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Dan Garisto @dangaristo.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
In May it was big news when 100+ suspicious images were found in Thermo Fisher's catalog. Now, that number has expanded dramatically to 18,000+, thanks to some arduous searching by @reeserichardson.bsky.social. My reporting on the massive trove and its implications for antibody reliability:
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More than 18,000 questionable images found in antibody catalogues of 15 companies
Science sleuth’s findings raise questions for researchers working to improve the reliability of commercial antibodies.
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Sainsbury Laboratory Cambridge University (SLCU) @slcuplants.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
🧪 Join Bhatia Group as a Research Assistant! Help uncover how the plant hormone cytokinin shapes plant development using Arabidopsis thaliana, while working in a collaborative & supportive research environment 🌱 www.cam.ac.uk/jobs/researc... Closes 13 Aug 2026 #plantscijobs
Time-lapse imaging and cell fate mapping to quantify cellular growth patterns in Arabidopsis thaliana leaves. Text overlay reads: Research Assistant: Cytokinin regulations of leaf morphogeneis. Apply by 13 August 2026. Join the Bhatia research group at the Sainsbury Lab Cambridge.
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Laurie Belcher @lauriebelch.bsky.social · 09/06/2026
The new OrthoFinder paper is out now! In this new work, we introduce major advances in accuracy and scalability, allowing analysis on much larger datasets www.nature.com/articles/s41... github.com/OrthoFinder/...
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OrthoFinder: improved phylogenetic orthology inference with enhanced accuracy and scalability - Nature Methods
The updated OrthoFinder v3 software boosts accuracy and scalability in phylogenetic orthology inference with massive and diverse datasets.
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Tina Schreier @tinaschreier.bsky.social · 08/06/2026
📌 One week left to apply! Come join us in Norwich #PlantSciJobs #PlantScienceJobs
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bioRxiv Plant Bio @biorxiv-plants.bsky.social · 01/06/2026
C4 photosynthetic pathway fluxes in transgenic rice plants www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/20…
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Tina Schreier @tinaschreier.bsky.social · 20/05/2026
We’re looking for a postdoc to identify polarity determining factors in bundle sheath cells of C4 grasses and their role in the carbon concentrating mechanism. @johninnescentre.bsky.social Applications close 15th June. Please check out the job ad below or get in touch! #PlantSciJobs
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Daniel Kierzkowski @kierzkowskilab.bsky.social · 07/05/2026
Would you like to learn 2D and 3D segmentation with #MorphoGraphX? Have a look at the PCA Imaging Workshop Webinar led by @routierlab.bsky.social and Amelie Bauer👇
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Ulrich Hammes @uhammes.bsky.social · 08/04/2026
This is nothing less than a breakthrough. What a phantastic paper. So happy to see it out after five years. The influence of electrical charge on plasmodesma conductivity | PNAS www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
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The influence of electrical charge on plasmodesma conductivity | PNAS
Most plant tissues are symplasms in which cells are connected by plasmodesmata, membrane-lined cytosplasmic bridges that enable diffusive and/or ad...
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Marjorie Lundgren @marjorielundgren.bsky.social · 09/04/2026
*Call for Papers* for our "C460 – From Kranz to Crops - Celebrating 60 Years of C4 Discovery and Innovation" special issue with @annbot.bsky.social is now open! Submissions due 1 November 2026 🌱 🧪 academic.oup.com/aob/pages/sp...
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Call for Papers
Submissions to open calls are made via our regular submissions site. When submitting, please choose the appropriate special issue title in the 'Special Section'
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Meroz Lab @merozlab.bsky.social · 31/03/2026
New preprint 🌱 Segment plants in time-series images using foundation model SAM2 - without training a model 🪩. Magician Alex Abbey! 💡SAP works across species, scales, and even z-stacks. From single cells to whole plants→ quantitative growth & dynamics . tinyurl.com/3raedtvm @biosofttau.bsky.social
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FocalPlane @focalplane.bsky.social · 30/03/2026
We are excited to launch a new webinar series, Macro to micro: quantitative plant imaging across scales, organised by @ajcellbio.bsky.social and @joemckenna.bsky.social. Our first webinar will featured talks from @blace.bsky.social and Simon Gilroy. focalplane.biologists.com/2026/03/30/n...
FocalPlane features… quantitative plant imaging across scales
Thursday 30 April, 15:00 BST (UTC+1)
Organised by Alex Johnson and Joe McKenna 
Image of Beatrice Lace (University of Freiburg)
Multiplexing and Endogenous Fluorescence Discrimination Using FLIM in Plants
Image of Simon Gilroy (University of Wisconsin–Madison)
Do plants feel pain? How imaging has brought plant wound signaling into the human timescale.
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Image of a segmented root
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University of Oxford @ox.ac.uk · 05/12/2025
Led by Professor Jane Langdale @biology.ox.ac.uk, the C4 Rice Project builds on decades of interdisciplinary research working to ensure global food security. Discover the incredible story of the multi-decade battle to make better rice ⬇️ www.youtube.com/watch?v=T3RY0vxzFpg
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Making Better Rice: The quest to feed the world by hacking plant evolution
YouTube video by University of Oxford
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Kevin Terretaz @kwolbachia.bsky.social · 04/11/2025
My new ImageJ / Fiji toolkit is out 🔥! The goal is to make image handling & visualization easy, with an intuitive interface! Install it on Fiji with the "Image Viewer" update site #microscopy #ImageJ #FluorescenceFriday #microscopyMonday imagej.net/plugins/imag...
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Jean-Yves Tinevez @jytinevez.bsky.social · 20/11/2025
We just released a new major version of TrackMate (v8), the cell and organelle tracking plugin of Fiji. It ships many new features, detailed below, but that are articulated around the following:
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Botanical Society of America @botsocamerica.bsky.social · 20/11/2025
Serial section videography (SSV): A low-cost protocol for generating 3D reconstructions of internal plant structure New in #AppsPlantSci by Jacob Suissa & Giselle Reyes bsapubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.... #botany #plantanatomy #plantdevelopment #microCT #PlantScience
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Michael Raissig @michaelraissig.bsky.social · 05/11/2025
1/ Preprint alert:
 🌾 The developing leaf of the wild grass Brachypodium distachyon at single-cell resolution
 👉 doi.org/10.1101/2025... A 70k-cell single-cell RNA-seq atlas of the developing grass leaf—from the shoot meristem to mature leaf tissues. @cerealcell.bsky.social @lbmountain.bsky.social
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Sam Mugford @samtmugford.bsky.social · 30/10/2025
When all your PCRs fail, except for the negative control 😱
A pumpkin carved to depict an agarose gel electrophoesis with all lanes blank apart from the size ladder on the left and a single band in the lane on the far right
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Journal of Experimental Botany @jxbotany.bsky.social · 10/09/2025
🚨 Applications are open for the 2026 JXB Editorial Internships! 🚨 🌱 Designed for ECRs, you will gain behind-the-scenes publishing experience, write commentary pieces & join the JXB Editorial Board meeting next year 👩‍💻✈️ Deadline: 30 Sept 2025 👉 bit.ly/jxbinterns #PlantScience 🧪
JXB EDITORIAL
INTERNSHIPS 2026
Who is this for?
• Early career researchers (2-8 yrs postgrad/postdoc experience)
What will you do?
• Assess submitted manuscripts (with editorial mentorship)
• Write commentary articles for publication in JXB
• (Optional) Join JXB's social media activities
Benefits for you:
• Gain editorial & publishing experience
• Career development as a researcher
• Free SEB membership (1 year)
• Invitation to JXB's Editorial Board meeting in 2026
Apply by 30th September 2025
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Travis Lee @tralee-sci.bsky.social · 19/08/2025
Thrilled to have our spatial single-cell atlas of the Arabidopsis lifecycle in @NaturePlants. Turns out that its easy to make nice images when spatial expression of 1,000 genes is available! 1/n @natanellae.bsky.social @tatsuyanobori.bsky.social @joeecker.bsky.social www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Millennium Science @mscience.bsky.social · 14/08/2025
🌱 Xenium breaks barriers in plant spatial biology! Thick cell walls, autofluorescence & complex tissues have long challenged spatial transcriptomics. A new bioRxiv preprint shows an optimised @10xgenomics.bsky.social Xenium workflow for Medicago truncatula roots & nodules. #PlantScience #Xenium
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The Plant Cell @theplantcell.bsky.social · 28/07/2025
Best practices in plant fluorescence imaging and reporting: A primer (Kirk J Czymmek , Yoselin Benitez-Alfonso , Tessa Burch-Smith , et al) doi.org/10.1093/plce... #PlantScience
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Christine Faulkner @pdchristine.bsky.social · 19/07/2025
VACANCY Optical Microscopy Specialist Come work alongside the plant and microbial scientists at JIC and help us explore the biological frontier at the tissue, cell and subcellular scale!
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Laurie Belcher @lauriebelch.bsky.social · 16/07/2025
OrthoFinder just dropped a major update It’s faster, more accurate, and ready for thousands of genomes Let’s break it down (1/10) github.com/OrthoFinder/... www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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Christine Faulkner @pdchristine.bsky.social · 16/07/2025
GROUP LEADER VACANCY JIC is recruiting a Group Leader in Discovery Plant Sciences. If you think your research would synergise and thrive at JIC, please apply. www.jic.ac.uk/vacancies/gr...
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Group Leader in Discovery Plant Sciences | John Innes Centre
The John Innes Centre (JIC) seeks a visionary Group Leader to lead research on Discovery Plant Science.
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Trevor Nolan @trevormnolan.bsky.social · 10/03/2025
🌱 Thrilled to see our latest collaborative work with @jennyrussinova.bsky.social @nvukas.bsky.social published in Cell! By combining single-cell RNA-seq and live imaging, we uncovered previously hidden brassinosteroid signaling states and their role in optimizing root growth. doi.org/10.1016/j.ce...
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Oxford Biology @biology.ox.ac.uk · 20/02/2025
Congratulations to @stevenkelly.bsky.social on joining EIT Oxford as Chief Scientific Officer - Food Security & Sustainable Agriculture! 🌱🎉 Steve will continue his impactful work at Oxford biology while driving innovation in sustainable agriculture at EIT. Read more: www.eit.org/news/eit-exp...
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EIT Expands Team of Field-leading Experts Spanning AI, Economics, Life Sciences, Generative Biology and Medicine | Ellison Institute of Technology Oxford
Founding team who will lead the Institute’s ambitious science programs and platforms are announced.
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Laura Ragni @lauraragni.bsky.social · 15/01/2025
Join us in Ghent on June 14-15 for two days of Plant Vascular Development! A satellite meeting of ICAR25 #ICAR25 More info at icar25.com Spread the word! #PlantScience
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Cristobal Uauy @cristobaluauy.bsky.social · 07/01/2025
1/10 We are thrilled to share our preprint on spatial transcriptomics in wheat spikes led by the amazing @katielong.bsky.social and Ashleigh Lister. We resolved expression of 200 genes to cellular resolution. Pre-print👉 tinyurl.com/c7t3kncf., @johninnescentre.bsky.social @earlhaminst.bsky.social
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Anna Landre @annalandre.com · 07/01/2025
Do you know a UK-based wheelchair user who works in a lab and would be willing to user-test our prototype of what is believed to be the first-ever lab coat adapted for wheelchair users? Please share far & wide! Interest form: forms.office.com/e/66FhcQjqRT More info: www.ucl.ac.uk/ucl-east/new...
Two photos of Anna, a young white woman using an electric wheelchair, wearing a blue lab coat that fits her well with tables and dry-lab equipment in the background. Text reads: "A team of researchers and designers led by UCL is looking for wheelchair users working in wet lab environments to user-test what is believed to be the first-ever prototype of a lab coat adapted for wheelchair users."
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Daniel Kierzkowski @kierzkowskilab.bsky.social · 18/12/2024
Do you want to know how to live-image internal floral organs with confocal microscope for up to 2 weeks? Check out our protocol: bio-protocol.org/en/bpdetail?... #Arabidopsis #Flower
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University of Bristol Biological Sciences @bristolbiosci.bsky.social · 17/12/2024
We want you to work with us! Lecturer / Senior Lecturer in Biological Sciences: bristol.ac.uk/jobs/find/de...
The back corner of the LSB
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Julia Lambret Frotte @julialambret.bsky.social · 13/12/2024
Happy to share our latest publication on @newphyt.bsky.social! Big thanks to reviewers and editor, and a special shoutout to all the amazing authors involved. nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/share/KNJADW...
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Increased chloroplast occupancy in bundle sheath cells of rice hap3H mutants revealed by Chloro‐Count: a new deep learning–based tool
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Tatsuya Nobori @tatsuyanobori.bsky.social · 20/11/2024
Exaptation of ancestral cell-identity networks enables C4 photosynthesis www.nature.com/articles/s41... New from the Ecker lab in collaboration with the Hibberd lab. Congrats all!
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Exaptation of ancestral cell-identity networks enables C4 photosynthesis - Nature
Single-nucleus RNA-sequencing and chromatin-accessibility analyses in rice (a C3 plant) and sorghum (a C4 plant) provide insight into how C4 photosynthesis evolved in bundle-sheath cells, revealing th...
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Heisler Lab @heisler-lab.bsky.social · 11/11/2024
How does MP influence PIN1 polarity? Here’s our latest preprint …… www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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Vascular Transcription Factor TMO5 Regulates PIN1 Polarity and Organogenesis Downstream of MONOPTEROS in the Shoot Meristem
Plants continuously produce lateral organs, such as leaves and flowers, from the shoot apical meristem (SAM). This process is guided by the accumulation of the plant hormone auxin and the polar locali...
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Pallavi Singh @thepallavisingh.bsky.social · 07/10/2024
Come work with us! Please repost! We are looking for a Research Assistant to provide new insights into the holistic understanding of water use in global crop staple, rice. Apply online before Nov. 3. vacancies.essex.ac.uk/tlive_webrec... Feel free to get in touch if you have any questions.
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Pallavi Singh @thepallavisingh.bsky.social · 08/10/2024
We are embarking on an exciting journey- come work with us! We are also looking for 2 PDRAs!! vacancies.essex.ac.uk/tlive_webrec... vacancies.essex.ac.uk/tlive_webrec... Apply online before Nov. 5. Please RT!
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Chiara Perico @chiaraperico.bsky.social · 31/07/2024
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Multiplexed in situ hybridization reveals distinct lineage identities for major and minor vein initiation during maize leaf development | PNAS
Leaves of flowering plants are characterized by diverse venation patterns. Patterning begins with the selection of vein-forming procambial initial ...
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Quanta Magazine @quantamagazine.org · 31/01/2024
Some seedlings use air shafts around their cells to refract light and sense its direction. This discovery helps answer how plants seem to know where light is coming from.
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Plants Find Light Using Gaps Between Their Cells | Quanta Magazine
A mutant seedling revealed how plant tissues scatter incoming light, allowing plants to sense its direction and move toward it.
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Teva Vernoux @tevavernoux.bsky.social · 08/02/2024
Opportunities to work in my group at the RDP laboratory. Two ERC-funded postdoc positions available. Apply to join a fantastic scientific environment in Lyon! Please forward to anyone who might be interested. www.ens-lyon.fr/RDP/IMG/pdf/... www.ens-lyon.fr/RDP/IMG/pdf/...
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Oxford Biology @biology.ox.ac.uk · 07/03/2024
Rubisco, the enzyme which fuels life on our planet and fixes billions of tonnes CO2 each year, is notoriously inefficient. But new research reveals it isn't stuck in an evolutionary rut - it's actually improving, just at a glacial pace 👇https://bit.ly/3Ity4A8
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The world’s most prolific carbon-fixing enzyme is slowly getting better
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Kay Schneitz @kschneitz.bsky.social · 21/02/2024
Great collaboration between biologists and computer scientists. Need robust 3D nuclear segmentation? In deeper tissue layers with poor nuclear staining? Wide applicability? This and more in our latest paper.. bit.ly/3uG2Brd #PlantScience #PlantBiology #PlantDevelopment #PlantCellBio #PlantEvoDevo
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Sandy Hetherington @sandyheth.bsky.social · 16/02/2024
Open postdoc with Jill Harrison at Bristol Uni to study the evolution of apical growth Deadline 15th March Come join our HFSP funded team to investigate apical growth! thenode.biologists.com/jobs/would-y...
SEM image of two Selaginella shoot apices
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Hao Yin @haoyin.bsky.social · 13/02/2024
ggPlantmap github.com/leonardojo/g... Convert Icy-traced Plant images into ggPlot Integrable with bulk or sc-RNAseq data Generate .svg for Plant eFP viewer @jxbotany.bsky.social 2024 academic.oup.com/jxb/advance-...
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Botany One @botany.one · 11/02/2024
Women in Science: 6 Pioneers in Plant Photobiology To celebrate the “International Day of Girls and Women in Science”, Botany One highlights six exceptional female researchers who greatly contributed to shed new light on Plant Photobiology. botany.one/2024/02/wome...
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Women in Science: 6 Pioneers in Plant Photobiology
To celebrate the “International Day of Girls and Women in Science”, Botany One highlights six exceptional female researchers who greatly contributed to shed new light on Plant Photobiology – a scienti...
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Vinay Shukla @vinayshukla.bsky.social · 08/02/2024
Bluesky is now open to everyone — invitation codes are no longer required! bsky.social/about/blog/0...
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Join Bluesky Today (Bye, Invites!) - Bluesky
Sign up for Bluesky! No invite code required.
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bioRxiv Plant Bio @biorxiv-plants.bsky.social · 05/02/2024
Spatial transcriptomics reveals distinct lineage identities for major and minor vein initiation during maize leaf development www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/202…
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Spatial transcriptomics reveals distinct lineage identities for major and minor vein initiation during maize leaf development https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2024.02.05.578898v1
Leaves of flowering plants are characterised by diverse venation patterns. Patterning begins with th
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justingoodrich.bsky.social @justingoodrich.bsky.social · 31/01/2024
In analogy to water conducting cells in vascular plants' xylem, cell wall reinforcements and programmed cell death are used to facilitate water transport in Marchantia pegged rhizoids. An amazing paradigm of convergent evolution in land plants! More here: authors.elsevier.com/sd/article/S...
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Erin Friedman @ejfphd.bsky.social · 25/01/2024
ASPB wants to share and fund your plant curriculum materials! Receive up to $8500 to create and disseminate classroom activities & labs that support teaching the Principles for Teaching #plantscience. Learn more and apply by 4/8: bloome.aspb.org
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