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Rissa Sorensen-Unruh

@clarissasorensenunruh.com
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Learning/Teaching Enthusiast | Chem & Stats Prof | #STEMEd researcher | Emancipatory Pedagogies (Ungrading, Open, Critical, etc.) | Belonging | Grief & HERO (with Christy Albright) | LGBQTIA2S+ 🏳️‍🌈| She/They | 😈

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Jim Swift @jimswift.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
The cruelty is the point. Shame on this administration and shame on the people who voted for this. www.springfieldnewssun.com/local/spring...
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Springfield Haitian student takes his own life after being fitted with ICE ankle monitor, advocates say
A 20-year-old Wright State student took his own life on Interstate 70 out of anguish over a required ICE ankle monitor, according to local community advocates.
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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 04/03/2026
Daily reminder that calling ai dead labor and stolen labor is literal.
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Grammarly Offering Manuscript Reviews by AI Versions of Recently Deceased Professors
The Grammarly "Expert Review" feature uses AI to provide feedback on papers using the name and work of real professors, dead or alive.
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Rissa Sorensen-Unruh @clarissasorensenunruh.com · 13/02/2026
I am thrilled about this one. Yeah y’all! This is gonna be a lot of fun.
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readywriting @readywriting.bsky.social · 12/02/2026
I get to welcome @clarissasorensenunruh.com as our new regular contributor! She introduces herself in her first column. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
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Welcome, Y'all!
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Zeb Larson @zeblarson.bsky.social · 31/12/2025
I'm doing a thread of everything I've published this year, but amassing everything I'm struck by how fast the Trump admin moved to wreck the country. I figured that they would move a bit more slowly breaking everything, but no, 2025 was the year of the crowbar and the wrecking ball. (Plz boost!) 🧵
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Rissa Sorensen-Unruh @clarissasorensenunruh.com · 17/11/2025
Happy Sunday everyone. Just checking in to see how y’all are doing?!?
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Rissa Sorensen-Unruh @clarissasorensenunruh.com · 14/11/2025
What an astoundingly beautiful conversation this was! I am still listening and reverberating with its insights. Christy & I did a Teaching in Higher Ed podcast with Bonni about grief & it was one of the most joyful conversations I think I’ve heard captured. teachinginhighered.com/podcast/teac...
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Teaching, Learning, and the Lessons of Grief, with Christy Albright + Clarissa Sorensen Unruh – Teaching in Higher Ed
Christy Albright + Clarissa Sorensen Unruh share about teaching, learning, and the lessons of grief on episode 596 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast
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Terry McGlynn @hormiga.bsky.social · 07/11/2025
Hey folks, as news of Watson's demise spreads, please don't set aside his weighty legacy of misogyny and racism. He was truly among the worst of us. www.vox.com/2019/1/15/18...
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DNA scientist James Watson has a remarkably long history of sexist, racist public comments
“People say it would be terrible if we made all girls pretty,” he said in 2003. “I think it would be great.”
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Rissa Sorensen-Unruh @clarissasorensenunruh.com · 07/10/2025
Been lurking for awhile for the same reasons. Sigh.
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Rissa Sorensen-Unruh @clarissasorensenunruh.com · 01/09/2025
What Marie said. 😈🫶🏼
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Eryk Salvaggio @eryk.bsky.social · 24/08/2025
We need to know what humans do before we argue that machines can do it just the same. There can’t be AI literacy without a literacy in being human: how we make meaning in work and life, distinguishing the artificial from the imaginary from the true. mail.cyberneticforests.com/human-litera...
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Human Literacy
Something I Can Tell Students Now That I Am Not Teaching You and I probably both keep hearing that students should be working toward AI literacy. They should know what to type into prompt windows, ...
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Rissa Sorensen-Unruh @clarissasorensenunruh.com · 26/08/2025
FUND THIS CRITICAL WORK ALREADY @gatesfoundation.bsky.social MacKenzie Scott Foundation Hewlett Foundation NIH www.science.org/content/arti...
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Driven by the pain of endometriosis, this scientist is uncovering clues to its causes
Katie Burns is helping reveal the immune system’s role in the long-neglected disease
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Jane Rosenzweig @janerosenzweig.bsky.social · 21/08/2025
Tried out Grammarly's AI grade predictor. Didn't want to use actual student work, so I had ChatGPT write a paper for one of my assignments and gave that to Grammarly. Grammarly promises to use publicly available info about your instructor to predict what they will say. The advice was *not* what I /1
You demonstrate a nuanced, critical comparison of Khan and Warner, showing clear independent thinking and a command of both their arguments. Your thesis is thoughtful and sustains the essay’s direction, and your development of ideas is well-supported by concrete reference to the texts. One opportunity for revision could be to further foreground your own perspective and curiosity in the introduction—this would help the reader see not just what Khan and Warner argue, but why their debate personally matters or provokes questions for you. Doing so could provide a for revision could be to further foreground your own perspective and curiosity in the introduction—this would help the reader see not just what Khan and Warner argue, but why their debate personally matters or provokes questions for you. Doing so could provide a stronger sense of self-discovery and engagement, which aligns with course goals for reflective and original writing.
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Rissa Sorensen-Unruh @clarissasorensenunruh.com · 21/08/2025
So, anyway, if you’d like to know more about my current elected role as Councilor, or about CHED or ACS Council, I’m here in the comments, DMs, etc. Let’s chat.
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Rissa Sorensen-Unruh @clarissasorensenunruh.com · 21/08/2025
CHED ExComm approved almost $100K in CHED member scholarships for #BCCE2026. & while our role is often fiduciary, the ability to give back to CHED (via webinars (POGIL, Early Career Chemists, etc) or communication & solidarity in hard times or scholarships) is a breath of fresh air. #ACSFall2025
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Rissa Sorensen-Unruh @clarissasorensenunruh.com · 21/08/2025
#LGTBQ+ Chemists unite! #ACSFall2025 Side note: CALC still has to be approved by the Board, but we expect this to happen. Do I want to be on CALC? Yes. Do like 80 other people? Also yes. So we’ll see.
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a rainbow background with the words love is unstoppa written on it
Alt: a rainbow background that emerges from left to right like someone is painting and creating a color palette with the words love is unstoppable on it.
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Rissa Sorensen-Unruh @clarissasorensenunruh.com · 21/08/2025
Most of the time the votes are for things that help the society by slightly restructuring or enacting something. Yesterday, we voted to create a Committee on the Advancement of LGTBQ+ Chemists (CALC) & it passed with more than 85% of the vote & 0 discussion. That was a magical moment. #ACSFall2025
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Rissa Sorensen-Unruh @clarissasorensenunruh.com · 21/08/2025
…lots of reports from different entities (chair succession, ACS CEO, & most (all?!?) of the Society committees), & some stuff to vote on (usually w/ highlighted blue or yellow pages). The ACS Council agenda book is available for every National Meeting well in advance of the meeting. #ACSFall2025
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Rissa Sorensen-Unruh @clarissasorensenunruh.com · 21/08/2025
The agenda booklet for ACS Council is publicly available here: www.acs.org/about/govern... & it’s what we use (& what is constantly referred to) for the 4-hr meeting. It includes election info for different Society Committees (which do the ongoing work of Council for the members of the Society)…
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Council - American Chemical Society
The Council shall act as an advisory body in matters pertaining to the general management of the Society.
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Rissa Sorensen-Unruh @clarissasorensenunruh.com · 21/08/2025
ExComm runs the Division (CHED) & is lead by the Current Chair (rn it’s Thom Bussey) [& the Chair Succession (immediate past chair, current chair, incoming chair)]. Council runs the Society (along w/ the Board of Directors) & is lead by the Current Chair (rn it’s Dorothy Phillips). #ACSFall2025
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Rissa Sorensen-Unruh @clarissasorensenunruh.com · 21/08/2025
So, let’s start by putting this in context. I am a Councilor for the Division of Chemical Education (CHED) in @acs.org & that requires me to attend at least 2 4-hour ish long meetings at every National Meeting (Fall & Spring) - Executive Committee (ExComm) for CHED & ACS Council. #ACSFall2025
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Rissa Sorensen-Unruh @clarissasorensenunruh.com · 21/08/2025
Ok, #ChemSky folks were saying that they missed when their pocket friends talk about #ACSFall2025, & while I didn’t go to DC (insta or Discord are better places to get pics of the experience from other former #ChemTwitter folks), I’m gonna talk about what I did go to virtually - governance. #LetsGo
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Rissa Sorensen-Unruh @clarissasorensenunruh.com · 18/07/2025
This is exactly how the 19 yo has conceptualized capitalism to me recently. And I’m like oh my goodness. Like am I ready to do a deep dive on the philosophical underpinnings of capitalism and why it is extraction based?!? No, Sherri. No I am not.
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Maxwell Frost @maxwellfrost.bsky.social · 13/07/2025
I just left the Everglades Immigrant Interment Camp. No, I’m not using their ridiculous name. It was a very tough to witness humans in those cages. Every Floridian should be ashamed that our taxpayer money is being used for this.
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Rissa Sorensen-Unruh @clarissasorensenunruh.com · 10/07/2025
Amen and amen. Like JFC stop trolling Tressie y’all.
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Aparna Nair @disabilitystor1.bsky.social · 03/07/2025
What shocks me is how many professors, administrators and students who blithely use LLMs do not know this
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Scripps Research @scripps.edu · 26/06/2025
Congrats to Prof. @donnablack.bsky.social, recipient of the 2025 Centenary Prize for Chemistry and Communication from @rsc.org—awarded for pioneering work in kinetic methods of organic catalysis, asymmetric catalysis mechanisms, homochirality, and excellence in communication. More: ow.ly/iFhM50Wgn0z
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Alondra Nelson @alondra.bsky.social · 27/06/2025
The bipartisan American Science Acceleration Project sounds promising, but "move fast and break things" isn't a strategy for trustworthy research. I write in @science.org about why we need acceleration that opens doors to participation and accountability. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
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Ten times faster is not 10 times better
As the Trump administration systematically defunds the American research ecosystem, while disingenuously promising a return to so-called “gold standard science,” hope can be drawn from the new biparti...
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Puff the Magic Hater @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 22/06/2025
I am incensed. This is all so heartbreaking and despicable. The Iranian people do not deserve this violence. We do not deserve this governance. The world does not deserve this. These outrages must end.
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Nate Angell @xolotl.org · 19/06/2025
“If, then, we “full-time” intellectuals restrict our knowledge to those who have been fortunate enough to get full-time education and to work in universities, we are simply reproducing, by our own efforts, the unequal distribution of knowledge and education in our societies.” — Stuart Hall
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Nate Angell @xolotl.org · 30/05/2025
Just saw the old Bugs Bunny toon "Sahara Hare" where he finds a "mirage-ee". I was surprised how the clip kinda illustrates diffusion model genAI. I think we found the perfect GIF for the paper @annamillsoer.bsky.social and I wrote on AI's so-call "hallucination": papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
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Rissa Sorensen-Unruh @clarissasorensenunruh.com · 21/06/2025
Coming to terms with Qualitative Research through an ungrading lens As part of my dissertation, I am writing a paper that describes a qualitative study based on interviews with chemistry ungrading faculty. The qualitative study process, including its communication, has been more difficult than it…
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Coming to terms with Qualitative Research through an ungrading lens
As part of my dissertation, I am writing a paper that describes a qualitative study based on interviews with chemistry ungrading faculty. The qualitative study process, including its communication, has been more difficult than it should be and the problem seems to be me. Creswell and Poth (2024), in the 5th edition of Qualitative Inquiry and Research Design (often considered a defining text in qualitative research methodology classes), define qualitative research as:
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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 19/06/2025
The NYT decided to kick trans people in the teeth the day after Skrmetti. They wrote a hit piece blaming trans people for their own oppression and attacked the people who have fought hardest to stop this effort to eradicate us. They turned to Brianna Wu to further their narrative.
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🌈Dr. Frizzle @swilua.bsky.social · 19/06/2025
Happy pride 🌈❤️
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Heather 💙 🐸 💙 @featherfrodis.bsky.social · 18/06/2025
BREAKING: The White House lashed out at the creators of this ad for "fear-mongering". It must have really struck a nerve. Maybe they don't like being outed as fascists. You know what to do: SPREAD THIS EVERYWHERE! #MAGAKidnappers
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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 17/06/2025
I find it extremely depressing that this account gets so much traction but I understand the appeal. People want to believe there’s a secret resistance movement of park rangers out there. But they’re just cosplaying. And selling merch.
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Chris Murphy @chrismurphyct.bsky.social · 15/06/2025
The Minnesota assassin appears to be a hate-filled right winger. So can we stop walking on eggshells about MAGA's legitimization of political violence? Yes, Republicans have also been the target of inexcusable violence, but this isn't a "both sides" issue. 1/ A🧵on the danger.
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jeremy bearimy✨ @simplysope.bsky.social · 15/06/2025
The wellness to alt right pipeline is a damn superhighway. Fatphbia, ableism, and eugenics.
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Ed Bott @edbott.com · 14/06/2025
Clear-headed analysis from @tressiemcphd.bsky.social, who deserves extra praise for the desccription of Joe Rogan: "He is entertaining, on some level, but he isn’t good. The show is popular because Rogan is as fine a way to distract yourself for a couple of hours as a white noise machine."
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Opinion | Obama Isn’t Going to Save You
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Thomas Spooks 🎃👻💀 @thomasfuchs.at · 14/06/2025
I’ve really started to embrace this. Instead of FOMO, have HONK—happiness of not knowing.
Three Bluesky posts, the first one is blocked the two replies are muted
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Stephen Wolf @stephenwolf.bsky.social · 14/06/2025
The Declaration of Independence specifies 27 grievances with King George III and Britain. Donald Trump has committed at least 16 of those same offenses. #NoKings
Screenshot of a list of the 27 specific grievances against King George III in the Declaration of Independence. Donald Trump's regime has committed at least 16 of them in whole or in part, highlighted in yellow and listed below:
"1. He has refused his Assent to Laws, the most wholesome and necessary for the public good.
2. He has refused to pass other Laws for the accommodation of large districts of people, unless those people would relinquish the right of Representation in the Legislature, a right inestimable to them and formidable to tyrants only.
3. He has endeavoured to prevent the population of these States; for that purpose obstructing the Laws for Naturalization of Foreigners; refusing to pass others to encourage their migrations hither [Partial]
4. He has obstructed the Administration of Justice, by refusing his Assent to Laws for establishing Judiciary powers.
5. He has erected a multitude of New Offices, and sent hither swarms of Officers to harrass our people, and eat out their substance.
6. He has kept among us, in times of peace, Standing Armies without the Consent of our legislatures.
7. He has affected to render the Military independent of and superior to the Civil power.
8. He has combined with others to subject us to a jurisdiction foreign to our constitution, and unacknowledged by our laws; giving his Assent to their Acts of pretended Legislation:
9. For cutting off our Trade with all parts of the world:
10. For imposing Taxes on us without our Consent:
11. For depriving us in many cases, of the benefits of Trial by Jury:
12. For transporting us beyond Seas to be tried for pretended offences:
13. [Partial], abolishing our most valuable Laws, and altering fundamentally the Forms of our Governments:
14. He has abdicated Government here, by declaring us out of his Protection and waging War against us.
15. [Partial], and destroyed the lives of our people.
16. He has excited domestic insurrections amongst us [Partial]"
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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 13/06/2025
“Becker argues that the only way to break free of these visions is to see them for what they are: a convenient excuse to continue destroying the environment, skirt regulations, amass more power and control, and dismiss the very real problems of today to focus on the imagined ones of tomorrow.”
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Tech billionaires are making a risky bet with humanity’s future
Altman, Bezos, and Musk say they want to save humanity by creating superintelligent AI. Journalist and astrophysicist Adam Becker reveals how these fantastical visions conceal a darker agenda.
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Rissa Sorensen-Unruh @clarissasorensenunruh.com · 13/06/2025
Action Items for me: - need to work on a 1-2 week module purposefully deconstructing grading culture (I deeply loved this) - need to work with my union, CTL, Deans, etc. to ideate how to dismantle grading culture significantly at an institutional level - must continue to write #TheGradingConference
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Rissa Sorensen-Unruh @clarissasorensenunruh.com · 13/06/2025
But it was not a "make the choices you can live with" kind of talk. A figure out what you can do now and then make future plans talk. It was more of a "WHY AREN'T WE ALREADY AT AN UNGRADING EDUCATIONAL SYSTEM" kind of talk. Which I appreciate. And also... #TheGradingConference
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Rissa Sorensen-Unruh @clarissasorensenunruh.com · 13/06/2025
The main issue - the evangelical nature of the talk w/o reflection given to intersectional identities, oppression, or context. Admired the passionate, energy-filled vibe. We DO need more anti-racist, decolonial thinking in #HigherEd. (2/2) #TheGradingConference
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Rissa Sorensen-Unruh @clarissasorensenunruh.com · 13/06/2025
Ok @thegradingconference.com - I need to process that keynote Jeff Anderson just gave. Initial takes: loved the passion, political orientation - the emancipatory framing of it all It was SO fast & the chat was lightening. It's going to take days to embody deep learning here. #TheGradingConference
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Rissa Sorensen-Unruh @clarissasorensenunruh.com · 13/06/2025
😈🫶🏼😘🫶🏼
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Rissa Sorensen-Unruh @clarissasorensenunruh.com · 13/06/2025
It ONLY TOOK TWO YEARS, Marie. JFC. For real. Love this comment and sending #Pride 🫶🏼🏳️‍🌈❤️🧡💛💚💙💜🏳️‍⚧️🫶🏼 your way.
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Rissa Sorensen-Unruh @clarissasorensenunruh.com · 13/06/2025
@thegradingconference.com #TheGradingConference (Hate it when I forget the hashtags)
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Rissa Sorensen-Unruh @clarissasorensenunruh.com · 13/06/2025
Hi y'all. I wrote yet another thing. This one summarizes and provides expanded sections for the CBE:LSE article I published last year "The ungrading learning theory we have is not the ungrading learning theory we need."
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A summary: The ungrading learning theory we have is not the ungrading learning theory we need
Well this summary is only about a year late. The struggle is real, y'all. ;o) This blog is summarizing this article: Sorensen-Unruh, C. (2024). The ungrading learning theory we have is not the ungrading learning theory we need. CBE—Life Sciences Education, 23(3), es6: 1-12.  This article is open access so go download it asap for more information about everything covered here.
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