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Misha Matz @heatshok.bsky.social · 16h
🧪🌎 Landscape Genomics news: RDAforest users - please update your package to v.2.11.0 (z0on.github.io/RDA-forest) There are many important improvements and a minor bug fix. Big thanks to Danny Hancock @dannyhancock.bsky.social for ideas and testing! What’s new: z0on.github.io/RDA-forest/R...
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RDAforest NEWS
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Daryll Marie @daryllmarie.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Research Cruise AR103 Thread: Work & Life Onboard Why does the clock say cheese on it? 🧀 every day on the R/V Armstrong we enjoy “cheese thirty” at 2:30pm, when a full charcuterie board is laid out. Phenomenal boat tradition.
A clock with a sticker over 2:30 that reads “cheese”A cutting board covered with assorted cheeses
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DrArchivalGenomics @ehekkala.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
💔💔💔🧪🌏👇😡
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Siobhan Mitchell, PhD @esiobhanmitchell.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Brilliat new paper : The brain is two separate organs that develop in parallel One organ is for controlling breathing, temperature, heart function, and the other organ is for thinking. They form separately and then join together during development 🧪 www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Two parallel neural ectoderm progenitors contribute to the developing brain - Nature Neuroscience
This study shows that the brain arises from two distinct progenitors: one forms the forebrain and midbrain, whereas the other generates the hindbrain. These insights enable the generation of human hin...
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Martha Bhattacharya @marthabhattacharya.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
🧪👩‍🔬🧬 Scientific research is an international endeavor. Limiting pipelines for foreign-born graduates of US universities to work in the US after they finish their degrees is a policy driven entirely by xenophobia. Is America great yet? 🤦‍♀️ Call your reps, please.
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manu schwendener @manuschwendener.ch · 13/09/2026
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Mike Fainzilber @mfainzilber.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
🧪 Pretreatment with psilocybin prevents chemotherapy-induced peripheral neuropathy www.nature.com/articles/d41...
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Magic-mushroom compound blocks a severe side effect of chemotherapy in mice
Study shows that psilocybin acts on nerves to prevent the painful condition called peripheral neuropathy.
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Sonia Zakrzewski @soniaz.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
This is actually quite good. Mix of archaeology & anthropology. 🏺🧪🦴☠️🪰 I might use this in teaching to get my students thinking...
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Peter Sagal @petersagal.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
My Dino obsessed son had a question I couldn’t answer: why did all the prehistoric marine reptiles go extinct at the end of the Cretaceous, but sharks, turtles and crocodilians didn’t?
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Misha Matz @heatshok.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
UT Austin's Biodiversity Center is hiring a Communications Coordinator! 📢 🌎 🌱 Learn more and apply: utaustin.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/UTstaf...
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Communications Coordinator, Biodiversity Center
Job Posting Title: Communications Coordinator, Biodiversity Center ---- Hiring Department: Department of Integrative Biology ---- Position Open To: All Applicants ---- Weekly Scheduled Hours: 40 ---- ...
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Texas Science @texasscience.bsky.social · 01/06/2026
Happy World Reef Day! 🪸🐠 Misha Matz, a coral biologist at The University of Texas at Austin is proposing a radical plan to save Caribbean coral reefs from collapse. Read more: cns.utexas.edu/news/feature... Photo captions & credits below in comments @heatshok.bsky.social @texas-ib.bsky.social
A man in a large greenhouse stands next to a tank of water with corals.A large mound of vibrant corals underwaterAn illustration showing the types of corals and their density in the Caribbean at three different times: Late Pleistocene to about 1978, 1980s and 2010s.
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Princess Vimentin PhD | Cancer Biologist @princess-vimentin.bsky.social · 22/05/2026
More restrictions on US science. Collaboration & co-authorship w/ foreign scientists is common & accepted. Now, it’s more about what foreigner you are collaborating with, not what problem you set out to solve. There is no real guidance to navigate this. On brand. 🧪 www.science.org/content/arti...
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U.S. researchers face new restrictions on publishing with foreign collaborators
NIH, NASA grantees are confused and concerned amid agencies’ piecemeal communication
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School of Ocean and Earth Science and Technology @soest.hawaii.edu · 21/05/2026
Elizabeth Madin, a researcher at the Hawaiʻi Institute of Marine Biology, developed software to analyze satellite imagery and detect “reef halos” around coral reefs. These features are created by grazing fish and provide a global monitoring tool for coral reef health. 🌊🧪
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Future telehealth for the ocean: ‘Reef halos’ enable global checkups
From thousands of feet above the ocean, coral reefs reveal a hidden signal: pale, circular “halos” etched into the seafloor
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C&EN (Chemical & Engineering News) @cenmag.bsky.social · 18/05/2026
Dental proteins extracted from six Homo erectus individuals who lived in what’s now China 400,000 years ago provide the first genetic evidence that H. erectus mated with Denisovans, thus illuminating a landmark moment in human evolution. cen.acs.org/biological-c... #chemsky 🧪
A molar tooth on a gray surface with black rulers to the left and below showing that the tooth is a little over 1 cm in length and width.
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Deborah Marsh @djmarsh24.bsky.social · 18/05/2026
This is good-“Universities are not corporations in need of strong CEOs.They are federations of expertise held together by norms, trust & a shared commitment to inquiry..The work of leadership..is to steward institutions where that independence can flourish” 🧪 www.insidehighered.com/opinion/care...
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On Leading People Who Don’t Want to Be Led (opinion)
Many faculty say this is not the job they signed up for. They need leaders who see this and who are looking out for them.
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Misha Matz @heatshok.bsky.social · 17/05/2026
I can’t believe they chose this gel picture as illustration for “genome sequencing”. None of my students would understand it. But this is how we sequenced DNA in 1990s (those gel pouring skills! I was so proud of mine) 🧪
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MySciVoice (Marisa D) 🥼🧬📢🎨 @myscivoice.bsky.social · 16/05/2026
National Scientist Day A proud scientist here. Today is National Scientist Day in Portugal. I would like to thank the Big Bang and the twists and turns of DNA that have brought me here ;) #science #DiaNacionalDoCientista #SciComm #genetics
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Jason GRIZZLED Bittel @bittelmethis.bsky.social · 13/05/2026
Neanderthals were definitely tough, but they weren't necessarily dumb. Also, this story by @kionasmith07.bsky.social will make you SQUIRM. 🧪
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Sonia Zakrzewski @soniaz.bsky.social · 13/05/2026
Palaeoproteomics of Homo erectus! Really intriguing but I am also unsure what we know/understand and what it all really means. So many questions! 🏺🧪
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Phillip Hahn @astrophil.de · 11/05/2026
Bending for money instead of striving for the advancement of science for the good of mankind. 🧪
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Cara Giovanetti @idontevencara.bsky.social · 10/05/2026
Today I set out to understand how barnacle geese chicks, who launch themselves off of cliff faces hundreds of feet high within days of hatching, survive their extreme falls. Friends, I did not succeed. Let me tell you what I did find. 1/8 ⚛️🧪
Photograph of a young gosling with gray and white fluffy feathers pecking at green grass and small purple flowers. The gosling is positioned sideways, highlighting its black beak and legs against a blurred natural background.

Image credit freddy dendoktoor via PublicDomainPictures.net, CC0 public domain
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DrArchivalGenomics @ehekkala.bsky.social · 10/05/2026
🧪🧬🌏🦠🌏😡👇
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Galactic Polymath Education Studio (GP) @galacticpolymath.com · 09/05/2026
What if microscopic predator-prey interactions were like Pokemon battles with commentators? ▶️👇 Feat. amazing 🔬 footage by @jamesweiss.bsky.social! A fun series we made to get students (and everyone) curious about protists! 🧪🍎 youtube.com/playlist?lis...
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Protist Micro Matchups - YouTube
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Rian Nejar 🦋 @riannejar.bsky.social · 08/05/2026
𝗖𝘂𝗿𝗿𝗲𝗻𝘁 𝗖𝗗𝗖 𝗮𝗱𝘃𝗶𝗰𝗲 𝗼𝗻 𝗛𝗮𝗻𝘁𝗮𝘃𝗶𝗿𝘂𝘀 𝗣𝘂𝗹𝗺𝗼𝗻𝗮𝗿𝘆 𝗦𝘆𝗻𝗱𝗿𝗼𝗺𝗲 𝗽𝗿𝗲𝘃𝗲𝗻𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 [via CDC] 🧪🥼🦠👩‍⚕️ Just happened to look up the #US CDC's advice on HPS: 🤔 "Clean up after your rodents. Avoid contact with their urine, droppings, saliva, and nesting materials." www.cdc.gov/hantavirus/p... #hantavirus #prevention #CDC
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Hantavirus Prevention
How to clean up after pet rodents and safely clean up after infestations.
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Dr. Or M. Bialik |📚|🔬|🌊|⚒️ @obialik.bsky.social · 08/05/2026
#WeekendReading: Dodd et al. about recurring marine phosphorus spikes during major Paleozoic mass extinctions, and how they might be driving anoxia. 🧪⚒️ Link: www.nature.com/articles/s41467-026-…
Schematic depiction of nutrient/anoxia regulation in the Late Devonian Mass Extinction
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MU-Peter Shimon 🀄 @mu-peter.bsky.social · 06/05/2026
A Cambrian soft-bodied biota after the first Phanerozoic mass extinction🧪 www.nature.com/articles/s41... Dated shortly after the Sinsk event the Huayuan biota illuminates differences in the impacts of this extinction in shallow-versus deep-water settings during the first Phanerozoic mass extinction
Ecological and environmental contexts of the Huayuan biota.
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Gene Tracy @genetracy.bsky.social · 01/05/2026
“Scientists are no longer just defending funding. They are defending the idea that science should be independent of politics.” #Science 🧪 www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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The Guardian view on Trump’s war on science: politicising a generation of researchers | Editorial
Editorial: By attacking the basic settlement between scientists and the state, the US president has proved that experts can’t avoid these fights
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Princess Vimentin PhD | Cancer Biologist @princess-vimentin.bsky.social · 28/04/2026
In 2026, It is more important to use our tax $$ to build a frivolous ballroom than it is to preserve what used to be gold standard science for the purpose of saving the lives of US citizens. 1500 science staff have left. Only 124 remain. 🧪 archive.today/3bkSw
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How the Trump Administration Ended Independent Science at the E.P.A.
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Nereide @drnereide.bsky.social · 28/04/2026
🧵 1/6 This 1999 #Hubble time-lapse of Uranus is a genuine piece of astronomy history. 🔭 For the first time in the modern era, it shows seasonal changes on a planet watched for over 200 years. Created by Erich Karkoschka from images taken 1994–1998.🧪⚛️ #histsci #Astronomy #Science #Hubble
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Gene Doctor Gene @isog.bsky.social · 28/04/2026
It’s a good word… 🧪💩
En&@$…
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Mike Moore @moore-evo-eco.bsky.social · 28/04/2026
new perspective piece about the role of reproduction in arthropod extinctions! with PhD student @sarahnalley.bsky.social and @noahleith.bsky.social 🧪🌍🐙 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... @cudenverclas.bsky.social
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Reproductive meltdowns underlie arthropod extinctions in the face of climate change
To persist on our warming planet, arthropods will need to be able to survive and successfully reproduce under the new temperature conditions. However,…
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Misha Matz @heatshok.bsky.social · 28/04/2026
🧪🌎 another awesome recent paper bearing on CBASS usefulness @liamlachs.bsky.social @adrianahumanes.bsky.social www.cell.com/current-biol... (spoiler: not good for choosing bleaching-tolerant coral genets, sadly)
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Choice of traits defines the scope for assisted evolution of corals under climate change
Thermal evolution is critical for coral persistence in a warming world. Lachs et al. show that different heat tolerance traits exhibit weak-to-moderate genetic correlations and lack detectable fitness...
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Misha Matz @heatshok.bsky.social · 25/04/2026
🧪🌎 #landscapegenomics doi.org/10.1111/eva.... @nature.org @science.nature.org Cool paper, but I’ll keep screaming into the void until someone notices: #gradientforest calculates #genomicoffset INCORRECTLY See doi.org/10.1111/1755... for demo
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Landscape Genomic Analyses of Quercus agrifolia Née Predict Patterns of Adaptedness to Future Climate and Provide Guidance for Conservation
Habitat destruction and climate change are two primary drivers of global biodiversity loss. Many contemporary ecological preserves and preserve networks are designed to protect species and the ecolog....
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Darcy Shapiro @darcyshapiro.bsky.social · 17/04/2026
We’re looking for researchers in any discipline of natural history: if you have a paper coming out and you want to pitch @pbseons.bsky.social on a potential episode about it, send me a DM! #scicomm #paleosky #FossilFriday (Arsinoitherium says please and thank you!)
Arsinoitherium skull with two giant horns
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Misha Matz @heatshok.bsky.social · 20/04/2026
Rare case of validating #lansdcape_genomics predictions. doi.org/10.1002/gcb4... 🧪🌏
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Genomic Offset Analyses: Mind Your Climate Variables
Recent methods based on genomic offset (GO) statistics aim to quantify the risk of non-adaptation of populations to future climates. This study assesses how well genomic offset values correspond to p....
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Misha Matz @heatshok.bsky.social · 17/04/2026
www.nature.com/articles/s41... 🧪
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The selection landscape and genetic legacy of ancient Eurasians - Nature
Analyses of imputed ancient genomes and of samples from the UK Biobank indicate that ancient selection and migration were large contributors to the distribution of phenotypic diversity in present-day ...
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UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology (UKCEH) @ukceh.bsky.social · 17/04/2026
New in @natrevearthenviron.nature.com: Vegetation greenness in 2025 Global mean vegetation greenness reached a record high in the year 2025, extending the multi-decadal upward trend. Full article: www.nature.com/articles/s43... 🧪
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Vegetation greenness in 2025 - Nature Reviews Earth & Environment
Global mean vegetation greenness reached a record high in the year 2025, extending the multi-decadal upward trend. A total of 68.2% of vegetated land surfaces experienced greening, particularly in gra...
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Brandon Moore, PhD @rando.insalubrio.us · 15/04/2026
Synchrotron and CT scans reveal the first egg from a synapsid: a well-developed Lystrosaurus embryo with an unfused lower jaw and no tusks inside a large soft shell. This reproductive strategy likely aided in its post-Permian success! 🧪 journals.plos.org/plosone/arti...
Reconstruction of Lystrosaurus embryo within its partially preserved shell.

Credit: Sophie Vrard
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Misha Matz @heatshok.bsky.social · 09/04/2026
Aging is definitely not a biological rule. Quite a few animal species don’t age and live forever until killed, like Tolkien’s elves. Great overview of animal aging patterns here: pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC...
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Diversity of ageing across the tree of life
Evolution drives, and is driven by, demography. A genotype moulds its phenotype’s age patterns of mortality and fertility in an environment; these two patterns in turn determine the genotype’s fitness...
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Nicolas Mouquet @nmouquet.bsky.social · 30/03/2026
Huge thanks to #BioScience for featuring our paper "Too Cute to Be Wild" on the cover of their March issue! 🐻🧸✨ doi.org/10.1093/bios... Never thought our work on teddy bears would take us this far! 💚 with @thierrybrassac.bsky.social, N. Blanc, N. Casajus, and A.S. Tribot 👏 🧪🌐🌍🦤
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Howard Lee @hlee.bsky.social · 29/03/2026
🔥“Earth is warming due to human activities, this warming is already responsible for human suffering, and it can be stopped by human action. None of this is, or should be, the least bit controversial.”⚒️🧪❄️🌊 www.nytimes.com/2026/03/25/c...
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Prominent Climate Scientist Resigns From NASA, Citing Trump’s Attack on Science
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Patrick McCann @pjmccann3.bsky.social · 29/03/2026
If, like me, you can’t afford all the paywalls you encounter and you wanted to read this article, now’s your chance… @drkatemarvel.bsky.social #GreenSky 🧪
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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 19/03/2026
$200 billion could fund the National Science Foundation for 20 years.
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Pentagon seeks more than $200 billion in budget request for Iran war
That figure would far surpass the costs of the U.S. airstrike campaign to date and aims to boost production of critical weapons depleted in the conflict, people familiar with the matter said.
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Misha Matz @heatshok.bsky.social · 17/03/2026
Whoa - correlation / causation! It is just as possible that genetic longevity predisposition causes lifestyle pattern. Genetic load would do that.
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Kathleen Rhoades @kathleenrhoades.bsky.social · 16/03/2026
I'm sort of off today b/c of travel but I fell down a rabbithole of trying to find past years' numbers on USDA-NIFA 🧪 funding and now I have made you this graph:
bar chart of NIFA awards per year showing peak of around 1.75 billion dollars in 2023 and less than 500 million dollars in 2025
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Nereide @drnereide.bsky.social · 15/03/2026
This.🔥 Writing forces you to think. No shortcuts, no vagueness, no hiding. That’s why it hurts — and why it’s the best training for the mind. #WritingCommunity #WriteSky 🧪 🔭 ⚛️
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Zebrafish Rock! @zebrafishrock.bsky.social · 15/03/2026
Youthful antics predict lifespan? Using machine learning & continuous recordings of #killifish behavior from adolescence until death, @brunetlab.bsky.social & @deisseroth.bsky.social find early-life behavior predicted future lifespan! Now published @science.org: www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... 🧪 1/2
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Misha Matz @heatshok.bsky.social · 13/03/2026
Sadly, true. 🧪
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Physghoul 👻 🎃 @physgal.bsky.social · 12/03/2026
So stupid 🧪⚛️#AcademicSky
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Misha Matz @heatshok.bsky.social · 11/03/2026
This problem is at the core of the most widely used method for predicting adaptation to future climate. Reposting in case some GEA (genotype-environment association) people missed original post. 🧪
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