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Alexandre "Blublu" Bluet

@blubludoesscience.bsky.social
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Postdoc at @ki.se Studying neurocognitive aspect of culture and social learning contact: alexandre.bluet@gmail.com

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Alexey Koshevoy @alexeykoshevoy.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Are you interested in lexical competition, agent-based modelling, strong inference and Ukrainian? Then this paper, just published in @pnasnexus.org, is for you. With @oliviermorin.bsky.social and @sobchuk.bsky.social, we asked a simple question: why do some words become more common than others?
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David Schultner @davidschultner.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
☀️ Excited to be part of this project! We investigate how language transmission (via written advice) can enable cumulative gains when observing another's behavior is insufficient
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Björn Lindström @bjornlindstrom.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
When is language needed for human culture to accumulate? When observing successful behavior is not enough to recover the mental model behind it! This is an incredibly ambitious project, involving large-scale experimentation, RL and ABM modeling, and computational language analyses.
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Alexandre "Blublu" Bluet @blubludoesscience.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
New preprint! We investigate the role of language in the transmission of mental models in cultural evolution. Using a transmission chain design with over 2000 participants, we show that only language allows for the transmission and refinement of mental models. osf.io/preprints/ps...
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PsyArXivBot @psyarxivbot.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
Language enables cumulative cultural improvement by transmitting mental models: osf.io/6u32q
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Björn Lindström @bjornlindstrom.bsky.social · 26/05/2026
Semantic knowledge is key for human innovation and cultural evolution! Our paper (thread in repost), led by fantastic @anilyaman.bsky.social & rising star @ts-brain.bsky.social is out in @pnas.org! www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/... I will present this work at APS Barcelona (29/5), happy to chat!
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Alexey Koshevoy @alexeykoshevoy.bsky.social · 19/05/2026
🚨New paper alert!🚨 In our new paper with @oliviermorin.bsky.social, Rowan Hall, and Marie Halo published in the Journal of Language Evolution, we explored the relationship between word length and ambiguity on a large-cross linguistic dataset. 1/6
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Marius Mercier @mariusmercier.bsky.social · 30/03/2026
Thrilled to share that our new paper is now out in @cognitionjournal.bsky.social: "Who knows what? Bayesian Competence Inference guides Knowledge Attribution and Information Search," with @oliviermorin.bsky.social , @hugoreasoning.bsky.social & @tadegquillien.bsky.social! Link: tinyurl.com/ykyhxcc6
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philipparnamets.bsky.social @philipparnamets.bsky.social · 16/03/2026
Open-minded epistemic attitudes are associated with adherence to public health recommendations and protect against holding false beliefs. New paper with @jayvanbavel.bsky.social @markalfano.bsky.social @robert-m-ross.bsky.social accepted in @sjdm-tweets.bsky.social
Open-mindedness predicts support for public health measures and disbelief in conspiracy theories during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Accepted for publication Judgment and Decision Making.
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Mathieu Charbonneau @matcharbonneau.bsky.social · 24/02/2026
New preprint available about combinatorial invention! Reconstructing Combinatorial Inventions Through Design Problem Analysis osf.io/preprints/ps...
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Alexandre "Blublu" Bluet @blubludoesscience.bsky.social · 20/02/2026
Great opportunity to work on the evolution of writing in an amazing team!
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Olivier Morin @oliviermorin.bsky.social · 19/02/2026
CALL: a PhD grant (3 years) to do a PhD with me at @cognitionens.bsky.social on the evolution of graphic codes. euraxess.ec.europa.eu/jobs/410213
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PhD student grant (3 years) on the evolution of written communication
My team recruits a PhD student to work under the supervision of Olivier Morin on the evolution of written communication, within a project jointly led by Olivier Morin, Hugo Mercier, and Marc Allassonn...
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Pierre Bataille @pierrebat.cpesr.fr · 15/02/2026
Votre article du dimanche soir: l'invention d'un prix Nobel ou le narcissisme académique dans toute sa splendeur. Incroyable enquête de l'Est Républicain www.estrepublicain.fr/faits-divers...
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Long format. Enquête sur une supercherie : le prof d’université s’est-il inventé un « Prix Nobel » ?
Professeur de Lettres à l’Université Marie & Louis Pasteur de Besançon, le Montbéliardais Florent Montaclair est le lauréat 2016 de la Médaille d’or de philologie, une science qui a pour objet l’étude historique d’une langue par l’analyse critique des textes. Assimilée au Prix Nobel et à la Médaille Fields, cette récompense internationale n’a en réalité aucune existence institutionnelle. C’est un faux. La stratégie qui a été mise en place pour faire croire le contraire, et a abusé beaucoup de monde, y compris le milieu universitaire, est un singulier mélange de sophistication, d’approximation et de culot monstre.
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Jean-Baptiste André @jbaptistandre.bsky.social · 19/01/2026
1/ 📢 Come study cognitive science in Paris! The Master’s program in Cognitive Science at @ENS_ULM, @psl_univ, and @EHESS_fr is now accepting applications for the next academic year. 🗓 Deadline: February 24, 2026 💻 Apply here: master-cognitive-science.ens.psl.eu/en/applicati...
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Björn Lindström @bjornlindstrom.bsky.social · 16/10/2025
How do humans keep inventing tools and technologies that no single person could create alone? Our new preprint, led by @anilyaman.bsky.social & @ts-brain.bsky.social shows that semantic knowledge guides innovation and drives cultural evolution. 🧠📘 arxiv.org/abs/2510.12837
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Jean-Baptiste Camps @jbcamps.bsky.social · 12/09/2025
We're officially launching the new PSL CultureLab in 10 days ! If you're interested in the research of a collective bridging Computational Humanities, Social Sciences and Cultural Evolution, you can check our programme (and come to our event, if you're in Paris 22 September): psl.eu/agenda/collo...
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Colloque inaugural du Grand programme de recherche CultureLab | PSL
Recherche, CultureLab inaugure ses travaux le 22 septembre 2025 au Campus Condorcet avec une journée consacrée aux sciences humaines et sociales computationnelles et à l’évolution culturelle. , Le Gra...
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David Schultner @davidschultner.bsky.social · 28/07/2025
🎊 New paper out! In this @cp-trendscognsci.bsky.social Forum, we (with @lucasmolleman.bsky.social and @bjornlindstrom.bsky.social) summarize how reward learning can lead to adaptive social learning. We also explore the broader consequences for cultural evolution: www.cell.com/trends/cogni... 🚄
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David Schultner @davidschultner.bsky.social · 23/07/2025
💥 Our new paper (with ‪@lucasmolleman.bsky.social and ‪@bjornlindstrom.bsky.social‬) is now out in @nathumbehav.nature.com‬ 🥳 www.nature.com/articles/s41... 🧠 Here, we advance a novel RL account—the Social Feature Learning (SFL) model—that explains how people learn to learn from others! 🤝 🧵👇
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Tim Waring @twaring.bsky.social · 22/07/2025
Postdoc in agent-based human-earth system modelling We are looking for a modeller with experience in agent-based or human earth system modelling and with interest in transdisciplinary sustainability science as part of the Anthropocene navigator project in a two-three year position in Stockholm.
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Björn Lindström @bjornlindstrom.bsky.social · 11/06/2025
The second @rldmdublin2025.bsky.social poster from the lab is by fantastic PhD student Shen Tian. Using modeling and experiments, he investigated the key role of semantic knowledge in a complex innovation task (originated by @maximederex.bsky.social). On Thursday, poster #86
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Alexandre "Blublu" Bluet @blubludoesscience.bsky.social · 09/06/2025
I'm presenting a poster at #RLDM2025 this Thursday in Dublin! I'm on Poster Session 3: Poster #14: Language allows culture to improve mental models 💭 Please find me if you want to talk cultural evolution & language!
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Harin Lee @harinlee.info · 04/06/2025
Big cities are vibrant hubs of culture, but why exactly is that? Now out in @natcomms.nature.com, we analysed music listening patterns of over 2.5 million people and demographics to examine mechanisms driving cultural diversity. With @researchdeezer.bsky.social @norijacoby.bsky.social Highlights ⬇
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Mathieu Charbonneau @matcharbonneau.bsky.social · 02/06/2025
New paper out in Topics in Cognitive Science! "Open-Ended Technological Evolution: The Co-Evolution of Invention and Cognitive Technologies" 🧵 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1...
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Open‐Ended Technological Evolution: The Co‐Evolution of Invention and Cognitive Technologies
Open-ended technological evolution is the result of the co-evolution of invention and cognitive technologies that enhances our cognitive capabilities and generates a feedback loop of ever-expanding t....
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Björn Lindström @bjornlindstrom.bsky.social · 28/05/2025
Join our @erc.europa.eu funded lab @ki.se! We're hiring a postdoc to explore how humans learn from each other — with fMRI, modeling, & behavioral experiments. 🧠👫 A chance to lead cutting-edge work in social neuro & computational psychology. Apply: shorturl.at/GJQuW
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Postdoctoral Researcher in social/cognitive neuroscience with focus on social learning
Do you want to contribute to top quality medical research? The Mechanisms of Social Behavior lab at Karolinska Institutet (PI: Björn Lindström) is seeking a highly qualified postdoctoral researcher.
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Chloë R McKenzie @chloermckenzie.bsky.social · 21/05/2025
Success in academia often has more to do with luck, patronage and the job market than “hard work”. Good academics acknowledge this. I worked hard, but I was in the right place at the right time on occasion. Historians far more talented than I have fallen between the cracks.
Illustration showing a graduation ceremony, with speaker addressing graduates: “Let the example of my fluke success guide nearly all of you to crushing disappointment”.
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Paul Smaldino @psmaldino.bsky.social · 09/05/2025
As grant money starts drying up, it's more important than ever not to waste it on paying publishers' open access "article processing fees" when we can host PDFs for free. Tom Morgan and I wrote a paper on this, forthcoming at Science and Public Policy. Accepted draft here: osf.io/preprints/os...
Author-Paid PublicationFees Corrupt Science and Should Be Abandoned 
Thomas J. H Morgan & Paul E. Smaldino
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University of Illinois Press @illinoispress.bsky.social · 30/04/2025
One way to pass on our own causal understanding about how a physical system works is to provide a verbal explanation about it. Read in American Journal of Psychology Vol. 137, Iss. 3. @neurogiovanni.bsky.social @blubludoesscience.bsky.social scholarlypublishingcollective.org/uip/ajp/arti...
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Zach Garfield @zhgarfield.com · 11/04/2025
With @sheinalew.bsky.social: Teaching is associated with the transmission of opaque culture and leadership across 23 egalitarian hunter-gatherer societies, in @naturecomms.bsky.social #evolution #culture 🧪 #LeadSciSky #CultEvo www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Quote: " In sum, leader-directed teaching of opaque cooperative norms would be a mutually beneficial strategy, where the costs incurred by influential teachers are, at least partly, outweighed by the long-term benefits of cultivating cooperation within the group."Mosaic plot illustrating the relationship between evidence for teaching and non-teaching social learning, based on a binary researcher-coded measure of teaching. 

"Although instrumental cultural transmission frequently occurs through both teaching and non-teaching social learning, opaque cultural information is predominantly transmitted through teaching, with relatively fewer instances of non-teaching social learning."
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University of Illinois Press @illinoispress.bsky.social · 10/04/2025
Announcing American Journal of Psychology Vol. 137, Iss. 3! Featuring contributions from @neurogiovanni.bsky.social , @blubludoesscience.bsky.social , & more! Plus, book reviews, including review & response on "Smart Management" @mitpress.bsky.social scholarlypublishingcollective.org/uip/ajp/issu...
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Cultural Evolution Society @culturalevolsoc.bsky.social · 07/04/2025
CE postdoc alert 🚨
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Björn Lindström @bjornlindstrom.bsky.social · 07/04/2025
Postdoc opening in beautiful Stockholm 🇸🇪! Join us at Karolinska Institutet to explore how interdependent traits shape social learning and cultural evolution. 🧠 Behavioral + computational work 🤝 Work w/ labs in Amsterdam @lucasmolleman.bsky.social & Leuven Details: shorturl.at/Wzy9o
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Postdoctoral Researcher in psychology/cognitive science with focus on social learning and cultural evolution
Do you want to contribute to top quality medical research? The Mechanisms of Social Behavior lab at the Karolinska Institutet (PI: Björn Lindström) in Stockholm, Sweden is seeking a highly qualified
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Alexandre "Blublu" Bluet @blubludoesscience.bsky.social · 08/04/2025
Great opportunity to study social learning and cultural evolution within a wonderful team & lab at the @ki.se in Stockholm! You can contact me (or @bjornlindstrom.bsky.social directly) if you have any questions!
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Björn Lindström @bjornlindstrom.bsky.social · 05/04/2025
post doc position on "affective social learning" in Andreas Olsson's group at Karolinska Institute. Recommended! ki.varbi.com/en/what:job/...
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Postdoctoral Researcher in affective learning and decision-making
Do you want to contribute to better health for everyone? Our research group, led by Andreas Olsson at Karolinska Institutet in Stockholm, is seeking a qualified and motivated postdoctoral researcher.
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Alexandre "Blublu" Bluet @blubludoesscience.bsky.social · 04/04/2025
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How Sonic DNA Connects Generations of Music
Songs have a far more complex and concealed musical history, spanning genres, cultures, and even centuries.
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Roope Kaaronen @roopekaaronen.net · 13/03/2025
Pleased to see our work published: The Ties That Bind: Computational, Cross-cultural Analyses of Knots Reveal Their Cultural Evolutionary History and Significance We analysed knots across 12,000 years and 82 societies. Time to tie a thread 🧵 about why knots matter. doi.org/10.1017/S095...
A circular dendrogram (phenetic tree) of knots, made using the ggtree package in R. A text-readable and high-resolution PDF-version of the tree is available as a supplementary material.
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Wataru Toyokawa @watarutoyokawa.bsky.social · 12/03/2025
🚀COSMOS is BACK!!!💫 The Computational School on Modeling Social and collective behavior (COSMOS) will take place in RIKEN, Tokyo, between 29 Sept - 3 Oct, organised by me and fantastic @thecharleywu.bsky.social ! Application deadline: 25th April. For more details see 👉️ cosmossummerschool.github.io
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The Computational Summer school on Modeling Social and collective behavior (COSMOS)
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David Schultner @davidschultner.bsky.social · 11/03/2025
🚨 New preprint out! 🚨 How do people make moral judgments as third parties? 👀 We show how two motivations—inequality aversion (fair = moral) ⚖️ and the common-is-moral heuristic (frequent = moral 👨‍👩‍👧‍👧—interact to shape evaluations 🧵👇 📄 osf.io/preprints/ps...
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Alexandre "Blublu" Bluet @blubludoesscience.bsky.social · 24/02/2025
📝New paper in iScience (@cp-iscience.bsky.social) by myself and a wonderful cast of co-authors (sadly not on bluesky). We investigated the neural circuit involved in watching other people build tools! 🧵 (1/8) [link: 10.1016/j.isci.2025.111870]
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Alberto Acerbi @acerbialberto.com · 25/02/2025
Job offer! 3-year PDRA studying archaeological content on social media from a cultural evolution perspective. Based at Edinburgh, supervised by @chiara-bonacchi.bsky.social and myself -project "Weaponised Pasts: The Evolution Of Heritage-based Hostility On Social Media’. Please share! bit.ly/3QCXUFS
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Post-Doctoral Research Fellow at The University of Edinburgh
Looking for a new job opportunity in academia? Check out this job opening for a Post-Doctoral Research Fellow on jobs.ac.uk!
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Prof. Gillian Brown @gillianrbrown1.bsky.social · 24/02/2025
Interesting article by @blubludoesscience.bsky.social and colleagues on social learning mechanisms. #ehbea #culturalevolution #psychscisky www.cell.com/iscience/ful...
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The technical-reasoning network is recruited when people observe others make or teach how to make tools: An fMRI study
Neuroscience; Cognitive neuroscience; Social sciences
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Alexandre "Blublu" Bluet @blubludoesscience.bsky.social · 24/02/2025
📝New paper in iScience (@cp-iscience.bsky.social) by myself and a wonderful cast of co-authors (sadly not on bluesky). We investigated the neural circuit involved in watching other people build tools! 🧵 (1/8) [link: 10.1016/j.isci.2025.111870]
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Björn Lindström @bjornlindstrom.bsky.social · 18/02/2025
Looking forward to this workshop! I'll be speaking about RL models of social media engagement data.
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Alex Mesoudi @alexmesoudi.com · 12/02/2025
For those who missed the @culturalevolsoc.bsky.social conference in Durham last September, the recorded talks are now freely available to watch here: underline.io/events/456/l...
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Björn Lindström @bjornlindstrom.bsky.social · 06/02/2025
🤖+🧠=🚀 How can AI enhance human collective innovation? Join our postdoc position (in close collaboration w. @anilyaman.bsky.social at VU Amsterdam) at Karolinska Institutet to explore human-AI collaboration using computational modeling, simulations & experiments. ki.varbi.com/en/what:job/...
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Postdoc in human-artificial intelligence (AI) interaction with focus on collective innovation, cultural evolution and social learning
Do you want to contribute to top quality research? The Mechanisms of Social Behavior lab at the Karolinska Institutet in Stockholm, Sweden is seeking a highly qualified postdoctoral researchers to joi
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Alexandre "Blublu" Bluet @blubludoesscience.bsky.social · 30/01/2025
Amazing opportunity to explore social learning and cultural evolution within a beautiful team & lab at the @ki.se in Stockholm! You can contact me (or @bjornlindstrom.bsky.social directly) if you have any questions!
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Björn Lindström @bjornlindstrom.bsky.social · 30/01/2025
💥Postdoc Opening! 💥We (@lucasmolleman.bsky.social & Piet van den Berg) seek a postdoc to study social learning and cultural evolution. We are looking for someone with math/computational modeling skills & interest in human behavior. Get in touch if you have any questions! shorturl.at/W6Qsb
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Postdoktor i beräkningspsykologi/kognitionsvetenskap med fokus på social inlärning och kulturell evolution
Vill du bidra till medicinsk forskning av toppkvalitet? Gruppen Mechanisms of Social Behavior vid Karolinska Institutet i Stockholm söker en högt kvalificerad postdoktoral forskare för att ingå i
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Alex Mesoudi @alexmesoudi.com · 15/11/2024
Announcement! The next @culturalevolsoc.bsky.social CES conference will be at UM6P in Rabat, Morocco, provisional dates 11-13th May 2026! Hosted by Mathieu Charbonneau, @sarahalami.bsky.social, @zhgarfield.com & @edseabright.bsky.social. Save the dates! culturalevolutionsociety.org/news-and-eve...
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Cultural Evolution Society 2026 Conference Announced - Cultural Evolution Society
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