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ESEH's Next Generation Action Team (NEXTGATe). Representing the Early Career Researchers branch of the European Society for Environmental History. We do events, workshops, etc. aimed at helping scholars navigate murky academic life

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ESEH NEXTGATe @esehnextgate.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Call for Writing Support Program! Are you an early-career scholar working on a manuscript? Apply for this great opportunity with Andrea Gaynor and Mona Bieling. #envhist #envhum
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Rachel Carson Center for Environment & Society @carsoncenter.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
We look forward to going to Toronto in 2030!
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The White Horse Press @whitehorsepress.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
We’ve published ‘Global Environment’ issue 19.3, #openaccess here: liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk/toc/whpge/cu... #envhist #envhum @globalenvironment.bsky.social
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ESEH NEXTGATe @esehnextgate.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Visiting scholar opportunity at the Rachel Carson Center, open also to PhD students! #envhist #envhum
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ESEH NEXTGATe @esehnextgate.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Great study opportunity in Munich at the Rachel Carson Center! #envhist
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Libby Robin @libbydeq.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
newnatures.org/greenhouse/e... 200 episodes to talk about! @iceho.bsky.social @nichecanada.bsky.social @aehhub.bsky.social @esehnextgate.bsky.social
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Online book talk: 200th episode special – The Greenhouse Book Talks
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Gabriella M. Petrick, Ph.D. 🍇🍇🍇 @gpetrick.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
We have a CFP out! Send us something #food #foodstudies #foodhist #envhist academic.oup.com/oxford-inter...
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Current Calls for Papers
Oxford Intersections reflects the critical role that peer-reviewed interdisciplinary research plays in helping policy- and decision-makers tackle the world
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Melina Antonia Buns @melinabuns.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
The @greenhouseuis.net is back from the summer break and already fully immersed in the buzz of term start – this year with the new MA programme in Public Environmental Humanities! @sarabpritchard.bsky.social will kick off the #envhum book talks next Monday! ☀️
Overview of the events happening at the Greenhouse Center for Environmental Humanities during August 2026. For more information about the center, visit the website https://www.uis.no/en/greenhouse. For information about the book talk series, see also https://newnatures.org/greenhouse/
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Andreas Jünger @a-juenger.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
My review of Frank Uekötter's book 'The Vortex. An Environmenal History of the Modern World' is now available in 𝐼𝑠𝑖𝑠. 𝐴 𝐽𝑜𝑢𝑟𝑛𝑎𝑙 𝑜𝑓 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝐻𝑖𝑠𝑡𝑜𝑟𝑦 𝑜𝑓 𝑆𝑐𝑖𝑒𝑛𝑐𝑒 𝑆𝑜𝑐𝑖𝑒𝑡𝑦 (only accessible with a subscription): www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/... #histsci #envhist
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Frank Uekötter. The Vortex: An Environmental History of the Modern World. 848 pp., illus., notes, index. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2023 (open access); ISBN 9780822989806. Cloth avail...
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Alex Hibberts @hibbertsalex.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
In early June, researchers from 15 universities and 6 countries came together @ihr.bsky.social for a workshop to discuss the who, what, where and why of the Little Ice Age. Thank you for all who came, presented, spoke and asked challenging questions! nehnetwork.wordpress.com/2026/07/20/f...
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From Climate to Weather History: Can Taking a Short-Term, Local Perspective Help Reframe the Little Ice Age?
Committee Member Alex Hibberts writes on a recent workshop on the Little Ice Age, hosted by the Institute of Historical Research in London. In early June, researchers from fifteen universities and …
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ESEH NEXTGATe @esehnextgate.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
The journal French Historical Studies is especially interested in early-career researchers contributing to the upcoming #EnvHist issue. Deadline: 31 August. Read the full call here:
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Rachel Carson Center for Environment & Society @carsoncenter.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
We are excited to announce the release of a special issue of 𝘚𝘱𝘳𝘪𝘯𝘨𝘴: 𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘙𝘢𝘤𝘩𝘦𝘭 𝘊𝘢𝘳𝘴𝘰𝘯 𝘊𝘦𝘯𝘵𝘦𝘳 𝘙𝘦𝘷𝘪𝘦𝘸, titled “Imagining Environmental Futures.” Read the issue for free at springs-rcc.org. #envhum #envhist #publications #RCCSprings #specialissue #future
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ESEH NEXTGATe @esehnextgate.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
We hope to see many early-career researchers at next year's ESEH! Remember that there are many more formats that the traditional panel. Nextgate will of course be present in several ways! #EnvHist
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Katherine Arnold @arnoldke.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
Only three days left to apply! I started on a similar position here and it really helped me get my feet + teaching/admin experience after finishing the PhD. It's a fantastic place to work and our students are great! ✨ 🚨 Deadline ➡️ 23 July #envhist #envhum #histstm
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ESEH NEXTGATe @esehnextgate.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
Looking for European work or study opportunities in environmental history and related fields? Join our Nextgate network for early-career researchers! You will receive a monthly newsletter as well as be a part of a community listserv. To join, send us a direct message and include your email. #envhist
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Jenny Leetsch @jennyleetsch.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
CfP Sea and Migration in Art, Film, and Photography (deadline 29 July 2026) - arthist.net/archive/52668 #EnvHum #BlueHumanities #EnvHist
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Meer und Migration in Kunst, Film und Fotografie (Trier, 13–14 Nov 26)
Denis Grünemeier. Universität Trier, 13.–14.11.2026, Eingabeschluss : 29.07.2026
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Sam Grinsell @samgrinsell.bsky.social · 12/07/2026
Excellent stuff here, looking forward to these new projects!
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Brad Bolman @brad.bolman.com · 12/07/2026
Inspiring call to action for the next generation of environmental historians
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ESEH – European Society for Environmental History @eseh.bsky.social · 11/07/2026
The call for ESEH 2027 is out! Submit your proposal by 15 October. We offer standard formats like panel sessions, individual papers, book presentations, and posters, but also repeat our creative Different World Sessions! Read more here: eseh.org/cfp-14th-bie... #EnvHist #EnvHum
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Martin Knoll @mknoll.bsky.social · 11/07/2026
www.eseh2027.at Call is out now! See you in #Salzburg ! @eseh.bsky.social @esehnextgate.bsky.social #EnvHist #EnvHum
Photography of Salzburg University Unipark campus, c Martin Knoll
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Katherine Arnold @arnoldke.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
🚨 JOB KLAXON #skystorians #envhist #envhums Cover for some of my teaching next year - 0.5 FTE at University of Liverpool. Feel free to get in touch if you have any questions! www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DSE899/l...
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Lecturer in Environmental History (Teaching & Scholarship) (0.5 FTE)- Grade 7 at University of Liverpool
Apply now for the Lecturer in Environmental History (Teaching & Scholarship) (0.5 FTE)- Grade 7 role on jobs.ac.uk - the leading job board for higher education jobs. View details.
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ESEH NEXTGATe @esehnextgate.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
We just published a Notepad in the journal Environment and History! Learn about our new vision for early-career researchers in environmental history and the environmental humanities in "NEXTGATe Evolves: Toward Craft and Creativity." #envhist #envhum
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NEXTGATe Evolves: Toward Craft and Creativity | Environment and History
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Claas Kirchhelle @kirchhelle.bsky.social · 03/07/2026
Job Alert! Two-year postdoctoral position (100%, Jan 2027-Dec 2029) on the biological & social history of enteric pathogens in post-war France: euraxess.ec.europa.eu/jobs/448818 (1/4)
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Post-doctoral Position in History of Medicine, Social Sciences, and Geography
Archaeology of Disappeared Pathogens (ArchPath) reconstructs the interwoven biological and social histories of enteric fever (typhoid and paratyphoid B) endemism and eradication in post-war France.
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ESEH NEXTGATe @esehnextgate.bsky.social · 15/06/2026
Unfortunately we must postpone our academic zine workshop due to unforeseen events, but we will reschedule it as soon as we have found a new date. To make sure you do not miss it, follow our page or join our listserv (send a DM to us and we will add you). #envhist #envhum
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Dolly Jørgensen @dollyjorgensen.bsky.social · 12/06/2026
PhD student position in History of Ideas & Science, Gothenberg University, Sweden. 4 year paid position. Environment is one of the possible areas to research. web103.reachmee.com/ext/I005/103... #envhist
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Doctoral position in History of Ideas and Science
The Department of Literature, History of Ideas, and Religion is one of the six departments
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Daniella M. @farsouthhistory.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
There is still time to read a new book this summer! Check out the list that I have for review with H-Environment #envhist #envhum #ecocrit #climate #sustainability #conservation #envtech #plantstudies #animalhist docs.google.com/document/d/1...
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Books Available to review for H-Environment
Books Available for Review for H-Environment Below are the books currently available for review for H-Environment. Interested in reviewing one? Please email me at dmccahey@uci.edu. If we haven’t met,...
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Mona Bieling @monabie.bsky.social · 08/06/2026
Come join us next week for an introductory workshop on how to make zines. Info below 👇
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ESEH NEXTGATe @esehnextgate.bsky.social · 05/06/2026
New academic zine workshop! Are you tired of the traditional forms of publication? Learn about how to (and why you should) make your own publications in our free workshop. Register here: www.eventbrite.ie/e/how-to-mak... #envhist #envhum
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Simone Schleper 🟥 @moneschleper.bsky.social · 26/05/2026
Join the BNL Environmental History Today online seminar tomorrow, Wednesday (27 May), between 15:30 and 17:00. Dr. Wout Sealens will present his recently published book Fossil Consumerism: Energy, Ecology and Everyday Life in the Early Modern Low Countries. #envhist @eseh.bsky.social
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College for Social Sciences and Humanities | UA Ruhr @college-uaruhr.bsky.social · 18/05/2026
🔔 JOB OPENING: 1 postdoctoral researcher (f/m/x) to join the research professorship 'Public Social Sciences and Humanities: Key Societal Debates' (Prof. Sule Emmanuel Egya) #envhum #PublicHumanities #IndigenousStudies 📆 15 June 2026 👉 www.uni-due.de/karriere/ste...
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Rebekah Higgitt @rhiggitt.bsky.social · 18/05/2026
Post by @lottaleiwo.bsky.social, Tamara Caulkins & me on the thinking behind our call for contributions to a Sourcebook for Histories of Weather and Weathering - the workshop(s) that inspired it and our own perspectives. The deadline is 4 September #histSTM #envhist meteohistory.org/announcements/
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Announcements – International Commission on the History of Meteorology
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Libby Robin @libbydeq.bsky.social · 16/05/2026
Lovely essay by @palmblad.bsky.social developing the sense of environing - a verb - that does things to us (all organisms) rather than just something out there (to be managed), or an adjective that decorates something else. Environment with grit... @carsoncenter.bsky.social @aehhub.bsky.social
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Speak4Nature @speak4nature.bsky.social · 18/05/2026
Our colleagues at the Rachel Carson Center have contributed with a new deliverable for our project: The Cultural Roots of Ecological Justice. Read it to learn about the history ecological justice, its perils, and how to reconcile it with social justice. ec.europa.eu/research/par... #envhum #envhist
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ESEH – European Society for Environmental History @eseh.bsky.social · 15/05/2026
Some new European environmental history!
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ESEH NEXTGATe @esehnextgate.bsky.social · 13/05/2026
We have a new logo! Made by Gilberto Mazzoli, who has also designed the official logo of the ESEH, and who moreover is a part of NEXTGATe. By the way, join our listserv with a monthly newsletter on #EnvHist and #EnvHum opportunities by sending us your email address in a DM!
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Rachel Carson Center for Environment & Society @carsoncenter.bsky.social · 12/05/2026
CfA! The wonderful Dr. Anna Antonova is looking for two PhD researchers to join her “Convivial Waterfronts: Reimagining Urban Coastal Conservation for Just Sustainability Transformations” project. Full call: www.sts.sot.tum.de/sts/sts-depa... #envhum #CfA #PhD #research #career
Two funded PhD positions at TU Munich on "Convivial Waterfronts" project. Deadline for applications 10 June 2026.
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RUB History & Philosophy of Science @roto-rub.bsky.social · 12/05/2026
Interested in herbaria, plants and digitization? Come work with us! 3 PhD & Postdoc Positions in History & Phil. of Biology & Digital Humanities! #ERC Project BOTLEG; @ruhr-uni-bochum.de! Deadline: 25 May '26 #HistSci #PhilSci #HPBio #EnvHist #DigitalHumanities #AcademicSky #PhDSky Details below 👇
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ESEH – European Society for Environmental History @eseh.bsky.social · 05/05/2026
New lecture series on "Soviet Biology in Changing Environments: Nature, Knowledge, and Life under Transformation," with Anna Mazanik, Stephen Brain, Dmitriy Myelnikov, and ALexandra Noi. #EnvHist #EnvHum
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Lecture Series: „Soviet Biology in Changing Environments: Nature, Knowledge, and Life under Transformation“
This lecture series addresses environmental change in three interconnected senses: transformations of natural environments, shifts in academic and institutional settings, and changes in biological …
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Anna-Maria Senuysal @annamariasenuysal.bsky.social · 05/05/2026
Dear #EnvHum Folks, I could NOT be more excited to post the CfP for our upcoming edited volume on "Mycelia Across Media - Creative Expression and the Fungal Turn": networks.h-net.org/group/announ.... Please submit or let us know if you have any questions. 🍄🎉 #EnvironmentalHumanities #Fungi
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CfP Mycelia Across Media: Creative Expression and the Fungal Turn (Edited Volume) | H-Net
Call for Papers: Edited VolumeMycelia across Media: Creative Expression and the Fungal Turn
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ESEH NEXTGATe @esehnextgate.bsky.social · 08/04/2026
Marco Armiero's ERC project welcomes PhD candidates and Postdocs! A PDF in English is available at the bottom of the page. The project is called "CATCH: The Catholic Church and the Environment" #envhist #envhum
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O proxecto europeo CATCH abre unha chamada de interese para incorporar persoal investigador e técnico - CISPAC
O proxecto europeo CATCH –The Catholic Church and the Environment– vén de lanzar unha chamada de interese para a incorporación de 5 persoas predoutorais, 2 posdoutorais e 1 asistente de investigación ...
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Rémi Gandoin @remiwnd.bsky.social · 03/04/2026
Dear #envhist community, I will be presenting my draft paper “Wind and Site Engineers, 'behind the turbines' 1971-1999" at the CHSTM Energy History Working Group on April 10th. Feel free to join and/or contact me cc @eseh.bsky.social @leruche.bsky.social @nichecanada.bsky.social
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Energy History | Consortium for History of Science, Technology and Medicine
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Harry Croft @harrycroft.bsky.social · 10/03/2026
🚨Call for Papers! 3–4 September, Universität Augsburg: 2-day workshop on "theorising uncharismatic species in environmental history". Who are they? Where are their voices in the historical record? What insights do they offer to the field of environmental history? Be there! Abstracts due 15/05/2026!
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New York State Association of European Historians @nysaeh.bsky.social · 09/03/2026
A fantastic and free medieval history conference taking place later this month at Syracuse University! Undergraduate and graduate students are encouraged to attend
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Monica Vasile 🐾 @monicavasile.bsky.social · 06/03/2026
CFA: These are wonderful 3-years postdoc projects, check them out and apply: 🐦🐮 #envhum #envhist @esehnextgate.bsky.social
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Libby Robin @libbydeq.bsky.social · 05/03/2026
www.environmentalhistory-au-nz.org/2026/02/job-... @esehnextgate.bsky.social
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Job Opportunity: Postdoctoral Fellow working on “Humane Exclusion: How States Justify Excluding Refugees”
The Australian National University’s College of Asia & the Pacific is seeking to appoint a Postdoctoral Fellow in International Relations (Level A) to work on the ARC project “Humane Excl…
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Germinate @g-ehr.bsky.social · 04/03/2026
Spring is the season of GERMINATION and we’re ready for new ideas to take root. 🌱 Submit your work now for our Spring issue! We’re looking for fresh perspectives and research that helps new conversations grow. Our spring deadline is March 31st for peer reviewed research. g-ehr.com/submit/
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Dolly Jørgensen @dollyjorgensen.bsky.social · 02/03/2026
If you missed the @sochistnathist.bsky.social Early Career Symposium last week, videos of 8 of the presentations are now available to watch online: www.youtube.com/playlist?lis... Check out these up and coming scholars and their exciting new work! #envhist #nathist
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ICEHO @iceho.bsky.social · 02/03/2026
Global #EnvHist community, don't miss our Verena Winiwarter Prize for the best article that contributes to global environmental history, focusing on comparisons and connections between different parts of the world or on areas outside mainstream scholarship in the field. Deadline: 15 August 2026
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ESEH NEXTGATe @esehnextgate.bsky.social · 02/03/2026
📣 Two Open PhD Positions in Environmental Humanities - Exploring Biodiversity Narratives 📌 The University of Fribourg, Switzerland These interdisciplinary PhD positions are at the intersection of literary and cultural studies, the social sciences, and biodiversity communication. #EnvHum #Envhist
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Postes vacants | Environmental Sciences and Humanities | Université de Fribourg
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ESEH NEXTGATe @esehnextgate.bsky.social · 28/02/2026
Free (in-person) training workshop in the environmental humanities in Dublin, 26 March! #EnvHum #EnvHist
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Select tickets – IHA professional training workshop: Environmental Humanities – Royal Irish Academy, 19 Dawson Street, Dublin 2
IHA professional training workshop: Environmental Humanities – Royal Irish Academy, 19 Dawson Street, Dublin 2, Thu 26 Mar 2026 - This Irish Humanities Alliance (IHA) workshop is aimed at those pursui...
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