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Aga Kasperska

@akasperska.bsky.social
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Postdoc at King's College London @kingsbschool.bsky.social @giwlkings.bsky.social || PhD @labfam.bsky.social Exploring: remote work, gender inequalities, ideal worker norms, parental leave, career penalties • Various methods 👩🏻‍🏫📈

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King's Global Institute for Women's Leadership @giwlkings.bsky.social · 11/11/2025
How are young men and women’s attitudes toward gender, equality and identity evolving? 🗓️ 19 November ⏰ 18:30 – 19:45 Register to attend in person: lnkd.in/etT2J62P Register for the livestream: lnkd.in/eTs_pW85
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Honorata Bogusz @honoratabogusz.bsky.social · 11/11/2025
Today is Poland’s Independence Day 🇵🇱 I’m incredibly proud of Poles for persisting despite centuries of imperial oppression. Thinking of Ukrainians and Palestinians whose struggles for self-determination continue.
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LSE Sociology @lsesociology.bsky.social · 05/09/2025
📣 The Call for Papers for the British Journal of Sociology 2026 Conference is open! Following the success of our inaugural conference in 2024, we are delighted to announce its return on 23 and 24 April 2026 at LSE. 📆 Submit your paper by 20 October 2025 ➡️ buff.ly/TdmBcur
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Ewa Batyra @ewabatyra.bsky.social · 25/08/2025
I am looking for a postdoc to join my ERC StG project DIVREP to work on global, quantitative analyses of fertility and reproductive behaviour. The post is based in the Department of Sociology at the University of Oxford. Let me know if you have any questions. More details below👇
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Satu Helske @satuhelske.bsky.social · 27/08/2025
Come work on my new research project! We are studying whether and how #parentalLeave is shared in different types of families, how the use of parental leave has changed in different families since the 2000s, and how parents’ social environments influence their leave uptake. #research #hiring
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Arieda Muço 🍉 🌻 🌸 @ariedamuco.bsky.social · 24/08/2025
If you use Stata and you want to make nice coefficient plots, this article by @uptonorwell.bsky.social is really fantastic! medium.com/the-stata-ga...
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Making Regression Coefficient Plots in Stata
Traditionally, researchers reported results of regression analyses using tables. A more visually appealing way of presenting these results is by using a coefficient plot. Unlike a typical scatterplot…
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John Holbein @johnholbein1.bsky.social · 06/08/2025
Look at how having a child affects male and female happiness differently. What do you notice?
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Aga Kasperska @akasperska.bsky.social · 17/07/2025
📚 Our paper on employer’s perceptions of workers taking parental leaves: we find hiring & pay penalties for fathers taking (longer) leave and rewards for mothers taking shorter leave. #IPC2025 @amatysiak.bsky.social @ewa-cukrowska.bsky.social @gaylekaufman.bsky.social @labfam.bsky.social
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Notes from Poland @notesfrompoland.bsky.social · 15/07/2025
Millions of Poles tuned in to watch their country's first-ever appearance at the Women's Euro this month. The tournament "has changed the perception of women’s football in the country forever", writes Joanna Wiśniowska for @theguardian.com.
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How Poland’s Euro 2025 showing transformed a nation’s view of women’s football
Despite their group-stage exit, Nina Patalon’s side have made history and changed perceptions back home
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Richard Nennstiel @nennstielr.bsky.social · 16/06/2025
🚨 Are young women becoming more left-wing & young men more right-wing? We analyzed 32 European countries (1990–2023). 📊 Some show growing gaps—others don’t. 📊 Gaps tend to be bigger where gender equality is higher. w/ @hudde.bsky.social 👉 doi.org/10.1093/esr/...
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Antonia Lloyd-Jones @antonialloydjones.bsky.social · 05/06/2025
It’s publication day for The Penguin Book of Polish Short Stories. It took 39 authors 100 years to write, and me about 4 years to compile and translate, with the help of 11 other translators. It aims to show the variety and brilliance of modern Polish literature.
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John Holbein @johnholbein1.bsky.social · 03/06/2025
What happens to women when they are denied an abortion? Short run: their risk of death rises. A full 15 years later, they experience: more health issues, lower attainment, reduced labor-force participation, higher single motherhood, higher poverty, + greater government assistance
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Centre of Migration Research, University of Warsaw @cmr-warsaw.bsky.social · 03/06/2025
🌍 Join Us at @UniWarszawski for a landmark event on Europe’s future! We are thrilled to welcome you to "Europe and Mobilities: Challenges and Opportunities for Socio-Economic Transformations" conference — a flagship event of the Polish Presidency of the Council of the EU. 1/2
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Aga Kasperska @akasperska.bsky.social · 02/06/2025
📢 New publication! With @amatysiak.bsky.social & @ewa-cukrowska.bsky.social we provide evidence of #FlexibilityStigma: employers see remote workers as less productive and committed which explains their career penalties. Plus gender differences. 📄 Full paper: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
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Centre of Migration Research, University of Warsaw @cmr-warsaw.bsky.social · 30/05/2025
📢 Can’t join us in Warsaw for #EUROMOBI2025? No problem! We’re streaming the entire conference live on YouTube 🎥 🗓️ June 4–6 📍 Univ. of Warsaw 💬 Europe, mobilities & socio-economic change Join us online (coffee not included 😉) #EuropeAndMobilities
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John Holbein @johnholbein1.bsky.social · 27/05/2025
Male college students are 18.6% more likely than female students to receive favorable grade changes made by instructors.
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POB V | IDUB UW @pobvuw.bsky.social · 23/05/2025
The latest agenda for the Europe and Mobilities conference is now available! Explore the sessions, keynotes, and side events shaping the conversation around Europe's future. See what’s coming soon at @UniWarszawski. Registration and full details > bit.ly/4ijTmzG
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Honorata Bogusz @honoratabogusz.bsky.social · 19/05/2025
My partner Radost has created fantastic visualizations of yesterday's Polish presidential election results — mapped by both population (~half of Poles live in cities) and territory. Explore all the maps here: radostw.github.io/election_202...
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Aga Kasperska @akasperska.bsky.social · 15/05/2025
The conference addresses key socio-economic issues in Europe: migration, demography, democracy, and tech change. @labfam.bsky.social & @amatysiak.bsky.social lead the session on Demographic Change & Resilience (Thu 4th of June, 14:45-16:15). It’s held in 🇵🇱 with online access - link coming soon.
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Johanna Rickne @johannarickne.bsky.social · 09/05/2025
🚨 REPLICATION REPORT UPDATE: One year ago, a tweet by John Holbein alerted me, @ollefolke.bsky.social, and @jopieboy.bsky.social to a paper with a shocking result about Sweden’s law criminalizing the purchase of sex.🧵
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John Holbein @johnholbein1.bsky.social · 01/05/2025
If you run conjoint experiments, you need to read this. Most conjoints estimate average effects for each attribute. But what if the effect of one attribute depends on the others? This paper has got you covered!
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British Society for Population Studies (BSPS) @bspsuk.bsky.social · 15/04/2025
less than 4 weeks to get your abstract in for the #BSPS2025 call for papers... strands from climate change to gender to conflict to formal demography to public views on low fertility ...and much more take a look at the full range & submit your work by 9 May: www.lse.ac.uk/internationa...
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Aga Kasperska @akasperska.bsky.social · 12/04/2025
📊 Our #PAA2025 poster on employer’s perceptions on workers taking parental leaves with @amatysiak.bsky.social, @ewa-cukrowska.bsky.social & @gaylekaufman.bsky.social We find hiring and pay penalties for fathers taking (longer) leave and rewards for mothers taking shorter leave. @labfam.bsky.social
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King's Global Institute for Women's Leadership @giwlkings.bsky.social · 19/03/2025
"Sir Gareth Southgate has expressed his concern that 'callous, manipulative and toxic influencers' are taking the place of traditional father figures in society and contributing to mental health issues among young men."
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Gareth Southgate rails against ‘callous toxic influencers’ in Dimbleby Lecture
Sir Gareth Southgate has expressed concern that ‘callous, manipulative and toxic influencers’ are taking the place of traditional father figures and contributing to mental health issues among young me...
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Alexi Gugushvili @a-gugushvili.bsky.social · 10/03/2025
🚨🔍 New research on Russian public opinion! Despite sanctions, political turmoil & economic strain, many Russians remain surprisingly optimistic about the war. Why? My latest study unpacks this paradox & what it reveals about authoritarian resilience. 🧵👇 (1/4) 🔗 doi.org/10.1080/1478...
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Russian public perceptions of the war in Ukraine: a paradox of optimism amid crisis
This study examines public perceptions of the Ukraine war, with a particular focus on Russian attitudes toward its economic and political impacts in comparison to other countries. Drawing on theore...
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Saloni @scientificdiscovery.dev · 24/02/2025
New article by me! It's a common mistake to think the TFR is a prediction of the average number of children women will have over their lifetimes. But it's not. The TFR can decline even when the eventual number of children per woman stays constant or even increases; the opposite can happen too. 🧵
A line graph compares two measures of fertility rates in Sweden over time: the total fertility rate and the completed cohort fertility rate.

The total fertility rate is depicted using a red line, which shows a downward trend starting around the early 1900s, with fluctuations and a gradual decline to about 1.5 in 2022. 

The completed cohort fertility rate is illustrated with a blue line, with the time axis showing the women's birth year. It shows an initial decline followed by a stable fertility rate.

A note at the bottom states that the completed cohort fertility rate has been shifted by 30 years to align with the respective birth years of women. The data source is the Human Fertility Database (2024) and the chart is published by Our World in Data.
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WeRateDogs @weratedogs.com · 20/02/2025
This is Zero. She's the world's first herding dog with a work-from-home gig. 14/10
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Eva Rimbau-Gilabert @erimbau.bsky.social · 20/02/2025
#RemoteWork recommendations for organizations. Source: Baumann, H.M., & Marcum, T.M. (2023). Human capital and legal perspectives on remote work: recommendations for organizations. Management Research Review. www.emerald.com/insight/cont...
A table comparing remote work practices from two perspectives: Human capital perspective and Legal perspective, across three levels: Intended practices, Actual practices, and Perceived practices.

Intended practices:

Human capital perspective: Advocates for hybrid work with both location and schedule flexibility, emphasizing benefits like job satisfaction, autonomy, and productivity.
Legal perspective: Focuses on fair and compliant work schedules, requiring remote work agreements to cover policies, safety, privacy, and documentation of work hours. It also emphasizes non-discriminatory approval processes for remote work.
Actual practices:

Human capital perspective: Recognizes manager perceptions, showing that remote workers generally have better relationships with managers, higher performance ratings, and career penalties if managers see remote work as a personal accommodation rather than a productivity tool.
Legal perspective: Stresses fair approval and evaluation, ensuring no discrimination in remote work approvals and that training helps prevent biases. It also emphasizes clear position descriptions and evaluation consistency.
Perceived practices:

Human capital perspective: Acknowledges individual worker experiences, noting stronger commitment benefits in younger employees, improved work-life balance with past remote experience, and the importance of the reasons given for denying remote work.
Legal perspective: Aligns remote work with Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DE&I) efforts, warning that negative perceptions of remote work decisions may harm DE&I and that denial of remote work could be perceived as discrimination or bias.
The source notes that the table is based on a review of existing remote work literature
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Csaba G. Tóth @tothgcsaba.bsky.social · 17/02/2025
Poland's population in 2020 was 38M, the same as in 1990. Below-replacement fertility reduced it by 5.6M over this period, but gains in life expectancy and a young initial age structure offset the decline. #demography #fertility #Poland #Migration Source: osf.io/preprints/so...
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Rebecca Sear @rebeccasear.bsky.social · 10/02/2025
“Poland’s ambitious “Family 500+” program offered substantial monthly payment to families with children. While the program modestly increased overall fertility in the short-term, its effects varied significantly by age and income” www.niussp.org/fertility-an...
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Lessons from Poland's pro-natalist "Family 500+" program - N-IUSSP
Poland’s ambitious “Family 500+” program offered substantial monthly payment to families with children. While the program modestly increased overall fertility in the short-term, its effects varied sig...
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Giulia Ferrari @giufer.bsky.social · 04/02/2025
📢Calling all aspiring demographers! Apply for next year’s EDSD here: eaps.nl/edsd/how-to-... and join us in Paris at INED! Deadline March 25 at noon
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Notes from Poland @notesfrompoland.bsky.social · 30/01/2025
Poland has again recorded its lowest annual number of births since WW2, with a figure of around 252,000 in 2024, down from 272,000 the previous year. It was also the 12th year in a row in which deaths have exceeded births
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Annual births in Poland hit new postwar low as population decline accelerates
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Julia M. Rohrer @dingdingpeng.the100.ci · 16/01/2025
As expected, the APC talk for the sociologists was a lot of fun! In case you're curious, you can find the slides here: osf.io/mvqkx
First slide of the slide deck "Thinking cleary about age, period, and cohort effects"
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Ansgar Hudde @hudde.bsky.social · 14/01/2025
1️⃣7️⃣ days left to hand in your extended abstracts!
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Berkay Ozcan @berkayozcan.bsky.social · 14/01/2025
I am excited about being part of this symposium with excellent company. Please submit your papers below👇 #EconSky #Demography
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Ilari Ilmakunnas @ilmakunnasilari.bsky.social · 11/01/2025
Peer-reviewed research indicates something else regarding Finland: "To conclude, while changing union dynamics provide a partial explanation, postponing or foregoing fertility within unions represents the primary reason for the fertility decline." link.springer.com/article/10.1...
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Less Partnering, Less Children, or Both? Analysis of the Drivers of First Birth Decline in Finland Since 2010 - European Journal of Population
In the 2010s, fertility has declined in the Nordic countries, most strikingly in Finland, and first births drive the decline. It remains unclear whether this decline results from decreased fertility w...
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Rebecca Sear @rebeccasear.bsky.social · 11/01/2025
“Only 25% of institution’s students are from Scotland, and they are more likely to be from working-class backgrounds” www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2024...
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Why Scottish students at Edinburgh University want more support to counter classism
Only 25% of institution’s students are from Scotland, and they are more likely to be from working-class backgrounds
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Rhiannon Lockley (she/her) @illdoitanyway.bsky.social · 09/01/2025
This will be a massive massive loss. Never thought anyone could fill Bob Crow’s shoes but Big Mick has been an outstanding labour movement leader. Unflappably defending the working class & showing what it means to have confidence in your union & your members. Solidarity @rmtunion.bsky.social
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Chih-lan Winnie Yang @winnieyang.bsky.social · 09/01/2025
Kicking off 2025 with this piece that’s been years in the making 🙏 Studying individuals in same-sex couples using longitudinal administrative data from Canadian tax records: Opportunities and challenges.
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Maik Hamjediers @mhamjediers.bsky.social · 07/01/2025
📢 Flexible working supposedly addresses women's work-family conflicts but is less prevalent in women-dominated occupations. @aljoschajacobi.bsky.social, @tabeanaujoks.bsky.social & I explore why and how this has changed over past decades Out in @socialindicators.bsky.social doi.org/10.1007/s112...
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Trades Union Congress @tuc.org.uk · 06/01/2025
The rise in retailers using gig apps to hire workers as freelancers rather than staff is extremely worrying. Shop workers end up losing out on significant employment rights. It's good to see these firms listening to our advice and ending their use of the practice.
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Uniqlo, Gymshark and Lush stop hiring UK workers via gig economy apps
TUC criticise retailers for endangering workers’ rights by using apps such as YoungOnes and Temper
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Anna Matysiak @amatysiak.bsky.social · 20/12/2024
Z przyjemnoscia dziele sie ponizszym wywiadem a Pani @annakorzekwa.bsky.social @ncngovpl.bsky.social bardzo dziękuje za miła rozmowę i jej bardzo rzetelne opracowanie ncn.gov.pl/aktualnosci/...
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Cassandra Engeman @cassandraengeman.bsky.social · 20/12/2024
Join me on the Editorial Board for the interdisciplinary journal, Community, Work & Family! We are currently recruiting a third Co-editor to serve alongside Dr. Marc Grau Grau and Dr. Anja Abendroth for a period of four years. Read more and apply here: think.taylorandfrancis.com/editor_recru...
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Co-Editor needed for Community, Work & Family
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John V. Kane @uptonorwell.bsky.social · 17/12/2024
📊Ever use or teach interactions in regression? I’ve been using/teaching this tricky concept for years & finally decided to write a guide. Link below; no paywall👍 Meant for users of any software but @statacorp.bsky.social code is provided 😁 CC: @asjadnaqvi.bsky.social medium.com/the-stata-ga...
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Ansgar Hudde @hudde.bsky.social · 16/12/2024
🎉ECSR Conference 2025 is coming to Cologne!🎉 📅 3-5 September 2025 📅 Abstract deadline: Jan 31st ℹ️ Details: ecsr2025.eu I'm happy to be on the organizing team. Theme: "Demography & Social Inequality" – but submissions from *all* sociology fields, methodical approaches etc. are welcome. #ECSR2025
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Yang Hu @yanghu.co.uk · 11/12/2024
🚨 Happy to share our new publication, the largest auditing study of its kind, on the role played by language in job ads in shaping gender and racial segregation in the UK labour force. Newly published @pnasnexus.org: academic.oup.com/pnasnexus/ar... @wfrn.bsky.social @asanews.bsky.social (1/9)
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Language in job advertisements and the reproduction of labor force gender and racial segregation
Abstract. Job advertisements (ads) represent the first point of contact between employers and job seekers. By signaling characteristics expected of an idea
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Cambridge University Press Political Science & IR @cambup-polsci.cambridge.org · 03/12/2024
'Experimental Sociology' by Davide Barrera, Klarita Gërxhani, Bernhard Kittel, @luismmiller.bsky.social & @tobiaswolbring.bsky.social. Gives a comprehensive overview of the state of the art, different designs, and methodological controversies in experimental sociology. 📚 cup.org/3Cld4M6 📚
Cover image of Experimental Sociology by Barrera, Gërxhani, Kittel, Miller and Wolbring.
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Professor Melinda Mills @melindacmills.bsky.social · 04/12/2024
Amazing work on the longevity benefits of homeownership by our own talented @caseybreen.bsky.social @oxforddemsci.bsky.social
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WFRN.bsky.social @wfrn.bsky.social · 02/12/2024
Request for proposals: Research grants for early career scholars equitablegrowth.org/research-pap... via Washington Center for Equitable Growth
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Request for proposals: Research grants for early career scholars
Equitable Growth's early career scholars request for proposals is live! Seeking researchers interested in policy relevant study related to inequality and economic growth.
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Aga Kasperska @akasperska.bsky.social · 02/12/2024
I recently finished my research stay at @heejungchung.bsky.social's Flexible Working Gender Lab. It was so nice to connect with researchers working on similar topics, get valuable feedback, and gain new perspectives. 🤓 Thank you Heejung & @kingsbschool.bsky.social for hosting me!
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