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Ann C. Morris

@anncmorris.bsky.social
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Biologist studying retinal development and regeneration at the University of Kentucky. Books, baking, birds, bourbon.

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Ann C. Morris @anncmorris.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Application review for UKy Biology faculty position starts in one week! ukjobs.uky.edu/postings/646...
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Assistant or Associate Professor of Biology
The Department of Biology at the University of Kentucky invites applications for a tenure-track faculty position at the rank of Assistant or Associate Professor, with expertise in the field of Cell an...
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Maëlle Bellec @bellecmaelle.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
DNA → RNA → protein. From single mRNAs to an entire developing vertebrate embryo, we can now watch this last step unfold in real time. Our paper is out today! 🐟🔬 www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
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Real-time single-molecule imaging in zebrafish embryos uncovers noncanonical translation
Precise spatiotemporal control of protein synthesis is essential during embryogenesis, yet directly measuring translation kinetics in vivo remains challenging in vertebrates. In particular, it remains...
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Dwayne Godwin, PhD @dwaynegodwin.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
The 2026 Nobel Prize in physiology or medicine goes to the developers of optogenetics. Did you know that optogenetics is based on a discovery made in green algae? Well, now you do! Here’s a comic explainer we did back when it was still new. @phdcomics.com 🧠 #neuroskyence #neuroscience
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Karl Deisseroth @deisseroth.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Thank you to everyone sharing in this moment! I’m so grateful to all my trainees & collaborators… dlab.stanford.edu/group-members (pic: Peter and I together in 2017) Reading for all those asking: for technical details: dlab.stanford.edu for everyone: deisseroth.org/projections
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Bahl Lab @bahllab.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
New preprint from the lab! We built an atlas of functional ensembles across the zebrafish hindbrain, linking whole-hindbrain activity to behavior, structural organization, and molecular features. A few highlights below 🧵 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
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An atlas of functional ensembles in the zebrafish hindbrain links structural and molecular features to behavior
The vertebrate hindbrain sustains functions essential for survival and behavioral control, yet how it operates as a whole remains poorly understood. Here we map its functional organization in larval z...
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C. Brandon Ogbunu @cbo.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
In my latest for @undark.org, I compare AI adoption in science to the Ship of Theseus: "If you swap out every wooden plank on a ship over time, is it still the same vessel?" I argue that science derives authority from something more than data generation + publication. undark.org/2026/09/25/o...
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AI Presents Science with a ‘Ship of Theseus’ Problem
Opinion | AI can replace each part of the scientific process, leaving the enterprise recognizable but devoid of human judgment.
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Hearty White @heartywhite.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
I think renaming things is a smart strategy, the effectiveness of which is outlined in George Orwell's famous book An 80s Guide to Good Government.
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BWJones @bwjones.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Hey! Jobs as Assistant or Associate Prof in the Univ. of Kentucky Dept of Biology w/focus on Cell and Molecular Neuroscience. Peeps using iPSC/organoid models, or those working with invertebrate model organisms be sure to apply. Be a colleague with @anncmorris.bsky.social !
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Assistant or Associate Professor of Biology
The Department of Biology at the University of Kentucky invites applications for a tenure-track faculty position at the rank of Assistant or Associate Professor, with expertise in the field of Cell an...
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Hearty White @heartywhite.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Went to the Wiener Dog Races at Red Mile today. I'll post the film photos when I get them developed but here's some digital MFTs as a taste. #photography #wienerdograces
Photo of wiener dog with pink hat and pearls sitting on a barrel table.
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Nicole CL Noel @nclnoel.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
My work on the turquoise killifish photoreceptor mosaic was published last week - check it out if you’re interested in photoreceptors, cell organization, and pretty pictures! onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
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Ordered Chaos: Photoreceptor Mosaics in the Larval and Adult Turquoise Killifish (<i>Nothobranchius furzeri</i>)
The annual turquoise killifish (Nothobranchius furzeri) cone photoreceptor mosaic is an ordered lattice but lacks regularity of cone subtypes in adulthood. The cone mosaic differs between life stages...
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BWJones @bwjones.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Science peeps: Looks like SciENcv updated the digital certificate used to sign Biosketch and Current & Pending documents without notification. The old certificate expires Saturday, September 26, 2026. SciENcv docs before that date may fail validation in eRA Commons delaying or blocking submission.
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C @spiffyscientist.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
I won’t lie, it’s a bit overwhelming to see the work hyperbolized by many press outlets, including the university. We did not discover a new organ, or that you have two consciousnesses, etc! I’m excited for the general positive recognition, (especially the coverage from the Chronicle by Jack Lee)
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The brain is a single organ. But it may not start that way, study suggests
A Stanford-led study challenges the idea that the brain develops from one common pool of early cells — and could help researchers model diseases such as ALS.
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Hearty White @heartywhite.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
First love is writing poetry, so I took my favorite 50 from the last 40 years and I'm vanity publishing the collection, and it should be out by November. At the very least, my old college friends will like it! Hired an editor and designer even! If it speaks to anyone at all, I'll be thrilled.
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ukybiology.bsky.social @ukybiology.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
For more information about this position, click the link below. ukjobs.uky.edu/postings/646...
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Hearty White @heartywhite.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
End times mall. #filmphotography #film #35mm
Photo with slight red/yellow tint of empty parking lot in front of closed anchor store at mall.
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Hearty White @heartywhite.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Blessed to have lived in the same world as Dolly. By making so many lives better, she inspired many to do the same. May the outpouring of love we're about to witness confirm that goodness endures. Peace and love.
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Hearty White @heartywhite.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
Me. Handed the camera to my wife and she took the best pic of the night. #filmphotography #film #AmberT800
Older gentleman with white beard and tinted glasses, white shirts, and blue blazer on rooftop bar next to tropical plants.
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SfN Journals @sfnjournals.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
#JNeurosci: Using 3D ultrastructural analysis and membrane capacitance measurements, Paniagua et al. found most light-sensing disks in cones near the center of the monkey retina separate from the plasma membrane, rather than remain continuous with it. doi.org/10.1523/JNEUROSCI.0245-26.2…
Microscopic images and 3D cellular structures with arrows and colored areas.
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Kristen Kwan @blockintheback.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
📣 The Department of Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences @utah.edu is recruiting! We seek researchers addressing exciting questions in vision science using innovative approaches. Join our community @moraneyecenter.bsky.social! Repost and contact me with questions! utah.peopleadmin.com/postings/206...
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Jonathan Pruneda @jnpruneda.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
WE'RE HIRING! Thanks to some recent successes with NIH funding, we're seeking two new postdoctoral scholars to join our team. See below for details. Please share widely and feel free to reach out with any questions!
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Hearty White @heartywhite.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
The Elephant Bob Dylan--After sleeping with a zoo vet, a 35year old record store clerk encounters an elephant named Bob Dylan who paints, but they're scenes of the narrator's life, including clues to his college friends untimely death. #fakemurakami
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Jason Meyer @meyerlab.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
Happy to share my lab’s latest publication led by Jade Harkin, developing a New Approach Methodology platform to explore the combinatorial effects of inflammatory microglia and astrocytes upon retinal ganglion cells, relevant for glaucoma and other optic neuropathies. www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
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A human pluripotent stem cell triculture platform to elucidate microglial regulation of retinal ganglion cells in neuroinflammation | PNAS
Optic neuropathies, including glaucoma, are characterized by the progressive degeneration of retinal ganglion cells (RGCs), ultimately leading to i...
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Hearty White @heartywhite.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
Retina. Oil on canvas. I did this for my scientist wife's office. Representational art at a small enough scale is abstract art. #oilpainting #painting #art #retina #scienceart
Painting of blue, green, pink, and orange shapes that look like flames but are cells.
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Ricardo Zayas @zayaslab.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
How do adult tissues stay organized as they continually renew? Our new preprint shows that Eph-ephrin signaling maintains sensory neuron location and number in planarians. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
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Ephrin Signaling Patterns Sensory Neurons During Tissue Homeostasis in Planarians
Eph and ephrin genes encode receptor-ligand pairs that mediate contact-dependent cell signaling and are essential for nervous system development. However, less is known about the role of Ephrin signal...
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Hearty White @heartywhite.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
Home alone. Ink and color pencil on paper. #art #heartyart
Weird color pencil drawing of multi-armed waving skeleton girl in pink dress with distorted orange cat. Parnts and suitcase outside of door in background. Window with moon and trees on right. Pencil and thread spool on floor. Drawings of people and a wall socket on wall behind girl.
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Hearty White @heartywhite.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
Good fortune girl. (I don't have a smoke machine so I had to start a small fire with paper bags. Art life, man) #filmphotography #film #japanesemasks
Black and white photo of garden statue of girl holding birds but with a Japanese paper mask. Smoke in foreground.
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MwahahahahahadScientist @mads100tist.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
Re: developmental biology 🧪
A tweet by pjayevans. It reads:

Cars have windows and can move. Houses have windows and can't move. So It's not the windows that make the car go, It's something else entirely
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Hearty White @heartywhite.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
The only things I can say in Japanese so far: My daughter lives in Fukushima City. She is an English teacher. My wife is a biology professor. What is that building? I like natto. Where is the toilet? I like to shoot film camera photography. I ate an apple.
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Kristen Kwan @blockintheback.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
I am sincerely honored and excited to be named the Vice Chair for Vision Research at the @moraneyecenter.bsky.social at @utah.edu. I am thrilled to work with everyone to build upon the Moran's rich history in vision research. Stay tuned for much more to come - we will be growing!
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Moran Eye Center Names Kristen M. Kwan, PhD, Vice Chair for Vision Research
The John A. Moran Eye Center at the University of Utah has named Kristen M. Kwan, PhD, Vice Chair for Vision Research. In this leadership role, she will help guide the strategic direction of the Moran...
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Hearty White @heartywhite.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
Sazaedo temple in Aizu. Originally (1796) a buddhist temple with 33 statues of Kannon, in the Meiji it was stripped of those and made a shinto shrine. No photos do it justice. Go there. #aizu #photography
Photo of spiral shaped wooden shrine with tourists in the foreground and trees behind.Photo of wooden carving of a seated monk in an alcove and to the left, a wooden spiralstaircase going up. Stickers with japanese names cover the wall.
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Ben Sears @bensears.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
It rules how much bowling green tries to claim JC and he’s always calling it the most evil place on earth
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‘Everything I know about evil I learned in that small town’: John Carpenter on terrifying the world with Halloween, The Thing and The Fog
At 78, the king of horror and sci-fi movies is as much of a rebel as ever. He talks about creativity, compromise (he’s not a fan) and how he became addicted to moviemaking
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Andreas Gschwind @argschwind.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
Thrilled to share that our ENCODE enhancer–gene mapping paper is now out in Nature! An encyclopedia of human enhancer–gene regulatory interactions: www.nature.com/articles/s41... Thread 👇 1/
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An encyclopedia of human enhancer–gene regulatory interactions - Nature
An encyclopedia of more than 92 million enhancer–gene regulatory interactions created as part of the ENCODE4 project provides a valuable resource for future studies of gene regulation and human geneti...
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Hearty White @heartywhite.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
Eden Park, Cincinnati. Shot on 110 film Kodak Tele-Instamatic 608 #filmphotography #Cincinnati
Photo of colorful wildflowers with an older couple strolling around a fountain in the background.
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Earl K. Miller @earlkmiller.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
MIT Professor Susumu Tonegawa, renowned molecular biologist and Nobel laureate, dies at 86 news.mit.edu/2026/mit-pro... #neuroscience
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MIT Professor Susumu Tonegawa, renowned molecular biologist and Nobel laureate, dies at 86
Susumu Tonegawa, a renowned MIT professor of biology and neuroscience and a Nobel laureate, has died at the age of 86. His discovery of how the immune system generates many different antibodies earned...
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Richard Sever @richardsever.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
"Despite years of failure...doubts about what I was doing with my life...years of lackluster results...my PhD research is not a complete waste" Max's story of how we got checkpoint inhibitors should inspire any PhD worried their work's going nowhere theimmunebeyond.substack.com/p/a-brief-hi...
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A Brief History of Checkpoint Blockade
A major medical breakthrough, interrupted
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Jeremy Yoder says no war @jbyoder.org · 30/06/2026
It's as official as it can be: The Yoder Lab has been very lucky to receive NSF funding to develop our TARDIS method of modeling plants' flowering activity in varying environments. Watch for grad (MSci) opportunities in Fall 2027, and a postdoc position sooner than that 🌿 buff.ly/OHpbfB0
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The Yoder Lab is building the TARDIS, with new support from NSF
Chaparral whitethorn, Ceanothus leucodermis, bearing flowers and fruits near the Red Box Picnic Area along the Angeles Crest Highway in early May, 2026. (Flickr, jby) Why do Joshua trees grow only …
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Hearty White @heartywhite.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
A lot of incredible people who know what they're doing and also me.
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Avant Radio Festival
WAVE FARM and WFMU and ARTxFM are teaming up to bring you a weekend focused on the creative and experimental nature of radio.
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National Academy of Sciences @nasonline.org · 15/06/2026
"Taking this job is a bet, or maybe a hope, that the best science will drive the conversation over the long run." Incoming NAS President @neilshubin.bsky.social spoke with @nytimes.com about the state of American science and his hopes for his 5-year term as president: www.nytimes.com/2026/06/12/s...
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Neil Shubin on Trusted Science in a ‘Deeply Partisan Age’
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Carl Zimmer @carlzimmer.com · 12/06/2026
I first met Neil Shubin 30 years ago when he was digging for fossils of our fishy ancestors in Pennsylvania road cuts. Now he's becoming president of the National Academy of Sciences. We talked about taking the helm of the 163-year-old organization at this fraught moment. Gift link: nyti.ms/4giD3FX
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Kevin Mitchell @wiringthebrain.bsky.social · 09/06/2026
Precise genome editing of human embryos triggers praise and alarm www.nature.com/articles/d41... ... I have some thoughts...
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Precise genome editing of human embryos triggers praise and alarm
The ‘base editing’ technique that researchers used is far from ready for the clinic, but critics worry that it will spur a rush to commercialize the approach.
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Hearty White @heartywhite.bsky.social · 04/06/2026
Tonight! The final epsiode of Miracle Nutrition with Hearty White! My last message to my awesome radio friends at 6pm EDT on @wfmu.bsky.social . A celebration of life...except I'm not dead! Let's get more listeners than the final epsiode of "Hello, Larry!" Shemp Jive, kids!
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Hearty White @heartywhite.bsky.social · 30/05/2026
Mercer County down by the river. #filmphotography
Photograph in faded color of a tree lined river and power plant smoke stacks in the distance.
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Robert Beatty @edsunspot.bsky.social · 29/05/2026
⬣INFERNO⬣ @boardsofcanada.bsky.social @warprecords.bsky.social
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Hearty White @heartywhite.bsky.social · 24/05/2026
All my early radio work in the 80s and 90s was recorded on a 1/2 inch Otari 8 track and all my scripts handwritten on legal pads. Thank you, Lord, for that experience. Thank you for film. Thank you for live theater. Bless the young going forward and give them my contact info if they need it.
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Sendoel Lab @sendoellab.bsky.social · 22/05/2026
Very happy to see our study on the development of an in vivo single-cell ribosome profiling strategy for the epidermis now online at @cp-molcell.bsky.social. Fantastic work by @claradure.bsky.social and all co-authors involved. www.cell.com/molecular-ce...
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In vivo single-cell ribosome profiling reveals cell-type-specific translational programs during aging
In vivo single-cell ribosome profiling reveals cell-type-specific translational landscapes across the epidermis and uncovers selective reprogramming of AP-1 subunit translation in aged stem cells, lin...
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I-75 Scientist @flscitriguy.bsky.social · 12/05/2026
Please share widely. The new (simpler) MIRA R35 for Early Stage Investigators (ESI) NOFO is published. First due date is 10/2/2026. files.simpler.grants.gov/opportunitie...
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Hearty White @heartywhite.bsky.social · 02/05/2026
As part of my Month of May farewell tour, I'm getting listeners to record messages I'll play on the air. If you're intersted, let me know!
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Hearty White @heartywhite.bsky.social · 29/04/2026
The average NYTimes Connections puzzle: Monkey Polenta Alfred E. Newman Jazz WORDS THAT END IN A LETTER THAT COULD BEGIN ANOTHER WORD
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Jazlyn Mooney @jazlynmooney.bsky.social · 21/04/2026
I am hiring a popgen postdoc! Looking for a creative scientist to join us at USC to investigate recessive variation and complex traits in model or non-model species. The project is funded by a multi-year NIH grant, contract can be renewed. Job add & details 👇🏽 usccareers.usc.edu/job/los-ange...
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Hearty White @heartywhite.bsky.social · 18/04/2026
Tokyo 4, 2022 22x28 oil on canvas. One of a series of ten I did aftr seeing Tokyo for the first time. #painting #primitiveart
Colorful painting of a Tokyo building with cars and bicycles. Impressionist style.
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