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Lola Solebo

@lolaeyedoc.bsky.social
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Academic / Paediatric Ophthalmologist Epidemiology, Eyes/Vision, Imaging, Data science, Health equity. Huge nerd. Not necessarily in that order. Both kinds of doctor. www.ted.com/talks/dr_lola_solebo_th…

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Uveitis National Clinical Study Group @uveitiscsg.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
The first CHOIR Community webinar takes place tonight at 7pm BST 🎉 This is a new space for children, young people & families affected by rare childhood-onset inflammatory eye conditions. Register: ucl.zoom.us/webinar/regi... choir-lab.com #CHOIR #Uveitis #Ophthalmology @lolaeyedoc.bsky.social
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Fight for Sight @fightforsight.bsky.social · 09/02/2026
Researchers from UCL and Moorfields Eye Hospital NHS have made a significant contribution to our understanding of uveitis and recently shared their findings in Nature Communications. Read about the study here: ow.ly/8HOX50YbK62 #Research #Uveitis #MedicalResearch
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Dr Nima Ghadiri - FBNHS @drnimaghadiri.bsky.social · 29/09/2025
📢 Childhood Onset Uveitis Info Day (UNICORNS Group) 🦄 📅 Sun 5 Oct 2025 | ⏰ 10:00–16:00 BST 📍 Weston House, Great Ormond St, London + Online Join for expert talks & support on childhood #uveitis @lolaeyedoc.bsky.social Unicorns: www.ucl.ac.uk/population-h... www.eventbrite.com/e/childhood-...
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Uveitis in childhood prospective national cohort study
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Lola Solebo @lolaeyedoc.bsky.social · 18/08/2025
A rose by any other name might smell as sweet but would get misclassified: Nomenclature for AS OCT url:https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamaophthalmology/fullarticle/2837462?utm_source=bluesky&utm_campaign=content-shareicons&utm_content=article_engagement&utm_medium=social&utm_term=081825
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UCL Dept of Aging, Rheumatology & Regenerative Medicine @arrdept-ucldom.bsky.social · 03/07/2025
So great to see ARR collaborators in science translational medicine this morning - www.science.org/doi/10.1126/.... An important movement for #Paed Rheum research and tissue biology #immunosky @dr-chrissyb.bsky.social #Wedderburngroup #Croftgroup #ChrisMahony @science.org
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Synovial tissue atlas in juvenile idiopathic arthritis reveals pathogenic niches associated with disease severity
An atlas of the cellular and molecular landscape of the juvenile idiopathic arthritis synovium defines tissue niches associated with disease severity.
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UCL News @uclnews.bsky.social · 18/06/2025
Researchers at @ucl.ac.uk's Great Ormond Street Institute for Child Health and @greatormondst.bsky.social including Professor Lucy Wedderburn have identified a set of genes which could help predict children's response to an arthritis treatment @uclpophealthsci.bsky.social
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Genes may help to predict which children will respond well to arthritis treatment
A set of genes that could be used to help doctors predict which children will respond well to treatment for juvenile idiopathic arthritis (JIA) have been identified by researchers at UCL and Great Orm...
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Wellcome Trust @wellcometrust.bsky.social · 12/05/2025
We’re accepting applications for our Accelerator Awards. This opportunity aims to support researchers of Black, Bangladeshi and Pakistani heritage in the UK to undertake activities that help them build a stronger profile to make successful career transitions within academia. Find out more ⤵️
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Accelerator Awards | Grant funding | Wellcome
Eligibility and applications details for the Wellcome Accelerator Awards, which will support Black, Bangladeshi, and Pakistani researchers in the UK to make successful career transitions.
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Lola Solebo @lolaeyedoc.bsky.social · 01/05/2025
Inflammatory cell or pigment? Sometimes hard to tell on a slit lamp, even for an expert clinician, and there aren’t many of those to go round. AS-OCT appears to rise to the challenge: 🧪 www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Article Metrics - Differentiation of anterior chamber pigment and inflammatory cells using swept-source optical coherence tomography: a cross-sectional study | Eye
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Lizzy Rosser @bcellsrosser.bsky.social · 09/04/2025
Delighted to be included in this great initiative highlighting researchers in our new departments located in @uclmedsci.bsky.social. Can’t wait to read @georgearobinson.bsky.social next week!
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Lizzy Rosser @bcellsrosser.bsky.social · 25/03/2025
This was fun!
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Alice Roberts @profaliceroberts.bsky.social · 02/03/2025
It seems PubMed has disappeared. This is the digital equivalent of burning a library.
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Paul Sax @paulsaxmd.bsky.social · 27/02/2025
If someone thinks the measles outbreak and childhood death in Texas are "not unusual" or "happens all the time", they are deeply misinformed. h/t @adamratnermd.bsky.social for the inspiration. blogs.jwatch.org/hiv-id-obser...
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Tragic Childhood Death from Measles Reminds Us That Some Don't Understand Either the Medical Significance or the Human Heart
My ID colleague Dr. Adam Ratner, Chief of Pediatric ID at NYU Medical Center, just published an insightful and remarkably timely book called Booster Shots:  The Urgent Lessons of Measles and the Uncer...
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Lola Solebo @lolaeyedoc.bsky.social · 16/02/2025
NEW JOB ALERT 📢 Want to come and 🌠SHINE as a new member of the UCL Child Health Vision and Eyes Group? We are looking for an Epidemiologist / Data Scientist 🧪 to join the team - advert below www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/...
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UCL – University College London
UCL is consistently ranked as one of the top ten universities in the world (QS World University Rankings 2010-2022) and is No.2 in the UK for research power (Research Excellence Framework 2021).
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Lola Solebo @lolaeyedoc.bsky.social · 27/01/2025
The ADJUST trial is out! Q: what is the chance of JIA uveitis recurrence after stopping Adalimumab? A: Pretty high - so counsel children and parents carefully when starting 🧪👁️ www.the Lancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(24)02468-1/fulltext
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Stopping of adalimumab in juvenile idiopathic arthritis-associated uveitis (ADJUST): a multicentre, double-masked, randomised controlled trial
Discontinuing adalimumab led to higher rates of recurrence of uveitis, arthritis, or both in patients with previously controlled juvenile idiopathic arthritis-associated uveitis. However, all patients...
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Lola Solebo @lolaeyedoc.bsky.social · 09/01/2025
Funded by a @wellcometrust.bsky.social grant, we will be growing our CHOIR team - making discoveries which deepen our understanding of childhood ocular inflammatory disease. 2025 will bring us two new post docs, and a pre-doc (with funding available for a studentship) - keep a look out!
Image showing the work and environment - childhood ocular inflammation research, at UCL, with clinical and patient partners
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Lola Solebo @lolaeyedoc.bsky.social · 01/01/2025
My peak* Reflecting on goals for 2025 and nothing really comes close Happy New Year! *a backwards roly-poly was needed, I think. No, no, hold your applause - the award was award enough
British Gymnastics certificate from 1986
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Evelyn Mensah @eye-surgeon-eve.bsky.social · 23/12/2024
“Equitable, Diverse & Inclusive Ophthalmology through the Eyes of a Geordie Ghanaian” FULL recording of my Presidential Address for RSM Ophthalmology is FREE to watch. A raw account of navigating systemic racism, anti-Blackness & misogynoir. Love & light Evie 💖✨ www.rsm.ac.uk/sections/oph...
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Ophthalmology Section | The Royal Society of Medicine
The RSM Ophthalmology Section’s purpose is to promote and provide accredited educational study of best practice in the field of ophthalmology.
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Aaron McCall @aaronmccall.bsky.social · 21/12/2024
I’m also the product of Star Trek, Sesame Street, and Muppet Movies. I think we can do anything with hard work, dreaming just a little bigger and maybe singing along the way.
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Lola Solebo @lolaeyedoc.bsky.social · 20/12/2024
Well presented case from Tufts with some useful OCT images:
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Lola Solebo @lolaeyedoc.bsky.social · 20/12/2024
Children and their families told us that they wanted more uveitis research - and we listened (www.ucl.ac.uk/child-health...) We are looking forward to hearing your voices again. Link is here and in the image: redcap.link/churp
Image calling young people, children and their families to make sure that their voices are heard when it comes to planning childhood uveitis research. Also has a QR code link to the survey on research priorities
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Jasmine 🌌🔭 @astrojaz.bsky.social · 19/12/2024
eyes in space 👁️🌌
A spiral galaxy, seen close-up. Its core is a round spot that glows intensely bright, crowned by eight long and spikes that extend across the galaxy, artefacts of the telescope’s structure. Its disc is an oval shape with edges made of very thick and cloudy arms of gas and dust, mostly blue but paler and brighter around patches of stars. Wisps of darker dust also fill the inner disc and swirl off the ends of the arms.The Helix Nebula appears as an eye in the center of the image. The outer layers appears yellow, while the inner layers are a darker blue color. There are many blue stars visible around the nebula. The background of the image shows dark red space.This image of the Ring Nebula, taken by Webb’s Near-Infrared Camera, appears as a distorted doughnut. The nebula’s inner cavity hosts shades of blue and green, while the detailed ring transitions through shades of orange in the inner regions and pink in the outer region. The ring’s inner region has distinct filament elements. Stars litter the scene, with a particularly prominent star with 8 long spikes in the top right corner.A small white dot with a large orange debris disk around it, resembling an eye.
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Xiao Liu @xiaoliu.bsky.social · 19/12/2024
One of my biggest joys is seeing an entire community take a stand for something important. STANDING Together, recommendations for health data diversity and algorithmic bias is now published: an international effort involving >350 experts & 58 countries. www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
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Tackling algorithmic bias and promoting transparency in health datasets: the STANDING Together consensus recommendations
Without careful dissection of the ways in which biases can be encoded into artificial intelligence (AI) health technologies, there is a risk of perpetuating existing health inequalities at scale. One major source of bias is the data that underpins such technologies. The STANDING Together recommendations aim to encourage transparency regarding limitations of health datasets and proactive evaluation of their effect across population groups. Draft recommendation items were informed by a systematic review and stakeholder survey.
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Chris Nelder @chrisnelder.bsky.social · 19/12/2024
I can hardly think of a better example of the moral decay in modern health care than a Goldman analyst noting that biotech cures for diseases like hepatitis are cool and all, until their success diminishes the business opportunity for pharmaceutical manufacturers. www.cnbc.com/2018/04/11/g...
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Goldman Sachs asks in biotech research report: 'Is curing patients a sustainable business model?'
Goldman Sachs warns sales from the most successful disease treatments are difficult to maintain.
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Lola Solebo @lolaeyedoc.bsky.social · 17/12/2024
Interesting article from the #ClevelandEye Pichi / Neri team suggesting that body weight is linked to how well humira (also called Amgevita / Adalimumab) works in childhood uveitis. Could we start using BMI to adjust for humira dosing to reduce the chance of developing anti-drug antibodies?🧪👁️
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ACR Journals @acr-journals.bsky.social · 04/12/2024
Extra-musculoskeletal manifestations are an important treatment consideration for patients with spondyloarthritis. In this analysis, development of uveitis, IBD, and psoriasis was generally low with upadacitinib 15 mg, incl. numerically lower rates of uveitis vs placebo A&R doi.org/10.1002/art....
Development of Extra-Musculoskeletal Manifestations in Upadacitinib-Treated Patients With Psoriatic Arthritis or Axial Spondyloarthritis. Graphical abstract created with BioRender
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Lola Solebo @lolaeyedoc.bsky.social · 11/12/2024
We need transformational changes to address the worrying decline in children’s health and wellbeing - AcMedSci is showing welcome, much needed leadership on this:
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Academy of Medical Sciences @acmedsci.bsky.social · 13/09/2024
"We lack the imagination to relieve children's suffering" - Prof Helen Minnis FMedSci in The Big Issue. Govt should prioritise young children in healthcare & education Minnis argues, calling for a reallocation of resources to support child development. Read more 👇 bit.ly/3XyUYi1 #ThriveByFive
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Why the natural human failure of imagination stops us from relieving children's suffering
To fix the problems of society, we must begin by reimagining our priorities and putting our babies and children first.
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Alasdair Munro @apsmunro.bsky.social · 06/12/2024
People who use statistical modelling studies which *assume* efficacy as if they are *evidence* of efficacy, have either not read the research, don’t understand the research, or worse - are wilfully misusing the research Models should not be used as propaganda
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Against Models as Propaganda
We examine the misuse of infectious disease models as ideological tools
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Lola Solebo @lolaeyedoc.bsky.social · 06/12/2024
The democratisation of expertise (augmentation of decision making, an 82% reduction in infant mortality) described in this article really is the great promise of medical AI. Underserved populations are likely to be most damaged by implementation gone wrong - but they also have the most to gain.
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RoordaLab @roordalab.bsky.social · 05/12/2024
Seems that 4 monitors is not enough... Jason and Shangbang are choosing which cone on my retina to perform #AOOCT and #AOSLO #optoretinography measurements.
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Coleman Lab @colemanlab.bsky.social · 02/12/2024
This week in Science Without Anguish: Loneliness and the long distance researcher. Overcoming isolation for science and wellbeing. www.sciencewithoutanguish.com/blog/overcom... This is the last post in Series 2. Stay tuned for webinar announcements, plans for a coaching programme and Series 3.
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Lola Solebo @lolaeyedoc.bsky.social · 02/12/2024
Childhood uveitis is all too often ‘idiopathic’ But We are beginning to unravel the somatic mutations that underpin autoimmune and autoinflammatory conditions - really exciting times acrjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
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Unraveling the Genetics of Shared Clinical and Serological Manifestations in Patients With Systemic Inflammatory Autoimmune Diseases
Objective Systemic inflammatory autoimmune diseases (SIADs) such as systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE), primary Sjögren disease (pSS), and idiopathic inflammatory myopathies (myositis) are complex c...
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Lola Solebo @lolaeyedoc.bsky.social · 02/12/2024
Clinical academia is…..hard. Worth it*, but hard Navigating the employment admin generated by being different to NHs colleagues is painful This new guidance should really help: www.nhsemployers.org/publications...
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Implementing Follett principles for health and care professionals
Guidance on the principles of joint working between HEIs and NHS providers for regulated, registered health & care professional clinical academics.
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Bríd Nic Annaidh ☘️ @bridgetmcgann.medsky.social · 01/12/2024
It is important for scientists to lead the charge in promoting only high quality science/nature content and protecting the scientific community from exploitation. This includes protecting full time science communicators, whose underfunded work helps the public understand and value our research 🧪
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Seven Machina Rasmussen @toomanyspectra.bsky.social · 30/11/2024
can I code fast? no. but can I code well? also no. but does my code work? alas, no
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Shining Science @shiningscience.com · 01/12/2024
Clearest image ever taken of Heart Nebula, located 7500 light years away from us
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Lola Solebo @lolaeyedoc.bsky.social · 01/12/2024
This thread….Izzy, thank you
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Lola Solebo @lolaeyedoc.bsky.social · 01/12/2024
I remember trying to explain to an adult ophth’gist the challenge of assessing discs in Craniosynostosis. To judge whether to put the child through an invasive procedure to measure their intracranial pressure. He didn’t get it. Valuable addition to the evidence base! www.ajo.com/article/S000...
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Lola Solebo @lolaeyedoc.bsky.social · 28/11/2024
PARTICULARLY important for rare diseases - individually rare but collectively common, affecting more than 1 in 20 of us Rare disease research NEEDs more than one centre, for enough data from enough ‘cases’. The Sudlow review is hugely welcome
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@arvoinfo.bsky.social‬ @arvoinfo.bsky.social · 22/11/2024
Still two weeks left to get abstracts in for a chance to showcase your new eye/ #VisionResearch at #ARVO2025 in Salt Lake City, Utah! @arvoinfo.bsky.social membership for 2025 is required. Submit by Dec. 6 (email arvoabstracts@arvo.org if you have questions). bit.ly/2yNlNDd #VisionScience #OphthoSky
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Drew Carey, Eye MD @drewcareymd.bsky.social · 23/11/2024
Always have a great time talking with @chenmayo from @mayoclinic about his exciting research into #OpticNeuritis, listen to our recent convo on the use of plasma exchange (PLEX) as rescue therapy #NeuroOphth #neurology #ophthalmology #eye #medicine #autoimmune www.aaojournal.org/audio-do/pla...
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yarrah-goffincher.bsky.social @yarrah-goffincher.bsky.social · 20/11/2024
That pepper needs a VP shunt though
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Ian McCormick @ianmccormick.me · 19/11/2024
I’m probably late to this, but now we all have a nice new distraction on our phones here did you know the iPhone has a screen distance warning? It’s automatically enabled for children under 13 in family groups. Do other devices have this option? Worth flagging to parents I think. #EyeSky #myopia
Screenshot of iPhone message warning that the device is too closeScreenshot of iPhone with message that viewing distance has been corrected.
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Livvy Swann @livvyswann.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
"Our homes provide the living environment that dictates our future health” - Sir Michael Marmot Come and do a #PhD with me! #Datascience, #AI, #environment, #climate, #policy and kids - what more could you want?!
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Alex Peden @alexpeden.bsky.social · 20/08/2024
I've had a go at starting a starter pack for #ResearchCulture, I'm pretty new here so please don't be offended if I haven't found you yet. Happy to add people to this, let me know! #Research #ResearchDevelopment #OpenResearch #ResearcherDevelopment #ResponsibleMetrics go.bsky.app/FAzhuGh
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Coleman Lab @colemanlab.bsky.social · 18/11/2024
This week’s Science Without Anguish post is out: the slippery slope to imposter syndrome in research and how to escape it. Please tell your colleagues on or off social media. 🧪 www.sciencewithoutanguish.com/blog/we-are-...
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Tim Baxter @timinclimate.naruresearch.com.au · 18/11/2024
Bluesky tip for newbies: Bluesky has no real algorithm. Likes here do nothing but show the poster that you enjoyed their content. That kindness is always going to be appreciated by creators, but if you want to help to boost something here, you have to repost it so others see it. 🙂
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Maarten van Smeden @maartenvsmeden.bsky.social · 18/11/2024
I made one for stats papers
A joke about statistics papers
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Lola Solebo @lolaeyedoc.bsky.social · 18/11/2024
👋I'm a paediatric ophthalmologist & epidemiologist - my research unravels the determinants of poor outcomes for childhood onset eye & vision disorders, and how we turn that data into interventions to improve outcomes. Mother of dragons Brain built by libraries/jollof/Prince Ad astra per aspera
A picture of me standing in front of a picture of me
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