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mark brandt

@mjbsp.bsky.social
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Social/Political Psychology @ Tilburg University | ♥ Burritos+Vinyl+ | if there aren’t typos, I didn’t write it tbslaboratory.com

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Stephen Vaisey 🇺🇦 @stephenvaisey.com · 29/09/2026
So happy to see (finally) this truly excellent paper in print!
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Will Gervais @willgervais.com · 29/09/2026
🚨NEW PREPRINT🚨 @aiyanakoka.bsky.social Meara Geraty and I revisited religious priming, breaking the causal claim into links that we robustly tested. Do God Primes Prime God? Converging Evidence Against the Efficacy of Experimental Religious Priming osf.io/preprints/ps... #PsychSciSky #metascience
Do God Primes Prime God? Convergint evidence against the efficacy of experimental religious priming.

WIll Gervais, MEara Geraty, Aiyana Willard

then the rest of the image is a screenshot of the table of contents.plot summarising bayes factor results testing:
Prime -> Religious concepts (overt primes yield positive evidence, scrambled sentence negative)

Prime -> prosociality: universaly evidence strongly favoring the null result across 4 primes and 2 operationalisations of prosociality

Prime -> suspicion: fairly universal evidence in favor of priming methods causing suspicion

Religious concepts -> $$$: four independent sets of evidence favoring the null
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Andreas Goldberg @acgoldberg.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
The deadline to apply for this PhD position in our new project is fast approaching⏰
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IE Political Science Department @iepolisci.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Just under one week left to apply for our three tenure track positions (Comparative Politics, International Relations, and Political Economy). Links to the calls are in the post below. Please help spread the word to candidates who may be interested!
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Per Engzell @pengzell.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
The Max Weber postdoc program at @eui-eu.bsky.social has its deadline 16 October, for a September 2027 start: www.eui.eu/en/academic-...
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Max Weber Programme for Postdoctoral Studies
Making a Difference in Global Academia
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mark brandt @mjbsp.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
New generation categories just dropped Generation Costco vs Generation Aldi
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[Christopher M. Federico] @chrispps.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
new in an issue of Political Behavior: my article with @caitybarrett.bsky.social on how "Needs for Security and Certainty Relate Differently to Support for Universal Basic Income Versus Other Social Safety Net Programs Across European Nations" link.springer.com/article/10.1...
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Needs for Security and Certainty Relate Differently to Support for Universal Basic Income Versus Other Social Safety Net Programs Across European Nations - Political Behavior
Needs for security and certainty (NSC) vary in their relationship with economic preferences as a function of political engagement. Among those low in engagement, NSC is directly related to left-leanin...
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Josh Grubbs @joshuagrubbsphd.com · 26/09/2026
I worked with Jake on this story for months, and it’s truly one of the best deep dives into how online sports gambling works that I’ve ever seen
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Alexander Wuttke @kunkakom.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
We are hiring at LMU Munich: two PhD positions and one postdoc on democracy, political psychology and computational social science. Start: January 2027 or as soon as possible. We review applications on a rolling basis until October 20. Details below. Reposts very welcome! 1/7
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moin syed @syeducation.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
New paper! Despite qualitative researchers claiming that generalizability is not a goal, their published work does indeed contain generalizable claims. We document this and provide recommendations for how all researchers can better calibrate their generalizability claims. doi.org/10.1177/2515...
article header for, "Qualitative Researchers Can and Do Generalize: Generalizability Claims in Qualitative Psychological Research". Metascience!
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Ruth Dassonneville @rdassonneville.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
‼️ A new paper with Patrick Fournier and @zeynsom.bsky.social is now out in @wepsocial.bsky.social! We examine citizens’ perceptions of parties that combine left/progressive stances on some issues with right/conservative stances on other issues - which we refer to as ideological inconsistency. 🧵
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Voters’ perceptions of ideologically inconsistent parties
There is a growing consensus in party politics that new fault lines are emerging, and scholars increasingly characterise competition as multidimensional. In a multidimensional space, parties can ad...
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mark brandt @mjbsp.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
The Dutch NWO opens the call for the Mosaic 3.0 PhD scholarship program. This program aims to increase representation of people with a non-Western migration background in the scientific community Pre-proposals due 3 November More information, qualification criteria etc: www.nwo.nl/en/calls/mos...
Screenshot of criteria for Researchers with a migration background outside EuropeScreenshot for criteria for Researchers with a recent asylum background
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Ruth Dassonneville @rdassonneville.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
🤓 Cool to be cited in this The Economist article that is trying to think through the political consequences of limited economic growth. 🔗 www.economist.com/finance-and-...
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mark brandt @mjbsp.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
New paper with @j-rock.bsky.social, in press @socpsyjournal.bsky.social "Evaluating an In-Person Depolarization Program and Testing a Light-Touch Enhancement" tbslaboratory.com/files/papers...
Screenshot of abstract that reads, "We evaluated whether an in-person, multi-hour conversation intervention reduced animosity toward people with different (political) attitudes. We also experimentally tested whether stacking a brief video intervention highlighting sympathetic narratives onto the intensive intervention boosted its ability to reduce animosity. Across events (N= 209, Events k= 10), participants reported less animosity and more empathy following the events compared to before, suggesting the intervention is effective. Different than preregistered, this effectiveness was not significantly affected by the light-touch video treatment. The program improved intergroup relations, but we did not boost the intensive treatment's effects with the addition of a light-touch video treatment."
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Jerad @j-rock.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Can you reduce animosity and increase empathy? Yes! With help from @mjbsp.bsky.social & funding from @pascl-stanford.bsky.social we were able to prove not only that @mnchurches.bsky.social ' works, but also study a new question: When you have something that works, can you make it work EVEN BETTER?
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Per Engzell @pengzell.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
3-year postdoc at @wzb.bsky.social to work on family diversity and inequalities in children's attainment and health within Heike Solga's unit. Start: January 2027. Deadline: 4 October. wzb.eu/en/jobs/post...
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Postdoctoral Research Fellow (f/m/x) (ID 416)
The research unit “Skill Formation and Labor Markets” (Director: Professor Heike Solga) at the WZB Berlin Social Science Center (WZB) is looking for a Postdoctoral Research Fellow (f/m/x) (ID...
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mark brandt @mjbsp.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
New paper with @j-rock.bsky.social, in press @socpsyjournal.bsky.social "Evaluating an In-Person Depolarization Program and Testing a Light-Touch Enhancement" tbslaboratory.com/files/papers...
Screenshot of abstract that reads, "We evaluated whether an in-person, multi-hour conversation intervention reduced animosity toward people with different (political) attitudes. We also experimentally tested whether stacking a brief video intervention highlighting sympathetic narratives onto the intensive intervention boosted its ability to reduce animosity. Across events (N= 209, Events k= 10), participants reported less animosity and more empathy following the events compared to before, suggesting the intervention is effective. Different than preregistered, this effectiveness was not significantly affected by the light-touch video treatment. The program improved intergroup relations, but we did not boost the intensive treatment's effects with the addition of a light-touch video treatment."
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Johanna Ray Vollhardt @jrvollhardt.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Call for proposals to present in the Psychology of Resistance in Repressive contexts Virtual Meeting series - deadline Sept. 30. Proposal form: tinyurl.com/resistance-p... More information on the series, recordings of past sessions, mailing list etc: resistancepsych.blogspot.com
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Thomas Talhelm @thomastalhelm.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
🚨 It's published! 🚨 This is the big one. 100 cultures, 12,000 people, 108 researchers. Why people (and our most-used surveys) get collectivism wrong and how to fix it. www.nature.com/articles/s41... @natureportfolio.nature.com
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Bastian Jaeger @bxjaeger.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Now out at EJSP: We explored cultural & individual differences in the hierarchy of moral concern across student samples from 41 cultural groups (n >6500). doi.org/10.1002/ejsp...
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mark brandt @mjbsp.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Did he just ask ChatGPT what Republicans in Ireland like?
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bergelsonlab @bergelsonlab.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
RIP SBE. One point of confusion maybe someone can clarify? SBE is not listed as one of the directorates for the GRFP, but e.g. psychology is still an eligible major field of study per the appendix here www.nsf.gov/funding/oppo.... so where's that $ come from?
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NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Program (GRFP)
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Daniel Devine @danjdevine.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
If you would like to work as a journal editor, @jeppjournal.bsky.social is looking for an Associate Editor, broadly in public opinion and behaviour. Couldn't recommend it enough! Deadline is next week - 15th September. editorresources.taylorandfrancis.com/editor_recru...
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Associate Editor needed for Journal of European Public Policy
Editor Resources provides insights and information to support the editor’s role and build connections between journal editors and research communities.
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Jin X. Goh | 吴晋勋 @jinxungoh.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
🚨 ‼️ new paper ‼️ 🚨 With political scientist Nathan Chan, we used the latest 2024 and 2020 CMPS to look at why Asians and Latinos (the 2 largest immigrant groups in US) might support deportation policies. Out now in Political Psychology! onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
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Working hard to belong: Meritocratic ideology and deportation sentiments among Latino and Asian Americans
Why do some Latino and Asian Americans support conservative policies that may discriminate against them? Elaborating on system justification theory, we argue that ideologies such as meritocracy perpe...
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Macartan Humphreys @macartan.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Post doc alert: Very nice new opportunity in Hamburg: Climate change and social conflict www.uni-hamburg.de/stellenangeb...
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mark brandt @mjbsp.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
PsyArXiv seems to hang while I try to upload a new preprint version. Is this just me or is this a broader issue for people?
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Unofficial BBCNews (World) Bot @bbcnews-world-rss.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Indonesia volcano eruption leaves 270,000 stranded as airports extend closure
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Indonesia volcano eruption leaves 270,000 stranded as airports extend closure
Anak Krakatau, which lies about 150km from the capital Jakarta, began erupting late on Friday.
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Marius Sältzer @msaeltzer.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
4 days left to Apply!
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Ruthie Pliskin @pruthie.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Come to my wonderful wonderful unit! We offer a collaborative and supportive work environment, like none I've even had before, and we're looking for others who would value and support it. If that's you, please apply! @unileiden.bsky.social @leidenphysics.bsky.social @leidenpsychology.bsky.social
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Professor of Social Decision-Making
Professor of Social Decision-Making Institute of Psychology, Leiden University Are you a leading researcher in social decision-making, ready to help shape the future of a thriving unit? The Social, Ec...
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Per Engzell @pengzell.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Several interesting job openings now at the European Commission Joint Research Centre in Ispra, Italy, including two Quantitative Policy Analysts: one in survey data and one in impact evaluation. recruitment.jrc.ec.europa.eu/vacancies
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Alessandro Nai @alessandronai.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Great department, FANTASTIC team! Check this out! 👇
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Ted Schwaba @tedmond.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Our big Big Five GWAS, out today! Personality Genomics is extremely hot in 2026.
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Michel Nivard @michelnivard.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
First, the people. Ted Schwaba ( @tedmond.bsky.social) led this huge effort and somehow got us through. He’s now on paternity leave, so I get to do the thread. The project co-supervised by me and my long-time collaborator Elliot Tucker-Drob (@tuckerdrob.bsky.social.) and has dozens of co-authors
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Michel Nivard @michelnivard.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
🚨& 🧵 Our new Nature paper is out! Across 46 cohorts and up to 1.14M people per Big Five trait, we do GWAS and ask how robust, generalizable and consequential the genetic signals underlying personality really are. www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Pavlos Vasilopoulos @pavlosvas1.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Job ad- Assistant Professorship in Political Science at The University of Gothenburg web103.reachmee.com/ext/I005/103...
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Assistant Professor in Political Science, one or more
The Department of Political Science is an international academic environment that welcomes students, researchers and
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Anna-Sophie Heinze @asheinze.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
💔 Do you ever feel lonely – and have you ever thought of #loneliness as political? I’m super excited about this new publication with @mlewandowsky.bsky.social in @electoralstudies.bsky.social, in which we examine the relationship between loneliness and voting. 👉 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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Political Psychology @ispp-pops.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
When is an outgroup kinda sorta an ingroup? Lucy Song asks whether race affects foreign threat perception. Among white Americans, higher white identity tracked with viewing white-depicted adversaries as lower threat than non-white-depicted, even when controlling for out-group animus. buff.ly/yFalewy
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Giselinde Kuipers @giselinde.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
Ik had een mooi gesprek met Merlijn Olnon van de Nederlandse Boekengids: over mijn nieuwe boek Lelijke Mooie Wereld (nu bij de drukker, over twee weken in de winkel!) maar ook over de toestand in de wereld, en het gebrek aan moed van de academie. www.nederlandseboekengids.com/20260830-mer...
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Merlijn Olnon | Schoonheid draait door, vervreemdt en verdeelt. Een interview met Giselinde Kuipers
Giselinde Kuipers is onderzoekshoogleraar sociologie aan de KU Leuven en doet onderzoek naar schoonheid. In september verschijnt haar nieuwste boek Lelijke mooie wereld bij uitgeverij Das Mag. Geduren...
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Catherine E. de Vries @catherinedevries.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
We’re hiring! Poli Sci & IR department at IE University in Madrid is hiring three tenure-track Assistant Professors, starting 1st of September 2027, in: Comparative Politics: lnkd.in/ePDfwjJB International Relations: lnkd.in/eDu5vGTf Political Economy: lnkd.in/eciDukTA 1/3
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Peter Luca Versteegen @versteegenluca.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
🚨🚨 New publication: 🚨🚨 Does affective polarization (AP) change citizens’ willingness to support democratic norms or participate? 🧵1/10 Full paper here: link.springer.com/article/10.1...
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Cool Citizens? How Affectively Unpolarized Citizens View and Participate in Democracy - Political Behavior
Does affective polarization change how citizens view and participate in democracy? We posit that the answer to this crucial question depends on how affectively unpolarized citizens view and participat...
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David M. Perry @lollardfish.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
"Democratic states have not particularly covered themselves in glory when it comes to higher ed. There’s no counter-movement in blue states that offers a robust counter-vision for higher ed — that it might, first of all, be actually good for society, or provide the kind of education students want."
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Political Psychology @ispp-pops.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
When does *not moving forward* become *stuck*? Acevedo et al. examine how social movement leaders view stalled progress. In interviews of 28 climate advocates, they find expected outcomes of gridlock, like intransigence & radicalization, as well as surprisingly cooperative attitudes. buff.ly/qEv5RKu
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turgut keskintürk @tkeskinturk.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
a new job market paper! using surveys from 10.4 million college students over 40 years, I study the role of ideology in career aspirations. I show that ideology structures what careers people want, a pattern much stronger among high-income students. see here: tkeskinturk.github.io/aspirations.pdf
Ideology as a Luxury Good in Occupational Choice
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Duke University

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Career aspirations are formed long before people enter the labor market, but whether and how political ideology is part of that formative process remains poorly understood. Using yearly surveys of 10.4 million college freshmen entering U.S. institutions between 1976 and 2015, I show that ideology systematically structures occupational aspirations. This pattern is two to three times larger among students from the highest socioeconomic backgrounds than among those from the lowest. To explain this difference, I propose a luxury-good interpretation: political congruence, the match between one's politics and an occupation's perceived ideological orientation, constitutes an occupational amenity whose importance increases with material security. This, I theorize, makes ideology an expressive resource for life choices, though one that is unequally distributed.
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Ben Lyons @benlyons.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
New WP, would love feedback. Across datasets, age seems to be important to understanding support for violence & norm breaking more broadly. Antisocial traits (good predictors generally) are concentrated among younger adults & also more strongly associated w support among them osf.io/preprints/ps...
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Kim Weeden @weedenkim.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
Yes. The GSS, ANES, and PSID were all funded by SBE. GSS 2026 is in the field now, but GSS 2028 is currently unfunded, and my understanding is that NSF will not be funding it. We’re looking at alternatives, perhaps for a scaled down version so we can keep the 56+ year series going.
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Political Psychology @ispp-pops.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
Does walking a mile in someone else's shoes do any good if you just can't get them to fit? Rapp et al. find perspective-taking has disparate effects on reducing discrimination. Hardened beliefs & personal associations may be the key to how well the shoe fits & if one wears it. More: buff.ly/LbyyNBr
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Giselinde Kuipers @giselinde.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
Het wordt nu wel heel echt...
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Dan Garisto @dangaristo.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
Finally, this has gone a bit under the radar, so I want to highlight it: The social, behavioral and economic sciences directorate (SBE) has simply ceased to deliver grants to many of its subareas. Any topic not specifically OK'd by the Trump administration is receiving zero new awards.
All of the NSF’s directorates are awarding fewer new grants, but the hardest hit is the social, behavioural and economic sciences (SBE) directorate, which the White House proposed eliminating in its 2027 budget request to Congress. SBE has so far awarded 84 new grants this year, about 11% of its average, mainly in areas of artificial intelligence, cognitive neuroscience and decision-making. Much of its portfolio, such as sociology, archaeology, political science, economics and geography, has received zero new awards. “I don’t think they’ve realized yet that there’s no awards,” one NSF staff member says of researchers in those fields. “That’s going to be clear soon.”
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Political Psychology @ispp-pops.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
Immigrant groups are no monolith, nor are their responses to discrimination. Suntay & Ruhe study these responses for Turkish immigrants in Germany. They find in facing discrimination, more education strengthened religious identification & the opposite for less education. Read more: buff.ly/LEzsBXY
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