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Leona Vaughn

@drleona.bsky.social
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Research Fellow: coloniality, race, risk and prevention in social policy. Interests: International Human Rights, Equity, Justice, Harm and Repair.

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Leona Vaughn @drleona.bsky.social · 08/05/2026
I’m excited to share I’ve been accepted to speak with Drs Stephen Kenny & Rebecca Loy on our work on heritage, race & health at ACHS 2026 Tūhono in Wellington, Aotearoa See you there? www.achs2026.nz #ACHS2026 #TŪHONO #Aotearoa #HeritageStudies @livunihss.bsky.social @liverpoolmuseums.bsky.social
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ACHS Conference 2026
TŪHONO means to connect. At ACHS 2026, guided by our theme of RELATIONALITY, we will explore how heritage connects us with each other, with the past and with the land; and how, as a field, we can inte...
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Leona Vaughn @drleona.bsky.social · 01/05/2026
Our latest Inclusive Conversation series in the Faculty @livunihss.bsky.social for UoL staff and students to explore EDI in practice was a fantastic discussion on linguistic bias between @uts-sps.bsky.social Visiting Fellow Dr Zozan Balci & @ulmsresearch.bsky.social Dr Mohammed Maher 'Say Our Names'
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Leona Vaughn @drleona.bsky.social · 26/04/2026
Incredible couple of days with Simmons Center colleagues @brown.edu Dr Khalil West and I presented work on the collaborative New Visions of Black Health in Liverpool project @livunihss.bsky.social @livunipol.bsky.social @csis-liverpool.bsky.social @liverpoolmuseums.bsky.social
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Leona Vaughn @drleona.bsky.social · 17/02/2026
13 March 2026 - deadline for input to OHCHR www.ohchr.org/en/calls-for...
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OHCHR | Call for Input / 2026 report of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights (Human Rights Council resolution 47/21)
BackgroundOperative paragraphs 14 and 15 of the above-mentioned resolution request the High Commissioner “…to continue to report on systemic racism, violations of international human rights law agains...
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Reform Initiatives @reforminitiatives.bsky.social · 15/09/2025
Today is #DemocracyDay. Democracy thrives on people’s voices, choices & participation — but faces disinformation, shrinking civic space & inequalities. “From Voice to Action” is a call to protect rights, build trust & reimagine democracy that works for all. #VoiceToAction #ReformInitiatives
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Leona Vaughn @drleona.bsky.social · 14/09/2025
The brilliant @sosowemimo.bsky.social joined me & @livunihss.bsky.social colleague Stephen Kenny yesterday to talk racism, colonialism and health @britsciassoc.bsky.social
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CoDE - Centre on the Dynamics of Ethnicity @ethnicityuk.bsky.social · 09/09/2025
Call for papers: 'On the body' conference 7 Nov, Uni of Dundee Race & racialisation in medicine and humanities. More info 👇🏾 www.linkedin.com/feed/update/...
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Call for papers - On the Body | Jessica Cox
Hello again! Mathilde Lyons and I are very excited to announce the launch of On the Body: an interdisciplinary conference on race and racialisation in medicine and humanities, held on the 7th of Novem...
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Yasmin Gunaratnam @anilsghost.bsky.social · 09/09/2025
Independent scholar fellowships ‘The Independent Social Research Foundation wishes to support Independent Scholars to explore and present original research ideas which take new approaches, and suggest new solutions, to real world social problems’ isrf.org/competitions...
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ISRF Independent Scholar Fellowship (ISF11)
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Zinn Education Project @zinnedproject.bsky.social · 09/09/2025
#tdih Stono Rebellion (1739), Association for the Study of African American Life and History @asalh-bhm.bsky.social founding (1915), Attica Prison Uprising (1971). Read about each event in 🧵 ⬇️and consider the connection between all three. Defend right to #TeachTruth #TeachOutsideTextbook
Marker for Stono Rebellion says: (on front) The Stono Rebellion, the largest slave insurrection in British North America, began nearby on September 9, 1739. About 20 Africans raided a store near Wallace Creek, a branch of the Stono River. Taking guns and other weapons, they killed two shopkeepers. The Rebels marched south toward promised freedom in Spanish Florida, waving flags, beating drums, and shouting "Liberty!"outdoor statue of man seated on steps. text says Carter G. Woodson, Father of Black History. A few trees in background. Men standing and seated outside. One man has a blanket around him. Brick walls and bars behind them.
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Saul Staniforth @saulstaniforth.bsky.social · 09/09/2025
The global sumud flotilla, which is sailing to break Israels siege of Gaza, has been attacked while in Tunisian waters.
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Theo Kindynis @kindynis.bsky.social · 06/09/2025
Yesterday the President (Michele Burman) and Executive Board of the European Society of Criminology brought the society into disrepute by refusing to allow a vote on collaboration with Israeli academic institutions complicit in the ongoing genocide in Gaza. Statement by Criminologists for Palestine:
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ESC General Assembly shows overwhelming support for motion; ESC Board denies vote
We, Criminologists for Palestine, are writing to express our profound shock at the decision of the European Society of Criminology (ESC) Executive Board to openly subvert the democratic will of its…
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Leona Vaughn @drleona.bsky.social · 08/09/2025
A necessary conversation today on gendered anti-Muslim racism in Liverpool region w/ @commonswec.parliament.uk Racism and misogyny are public health crises the UK must address
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Zinn Education Project @zinnedproject.bsky.social · 01/09/2025
#LaborDay is a time to remind ourselves of the importance of solidarity — that progress comes when people recognize that we need each other and organize together. We offer free lessons on labor history #FreedomtoLearn ⬇️ Art by @rlmartstudio.bsky.social www.zinnedproject.org/news/labor-h...
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Labor History Censored on Labor Day
Lessons, books, articles, films, and upcoming events on labor history.
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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 31/08/2025
Reminder: Most mass shootings are carried out by cisgender men.
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Mass Shooters Are Not Disproportionately Transgender
Most mass shootings are carried out by cisgender men.
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Teresa Degenhardt @drtdegenhardt.bsky.social · 01/09/2025
Resolution from the International Association of Genocide Scholars - link to the full document below
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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 01/09/2025
"Israel’s policies and actions in Gaza meet the legal definition of genocide in Article II of the United Nations Convention for the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide (1948)". Israel is committing genocide in Gaza, genocide scholars' association says - www.reuters.com/world/middle...
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Israel is committing genocide in Gaza, scholars' association says
The world's leading genocide scholars' association has passed a resolution saying that the legal criteria have been met to establish Israel is committing genocide in Gaza, its president said on Monday.
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Kevin Anderson @kevinclimate.bsky.social · 22/08/2025
New piece on Carbon Colonialism, net-zero nonsense, and how the UK Government's climate advisors (and many experts) shy away from speaking truth to power. We need a fundamental reboot of climate policy; - physics doesn't care about political sensibilities. theconversation.com/the-uks-year...
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The UK’s year of climate U-turns exposes a deeper failure
Breaking free of the dangerous pretence that current efforts suffice demands a fundamental rethink of the UK’s climate policy consensus.
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Yasmin Gunaratnam @anilsghost.bsky.social · 24/08/2025
Duke’s AI Ethics Learning Toolkit to engage students in critical conversations about AI across disciplines lile.duke.edu/ai-ethics-le...
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AI Ethics Learning Toolkit - Duke Learning Innovation & Lifetime Education
❌ Do we need AI? 🫱🏼‍🫲🏽 Can we trust AI? ⚖️ Is AI biased? 🧠 Does AI harm critical thinking? 🌿 Is AI Sustainable? 🫥 Who Builds our AI? 🦾 ...
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Yasmin Gunaratnam @anilsghost.bsky.social · 26/08/2025
New book to inhale @lalehkhalili.bsky.social on globalisation, low cost labour & how capitalism makes & sustains global inequalities @versobooks.bsky.social www.versobooks.com/en-gb/produc...
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Extractive Capitalism
Laleh Khalili reflects on the hidden stories behind late capitalism, from seafarers abandoned on debt-ridden container ships to the nefarious reach of consultancy firms and the cronyism that drives re...
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Beacon Press @beaconpress.bsky.social · 02/05/2025
Racism harms and racial trauma is real. Guilaine Kinouani wants to show that it is possible to resist and to practice radical self-care while navigating white supremacy. #MentalHealthAwarenessMonth
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Overcoming the Trauma of Anti-Black Racism Through Radical Self-Care
By Guilaine Kinouani | Racism causes harm. Harm to the body. And harm to the mind. Yet it was only in November 2020 that the American Medical Association recognized racism as an urgent threat to publi...
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Dr Tahaney Alghrani @drtahaneyalghrani.bsky.social · 21/08/2025
Super excited to be sharing this call for abstracts for a new book I will be editing with Dr Katy Proctor ✨️ www.emeraldgrouppublishing.com/calls-for-bo...
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Challenging Narratives: Creative Methodologies for Social Research
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Teresa Degenhardt @drtdegenhardt.bsky.social · 20/08/2025
Call from Palestinian Scholars to boycott the European Society of Criminology #EuroCrim2025 Link below
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Lorenzo Piccoli @lorenzopiccoli.bsky.social · 31/07/2025
Every state defines its own rules for gaining and losing citizenship. This clear, visually rich report by @globalcit.bsky.social captures the diverse ways countries shape and control who belongs and who doesn’t. globalgovernanceprogramme.eui.eu/global-state...
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Global State of Citizenship Report - Global Governance Programme
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 20/07/2025
Remember all that fulminating in the billionaire press about "free speech" (ie their freedom to abuse Muslims, trans people etc with impunity)? Now that people are being arrested for speaking about an issue of the utmost gravity, the self-appointed guardians of liberty have fallen strangely silent.
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Leona Vaughn @drleona.bsky.social · 16/07/2025
Glad to have made it for @d6culture.bsky.social launch tonight in Newcastle with incredible international artists working on decolonising heritage. Looking forward to tomorrow's conference! #decolonise #heritage
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Leona Vaughn @drleona.bsky.social · 16/07/2025
"Prevent missed chance to treat Southport killer, says review - BBC News " Researchers & activists saying this for years. Hyper focus on imagined harms of 'Islamism' = violence more broadly, esp the epidemic against women & girls, is not seen as priority. Scrap PREVENT share.google/fFFKp43sk4Ky...
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Prevent missed chance to treat Southport killer, says review - BBC News
A major review found the Prevent system could have potentially turned the killer away from violence.
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Alan Lester @alanlester.bsky.social · 16/07/2025
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France signals willingness to discuss reparations for colonial massacres in Niger
Exclusive: French government says it is open to dialogue but does not acknowledge responsibility in letter seen by the Guardian
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Isis Naucratis @isisnaucratis.bsky.social · 03/07/2025
Francesca Albanese's press conference is starting now! webtv.un.org/en/asset/k1a...
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OHCHR/Special Procedures - Press conference: Special Rapporteur on OPT
Press conference by Francesca Albanese, Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the Palestinian territories occupied since 1967
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Josiah Mortimer @josiahmortimer.bsky.social · 25/06/2025
Via British Medical Association’s annual conference yday: "It is now BMA policy that condemning Israel is not antisemitic per se, that students and medics should be able to advocate for Palestine without harassment by universities and trusts, and condemns اsraeا for killing health workers" (cont:)

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Great news from the British Medical Association’s annual conference.
It is now BMA policy that condemning Israel is not antisemitic per se, that students and medics should be able to advocate for Palestine without harassment by universities and trusts, and condemns اsraeا for killing health workers and bombing facilities and calls for accountability at ICJ and ICC. The conference calls for the immediate release of all detained health workers in اsraeا #BMAARM25
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Leona Vaughn @drleona.bsky.social · 25/06/2025
Can we talk about how children and young people especially will be unjustly criminalised by UK move to proscribe Palestine Action? Just for 'supporting' non violent protest? #childrights #righttoprotest #Prevent
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Leona Vaughn @drleona.bsky.social · 04/06/2025
My students would definitely fail using this methodology
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Leona Vaughn @drleona.bsky.social · 24/05/2025
@ucu.org.uk Congress opening speeches were amazing! @jogrady.bsky.social President Maxine Looby & Grenada Reparations Commission Chair Arley Gill. Taking Arley to Merseyside African Caribbean Centre to discuss their fight to stay open as an issue of reparative justice was an honour
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upstream @upstreampodcast.bsky.social · 13/05/2025
OUT TODAY 🎧 we spoke with @jgo34 about the imperial boomerang, the creation of civil police forces and how they were modeled after colonial police, how racialization and criminalization are baked into the global capitalist system, fascism, and much more
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Nuzhat Uthmani @nuthmani.bsky.social · 17/05/2025
"Academic and policy approaches that ignore #racism as the fundamental cause of ethnic inequalities in health, social, and economic outcomes will only partially address ethnic inequalities in the long-term." raceequalityfoundation.org.uk/blog/racism-...
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Racism at the root: Tackling ethnic health inequities through racially-just data and policy - Race Equality Foundation
Professor Laia Bécares challenges the common tendency to treat ethnicity as a fixed individual-level risk factor and instead argues for a racially-just approach to data and policy, one that recognises...
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Akil N Awan @akilnawan.bsky.social · 15/05/2025
Today marks Nakba Day (Palestinian Catastrophe) commemorating the destruction of Palestinian society & homeland in 1948 when Zionist militias expelled 750k Palestinians & captured 78% of historic Palestine. A glimpse into Palestine before the Nakba, in 100 photos. www.aljazeera.com/news/longfor...
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Palestine before the Nakba, in 100 photos
A glimpse into the places, people and daily life of Palestine before the 1948 Nakba.
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University of Liverpool Management School Research @ulmsresearch.bsky.social · 14/05/2025
In a lead letter to @thetimes.com, Professor Costas Milas has criticised the Government's proposal to introduce a levy of 6% on foreign students and stressed this is a very bad idea for UK universities ⬇️ www.thetimes.com/comment/lett...
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Samira Mohyeddin @smohyeddin.bsky.social · 16/04/2025
My latest interview is with Palestinian-American legal scholar and Rutgers University professor, Noura Erakat. 👉 youtu.be/JoG5ZP1B07E?...
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NOURA ERAKAT: PALESTINE AND SOLIDARITY REPRESSION IN AMERICA
YouTube video by ON THE LINE MEDIA
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Dan Hicks @profdanhicks.bsky.social · 11/05/2025
It was a privilege to share a platform with Angela Haynes, Onyekachi Wambu and @drleona.bsky.social, and to have such a long discussion with the audience about statues, Fallism, and abolition in all its forms ✨🙏 further pics: 1/ the boxed-up plinth outside the museum
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Leona Vaughn @drleona.bsky.social · 08/05/2025
Incredibly powerful workshop on racial trauma and what it means for research and practice by psychotherapist and co-founder of Anthony Walker Foundation Stephanie Walker @livunihss.bsky.social Collaboration with @liverpoolmuseums.bsky.social on Medical Mistrust in Black communities
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Leona Vaughn @drleona.bsky.social · 06/05/2025
@unesco.org Master Class Against Racism in Paris today with Rev Dr Canon Sharon Prentis Deputy Director @churchofengland.org Racial Justice Unit in advance of the Church gathering at @livuninews.bsky.social June 2025
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Archaeologists Resisting Far-Right Appropriation @a-rfa.bsky.social · 04/05/2025
Hello! We are Archaeologists Resisting Far-Right Appropriation (ARFA for short). You can learn more about us at our website here: archaeologistsrfa.wordpress.com Watch this space for blog posts, events, and commentary on the co-option and misuse of heritage in the near future.
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Archaeologists Resisting Far-Right Appropriation
Countering the far-right co-option of archaeology and heritage
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Leona Vaughn @drleona.bsky.social · 03/05/2025
Inspiring talk by @sosowemimo.bsky.social at @nhm-london.bsky.social & visit to @wellcomecollection.bsky.social today for research trip with this great team from @livunihss.bsky.social & @liverpoolmuseums.bsky.social Ideas a-plenty!!
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Dan Hicks @profdanhicks.bsky.social · 03/05/2025
“Crimes without Criminals”—talks about public memory, oppression and resistance at the site where the statue of Robert Milligan was removed in 2020 next Sat (10 May) me, @drleona.bsky.social and Angela Haynes at London Museum Docklands sign up here (free) >> www.londonmuseum.org.uk/whats-on/cri...
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Crimes without criminals
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Dr Tahaney Alghrani @drtahaneyalghrani.bsky.social · 30/04/2025
Thought provoking and engaging discussion with Dr Leona Vaughn @drleona.bsky.social
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Leona Vaughn @drleona.bsky.social · 02/05/2025
An attack on a humanitarian group in international waters. Why is this not on every news channel round the world?
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Leona Vaughn @drleona.bsky.social · 02/05/2025
A great two days kicking off @musicfuturesuk.bsky.social and starting the @advancehe.bsky.social Diversifying Leadership programme for future HE leaders Busy and exciting times ahead!
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Saul Staniforth @saulstaniforth.bsky.social · 30/04/2025
Overnight the UK bombed Yemen In 2020 Starmer said blindly following the Americans was the wrong thing to do & he promised to pass legislation that said military action could be taken if you got the consent of the Commons. Did you get that consent Keir?
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Zinn Education Project @zinnedproject.bsky.social · 16/04/2025
Reparations is not in most textbooks, yet it is vital to teach about the long history of the demands, roots of inequality today, and to explore reparative policies that recognize the magnitude of theft & harm. Lesson ⬇️for grade 7+ to #TeachOutsideTextbook www.zinnedproject.org/materials/st...
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Repair: Students Design a Reparations Bill
In this activity, students take on the role of activist-experts to improve upon a Congressional bill for reparations for Black people.
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