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Shayan Asadi

@shayanasadi.bsky.social
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Clinical Science PhD candidate @ University of Michigan. Diversity science & psychopathology. SSHRC funded. Canadian. Loves music.

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Carl Zimmer @carlzimmer.com · 27/09/2026
Four days ago, a scientist was surprised by the news that Anthropic discovered new virus genes for making DNA. He says he’s been studying them for years—and feeding his data to Anthropic’s AI as part of his own research. Coincidence? Here’s my story. nyti.ms/3VSWayc
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Did Anthropic’s A.I. Really Make a Scientific Discovery on Its Own? (Gift Article)
An expert at the University of Copenhagen said his team had been sharing its research with the company’s A.I. model, Claude, and that its new finding matched their work.
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Andrea Wiglesworth (she/her) @awiglesworth.bsky.social · 04/06/2026
I had the honor of presenting data from my AFSP funded work that used mixed-methods to better understand the impact of suicide exposure on Native American young people. Long story short: the impacts are nuanced and cannot be captured with overly simplistic designs. Paper currently in prep!
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Andrea Wiglesworth (she/her) @awiglesworth.bsky.social · 04/06/2026
It was such a joy to present alongside these folks at APS! I am beyond impressed by the work my early career peers are producing. 🤩 See below for a very brief sneak peak of my talk!
Presenters standing in front of a slideshow title page, "Investigating Environmental Determinants of Psychopathology: Towards a Contextualized Clinical Science"
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Martin Plöderl @ploederl.bsky.social · 27/02/2026
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Christian Webb, PhD @christianwebb.bsky.social · 18/02/2026
New paper from our team: Can ML identify which adolescents benefit most from school-based mindfulness? In 8,376 students (MYRIAD trial), models detected statistically significant but clinically negligible differential effects (d ≈ .07–.08). Precision prevention is hard...
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Emma J O’Brien @obrienemj.bsky.social · 19/02/2026
I am thrilled to share my new first author pub in JAD! 🥳 We found minority stress was associated with concurrent and future experiences of defeat, and defeat was associated with prospective minority stress in sexual minority college students reporting SI. authors.elsevier.com/a/1meFzbXYj0...
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Luc Rocher @rocher.lc · 09/02/2026
⚠️ Despite all the hype, chatbots still make terrible doctors. Out today is the largest user study of language models for medical self-diagnosis. We found that chatbots provide inaccurate and inconsistent answers, and that people are better off using online searches or their own judgment.
Banner image with screenshot of scientific article from nature Medicine, as well as two panels from the study method and results
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Alex Shackman @ajshackman.bsky.social · 28/01/2026
The Future of DSM: A Strategic Vision for Incorporating Socioeconomic, Cultural, and Environmental Determinants and Intersectionality | American Journal of Psychiatry psychiatryonline.org/doi/10.1176/...
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The Future of DSM: A Strategic Vision for Incorporating Socioeconomic, Cultural, and Environmental Determinants and Intersectionality | American Journal of Psychiatry
PsychiatryOnline.org is the platform for all American Psychiatric Association Publishing journals, DSM, and bestselling textbooks, as well as APA Practice Guidelines, and continuing medical education.
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Jay Van Bavel, PhD @jayvanbavel.bsky.social · 08/01/2026
We should no longer trust data collected on MTurk link.springer.com/article/10.3... My guess is that other online data is going to drop in quality due to LLMs. This is going to be an existential crisis for the behavioral sciences.
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Tomer Ullman @tomerullman.bsky.social · 06/11/2025
It’s grad school application season, and I wanted to give some public advice. Caveats: -*-*-*-* 
> These are my opinions, based on my experiences, they are not secret tricks or guarantees 
> They are general guidelines, not meant to cover a host of idiosyncrasies and special cases
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mareike @mareike.bsky.social · 03/11/2025
delighted to see this published 🙌 using EMA, we (with @roryoc.bsky.social) investigated suicidal ideation in daily life. we found that it arises from an interaction of within-person increases in loneliness and an individual’s level of personality functioning psycnet.apa.org/fulltext/202...
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Kristina Olson @olsonista.bsky.social · 31/10/2025
Are you a US-based PhD student WITHOUT summer funding who is interested in adolescent development, trans youth, and/or gender? Reach out to me about applying to join my lab in Summer 2026 for the VIPS program! psych.princeton.edu/diversity/vi...
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Visiting Internship for Ph.D. Students (VIPS) Program
The VIPS program is an initiative of the DEI committee of the Department of Psychology at Princeton University. VIPS will support up to 4 Ph.D. students who are full-time students at other universitie...
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Whitney Ringwald @whitneyringwald.bsky.social · 29/10/2025
This paper is 🔥🔥🔥🔥 Very compelling evidence that the extensive covariance of diverse psychopathology is not an artifact of cross-sectional factor analysis. They show extensive "co-morbidity" across generations and within-person, over time. doi.org/10.1037/abn0...
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Shirley Wang @shirleybwang.bsky.social · 29/10/2025
Thrilled to share a new paper in @jamapsychiatry.com on path asymmetry in complex dynamic systems of psychopathology! jamanetwork.com/journals/jam... With amazing collaborators @tfblanken.bsky.social, Han van der Maas, & Denny Borsboom 🥳
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Path Asymmetry in Complex Dynamic Systems of Psychopathology
This article illustrates the assumption of path symmetry in current theories of psychopathology and calls for the development of dynamical systems of mental illness that incorporate asymmetry.
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Aidan Wright @aidangcw.bsky.social · 24/10/2025
Interesting new special issue in Psychological Assessment. Edited by Kristin Naragon-Gainey and @kstanton.bsky.social Here's their overview paper: psycnet.apa.org/record/2026-... And here's our contribution, which will win us no friends: psycnet.apa.org/record/2026-...
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Eiko Fried @eikofried.bsky.social · 23/10/2025
New 6-month depression RCT in n=65, serial Ketamine infusions as adjunctive care vs active placebo midazolam. Ketamine did not outperform primary nor any of the secondary efficacy, cognitive, economic, or quality-of-life outcomes. 🧪 #psychiary #PsychSciSky jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...
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Serial Ketamine Infusions for Depression
This randomized clinical trial evaluates outcomes following adjunctive ketamine infusions vs midazolam for depression.
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Björn Siepe @bsiepe.bsky.social · 22/10/2025
We built the openESM database: ▶️60 openly available experience sampling datasets (16K+ participants, 740K+ obs.) in one place ▶️Harmonized (meta-)data, fully open-source software ▶️Filter & search all data, simply download via R/Python Find out more: 🌐 openesmdata.org 📝 doi.org/10.31234/osf...
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Adam Kuczynski @adamkuczynski.bsky.social · 23/10/2025
New paper in JAMA Psych, from Alex Moussa-Tooks, myself, Leah Gilbertson, and Sarah Kopelovich at @uwspiritlab.bsky.social. Inside, we talk about the important role of clinical psychology in inpatient psychiatric care and the need for more research in this area. jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...
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Aidan Wright @aidangcw.bsky.social · 12/10/2025
A new take on the limitations of "psychometric networks" now out in Nature Human Behavior. You don't want to put too much confidence in individual edges. Something we cautioned against in 2017. 1/2 www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Statistical evidence in psychological networks - Nature Human Behaviour
Psychometric network models have become increasingly popular in psychology and the social sciences. Huth et al. show that a large proportion of reported network findings are based on weak or inconclusive evidence inviting caution when interpreting results.
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Claire Gillan @clairegillan.bsky.social · 15/10/2025
Out today in Molecular Psychiatry our paper on multiverse computational factor modeling (i.e. a lotta lotta factor analyses). Thread below for the full rundown. Last PhD paper from @celinef.bsky.social YOU'RE FREE!! www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Cognitive arbitration between candidate dimensions of psychopathology - Molecular Psychiatry
Molecular Psychiatry - Cognitive arbitration between candidate dimensions of psychopathology
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Whitney Ringwald @whitneyringwald.bsky.social · 14/10/2025
Great study! A general implication is that when we infer effects of retrospectively measure variables on outcomes, we’re largely just seeing the effects of how people are currently feeling.
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Michaelle DiMaggio-Potter @michaelle.bsky.social · 15/10/2025
Duke University is holding virtual office hours for students to get feedback on their psychology PhD applications! Due October 31st! docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
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Virtual Office Hours For Psychology PhD Applicants - Registration Form
To broaden the pool of applicants in psychology PhD programs across the country, Duke University's Department of Psychology & Neuroscience is holding our 6th Annual Virtual Office Hours Program. All a...
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Muna Aikins @munaaikins.bsky.social · 10/04/2025
New #MPRGBiosocial paper in Molecular Psychiatry: “Linked emergence of racial disparities in mental health & epigenetic biological aging across childhood & adolescence” w/ @yayoukwillems @denizfraemke.bsky.social @laraffington.bsky.social 🔗 www.nature.com/articles/s41... Blog Post: lnkd.in/dKsgagYc
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Linked emergence of racial disparities in mental health and epigenetic biological aging across childhood and adolescence - Molecular Psychiatry
Molecular Psychiatry - Linked emergence of racial disparities in mental health and epigenetic biological aging across childhood and adolescence
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Shayan Asadi @shayanasadi.bsky.social · 10/10/2025
New LIB is good, finally! denver really brought the heterosexuality and the cringe. PERFECT
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Lisa Starr @lisastarr.bsky.social · 08/10/2025
I just googled the title of a paper of mine that hasn't even been published yet (as a lazy way to find the preprint) and Gemini popped out an AI summary of it. So I guess preprints on PsyArXiv are being used in AI training sets? 🤔
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Shayan Asadi @shayanasadi.bsky.social · 08/10/2025
Thanks everyone for retweeting this! We've gotten all the speakers we need so far. Looking forward to sharing more with yall in a few months :)
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Divyangana Rakesh @divyangana.bsky.social · 02/10/2025
New paper in Nature Mental Health where we show that macroeconomic income inequality is associated with brain structure and function over and above individual-level SES and other state-level factors. These alterations may serve as pathways to mental health problems. www.nature.com/articles/s44...
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Macroeconomic income inequality, brain structure and function, and mental health - Nature Mental Health
Rakesh et al. used data from the Adolescent Brain Cognitive Development cohort study to evaluate the relationship between state-level income inequality, brain structure and function, and mental health in young people.
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Rich Lucas @richlucas.bsky.social · 02/10/2025
We already know that lagged effects in CLPMs are likely to be upwardly biased, but just how easy is it to find significant effects? Way too easy. I tested CLPMS in 100 randomly selected pairs of correlated variables and found significant effects in 98 of them. New preprint: osf.io/preprints/ps...
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Varun Warrier @vw1234.bsky.social · 01/10/2025
This was a fantastic collaboration with lots of people including @hilarycmartin.bsky.social @jakobgrove.bsky.social, Experts by Experience, and several others who I can't seem to find on this app. Article: www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Polygenic and developmental profiles of autism differ by age at diagnosis - Nature
A study of several longitudinal birth cohorts and cross-sectional cohorts finds only moderate overlap in genetic variants between autism that is diagnosed earlier and that diagnosed later, so they may represent aetiologically different conditions.
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Shayan Asadi @shayanasadi.bsky.social · 30/09/2025
Hi bluesky friends! I plan to submit a symposium with @craiganthonyrs.bsky.social for APS 2026 on contextual psychopathology research from ECRs (students welcome!) Content area and methods are wide open. If you are interested or know someone who may be, message me and we'll chat further. 1/2
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Mark Shuquan Chen @markschen.bsky.social · 09/09/2025
My website is official 🙌 Excited to share that I am interested in reviewing applications for Harvard’s Clinical Science PhD program this fall as I look for the first student to join my lab! I appreciate it if you can share with your network :) psychology.fas.harvard.edu/people/mark-...
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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 29/08/2025
That’s two reported ChatGPT suicides in one week, plus the grandpa who died trying to meet Meta’s chatbot which had arranged an in-person meeting All going really well
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Daniel P. Moriarity @dpmoriarity.bsky.social · 07/08/2025
I will be interviewing for a clinical psychology PhD student in the Precision Psychopathology + Dynamic Immunopsychiatry Lab this interview cycle. Please see our website for more info about what we do + share with applicants you think might be a good fit. share.google/uJRyS3NY9Kdo...
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Precision Psychopathology + Dynamic Immunopsychiatry Lab – University of Pennsylvania, Department of Psychology
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The Transmitter @thetransmitter.bsky.social · 11/07/2025
The National Institutes of Health has removed gender identity variables from the ongoing Adolescent Brain Cognitive Development (ABCD) Study, @thetransmitter.bsky.social has learned. By @callimcflurry.bsky.social #neuroskyence www.thetransmitter.org/gender/abcd-...
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ABCD Study omits gender-identity data from latest release
The removal counteracts the goals of the longitudinal study by “pretending that some aspects of adolescent brain development don’t exist,” says sex differences researcher Nicola Grissom.
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Jamie Bernstein @uajamie.bsky.social · 18/05/2025
I cannot emphasize this enough: Please do not use AI tools as therapy. Not only is it not a good replacement for actual therapy, but your chat logs could be shared with the government, and I don't think you need a reminder that especially right now in the US, that could put you in danger.
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AI therapy is a surveillance machine in a police state
Big Tech wants you to share your private thoughts with chatbots — while backing a government with contempt for privacy.
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Daniel P. Moriarity @dpmoriarity.bsky.social · 07/05/2025
MASSIVE RCT of app-based CBT skill delivery showing all active conditions (isolating behavioral activation, cognitive restructuring, problem solving, + assertion training) beat 3 different control conditions h/t to team led by @toshi-frkw.bsky.social #PsychSciSky www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Cognitive behavioral therapy skills via a smartphone app for subthreshold depression among adults in the community: the RESiLIENT randomized controlled trial - Nature Medicine
A trial that used a master randomized design found that the skills commonly found in smartphone-based cognitive behavioral therapy, when tested alone or in combination with behavioral activation, were...
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Aidan Wright @aidangcw.bsky.social · 06/05/2025
New Viewpoint in the Journal of Psychopathology and Clinical Science on the use of the term “normal” in the DSM over time. It’s increasing, and it’s an unclear term. I found the discussion of this fascinating. Check it out. psycnet.apa.org/record/2026-...
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Lindsay Gillikin, M.S. @lindsgillikin.bsky.social · 30/04/2025
I was wondering if anyone who got a clinical psych PhD in the US and/or got licensed in the US has experience applying for predoctoral internships in Canada. I would love to hear more about what this process looked like from folks who have experience navigating it.
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Lorenzo Lorenzo-Luaces, PhD @lluaces.bsky.social · 02/04/2025
No. Next question.
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Daniel P. Moriarity @dpmoriarity.bsky.social · 01/04/2025
Post-bacc RA job posting is now live! Great fit for applicants interested in graduate degrees clinical psychology and/or precision medicine. Please repost + share with potentially interested candidates. So excited to find a new team member to work closely with wd1.myworkdaysite.com/en-US/recrui...
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Research Specialist, The Precision Psychopathology + Dynamic Immunopsychiatry (PPDI) Lab
University Overview The University of Pennsylvania, the largest private employer in Philadelphia, is a world-renowned leader in education, research, and innovation. This historic, Ivy League school co...
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Julian Burger @julianburger.bsky.social · 01/04/2025
Some personal news: This fall, I’ll be joining Stony Brook’s Clinical Psychology faculty as Assistant Professor! So excited to start my lab, and hope to accept PhD students next cycle. Looking forward to working with prosp. students interested in computational clinical psychology / personalization.
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Sheila Crowell, PhD @sheilacrowell.bsky.social · 11/03/2025
My annual psych internship rant, now with even more 🔥. The pre-PhD internship is an outdated model that devalues the expertise psych students bring. Now, we may be requiring students to move to unsafe cities and unstable positions, during a stage when healthcare and reproductive rights are critical.
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Shayan Asadi @shayanasadi.bsky.social · 09/02/2025
Though we're in a new version of the world where lies are truth, i do have to correct the record and say I won 10-1.
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Point Defiance Zoo & Aquarium @ptdefiancezoo.bsky.social · 04/02/2025
Exciting news! We’re thrilled to announce that tapir Yuna gave birth to a rare and endangered Malayan tapir calf Sunday night. The newborn, covered in distinctive white spots and stripes resembling a fuzzy walking watermelon, is only the second tapir born in our 120-year history.
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Daniel P. Moriarity @dpmoriarity.bsky.social · 30/01/2025
I am an immunopsychiatric researcher and I approve this message. The importance of the immune system as an input/output of so many systems is why it is a critical area of work. But that is also why we need slow, thoughtful science to avoid harm. academic.oup.com/brain/advanc...
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Why inflammatory reductionism is a threat to psychiatry (and the rest of medicine)
A new world-view is emerging, one which attempts to explain all manner of ills as the result of inflammation or immune dysfunction. While motivated by some
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Whitney Ringwald @whitneyringwald.bsky.social · 29/01/2025
💫💫💫 Extremely excited about our new pre-print leveraging the strengths of hierarchical dimensional models of psychopathology to identify distinct behavior profiles from smartphone sensor data! Check out @aidangcw.bsky.social 's awesome thread on our findings!
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Nick Allen @prof-nick-allen.bsky.social · 30/01/2025
Wanted to share news of the publication of this research paper with @auerbachlab.bsky.social and others. Using the EARS mobile sensing platform, we found that being homebound more than usual was associated with increased risk for suicidal behaviors in high-risk adolescents.
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Detecting Risk of Adolescent Suicidal Thoughts and Behaviors With Smartphone GPS Data
This case series study examines whether an app installed on adolescents’ personal smartphones could identify risk of next-week suicidal events and clinically meaningful suicidal ideation by using geol...
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Dr. Sarah Sperry @drsarahsperry.bsky.social · 24/01/2025
I am hiring a full time study coordinator for our EBI-BD study which uses EEG, cognitive testing, EMA, and wearables to study emotion-based impulsivity in bipolar disorder. Excellent position for someone who is interested in grad school! careers.umich.edu/job_detail/2...
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Research Area Specialist Assoc (2 YR Term Limited) | U-M Careers
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