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Meaghan Jones

@meaghanjones.bsky.social
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Associate professor at U Manitoba. Research on epigenetics of environmental exposures across the lifespan. Occasional cat photos. Formerly @notthatdrjones Views my own. She/Her

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Immunoprof (she/they) @immunoprof.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Hey data viz teachers….here’s a FANTASTIC example for class.
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Avi Lewis @avilewis.ca · 01/10/2026
Throwing billions in public money behind a pipeline at a time of climate breakdown – while sweeping aside environmental protections, meaningful Indigenous consultation and workers’ right to strike – is absolutely not in the national interest.
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Avi Lewis @avilewis.ca · 01/10/2026
The oil industry is unwilling to pay for this pipeline because even they know the world is moving away from fossil fuels. This project leaves Canadians bearing all the risks of a bad investment without any of the rewards.
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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
In practice, AI literacy doesn’t start with building the tool for your personal use. It starts with understanding yourself as a collection of tasks who should subcontract those out to a machine. Almost no regular person’s life currently exists as such.
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BCCHR ResDev (DM) @resdevbcch.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
‼️ attention Canadian health researchers ‼️ #CIHR has posted the Project Grants Discussion Paper and a related *survey* cihr-irsc.gc.ca/e/54821.html Please please participate 🙏
photo of the “help shape the future of the project grant program” announcement by CIHR. TEXT is accessible in the hyperlink in this post.
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John Greally @greally.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Tim Bestor has left us. This obituary captures him well — you always had to be at your intellectual peak with him, while his trainees always spoke highly of their experiences. He made a massive contribution to epigenetics, a giant in our field. www.genetics.cuimc.columbia.edu/news/memoria...
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In memoriam of Professor Timothy H. Bestor
In memoriam: Professor Timothy H. Bestor 1952-2026
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Jehannine (J9) Austin @j9austin.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Well, this is ...something: universityaffairs.ca/news/remove-... I am tired. So very tired. This is really hard work. #AcademicSky 🧪
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Remove EDI from research funding decisions, parliamentary committee says - University Affairs
The Standing Committee on Science and Research says ‘discriminatory’ EDI policies are ‘weakening the quality of Canadian research’.
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Timothy Caulfield @caulfieldtim.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Yikes.👇 University students are less physically active and more sedentary than older adults in their 70s, study medicalxpress.com/news/2026-09... Modern lifestyle "contributing to an unprecedented level of sedentariness in a demographic that should biologically be at their most active." #Move! 💪
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University students are less physically active and more sedentary than older adults in their 70s, study finds
Researchers at the Centre for Sleep and Cognition at the NUS Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine (NUS Medicine) have found that, on average, university students are significantly less physically active an...
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University of Manitoba Faculty Association @umfa-faum.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Looking for labour endorsed candidates running in the upcoming civic election? The Winnipeg Labour Council has compiled a list of candidates for City Councillor and School Trustees they endorse here: winnipeglabour.ca/labour-endor...
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2026 Labour Endorsements – Winnipeg Labour Council
Labour Endorsed School Trustee Candidates Winnipeg School Division Kathy Heppner – Ward 3 Tamara Kuly – Ward 7 Prabhnoor Singh – Ward 8 Seven Oaks School Division Evan Krosney – Ward 3 Pembina Trails ...
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Avi Lewis @avilewis.ca · 15/09/2026
Privatizing airports is a terrible deal for travellers, workers, and the public purse. Around the world, it has led to higher travel costs, fewer jobs and worse working conditions.
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Dr. SkySkull @drskyskull.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
This is just a spectacular unintentional self-own
Dude on Threads: If you hate on ai, you better be pretty damn good at whatever you're doing
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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 14/09/2026
At that point, you're not relying on their skill - you're doing them the favor of paying them to do a job that you're too busy and important to do, but which you *could* do. With AI, you can tell yourself that you're in the driver's seat, even if someone else has their hands on the wheel.
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Duncan Sproul @sproullab.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
🚨 #Postdoc position open. Want to understand non-canonical #epigenetic regulation of mammalian transcription? Come work @uoe-igc.bsky.social in Edinburgh! We’re looking for a motivated & collaborative colleague with a strong track record. 📅 14 October 2026 📢 Please share Apply here 👇
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Post-Doctoral Research Associate
An exciting postdoctoral position is available to research the role of epigenetic marks in gene regulation.
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Saeed Jones @theferocity.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
A friend of mine just published this deeply moving and funny essay about his father, 9/11 and PTSD.
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A Funny Thing About 9/11
My father will always struggle with his harrowing memories as a first responder. His only positive one got us talking again.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
I obviously cannot tell Mark Carney or Canada what to do. But I can say that, based on my experience, the only way to stop bullies is to hit them back.
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Message to Canada: Continue to Fight Trump
Most of us in the U.S. are with you
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Dr Alex Bond @thelabandfield.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
In 2011, one chick held the record for most plastic ever found in the species: 276 pieces, 64g. We thought that was as bad as it could get. We were wrong. The record fell in 2023. Fell again in 2024. Then in 2025: 894 pieces in a single chick. (Photo: worst chicks in 2010, 2015, 2021, 2025)
Photographs of plastic on a black background from the most affected shearwater chick in 2010 (A; maybe 20 cm2), 2015 (B; maybe 20 cm2), 2021 (C; now 15x20 cm) and 2025 (30x20 cm)
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Aruna D’Souza @arunadsouza.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
AI is not being accused of making education “too easy” for students—it’s being accused of failing to educate students. Coming up with an answer is not education.
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Molly Jong-Fast @mollyjongfast.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Rest in power glorious, glorious Gloria Steinem  www.nytimes.com/2026/09/03/u...
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Gloria Steinem, Personification of the Feminist Movement, Dies at 92 (Gift Article)
She challenged sexist assumptions, helping women develop a sense of self-worth and gain a measure of equality at work, at home and in society at large.
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Evan Torner @guyintheblackhat.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
THIS
Long before the first grant was frozen, graduate students were noticing a quieter set of contradictions. They were told that teaching matters while watching excellent teachers struggle for recognition. They were encouraged to engage with the public while learning that public scholarship rarely counts toward career advancement. They were told that mentorship is central to academic culture while watching faculty who pour themselves into students get passed over for colleagues with longer publication lists. They entered science hoping to improve society and discovered that the system rewards productivity more reliably than it rewards care.
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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 24/08/2026
As Canada is learning (the hard way), the "art" of all of Trump's deals can be summed up in a single word: "renege": pluralistic.net/2026/07/22/t... 1/
A Canadian flag, its elements replaced with circuit boards. In the foreground, a bent-double, exhausted Uncle Sam trudges over rocky terrain, shlepping a giant sack on his back. Centered in the maple leaf is the word SORRY.
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Gen Wojcik @genandgenes.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
I volunteer to be in one of those jubilee videos where it’s one lady scientist vs twenty “race realists” and all I do is laugh in their face/ridicule them, only occasionally throwing hands. And sure, we can talk science. But I’m not in the business of trying to educating willfully ignorant losers.
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Jamie @late2stuff.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
"AI adoption raises homework scores by 18% and reduces completion time by 30%, but lowers monthly exam scores by 20% within six months." papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
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The Generative AI Learning Penalty: Evidence from Chinese Secondary Education
Using 30 months of panel data on 26,811 Chinese students in grades 7-12, we study how generative AI affects homework productivity and learning. The data combine
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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 01/08/2026
I like this notetaking example. it is a good case of how gender works. Notetaking has never been about producing a transcript. It is a bureaucratic skill in the 20th c. organixarion because it is SENSEMAKING. Those women socialized to take notes? They have been doing men’s metacognition for them
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Gen Wojcik @genandgenes.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
I have all the usual points to make about this (eugenicists committing fraud by preying on reproductive anxiety, while also promoting the intended societal consequences as if it were scientifically valid), but at this point all you can hear when I open my mouth is a swarm of angry bees.
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mayor of sc*ry town @missfluss.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
the longer i cycle, the more i engage in the kinds of behaviour that piss motorists off, because i've found the most dangerous position i can be in as a cyclist is trying to follow rules not made with my safety in mind
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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 12/08/2026
One of my favorite rhetorical and analytical moves is joining things (showing that different, seemingly unrelated ideas are part of the same phenomenon) and taking them apart (resolving paradoxes by demonstrating that what appears like a contradictory thing is different things, lumped together). 1/
A collage made of architectural features from 'Variae Architecturae Formae' (1636), a collection of engravings. The architectural arches, buildings, fountains, etc, are layered atop each other and placed around each other to create an infinite, recombinant built environment.
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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 12/08/2026
As Leek puts it: "Once prediction shapes the choices in front of us, we lose the ability to tell the difference between what people wanted and what the system made easy to want." 14/
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NDP @ndp.ca · 11/08/2026
1/ It's clear who the Liberals are putting first. Canadians deserve better than a government that is focused on helping the fossil fuel industry rake in more profits.
The Carney government met with fossil fuel lobbyists 1318 times.
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Dr. Cate Peña @cate-cholamine.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
So proud to have “Early-life stress alters H3K4me1 in VTA to prime stress sensitivity” out now in Neuron! This work spanned Many years and Many people contributed. Huge thanks to @hyejaykim.bsky.social, @ja-balouek.bsky.social, Luke Geiger, and Meaghan Creed www.cell.com/neuron/fullt...
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Early-life stress alters H3K4me1 in VTA to prime stress sensitivity
Kim, Geiger et al. report that early-life stress increases the chromatin modification H3K4me1 and its enzymatic writer, SETD7, in the ventral tegmental area. They show that this form of epigenetic pri...
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RedPen/BlackPen @redpenblackpen.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
Tag yourself with your current location!
A map in the style of Tolkein titled 'The Map of Manuscript Earth'. This is something I'm calling 'artography' - and it lists lots of geographic locations on the way to submitting a (scientific) manuscript.
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Jim Woodgett @jwoodgett.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
Add to this an at least 35% increase in costs of research over the same period and the result is inevitable. The agency cannot control this slide in success rates without either draconian restrictions or much more investment (not happening). The outreach to researchers is noble but without solution.
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Michael Hendricks 🇨🇦 @michaelhendricks.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
CIHR is an incredible Canadian institution and a truly excellent system, and I can't decide whether the attempted self-immolation 10 years ago or the ongoing slow starvation is sadder. But open programs are once again in a death spiral.
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Iris van Rooij 💭 @irisvanrooij.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
"The class atmosphere became tense as more students pushed back against this required use of generative AI. They wanted to know what their classmates thought rather than what a large language model produced in response to prompting; they wanted to wrestle with difficult readings and complex ideas"
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Students as Conscientious Objectors to Gen AI (opinion)
We should listen to them—and treat their objections with respect.
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Anthropology.net @anthropology.net · 20/07/2026
7,000 years before farming reached Scandinavia, hunter-gatherers carried live trout past waterfalls to stock fishless mountain lakes. Newly dated fish traps at Lake Tesse, Norway show planned ecosystem management long before agriculture. 🐟🏔️🦴 #Archaeology #Mesolithic @antiquity.ac.uk
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The Fish That Shouldn’t Have Been There
Every trout in the Norwegian mountains got there because someone carried it.
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Angeliki Pantazi @apantaz.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
@umbmg.bsky.social at the @umanitoba.bsky.social is recruiting a full-time Instructor I/II to join our teaching team beginning February 2027. Join a great team of colleagues and contribute to an engaging teaching environment Application deadline: August 14 viprecprod.ad.umanitoba.ca/DEFAULT.ASPX...
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Negro Frolics @desmondcole.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
Ontario's jails are using an artificial intelligence tool that disproportionately places Black prisoners in maximum security The government anticipated its tool AI would produce biased outcomes, but used it anyway My latest @breachmedia.ca investigation breachmedia.ca/black-prison...
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Black prisoners are assigned harsher living conditions in Ontario jails—thanks to AI ⋆ The Breach
Ontario jails are using a program that claims it can predict prisoners’ behaviour, disproportionately putting Black prisoners in higher-security facilities
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Meaghan Jones @meaghanjones.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
***JOB ALERT*** My department is hiring an Instructor I or II! If you are passionate about medical genetics and/or biochemistry and are looking for a teaching job, this one's for you! Information and how to apply here: viprecprod.ad.umanitoba.ca/DEFAULT.ASPX...
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T. Ryan Gregory 🇨🇦 @tryangregory.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
Climate change denialism in Canada is not just "Climate change is a hoax". It's also: "Before we deal with climate change, we need to... ... defend against Trump. ... appease Alberta separatists. ... make enough money to switch to renewables. ... not crash our fossil fuel-based economy."
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Jane Rosenzweig @janerosenzweig.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
The person who has 445 AI-generated books on Amazon told @kashhill.bsky.social that “It’s a very romantic concept to sit down and toil, page after page and paragraph after paragraph, but it doesn’t make economic sense.” (I wonder what he would think of Roald Dahl's Great Automatic Grammatizator)
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Someone Used A.I. to Write an Unauthorized Biography of Me. I Don’t Recommend Reading It. (Gift Article)
Someone used A.I. to write my biography. Thousands more of those books are polluting Amazon. Who is behind all this drivel?
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Leah ProudLakota (she/her) @leahgazan.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
The Liberals continue to fight against First Nations water rights, both in court and with their new Bill C-37. "'It’s another example of what Amnesty International confirmed: a rapid rolling back of Indigenous rights by the Carney government,' Gazan said.”
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Liberals continue court fight against First Nations drinking water rights, despite new bill | CBC News
The Carney government continues to fight First Nations in court to deny Canada has any legal duty to ensure they have safe drinking water on reserve, even as the Liberals advance legislation aiming to...
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Avi Lewis @avilewis.ca · 16/07/2026
Incredibly brazen for the Prime Minister to boast about the “lasting benefits” of expanding fossil fuel production on a day like today. Record-breaking heatwaves. Toxic smoke engulfing cities and towns. Out of control wildfires forcing entire communities to evacuate. /1
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Meaghan Jones @meaghanjones.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
This feels very real to me, and aligns with the advice I give lots of folks starting out. The first years are TOUGH. You have to learn so many new things. But that's why you got the job, you're good at learning new things.
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Dr. Deanna Santer @drdeannasanter.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
📢 Super excited to promote that our #Immunology department is recruiting a Tier 2 Canada Research Chair in Immunobiology of Chronic Disease!🎉🥳 Please note this is a targeted recruitment with more details via QR code. I am lucky to work here in such a collaborative environment Please share widely
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John Timmer @jtimmer.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
In my lifetime, I've seen segments of society lose trust in evolutionary biology, climate science, and vaccines. None of this was due to anything scientists did. All of it was because non-scientists perceived some advantage (political, cultural, financial) in attacking science's credibility.
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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 12/07/2026
At a time when contraceptives could be banned, it can feel like there are only two camps: those who champion birth control and those who criticize it with hopes of making it go away. But there is a third camp: People scrutinizing birth control not to get rid of it, but to make it better.
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Did birth control make my depression worse?
What I wish I'd known about my IUD.
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Alex Radzisheuskaya @a-radzisheuskaya.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
1/ Very excited to share the first publication from my lab! In this work, we developed an efficient strategy to precisely mutate mammalian histone genes in their native genomic context using CRISPR prime editing: www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Identifying critical lysines in mammalian histone H3 with high-throughput CRISPR prime editing - Nature Genetics
This study uses a precise and efficient clustered regularly interspaced short palindromic repeats (CRISPR) prime editing system to substitute lysine residues in histone H3, individually or in combinat...
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MamãBear @alsolearning.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
Just saw this from @drjengunter.bsky.social — absolutely right! “We know we know that in Canada when you build a private clinic you take away from the public.” #OwnIt #PublicHealth
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Jen Gunter on Instagram: "In Canada, the private system weakens the public."
276 likes, 12 comments - drjengunter on July 8, 2026: "In Canada, the private system weakens the public.".
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staring blankly into the abyss @irmsby.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
Thread on why social media age restrictions are both doomed to fail and a deeply terrible idea.
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Brian Hawkins @brianhawkins.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
Cc: Premier Kinew, @mark-carney.bsky.social
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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 24/06/2026
Is the world about to be overrun by trans mice? Not if congresswoman Nancy Mace has anything to do with it | Arwa Mahdawi
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Is the world about to be overrun by trans mice? Not if congresswoman Nancy Mace has anything to do with it | Arwa Mahdawi
Mace’s TRANS MICE Act is designed to end ‘radical transgender-related experiments on animals’. But is this all a stupid misunderstanding, asks Arwa Mahdawi
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