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Fabio Cortesi

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ARC Future Fellow|Marine Sensory Ecology Group University of Queensland| 🐠🐙🧠👀🧬| 🇨🇭🏔️—> 🇦🇺🌊

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CNRS Biologie @cnrsbiologie.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
#CNRSInternational🌍 Du zooplancton aux poissons-clowns, des algues aux virus marins : CNRS Biologie renforce ses collaborations dans le Pacifique Ouest avec le Japon, Taïwan et l’Australie. ▶️ buff.ly/Vn3ohSI
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L’océan Pacifique, nouveau centre de gravité de la recherche fondamentale en biologie marine
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Biology Open @biologyopen.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
Fabio Cortesi @drfishvis.bsky.social and colleagues suggest that, at the molecular level, the visual systems that evolved in aquatic blennies have been retained in species that have progressively transitioned onto land. doi.org/10.1242/bio....
Cone opsin gene expression in blennies.
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Lauren Sumner-Rooney @laurensr.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
📢 JOB ALERT! 📢 I am recruiting a 30-month postdoc to work on modelling the vision of trilobites @hfspo.bsky.social ! If you like 3D data, fossils, and functional morphology, this is the one for you! 📆Deadline 27. Aug Pls contact me with any Qs and share widely! www.bristol.ac.uk/jobs/find/de...
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Details | Working at Bristol | University of Bristol
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Fabio Cortesi @drfishvis.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
Our recent publication on opsin gene evolution in aquatic and terrestrial blennies 🐠 made the cover in @biologyopen.bsky.social Read the story here journals.biologists.com/bio/article/... @fishevo.bsky.social
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Journal of Experimental Biology @jexpbiol.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
This is the last call to early-career researchers applying for the 7 August deadline for the next round of JEB Travelling Fellowships Get your application in so you can visit an international lab to perform that essential experiment or learn a technique www.biologists.com/grants/trave...
About Travelling Fellowships
Three of The Company of Biologists’ journals – Development, Journal of Cell Science and Journal of Experimental Biology – offer Travelling Fellowships of up to £3,000 to graduate students and post-doctoral researchers wishing to make collaborative visits to other laboratories. These are designed to offset the cost of travel/accommodation and other related expenses. There is no restriction on nationality.
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International Society for Neuroethology @neuroethology.org · 01/08/2026
We had an excellent week full of fascinating research on neuroethology. We met colleagues and friends. We thank all the organizers, funders @jexpbiol.bsky.social @kavlifoundation.org @thorlabs.bsky.social and wish everyone a safe trip back home. 🇨🇦 #ICN2026. See you at ICN2028 🇹🇼
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RobertoFeuda @robertofeuda.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
We're hiring 4 postdocs at @unibo.it to study nervous system evolution. Seeking expertise in single-cell genomics, molecular or developmental biology in ctenophores, cnidarians, echinoderms, flies or human stem cells. 2+2 yrs contract. Deadline: 26 Aug. Please share! bandi.unibo.it/s/apos7/proc...
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Procedura di valutazione comparativa per titoli e colloquio per il conferimento di n. 4 contratti di ricerca presso il Dipartimento di Scienze Biologiche, Geologiche e Ambientali - SSD BIOS-04/A - GSD...
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FishEvo Zuzana Musilova @fishevo.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
Deep-water crater lake #cichlids lost red cones and kept only green cones in the #retina. We expected these #photoreceptors to be either true green- or modified red cones, but it seems that they’re sth in between! Wanna see more? Pls come to Pau’s poster P3.54 at #icn2026vancouver @neuroethology.org
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International Society for Neuroethology @neuroethology.org · 28/07/2026
Someone creaated an App to organize your #icn2026 conference schedule 🤩 schedulericn26.netlify.app Share widely, use it and have fun 🤗
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ICN 2026 Vancouver — Session Navigator
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Fabio Cortesi @drfishvis.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
Mantra to live bye #ajaynarendra at #ICN2026 @neuroethology.org What a great talk about #ants and their incredible abilities to find their way home.
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FishEvo Zuzana Musilova @fishevo.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
Interested in weird and crazy #photoreceptor types - like “superrods” in some deep-sea fish?🤩 Happy to see you on Wednesday poster (PS3.45) session at #ICN2026 #ICN2026Vancouver @neuroethology.org
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Lochlan W @lochlanw.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
Excellent way to start the week #ICN2026 with a fascinating and entertaining talk by @samjakeengland.bsky.social ⚡️🐛
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Fabio Cortesi @drfishvis.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
Fascinating talk on static electricity and its ecological role for 🐛 🐞 🦋by @samjakeengland.bsky.social during the young investigator symposium #ICN2026 @neuroethology.org
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Fabio Cortesi @drfishvis.bsky.social · 26/07/2026
Made it to @neuroethology.org #ICN2026Vancouver meeting! Let the neurosciencing in all sorts of animals begin 🧠🧬🔬 @fishevo.bsky.social @wensungceph.bsky.social
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Fabio Cortesi @drfishvis.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
New dispatch about the cool recent work by Ben-Ezra et al on the effects of artificial light at night (ALAN) on reef fish @currentbiology.bsky.social ALAN makes for hungry, grumpy and sleep-deprived chromis, neg impacting brain health. 🙏 🐠 ✍️ #abbyshaughnessy Free link here sl1nk.com/iwnp80s
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Fabio Cortesi @drfishvis.bsky.social · 29/03/2026
Bye bye Noemi! We had a blast hosting you for your @euerasmusplus.bsky.social mundus project. More 🐠 👀 🧠 research to drop soon. @wensungceph.bsky.social
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Fabio Cortesi @drfishvis.bsky.social · 04/03/2026
Ops(es)in(g) in Prague with an amazing bunch of researchers @fishevo.bsky.social @joostraeymaekers.bsky.social l @emiliapsantos.bsky.social & Marta Barulenga :)
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Science Magazine @science.org · 17/02/2026
A new #ScienceAdvances study finds three deep-sea fishes see light unlike any other vertebrates, thanks to hybrid retinal cells. scim.ag/3Oo1dmx
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Deep-sea fish reveal an alternative developmental trajectory for vertebrate vision
Hybrid photoreceptors in larval deep-sea fish reveal evolution of an alternative developmental trajectory for vertebrate vision.
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Cynthia Riginos @seaprof.bsky.social · 17/02/2026
Three-way hybridization of table corals in the Acropora hyacinthus group from the southern Great Barrier Reef results in parallel adaptive introgression. Check out our new preprint: doi.org/10.64898/202... #CoralSky #MarEvol #coral #popgen #consgen #genomics
Table coral
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Fabio Cortesi @drfishvis.bsky.social · 14/02/2026
#LilyFogg and I wrote a #popscience article about the recent #deepsea #fish visual development paper in @theconversation.com Study in @science.org is here tinyurl.com/ytxtttft theconversation.com/deep-sea-fis...
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Deep-sea fish larvae rewrite the rules of how eyes can be built
Deep-sea fish larvae combine features of both rods and cones into a single, highly specialised cell that is optimised for life in between light and darkness.
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Todd Oakley @ostratodd.bsky.social · 20/07/2025
I am happy to share a new review article, as part of a future special issue on vision in challenging environments, led by @fishevo.bsky.social and @drfishvis.bsky.social
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Adam T. Downie @adamdownunder.bsky.social · 08/10/2025
@biologyopen.bsky.social highlighting our new #OA paper on the impacts of uvr☀️on clownfish embryo development 🐠🥚 @craigefranklin.bsky.social @drfishvis.bsky.social doi.org/10.1242/bio....
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Ultraviolet B radiation impairs coral reef fish development
Summary: Ultraviolet radiation (UVR) has significant impacts on yolk sac volume, which may have contributed to the 100% mortality rate of clownfish embryos. However, DNA damage was not as impacted by ...
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Fabio Cortesi @drfishvis.bsky.social · 14/02/2026
Fresh off the press 💥 Deep-sea fish reveal an alternative developmental trajectory for vertebrate vision | Science Advances www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
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Deep-sea fish reveal an alternative developmental trajectory for vertebrate vision
Hybrid photoreceptors in larval deep-sea fish reveal evolution of an alternative developmental trajectory for vertebrate vision.
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Michi Forsthofer @mforst.bsky.social · 23/06/2025
This Thursday, 13:00 GMT+1 (1pm UK, 2pm Europe) we have the Sussex Vision series coming back. Tune in at m.youtube.com/playlist?lis... to hear Fabio Cortesi talk about vision in coral reef fishes. See you there!
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FishEvo Zuzana Musilova @fishevo.bsky.social · 23/06/2025
We're hiring a postdoc!👀 Join us to explore the amazing world of (deep-sea) fish vision! We're looking for a curious researcher to work with histology, FISH, and even crispr! Apply by 14 July 2025. Thks for sharing! #PostdocJobs #DeepSea #FishVision #Evolution www.fishevo.com/open-postdoc...
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Fabio Cortesi @drfishvis.bsky.social · 20/06/2025
Our latest on the use of colour in marine critters - this one is about fiddler crabs waving their enlarged claw as a predator distraction 🦀 Watch the movie for some good entertainment ;)
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Yoav Gilad @ygilad.bsky.social · 07/06/2025
We developed CrossFilt, a read-level, cross-species filtering approach that avoids these errors without sacrificing usable data. It outperforms all existing strategies and exposes just how much signal in comparative genomics has been misread. doi.org/10.1101/2025...
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CrossFilt: A Cross-species Filtering Tool that Eliminates Alignment Bias in Comparative Genomics Studies
Comparative functional genomic studies are often affected by biased read mapping across species due to inter-species differences in genome structure, sequence composition, and annotation quality. We d...
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FishEvo Zuzana Musilova @fishevo.bsky.social · 02/06/2025
New review on deep-sea fish vision and the contribution of genomic and transcriptomic data. Part of the future special issue on vision in challenging environments in Functional Ecology:-). With @drfishvis.bsky.social in @funecology.bsky.social besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
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Fabio Cortesi @drfishvis.bsky.social · 02/06/2025
💥 New perspective out in @functionalanalysis.bsky.social w. @fishevo.bsky.social An (omics) perspective on the evolution of vision in deep‐sea fishes reveals exceptional adaptations to life in the extreme 🐟🧬👀 besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
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An (omics) perspective on the evolution of vision in deep‐sea fishes reveals exceptional adaptations to life in the extreme
Read the free Plain Language Summary for this article on the Journal blog.
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Steven Robbins @stevenjrobbins.bsky.social · 21/05/2025
Very excited to present the Great Barrier Reef Microbial Genomes Database (GBR-MGD), a comprehensive DB of 1000s of high-quality prokaryote, virus, plasmid, and chromosome-level eukaryote MAGs using Nanopore long reads. Subthreads incoming. Please share widely. 🙂 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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The planktonic microbiome of the Great Barrier Reef
Large genome databases have markedly improved our understanding of marine microorganisms. Although these resources have focused on prokaryotes, genomes from many dominant marine lineages, such as Pela...
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Fabio Cortesi @drfishvis.bsky.social · 10/05/2025
1/n Amphiprion percula aka #nemo ready to spawn. This is one of our most proficient breeding pairs in the University of Queensland breeding colony. The female will adhere her eggs to the pot for the male to fertilise —> see next post
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Fabio Cortesi @drfishvis.bsky.social · 09/05/2025
A vertebrate #vision community effort to standardise the way we call image forming photoreceptors, with new marker genes to delineate the receptor types. 👀📸📞 PR0 = rod photoreceptor PR1 = formerly lws receptor PR2 … PR3 … journals.plos.org/plosbiology/...
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A standardized nomenclature for the rods and cones of the vertebrate retina
Vertebrate photoreceptors have been studied for well over a century, but a fixed nomenclature for referring to orthologous cell types across species has been lacking. In this Consensus View, the autho...
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Alex Maile @anoplogaster.bsky.social · 03/05/2025
1/11 New #OpenAccess #anglerfish paper in @plosone.org! We combine genomic, mitochondrial, and morphological data to produce the most complete evolutionary hypothesis for anglerfishes! Includes new body shape, habitat analyses, and a new frogfish subfamily) 🦑 doi.org/10.1371/jour...
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A total-evidence phylogenetic approach to understanding the evolution, depth transitions, and body-shape changes in the anglerfishes and allies (Acanthuriformes: Lophioidei)
The anglerfishes and allies (Lophioidei) are a diverse group of fishes with over 400 carnivorous species that are renowned for their remarkable hunting behavior employing a modified first dorsal-fin s...
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Eliot Miller @eliotmiller.bsky.social · 29/04/2025
*** Academic BFD alert *** We just published a new global bird phylogeny. It synthesizes the work of thousands of researchers before us, and it will grow and improve over time. @snacktavish.bsky.social @birdsoftheworld.bsky.social www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
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Adam T. Downie @adamdownunder.bsky.social · 28/04/2025
Our 🚨new paper🚨 in @globalchangebio.bsky.social reviews & roadmaps how physiology can improve our understanding of 🔥#climatechange🔥 induced #tropicalisation🔃 of marine fishes🐟 & help inform management! onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
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Physiological Traits for Predicting Poleward Extensions in Tropical Fishes: From Lab to Management
We review the physiological mechanisms that permit poleward range expansions of tropical reef fishes into temperate waters. Filling in key knowledge gaps, we develop a framework to improve the implem...
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Journal of Experimental Biology @jexpbiol.bsky.social · 28/04/2025
If you're a new PI within 5 years of your first faculty position, here are two fantastic grants to help develop your research: the Kickstart Travel Grant & ECR Visiting Fellowships Find out more at biologists.com/grants/#jeb The next application deadline is 6 June Please repost to spread the word
Social media postcard that says: Are you an early-career researcher within five years of your first appointment to a faculty position? You could be eligible for our new grants for junior faculty staff

The Journal of Experimental Biology logo is in the bottom left corner. The Kickstart grant logo, two hands shaking, is in the bottom right corner.
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Thorsten Reusch @thorstenreusch.bsky.social · 26/04/2025
Junior faculty job alert in Germany - Marine Evolutionary Genomics @geomarkiel.bsky.social / University of Kiel www.geomar.de/en/karriere/... Marine study system of your choice (no microbes, sorry…), excellent infrastructure and ship access, moderate teaching requirements, closing date 6 June
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Fabio Cortesi @drfishvis.bsky.social · 06/04/2025
Blue-lined #octopus 🐙 That’s the post… @wensungceph.bsky.social
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Fabio Cortesi @drfishvis.bsky.social · 07/04/2025
Monday blues 🐢 #turtle #heronisland
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Australian Society for Fish Biology @austsocfishbiol.bsky.social · 07/04/2025
#JobOpportunity at University of Tasmania… 👋🐟🌿 🚨Deadline: Wed 9 April 🚨 🎣 #Postdoc in Seagrass Restoration, to aid recovery of red #handfish 🗓️ Fixed, full time – to June 2026 💰 $121,737 👀 careers.utas.edu.au/en/job/50094...
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Nature @nature.com · 16/03/2025
Male blue-lined octopuses inject females with venom during mating to avoid being eaten by their partners go.nature.com/3R8vRym
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Bad romance: male octopuses inject deadly venom into their mates
Nature - The paralysing toxin deployed by the male blue-lined octopus might help to protect him from being eaten.
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Fabio Cortesi @drfishvis.bsky.social · 06/04/2025
Blue-lined #octopus 🐙 That’s the post… @wensungceph.bsky.social
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Nicholas Wu @nicholaswu.bsky.social · 05/04/2025
🚨 Lecturer in Animal Behaviour position @waikatouniversity.bsky.social. Fantastic opportunity for someone passionate about teaching & research in animal behaviour, preferably on birds, amphibians, reptiles or bats. 📍 Hamilton, NZ Closes: 4th May 2025 🔗 www.seek.co.nz/job/83279795...
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Fabio Cortesi @drfishvis.bsky.social · 05/04/2025
📑 🚨 #ultraviolet #colour & #vision in colourful #damselfish #Nemo Go check it out 🐠 👁️ 🌈 @vtettama.bsky.social
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Danni Thompson @scottishseabird.bsky.social · 03/04/2025
1/7 Variation between individuals is important as it determines how adaptable to change a population might be. Even generalist spp are often comprised of specialist individuals, but specialisation is often only studied across single traits which is limiting. #BOU2025 #ornithology #seabirds #ecology
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Zebrafish Rock! @zebrafishrock.bsky.social · 03/04/2025
#ZebrafishCareers 🇬🇧 (Postdoc) #killifish Link to MacDonald Lab website: zebrafishucl.org/macdonald-la...
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Rodrigo Suárez, PhD @rsuarezsaa.bsky.social · 01/04/2025
Two more weeks before the deadline to recruit a 3-year Postdoctoral position in Systems Neuroscience - Bioinformatics applied to Brain Evo-Devo. Please RT and/or apply at: uq.wd3.myworkdayjobs.com/uqcareers/jo...
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Postdoctoral Research Fellow - Systems Neuroscientist/Bioinformatician
School of Biomedical Sciences Full-time (100%), fixed-term position for up to 3 years Base salary will be in the range $80,448 - $107,104 + 17% Superannuation (Academic Level A) Based at our St Lucia ...
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Fabio Cortesi @drfishvis.bsky.social · 31/03/2025
Meanwhile, a few months back at home in the 🏔️🇨🇭
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Randall Munroe @xkcd.com · 12/02/2025
Incoming Asteroid xkcd.com/3049
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Fabio Cortesi @drfishvis.bsky.social · 28/03/2025
The story as an audio 🐙💉☠️❤️ @currentbiology.bsky.social www.cell.com/current-biol... www.npr.org/2025/03/23/n...
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Male octopuses are usually killed by females after mating. Now, they may have found a way out
A male blue-lined octopus often becomes their partner's meal after mating but the University of Queensland's Fabio Cortesi tells NPR's Ayesha Rascoe some males have found a way to survive.
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