www.youtube.com/watch?v=T3eL...

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How to Foster Curiosity in Children

YouTube video by Harvard Graduate School of Education

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Laura Gwilliams @lauragwilliams.bsky.social · 13/12/2024

✨i'm hiring a lab manager, with a start date of ~September 2025! to express interest, please complete this google form: forms.gle/GLyAbuD779Rz... looking for someone to join our multi-disciplinary team, using OPM, EEG, iEEG and computational techniques to study speech and language processing! 🧠

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Google Forms: Sign-in

Access Google Forms with a personal Google account or Google Workspace account (for business use).

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Sam Gershman @gershbrain.bsky.social · 24/11/2024

@yangxiang.bsky.social, @tobigerstenberg.bsky.social, and I have a fun new paper on self-handicapping: osf.io/preprints/ps... We analyze this phenomenon in terms of rational signaling, showing how it depends on assumptions about whether observers are naive or sophisticated.

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OSF

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Caren Walker @carenwalker.bsky.social · 20/11/2024

I am recruiting a 2 year postdoc! See elc-lab-ucsd.com/prospective-.... This is an NSF-funded collaboration between UCSD, Harvard, and Rutgers-Newark (co-PIs: @ebonawitz.bsky.social, @patrickshafto.bsky.social, Igor Bascandziev) examining cognitive mechanisms underlying children’s conceptual change.

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Griffiths Computational Cognitive Science Lab @cocoscilab.bsky.social · 18/11/2024

(1/5) Very excited to announce the publication of Bayesian Models of Cognition: Reverse Engineering the Mind. More than a decade in the making, it's a big (600+ pages) beautiful book covering both the basics and recent work: mitpress.mit.edu/978026204941...

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Kate Nussenbaum @katenuss.bsky.social · 11/11/2024

Lots of people seem to have flocked here, so it's probably a good time to post that I'll be recruiting Ph.D. students to join my new lab in BU's psychology department this cycle! more info about the lab and how to apply to BU here: cldlab.org/join

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Mike Frank @mcxfrank.bsky.social · 07/11/2024

Another open position with LEVANTE - this time a postdoc on our psychometrics team, with Nilam Ram: postdocs.stanford.edu/prospective/... Come join us in creating a field-leading framework for developmental data collection! levante-framework.org

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Open Postdoctoral position, faculty mentor Nilam Ram | Office of Postdoctoral Affairs

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