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Ander Movilla

@andermovilla.bsky.social
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BdP fellow @crmatematica.bsky.social. Mathematical biology, chromosomes, epigenetics, dynamical systems. Mostly about Science, occasionally something else. Opinions my own, even when wrong.

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Luisma Escudero @lmescu.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Pues en este artículo que sacamos en la revista #AdvancedScience mostramos que los balones de fútbol y los embriones de mamíferos se parecen mucho. Y tú dirás… ¿y eso por qué? Pues esta vez no es por los triángulos, sino por los pentágonos! Aquí va el link: 10.1002/advs.77487 Tira del hilo...
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Pentagon Kino Blue Heart Logo Animation
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Maxim Greenberg @maxvcg.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Must listen!
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Fossil Fuel Treaty Initiative @fossiltreaty.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
In powerful remarks today at the opening of the #UNGA81, UN Secretary-General António Guterres called for international cooperation for a just transition away from fossil fuels, aligned with the 1.5 climate goal, equitable timelines, and the protection of affected workers and communities.
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Lennart Hilbert @lennarthilbert.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
I'll try another live read-through of a recent preprint "Formation of an RNA-mediated nuclear compartment" by Denis Lafontaine et al., @jobdekker.bsky.social lab I am first posting my summary sketch of the introduction. Link: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... Original post: bsky.app/profile/jobd...
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Saúl Ares @omeuxeito.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
Editorial article at @science.org on fossil fuel subsidies. The title is... informative. The worst energy policy in the world | Science www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
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The worst energy policy in the world
The Iran war could serve as a turning point in accelerating the global transition away from fossil fuels: Every additional day that oil and gas prices are high and future supplies are uncertain, wind ...
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Vangeli Geshkovski @vgeshkovski.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
And now also in @lemonde.fr 🎉 www.lemonde.fr/sciences/art...
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Le ballet épigénétique derrière la floraison des plantes mis au jour
La vitesse de fleurissement et la quantité de pétales produits par les plantes à fleurs dépendent d’un mécanisme bien orchestré mais complexe. Des chercheurs sont parvenus à déterminer les acteurs et ...
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The Green Party of England & Wales @greenparty.org.uk · 11/08/2026
Reform’s leaders peddle rhetoric around climate change denial. Their councils act on it. Last month, Reform-run Suffolk County Council scrapped its climate emergency declaration. Now, as a wildfire tears through the county, we are seeing exactly why climate action should not be abandoned.
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Parmvir K Bahia @parmvir.com · 09/08/2026
Excited to be launching #MathBioNexus a new webinar series for @smbmathbiology.bsky.social, dedicated to highlighting some of the best papers in the Bulletin of Mathematical Bio. Please share with your colleagues to help broaden participation in the field of #MathBio. cassyni.com/s/mathbionexus
A flyer for MathBioNexus a webinar series with the tagline: highlighting breakthroughs, sharing knowledge and creating community. In the top right corner you can see the front cover of the bulletin of mathematical biology. Underneath details of how to subscribe on Cassyni: cassyni.com/s/mathbionexus.In the bottom left is a cartoon of someone presenting an online webinar. Just above is a link to more information: www.smb.org/mathbionexus.
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Prof Friederike Otto @frediotto.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
A succession of heatwaves and very dry conditions - both driven by human-induced climate change, fueld the severe wildfires in Spain and France - new @wwattribution.bsky.social study www.worldweatherattribution.org/climate-chan...
Map of Southern France and Northern Spain with the burnt area in July highlighted as red polygons and the study areas around Madrid and Bordeaux outlined.
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Antony Dodd @antdodd.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
Dear Wiley. I just want to read the paper. I do not want stupid pop ups telling me to use your AI tool to help me to read it.
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Guardian Environment @environment.theguardian.com · 11/07/2026
The 13 biggest myths about heatwaves – and how to bust them
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The 13 biggest myths about heatwaves – and how to bust them
With some still unable to accept humanity’s role in climate chaos, we tackle common misconceptions and deceptions
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Ander Movilla @andermovilla.bsky.social · 11/07/2026
Después de Los Gallardos, nada puede seguir igual elpais.com/opinion/2026...
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Después de Los Gallardos, nada puede seguir igual
El incendio de Almería merece toda la ayuda y la solidaridad pero exige también una transformación ante las catástrofes que desencadena el cambio climático
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Al Jord Lab @aljordlab.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
🧬 A big thank you to @andriygoychuk.bsky.social for his excellent presentation at the @prbb.org as part of the @barcelonacollaboratorium.com, and for taking the time to discuss different projects and ideas with us. #Collaboration #Collaboratorium @crg.eu @embl.org @helmholtzhzi.bsky.social
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Emilia Dimitrova @edimitrova.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
Amazing new method for live-cell imaging of RNA molecules developed by Adam in the Brockdorff lab! Worth having a look at!
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Ed Hawkins @edhawkins.org · 08/07/2026
M&S saw the plausible weather forecast for 2056, peaking at 45°C, that we produced with the Met Office and made the decision to invest in upgraded refrigeration. This comes after some of their fridges brown down during the recent heatwave. www.independent.co.uk/news/busines...
Plausible weather forecast for a heatwave in 2056 reaching 45°C
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koseskalab.bsky.social @koseskalab.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
New preprint! RNNs solving an interval timing task self-organize near bifurcations, where structured slow transients drive computation. These slow scaffolds predict generalization to unseen intervals and are alone sufficient for timing! @mpinb.mpg.de www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
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Near-critical slow dynamics enable flexible temporal computations and generalization
Although neural activity often evolves along low-dimensional manifolds, such descriptions do not explain the dynamical mechanisms that generate, constrain, and stabilize computation. Identifying these...
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Tamoor Hussain @tamoorh.com · 03/07/2026
Incredible moment where Fox News puts up a graphic with all the reasons it opposes the DSA and why people should be afraid of them
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Ander Movilla @andermovilla.bsky.social · 27/06/2026
Surprising that studies like this have not been circulated more widely (at least in Spain) given the current heatwaves www.worldweatherattribution.org/fossil-fuel-...
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Fossil fuel emissions have rapidly worsened European heatwaves in just a few decades – World Weather Attribution
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Pablo González-Suárez @pablidopsis.bsky.social · 12/06/2026
I'm thrilled to see our recent paper out in @dev-journal.bsky.social 🎉 Here we look into the transition from cell division to differentiation in the late stomatal lineage and identify regulators of guard cell morphology and function doi.org/10.1242/dev....
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Targets of SPEECHLESS and FAMA control guard cell division and expansion in the late stomatal lineage
Highlighted Article: In Arabidopsis stomatal cells, SPEECHLESS persists into maturing guard cells where its balance with FAMA is essential for guard cell development. Transcriptomic and genetic analys...
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Eduardo G. Altmann @eduardoaltmann.bsky.social · 05/06/2026
I support the Leiden Declaration on Artificial Intelligence and Mathematics. Read and sign the declaration: leidendeclaration.ai
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Leiden Declaration on Artificial Intelligence and Mathematics
This declaration calls for action to address the challenges posed by the use of artificial intelligence within mathematics research.
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Barcelona Collaboratorium @barcelonacollaboratorium.com · 05/06/2026
Still a few days to register!! #BCNCollaboratorium #IQS #Mathsandbiology
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Ander Movilla @andermovilla.bsky.social · 27/05/2026
Excellent thread 👇
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Christine Faulkner @pdchristine.bsky.social · 19/05/2026
Emma Turley started her PhD expecting the effector ChEC108 would aid Colletotrichum establish infection, but she instead discovered that when it makes it's way to plasmodesmata it's bound by host HIPP6, triggering PD closure and impeding infection. #PlantScience
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Artemy Kolchinsky @artemyte.bsky.social · 30/04/2026
We wrote a perspective piece on future directions & challenges for stochastic thermodynamics. Great collaboration with Jan Korbel, Sarah Loos, Gonzalo Manzano, Rosalba Garcia-Millan, Olga Movilla Miangolarra, Edgar Roldan arxiv.org/abs/2604.26601
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Quo vadis, stochastic thermodynamics?
Stochastic thermodynamics is a framework for describing non-equilibrium processes at the level of fluctuating trajectories, where the state of a system evolves as a stochastic time series,...
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Ander Movilla @andermovilla.bsky.social · 29/04/2026
Very interesting. Straight to my to read list!
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Auke Hoekstra @aukehoekstra.bsky.social · 20/03/2026
The final report on the Iberia Peninsula (Spain and Portugal) blackout is out. Many will be blaming renewables and talk about inertia: nonsense. The cause was bad voltage control. Solar and wind could have helped but that was illegal. The fix is is surprisingly easy. www.entsoe.eu/publications...
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28 April 2025 Blackout
The final report of the Expert Panel on the 28 April 2025 blackout in continental Spain and Portugal identifies the causes of the blackout and outlines recommendations to strengthen the resilience of Europe’s interconnected electricity system. It was prepared by a technical Expert Panel of 49 members, including representatives from Transmission System Operators (TSOs), Regional Coordination Centres (RCCs), ACER and National Regulatory Authorities (NRAs), and was chaired by experts from two unaffected TSOs.
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Nora Martin @n-martin.bsky.social · 22/03/2026
🧵 New preprint: doi.org/10.64898/202... In 2023, Papkou et al. reported an empirical fitness landscape with a striking property: >500 local optima ("peaks"), spanning both high and low fitness. Despite this ruggedness, >75% of simulated adaptive walks reached the top ~14% of peaks.
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Nora Martin @n-martin.bsky.social · 17/03/2026
New group website: www.noramartin-lab.com Get in touch if you are interested in joining the group, or know anyone who might be 📮
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HOME | Martin Lab
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Tom McLean @tommclean.bsky.social · 25/02/2026
Come do a PhD with me and @trevor-lithgow.bsky.social at @monashuniversity.bsky.social ! We’re at the leading edge of pathogen biology using cutting edge Cryo-EM and AI-driven genetic screens to uncover the mysteries of outer membrane biology. Reach out to me for a chat! macsys.org/phd-scholars...
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PhD Scholarship at Monash University - MACSYS
Do cutting-edge research at the intersection of cryo‑EM, genome-wide profiling, and AI-driven modelling. Work with world‑class cryo-EM/cryo-ET imaging and AI tools to discover how the dangerous bacter...
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Juan Antonio Rodríguez @jrotwitguez.bsky.social · 24/02/2026
🔊💥 How is sex determined? How is it encoded in the #3Dgenome? Read all about it in our last paper! www.nature.com/articles/s41... It’s been looong but feels satisfying to see this finally out. (With CapelLab, @dariloops.bsky.social Lab and @mamartirenom.bsky.social Lab) 🧵👇
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Chromatin spatial analysis by METALoci unveils sex-determining 3D regulatory hubs - Nature Structural & Molecular Biology
METALoci, a new three-dimensional genome computational tool, reveals a major rewiring of regulatory interactions during sex determination. By combining this method with transgenic models, the authors ...
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Philip Ball @philipcball.bsky.social · 19/02/2026
The answer: We don't know, and arguably theories are too cheap in relation to the scraps of empirical data.
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Ander Movilla @andermovilla.bsky.social · 18/02/2026
Para los que dudan de la emergencia climática www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Human-induced climate change amplification on storm dynamics in Valencia’s 2024 catastrophic flash flood - Nature Communications
This study reveals how climate change altered storm dynamics during the 2024 Valencia floods. Warmer seas fueled stronger updrafts, increasing rainfall intensity by 20% and significantly amplifying fl...
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European Research Council (ERC) @erc.europa.eu · 06/02/2026
Even when the focus is on research with immediate industrial applications, many policymakers recognise that breakthroughs start with fundamental science. That's why Mario Draghi recommended doubling the ERC’s budget. ERC President spoke at @sciencebusiness.net Annual Conference earlier this week.
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Spooky Myles 🎃🐬🌙 @mylestring.bsky.social · 05/02/2026
Viene otra borrasca. Sigue preguntando la gente que dónde está el cambio climático con tanta agua. SIEMPRE se ha advertido que ESTO, ESTO PRECISAMENTE, ES EL CAMBIO CLIMÁTICO. EVENTOS CLIMATOLÓGICOS EXTREMOS AÑO TRAS AÑO TRAS AÑO.
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Artemy Kolchinsky @artemyte.bsky.social · 26/01/2026
A remarkable preprint that shows emergence of active protocells from simple starting conditions
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Daniel Jost - Physical Biology of Chromatin group @djost-physbiol.bsky.social · 26/01/2026
🚨 New preprint from the lab. Combining modeling and data analysis of SisterC data in yeast, we investigate cohesion of replicated chromosomes and show that sister chromatids are loosely and asymmetrically aligned in G2/M. Check the tweetorial below ⬇️ www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
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Guy Shrubsole @guyshrubsole.bsky.social · 14/01/2026
8.4 GIGAWATTS of offshore wind just contracted in the UK, thanks to Ed Miliband's recent auction - enough electricity to power 12 million homes. The US can boil in Venezuelan oil. We're investing in energy you don't need to invade other nations to obtain www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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Offshore windfarm contracts to fuel 12m homes in Great Britain after record auction
Subsidies guaranteeing price for each unit of clean electricity generated given to 12 renewables projects
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Enhanced Genomics @enhancedgenomics.bsky.social · 06/01/2026
Join our virtual seminar! @sedonamurphy.bsky.social presents cutting-edge research on 3D genome organisation & epigenetic memory in development, moderated by @stefanschoenfelder.bsky.social 📅 Jan 8, 4pm UK 💻 Zoom Register: us02web.zoom.us/webinar/regi... #3DGenome #Epigenetics #ChromatinBiology
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Rob Klose @robklose.bsky.social · 23/12/2025
Seems like such a waste of funds. Preprint and post publication peer review would cut out the middle man.
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Pablo González-Suárez @pablidopsis.bsky.social · 12/12/2025
Apply if you're interested in using mathematical modelling to learn about plant development 👇 Rea is a fantastic boss and supportive mentor, can recommend 100%
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Sean Carroll @seanmcarroll.bsky.social · 29/11/2025
But I was told that the best way of dealing with bullies was to give them your lunch money so they wouldn't hit you any more.
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Iqra Jamil @jamileqra.bsky.social · 24/11/2025
Thrilled to share that my PhD research is now published!
Read it here: dx.doi.org/10.1111/tpj....
Grateful to everyone who supported this work.
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Cytokinin‐responsive P‐type cyclins control Arabidopsis radial style morphology
The master regulator SPATULA (SPT) suppresses cytokinin (CK)-induced cell proliferation to ensure carpel fusion, acting through a coherent feed-forward loop (FFL) that converges on the cell cycle reg...
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Ed Hawkins @edhawkins.org · 13/11/2025
How much carbon budget do we have left if we want to stay below 1.5˚C? Just 2 more years at current rates. It is essentially impossible to avoid global temperature rise exceeding 1.5˚C. climatelabbook.substack.com/p/the-shrink...
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Miguel Montez @miguelmontez.bsky.social · 13/11/2025
📣 Looking for a 3-Year Postdoc @johninnescentre.bsky.social to join my Wellcome project. This is a highly interdisciplinary project that explores chromatin dynamics in 🌱 plant responses across timescales, from circadian rhythms to seasonal changes 📅 Closes on 10 Dec. www.jic.ac.uk/vacancies/36...
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Postdoctoral Researcher (Dr Miguel Montez) | John Innes Centre
An exciting opportunity has arisen for a Postdoctoral Researcher to join the Wellcome Trust project led by Dr Miguel Montez and hosted within the Dodd Group at the John Innes Centre.
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Thomas Lecuit @thomaslecuit.bsky.social · 04/11/2025
Exciting @centuri-ls.bsky.social internal seminar by @efeilker-phys.bsky.social on energetics and scaling during development 🤩
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Stefan Schoenfelder @stefanschoenfelder.bsky.social · 01/11/2025
🚨 Exciting conference for stem cell aficionados! ‘Frontiers in Stem Cell Innovation’ will bring together experts in stem cell biology from academia & industry to discuss key developments as well as challenges in regenerative medicine and disease modelling. fisci2026.eventbrite.co.uk Please repost 🙏
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Frontiers in Stem Cell Innovation 2026
Join leading academics and industry professionals exploring cutting-edge stem cell technologies and disease modelling for drug discovery
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Adrian Bracken @adrianbracken.bsky.social · 31/10/2025
1/ 🚀 AEBP2 isn’t what we thought. You were told that AEBP2 promotes PRC2 activity on chromatin. We found the opposite: the most prevalent AEBP2 isoform inhibits PRC2 activity. 👉 surl.li/cgwqcq A thread 🧵
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efe ilker @efeilker-phys.bsky.social · 27/10/2025
Two 2-year postdoc positions in my theory group — for studying the interplay between metabolism and morphogenesis at the edge of the Calanques and the Mediterranean. More information can be found on: euraxess.ec.europa.eu/jobs/381176 #biophysics
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Postdoc in Theoretical Biophysics
Two postdoc positions (each for two years, funded by Amidex Foundation) are available in theoretical biophysics within the theory group at DyNaMo (Aix-Marseille University).
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Mathieu Dedenon @dedenonmathieu.bsky.social · 23/10/2025
📢 New preprint ! Please check if you are interested in the comparison between 2d and 3d nematic theories 🤔 I show that the 2d description can lead to artefacts on curved surfaces, and I propose a thin film description of nematic shells with full 3d orientation ! This was a funny summer project 😊
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Rosana Collepardo @rcollepardo.bsky.social · 22/10/2025
Check out our new work, led by talented @janhuemar.bsky.social, where we uncover that pioneer factor Oct4 remodels chromatin for DNA access not by opening it but by exploiting nucleosome breathing and forming clusters 🔥🔥🔥
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