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Postdoc at CAIS | Team Research Data & Methods | Sociology | CSS
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Johannes Breuer
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For our new project "SynDIKAT: Synthetic disinformation data, collaboration infrastructure, and an analysis toolbox for social media research"
@dede1989.bsky.social
and I are looking for a postdoc for a shared position between
@gesis.org
and
@cais-research.bsky.social
:
rrr.is/postdocsyndi...
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Postdoc in Computational Social Science: Research Infrastructures und Synthetic Social Media Data (CSS-119) | Jobs bei GESIS – Leibniz-Institut für Sozialwissenschaften
GESIS ist eine der weltweit führenden Infrastruktureinrichtungen für die Sozialwissenschaften und steht Forscher*innen mit Expertise und Infrastrukturangeboten auf allen Ebenen ihrer Forschungsprojekt...
https://gesis.jobs.personio.de/job/2679794
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Markus Beckedahl
about 1 month ago
Marco Wähner hat auf der
#rp26
über seine Forschung zu dezentralen Netzwerke am Beispiel von Mastodon gesprochen. Interessante Ergebnisse im Video:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Calk...
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re:publica 26: Digitale Souveränität durch dezentrale Netzwerke? Das Beispiel Mastodon
YouTube video by re:publica
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CalkPs4fQ-g
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In der Theorie ist Bluesky dezentral - und in der Praxis? Lieber mal ein Blick auf das Fediverse und Mastodon werfen, wie es um das Gemeinwohl, Widerstandsfähigkeit und Souveränität steht.
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about 2 months ago
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Center for Advanced Internet Studies
about 2 months ago
Talk on Human-Centered Security & Privacy Research and Surveillance with Kentrell Owens from the Max Planck Institute for Security and Privacy, Bochum May 6, 2026 | 16:00–17:00 | CAIS + virtual To attend online, please register via
[email protected]
www.cais-research.de/en/event/hum...
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Human-Centered Security & Privacy Research and Surveillance - CAIS
This talk explores 1) how surveillance shapes the experiences of individuals coerced to use technology, 2) how computer vision research contributes to surveillance, and 3) how we might develop new met...
https://www.cais-research.de/en/event/human-centered-security-privacy-research-and-surveillance/
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Für die Reihe
#leerepanels
von
@drbieber.bsky.social
. Heute: Social Media Access Days in der Deutschen Nationalbibliothek Frankfurt. Später gibt’s dann verschiedene Vorträge ua aus einem Projekt zu Wikipedia-Daten im Kontext der BTW 2025
4 months ago
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GESIS - Leibniz-Institut für Sozialwissenschaften
4 months ago
#SMAD26
#DNB
#SocialMedia
Check out the Social Media Access Days starting tomorrow at German National Library (Frankfurt am Main): Social media data between research and infrastructure – sustainable archiving, indexing and access.
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Programme Social Media Access Days
Programme Social Media Access Days
https://www.dnb.de/EN/Professionell/Sammeln/Sammlung_Websites/SMAD2026/SocialMediaAccessDaysProgramm.html
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Center for Advanced Internet Studies
4 months ago
Wir freuen uns mit Marco Wähner, dass sein Projekt von der DGOF gefördert wird!🥳 Er untersucht darin, welche Faktoren Bürger:innen motivieren, an Online-Konsultationen zu lokaler Mobilität und Infrastrukturplanung teilzunehmen. ℹ️
www.cais-research.de/news/dr-marc...
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Dr. Marco Wähner erhält Projektförderung von DGOF - CAIS
Dr. Marco Wähner, wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter im Team Research Data & Methods am CAIS, wird mit einer Projektförderung der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Online-Forschung (DGOF) ausgezeichnet. In seine...
https://www.cais-research.de/news/dr-marco-waehner-erhaelt-projektfoerderung-von-dgof/
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Jakob Ohme
4 months ago
It’s not a privilege, it’s a researchers right!
#DSA40
@lkseiling.bsky.social
and I summarize what the European Commission decision in their case against X (I feel we should follow John Oliver and from now on call it Twitter again) means for researchers right to platform data access [in German]
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Center for Advanced Internet Studies
4 months ago
✨ Rückblick auf die CAIS Progress Bar 2026: Forschende, Fellows & Mitarbeitende präsentierten Projekte zu KI, Metaverse, Desinformation, Wahlverwaltung & Netzwerken. Workshops und Diskussionen förderten interdisziplinären Austausch & neue Kooperationen.
#Forschung
#Innovation
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Hendrik Heuer
5 months ago
PhD position on
#HCI
,
#AI
and
#Disinformation
: Develop tools for fact-checking & media literacy & create open science resources. Start: April 1, 2026. Deadline March 1, 2026
stellenangebote.cais-research.de/de?id=0bb246
#phdchat
#CHI26
#chi2026
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Wissenschaftliche:r Mitarbeiter:in/Doctoral Researcher (all gender) - Job Bochum, Homeoffice - Stellenangebote CAIS
The Professorship for the Design of Trustworthy Artificial Intelligence , at the Center for Advanced Internet Studies (CAIS) gGmbH in Bochum, Germany, invites applications for the following academic ...
https://stellenangebote.cais-research.de/de?id=0bb246
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After around 30 years,
#FirstMonday
has announced that it will cease publication in May. Since 1996, the journal has been one of the first peer-reviewed journals to be published solely on the internet and made openly accessible. 1/2
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Center for Advanced Internet Studies
5 months ago
🎙️Sollten Medien auf dezentralen Netzwerken unterwegs sein? CAIS-Forscher Marco Wähner sprach am 30. Jan. 2026 im Podcast „Nach Redaktionsschluss“ mit Nils Schaumburg, Pia Behme und Martin Holland (heise) über
#DigitaleSouveränität
:
www.deutschlandfunk.de/digitale-sou...
@marco-waehner.bsky.social
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Digitale Souveränität - Sollten Medien auf dezentralen Netzwerken unterwegs sein?
Sollten Medienhäuser auf Plattformen wie Mastodon unterwegs sein, um dort ihre Inhalte zu verbreiten und mit ihrem Publikum in Austausch zu kommen?
https://www.deutschlandfunk.de/digitale-souveraenitaet-sollten-medien-auf-dezentralen-netzwerken-unterwegs-sein-100.html
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netzpolitik.org
6 months ago
Internetabschaltungen sind mittlerweile eine verbreitete Methode, vor allem in autoritären Regimes, die Bevölkerung und Informationen zu unterdrücken. Welche Formen dieser Informationskontrolle gibt es? Wie funktionieren sie? Und was hilft dagegen? Eine Analyse.
#iran
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Digitale Unterdrückung: So schalten Staaten das Internet aus
Internetabschaltungen sind mittlerweile eine verbreitete Methode, vor allem in autoritären Regimes, die Bevölkerung und Informationen zu unterdrücken. Welche Formen dieser Informationskontrolle gibt e...
https://netzpolitik.org/2026/digitale-unterdrueckung-so-schalten-staaten-das-internet-aus/
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Since January 8, connections via Tor bridges from Iran have dropped from an average of around 10k per day to zero. Bridges enable indirect access to the Tor network, which is necessary because direct connections are typically blocked by the regime. 1/3
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Mit Breitband auf DLF Kultur sprach ich über Mastodon als dezentrales Netzwerk, Tendenzen der Zentralität und gesellschaftliche Gestaltung digitaler Räume. Das Interview schließt an meinen Talk auf dem
#39C3
an
www.deutschlandfunkkultur.de/digitalpolit...
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Welche Funktion hat Kunst für die digitale Zivilgesellschaft, ist eine der brennenden Debatten.
Welche Funktion hat Kunst für die digitale Zivilgesellschaft? Außerdem: Mit welchen digitalen Mitteln Geflüchtete in Deutschland überwacht werden.
https://www.deutschlandfunkkultur.de/digitalpolitische-kunst-ist-das-kunst-oder-kann-das-weg-100.html
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Center for Advanced Internet Studies
12 months ago
🚨 Application deadline approaching! Apply now to form your own CAIS Working Group and meet with your group in Bochum, Germany. 🗓️ Deadline: 31 July 2025 🔗 Don’t miss the chance:
www.cais-research.de/en/cais-coll...
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DSA40 Data Access Collaboratory
about 1 year ago
📢 Big news for platform researchers across Europe and beyond: Today, the
@ec.europa.eu
adopted the Delegated Act for Article 40 of the Digital Services Act (DSA) – a long-anticipated milestone enabling researchers to request access to non-public platform data under Article 40.4.
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Ahrabhi Kathirgamalingam
about 1 year ago
Morgen noch nichts vor und zufällig in Düsseldorf? Ich halte einen Workshop dazu, wie und warum KI diskriminierend sein kann und wie wir damit umgehen können! Tickets sind kostenlos! 🦜
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Center for Advanced Internet Studies
about 1 year ago
🚀 Apply now for the
#CAISFellowship
2026/27! You're researching
#DigitalTransformation
? Get funding, space & community in Bochum, Germany. + Special call on Industry 5.0 & a human-centered future 🌟 🗓 Apply by July 31, 2025 👉 Details:
www.cais-research.de/en/cais-coll...
#CAIScollege
#Bochum
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Ahrabhi Kathirgamalingam
about 1 year ago
How were, are, and can we measure
#racism
using
#CSS
? Last week, I had the pleasure of presenting the key findings of my doctoral research at the 'AI & Society: Exploring Inequality in the Digital Age' workshop! 🤗 Want to take a closer look? Here you go:
ahrkat.github.io/files/Inequa...
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Christian Strippel
about 1 year ago
Are you interested in social science methods training? Take a look at the Methods Ticker, a regularly updated overview of methods-related training courses coming up in the next months, provided by the Methods Lab at
@weizenbauminstitut.bsky.social
:
methodslab.weizenbaum-institut.de/program/meth...
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Center for Advanced Internet Studies
about 1 year ago
🔍 Meet the
#CAISfellows
: David Guerrero, University of Barcelona
@david-guerrero.bsky.social
His Research at CAIS: “From toleration to net neutrality: private threats to expressive freedom” 🗓️ His talk: May 14 | 🕜 13:30-14:30 | 🔗
www.cais-research.de/event/luncht...
#FreedomOfExpression
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Ahrabhi Kathirgamalingam
about 1 year ago
I am hosting a workshop next week - we will talk about current issues, our academic utopia, and how we can implement strategies in our academic work to address discrimination - you can still sign up! ✨
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Ingo Rohlfing
about 1 year ago
Data and Code Availability in Political Science Publications from 1995 to 2022 feat
@carlislerainey.bsky.social
#MetaScience
doi.org/10.1017/S104...
Insightful descriptive analysis showing code and data availability increases exponentially. In absolute terms, availabilty is modest at best w 31% 1/
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The COMPTEXT Association
about 1 year ago
How can we better capture marginalised voices through computational text analysis? An inspiring roundtable at
#COMPTEXT2025
sparked important reflections. Huge thanks to
@ahrabhikat.bsky.social
,
@krangelie.bsky.social
,
@indiiigo.bsky.social
for guiding this vital conversation!
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Center for Advanced Internet Studies
about 1 year ago
🎌 CAIS in Japan: Our researchers have arrived in Japan and are getting ready for an exciting exchange at
#CHI2025
. On the first day, Jasmin and Besjon will be presenting their research in the workshop "News Futures: (Re-)Designing Socio-technical Systems for News Production and Consumption".
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about 1 year ago
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Ahrabhi Kathirgamalingam
about 1 year ago
Absolutely excited to host a roundtable on "Marginalised Voices and Perspectives in Computational Text Analysis" featuring
@krangelie.bsky.social
and
@indiiigo.bsky.social
at
#COMPTEXT2025
🙌 We'll explore how bias and marginalisation shape methods and models - and thus scientific quality!
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Positron works well under Ubuntu. So far no problems with the package management
#RStats
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GESIS Training
about 1 year ago
📣 GESIS Fall Seminar in Computational Social Science 2025 The program of the
#GESISfallseminar
is out & registration is open! 🗓️ 01 - 26 Sep 2025 Venue (depending on course): 🏢 GESIS Mannheim 💻 Online More info & registration at
gesis.org/fallseminar
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Alessandro Nai
over 1 year ago
🚨 Editor of Open Science - call for applications At the EJPR we are looking for one Editor of Open Science, to help us develop new OS initiatives - including registered reports (RRs) Interested? Check out the call below! DL April 17 Please repost for N and diversity 👇👇👇 Reach out for any Q
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Center for Advanced Internet Studies
over 1 year ago
✨ Studierende aufgepasst! Wir suchen eine Studentische/Wissenschaftliche Hilfskraft für die Online-Redaktion beim Internet Policy Review. ✅ Spannende Einblicke hinter die Kulissen eines Online-Fachjournals ✅ Spaß an der Arbeit mit Forschungstexten ✅ Gute Englischkenntnisse 🚀 Join
#TeamCAIS
!
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Center for Advanced Internet Studies
over 1 year ago
Das CAIS unterstützt Empfehlungen für ein unabhängiges und wirksames Desinformationsmonitoring im digitalen Raum, initiiert von Bertelsmann-Stiftung
@bertelsmannst.bsky.social
und
@cemas.io
– Center für Monitoring, Analyse und Strategie. Zum Newsbeitrag:
www.cais-research.de/news/empfehl...
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Hendrik Heuer
over 1 year ago
At the Center for Advanced Internet Studies (CAIS) gGmbH, we have provided recommendations on establishing independent and effective disinformation monitoring in digital spaces for the next German federal government.
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Johannes Breuer
over 1 year ago
New publication in the
@gesis.org
Guides to Digital Behavioral Data by
@jolukito.bsky.social
,
@sebstier.bsky.social
, Mareike Wieland,
@danicaradovanovic.bsky.social
, Frank Mangold, and me: "Overview of Ethical Considerations when Working with Digital Behavioral Data"
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Ahrabhi Kathirgamalingam
over 1 year ago
Interested in conducting
#comparative
research? Check out our review of articles from 2003-2021 to get an insight into trends and what we still lack in
#commsky
comparative studies! 🚀
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Hendrik Heuer
over 1 year ago
Do you want to learn more about our upcoming
#CHI2025
contributions to AI, HCI, Content Moderation, Journalism, and Chatbots? 🤖✨ Join our
@cais-research.bsky.social
Colloquium! We present the latest in our research program! 📅 5.3.25 16h 📍 Bochum & Webex Register via email:
[email protected]
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BR Data
over 1 year ago
Wie politisch sind die TikTok-Feeds? Und wie beeinflusst das die Meinungsbildung?
@weizenbauminstitut.bsky.social
und Uni Zürich starten zusammen mit
@br24.de
&
@stuttgarter-zeitung.de
ein Datenspendeprojekt. Hierfür sind wir auf Mithilfe von TikTok-Nutzern angewiesen:
dein-feed-deine-wahl.de
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Dein Feed, Deine Wahl
Dies ist die offizielle Seite des Datenspende-Projekts 'Dein Feed, Deine Wahl'.
https://dein-feed-deine-wahl.de/
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Center for Advanced Internet Studies
over 1 year ago
Some say: science runs on caffeine, panic, and last-minute submissions - so don't miss our deadline tomorrow! ☕📄🔥
#CfP
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Center for Advanced Internet Studies
over 1 year ago
Exciting news! ✨A
#SpecialIssue
in the Internet Policy Review will follow our conference in 2026. Outstanding submissions & contributions will be invited for publication! 🔗 More info:
www.cais-research.de/creating-spa...
@policyr.bsky.social
#InternetPolicyReview
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Eloquenti 🧪✍️📚
over 1 year ago
🦋 A starter pack of academic journals in Sociology 👥
#sociology
#sociologie
#sociologia
#demography
#SocSky
#PolSky
#PoliSky
#AcademicSky
#Academia
#AcademicChatter
#Academics
#PeerReview
#BlueSky
#OpenScience
#PhDSky
#PhD
#PhDChat
#EduSky
#research
#science
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Center for Advanced Internet Studies
over 1 year ago
🌍 Applications Open: CAIS
#Fellowships
in Bochum, Germany! Explore the social, cultural, or technical aspects of digitalization in a 3–6 month funded program. Enjoy private offices, rent-free housing & interdisciplinary exchange with experts worldwide. 🗓️ Deadline: February 28, 2025
#Research
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Hendrik Heuer
over 1 year ago
I created this Starter Packer with all members of
@cais-research.bsky.social
go.bsky.app/Rvto81e
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Center for Advanced Internet Studies
over 1 year ago
🎥 CAIS-Forscher:innen beim
#38C3
: Josephine
@jottbees.bsky.social
& Hendrik
@hheuer.bsky.social
sprachen über "Von Augustus bis Trump – Warum
#Desinformation
ein Problem bleibt und was wir trotzdem dagegen tun können"👉 Schaut rein:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=ckuy...
#Misinformation
#CAIS
#CCC
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38C3 - Von Augustus bis Trump – Warum Desinformation ein Problem bleibt und was wir trotzdem dagegen
YouTube video by media.ccc.de
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ckuyxeu2Pjk
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Center for Advanced Internet Studies
over 1 year ago
Dear
#Bluesky
community! We at the Center for Advanced Internet Studies are thrilled to be here now. From now on, we’ll be sharing updates about our research on
#digitalization
&
#society
, our researchers, the CAIS College, events, and exciting insights into our institute. 🚀
#CAIS
#SciComm
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Ahrabhi Kathirgamalingam
over 1 year ago
Welcome to Bluesky,
@cais-research.bsky.social
! Perhaps a moment to share some exciting professional news: I joined CAIS as a research associate a few months ago and am very thrilled to contribute to the inspiring and innovative work at the institute! 🫶🚀
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Hendrik Heuer
over 1 year ago
On 2024-12-29 12:00, Josephine B. Schmitt and I will give a talk at Europe's largest Hacker conference
#38C3
: “From Augustus to Trump – Why Disinformation Remains a Problem and What We Can Do About It Anyway”. There will be live translation to English.
fahrplan.events.ccc.de/congress/202...
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Alisa Maksimova
over 1 year ago
My article on how AI is presented in museum exhibitions is out now (open access):
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
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Negotiation of dominant AI narratives in museum exhibitions - AI & SOCIETY
Narratives of artificial intelligence frame public perceptions and expectations, and have a performative role, potentially leading to increased attention and resource allocation, acceptance of AI, or ...
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00146-024-02140-6
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Hendrik Heuer
over 1 year ago
The Center for Advanced Internet Studies 📡 has published the
#CallforParticipation
for the Interdisciplinary Conference on
#CreatingSpaces
for
#DigitalFutures
🌐, 09.–10.10.2025. Join us in
#Bochum📍
. More information:
www.cais-research.de/creating-spa...
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