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Chief Publishing Officer, American Mathematical Society.
My Scholarly Kitchen interview with Carsten Buhr, CEO of De Gruyter Brill today:
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Chefs de Cuisine: Perspectives from Publishing's Top Table - Carsten Buhr - The Scholarly Kitchen
Robert Harington talks to Carsten Buhr, CEO of De Gruyter Brill, in this series of perspectives from some of Publishing’s leaders across the non-profit and for-profit sectors of our industry.
https://scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2025/07/25/robert-harington-talks-to-carsten-buhr-ceo-of-de-gruyter-brill-in-this-series-of-perspectives-from-some-of-publishings-leaders-across-the-non-profit-and-for-profit-sectors-of-our-industry/
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Math Is Quietly in Crisis over NSF Funding Cuts
A 72 percent reduction in federal funding is devastating to math research. The American Mathematical Society is offering $1 million in backstop grants—but it’s likely not enough.
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/can-u-s-math-research-survive-nsf-funding-cuts/
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"Preprints aren’t a threat - they’re part of the ecosystem.” Robert Harington, the AMS Chief Publishing Officer, makes the case for coexistence, not competition, between journals and preprints in publishing. Read the article here:
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Preprints and Journals: A Model Publishing Ecosystem - The Scholarly Kitchen
Robert Harington digs into the world of preprints. He uses the field of mathematics to explore how an inclusive view of preprints and published articles leads to a research ecosystem that is greater t...
https://scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2025/07/14/preprints-and-journals-a-model-publishing-ecosystem/?informz=1&nbd=f67045e1-be69-42f9-8188-83380ce7d3de&nbd_source=informz
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My Scholarly Kitchen “Chef de Cuisine” interview today, with Melissa Junior, Executive Publisher at the American Society for Microbiology.
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Chefs de Cuisine: Perspectives from Publishing's Top Table - Melissa Junior - The Scholarly Kitchen
Robert Harington talks to Melissa Junior, Executive Publisher at The American Society for Microbiology, in this series of perspectives from some of Publishing’s leaders across the non-profit and for-p...
https://scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2025/07/18/chefs-de-cuisine-perspectives-from-publishings-top-table-melissa-junior/
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Better Together: ORCID and Other Researcher Identifiers - The Scholarly Kitchen
This post is based on a recently-published white paper by Alice Meadows and Josh Brown of MoreBrains Cooperative, in which they discuss why ORCID iDs work best in combination with other researcher ide...
https://scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2025/07/16/better-together-orcid-and-other-researcher-identifiers/
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Confused and Ambivalent: Scholarly Authors and Creative Commons Licenses - The Scholarly Kitchen
An AAAS survey reveals authors' concerns and confusion regarding open licensing of their work
https://scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2025/07/15/confused-and-ambivalent-scholarly-authors-and-creative-commons-licenses/
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My Scholarly Kitchen post today:
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Preprints and Journals: A Model Publishing Ecosystem - The Scholarly Kitchen
Robert Harington digs into the world of preprints. He uses the field of mathematics to explore how an inclusive view of preprints and published articles leads to a research ecosystem that is greater t...
https://scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2025/07/14/preprints-and-journals-a-model-publishing-ecosystem/
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My Scholarly Kitchen post today…
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Chefs de Cuisine: Perspectives from Publishing's Top Table - Matthew Kissner - The Scholarly Kitchen
Robert Harington talks to Matt Kissner, CEO of Wiley, in this series of perspectives from some of Publishing’s leaders across the non-profit and for-profit sectors of our industry.
https://scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2025/07/02/chefs-de-cuisine-perspectives-from-publishings-top-table-matthew-kissner/
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Scholarly Kitchen Chefs, including me, reflect on the recent SSP conference in Baltimore.
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Ask The Chefs: What Did You Take Away from SSP’s 2025 Annual Meeting? - The Scholarly Kitchen
The Scholarly Kitchen Chefs reflect on what they took away from the conversations and vibes at the 2025 SSP Annual Meeting.
https://scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2025/06/09/ask-the-chefs-what-did-you-take-away-from-ssps-2025-annual-meeting/
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“This debt …should be at the forefront of our minds this Memorial Day….We are being asked not to charge into a hail of …artillery fire but only to speak up and to stand up in the face of foundational threats.” Historian and former Harvard president Drew Faust.
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Opinion | We Are Not Being Asked to Run Into Cannon Fire. We Just Need to Speak Up.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/26/opinion/memorial-day-democracy-crisis.html?unlocked_article_code=1.KE8.HnX-.OiJ3G6nEcdY8&smid=url-share
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I am proud of the American Mathematical Society for launching this initiative.
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Just learned of this effort to crowd-source a mega list of examples of benefits to health, prosperity, and national security resulting from federally-funded research. 41 examples listed to date. Please share and send ideas!
publicusaresearchbenefits.com
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Searchable database of tangible benefits that federally-funded research gave us.
A crowd-sourced site. Health and Well-being. National Security. Prosperity.
https://publicusaresearchbenefits.com/
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Wonderful message from Dr. Holden Thorp (EIC
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identifying fabricated data, sometimes in Science papers, & "trusted colleague" in the scientific publishing process. Deeply important for public trust to run towards, not away from, corrections.
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A group of artists created these images of scientists impacted by federal firings and budget cuts
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Silenced Science Stories
Featuring scientists impacted by federal firings and budget cuts
https://silencedsciencestories.com/the-scientists
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Humanity has developed a machine that is synthesizing the entire corpus of human knowledge and can now offer us contextual insights on and even reasoned analysis of its contents in milliseconds, but won't somebody think of the citation accuracy?
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Guest Post - The Open Access – AI Conundrum: Does Free to Read Mean Free to Train? - The Scholarly Kitchen
It is time for OA proponents to engage in public debate with academic associations, universities and national funding agencies, because the widespread use of academic content in AI models poses signif...
https://scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2025/04/15/guest-post-the-open-access-ai-conundrum-does-free-to-read-mean-free-to-train/?informz=1&nbd=&nbd_source=informz
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A University President Makes a Case Against Cowardice
The Trump Administration wants to punish schools for student activism. Michael Roth, of Wesleyan, argues that colleges don’t have to roll over.
https://www.newyorker.com/news/q-and-a/a-university-president-makes-a-case-against-cowardice
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Another good article from Michael Roth, President of Wesleyan University.
www.nytimes.com/2025/04/07/o...
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Opinion | Trump’s Crusade Against Antisemitism Is Extremely Bad for the Jews
Antisemitism is real. But the enemy of our enemy is not necessarily our friend.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/07/opinion/trump-jewish-antisemitism-wesleyan.html
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Really good from Michael Roth, President of Wesleyan University:
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A College President Gets Real About Trump’s Attack on Universities
Wesleyan University President Michael Roth lets loose on Trump’s executive orders and the detention of Mahmoud Khalil.
https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2025/03/12/universities-trump-dei-mahmoud-khalil-00226048
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Too funny today on the Scholarly Kitchen:
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A Tradition Like No Other: The Minnesota State High School All Hockey Hair Team - The Scholarly Kitchen
A spectacular crop of lettuce at this year's edition of the traditional mullet spotting competition.
https://scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2025/03/14/a-tradition-like-no-other-the-minnesota-state-high-school-all-hockey-hair-team/?informz=1&nbd=f67045e1-be69-42f9-8188-83380ce7d3de&nbd_source=informz
7 months ago
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A big ray of sunshine in the clouds for science!
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Many thanks to Michael Roth & Wesleyan University for speaking up - we need more of this from our leaders!
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Pam’s article mentioned in Forbes:
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What Do Family Caregivers Really Want? Cash.
Ask family caregivers what sort of government support they want and their answer is clear: They want upfront cash.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/howardgleckman/2024/12/19/what-do-family-caregivers-really-want-cash/
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This one made me smile…needed that.
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8 months ago
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In Seattle at the Joint Mathematics Meeting this week and theme is Mathematics in the Age of AI. I thought I would repost the below:
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Filling the Gap: SSP Launches a Global Compensation Benchmarking Study for Scholarly Communications Professionals and Organizations - The Scholarly Kitchen
The Society for Scholarly Publishing (SSP) is launching a new global Compensation and Benefits Benchmarking Study to fill a long-standing gap in the industry
https://scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2024/12/06/filling-the-gap-ssp-launches-a-global-compensation-benchmarking-study-for-scholarly-communications-professionals-and-organizations/
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Access to Science & Scholarship: An Interview with Amy Brand of MIT Press - The Scholarly Kitchen
On September 20, 2024, MIT Press hosted a workshop, Access to Science & Scholarship:Â An Evidence Base to Support the Future of Open Research Policy. I interviewed Amy Brand to discuss the goals and o...
https://scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2024/12/05/access-to-science-scholarship-an-interview-with-mit-presss-amy-brand/
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Chefs' Selections: Best Books Read and Favorite Cultural Creations During 2024, Part 3 - The Scholarly Kitchen
The beginning of the holiday season means it’s time for our annual list of our favorite books read (and other cultural creations experienced) during the year. Part 3 today.
https://scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2024/12/04/chefs-selections-best-books-read-and-favorite-cultural-creations-during-2024-part-3/
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End of year favorite book selections from some of the Scholarly Kitchen chefs, including me….
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Chefs' Selections: Best Books Read and Favorite Cultural Creations During 2024, Part 2 - The Scholarly Kitchen
The beginning of the holiday season means it’s time for our annual list of our favorite books read (and other cultural creations experienced) during the year. Part 2 today.
https://scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2024/12/03/chefs-selections-best-books-read-and-favorite-cultural-creations-during-2024-part-2/
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Reading
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for the deep dives on scholarly publishing in all its complexity? The chefs are also incredible READERS and these end of year/ best of posts are indeed the best!
#AmReading
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Chefs’ Selections: Best Books Read and Favorite Cultural Creations During 2024, Part 1
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Chefs' Selections: Best Books Read and Favorite Cultural Creations During 2024, Part 1 - The Scholarly Kitchen
The beginning of the holiday season means it’s time for our annual list of our favorite books read (and other cultural creations experienced) during the year. Part 1 today.
https://scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2024/12/02/chefs-selections-best-books-read-and-favorite-cultural-creations-during-2024-part-1/
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My Scholarly Kitchen article posted today.
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A Dissonance of Ideals: Openness, Copyright, and AI - The Scholarly Kitchen
Robert Harington attempts to reveal inherent conflicts in our drive to be as open as possible, authors’ need to understand their rights, and a library’s mandate to provide their patrons with the enhan...
https://scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2024/11/25/robert-harington-attempts-to-reveal-inherent-conflicts-in-our-drive-to-be-as-open-as-possible-authors-need-to-understand-their-rights-and-a-librarys-mandate-to-provide-their-patron/
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My Scholarly Kitchen interview post today:
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Chefs de Cuisine: Perspectives from Publishing's Top Table - Michael Levine-Clark - The Scholarly Kitchen
In today's Chef de Cuisine article, Robert Harington talks with Michael Levine-Clark, Dean of the University of Denver Libraries. The University Libraries are currently ranked as the #3 “best college ...
https://scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2024/07/09/in-todays-chef-de-cuisine-article-robert-harington-talks-with-michael-levine-clark-dean-of-the-university-of-denver-libraries-the-university-libraries-are-currently-ranked-as-the-3-best/
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My Scholarly Kitchen post today. I had some help cleaning up my sloppy grammar from an anonymous beast of a copyeditor - you know who you are - thank you.
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Preprints, Journals and Openness: Disentangling Goals and Incentives - The Scholarly Kitchen
Robert Harington discusses the value of preprints, the importance of peer review, research integrity and openness.
https://scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2024/04/17/robert-harington-discusses-the-value-of-preprints-the-importance-of-peer-review-research-integrity-and-openness/
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My Scholarly Kitchen post today, interviewing Susan King, Executive Director of Rockefeller University Press.
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Chefs de Cuisine: Perspectives from Publishing's Top Table - Susan King - The Scholarly Kitchen
Robert Harington talks to Dr. Susan King of Rockefeller University Press (RUP) in this series of perspectives from some of Publishing’s leaders across the non-profit and for-profit sectors of our indu...
https://scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2024/04/08/robert-harington-talks-to-dr-susan-king-of-rockefeller-university-press-rup-in-this-series-of-perspectives-from-some-of-publishings-leaders-across-the-non-profit-and-for-profit-sectors-of/
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Chef de Cuisine: Perspectives from Publishing's Top Table - Amy Brand - The Scholarly Kitchen
Robert Harington talks to Dr. Amy Brand of MIT Press, in this series of perspectives from some of Publishing’s leaders across the non-profit and for-profit sectors of our industry.
https://scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2024/03/11/robert-harington-talks-to-dr-amy-brand-of-mit-press-in-this-series-of-perspectives-from-some-of-publishings-leaders-across-the-non-profit-and-for-profit-sectors-of-our-industry/
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Today, on The Scholarly Kitchen, I interview Niko Pfund of Oxford University Press:
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Chef de Cuisine: Perspectives from Publishing’s Top Table – Niko Pfund - The Scholarly Kitchen
Robert Harington talks to Niko Pfund of Oxford University Press, in this series of perspectives from some of Publishing’s leaders across the non-profit and for- profit sectors of our industry.
https://scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2024/02/29/robert-harington-talks-to-niko-pfund-of-oxford-university-press-in-this-series-of-perspectives-from-some-of-publishings-leaders-across-the-non-profit-and-for-profit-sectors-of-our-industry/
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Starting up the Chef de Cuisine posts again for 2024:
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Chef de Cuisine: Perspectives from Publishing’s Top Table – Barbara Kline Pope - The Scholarly Kitchen
Robert Harington talks to Barbara Kline Pope, Director of Johns Hopkins University Press, in this series of perspectives from some of Publishing’s leaders across the non-profit and for-profit sectors ...
https://scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2024/02/15/robert-harington-talks-to-barbara-kline-pope-director-of-johns-hopkins-university-press-in-this-series-of-perspectives-from-some-of-publishings-leaders-across-the-non-profit-and-for-profit/
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Peter Krautzberger, manager and developer of AMS MathViewer, discusses the benefits of the dual-platform, HTML-based platform used on many AMS Journals - quite an achievement for complex mathematics!
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Webinar: How MathViewer’s dual-panel platform improves accessibility for all readers
Peter Krautzberger, manager and developer of AMS MathViewer, discusses the benefits of the dual-platform, HTML-based platform used on many AMS Journals. AMS ...
https://youtu.be/P2y-4bGBwec?si=1XBp38b9ELuPIFXQ
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How We Work, AI, and Human Engagement - The Scholarly Kitchen
In this post Robert Harington looks to Hannah Arendt, and her 1958 book, The Human Condition for help in understanding the nature of how we work, asking how an AI world may affect the nature of our wo...
https://scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2024/01/31/in-this-post-robert-harington-looks-to-hannah-arendt-and-her-1958-book-the-human-condition-for-help-in-understanding-the-nature-of-how-we-work-asking-how-an-ai-world-may-affect-the-nature-of-our-wo/
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The Second Digital Transformation
Ithaka S+R examines the second digital transformation of scholarly publishing as part of a broader analysis of shared infrastructure.
https://scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2024/01/29/the-second-digital-transformation/
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Enjoyed this from Jill O’Neill today.
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Reading: It Can't Be About the Numbers - The Scholarly Kitchen
How many books do we read in a year? Wouldn't a better question be how well, how thoughtfully we had engaged with long-form content?
https://scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2024/01/26/reading-it-cant-be-about-the-numbers/
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“The key fallacy here is that the most important things are inherently not quantifiable.” Helpful
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Let’s Be Cautious As We Cede Reading to Machines - The Scholarly Kitchen
AI might help with the deluge of content, but there are problems when we rely on machines to think for us.
https://scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2024/01/25/lets-be-cautious-as-we-cede-reading-to-machines/?informz=1&nbd=&nbd_source=informz
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“A well-known research infrastructure is not necessarily a well understood research infrastructure” - so true! Stephanie Orphan of arXiv interviewed by Roger Schonfeld in
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Kitchen Essentials: An Interview with Stephanie Orphan of arXiv
In today’s Kitchen Essentials interview, Roger Schonfeld speaks with Stephanie Orphan, Program Director of arXiv, the e-print repository.
https://scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2024/01/23/stephanie-orphan-arxiv/
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Why does coffee taste different from different regions? Differences in the flavors of Arabica coffee varieties aren’t because of variations in individual genes. Rather, they seem to be mainly the result of wholesale swapping, deletion and rearrangement of chromosomes.
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All arabica coffee is genetically similar: how can beans taste so different?
Flavour variations are mainly the result of changes at the chromosome level, sequencing effort finds. Flavour variations are mainly the result of changes at the chromosome level, sequencing effort fin...
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-024-00165-x?utm_source=Live+Audience&utm_campaign=1dc11435fc-briefing-dy-20240124&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_b27a691814-1dc11435fc-50179668
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