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Michaela DeSoucey

@mdesoucey.bsky.social
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sociologist of culture, food, consumption, markets, risk & trust, organizations, authenticity, heritage politics, likes vintage stuff & tennis

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SASE | The Society for the Advancement of Socio-Economics @sasemeeting.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
🔬 Career opportunities: The Max Planck Institute for the Study of Societies is inviting applications for postdoctoral researchers and visiting researchers in: - Political Economy - Economic Sociology - Technology and Statehood - Field of wealth and social inequality (postdoc only).
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Opportunities for Members | SASE
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Lauren Valentino @sociologylauren.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
UNC Sociology is hiring! 🐏 We're looking for someone at assistant or associate level in ANY area, willing to teach in our dept's Management & Society program (i.e. courses on organizations, work and occupations, economic sociology, social psychology, non-profits, work and family, AI and work, etc).
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Assistant or Associate Professor
The Department of Sociology at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill invites applications for an Assistant or Associate (tenure-track or tenured) faculty position to begin July 1, 2027. We w...
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Emily Mendenhall @emendenhall.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Today in @sciencepolitics.bsky.social we have an excellent piece on gummies, chews, and powders by Michaela DeSoucey and Emma McDonell. sciencepolitics.org/2026/09/09/g...
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Gummies, Chews, and Powders: The Contradiction of Super-processed Superfoods - Science Politics
In an ironic twist, highly processed products are increasingly used to satisfy consumers’ desire for real food. But açaí and moringa extracts are no substitute for access to fresh meals and the time t...
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Michaela DeSoucey @mdesoucey.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
yes, this labeling issue/battle is FAR from new
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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Hey everybody. On the 25-year anniversary, we're reprinting the much revered 9/11 edition of The Onion and sending that free to every member this month. It's been 25 long years. Look back in anger.
The front page of The Onion's September edition from September 2001 featuring the headline "U.S. Vows to Defeat Whoever It Is We're At War With."
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Will Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
And now I will do a thread of anti-ICE art and displays at the MN State Fair. First: the textiles
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Anna Kornbluh @annakornbluh.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
universities are not run by leftist profs they are run by corporate profiteer board members siphoning public $$ to tech partnerships "An Inside Higher Ed analysis of SEC filings turned up dozens of presidents paid handsomely for sitting on corporate boards." www.insidehighered.com/news/governa...
the 10 presidents in Inside Higher Ed’s analysis who earned the most from outside board service in 2025.
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Dan Garisto @dangaristo.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
Scoop: For nearly a year, NSF has struggled to make new grants. Now we know that it will not catch up. In fact, NSF will award just 6,100 new grants—a 30% y/o/y decline, itself down from a previous avg. of 11,000+. In fact, the last time NSF awarded so few grants was in the early '80s.
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Exclusive: NSF set to issue lowest number of new grants in four decades
The US science-funding agency is withholding $1 billion of its budget so that the money can go to a special White House project.
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Joel Mittleman @joeljm.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
Let’s be colleagues! Penn Sociology has an open, junior search. careercenter.asanet.org/job/1311613/...
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Tenure-track Assistant Professor of Sociology - Philadelphia, Pennsylvania job with University of Pennsylvania | 1311613
University of Pennsylvania: School of Arts and Sciences: School of Arts and Sciences - Sociology Location Philadelphia, PA Open Date Aug 07, 2026 D...
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Michaela DeSoucey @mdesoucey.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
Went to submit a peer review tonight (doing my part!) and the journal (w a Wiley interface) asks a bunch of questions w a 1-5 scale, per usual, but does NOT specify if 1 is high or low. 🙃🙃🙃
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Michaela DeSoucey @mdesoucey.bsky.social · 03/07/2026
very cool. saving for teaching. ourworldindata.org/how-does-foo...
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How does food get traded around the world?
Our interactive tool helps you see where food is exported from and where it goes.
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Michaela DeSoucey @mdesoucey.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
This is a fun summary/romp through U.S. food history www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
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The Pursuit of Hungriness: 250 Years of American Food Innovation
Sliced bread. Soul food. Cheetos. Here are 25 inventions, crazes and cravings that defined the national diet, decade by decade.
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Michaela DeSoucey @mdesoucey.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
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Please Use AI
Be sure to use AI when making
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Michaela DeSoucey @mdesoucey.bsky.social · 29/05/2026
Because it’s all at my house 🤣 share.google/qWxCkkJjKDY9...
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Vintage Pyrex Hard to Find Due to Increased Interest From Younger Generation
Social media, nostalgia and a demand for color has helped the vintage Pyrex skyrocket in popularity.
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 05/05/2026
If any historians want to suffer through the Florida Man Version of AP History, here's the document:
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Arghavan Salles, MD, PhD @arghavansallesmd.medsky.social · 20/04/2026
At the end of 2024, the National Academies put out a report concluding the NIH has woefully underfunded women’s health research, and they suggested $15 B should be invested over the next 5 years. Here’s what’s happened instead. Hard to study women’s health if you can’t say “women.” wapo.st/4euUt1c
Figure showing number of competitive grants mentioning women from 2015-2025. The number was rising until recently, with a precipitous drop in the last year.
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Michaela DeSoucey @mdesoucey.bsky.social · 15/04/2026
Truly not the most pressing thing in the news, but SMH WHAT A HOT MESS: www.newsobserver.com/news/politic...
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No qualifying bids, so State Health Plan will restart search for new insurer
The initial request for bids came in less than a year and a half after the state switched to Aetna from Blue Cross NC.
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Brendan Nyhan @brendannyhan.bsky.social · 03/04/2026
Leopards eating faces, foreign disinformation edition www.nytimes.com/2026/04/01/b...
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Trump Officials Try to Fight Foreign Disinformation They Once Dismissed
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W. Carson Byrd @wcbyrdphd.bsky.social · 02/04/2026
A clarifying essay by Michael Schwalbe about the lessons sociology teaches to analyze the social world & why those foundational approaches & knowledge of how people navigate organizations, institutions, & everyday interactions can ‘puncture the fascist version of reality upon which control depends.’
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Why Fascists Hate Sociology (opinion)
The anti-sociology politicians are on to something in grasping the field’s power.
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Michaela DeSoucey @mdesoucey.bsky.social · 01/04/2026
The Dogma of Meat www.nytimes.com/2026/03/30/w...
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The Dogma of Meat
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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 28/03/2026
Go make some good trouble today. 💚
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Michaela DeSoucey @mdesoucey.bsky.social · 27/03/2026
A Day in the Life of a New York City Junk Removal Crew www.nytimes.com/2026/03/24/r...
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A Day in the Life of a New York City Junk Removal Crew
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Derek Silva @derekcrim.bsky.social · 13/03/2026
fuck this so much we are so not prepared for the mountain of dogshit “scholarship” about to flood journals everywhere
A tweet that reads “The new academic wealth gap isn't your university.
It's not even your advisor's connections.
It's who knows Claude can turn 50+ research papers into a thesis chapter in 3 hours and who's still manually coding qualitative data.
I just watched a sociology PhD skip 8 weeks of analysis.
Here are the 9 prompts they used:”
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Michaela DeSoucey @mdesoucey.bsky.social · 08/03/2026
i'm shocked, shocked I tell you.....😑 www.nytimes.com/2026/03/07/d...
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Punching, Slamming, Screaming: A Chef’s Past Abuse Haunts Noma, the World’s Top-Rated Restaurant
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Karen Benjamin Guzzo @karenguzzo.bsky.social · 27/02/2026
What often gets missed in stories about declining birth rates is that they're due to declines specifically among young women. Young women are exercising reproductive autonomy and are making considered decisions about whether and when to have children. This is a good thing.
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The Birthrate Is Plunging. Why Some Say That’s a Good Thing.
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Zachary Levenson @grundrza.bsky.social · 19/02/2026
Yesterday, those who teach Intro to Sociology at Florida colleges (as opposed to universities) received a ready-made curriculum from the state and were ordered to teach it. Yes, you read that correctly. The *state* is enforcing a curriculum on college profs, complete w/ the following restrictions:
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Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 19/02/2026
The grandson of the inventor of Reese's Peanut Butter Cups is calling out Hershey for "quietly replacing" the candy's chocolate and peanut butter ingredients
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Grandson of Reese's Peanut Butter Cup inventor accuses Hershey of "quietly replacing" ingredients
Brad Reese claims Hershey is cutting costs by relying on cheaper ingredients, risking the Reese's brand.
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Michaela DeSoucey @mdesoucey.bsky.social · 17/02/2026
www.reddit.com/r/LiveFromNe...
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From the LiveFromNewYork community on Reddit: Reverend Jesse Jackson's dramatic reading of Dr. Seuss's "Green Eggs and Ham". One of my favorite WU segments. Jackson's powerful preacher delivery is fan...
Explore this post and more from the LiveFromNewYork community
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Sarah J. Jackson @sjjphd.bsky.social · 15/02/2026
Someone has sure already made this observation but the fact they can convert all those empty warehouses into prison camps means they could have converted them into housing, community centers, job training centers or, hell, libraries or schools all along. It’s always a matter of will not resources.
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Michaela DeSoucey @mdesoucey.bsky.social · 05/02/2026
A nice list of food books: foodtank.com/news/2026/02...
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20 Books on Food Justice and Change
These winter reads invite reflection on food, farming, justice, and imagine what it takes to build better food systems.
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Michaela DeSoucey @mdesoucey.bsky.social · 05/02/2026
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Professors Are Being Watched: ‘We’ve Never Seen This Much Surveillance’
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Simon Willison @simonwillison.net · 05/02/2026
The CIA just stopped publishing their World Factbook and took every page, including the archived copies of previous versions! This sucks. It was public domain, so I recovered the 2020 edition (the last one published as a zip file) and shared it to GitHub simonwillison.net/2026/Feb/5/t...
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Spotlighting The World Factbook as We Bid a Fond Farewell
Somewhat devastating news today from the CIA: One of CIA’s oldest and most recognizable intelligence publications, The World Factbook, has sunset. There's not even a hint as to why they …
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Victor Ray @victorerikray.bsky.social · 03/02/2026
“You need only know this: Whatever is happening with your data, it is important enough to the most egregiously lawless administration in American history that it be collected and consolidated.” Always read @tressiemcphd.bsky.social (gift link)
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Opinion | Democracy Dies by Database
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Brendan Nyhan @brendannyhan.bsky.social · 27/01/2026
Happening right now. In America.
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Chris Uggen @chrisuggen.bsky.social · 25/01/2026
We're mourning yet again in Minnesota — and struggling to square the gut-churning video of Alex Pretti's final moments with official accounts. I'm teaching techniques of neutralization this term, so I made this quick slide on the DHS statement. Share if it's useful. www.nytimes.com/live/2026/us...
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Jessica Houston Su @jessicahoustonsu.bsky.social · 23/01/2026
The Department of Sociology at UNC-Chapel Hill invites applications for a Teaching Assistant/Associate Professor (teaching track) to begin July 1, 2026. Review of applications will begin February 16, 2026. More details here: unc.peopleadmin.com/postings/312...
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Teaching Assistant or Associate Professor
The Department of Sociology at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill invites applications for a Teaching Assistant Professor or Teaching Associate Professor (depending on the selected candid...
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Kelly @broadwaybabyto.bsky.social · 23/01/2026
TikTok is now under US ownership and their new ToS reads like a guide to giving fascists everything they need to put you on a list. They’re collecting information about immigration status, citizenship, sexual orientation, whether you’re trans or non binary and physical or mental disabilities.
Screenshot of TikTok terms of service 

For Legal Reasons
We may share Information We Collect → to comply with the law, including to respond to subpoenas, court orders, legal process, law enforcement requests, legal claims, or government inquiries. We may also disclose Information We Collect → to enforce any terms applicable to the Services, and to protect and defend our rights, interests, safety, and security, and those of our affiliates, users, or the public.
Information You Provide may include sensitive personal information, as defined under applicable state privacy laws, such as information from users under the relevant age threshold, information you disclose in survey responses or in your user content about your racial or ethnic origin, national origin, religious beliefs, mental or physical health diagnosis, sexual life or sexual orientation, status as transgender or nonbinary, citizenship or immigration status, or financial information. For example, we may process your
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Per Engzell @pengzell.bsky.social · 21/01/2026
JOB! I'm hiring a postdoc for 2 years on my ERC MaMo project. Looking for someone with strong quant methods, ongoing work close to the project's aims, and a desire to publish in sociology. Start flexible in the next 12 months. Formal call out shortly, but contact me first.
Markets and Mobility: How Employers Structure Economic OpportunityIntergenerational mobility, measuring the ability to achieve economic success regardless of family background, is a critical reflection of a society’s commitment to equality of opportunity. Rising income inequality has raised concerns about the potential erosion of upward mobility. While education has traditionally been viewed as the path to mobility, its transformative power is facing challenges in a rapidly evolving job market. This project reorients the focus of intergenerational mobility research by highlighting the labor market as an arena for the reproduction of advantage. It employs a comparative approach, using administrative data from four countries: Sweden, Austria, England, and the United States. It also incorporates evidence from a broader set of nations through cross-national surveys, longitudinal household surveys, labor force surveys, secondary data, and digital trace data. The project employs cutting-edge empirical methods, including quasi- experimental designs, event studies, within-family comparisons, decomposition analyses, counterfactual simulations, and diagnostic checks to rigorously assess the extent of inequalities in the labor market. The research investigates how family background influences the sorting of individuals to employers and workplaces, accounting for education and occupation, and explores variations in career progression within and between employers. It comprehensively catalogues and assesses mechanisms shaping workplace inequality, contributing to the development of social closure theory. Additionally, the project evaluates intervention strategies, encompassing both employer practices and government actions, to promote fair opportunity in the labor market.
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Conrad Hackett @conradhackett.bsky.social · 20/01/2026
Please share - multiple summer 2026 in-person undergrad internship opportunities at @pewresearch.org! - religion - digital - social trends - data journalism - global - news - internet - AI - admin - race - science - methods - politics Apply soon! pewtrusts.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/Center...
The summer undergraduate internship is a paid opportunity during the summer of 2026. Interns are expected to work a minimum of 30 hours/week and are paid $18.50/hour. This internship is available to undergraduate students with an interest in public opinion, survey research, and data science.   

Pew Research Center is an office-based workplace, with all staff working in the Center’s Washington, D.C., office three core days weekly (Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday).  Staff have the flexibility to work remotely up to two days per week. A modest relocation stipend is available for candidates who need it.  

 

Internship dates: June 1-Aug. 14, 2026 (with alternative dates of June 15-Aug. 28, 2026 also available) 

 

Education/Training/Experience 

College students who are pursuing a bachelor’s or associate degree and have completed a minimum of two years (in other words, rising juniors and seniors).
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danniemcq @danniemcq.bsky.social · 20/01/2026
Cat wandered in front of the camera during the #aurora long exposure
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Jocelyn Leitzinger @jocelynl.bsky.social · 16/01/2026
As a social movements scholar, I absolutely love the diversity of tactics being developed by each city, reflecting their local flavor Portland kept it weird with inflatable costumes Chicago protected its street vendors by buying up their food each day Charlotte chased ICE agents into the woods
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Elizabeth Wrigley-Field @wrigleyfield.bsky.social · 15/01/2026
THREAD of offers of guest lectures (via Zoom) for Minneapolis-area classes so faculty can offer their students a top-quality education while dealing with other crises Seeing tons of extremely generous offers. I'll try to post 'em all here--please add your own w topics you can cover & how to contact
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Michaela DeSoucey @mdesoucey.bsky.social · 09/01/2026
Ethnographers/qual researchers among you: What note-writing software do you use and do you recommend it? Not the physical jottings, but when you get back to your computer and write it all out. Like Evernote, Google Keep, OneNote, etc. I've only used Word, and that becomes a mess. TIA!
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Your Internet Friend Tom Tomorrow @tomtomorrow.bsky.social · 03/01/2026
ah, time to take a big sip of coffee and check the morning news, as is my daily tradition
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Rick Steves @ricksteves.bsky.social · 21/12/2025
It’s the “season of love and giving”…but this year, doesn’t it seem more like a “season of fear and taking”? Like many of you, I’ve been saddened by the human impact of draconian government budget cuts and how angry many housed Americans are at unhoused Americans. 🧵 1 of 9
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Victor Ray @victorerikray.bsky.social · 20/12/2025
This is the institutionalization of Turning Point's professor watchlist. It invites mass harassment and declares war on independent ideas. If unlearned sociopaths can influence your teaching through threats, academic freedom is essentially dead.
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Stephanie M. Lee @stephaniemlee.bsky.social · 19/12/2025
The UNC system just released its final policy on mandatory syllabi disclosure, stating that syllabi are university (not faculty) IP and certain course info must be posted on new, publicly searchable databases before every semester. A thread about what's changed from the draft I reported on earlier:
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Karen Attiah @karenattiah.bsky.social · 18/11/2025
So Harvard is keeping this guy, but Claudine Gay had to step down over ginned up plagiarism accusations and bad-faith accusations of anti-Semitism. Got it.
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Kevin Gannon (now a Moo Deng fan account) @thetattooedprof.bsky.social · 18/11/2025
The Department of Unsubtle Metaphors continues to exceed expectations
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