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Tina Rai

@tir5.bsky.social
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👩‍🔬PhD student @Aberystwyth University 🦠Study microbes in cryoconite holes of Arctic Glaciers 📍Aberystwyth, Wales🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 🏡Gaindakot, Nepal🇳🇵

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Mongabay @mongabay.com · 03/06/2025
Peatlands are one of the world’s biggest carbon sinks. Despite covering just 3-4% of Earth’s land surface, they’re thought to store more carbon per area than the world’s forests combined. In honor of World Peatland Day on June 2 here's three recent Mongabay stories on this critical ecosystem...
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World Peatland Day: Protecting a crucial carbon sink
Peatlands are one of the world’s biggest carbon sinks. These naturally waterlogged boggy swamps can hold thousands of years’ worth of compressed, partially decomposed vegetation matter — despite…
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Sara Rassner @sararassner.bsky.social · 29/04/2025
What do you do when three of your mine water sites are dominated by a pair of cooccurring SOB, while all other sites are dominated by a pair of cooccurring FeOB and the pattern can’t be explained by any of the measured variables? You start digging! doi.org/10.1093/fems...
Heatmap with average relative bacterial abundance (16S) of 7 genera across 12 mine water sites and one natural hot spring in the South Wales Coalfield at three times of year.
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Tina Rai @tir5.bsky.social · 14/04/2025
Kathleen Drew Baker, Mother of the Sea.
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Tina Rai @tir5.bsky.social · 09/04/2025
Bird chirping 🎶 #Aberystwyth
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Tina Rai @tir5.bsky.social · 07/04/2025
Aberystwyth in Spring colours 🌸🌷
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David N. Thomas @dnthomas01.bsky.social · 26/03/2025
Great to see that Cymdeithas Ddysgedig Cymru | Learned Society of Wales 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 has just joined #blusky Give them a follow at: @lswalescddcymru.bsky.social
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Bethan Davies @iceybethan.bsky.social · 21/03/2025
It's International Year of Glacier Preservation and the inaugural World Glacier Day. But why should we preserve these glaciers? from.ncl.ac.uk/why-should-w....
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Why should we preserve glaciers?
Newcastle University experts explain why glaciers are vital and how we can help preserve them, marking World Water Day and the first World Day for Glaciers.
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UN Environment Programme @unep.org · 21/03/2025
It’s the first-ever #WorldGlaciersDay! Glaciers are critical to life, yet climate changes causes them to disappear at an alarming rate. #ClimateAction is key to protecting them & supporting those who rely on glaciers. www.un.org/en/observanc...
The image shows a snow-covered mountain range at night, with a dark sky filled with stars. The text reads: “Glaciers are critical to life.” The UN Environment Programme logo is positioned in the upper right corner.
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ICIMOD @icimod.bsky.social · 21/03/2025
On this first-ever World Glacier Day, we are reminded of an undeniable reality: the glaciers of the #HinduKushHimalaya (HKH) region—our planet’s “Third Pole”—are melting at an alarming rate. #Glacier2025 #IYGP2025
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Damian Carrington @dpcarrington.bsky.social · 21/03/2025
Melting glaciers threaten the food and water supply of 2 billion people around the world, UN warns, as current rate of retreat is “unprecedented” #climatecrisis Story by @fionaharvey.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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Glacier meltdown risks food and water supply of 2 billion people, says UN
Unesco report highlights ‘unprecedented’ glacier loss driven by climate crisis, threatening ecosystems, agriculture and water sources
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Irene Quaile @iceblogger.bsky.social · 21/03/2025
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First UN World Day for Glaciers – A call to climate action in desperate times
Accelerating ice melt from glaciers worldwide means an increased loss of freshwater resources, ever-faster sea level rise and life-threatening floods and landslides. In some regions, ice loss is al…
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Tina Rai @tir5.bsky.social · 01/03/2025
Happy St. David's Day Dydd Gŵyl Dewi Hapus! #Aberystwyth #NationalLibraryofWales
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Huw Griffiths @huwiceandstuff.bsky.social · 18/02/2025
Clear views of the moon this morning over South Georgia. #BIOPOLE2 @biopole.bsky.social @bas.ac.uk
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Prof Christina Pagel @chrischirp.bsky.social · 13/02/2025
🧵"So this is how liberty dies..." Trump’s first 3 weeks have been a relentless flood of actions. It's incredibly hard to keep up. I’ve gone through 69 actions & mapped out the pattern - showing how they fall within 5 broad domains consistent with authoritarian states 1/9
This is a venn diagram showing how 69 Trump actions map onto domains covering: undermining democratic institutions; suppressing dissent and media; dismantling social protections; attacking science and education; destabilising the global order. A table version is available here https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1LZN7QnbSyFfUZJG8Sn1MWpK0VnfBtb0OSyZ1jxP3xBk/edit?usp=sharing
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Helen Amanda Fricker @helen-amanda.bsky.social · 12/02/2025
The idea of renaming "Greenland" to "Red, White and Blueland" must have come from our 2020 Science paper where we (Ben Smith and 14 others) used NASA's ICESat and ICESat-2 laser altimetry to show how much the ice sheet surface went up or down in 16 years.
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Polar Impact: Minorities in Polar Research @polarimpact.bsky.social · 12/02/2025
The Polar Impact Mentorship Initiative invites you to join us! During this panel, we will consider "successful" collaborations through multiple lenses and embrace the benefits of engaging with interdisciplinary research groups, policy and decision makers, and Indigenous and local community members.
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Polar Impact Mentorship Initiative Event Series
Meaningful Collaborations in Polar Research & Polar Communities
February 28, 2025 at 10AM EST/3PM GMT/8:30PM IST
Dr. Heather Sauyaq Jean Kwamboka Gordon
Dr. Laurel Miller
Hugo Guímaro
Dr. Clara J. M. Hoppe
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CryoCommunity @cryocommunity.bsky.social · 20/01/2025
Hi everyone! CryoCommunity is now on BlueSky! Please share us around so everyone who has switched over to this app can find us! Thank you! ❄️ #glaciology #cryosphere
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Bethan Davies @iceybethan.bsky.social · 20/01/2025
Organising an academic conference in 2025? See our reflections here from the @quaternaryra.bsky.social Annual Discussion meeting: www.antarcticglaciers.org/2025/01/how-...
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How to organise a conference: advice and reflections from the 2025 Quaternary Research Association (QRA) Annual Discussion Meeting - AntarcticGlaciers.org
By Christine Batchelor, Louise Callard, Becky Sanderson and Bethan Davies 1. Introduction Together with other colleagues from Newcastle University, we organised the Quaternary Research Association (QR...
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Tina Rai @tir5.bsky.social · 20/01/2025
Tears in Rain is a great podcast with inspiring speakers and I am sure many more in coming days. It's a good feel podcast.
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Tina Rai @tir5.bsky.social · 17/01/2025
Mari Lwyd #Aberystwyth #Wales
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Polar Impact: Minorities in Polar Research @polarimpact.bsky.social · 15/01/2025
Hello Bluesky! We're excited for our new home. We're an inclusive network of racial & ethnic minorities and allies in the polar research community. More about us: www.polarimpactnetwork.org Please share your recommended feeds related to polar science and folks who live/work in polar regions.
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Polar Impact
Polar Impact is an inclusive network of racial & ethnic minorities and allies in the polar research community.
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Bethan Davies @iceybethan.bsky.social · 15/01/2025
Delighted that our Juneau Icefield paper made it into the top 10 climate papers featured in the media in 2024, in this @carbonbrief.org analysis. Along with another on how melt in polar ice sheets is changing the Earth's rotation: www.carbonbrief.org/analysis-the... @iamdonovan.bsky.social
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Analysis: The climate papers most featured in the media in 2024 - Carbon Brief
Thousands of peer-reviewed journal articles were published over 2024, helping shape online discourse around climate change.
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Arwyn Edwards @arwynedwards.bsky.social · 14/01/2025
Two UKRI funded #PhD opportunities to join our lab @aberdlsagb.bsky.social 1. #Dormancy in soil #microbes: findaphd.com/phds/project... (closing 03/02) 2. #Aerosols and #zoonoses: findaphd.com/phds/project... (closing 31/01)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aberystwyth#/media/File:Aberystwyth_shore.jpg - looking south over Aberystwyth on a sunny day.
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Bethan Davies @iceybethan.bsky.social · 05/01/2025
🚨New post!🚨 Fieldwork in high mountain Nepal. Fieldwork diary by Gunjan Silwal, detailing her recent challenging expedition to chart the loss of glaciers here. Evocative, thoughtful and compelling, and details the challenges of working in these areas. www.antarcticglaciers.org/2025/01/fiel...
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Fieldwork in Nepal diary: Langtang Glaciological expedition - AntarcticGlaciers.org
A diary for glaciological fieldwork in Nepal, Himalaya, in November 2024, detailing the challenges, hurdles and opportunities of remote fieldwork.
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James Bradley @drbradbrad.bsky.social · 02/01/2025
UN International Year of Glaciers' Preservation starting appropriately with this in @nature.com ❄️🦠🏔️ www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Diversity and biogeography of the bacterial microbiome in glacier-fed streams - Nature
Leveraging metabarcoding and metagenomics, a survey of bacteria in the benthic microbiome across 152 glacier-fed streams (GFSs) provides a global reference for future climate-change microbiology studi...
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UN Environment Programme @unep.org · 02/01/2025
#DYK glaciers are sensitive indicators of #ClimateChange and are retreating globally due to rising temperatures. Find out more about the International Year of Glaciers' Preservation #IYPG2025, implemented by @unesconow.bsky.social & @wmo-global.bsky.social : www.un-glaciers.org/en/homepage
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Liane G Benning @lianegbenning.bsky.social · 10/12/2024
Are you an analytical aqueous geochemist interested in a postdoc to study biogeochemical element cycles in terrestrial polar environments ? Come join us in Potsdam Team and research details @ www.gfz-potsdam.de/en/section/i... Application deadline Jan 5th 2025 www.gfz-potsdam.de/en/career/jo...
Postdoc in terrestrial aqueous geochemistry in Potsdam.

Deadline January 5th 2025

Applications only via 

https://www.gfz-potsdam.de/en/career/job-offers/details/10003
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Marcela Hernández @matehg.bsky.social · 03/01/2025
Happy to share our latest paper published in Environmental Research, a collaborative effort with our colleagues from China. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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Methane production related to microbiota in dairy cattle feces
Methane (CH4) emission from livestock feces, led by ruminants, shows a profound impact on global warming. Despite this, we have almost no information …
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Brett Baker @archaeal.bsky.social · 03/01/2025
After 24 years of work, I’m thrilled to announce the TYMEFLIES dataset, which comprises metagenomes from Lake Mendota (Madison, WI), collected roughly every 10 days (471 samples) for 20 years! @quendi.bsky.social @robinrohwer.bsky.social rdcu.be/d5put A thread…
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Two decades of bacterial ecology and evolution in a freshwater lake
Nature Microbiology - A 471-metagenome time series from Lake Mendota in Wisconsin, USA, reveals seasonal and decadal shifts in bacterial functional and ecological dynamics, especially in response...
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Julia PG Jones @juliajones.bsky.social · 19/12/2024
Congratulations to @dnthomas01.bsky.social who is awarded an honorary doctorate from Bangor University today (to add to honours such as a glacier named after him & the polar medal!). Well deserved. www.bangor.ac.uk/news/2024-12...
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Jackie Goordial @jackiegoordial.bsky.social · 18/12/2024
Now hiring! Looking for PhD student for May 2025 semester investigating terrestrial and aquatic microbial biogeochemical cycling of nutrients and pollutant mobilisation in the Canadian north. Deadline to apply January 20, 2025 More details here: www.envmicrobio.uoguelph.ca/interested-i...
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Join the Team – Goordial Environmental Microbiology Laboratory
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Tina Rai @tir5.bsky.social · 17/12/2024
An opportunity to work with dream team
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Russ Morphew @russmorphew.bsky.social · 17/12/2024
PLEASE SHARE: New PhD ALERT...New tools to detect small genes in genomes! Led by Dr Wayne Aubrey Comp Sci AU, myself and Dr Amanda Gibson @aberdlsagb.bsky.social and the wonderful @pauliomcveigh.bsky.social from QUB 🍂 #TeamFluke www.findaphd.com/phds/project...
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Small but mighty. Small Genes, Big Impact: Exploring sORFs in Host-Parasite Interactions at Aberystwyth University on FindAPhD.com
PhD Project - Small but mighty. Small Genes, Big Impact: Exploring sORFs in Host-Parasite Interactions at Aberystwyth University, listed on FindAPhD.com
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Ashish Malik @ashish-malik.bsky.social · 02/12/2024
📢 New paper led by postdoc Kirsten Ball Soil organic & inorganic carbon interactions under tillage & cover cropping determine potential for carbon accumulation in temperate, calcareous soils Surprising findings: tillage increased soil C, microbial biomass correlated w/ SIC doi.org/10.1016/j.st...
Conceptual diagram showing influences of cover cropping and tillage by depth on soil organic matter inputs, soil mixing and residue incorporation, microbial activity, soil CO2, carbonate pedogenesis, and SOC-SIC interactions
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Mark Brandon @iceymark.bsky.social · 02/12/2024
"#Antarctica hosts hundreds of native species of mosses, liverworts, lichens, and fungi, but only two native species of flowering plants" earthobservatory.nasa.gov/images/15362...
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Satellites Reveal a Greener Antarctic Peninsula
Scientists are beginning to unravel what comes next, after the ice moves out and vegetation moves in.
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Huw Griffiths @huwiceandstuff.bsky.social · 02/12/2024
When is low #biodiversity something we should protect? The harsh conditions of the intertidal ( #beach) of the polar regions can create unique low biodiversity ecosystems. New paper from #Arctic #Canada/#Nunavut ᓄᓇᕗᑦ (1/) www.frontiersin.org/journals/mar...
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Tina Rai @tir5.bsky.social · 01/12/2024
Birthday weekend at Wales Ecology and Evolution Network (WEEN) conference. Great venue WISE (Wales Institute for Sustainable Education) building with friendly atmosphere with full of amazing people from undergrad to post doctorate with their amazing research. #WEEN2024
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Tina Rai @tir5.bsky.social · 22/11/2024
"No Welsh Art" Dim Celf Gymreig “So much for the past. No patron, no critic, therefore no painter, no sculptor, no Welsh Art. It is as simple as that.” Dr Llewelyn Wyn Griffith, 1950 #NationalLibraryofWales
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Arwyn Edwards @arwynedwards.bsky.social · 22/11/2024
Breaking news: will shortly advertise a UKRI OneZoo funded PhD opportunity “Assessing the potential for aerosol transmission of zoonoses within critical environments”. Project borne from frustrating knowledge gaps experienced during the COVID pandemic response. Supervisory dream team assembled too!
So little is known about airborne pathogens in different environments I may as well ask ChatGPT to come up with a picture!
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Tina Rai @tir5.bsky.social · 22/11/2024
Happy Friday! Getting Christmassy office desk ❄🎄 #AberystwythUniversity #Aberystwyth
Christmassy Office desk
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Ashish Malik @ashish-malik.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
📢New paper in ISME Journal: 7 years in the making spanning three affiliations. Really excited to present a trait analysis in populations. Bacterial population-level trade-offs between drought tolerance and resource acquisition traits impact decomposition doi.org/10.1093/isme...
A screenshot of paper in ISME journal
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Dr Dan Shugar 🇨🇦 @watershedlab.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
🚨🚨🚨 Glaciology peeps - @igsoc.bsky.social has joined the chat! ❄️🏔️🧪⚒️
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ALT: a large body of water with mountains in the background and a netflix logo on the bottom
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Tina Rai @tir5.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
🌨❄ #Aberystwyth
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Geo Santiago-Martínez @geosantiagom.bsky.social · 18/11/2024
November 18 is the International Day of LGBTQIA+ People in STEM! Join our Pride in Microbiology @prideinmicro.bsky.social community and attend our first symposium!
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James Bradley @drbradbrad.bsky.social · 18/11/2024
Happy Polar Pride y'all 🏳️‍🌈❄️🐧🇦🇶 #PolarPride is a declaration of commitment to support & enhance diversity in Polar science. Every day is appropriate to celebrate, support, unite & uplift LGBTQIA+ people in #PolarScience & #STEM but 18 Nov is marked in particular to unite 😎🏳️‍🌈❄️ #DiversityInPolarScience
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Geo Santiago-Martínez @geosantiagom.bsky.social · 18/11/2024
November 18 is the International Day of LGBTQIA+ People in STEM! The #UConn Microbial Ecophysiology Lab promotes inclusive & safe environments. We do science, but we also work to provide resources that enhance positive experiences in academia. @prideinstem.bsky.social @prideinmicro.bsky.social
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Dr. Torrance Hanley @torrancehanley.bsky.social · 18/11/2024
Recognizing and celebrating the many contributions, achievements, and inherent value of LGBTQIA+ community members today and every day! 🧵 of a few papers describing how we can better support 🏳️‍🌈 and 🏳️‍⚧️ individuals in STEM. #QueerInSTEM #LGBTQStemDay
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Pride in STEM @prideinstem.bsky.social · 18/11/2024
The fantastic @shaunoboyle.bsky.social has put together a vast list linking many studies and reports focusing on the experiences of LGBTQIA+ people studying or working in STEM. You can read it here. prideinstem.org/2024/11/18/t...
A poster on a rainbow background showing the lgbtqia+ stem day logo and underneath the text: The experiences of LGBTQIA+ people studying or working in STEM
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British Antarctic Survey 🐧 @bas.ac.uk · 18/11/2024
Happy Polar Pride! 🌈 Today we're celebrating the contribution of LGBTQ+ people in the international polar research and operations community 💙 ➡️ www.bas.ac.uk/media-post/p... #PolarPride2024 #LGBTSTEMDay #DiversityinPolarScience
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Huw Griffiths @huwiceandstuff.bsky.social · 18/11/2024
If you like all things #polar, then why not follow bsky.app/profile/stev... He takes amazing photos, does fieldwork in remote places and studies mud! #PolarPride
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