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Psyche Loui

@psycheloui.bsky.social
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neuroscientist, musician, question asker, mom. associate professor of #creativity, associate dean of research @northeastern #music #arts #media #design #psychology #cognition #musicscience 🇭🇰 she/her

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Psyche Loui @psycheloui.bsky.social · 29/04/2026
Such a pleasure to be part of this! Here is a snapshot of our co-writing session. The Lorentz Center was perfectly set up for this type of co-creating.
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Psyche Loui @psycheloui.bsky.social · 27/03/2026
Why does live music hit different? Our new paper has a neural answer: EEG in a concert hall showed stronger brain-rhythm phase locking during live vs. recorded Bach violin — and that predicts higher pleasure & engagement. 1/2
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Stephanie Noble @sneuroble.bsky.social · 14/03/2026
A bit belated, but it was such a pleasure seeing the lab showcase all their excellent hard work at #CNS2026! Go team!! 🚀 (+ guest appearance from @psycheloui.bsky.social ‘s awesome lab)
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Psyche Loui @psycheloui.bsky.social · 14/02/2026
Thrilled to share that The New Yorker featured my work on musical anhedonia - why some people don’t experience pleasure from music, and what this reveals about how our brains predict and process reward. www.newyorker.com/culture/anna... #neuroskyence #musicskyence #psychscisky
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What a Rare Condition Can Teach Us About the Power of Music
The study of musical anhedonia—the inability to enjoy music—is revealing how music moves us.
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Psyche Loui @psycheloui.bsky.social · 03/01/2026
4 select pics from each month of 2025! Thank you friends and family for all your positive energy. Let’s keep sticking together in 2026
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Psyche Loui @psycheloui.bsky.social · 26/11/2025
We are hiring! #musicscience #musicAI #neuroskyence Assistant Professor in Music, AI, and Brain Health. TT position, come join the most vibrant and delightful of peeps 🧠🎶🤖 northeastern.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/career...
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Assistant Professor in Music, AI and Brain Health
About the Opportunity About the Opportunity: The College of Arts, Media and Design (CAMD) at Northeastern University invites applications for a tenure-track Assistant Professor in Music, AI and Brain ...
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Psyche Loui @psycheloui.bsky.social · 14/11/2025
🎶 New paper 🚨: Perceiving Creativity in Novel Musical Sequences: An EEG Study. Using a sequencer in the non-traditional Bohlen Pierce Scale, we show that perceived creativity correlates with EEG neural synchronization at the note rate and harmonics, and with sequence-level information metrics
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Perceiving musical creativity involves multiple neural mechanisms underlying expectation and prediction error. Using the innovative Bohlen–Pierce Sequencer—a tool requiring no musical training—we fou...
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UC Merced Cognitive & Information Sciences @ucmcogsci.bsky.social · 23/10/2025
Our next MTS speaker @psycheloui.bsky.social, Prof. of Creativity and Creative Practice at @northeasternu.bsky.social, joins us Mon 10/27 to discuss her recent work on how/why humans across societies learn to love music in "Strange Scales: How Novel Music Reveals the Secrets of the Predictive Brain"
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Psyche Loui @psycheloui.bsky.social · 25/10/2025
Let Music Be Your Medicine | Exploring ways to deliver rhythmic frequencies to improve memory. Thanks @psychologytoday.com for this writeup of our lab’s #musicscience for Alzheimer’s Disease @northeasternu.bsky.social @nuglobalnews.bsky.social www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/musi...
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Let Music Be Your Medicine
Exploring ways to deliver rhythmic frequencies to improve memory.
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Psyche Loui @psycheloui.bsky.social · 25/08/2025
New paper 🚨! Our class project on Illusions of the Mind: Laurel vs. Yanny and Sometimes Behave So Strangely #speech2songillusion now out www.nature.com/articles/s41... with 3 undergrad, 2 postgrad, & 1 postdoc, & 3 PI authors #musicscience
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Laurel–Yanny percept affects the speech-to-song illusion, but musical anhedonia does not - Scientific Reports
Scientific Reports - Laurel–Yanny percept affects the speech-to-song illusion, but musical anhedonia does not
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Psyche Loui @psycheloui.bsky.social · 25/08/2025
When the faculty “retreat” is on campus and basically a very long faculty meeting, and you’re told there’s food but please “bring a drink”
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a man is drinking a cup of spicy tea with the words got some spicy tea below him .
Alt: a man is drinking a cup of spicy tea with the words got some spicy tea below him .
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Psyche Loui @psycheloui.bsky.social · 08/08/2025
Came here for five seconds of science news and am going right back to burying head in sand
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a cartoon of homer simpson sitting at a counter with the words this is not happening
Alt: a cartoon of homer simpson sitting at a counter with the words this is not happening
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Psyche Loui @psycheloui.bsky.social · 17/05/2025
Learned lots from the Berklee Music and Health Exchange Series today: Intersection of Music and Psychedelic-Assisted Therapy (PAT) college.berklee.edu/music-health...
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Intersection of Music and Psychedelic-Assisted Therapy (PAT)
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Psyche Loui @psycheloui.bsky.social · 06/05/2025
New book chapter for forthcoming edited volume on subjectivity and improvisation, edited by my cool Italian hosts in Cremona! “Neural Resonance and Semantic Leaps: Mapping the Intersubjective Terrain of Musical Improvisation” osf.io/preprints/ps...
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Psyche Loui @psycheloui.bsky.social · 11/04/2025
Learned so much from a few days in Finland, including Helsinki and Lapland. Some truly unforgettable life experiences as well!
The Northern lights Steamed arctic char with Vin Jaune sauce and trout roeA group of scientists cross-country skiing, including one towing a toddler
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Psyche Loui @psycheloui.bsky.social · 02/04/2025
Thanks to organizers for a great #CNS2025! proud of my labbies for repping that happy intersection of #music & #cognitive #neuroscience #musicscience. Here’s Arun Asthagiri: Synchronized Music & Rhythmic Visual Stimulation Increases Theta-Gamma Phase-Amplitude Coupling in Mild Cognitive Impairment
Smiling presenter on Synchronized Music and Rhythmic Visual Stimulation Increases Theta-Gamma Phase-Amplitude Coupling in Mild Cognitive Impairment
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Kun Dong @kundong.bsky.social · 29/03/2025
#CNS2025 | Happening now Fantastic talk given by Arun Asthagiri from @psycheloui.bsky.social lab @DataBlitzSession2, exploring whether multimodal (here in this context audiovisual) entrainment can be used to lift mild cognitive impairment as suggested by previous animal studies!
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CantlonLab @cantlonlab.bsky.social · 18/02/2025
Join us! Science Homecoming helps scientists reconnect with communities by writing about the importance of science funding in their hometown newspapers. We’ve mapped every small newspaper in the U.S. and provide resources to get you started. Help science get back home 🧪🔬🧬 🏠 sciencehomecoming.com
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Science Homecoming
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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 08/02/2025
1. Today the NIH director issued a new directive slashing overhead rates to 15%. I want to provide some context on what that means and why it matters. grants.nih.gov/grants/guide...
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NOT-OD-25-068: Supplemental Guidance to the 2024 NIH Grants Policy Statement: Indirect Cost Rates
NIH Funding Opportunities and Notices in the NIH Guide for Grants and Contracts: Supplemental Guidance to the 2024 NIH Grants Policy Statement: Indirect Cost Rates NOT-OD-25-068. OD
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Psyche Loui @psycheloui.bsky.social · 07/02/2025
Unconscionable! www.nytimes.com/2025/02/06/h...
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Dozens of Clinical Trials Have Been Frozen in Response to Trump’s USAID Order
The stop-work order on U.S.A.I.D.-funded research has left thousands of people with experimental drugs and devices in their bodies, with no access to monitoring or care.
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Psyche Loui @psycheloui.bsky.social · 07/02/2025
Diary of an RCT: Natural language analyses of gamma-music-based intervention. Latest #musicscience in which we analyze journal data to show feasibility of coupling lights in the gamma band with music for mild cognitive impairment doi.org/10.47513/mmd...
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Diary analysis of an RCT: Natural language analyses of gamma-music-based intervention | Music and Medicine
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Tim Verstynen @tdverstynen.bsky.social · 05/02/2025
I think one thing that the general public doesn’t fully grasp yet is that American science funding was already teetering on the edge before all this started. www.eenews.net/articles/sci... A short thread on why your scientist friends are freaking out. 1/7
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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 06/02/2025
It's a lot. Every day, new onslaughts in so many different spheres. It's hard to keep up, let alone act. Simply being a patriotic American today feels like being an epidemiologist in the early days of the pandemic. Do what you can—then be gentle with yourself. Take time. You need your strength.
A sea otter looks at the camera, hands to its face.
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Lucina Uddin @lucinauddin.bsky.social · 06/02/2025
Every day brings new horrors
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Neuroscience and music @rineuron.bsky.social · 01/02/2025
Belden, A et al 2020 doi: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2019.116384. Improvising at rest: Differentiating jazz & classical music training with resting state connectivity More tight-knit cortical networks in Classical musicians; more disperse, globally-connected cortical networks in Improvisational musicians.
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Psyche Loui @psycheloui.bsky.social · 25/01/2025
6 days until the extended deadline of 18th International Conference on Music Perception and Cognition, in São Paulo, Brazil, from 21 to 25 July 2025 www.icmpc2025.abcogmus.com Come for the Brazilian chillage, stay for the #musicscience 😍
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18th International Conference on Music Perception and Cognition
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Psyche Loui @psycheloui.bsky.social · 25/01/2025
Cool #musicscience #neuroskyence alert: Auditory Rhythm Encoding during the Last Trimester of Human Gestation: From Tracking the Basic Beat to Tracking Hierarchical Nested Temporal Structures www.jneurosci.org/content/45/4...
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Auditory Rhythm Encoding during the Last Trimester of Human Gestation: From Tracking the Basic Beat to Tracking Hierarchical Nested Temporal Structures
Rhythm perception and synchronization to periodicity hold fundamental neurodevelopmental importance for language acquisition, musical behavior, and social communication. Rhythm is omnipresent in the f...
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Psyche Loui @psycheloui.bsky.social · 16/01/2025
The @northeasternu.bsky.social global news did a nice writeup of our study on background music and ADHD #neuroskyence #musicscience #psysky news.northeastern.edu/2025/01/14/m...
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Music can improve focus for people with ADHD. Here’s what to listen for
New research from Northeastern music professor Psyche Loui and Brain.fm pinpoints the musical characteristics that can help concentration.
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Psyche Loui @psycheloui.bsky.social · 10/01/2025
A beautiful blogpost about our lab’s #musicscience clinical trial for Alzheimer’s, from the first person perspective of a participant: alzblog.substack.com/p/5-trial
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5. Trial
I have mentioned in a previous post or two that I was exploring (and finally accepted into) clinical trials.
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Miriam Lense @miriamlense.bsky.social · 03/12/2024
I am so impressed with the lightning talk research videos from @musicperception.bsky.social 2024 Student Research Award finalists! You can check out a selection of them here for some of the latest #musicscience!
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Madhu Pai, MD, PhD @madhupai.bsky.social · 25/11/2024
"Non-White scientists appear on fewer editorial boards, spend more time under review, and receive fewer citations" www.pnas.org/doi/abs/10.1...
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Non-White scientists appear on fewer editorial boards, spend more time under review, and receive fewer citations | PNAS
Disparities continue to pose major challenges in various aspects of science. One such aspect is editorial board composition, which has been shown t...
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Psyche Loui @psycheloui.bsky.social · 27/11/2024
Thank you @psychonomicsociety.bsky.social for an excellent #psynom24 in NYC! Proud to make it into the Saturday highlights, great writeup here www.psychonomic.org/page/2024Sat...
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2024 Annual Meeting - Psychonomic Society
Individuals Experiencing Greater Social Jet Lag Are More Susceptible to the Continued Influence Effect of Misinformation
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Psyche Loui @psycheloui.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
Hello from #APCAM24 in NYC! This high school student just handled her technical difficulties like a boss! Lots of great #musicscience
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Psyche Loui @psycheloui.bsky.social · 17/11/2024
Delighted to share that our edited volume, The Science Music Borderlands, won the 2024 Ruth Solie Award from the American Musicological Society! Thank you to all who helped on the project.
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Psyche Loui @psycheloui.bsky.social · 12/11/2024
Thank you to Assal Habibi for an amazing event at USC: Segil Symposium: “Exploring the Intersection of Brain, Sound, and Music” keck.usc.edu/calendar/eve...
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2024 HCN Segil Symposium: Exploring the Intersection of Brain, Sound, and Music
We warmly invite you to the 2024 HCN Segil Symposium. The theme, Exploring the Intersection of Brain, Sound, and Music, features esteemed speakers in the field. Enjoy musical interludes by Delirium Mu...
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Nick Kathios @nickkathios.bsky.social · 10/11/2024
with an uptick in #musicscience interest on here i thought i’d take the time to introduce myself w a few recent pubs! im a 4th yr phd candidate @ northeastern u interested in music, reward, and development. to start off is a recently in press paper at memory: tinyurl.com/2r6jed9r
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On the role of familiarity and developmental exposure in music-evoked autobiographical memories
Music-evoked autobiographical memories (MEAMs) are typically elicited by music that listeners have heard before. While studies that have directly manipulated music familiarity show that familiar mu...
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Nick Kathios @nickkathios.bsky.social · 10/11/2024
this is a hypothesis we flesh out in a recent perspective paper, headed by ⭐️ undergrad student rishi kudaravalli with @psycheloui.bsky.social & juliet davidow. we argue increases in music reward valuation during adol. may support greater music-related memories from this time tinyurl.com/2r8ccs3d
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Frontiers | Revisiting the musical reminiscence bump: insights from neurocognitive and social brain development in adolescence
Music listening is enjoyed across the lifespan and around the world. This has spurred many theories on the evolutionary purpose of music. The Music for Socia...
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Psyche Loui @psycheloui.bsky.social · 26/10/2024
How does background music help sustain attention? Our lab’s multi-method #musicscience collaboration with @brain.fm now out www.nature.com/articles/s42...
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Rapid modulation in music supports attention in listeners with attentional difficulties - Communications Biology
Rapid temporal modulation added to music affects attentional performance and brain activity; parametric manipulation of this added modulation reveals rates that differentially affect individuals with ...
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Psyche Loui @psycheloui.bsky.social · 01/07/2024
Belated #neuromusicviii photos thread #musicscience
Jessica’s birthday celebration!Invoking good old Marr’s levels of analysis for ImprovisationEn route to karaoke in HelsinkiKelsie’s poster on music and stress
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Nick Kathios @nickkathios.bsky.social · 19/06/2024
an exciting end to #neuromusicviii was receiving word that our (myself, kelsie lopez, @laurelgd.bsky.social, and @psycheloui.bsky.social) Music@Home - Retrospective scale validation paper was accepted at behavior research methods (preprint: tinyurl.com/2h6wajrp)! a short 🧵
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Psyche Loui @psycheloui.bsky.social · 13/06/2024
Loving everything about Estonia and my sabbatical so far… see you soon #neuromusic #neuroskyence
Loving the domed tops of the Alexander Nevsky CathedralEvery street corner is adorably colorfulA pair of chairs made to look like a pair of facesEndless Coffee Drinking??? Highly skeptical 🤨
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Association for Psychological Science @psychscience.bsky.social · 28/05/2024
Feeling unprepared for the grant-writing process? Don't miss our June 5 webinar with @jaredmedina.bsky.social and @psycheloui.bsky.social Register: member.psychologicalscience.org/events/event...
Decorative image advertising APS's upcoming webinar on June 5 - Navigating the Grant Writing Process
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Psyche Loui @psycheloui.bsky.social · 30/04/2024
Do musical anhedonics still feel the groove? Our new #musicscience w/ Peter Benson @nickkathios.bsky.social out this week just in time for Peter’s ugrad graduation. Cool drum breaks, even cooler modeling journals.plos.org/plosone/arti...
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Predictive coding in musical anhedonia: A study of groove
Groove, or the pleasurable urge to move to music, offers unique insight into the relationship between emotion and action. The predictive coding of music model posits that groove is linked to predictio...
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Psyche Loui @psycheloui.bsky.social · 12/04/2024
Pre-concert talk at the Boston Symphony Hall on gamma, #musicscience, #neuroskyence, and health!
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Psyche Loui @psycheloui.bsky.social · 28/03/2024
A big ol’ brain in front of the Psychology Building foregrounds the brain-mind duality?
Big brain sculpture in front of Psychology buildingPosters advertising talks, including two of mine
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Psyche Loui @psycheloui.bsky.social · 23/03/2024
Had a great time chatting #musicscience with Özge and @nickkathios.bsky.social & Matt S on this podcast #psyscisky
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Psyche Loui @psycheloui.bsky.social · 15/03/2024
Boston peeps: join us for our happy hour show! Chamber pop songs about life, love, trees, and random everyday stuff youtu.be/NakYL5oK8CU?...
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Wiggly Tendrils at The Substation
The wiggly tendrils substation ad
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Psyche Loui @psycheloui.bsky.social · 03/01/2024
Happy New Year! Here’s a delightful exchange: ▶️ www.facebook.com/reel/1566200...
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Piano Lessons with Jon Batiste & Michelle Obama | Love, music, the...
Love, music, the healing power of art… and a little bit of piano magic with Michelle Obama and Jon Batiste 🎹 🎶 American Symphony is now playing on Netflix.
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Psyche Loui @psycheloui.bsky.social · 31/12/2023
Today I closed all my browser tabs on all my devices and now 2023 feels properly sent off 🎩🥳
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