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Dr. Elena Kalodner-Martin

@ekalodnermar.bsky.social
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Assistant Professor in Writing, Rhetoric, and Literacy at Ohio State. Associate Editor @ TCSJ. Teaching and researching medical evidence + expertise (#techcomm, #medrhet, #femrhet, #sts). She/her.

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Technical Communication & Social Justice Journal @techcommsj.bsky.social · 06/04/2026
TCSJ is thrilled to announce the publication of our latest issue (4.1)! Whether you are interested in TPC’s potential to further engage with race and antiracism, disparities in medical diagnosis and care, or usability research in transnational contexts, there is something for you. 1/2
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Vol. 4 No. 1 (2026): Spring Issue | Technical Communication and Social Justice
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Dr. Elena Kalodner-Martin @ekalodnermar.bsky.social · 06/03/2026
Folks at #4C26: I am kindly asking everyone to stop saying “post COVID” or “after COVID” when we mean “after lockdown” or “after the availability of vaccines.” COVID is still around, and saying “post COVID” obscures the ongoing medical, social, economic, political, etc. effects. Precision matters!
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Medical Rhetoricians @medrhet.bsky.social · 04/03/2026
To all getting settled in Cleveland - check out the #MRSG Sponsored Roundtable @ #4C26! Th 3/5, @ 12:15 in Atrium Ballroom D, Huntington CC! Feat. priyanka ganguly, Melissa Guadrón, @christateston.bsky.social, Lilly Campbell, Elena Kalodner-Martin, Marissa McKinley, & Linda Smith-Brecheisen #RHM
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Timnit Gebru @timnitgebru.blacksky.app · 07/01/2026
Friends, at a time when science is under attack & people are economically hurting, the ACM, Association for Computing Machinery, is introducing paywalls that didn't exist. If you're opposed to this measure, join me in signing this petition asking the ACM to stop. www.ipetitions.com/petition/res...
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Veronica Lewis, M.Ed. 👩‍🦯 @veron4ica.com · 29/11/2024
I’m glad so many people have found my “capybara method” for how to write alt text and image descriptions helpful! However, I know conflicting access needs exist and not everyone can write their own #AltText, so here’s an ongoing thread of tools that can help. Inclusion in thread ≠ endorsement
An infographic titled “How To Write Alt Text” featuring a photo of a capybara. Parts of alt text are divided by color, including identify who, expression, description, colour, and interesting features. The finished description reads “A capybara looking relaxed in a hot spa. Yellow yuzu fruits are floating in the water, and one is balanced on the top of the capybara’s head.” Credit to Puzzle agency, original information from Veronica With Four Eyes and veroniiiica dot com
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Eb @ebthen.bsky.social · 11/01/2026
If folks need guidance on how to do alt text, I've put together this collection of best practice guides to make it pretty easy. (Hints: the goal isn't to describe everything in the image, alt text should usually only be a sentence or two long, and it matters where you're sharing the image and why.)
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 07/12/2025
15/ Today we’ve published a deeply reported 5-part series. It’s about Albany, Georgia. It’s about getting sick in America. And it’s about what happens when the most powerful institution in town is a hospital.
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As Phoebe Memorial Grew, the Health of Albany, Georgia, Declined
The five-part series, “Sick in a Hospital Town,” pursues one question: Why are people in Albany so sick when its most powerful institution is a hospital?
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Dr. Elena Kalodner-Martin @ekalodnermar.bsky.social · 01/12/2025
Today’s the day! Join us in conversation at 12pm ET to chat about all things queer food and HIV/AIDS. Sign ups are free and open on the Eventbrite page until 11:45am ET: www.eventbrite.com/e/queer-food...
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Queer Food and HIV/AIDS: A World AIDS Day Event
Roundtable discussion with Queers at the Table contributors and AIDS Community Care Montreal
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Dr. Elena Kalodner-Martin @ekalodnermar.bsky.social · 24/11/2025
In ONE week, I’ll be speaking at Queer Food and HIV/AIDS: A World AIDS Day Event from 12:00-1:30pm EST with Jo Michael Rezes, Isabel Barbosa, Dave Davenport, Alex D. Ketchum, Megan J. Elias, Jon Kauffman, and Crystal Harrison! The event is free and virtual. Sign up and learn more here:
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Queer Food and HIV/AIDS: A World AIDS Day Event
Roundtable discussion with Queers at the Table contributors and AIDS Community Care Montreal
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Rabbi Danya Ruttenberg @theradr.bsky.social · 16/11/2025
May her memory be for a revolution that lights all of our way home. ❤️‍🔥
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Disability rights activist and author Alice Wong dies at 51 | CNN
Alice Wong, a disability rights activist and author whose independence and writing inspired others, has died. She was 51.
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Special Interest Group on the Design of Communication @sigdoc-acm.bsky.social · 10/11/2025
As a reminder, proposals for the 2026 ACM Special Interest Group on Design of Communication are due in two months! We are looking forward to welcoming you to SIGDOC 2026 at Metropolitan State University in St. Paul, MN. The Call for Proposals is live: sigdoc.acm.org/conference/2.... 1/2
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Proposal Process - ACM SIGDOC 2026 Conference
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Dr. Elena Kalodner-Martin @ekalodnermar.bsky.social · 28/10/2025
I missed seeing everyone at #SIGDOC25, but I’m so excited to be program co-chairing with @banvillemorgan.bsky.social for #SIGDOC26! Our CFP is linked below. Please email us at the posted email addresses with any questions!
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Saeed Jones @theferocity.bsky.social · 20/10/2025
I call it “joyful rigor” when I explain this effort to my students. I don’t believe in or rather, I’m not a “suffering poet.” I’m a writer who enjoys writing. The work works on me and I’m grateful for the opportunity to delve into the process at my own pace and to be changed by it.
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Dr. Elena Kalodner-Martin @ekalodnermar.bsky.social · 23/09/2025
I’m thrilled to have an article included in TCSJ's most recent special issue! If you’re interested in vaccination, rhetorical strategies used in public health, or social media communication, give it a read: techcommsocialjustice.org/index.php/tc...
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“What Do I Need to Say to Make You Trust Me?” | Technical Communication and Social Justice
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Dr. Elena Kalodner-Martin @ekalodnermar.bsky.social · 10/09/2025
Yes, and aside from the obvious reliance on grifty language and logic, another key issue with Cox’s argument that "using AI is a radical act of feminism" is that it risks placing blame on women for the far-reaching impacts of sexism if they choose not to engage with it, thus making sexism… worse.
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Dr. Elena Kalodner-Martin @ekalodnermar.bsky.social · 03/09/2025
Reminder that vaccine mandates are not political but ending them IS. Massachusetts was the first state to require immunizations for school…. for smallpox… in 1855.
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Dr. Elena Kalodner-Martin @ekalodnermar.bsky.social · 03/09/2025
Making it harder for people to get vaccinated is unequivocally worse for everyone’s health. A couple things are true: Many providers WILL write prescriptions for them if you’re in a state that needs them. Many conditions and lifestyles ARE included (autoimmune, depression, even inactivity!).
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Dr. Elena Kalodner-Martin @ekalodnermar.bsky.social · 26/08/2025
It’s the first day of a new academic year! This semester, I’m teaching a class called Rhetorics of Health, Illness, and Wellness. If you have a resource/artifact that you love showing in class (an article, a clip of a show or movie, a TikTok, a cool data viz, etc.), I’d love to check them out.
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Anna Kornbluh @annakornbluh.bsky.social · 16/07/2025
it's always a good day to talk about HUMANITIES WORKS humanitiesworks.org
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HUMANITIES WORKS – posters, postcards, and handouts to support the humanities
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Dr. Elena Kalodner-Martin @ekalodnermar.bsky.social · 14/07/2025
Unconscionable.
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Dr. Elena Kalodner-Martin @ekalodnermar.bsky.social · 25/06/2025
A conversation that we need to have about the academic job market is what happens financially when people are between positions and how this gap makes systemic failures VERY apparent. Case in point: my COBRA insurance cost is $1,000 a month.
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Rabbi Danya Ruttenberg @theradr.bsky.social · 15/06/2025
All we need is for those numbers to sustain across a diversity of tactics for an extended amount of time-- strikes! boycotts! slowdowns! leaks! refusals! art shenanigans! more! -- and we will have this in the bag, folks. We. Can. Do. This.
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On Organizing
time to level up / an early draft of a playbook
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Technical Communication & Social Justice Journal @techcommsj.bsky.social · 14/06/2025
Thanks to everyone who joined us! For more information about TCSJ, please visit techcommsocialjustice.org. You can also reach out to our editors directly at editors@techcommsocialjustice.org if you're interested in pitching a project, being a reviewer, or with any other questions.
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Dr. Elena Kalodner-Martin @ekalodnermar.bsky.social · 14/06/2025
#ATTW25 attendees: come to the TPC Editors' Roundtable today at 4:45pm CST in BCH 125 and on Zoom! I'll be there on behalf of @tcsocialjustice.bsky.social. We look forward to chatting with you about all things submitting, reviewing, and more.
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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 11/06/2025
Every flashbang could instead be a meal for a poor kid. Every hotel room for a National Guardsman deployed to fire at our neighbors could house a homeless vet. Every "less-than-lethal" bullet pulled from a journalist's eye could be already needed healthcare for anyone else. All of this is a choice.
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Dr. Elena Kalodner-Martin @ekalodnermar.bsky.social · 28/05/2025
Aside from all of the other (more important) considerations, the em dash becoming the hallmark of generative AI-written content has been very troublesome for me, a committed em dash user who is now being forced into an early retirement.
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Dr. Elena Kalodner-Martin @ekalodnermar.bsky.social · 19/05/2025
I am so honored to share that I was selected to be the recipient of this year's Hugh Burns Dissertation Award at #CWCon25. Thank you to the selection committee and my dissertation committee for their support of this work. Can't wait to see everyone next year at #CWCon26!
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Dr. Elena Kalodner-Martin @ekalodnermar.bsky.social · 16/05/2025
Attending #CWcon25? Looking for something to do bright and early tomorrow? I’ll be presenting remotely at 9:00am with @banvillemorgan.bsky.social and @emilygresb.bsky.social on “Politics of Compliance: Redefining Perceived Agency in ‘Wellness.’” We hope to see you there!
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Dr. Elena Kalodner-Martin @ekalodnermar.bsky.social · 13/05/2025
As I wrap up my final semester teaching at @mit.edu, I want to shoutout my Medical Device Design students, who just wrapped up their final presentations last night! The creativity and dedication they show through their devices -- each addressing an unmet clinical need -- never fails to impress. 1/x
A group of students standing in front of a large lecture hall and a projector screen. The projector screen reads: "MIT Medical Device Design, Welcome to Final Presentations, meddevdesign.mit.edu."
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Dr. Elena Kalodner-Martin @ekalodnermar.bsky.social · 09/05/2025
It's *almost* here! We are both thrilled to have been included in this fabulous edited collection, which you can preorder here: www.routledge.com/The-Routledg....
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The Routledge Handbook of Social Justice in Technical and Professional Communication
This handbook interrogates and illustrates contemporary approaches to technical and professional communication (TPC) by focusing on emerging issues in the field. Using a social justice-centered approa...
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David Buck @dbuckedu.bsky.social · 23/04/2025
Looking for some summer reading? Check out the FREE More Than Words virtual book club beginning in June! Join others actively considering how to center authentic writing/thinking in the age of AI. @biblioracle.bsky.social will be planning to join us for most sessions! forms.gle/ksGsyZjkzhwz...
Image of a brain merged with a computer chip. Under the image are the words: More Than Words Virtual Book Club
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Dr. Elena Kalodner-Martin @ekalodnermar.bsky.social · 12/04/2025
It was such an honor to be recognized tonight for my dissertation work at #4C25! Thanks for sharing, @voleuseck.bsky.social, thank you to the selection committee and my wonderful advisors, and congratulations to the other award winners!
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Dr. Elena Kalodner-Martin @ekalodnermar.bsky.social · 10/04/2025
Looking for something to do at #4C25 this morning? Come to the RHM Roundtable, Computer Love in Rhetorics of Health and Medicine, at 10:30am ET (session A.23). I'll be talking about TikTok, health communication, and what happens when we ban platforms.
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Dr. Alex Ketchum (she/her) @aketchum22.bsky.social · 18/03/2025
work by @ashleyrguillory.bsky.social @cedarsageskoden.bsky.social @bluedelliquanti.bsky.social @ainopihlak.bsky.social @dogspunk.bsky.social @diana-molina.bsky.social @ekalodnermar.bsky.social @jmrezes.bsky.social @johnbirdsall.bsky.social @hyzkoa.bsky.social @stackeddeckpress.bsky.social
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Internet Archive @archive.org · 13/03/2025
🔗 Websites vanish. Links break. But knowledge can live on with your help. Use the Wayback Machine’s Save Page Now tool to archive webpages that are important to you. 🕰️ 💾 📌 Try it now: web.archive.org/save
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Dr. Elena Kalodner-Martin @ekalodnermar.bsky.social · 04/03/2025
I am delighted to announce that I have accepted a position as a tenure-track Assistant Professor of English in the Writing, Rhetoric, and Literacy program at The Ohio State University. I'm looking forward to joining their brilliant and dynamic community this fall. Go Bucks! 1/2
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Dr. Elena Kalodner-Martin @ekalodnermar.bsky.social · 26/02/2025
This is a good thing, folks! The first best time to get vaccinated is when they become available, but the second best time is now. 1/2
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Dr. Elena Kalodner-Martin @ekalodnermar.bsky.social · 20/02/2025
It was such a pleasure to contribute to this anthology with Jo Michael Rezes and Isabel Barbosa! Pre-order below and read about our work on food as medicine, HIV/AIDS patient care and community, and the magic that is Diseased Pariah News.
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Dr. Elena Kalodner-Martin @ekalodnermar.bsky.social · 11/02/2025
Your friendly health communicator is back to remind you that masking is versatile and you can mask for other reasons that's not protecting yourself and others from COVID. It's great for the flu! RSV! The common cold!!!
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Dr. Elena Kalodner-Martin @ekalodnermar.bsky.social · 07/02/2025
I am so honored to share that my dissertation has been selected for this year's @ncte.org CCCC's Outstanding Dissertation in Technical Communication award. Thank you to the selection committee and to my wonderful committee for their support and guidance throughout this project!
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Chise @sailorrooscout.bsky.social · 02/02/2025
PLEASE SHARE 🧪‼️ Since CDC websites and datasets are being taken down by the Administration… The ENTIRE archive of ALL CDC datasets uploaded BEFORE January 28th, 2025 can be found here: archive.org/details/2025...
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Joseph Rezek @rezekjoe.bsky.social · 03/02/2025
Lock ur phone up for the day! Go work on your woke humanities projects and lesson plans!!! Gtf outa here!
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Maggie Koerth @maggiek.bsky.social · 31/01/2025
If you're a journalist downloading CDC data today, please consider filling out this form so we have a centralized guide to who has what. docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
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Downloaded CDC Data And Where To Find It
Journalists and scientists are downloading a bunch of public health data they suspect might be at risk of deletion. Instead of all of us privately reinventing the wheel over and over, what if we share...
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Dr. Elena Kalodner-Martin @ekalodnermar.bsky.social · 31/01/2025
I'm delighted to share that my chapter, titled "Listening For and Listening To: Narrative Inquiry in Pandemic Health Communication" is now available in the C&W Proceedings! You can check it out here: wac.colostate.edu/docs/proceed...
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Mike Duncan @theophrastean.bsky.social · 29/01/2025
One of my field’s oldest organizations, STC, just bankrupted, taking Technical Communication, its journal, with it. #techcomm www.stc.org If your paper got marooned, send it to TCSJ. We review quick. More thoughts later.
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The Society for Technical Communication is the world’s largest and oldest professional association dedicated to the advancement of the field of technical communication.
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Dr. Elena Kalodner-Martin @ekalodnermar.bsky.social · 14/01/2025
Interesting in strategies for integrating accessibility with comp sci education? The AiiCE Identity and Computing Lecture Series is coming up on January 21, 2025 at 5pm ET! Register for free here: duke.is/Accessible-C...
Banner for AiiCE Lecture Series: Teaching Accessible Computing: A Panel Discussion. Headshots of the panelists with their names are included and are, from left to right,: Alannah Oleson (University of Washington), Catherine Baker (Creighton), William Barres (Whitman), Elena Kalodner-Martin (MIT), and Thomas Pickering (MIT).  Registration required via Zoom: https://duke.is/Accessible-Computing
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Dr. Elena Kalodner-Martin @ekalodnermar.bsky.social · 31/12/2024
My dad and I each folded 1,000 paper cranes in 2024 (and these are our last ones!). My cranes are going to live in hospitals and senior care centers, where they can be symbols of health and luck to patients and residents. If you know someone who needs a crane, DM me and I’d be happy to mail one. ❤️
Two blue origami paper cranes sitting on a light grey coaster. The coaster is on a dark brown wood table.
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 19/12/2024
NEW: Women experiencing pregnancy loss in states with abortion bans told us they wished they had known what to expect and how to advocate for themselves. We created this guide for anyone who finds themselves in the same position. ⤵️
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If You’re Pregnant, Here’s What You Should Know About the Medical Procedures That Could Save Your Life
Women experiencing pregnancy loss in states with abortion bans told us they wished they had known what to expect and how to advocate for themselves. We created this guide for anyone who finds…
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Dr. Elena Kalodner-Martin @ekalodnermar.bsky.social · 04/12/2024
Interesting in strategies for integrating accessibility with computer science education? Attend the next (free!) AiiCE Identity and Computing Lecture Series on January 21, 2025. I'll be presenting with Thomas Pickering (MIT), William Barres (Whitman), and Catherine Baker (Creighton).
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Welcome! You are invited to join a meeting: Identity & Computing Lecture Series: Teaching Accessible Computing: A Panel Discussion. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email about joini...
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Dr. Elena Kalodner-Martin @ekalodnermar.bsky.social · 22/11/2024
@banvillemorgan.bsky.social and I recently published an article in Surveillance & Society covering our analyses of biometric technologies in one of the largest healthcare networks in the U.S. We wrote a follow-up blog post about our research, which is now available at the S&S blog! Check it out:
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The Ubiquity of Biometric Technologies
In this post, Morgan Banville and Elena Kalodner-Martin reflect on their article ‘Quantifiable Bodies: The Influence of Biometric…
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