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Masha Levene

@mashalevene.bsky.social
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Nature and science enthusiast, here to learn and discover She/her

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Steve Brusatte @stevebrusatte.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
How did birds survive the mass extinction event that killed off the (other) dinosaurs? Last summer I spoke about it on Here & Now on @npr.org And they played more of it on the radio today! www.wbur.org/hereandnow/2...
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Birds are the dinosaurs that survived the mass-extinction event 66 millions years ago
Birds are the only dinosaurs that survived the devastating asteroid impact 66 million years ago.
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Birdie Tam @birdietam.art · 08/10/2026
I'm so bad at promoting my Patreon - but here is the happy mail set for October! It features the painting I made last month and a shiny fox pin :3
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Rebecca R Helm @rebeccarhelm.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
The spooky season has arrived, and that means Creepy Biology is upon us. It's time to talk origins. It's time to talk gore. It's time to talk about BLOOD. Specifically, YOUR blood 🩸 [a thread]
A blood splatter by Luis Moraga 17, from wikimedia commons: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:EFECTOS_(SANGRE)_(93).png
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Alex Tomlinson @alextomlinson.com · 05/10/2026
Flat, illustrated poster graphic entitled "All the Colors of Fall" featuring a male and female Wood Duck surrounded by a grid of fall leaves that coordinate with their colors.
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Profile Books @profilebooks.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
'Bogs are messy and wild, places the human mind has difficulty understanding. Can we comprehend a place suspended between life and death? Do we want to?' ICMYI: read this fascinating extract from @queenofpeat.bsky.social's #Boglands via @caughtbytheriver.bsky.social. 🔗: tinyurl.com/yc5smtbn
A rectangular graphic with the hardback book Boglands by Merritt R. Turetsky in the middle. The background of the graphic is the illustration from the front cover of the book. The Profile Books logo is in the bottom right-hand corner.
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Mike Sowden @mikeachim.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
It's my birthday, & I have a massive discount on the paid version of my science newsletter - so, huge apologies, but I'm resharing my sciencey threads that did well, in the hope a few of you click through out of curiosity! (I can't believe I just wrote that paragraph. Oh well.) First, THE BONGS!
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Tom Larkin @tomlarkin.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
We’ve spent many, many hours over the past few months searching the rock pools of Cornwall for a rainbow sea slug. Today, we finally found one! Absolutely worth all the time we’ve spent - it was truly breathtaking.
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Ari Ganahl 🦑🔞 @arithetonberry.bsky.social · 17/06/2025
Fruit bat 🍑🦇 🐡🖌
Digital illustration of a bat hanging ipside down from a tree branch. There is a pink sky, a hanging moon, and decorative side panels featuring moth, grasshopper, and pitted fruit
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taenia @taenia.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Goooooood morning, pika fans It's September, and you know what that means! That's right, we are Making Hay, we are Perching On Rocks, we are Squeaking
An American Pika carrying a branch across rocky terrain

This is a small brown mammal that looks like an extremely cute cross between a rabbit and a mouse. It has short, round ears, large dark eyes and long whiskers.Am American Pika crouched on a rock at a 3/4 view towards the camera

This is a small brown mammal that looks like an extremely cute cross between a rabbit and a mouse. It has short, round ears, large dark eyes and long whiskers.An American Pika with a mouth full of dried vegetation sitting on a rock

This is a small brown mammal that looks like an extremely cute cross between a rabbit and a mouse. It has short, round ears, large dark eyes and long whiskers.An American Pika perched on a rock and calling

This is a small brown mammal that looks like an extremely cute cross between a rabbit and a mouse. It has short, round ears, large dark eyes and long whiskers.
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Prof Chris Jackson @seismatters.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
🔈 On October 13th I’m giving the Public Lecture at the Geological Society in London. ☢️ I’ll be talking about my current favourite topic: the geological storage of nuclear waste. The talk will be online too, so please join if you can! ➡️ @geolsoc.bsky.social www.geolsoc.org.uk/events/the-g...
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The geological disposal of nuclear waste and its role in the Energy Transition - Public Lecture | The Geological Society of London
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Susie Dent @susiedentwords.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
For those interested in how dictionaries are made, as well as the secret lives of the apparently ordinary words we use, may I recommend this podcast? It’s made by two colleagues at the Oxford English Dictionary who really know their stuff. rss.com/podcasts/lex...
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The OED’s September update enters the twerpy mountweazel timeline | Podcast Episode on RSS.com
Why do we love the mountweazel (and what is it)? Who was the original twerp? How did timeline constitute a two-for-one bargain? Join editors Fiona McPherson and Craig Leyland as they dive into some of...
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Quanta Magazine @quantamagazine.org · 21/09/2026
The DNA in your cells has a much more complicated backstory than you might think. To convey this, our art department gave stop-motion a try:
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Prof Chris Jackson @seismatters.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
📕 NEW BOOK!!! 📕 I co-authored a book for DK, contributing several chapters, including ones on stratigraphy, climate change, and key events in Earth history 🌍 Aimed at a very broad audience, the the illustrations are simply incredible 🥰 I hope I didn’t mess up or leave anything important out! 🙏🏾
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Sarah McAnulty, Ph.D. @sarahmackattack.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
I want you to think about the kids in your life. Maybe those kids are 8. Maybe they are 32. Do they know enough about snails? Hard to imagine anyone truly knowing *enough* about snails. Help those kids learn snailhood. Get them a Snail Facts advent calendar. SquidFacts.net.
An 11x14 inch poster featuring snails, slugs, nudibranchs, and other snails! There are 24 yellow-green snail shells that you can scratch off. There's a leaf sheep and sea bunny and sea angel and fire snail and banana slug and mystery snail and ramshorn snail and candy cane snail
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Barbara J. King @bjking.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Operatic lemurs! #lemurs #primates #primatology #Anthropology #animalcommunication
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Singing indri lemurs use opera technique, study finds
University of Warwick scientists have spent years studying indri lemurs.
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Astronomer Royal for Scotland | Catherine Heymans @astroroyalscot.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
NASA picture of the day today is a real 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿beauty! This is a composite image of the ~5000yo Callanish Stones on the Isle of Lewis. The amazing Giuseppe Petricca has only gone and photographed the Sun at noon there, every few days, for a whole year. #Dedication 🔭🧪👌 ℹ️: science.nasa.gov/image-articl...
The imposing Callanish Stones stand talk with their shadows spanning out across the glass.  It's a super clear sky, but looks cold. Above the central stone is a strange figure-of-8 shape of dots.  This is the location of the Sun, at noon, on various different days across the year.
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franz @franzanth.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
look I found some old bugs in my folders #Art #SciArt
rough pencil-like sketches of a mantis from various angles. the main image shows it from the side, the secondary shows a closer shot of the face slightly from higher up, then a frontal face, and the raptorial arm. the text says odontomantis, 2024-12-12 franzanth
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Hiné Mizushima/水島ひね @sheishine.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
My anatomical brooches are featured in Capitel, Issue 43! They open the “Health & Science” section of this gorgeous non-profit educational magazine bridging art & humanities, distributed free across universities, museums, galleries and libraries in Mexico. issuu.com/universidadh...
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womensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
The work of Marianne Seiman, contemporary crochet artist (via Instagram) #Womensart
Photo of a circular group of three dimensional realistic shell shapes in different colours and sizes against a black background
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Jer Thorp @jerthorp.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Friends! Can I ask you a favour? My 🐦 + 📊 course starts next week. I'm super excited but registration is worryingly low. Can you share this with your weirdo nature + art + code friends? jerthorp.me/learning
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LEARNING | jerthorp
Online courses and wokshops about birds, data and creative coding. Binoculars to Binomials is for coders who are interested in cultivating an observational practice, and for birders who want to dive ...
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Gwen Pearson @bug-gwen.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
This middle school science classroom near me needs help buying nitrile gloves to keep kids safe during labs. Can you help out? 🧤🔬
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Nina Willburger @drnwillburger.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
9,500 years old! And still intact! A Mesolithic woven baskets from Spain’s Cueva de los Murciélagos (“Cave of the Bats”) are Europe’s oldest known basketry. Thanks to the cave’s near‑zero humidity, organic materials didn’t decay, preserving several baskets for more than 9,000. 🧵/1/2 📷 me
Woven cylindrical basket displayed against a black background, with a wide rim and rounded base illuminated by a spotlight.
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Dr. Wendy Bohon @drwendyrocks.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
If yall don’t follow @afroherper.bsky.social you should! She posts excellent herpetology 🦎 content (including #FindThatLizard) and is a 10/10 human. bsky.app/profile/afro...
Screenshot showing the Bluesky profile for Dr. Earyn McGee 
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alexia winterhalter @alexiawinterhalter.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
another favourite! i loved my hike there last year and had to include it in the calendar. #digitalart #pyrenees #mountainart
a digital painting of the cirque de troumouse in the pyrenees. the colours are warm with a pink sky, a path is in the foreground and there’s a cabin in the middle.
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Jessica Elena @byjessicaelena.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Landscape!! #art #illustration
A digital drawing of a loose and colorful hilly landscape with a little cabin and big trees. The colorus are warm.
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Susana Monsó @susanamonso.com · 16/09/2026
Excited BEYOND MEASURE for @edyong209.bsky.social’s new book!!
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Life Beyond Measure by Ed Yong: 9780593733288 | PenguinRandomHouse.com: Books
Just as he did in his New York Times bestseller, An Immense World, Ed Yong expands our perception of nature, this time by revealing the astonishing ways living things operate at different scales. "A...
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🍁Gale🪶 @wildcrowling.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Had to give some love to my spark bird before they get into their dull winter plumage. I got lucky to have all three goldfinch species - American, Lesser, and Lawrence’s - at my feeders with their fledglings. #birds #goldfinch #americangoldfinch #lessergoldfinch #birdart
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Aled Thompson @aledthompson.bsky.social · 01/05/2026
Llanberis Falls
two trees with in front of a waterfall surrounded by vibrant abstract foliage
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Miguel Clavero @chikichanka.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Japanese team have observed directly, for the first time, noctule bats hunting birds The images they provide astonishingly resemble that painted by Brueghel over 400 years ago... maybe he had actually seen the hunt!! Paper: esajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/... @ebdonana.bsky.social
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Evan Sky Arts 🌸 shop open! @evanskyarts.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Have you heard the news?? Kākāpōs just had a record-breaking breeding season with over 100 new chicks! This is such great news for the critically endangered parrot. (Handmade Kākāpō keychains are available! 🍃 evanskyarts.com/products/kak...) #art #birds #artist #nature #birdSky #Handmade
Picture of a handmade felt kakapo keychain photographed on a black and wooden background.
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Kate Elliott @kateelliottsff.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
I am not first and will be far from the last to say this: I have purchased so many books because I saw them recommended or publicized here on bsky. I cannot urge you all enough to KEEP TALKING ABOUT BOOKS. I know it's easier to talk up someone else's book, but this also means you, the shy author.
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Sarah Boon @snowhydro.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
OK I'll bite. My book is MELTDOWN: THE MAKING AND BREAKING OF A FIELD SCIENTIST. It follows me on my fieldwork adventures on Arctic glaciers, scaring away grizzlies and gauging large rivers. It also shines a light on academia and how I left the university due to mental illness. melt-down.ca
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MELTDOWN – The making and breaking of a field scientist
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Laura Bundesen @laurabundesen.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Finished and I couldn’t resist adding some bling to the background. An experiment that worked 😉 8x10 ‘Be Brilliant’ fabric and sequins in the kinusaiga style. Hard to capture all the bling in a photograph #SciArt #FiberArt #kinusaiga
A kinusaiga (tucked fabric) brain of many colors with a background of randomly spaced tiny sequins. In the middle of the brain we see the words ‘Be Brilliant’Same brain as the first photo but from a side view to catch the shine of the sequins
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Hiné Mizushima/水島ひね @sheishine.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
バンクーバーはすっかり秋なので、このかっこいいキノコのシャツの出番よ。🍄 Vancouver is definitely feeling like fall, so it’s time to wear this cool mushroom shirt. 🍄 #mushrooms #fall #vancouver #canada #shirt
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Neil Banas @neilbanas.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
(slightly) new #origami #nudibranch design. If you're in Glasgow, come by Doors Open Days at The Briggait for many more! waspsstudios.org.uk/open-studios... background: an Anna Atkins cyanotype, as seen recently in the @lrb.co.uk. (Algal cyanotypes are critical habitat for origami nudibranchs.)
A bluebrown nudibranch glides heavenward atop a bluewhite blade of seaweed. The nudibranch is origami designed and folded by Neil (origamiplankton.org) and the seaweed is a cyanotype by Anna Atkins, 1853.
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c0nc0rdance @c0nc0rdance.bsky.social · 14/02/2026
What I love about ichthyosaurs: they're marine REPTILES pretending to be fish pretending to be dolphins. Like, if you unfocus your eyes here, it's a dolphin, right? But I think we need to talk about Ichthyotitan: a marine reptile pretending to be a fish pretending to be a BLUE WHALE.
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a dolphin with a long nose is swimming against a blue sky
Alt: An ichthyosaur with a long nose is swimming against a blue sky, from an animation in the gif library.
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Goodnews @goodnews.computer · 04/09/2026
Take a break from being depressed that everything you love is being destroyed by slop for a moment and let me tell you about the beautiful symbiotic relationship between graffiti writers, train yard workers, and model train enthusiasts.
A hand holding a model train with a replica of the same graffiti on the full scale train car behind it.A model train with two graffiti pieces on opposite sides.
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Andrea Wulf @andreawulf.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Yeahhhhh! So excited that the “The Traveller” is longlisted for the Baillie Gifford Prize. It’s such an honour to be chosen and be amongst such illustrious writers. Thank you! I hope that George Forster is somewhere out there seeing this. #TheTraveller
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Sarah McAnulty, Ph.D. @sarahmackattack.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
We have about 17 shrimp city shirts left then that's the end of 'em! Help me clear out the stock room, support Skype a scientist, and look cool as hell in shirt about shimps. Get one at SquidFacts.net
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Lev Parikian @levparikian.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
Every time I mention migration over the next while I’ll be contractually obliged to mention Wayfarers, which is out next April. Sorry, I don’t make the rules. Simon at @biggreenbooks.bsky.social will have copies that I will sign and dedicate. www.biggreenbookshop.com/signed-copie...
The cover for Wayfarers: The Incredible Story of Animal Migration, by Lev Parikian. It’s predominantly blue, with swirling patterns representing migratory paths, and migrating animals interspersed across the design – terns, a whale, monarch butterflies, penguins, bats, dragonflies, a wildebeest and an arctic fox.
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Shirley (Not the Horror Author) Jackson @lioninthetrees.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
My solo show pieces are now available!! I will also be there tonight for the opening reception! ✨💖 Shop here: www.giantrobot.com/collections/... #art #pottery
A group photo of a variety of ceramic animals such as wolves, birds, and big cats.
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Hiné Mizushima/水島ひね @sheishine.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
🇺🇸Notice for US Customers🇺🇸 Due to the new 50% Trump tariffs, I have temporarily paused shipping art prints to the US via my Etsy shop. So sorry for this sudden announcement! I hope to resume US shipping as soon as possible. Thank you so much for your understanding and support! #hinemizushima
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Indikon @indikon.eurosky.social · 27/08/2026
I know what I’m doing today. The ebook just landed in my inbox! @frankashwood.bsky.social
The cover of “The World Beneath our Feet,” by Frank Ashwood.
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Kness @kness.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
Hiiii ! This is your Canadian ceramic artist writing! Soooo after this week-end debacle, I just wanted to write a little update about the Canada - USA trade war and how art is actually political. 80% of my work sells to the U.S. and it looks like I just lost my main source of income.
Canadian otters on a Canadian made mug that's handmade and cute and how could you put tariffs on that ???
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Aled Thompson @aledthompson.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
Owl gang
Eurasian scops owl perched on a branch Long eared Owl perched on a branchBarn owl stood on a stump
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Bea Leiderman @bealeiderman.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
Bertholdia. One of my favorite moths. Every single one in the genus is a stunner. Those translucent bits! 🌿😜
A moth on a leaf. The wings are mostly brown with a big area lacking scales so it is translucent and the leaf shows through. The thorax has a red crest. There are four yellow spots along the thorax and black and yellow dashed lines along the posterior edge of the forewings.
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Dan Baldassarre @evornithology.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
I was very pleased to review @stevebrusatte.bsky.social's new book "The Story of Birds" for @journal-evo.bsky.social. Thanks to @wtf-r-species.bsky.social for the invitation! doi.org/10.1093/evol...
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Dr Pamela L Gay @starstryder.space · 21/08/2026
Moth! There are several of these on my patio
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Jonathan C Slaght @jonathanslaght.com · 20/08/2026
Pesto season! I wrote this Op-Ed in 2015; some folks didn't like it & I got my first hate mail. Still true: many "Product of China" pine nuts are actually sourced very unsustainably from tiger forests in Russia. There are alternatives that still make a great pesto www.nytimes.com/2015/10/19/o...
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Opinion | Making Pesto? Hold the Pine Nuts (Published 2015)
Unsustainable harvesting of this classic ingredient is harming wildlife in Russia’s forests.
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Sarah McAnulty, Ph.D. @sarahmackattack.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
WOW Big surprise today, the Snail Facts Advent Calendars have arrived!!!! Scratch off a shell every day to reveal facts about the snails of the world 🐌 They were designed by Philly illustrator Kelly Nichols! (@KidNichols on instagram) I'm so excited to share these calendars with all of you!!
Sarah holds up an 11x14 inch poster featuring snails, slugs, nudibranchs, and other snails! There are 24 yellow-green snail shells that you can scratch off. There's a leaf sheep and sea bunny and sea angel and fire snail and banana slug and mystery snail and ramshorn snail and candy cane snail
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