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Omid V. Ebrahimi @omidvebrahimi.bsky.social · 20h

📜 Out in Psychotherapy & Psychosomatics Most bereaved people adapt over time. Why do some stay stuck in grief? We tested whether how loss is remembered shapes grief symptoms over the first 18 months of bereavement w/Franziska Lechner-Meichsner, Anke Ehlers & Kirsten Smith doi.org/10.1159/0005...

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Will Gervais @willgervais.com · 29/09/2026

🚨NEW PREPRINT🚨 @aiyanakoka.bsky.social Meara Geraty and I revisited religious priming, breaking the causal claim into links that we robustly tested. Do God Primes Prime God? Converging Evidence Against the Efficacy of Experimental Religious Priming osf.io/preprints/ps... #PsychSciSky #metascience

Do God Primes Prime God? Convergint evidence against the efficacy of experimental religious priming.

WIll Gervais, MEara Geraty, Aiyana Willard

then the rest of the image is a screenshot of the table of contents.

plot summarising bayes factor results testing:
Prime -> Religious concepts (overt primes yield positive evidence, scrambled sentence negative)

Prime -> prosociality: universaly evidence strongly favoring the null result across 4 primes and 2 operationalisations of prosociality

Prime -> suspicion: fairly universal evidence in favor of priming methods causing suspicion

Religious concepts -> $$$: four independent sets of evidence favoring the null

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Richard Sever @richardsever.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Noise/useless science rather than AI slop is a current challenge: "If medical schools and universities don't want the literature to be overwhelmed with garbage, they should stop giving every applicant ... an incentive to publish a lot of crap." www.medpagetoday.com/special-repo...

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Is AI Flooding Medical Journals With 'Meaningless' Research?

'It's not fraudulent, and it's not really slop,' one expert says

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ingmarvisser.bsky.social @ingmarvisser.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

New paper 🍼📄 ManyBabies 3 is out (open access, registered report in Developmental Science). 30 labs, 33 languages, 839 infants set out to replicate a textbook finding: 7-month-olds learn abstract rules from speech (@garymarcus.bsky.social et al., 1999). We didn’t find it. 🧵

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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

The techbros don't want you to see this trailer. Pass it on.

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Amanda J. Wright @ajwright.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Since our paper on the Changing How I Live Life (CHILL) Study is now out in Psychological Science (doi.org/10.1177/0956...), here's a LONG overdue post on the intervention work we've been doing the past few years! Have you ever wanted to change one of your personality traits?

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Institute for Replication @i4replication.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Over the past two years, I4R partnered with Psychological Science (@psychscience.bsky.social) on a large reproducibility project. 67 independent teams reproduced 64 articles published in 2024–2025, about 44% of eligible papers. Paper: www.econstor.eu/bitstream/10... Here's what we learned 🧵

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Kristian Steensen Nielsen @kristiansn89.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

🎯 What should we expect from behavior change interventions? Growing evidence suggests that most behavior change interventions have small effects on behavior. I regularly hear fellow behavioral scientists understandably feeling discouraged by this. But should we be discouraged? Not necessarily.🧵

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Carsten Schwemmer @cschwem2er.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

1/6 What happens when you tell an AI browser: “Fill out this survey”? It fills out the survey. In our new study, led by @rtopinkova.bsky.social, we tested three consumer-facing agentic browsers without lengthy prompts, custom code, or technical fine-tuning.

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McSweeney's @mcsweeneys.net · 22/09/2026

"When my guests come over, it’s gonna be like BLAMMO! Check out my shellacked decorative vegetables, assholes. Guess what season it is—fucking fall. There’s a nip in the air, and my house is full of mutant fucking squash." buff.ly/pykYN6f

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It’s Decorative Gourd Season, Motherfuckers

For the seventeenth year: Welcome to autumn, fuckheads.

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Kou Murayama @koumurayama.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Sorry I am no longer an active user but just post this job alert: With Peter Dayan and Michiko Sakaki, we are looking for a postdoctoral researcher who could work on cognitive computational modeling wth digital education data. Come to Tübingen!!: uni-tuebingen.de/fakultaeten/...

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Postdoctoral Research Fellow in Computational Modeling of Digital Education Data

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Dan Quintana @dsquintana.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

New preprint! 🎉 I analysed 1660 papers from 4 psychology journals and found materials sharing went from 9% of papers in 2015 to 82% in 2025, and these materials *do* get downloaded — a median of 135 times each. BUT shared code is often hard to run. doi.org/10.31234/osf... Let's walk through it 🧵

Two-panel figure. Panel a is a flow diagram tracking 1,611 empirical psychology articles from publication year (545 in 2015, 552 in 2020, 514 in 2025) to repository-link type: 785 link an OSF project, 85 link another platform, and 741 link no repository. Of those with an OSF link, download counts were retrieved for 670 and not retrieved for 115. Panel b is a line chart of the share of empirical papers linking OSF across 2015, 2020 and 2025. The overall rate, shown as a dashed black line, rises from 9% to 57% to 82%. All four journals rise steeply and end close together: Psychological Science 92%, JESP 89%, JML 83%, Cognition 76%, with Psychological Science highest throughout.

Three-panel figure. Panel a: ridgeline plot of downloads per file by material type on a log scale, with the percentage never downloaded labelled for each — archive 16% of 545 files, documents 20% of 2,970, code 12% of 3,471, other 17% of 1,646, data 21% of 10,051, media 35% of 2,120, images 35% of 4,102. Most files cluster between 1 and 10 downloads, with long right tails past 100. Panel b: ridgeline plot of downloads per paper by journal, log scale, with dashed median lines; Psychological Science is highest, then JESP, JML and Cognition. Panel c: stacked bars showing, for documents, data and code separately, the share of papers by download band (0, 1–10, 11–100, more than 100) in 2015, 2020 and 2025. The share exceeding 100 downloads falls sharply over time in all three types, from roughly two-thirds in 2015 to a quarter or less in 2025, as the 1–10 band grows.

Four-panel figure. Panel a: statistical languages detected among 333 papers with retrievable code — R 88%, SPSS 12%, Stata 4%, SAS 1%. Panel b: code red flags among those 333 papers — 34% hard-code an absolute path, 40% reference a missing file — above documentation among 672 OSF-linked papers — 21% have a README, 30% are documented by README, description or wiki. Panel c: among 562 Elsevier papers with no repository link, 44% (245) host at least one journal supplementary file but only 14% (77) host data, code or an archive. Panel d: composition of those 448 hosted files — documents 52%, data 21%, media 9%, other 7%, archive 6%, code 3%, images 1%. The code panels are green, the journal-supplement panels blue.

Coefficient plot (download predictors)

Dot-and-whisker plot of three standardised predictors of OSF download volume, each with a 95% confidence interval. Repository size (number of files) has the largest effect at about 0.76, citations about 0.38, and altmetric attention about 0.12. All three intervals sit entirely above zero, so each predicts more downloads, with repository size roughly twice the effect of citations and six times that of attention. X-axis: standardised effect, −0.2 to 1.0.

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Charlotte Walker @charlottewalker.bsky.social · 28/10/2023

Someone sent me this meme about peer reviewer comments and it is 👌🏻 #PhDSky #AcademicSky

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Per Engzell @pengzell.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

A paper is finished when the embarrassment of submitting it becomes smaller than the embarrassment of still working on it

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Julia M. Rohrer @dingdingpeng.the100.ci · 18/09/2026

This is an *excellent* post on cluster analysis. If you ever thought about applying cluster, latent class or latent profile analysis to psychological scales, you absolutely should read this!>

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Lukas Röseler @aufdroeseler.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

I predicted 1 out of 6 studies correctly in Guess the Replication, reaching the rank of "Junior Reviewer"! Can you do better? Play here: t1p.de/guther #GuessTheReplication

Guess the Replication certificate of achievement

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Health Nerd @gidmk.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

New piece on a great project from @matthewbjane.bsky.social looking at problematic research. Also, extremely worrisome issues in studies of exercise for depression. gidmk.substack.com/p/how-do-we-...

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How Do We Deal With Seriously Problematic Research?

A new solution to a very serious issue

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Daniel José Older @djolder.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

"The University of Chicago’s undergrad social-sciences division will go “analog” this fall, implementing a blanket policy banning technology in class and AI assistance on coursework across the division’s core courses." www.chronicle.com/article/u-of...

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U. of Chicago Bans Tech, AI in Social Sciences Core Courses

The new restrictions apply to students and faculty members.

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Julia M. Rohrer @dingdingpeng.the100.ci · 14/09/2026

Okay before I do write my screed about cluster analysis, please send me your favorite *positive* examples that illustrate the utility of the method!

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Protzko @protzko.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Do small effects really accumulate to make big effects? Not really. And certainly not when there are other causes on the thing you are looking at. Which, you know, is always. From Berggren & @jkflake.bsky.social journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.1... #psych

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Merriam-Webster @merriam-webster.com · 09/09/2026

Not to brag, but our product has been foldable since 1828.

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Stephen Curry @scurry.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Watch to the end… ;-)

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Beth Clarke @bethclarke.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Really enjoyed chatting with Randy! I highly recommend checking out his podcast if you haven’t already @metasciencematters.bsky.social

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Gordon Hodson @gordonhodsonphd.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

#AcademicSky #PsychSciSky #MetaScience Article worth reading, & sharing w/ your student researchers. Can't get this out of my head: "Bishop’s law: The better designed a study is, the more likely it is to obtain a null result" journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/... Meimoun & @lakens.bsky.social

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Joniada Agalliu @joniadaagalliu.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

Excited to share that our paper with @mhennecke.bsky.social was published yesterday! We asked: How well do others really know our self-control? Turns out, surprisingly well - but it depends on what they’re judging, the life domain, and how close they are to us. doi.org/10.1016/j.jr...

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Redirecting

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Katie Corker @katiecorker.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

For those looking for alternatives to OSF, I recommend two resources comparing features of other Generalist Repositories. Resources are from GREI, an NIH funded initiative. Comparison tool to help you pick which one you like best: doi.org/10.5281/zeno... Decision tree: doi.org/10.5281/zeno...

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Generalist Repository Comparison Chart

The Generalist Repository Comparison Chart and FAIRsharing Collection (https://fairsharing.org/collection/GeneralRepositoryComparison) was originally an outcome of the NIH Workshop on the Role of Gene...

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Russ Poldrack @russpoldrack.org · 11/08/2026

Many of you will have seen the recent post about changes at OSF. If you'd like to learn more about how to use other services (particularly Zenodo) to share data and code, see my book chapter on resource sharing. bettercode-book.org/book-sharing...

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12 Sharing Research Objects – Better Code, Better Science

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Eiko Fried @eikofried.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

Really proud of this work that came together as a pet peeve project of a few NSMD PhD candidates, and now ended up in New Ideas in Psychology. What are symptoms? www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

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Rethinking ‘symptom’: A critical look at terminology in mental health research

The term symptom pervades mental health research, yet its meaning remains ambiguous. In this paper, we argue that the lack of clarity and consensus on…

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Uri Simonsohn @urisohn.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

Here is what i think the head-to-head comparison of ResearchBox vs Zenodo look like as OSF replacements. If I am missing an important attribute, let me know, will update accordingly.

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Hideki Sato @hidekis.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

Item Selection as the Cause and Solution to Validity Problems in Psychology journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

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Georgia Tomova @georgiatomova.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

every latent class analysis ever

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Chris Chapman @cchapman.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

Wow, an essential read (which BTW is also a summary)

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Kevin Mitchell @wiringthebrain.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

"Autism and the Microbiome - a Road to Nowhere?" irishrn.org/summer-series/ - a talk by me and @statsepi.bsky.social based on our recent paper. Part of the Irish Reproducibility Network summer series! 😊

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Summer Series -

TALK 1. June 18, 2026 | Trinity College Dublin Autism and the gut microbiome:a ROAD TO NOWHERE? Dr. Kevin Mitchell | Dr. Darren DahlyTrinity College Dublin & University College Cork ABSTRACT Claims th...

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Sean Jones KC @seanjones.org · 04/08/2026

What I love about Bluesky is what I loved about old Twitter: if I want to find out about something (however recondite) there will be someone here (often with a PhD in it) and the time and patience to share their knowledge. /1

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Jennifer Tackett @jnfrltackett.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

I'm excited to announce that I will be reviewing graduate student applications for Fall 2027 admissions! I review applications in both the Personality, Development, and Health and the Clinical Science (Weinberg) programs.

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Research | Personality Across Development Lab

Current Research Topics Leadership Emergence and Development Tackett, J. L., Reardon, K. W., Fast, N. J., Johnson, L., Kang, S. K., Lang, J....

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Ian Hussey @ianhussey.mmmdata.io · 03/08/2026

New Jingle assessment: we show that the "Perspective Taking Protocol" has very poor reliability and near-zero convergent validity with other nominal measures of emotional and spatial perspective taking, empathy, and theory of mind. w/ @malte.the100.ci

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Anne Reitz @annereitz.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

📢 We’re hiring! Postdoc in Personality Psychology & Psychological Assessment at the University of Greifswald. ✨ Lots of freedom for your own research ✨ Start Oct 2026 or later ✨ Long-term perspective toward a permanent position Deadline: 15 Aug Please share — and feel free to get in touch!

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Research Associate (Postdoc) - Institute of Psychology 26/Sa23

Stellenausschreibung Institut für Psychologie

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Julia M. Rohrer @dingdingpeng.the100.ci · 27/07/2026

Very much enjoying this talk -- it provides a very nice counter-narrative. Doomerism about the younger generations is so depressing and not really justified given many tangible positive developments.

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Jeremy Berg @jeremymberg.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

A simple but (I think) compelling re-analysis of a paper that Director Bhattacharya frequently cites in his talks to claim that NIH-funded researchers no longer pick up the newest ideas. Dr. Bishop concludes the opposite using the same data. The original conclusion was contrary to my experience.

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Jay Van Bavel, PhD @jayvanbavel.bsky.social · 18/05/2026

People prefer to use “sycophantic” AI systems that reinforce their pre-existing beliefs. In a new paper (n=7,227), we found that people enjoyed interacting with sycophantic AI chatbots more than interacting with neutral chatbots or “disagreeable” chatbots that challenged their beliefs.

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Roger Giner-Sorolla @rogerthegs.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

This gets to something profound: both positive and negative (null) information are valuable for scientific progress, but our story-telling minds value positive information more, and this carries over to the kind of heroic narratives we tell about scientists.

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Anne Scheel @annemscheel.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

New preprint w/ Leo Tiokhin & @lakens.bsky.social! Registered Reports (RRs) are great for science b/c publication is guaranteed before results are known, reducing publication bias & QRPs. This feature supposedly also makes them great for *scientists*. But is that really true? 1/ tinyurl.com/4sy993rr

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Career incentives make Registered Reports unattractive under realistic academic conditions

Registered Reports are a publication format designed to reduce publication bias by guaranteeing publication before results are known. This guarantee is considered attractive in the prevailing ‘publish...

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Sarah A. Walker @sarahawalker.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

CHUFFED to see this out! We built the Big Five Aspect Adjectives, an adjective measure that captures personality aspects below the Big Five as both traits & states, ideal for ESM. 4 studies, 3 countries. First evidence that states are valid at the lower levels. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

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Julia M. Rohrer @dingdingpeng.the100.ci · 20/07/2026

New paper out now 🥳 When psychologists discuss generalisability, they often refer to vague notions of representativeness. We provide an accessible intro to the total survey error framework as a tool to reason about this more rigorously. w @taymalsalti.bsky.social @ruben.the100.ci >

Thinking Clearly About Sampling and Representation With the Total Survey Error Framework

Collecting a sample that represents the population of interest well constitutes a challenge across the social and behavioural sciences. Psychology in particular frequently relies on convenience samples—most notably students and, increasingly, online participants—with a tendency to either (implicitly) assume representativeness without substantive justification, or to acknowledge a lack of it only in passing. In contrast, researchers rarely engage with the actual implications for their inferences, which undermines the generalisability of psychological findings. Critically, representativeness must be defined with respect to variables relevant to the target of inference, rather than superficial demographic diversity. Here we present the Total Survey Error (TSE) framework as a methodological tool that systematically addresses the multifaceted sources of error—particularly those related to representation—that emerge throughout the research cycle. Although TSE originated in survey research, its principles are broadly applicable to any psychological study seeking inference from sample to population. We offer practical strategies for identifying, preventing, and mitigating representation errors to improve the credibility and generalisability of psychological research.

Illustration of the total survey error framework with the representation strand highlighted. It shows how coverage error, sampling error and non-response error arise during the sampling process.

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Dr Madeleine Pownall @maddipow.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

New paper! Values such as openness, transparency, collaboration, clarity about conflict of interests have been promoted by women for *decades*, and now we have reframed this around the branding of 'open science' that we start to take them seriously. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

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Women as the First Open Scientists: Five Stories of the Neglected Contributions of Women in (Social) Science Reform History - Madeleine Pownall, 2026

Recent years have seen growing emphasis on “Open Science,” a movement to enhance research transparency, robustness, and accountability. Prompted by concerns ove...

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Eiko Fried @eikofried.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

1/2 New #openaccess Psych Methods paper: "Identifying Careless Responding in Ecological Momentary Assessment: Inconsistent Signals From Different Detection Methods in the WARN-D Data" led by @leonievogelsmeier.bsky.social. psycnet.apa.org/fulltext/202...

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Eiko Fried @eikofried.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

Blog post on new preprint by @ashleylwatts.bsky.social et al. They argue that correlations among internalizing & externalizing may not derive from comorbidity, but nomorbidity. I use an accessible simulatiom study tosupport this, & relate the preprint to prior work. eiko-fried.com/blog/psychop...

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Psychopathology structure changes with severity | Eiko Fried

A simulation study showing that psychopathology structure changes with clinical severity

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