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Dr. Karenna Malavanti

@kmalavanti.bsky.social
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Senior Lecturer of Psychology & Neuroscience | #firstgen | Scholarly Teacher| Experimental Cognitive Psychologist | Latina in STEM | #teachpsych | Views are my own

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Dr. Karenna Malavanti @kmalavanti.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
So excited to host this event today!
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Society for the Teaching of Psychology @stpteachpsych.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
The STP Service Awards Committee is excited to share the recipient of this year’s mentorship of teachers award, Dr. Karenna Malavanti! Congratulations! To read more about this award or to apply for the 2027 mentorship of teachers award, you can go to this link teachpsych.org/MentorAward
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Society for the Teaching of Psychology @stpteachpsych.bsky.social · 27/05/2026
“Meet” Karenna Malavanti and learn about how she teaches – including the best piece of advice about teaching she ever received – in STP’s latest “This is How I Teach” blog post: teachpsych.org/thisishowite...
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Dr. Karenna Malavanti @kmalavanti.bsky.social · 04/04/2026
Would love to see you all next Thursday!
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Stephen Chew @schewpsych.bsky.social · 03/04/2026
My essay for The Teaching Professor, "The Allure and Risks of Cramming for Exams" now freely available on @researchgate.bsky.social www.researchgate.net/publication/...
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(PDF) The Allure and Risks of Cramming for Exams
PDF | Cramming is an alluring but risky study strategy. Let me explain. By the time students get to college, they probably have a lot of experience... | Find, read and cite all the research you need o...
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Dr. Karenna Malavanti @kmalavanti.bsky.social · 07/03/2026
Excited to be an inaugural A&S Outstanding Faculty Award winner in the area of Teaching (NTT, Science). I’m in good company: look at my amazing colleagues who were recognized in several categories! #womeninSTEM #baylorWISE
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Society for the Teaching of Psychology @stpteachpsych.bsky.social · 25/02/2026
The STP MidCareer webinar series continues w/ Jamie McMinn discussing his career path as guided by assessment and Karenna Malavanti presenting on reducing burnout through a teaching reset. Register for one or both events & be sure to tell your mid-career friends: teachpsych.org/MCPMCWebinar...
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Dr. Karenna Malavanti @kmalavanti.bsky.social · 01/03/2026
This NSF update is depressing!
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Brad Postle @bradpostle.bsky.social · 16/01/2026
It won't actually exist for another month or so, but because it now 'exists' on amazon, I'll humbly observe that, after working through this book, your student/trainee would be able to read and understand all but two or three papers in this week's J. Neurosci. Check it out:
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Society for the Teaching of Psychology @stpteachpsych.bsky.social · 14/01/2026
CFA: STP's Annual Conference on Teaching (ACT) Steering Committee is seeking 2 new members to join existing the team. Committee members serve 3-year terms. New members will begin their term on 4/1/26 in preparation for ACT 2026 in St. Louis. For more information: docs.google.com/document/d/1...
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Society for the Teaching of Psychology @stpteachpsych.bsky.social · 08/12/2025
The Addressing Academic Burnout taskforce created this handout to offer research-informed strategies to prevent and mitigate burnout, foster resilience, and build supportive communities for faculty, staff, and administrators.-STP President Stephanie Afful teachpsych.org/2025burnouttaskforce
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Dr. Karenna Malavanti @kmalavanti.bsky.social · 17/11/2025
Honored to have been a panelist at @sfn.org #Neuroscience2025 professional development workshop “Elevating Pedagogy: Teaching-Focused Career Paths at Research-Intensive Universities.” The session was well-attended, and we could tell these are much needed conversations. Tinyurl.com/SFN2025-EP
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Society for the Teaching of Psychology @stpteachpsych.bsky.social · 22/09/2025
STP Committee on Teaching Awards congratulates the outstanding teachers of psychology who are recipients of this year’s awards! Please read more about each of our outstanding teachers on our website: teachpsych.org/members/awards
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Dr. Karenna Malavanti @kmalavanti.bsky.social · 03/06/2025
Hope to see you at ACT 2025! #teachpsychsky
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Society for the Teaching of Psychology @stpteachpsych.bsky.social · 02/05/2025
Need help course prepping? The STP Early Career Psychology (ECP) Committee is excited to host this year’s Teaching Hackathon 📆Friday, July 25th ⏰12:30–2:30pm EST | 11:30am – 1:30pm CST | 9:30 – 11:30am PST 📍 On Zoom – free to attend! Sign up by 6/30: shorturl.at/Hn6HR
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Casper Kerrén @ckerren.bsky.social · 29/04/2025
🧠✨How do we rebuild our memories? In our new study, we show that hippocampal ripples kickstart a coordinated expansion of cortical activity that helps reconstruct past experiences. We recorded iEEG from patients during memory retrieval... and found something really cool 👇(thread)
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Dr. Karenna Malavanti @kmalavanti.bsky.social · 16/03/2025
Baylor Senior Lecturers: Save the Date! BWC will host 2 working group sessions as senior lecturers assemble materials for their promotion to Teaching Professor. Participants can choose either session to attend, and you may attend both if your schedule allows. The ATL will provide support!
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Christopher Chabris @cfchabris.bsky.social · 15/03/2025
A lot to reflect on in this must-read essay by Jason Zweig about the surprising (or not surprising) death of Daniel Kahneman.
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Essay | The Last Decision by the World’s Leading Thinker on Decisions
Shortly before Daniel Kahneman died last March, he emailed friends a message: He was choosing to end his own life in Switzerland. Some are still struggling with his choice.
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Dr. Karenna Malavanti @kmalavanti.bsky.social · 08/03/2025
Excited to share a recent Baylor Connections podcast episode where I chat about my role as Faculty-in-Residence in the Science & Health LLC. Baylor was again recognized by U.S. News as a Top 10 National University for Best Learning Communities. connections.web.baylor.edu/season-8/epi...
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Society for the Teaching of Psychology @stpteachpsych.bsky.social · 06/03/2025
STP's Annual Conference on Teaching (ACT) will take place in Minneapolis, MN October 16-18, 2025. The submission window for ACT 2025 is now open! Please submit your proposals by heading to bit.ly/ACTproposals2025. The submission window will close on May 1st. Registration for ACT will open in June.
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STP's Annual Conference on Teaching, October 16-18, 2025, Minneapolis, MN.
*The submission window will close on Thursday, May 1st. Determinations will be made by the end of June. About: STP's Annual Conference on Teaching (ACT) 2025 will be held at the Royal Sonesta Hotel i...
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Regan A. R. Gurung @reganargurung.bsky.social · 03/03/2025
It is reassuring to see so many friends and colleagues share objective takes on current affairs. This piece is a suggested pathway not easy or comfortable (or even suggested) for all, but I hope it empowers more. www.teachingprofessor.com/topics/teach... [Available via university accounts.
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Outspoken Pedagogy: A Technique for Our Times
“Staying out of things and letting it all go by” may not be the best strategy for educators in these dark times.
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Earl K. Miller @earlkmiller.bsky.social · 04/03/2025
Trajectories of working memory and decision making abilities along juvenile development in mice www.frontiersin.org/journals/neu... #neuroscience
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Frontiers | Trajectories of working memory and decision making abilities along juvenile development in mice
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Regan A. R. Gurung @reganargurung.bsky.social · 22/02/2025
Like podcasts? Here is some easy listening. Join John Dunlosky and me chatting about student learning. open.spotify.com/episode/0UQq... We explore why strong research makes for better teaching, how to identify the most effective study strategies, and what it really takes to improve student success.
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Stand Up for Science! @standupforscience.net · 12/02/2025
Welcome to the Bluesky account for Stand Up for Science 2025! Keep an eye on this space for updates, event information, and ways to get involved. We can't wait to see everyone #standupforscience2025 on March 7th, both in DC and locations nationwide! #scienceforall #sciencenotsilence
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Dr. Karenna Malavanti @kmalavanti.bsky.social · 19/02/2025
Senior Lecturers, Save the Date! BWC will host 2 working group sessions as senior lecturers assemble materials for their promotion to Teaching Professor. Participants can choose either session to attend, and you may attend both if your schedule allows. The ATL will provide support!
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BAYLOR WOMEN'S
COLLOQUIUM PRESENTS'
ADVANCING WOMEN FACULTY: PREPARING PROMOTION
MATERIALS FOR THE TEACHING PROFESSOR RANK
Join us for two working group sessions on Monday March 17, 2025 as senior lecturers assemble materials for promotion to the newly created rank of Teaching Professor.
Session 1 will be held from 10AM-12PM in Moody 104; Session 2 will be held from 3PM-5PM in Schumacher Flex Commons.
Senior lecturers are asked to bring their preliminary materials for their promotion packet. The ATL will join us and provide support, and several promoted full professor faculty will be in attendance.
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Dr. Karenna Malavanti @kmalavanti.bsky.social · 16/02/2025
STP friends! Please follow the Society’s new BlueSky account @teachpsych.bsky.social
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Jeni Kubota @jenikubota.bsky.social · 14/02/2025
Please read this and hear their stories! Then do what you can to help stop this. www.thetransmitter.org/funding/a-gu...
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‘A gut punch:’ How U.S. neuroscience trainees are grappling with diversity-based funding flux
Ten trainees spoke with The Transmitter about how the precarious state of U.S. federal funding is affecting their research and career plans.
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Dr. Karenna Malavanti @kmalavanti.bsky.social · 15/02/2025
Agreed 100%!
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Celeste Labedz @celestelabedz.bsky.social · 11/02/2025
As I say every year on Women In Science Day: There are unfathomably many ways to be a woman. There are unfathomably many ways to be a scientist. Attacks on women and attacks on science go together, and it takes strength across the spectra of gender and science to stop them from breaking us down.
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Mitch Prinstein @mitchprinstein.bsky.social · 13/02/2025
Happy to report that APA wrote this letter, gathered a coalition across science, and will now pay for ads for it to be disseminated in Science and Chronicle of Higher Ed to spread the word!! unitedsciencealliance.org
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Sanjay Srivastava @sanjaysrivastava.com · 31/01/2025
Lots of useful info in this thread if you are backing up public data (whether at OSF or elsewhere)
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PessoaBrain @pessoabrain.bsky.social · 29/01/2025
𝗜𝗻𝘀𝘂𝗹𝗮 𝗰𝗶𝗿𝗰𝘂𝗶𝘁 𝗶𝗻𝘃𝗼𝗹𝘃𝗲𝗱 𝗶𝗻 𝗶𝗺𝗺𝘂𝗻𝗲 𝗵𝗼𝗺𝗲𝗼𝘀𝘁𝗮𝘀𝗶𝘀 The insula is the place of magic in the brain... (one of them at least) www.nature.com/articles/s41... (h/t @jrbneuropsiq.bsky.social ) #neuroskyence
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Akira Miyake @amiyake.bsky.social · 29/01/2025
An interesting collection of articles on working memory and executive functions, published in the Journal of Cognition (all open access). You can see the article list below, including the new introductory essay by the editors. journalofcognition.org/collections/...
Journal of Cognition

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Working Memory and Executive Functions: Theoretical Advances

Guest Editors:
Sergio Morra - Università degli Studi di Genova, Italy
Steven Howard - University of Wollongong, Australia
Vanesa Loaiza - The University of Sheffield, United KingdomEDITORIAL
Working Memory and Executive Functions: Theoretical Advances
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Jan 10, 2025
8(1): 15

RESEARCH ARTICLE
Is Cognitive Flexibility Equivalent to Shifting? Investigating Cognitive Flexibility in Multiple Domains
Ionescu et al.
Oct 10, 2024
7(1): 73

RESEARCH ARTICLE
Putting the “Return” Back in the Inhibition of Return Effect in Working Memory
Hautekiet et al.
Oct 1, 2024
7(1): 70

RESEARCH ARTICLE
Modelling Working Memory Capacity: Is the Magical Number Four, Seven, or Does it Depend on What You Are Counting?
Morra et al.
Jul 18, 2024
7(1): 60

RESEARCH ARTICLE
Risk and Protective Factors for Executive Function in Vulnerable South African Preschool-Age Children
Cook et al.
Jul 18, 2024
7(1): 58

RESEARCH ARTICLE
Two Attentional Processes Subserving Working Memory Differentiate Gifted and Mainstream Students
Johnson et al.
May 23, 2024
7(1): 47

RESEARCH ARTICLE
Latent network analysis of executive functions across development
Menu et al.
Apr 2, 2024
7(1): 31
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Dr. Karenna Malavanti @kmalavanti.bsky.social · 29/01/2025
Senior lecturers at BU— please join us next Friday for a career advancement workshop! We will have 4 senior lecturers serve as panelists to share their promotion journey to Teaching Professor, Baylor’s new 3rd rank for teaching faculty. I’m pleased to serve as moderator for this important session
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Dorsa Amir @dorsaamir.bsky.social · 25/01/2025
Does the culture you grow up in shape the way you see the world? In a new Psych Review paper, @chazfirestone.bsky.social & I tackle this centuries-old question using the Müller-Lyer illusion as a case study. Come think through one of history's mysteries with us🧵(1/13):
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Marco Gandolfo @marco-gandolfo.bsky.social · 25/01/2025
A PhD position is open in @peelen.bsky.social Lab at the Donders Institute - please spread the word and consider applying if you are interested about how imagery and perception relate to each other www.ru.nl/en/working-a... - plus we are fun people to work with ! :)
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PhD Position: Neural Mechanisms of Imagery and Perception at the Donders Centre for Cognition | Radboud University
Do you want to work as a PhD Position: Neural Mechanisms of Imagery and Perception at the Donders Centre for Cognition at the Faculty of Social Sciences? Check our vacancy!
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Nature @nature.com · 24/01/2025
Roughly 6,000 readers answered our poll, with many declaring that Bluesky was nicer, kinder and less antagonistic to science than X go.nature.com/42tH8Ai
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Bluesky’s science takeover: 70% of Nature poll respondents use platform
Roughly 6,000 readers answered our poll, with many declaring that Bluesky was nicer, kinder and less antagonistic to science than X.
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Zoe McElligott @nanopharmnc.bsky.social · 22/01/2025
I just reached out to my senators about the NIH situation. If you need to find out how much impact NIH has in your state in terms of dollars in and their economic impact here's a link: www.unitedformedicalresearch.org/nih-in-your-...
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NIH In Your State - United For Medical Research
Select a state on the map to see the impact of NIH funding across America.
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JJ Cutuli @jjcutuli.bsky.social · 20/01/2025
Like & Share: Scholarship $$$ opportunity for students who experienced #homelessness & starting postsecondary education in 2026. Apply to the @schoolhouseconn.bsky.social Scholarship: $2,500 + 1:1 support + mentoring + 3 all-expenses-paid trips + more See: SchoolHouseConnection.org/Scholarship
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SHC Scholarship Program
SHC's Youth Leadership & Scholarship program is one of the nation’s only national scholarship programs specifically serving youth that have experienced homelessness.
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Johanna Joyce @johannajoyce.bsky.social · 10/01/2025
Closing the scissor-shaped curve: Strategies to promote gender equality in academia 🧪 www.cell.com/cell/fulltex...
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Dr. Karenna Malavanti @kmalavanti.bsky.social · 22/01/2025
I didn’t see a Teaching of Psychology starter pack, so I started one! Let me know if you want me to add you! #teachpsychsky #teachpsych #psychsky go.bsky.app/LwFwJA4
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Silvia De Rubeis @derubeislab.bsky.social · 15/01/2025
🧪 Interested in our post-bacc research education program (PREP)? 🧬 🧠 🔬 Join us for an info webinar on Tuesday, January 21, 2025, 4pm ET. Register now👇🏼 mshs.co/49Kmc9G @sinaibrain.bsky.social @cientificolatino.com @blackinneuro.bsky.social @blackingenetics.bsky.social Please amplify 🙏
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Welcome! You are invited to join a meeting: PREP LIVE Informational Webinar . After registering, you will receive a confirmation email about joining the meeting.
Welcome! You are invited to join a meeting: PREP LIVE Informational Webinar . After registering, you will receive a confirmation email about joining the meeting.
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Colin Camerer @cfcamerer.bsky.social · 20/01/2025
What makes human brains (and anthropoids?) special
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Nature Reviews Neuroscience @natrevneuro.nature.com · 17/01/2025
The brain’s action-mode network — a Perspective by Nico U. F. Dosenbach, Marcus E. Raichle & Evan M. Gordon @ndosenbach.bsky.social @gordonneuro.bsky.social www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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The brain’s action-mode network - Nature Reviews Neuroscience
The brain enters an action-mode of function during goal-directed behaviour. In this Perspective, Dosenbach, Raiche and Gordon describe “action-mode” as an informative functional label that reduce...
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Uma Karmarkar @umakarma.bsky.social · 18/01/2025
More effective digital ads screw up your reading and reading comprehension. This could seem obvious, but it also means one should bite their tongue before teasing anyone that prefers reading the news on paper vs. online.
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Jin X. Goh | 吴晋勋 @jinxungoh.bsky.social · 18/01/2025
If you/ your students are interviewing for PhD psych programs in US (especially social psych), check out the resource page on my website. There are guides prepped by grad students + questions to ask faculty etc. Good luck! www.pbandjlab.com/resources
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The PB&J Lab - Resources
Resources
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Sander van der Linden @profsanderlinden.bsky.social · 18/01/2025
New meta-analysis shows media literacy & psychological inoculation interventions signifcantly & substantially improve (a) misinformation resilience (d = 0.60), (b) misinformation discernment (d = 0.76) and decrease sharing (d = 1.04). Great news for science! journals.sagepub.com/doi/epdf/10....
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Neil Lewis, Jr. @neillewisjr.bsky.social · 18/01/2025
1/5. I just finished re-reading King's "The Role of the Behavioral Scientist in the Civil Rights Movement"--a speech he gave at the American Psychological Association in 1967. I revisit this speech every few years; much of it remains relevant. A few notable sections... www.apa.org/topics/equit...
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King's challenge to the nation's social scientists
Full text of Martin Luther King's address to the APA convention attendees in September 1967 which urged a change in society regarding racism.
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Psychonomic Society @psychonomicsociety.bsky.social · 16/01/2025
Ever notice how colors link to your mood and emotions? Domicele Jonauskaite and Christine Mohr conducted a systematic review spanning 128 years of color psychology. 🎨 Post by Brett Myers. buff.ly/40zMkRR
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