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Assistant Professor (Research) in Geography Wellcome Trust Early Career Fellow @ Durham University weather | climate | health hepach.org

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Margot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 27/06/2026
'What is perhaps remarkable about the Exeter cuts is that they are targeted at some of the university’s most successful departments, many of which turn over a profit even after they have made enormous and increasing contributions to the central university budget.' Read, rage and weep.
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The Crisis in Britain’s Universities
The cuts that have been proposed at the University of Exeter demonstrates the crisis of purpose in Britain’s universities. Should not universities also be places to prepare for "eternal dwellings"?
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Maximilian Hepach @hepach.org · 27/06/2026
One thousand scientists agree with this statement
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HIAS @hias-hamburg.bsky.social · 07/05/2026
The workshop, organized by Eva Horn @uni-hamburg.de Fellow 2025-26, and Maximilian Hepach @durham.ac.uk brings together expertise from a great variety of fields to explore the notion of the relation between the human body and the weather, historically and today.🔎Program & abstracts: bit.ly/4dvgyMc
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RGS-IBG Higher Ed @rgs-ibghe.bsky.social · 13/04/2026
Welcome to our research and higher education Bluesky! 👋 Follow us to stay up to date with our work in geographical research, including events, funding opportunities, new publications and more. Learn more about how we promote geography in higher education and beyond: ow.ly/CMgN50YI795
Bright orange circular sign on a brick wall reading 'Welcome' with Royal Geographical Society branding partially obscured by green foliage.
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Maximilian Hepach @hepach.org · 13/04/2026
Looking forward to this workshop I am co-organising on THE METEOROLOGICAL BODY in May @hias-hamburg.bsky.social ! hias-hamburg.de/en/events/th...
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History and Philosophy of Geography Research Group @hpgrg.bsky.social · 16/03/2026
📣 Webinar 📣 20 March (13.00-14.00 GMT) Angela Last (Freie Universität Berlin) will discuss her forthcoming book 'Tainted Tools: New Materialisms as a Decolonial Project'. Registration 👉 tinyurl.com/5x4jd9tz Bio 👉 mutablematter.wordpress.com/about/ 📚 tinyurl.com/39wt72s9
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Manchester University Press - Tainted tools
Tainted tools - Browse and buy the Hardcover edition of Tainted tools by Angela Last
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Rebecca Jackson, PhD @beccajackson.bsky.social · 02/03/2026
Excited to host the Measurement Heretics Workshop: Being Meaning and Measuring Well on March 11-13, at the Institute for Medical Humanities, Durham University. The keynote will be hybrid so register for this free event! @durhamimh.bsky.social #histsci #histmed #hps #philsci #medhums #histtech #sts
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Measurement Heretics Workshop: Being, Meaning, and Measuring Well
This 3-day workshop brings together international & interdisciplinary perspectives to guide the future of ethical, meaningful health data.
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Asher Elbein @asherelbein.bsky.social · 04/02/2026
Why is everything so strange (lauditory)
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Maximilian Hepach @hepach.org · 26/01/2026
ominous brain cloud
A three-dimensional schematic diagram illustrating the structure of a mid-latitude cyclone using the conveyor belt model. The diagram shows a comma-shaped cloud shield viewed from an oblique angle, with north indicated by an arrow in the upper left.
Key features labeled include: a cold front on the left side with cold air flowing in from the west; a warm front extending to the right with warm air rising over cool air below the conveyor belt; and a warm sector containing convective cells (depicted as hatched oval shapes). The conveyor belt curves from the bottom of the diagram upward and around, carrying warm air aloft along the warm front.
The legend in the lower right identifies symbols for: convective cells (hatched ovals), primary precipitation (diagonal hatching), secondary precipitation (horizontal lines), cloud shield (stippled gray shading), and low-level winds (arrows).
Arrows throughout indicate airflow patterns, showing cold air undercutting warm air at the cold front, warm air rising over cool air at the warm front, and the cyclonic circulation of the overall system.
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Angela Marques Filipe @angelaofthenorth.bsky.social · 20/01/2026
P.s. Our Weather, Climate and Health research theme co-led by @hepach.org, me, Jed Stevenson (Geog, Soci, Anthro) has a webpage and our event line-up can be found here: mhep.github.io/wch/#events Inc. webinars+ in-person workshops + hybrid roundtables #medhums #envhums #sociology #climate
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Weather, Climate & Health Research Theme
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hikikomorphism @hikikomorphism.bsky.social · 13/08/2025
If you can substitute "hungry ghost trapped in a jar" for "AI" in a sentence it's probably a valid use case for LLMs. Take "I have a bunch of hungry ghosts in jars, they mainly write SQL queries for me". Sure. Reasonable use case. "My girlfriend is a hungry ghost I trapped in a jar"? No. Deranged.
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Maximilian Hepach @hepach.org · 16/12/2025
As a response to: Whitehead, M., & Hannah, M. G. (2025). New figurations of freedom: Ricoeurian perspectives on the digital society. Dialogues in Human Geography. doi.org/10.1177/2043...
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Sage Journals: Discover world-class research
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Maximilian Hepach @hepach.org · 16/12/2025
A short commentary I wrote for @dialogueshg.bsky.social on (involuntary) memory, forgetting, and haunting in digital tools and technologies: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
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Louise Amoore @amoorelouise.bsky.social · 02/12/2025
Excited to announce @leverhulmecal.bsky.social posts - we are looking for 7 interdisciplinary fellows to join our Leverhulme Centre for Algorithmic Life, closing date 30 January 2026 (1/3) durham.taleo.net/careersectio...
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Leverhulme Centre for Algorithmic Life Fellows - Assistant Professor (Research) G7 - G8
Click the link provided to see the complete job description.
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Luke McGee @lukemcgee.bsky.social · 30/11/2025
This is the most alarming story I’ve read today. Giving up the fight before it’s started
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Hester Parr @hesterparr.bsky.social · 27/11/2025
Such a good experience presenting ‘Living with SAD’ and ‘Wintering Well to community link workers via @vhscotland.bsky.social with @slipshodspeller.bsky.social. A November tonic ☀️
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Voluntary Health Scotland (@vhscotland.bsky.social)
We are the national intermediary and network for voluntary health organisations in Scotland. We work with our members and partners to tackle health inequalities. We manage the national network for Sco...
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LSE Impact @lseimpactblog.bsky.social · 13/11/2025
💥New: In defence of boredom – Why the social sciences need time to “waste” ✍️ Madiha Tariq #AcademicSky #SocialScience #SlowScholarship
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In defence of boredom – Why the social sciences need time to “waste” - Impact of Social Sciences
Why has boredom, or simply the opportunity to linger over research, become a key issue in shaping the kinds of knowledge academics produce?
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British Association for Romantic Studies @bars.bsky.social · 12/10/2025
CfP: Romantic Elements: Rocks, and Stones, and Soil, 1750–1850, Symposium at The University of Manchester, 25–26 June 2026. Deadline 30th January 2026. www.bars.ac.uk/blog/?p=6185
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CfP: Romantic Elements: Rocks, and Stones, and Soil, 1750–1850 – BARS Blog
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Claire Connolly @claireconnolly.bsky.social · 06/11/2025
The special issue of Eighteenth Century Studies on Coasts is now out - glad to be part of it with some thoughts about coasts and gardens in c18 Ireland #BlueHumanities #CoastalHistory #CoastalStudies 🌊 muse.jhu.edu/issue/55889
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Project MUSE - Eighteenth-Century Studies-Volume 59, Number 1, Fall 2025
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Dominic Boyer @dominicboyer.bsky.social · 27/10/2025
New Cultures of Energy pod on film, plastics, warfare, radiation and more. Plus did you know Rayon is made from wood? That & more marvels revealed in our chat with @alicelovejoy.bsky.social about her brilliant new book tinyurl.com/5fv6mc4f @cymene.bsky.social @4sweb.bsky.social @culanth.bsky.social
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Cultures of Energy: 241 - Militant Chemistry (feat. Alice Lovejoy)
Dominic and Cymene talk about AI and other chowhounds to kick off this week’s podcast. Then (12:46) we welcome the wonderful to talk about her new book (U California Press, 2025). We begin with the ...
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Lindsay Naylor @lbnaylor.bsky.social · 07/11/2025
New Book! "All Geographers Should be Feminist Geographers: Creating Care-full Academic Spaces" now available from UGA Press. Excited to talk about the book with folks, so please consider if this topic and ideas are well-suited to department seminars, class visits, or other conversational spaces.
Front cover of new book--"All Geographers Should be Feminist Geographers." Showcases university building and sculpture at Mentor's Circle at University of Delaware.
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Jenny Pickerill @jennypickerill.bsky.social · 07/11/2025
SAVE GEOGRAPHY at Leicester University (UK) - We call on the University of Leicester to urgently reconsider the proposal to dissolve Geography. This is direct attack on the discipline of Geography at Leicester with likely loss of Geography staff. Please sign + share www.change.org/p/save-geogr...
A link to a petition to save Geography, its staff, department and degree programmes at Leicester University, UK
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Marie Louise Krogh @marielouisekrogh.bsky.social · 07/11/2025
New article, long in the making. On Alexander von Humboldt’s critique of natural-historical concepts of race and his diagnosis of a politics of racialised difference leveraged in the colonies. I try to say: there are good reasons to look beyond Kant! doi.org/10.1177/0191...
Map of Cuba from Alexander von Humboldt’s Political Essay on the Island of Cuba (1825-6).
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Marianna Dudley @dudleymarianna.bsky.social · 03/11/2025
If any journalists would like a copy of Electric Wind: An Energy History of Modern Britain to review, please get in touch w me /MUP. It's a rigorous history of wind energy written for a wide audience, with plenty to say about today's energy challenges. manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/9781526182968/
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Manchester University Press - Electric wind
Electric wind - Browse and buy the Paperback edition of Electric wind by Marianna Dudley
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Jon Agar @jonagar.bsky.social · 01/11/2025
Stack of Jacquard loom cards, about two meters in length at Queen’s Street Mill, near Burnley By my calculation about 120kb of data
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Saloni @scientificdiscovery.dev · 02/11/2025
I'm not lazy, I'm just convenience maxxing.
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Alison Williams @alisonwilliamsgeog.bsky.social · 27/01/2025
Haven't done this in a while, but I have a new paper available online in @geopoliticsjournal.bsky.social offering a new way to think about a radio geopolitics assemblage - www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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‘Good Contact in Spite of Static’: Advocating a Radio Geopolitics Assemblage Approach Through Analysing the Lindberghs’ 1931 North Pacific Flight
In the summer of 1931 famed US aviator Charles Lindbergh and his wife, Anne, flew their Sirius aircraft from Washington DC, westward across northern Canada, Alaska and the Bering Strait to Japan an...
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Maximilian Hepach @hepach.org · 30/10/2025
You will have seen this too? www.uni-potsdam.de/en/digital-h...
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Environments in and as Networks: Hackathon
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Luca Scholz @lscholz.bsky.social · 27/10/2025
Join us for another series of online and in-person events on the digital environmental humanities: www.digital-humanities.manchester.ac.uk/connect/even... Next up on November 12: @ehameeteman.bsky.social on desalination #envhist #envhum #skystorians #DH @kmcdono.bsky.social
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Luca Scholz @lscholz.bsky.social · 29/12/2024
My new article on the atmosphere in spatial history is out!
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Maximilian Hepach @hepach.org · 30/10/2025
This looks amazing!
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noam @noamchompers.bsky.social · 27/10/2025
feel like aristotle probably said something wacky about this
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Maximilian Hepach @hepach.org · 13/10/2025
PhD Studentships in Transformative Humanities @ Durham www.durham.ac.uk/departments/...
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PhD Studentships in Transformative Humanities - Durham University
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Maximilian Hepach @hepach.org · 25/09/2025
A gift to post-structuralists everywhere
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Maximilian Hepach @hepach.org · 26/05/2025
Last month, my father passed away from cancer. The journey to that point showed me how many lives are affected by cancer, either directly or through friends and family. I am collecting donations in memory of my father for @cancerresearchuk.org: fundraise.cancerresearchuk.org/page/maximil...
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Maximilian's Race for Life
Cancer is happening right now, which is why I'm taking part in a Race for Life 10k to raise money and save lives. 1 in 2 people will be diagnosed with cancer in their lifetime. Every single pound you...
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Maximilian Hepach @hepach.org · 21/05/2025
Launch event: WIND AS MODEL, MEDIA, AND EXPERIENCE June 11th, 04:00pm (London/Online) Join us for the launch of the Stream “Wind as Model, Media, and Experience” with Media+Environment. Editorial: mediaenviron.org/article/1274... Zoom link: sfu.zoom.us/j/8429412299...
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University of California Press @ucpress.bsky.social · 02/04/2025
Just in time for @scmstudies.bsky.social #SCMS2025 👉Introducing Wind Humanities: A Q&A with Media+Environment’s Wind as Model, Media, and Experience Guest Editors www.ucpress.edu/blog-posts/i...
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Introducing Wind Humanities: A Q&A with Media+Environment’s Wind as Model, Media, and Experience Guest Editors
As a complex, dynamic system, wind challenged physics and scientific modelling capabilities while also presenting human imagination with the very embodiment of change and ephemera in spite of its appa...
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Maximilian Hepach @hepach.org · 28/03/2025
“In an oral culture, cliché and stereotype are valued, as accumulations of wisdom, and analysis is frowned upon, for putting those accumulations at risk.” Two print metaphors for oral culture. ♾️ tinyurl.com/bdd737vp
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We’re all conspiracy theorists now. Why?
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Maximilian Hepach @hepach.org · 26/03/2025
PhD studentship: The history and heritage of the discovery of environmental change and the interpretation of place in the East of England (Cambridge, UK) Deadline: 16 May 2025 www.ccc.cam.ac.uk/initiatives/cc-ee…
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Cambridge University Library and University of Cambridge - Collections Connections Communities
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J. R. Carpenter @jrcarpenter.bsky.social · 24/03/2025
this article is published in a special issue of Media + Environment which I contributed to editing as part of an AHRC & DFG funded project called Weather Reports: Wind as Model, Media, and Experience. with many thanks to @hepach.org for the editorial heavy lifting mediaenviron.org/article/1274...
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J. R. Carpenter @jrcarpenter.bsky.social · 24/03/2025
beyond thrilled to announce the publication of “An Island of Sound: A Libretto” — an article co-authored with @julesrawlinson.bsky.social written into the libretto devised for the live performance of An Island of Sound, a browser-based work about phantom islands mediaenviron.org/article/1295...
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Maximilian Hepach @hepach.org · 06/01/2025
As part of "Weather Reports", we've just published the first part of a Stream (Special Issue) on wind as media, model, and experience with Media+Environment. In our introduction, we ask what shape the Wind Humanities might take: mediaenviron.org/article/1274...
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Wind Humanities: An Elemental Media Approach | Published in Media+Environment
By Maximilian Hepach, Ryan Bishop & 3 more. Drawing together work from environmental humanities, media studies, and artistic practice, we propose and contribute to a new elemental field of study: the ...
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Angela Woods @literarti.bsky.social · 17/12/2024
The Polyphony (coming to Bluesky in 2025 ☺️) is one of the world's leading medical humanities platforms. We are recruiting 2 new part-time editors to join our dynamic ECR-led team, working closely with Editor-in-Chief @evasurawy.bsky.social Apply by Jan 20! thepolyphony.org/2024/12/17/w...
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We’re hiring!
The Polyphony is seeking two Editors to join our team, including one Associate Editor (General Editor) and one Guest Editor. Applications close 20 January 2025.
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Maximilian Hepach @hepach.org · 13/12/2024
Durham home & international PhD studentships for work on climate action, open to all Departments: www.durham.ac.uk/business/pro...
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Global Grand Challenges Studentships - Durham University Business School
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Jenny Leetsch @jennyleetsch.bsky.social · 11/11/2024
12 funded PhD positions available at the Augsburg-Munich International Doctoral Program "Rethinking Environment: The Environmental Humanities and the Ecological Transformation of Society" -> Deadline: January 31, 2025 #envhum #ecocriticism www.uni-augsburg.de/en/forschung...
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Call for Applications
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Maximilian Hepach @hepach.org · 11/11/2024
Anyone else feel seen?
A light brown zebra with faded stripes stands on a grassy hillside at Vergelegen wine farm near Cape Town. Unlike typical zebras, its stripes are less pronounced and fade into a plain brown color on its lower body. The animal is photographed against a backdrop of dense green vegetation and a bright blue sky with a single white cloud. Below the image is a headline in white text asking "Did Scientists Revive an Extinct Animal or Just Breed a Less Stripey Zebra?"​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​
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Lachlan Fleetwood @lachlanfleetwood.bsky.social · 24/10/2024
Delighted to see that my review of David N. Livingstone's The Empire of Climate is now out in @whitehorsepress.bsky.social's exciting new journal Climates and Cultures in History: doi.org/10.3197/whpc...
The cover of Vol 1 of Climates and Cultures in History, featuring a painting of an inferno engulfing buildings and countryside.
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Lance Gravlee @lancegravlee.bsky.social · 09/10/2024
Final flight into the eye of a storm for the late Peter Dodge, who spent his life studying hurricanes.
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NOAA drops scientist’s ashes into the eye of Category 5 Milton
Hurricane hunter Peter Dodge’s last flight into the storms he spent his life studying.
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Philip Ball @philipcball.bsky.social · 26/09/2024
Sheep physics is a thing. A rather wonderful thing. Here is my new article about it for Physics World. physicsworld.com/a/field-work...
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Field work – the physics of sheep, from phase transitions to collective motion – Physics World
Physics sheds a new insight on the behaviour of sheep flocks, helping with new tips on shepherding
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