Michele Tizzoni
@mtizzoni.bsky.social
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Associate professor at Uni Trento. Infectious disease modeling | computational social science.
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๐ Today, our perspective on "Using mobility data to quantify experienced urban inequalities" is finally published in Nature Human Behavior. I am honored to be listed among many stellar coauthors and thankful for their valuable insights.
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Using human mobility data to quantify experienced urban inequalities - Nature Human Behaviour
Xu et al. review applications of urban mobility behaviour data and propose a temporal bipartite network that reveals mobility patterns between people and places. It helps to track urban inequalities i...
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41562-024-02079-0
about 1 year ago
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Mathematical modeling of urban sprawl
arxiv.org/abs/2603.08338
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Mathematical modeling of urban sprawl
Urban land cover doubled between 1985 and 2015, yet the spatial dynamics of urban form remain under-quantified, despite its importance for sustainability, infrastructure planning, and climate risk. Ur...
https://arxiv.org/abs/2603.08338
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Characterization and forecast of global influenza subtype dynamics
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Characterization and forecast of global influenza subtype dynamics - Nature Health
A global analysis sheds light on the dynamics and features involved in influenza subtype composition in epidemic seasons between 2000 and 2023 and presents a series of tools to predict next yearโs com...
https://www.nature.com/articles/s44360-026-00069-2
2 days ago
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CS2Italy
5 days ago
The notifications are OUT! Super excited to hear our 16 highlighted talks and a whopping 116 parallel talks, and to see all the posters -- Register by April 15 to be our Early Bird!
cs2italy.org
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Fantastic opportunities for anyone looking a world-class research lab in disease modeling.
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Join us in Torino, next May, for a great conference of computational social science!
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NetScience
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Modeling roles and trade-offs in multiplex networks
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Modeling roles and trade-offs in multiplex networks - Nature Communications
People manage different relationships, including friendships and health-related and economic ties. The authors present a model that reveals how these layers of social life interact, showing that frien...
https://idp.nature.com/authorize?response_type=cookie&client_id=grover&redirect_uri=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.nature.com%2Farticles%2Fs41467-026-68896-1
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Theory-Informed Generative Agents for Human Mobility Modeling
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Theory-Informed Generative Agents for Human Mobility Modeling
Human mobility follows robust population-level regularities, yet individual behavior remains highly heterogeneous and context-dependent. The advances of generative agents (large language model (LLM)โd...
https://www.researchsquare.com/article/rs-8902418/v1
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Carl Zimmer
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Study finds ChatGPT Health did not recommend a hospital visit when medically necessary in more than half of cases.
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โUnbelievably dangerousโ: experts sound alarm after ChatGPT Health fails to recognise medical emergencies
Study finds ChatGPT Health did not recommend a hospital visit when medically necessary in more than half of cases
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/feb/26/chatgpt-health-fails-recognise-medical-emergencies
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Matthew Buckley
12 days ago
The savings we're getting here by annihilating decades of American science will pay for whole minutes of the operation to create decades of death, immiseration, and chaos in Iran.
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ArXiv Paper Poster (cs.SI & ph-soc)
18 days ago
Urban mobility network centrality predicts social resilience
https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.18546
Cities thrive on social interactions that foster well-being, innovation, and prosperity; yet, exogenous shocks such as pandemics, hurricanes, and wildfires can severely disrupt them. Different urban ...๐๐ค
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Michael Kofman
26 days ago
Happy to share the latest. My views on the current battlefield dynamics and where the war stands in 2026. Happy to share the latest.
www.foreignaffairs.com/russia/ukrai...
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Ukraineโs War of Endurance
The fight for advantage in the conflictโs fifth year.
https://www.foreignaffairs.com/russia/ukraines-war-endurance
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Mobility-driven synthetic contact matrices as a scalable solution for real-time pandemic response modeling
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Mobility-driven synthetic contact matrices as a scalable solution for real-time pandemic response modeling - Nature Communications
Contact matrices are used to describe social mixing patterns and inform mathematical models of disease transmission. Here, the authors evaluate the accuracy of synthetic contact matrices generated usi...
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-026-68557-3
about 1 month ago
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Isaac Bogoch
about 1 month ago
Step 1: Insert bacteria ("Wolbachia") into mosquitoes. Step 2: Release mosquitoes. Step 3: Watch Dengue rates plummet. Phenomenal results from Singapore. Link:
tinyurl.com/59c9t67u
, by Lim et al.
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Marco Mancastroppa
about 1 month ago
Another new preprint on group adaptation! ๐ฃ Great joint work w/
@martonkarsai.bsky.social
and
@alainbarrat.bsky.social
! Can adaptive behaviors driven by group interactions be more effective and less costly than pairwise ones? How do their adaptive mechanisms differ?
arxiv.org/abs/2602.05915
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Higher-order adaptive behaviors outperform pairwise strategies in mitigating contagion dynamics
When exposed to a contagion phenomenon, individuals may respond to the perceived risk of infection by adopting behavioral changes, aiming to reduce their exposure or their risk of infecting others. Th...
http://arxiv.org/abs/2602.05915
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NetScience
about 1 month ago
Impact of behavioral heterogeneity on epidemic outcome and its mapping into effective network topologies
arxiv.org/abs/2601.21743
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Impact of behavioral heterogeneity on epidemic outcome and its mapping into effective network topologies
Human behavior plays a critical role in shaping epidemic trajectories. During health crises, people respond in diverse ways in terms of self-protection and adherence to recommended measures, largely r...
https://arxiv.org/abs/2601.21743
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ISI Foundation
about 1 month ago
๐ฃ CS2Italy 2026 the Italian Conference on Computational Social Science โฐ Today is the last day to submit your abstract ๐ Turin, May 19โ21 We welcome abstract submissions in:
#ComputerScience
#NetSci
#ComplexSystems
#Sociology
#Economics
#Politics
#CognitiveScience
#Psychology
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CS2Italy
The Microsoft CMT service was used for managing the peer-reviewing process for this conference. This service was provided for free by Microsoft and they bore all expenses, including costs for Azure cl...
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CS2Italy
about 2 months ago
๐ข Keynotes++: Alessandro Flammini โ Indiana University ๐ information propagation ๐ online misinformation ๐ social influence ๐ท Submit your abstract by Jan 30! (2 days left!)
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NetScience
about 2 months ago
Socioeconomic Determinants of the COVID-19 Infodemic
arxiv.org/abs/2601.18377
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Socioeconomic Determinants of the COVID-19 Infodemic
The COVID-19 pandemic has been accompanied by an infodemic of misinformation that impedes effective public health responses. This study examines relationships between socioeconomic factors and infodem...
https://arxiv.org/abs/2601.18377
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Our World in Data
about 2 months ago
Indonesiaโs shift to cleaner cooking fuels has greatly improved air quality and healthโ In 2000, less than 10% of the population in Indonesia had access to clean cooking fuels. This is now over 90%, as the chart shows.
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Andrea Baronchelli
about 2 months ago
Our new collective effort highlights what happens when AI acts in populations rather than as isolated tool. TL;DR: a lot.
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Eliot Higgins
about 2 months ago
I'm exhausted and the week hasn't even started.
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Vittoria Colizza
about 2 months ago
*New paper in Nature Health* Why did the 2022 mpox outbreak in Paris decline so abruptly?
rdcu.be/eZ24H
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Role of behaviour change in controlling the 2022 Paris mpox outbreak
Nature Health - Behaviour changes, rather than vaccination or postinfection immunity, best explained the sudden decline of mpox cases among men who have sex with men during an outbreak in the Paris...
https://rdcu.be/eZ24H
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Block-Fitness Modeling of the Global Air Mobility Network
arxiv.org/abs/2601.13867
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Block-Fitness Modeling of the Global Air Mobility Network
Accurate representations of the World Air Transportation Network (WAN) are fundamental inputs to models of global mobility, epidemic risk, and infrastructure planning. However, high-resolution, real-t...
https://arxiv.org/abs/2601.13867
about 2 months ago
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CS2Italy
about 2 months ago
๐ข Keynotes++: Milena Tsvetkova -
@mtsvetkova.bsky.social
London School of Economics and Political Science on how social networks, algorithms, and HCI shape collective behavior, inequality, cooperation, and social influence ๐ Submit your abstract by Jan 30!
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www.science.org/content/arti...
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Nearly a third of social media research has undisclosed ties to industry, preprint claims
Industry-linked studies were also more likely to focus on particular topics, suggesting these ties may be skewing the field
https://www.science.org/content/article/nearly-third-social-media-research-has-undisclosed-ties-industry-preprint-claims
about 2 months ago
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ISI Foundation
about 2 months ago
โฐ Less than two weeks left to apply!
@isi.it
& CRT Foundation offer 10 one-year scholarships in data science & AI, applied to: ๐ฉบ public health ยท ๐ humanitarian response ยท ๐๏ธ urban development ยท โป๏ธ sustainability ๐ Deadline: Feb 2, 2026 ๐ Details here:
sites.google.com/view/lagrang...
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Lagrange Fellowship Call
The Lagrange Project started in 2003 and it is regarded as one of the pioneering and most innovative European projects on complex systems science and data science. It is promoted and funded by Fondazi...
https://sites.google.com/view/lagrange-fellowship/home
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Laura Di Domenico
about 2 months ago
Our work about extending contact matrices beyond age, accounting for socio-economic dimensions, is finally published! Here, we analyse social contact data in Switzerland. Happy to see this output from my research period at
@ispm.unibe.ch
w/
@calthaus.bsky.social
www.nature.com/articles/s43...
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Individual and neighborhood based socioeconomic factors relevant for contact behaviour and epidemic control - Communications Medicine
Di Domenico et al. develop a method to reconstruct contact matrices fully stratified by age, education level and socioeconomic position. Results show that accounting for contact assortativity with soc...
https://www.nature.com/articles/s43856-025-01282-y
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CS2Italy
about 2 months ago
1) Due to popular demand, the abstract deadline has been extended to ๐Jan 30๐ -- plz share! 2) We are delighted to announce our keynote speaker -- Taha Yasseri
@tahayasseri.bsky.social
Chair of Technology and Society @ Trinity College Dublin & Technological University Dublin โถ๏ธ
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Ciro Cattuto
about 2 months ago
Long overdue refresh of the SocioPatterns website! โจ
sociopatterns.org
New content & datasets, and a chance to celebrate 17+ years of collabs, ~100 publications, 2000+ studies using our data. Thanks โ more ahead!
@alainbarrat.bsky.social
@wouter-vdb.bsky.social
@foolsdelight.bsky.social
@isi.it
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Fabio Sabatini
2 months ago
ICE is no longer an immigration agency. It is a paramilitary force, backed by a parallel prison system, answerable to the president alone. Whatโs happening in the U.S. isnโt a deviationโitโs an infrastructure. And it wonโt end with Trump.
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ICE, Trumpโs private army
How a federal agency became a paramilitary force, built a parallel prison system, and now answers to the president aloneโwhile Washington lectures Europe on democracy
https://civiceconomist.substack.com/p/ice-trumps-private-army
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Luca Maria Aiello
2 months ago
Computational Social Scientists in the Nordics, unite! ๐ฉ๐ฐ๐ซ๐ฎ๐ณ๐ด๐ธ๐ช๐ฎ๐ธ The brand new Nordic Society for CSS welcomes all researchers and practitioners based in the Nordics. The Society will promote student mobility, events, and education initiatives. Join for free:
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CS2Italy
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Submit your abstracts to CS2Italy by ๐ Jan 15 ๐ Italian Conference on Computational Social Science to join us in Turin on May 19-21 We welcome abstract submissions on
#computerscience
#netsci
#complexsystems
#sociology
#economics
#politics
#cognitivesci
#psychology
and more For more:
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Alberto Acerbi
2 months ago
Last week to submit to CS2Italy, the Italian Conference on Computational Social Science. See you in Torino 19-21 May 2026!
cs2italy.org
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CS2Italy
The Microsoft CMT service was used for managing the peer-reviewing process for this conference. This service was provided for free by Microsoft and they bore all expenses, including costs for Azure cl...
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Reconstructing the early spatial spread of pandemic respiratory viruses in the United States
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2 months ago
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Sen Pei
2 months ago
Excited to share a new study published in PNAS!
@pnas.org
We reconstructed the early, cryptic spatial spread of 2009 H1N1 influenza and SARS-CoV-2 across US metropolitan areas. Link๐https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2518051123
#PandemicPreparedness
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Adam Isacson
2 months ago
If accurate, this raises the question "who is governing Venezuela right now, and tomorrow?" (The answer isn't "Delta Force" or "SEAL Team 6," that's not what they do.) While nearly every state has a presidential line of succession, that may not indicate where power actually lies in coming days.
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Randall Munroe
2 months ago
Anyone Else Here
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Fil Menczer
3 months ago
ICYMI -- Delighted that the Handbook of Computational Social Science is finally out. Amazing cast of coauthors, with special thanks to
@tahayasseri.bsky.social
for leading the effort. Happy Holidays!
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New papers in Network Science
3 months ago
PNAS: Perception of own centrality in social networks
https://www.pnas.org/doi/abs/10.1073/pnas.2420334122?af=R
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Joshua Weitz
3 months ago
After a multiyear, international collaboration that began in July 2022, delighted to share a new paper in Epidemics' December issue addressing how pandemic response policies can balance economic and public health goals.
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Elisa Omodei
3 months ago
๐จ Come join
@ceu-dnds.bsky.social
as an ๐๐๐๐ถ๐๐๐ฎ๐ป๐ ๐ฃ๐ฟ๐ผ๐ณ๐ฒ๐๐๐ผ๐ฟ! ๐จ We are looking for a young and coming researcher in ๐ป๐ฒ๐๐๐ผ๐ฟ๐ธ ๐๐ฐ๐ถ๐ฒ๐ป๐ฐ๐ฒ and ๐ฐ๐ผ๐บ๐ฝ๐๐๐ฎ๐๐ถ๐ผ๐ป๐ฎ๐น ๐๐ผ๐ฐ๐ถ๐ฎ๐น ๐๐ฐ๐ถ๐ฒ๐ป๐ฐ๐ฒ. If that sounds like you (or someone you know), check out the call & apply (or share the link):
careers.ceu.edu/job/Vienna-A...
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Assistant Professor (f/m/d)
Assistant Professor (f/m/d)
https://careers.ceu.edu/job/Vienna-Assistant-Professor-%28fmd%29-1100/1332241655/
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NetScience
3 months ago
Global stability of epidemic models with uniform susceptibility
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Global stability of epidemic models with uniform susceptibility | PNAS
Transmission dynamics of infectious diseases are often studied using compartmental mathematical models, which are commonly represented as systems o...
https://www.pnas.org/doi/abs/10.1073/pnas.2510156122?af=R
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This may keep me out of the US for a while... I was already reluctant about traveling to the US. This only confirms all my concerns
www.newsweek.com/trump-admini...
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Trump administration plans to check 5 years of social media for visitors
The proposal would require tourists to disclose up to five years of their social media history before they can travel to the U.S.
https://www.newsweek.com/trump-administration-plans-check-five-years-social-media-visitors-11184919
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4 months ago
Urban contact patterns shape respiratory syncytial virus epidemics with implications for vaccination | Science Advances
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Urban contact patterns shape respiratory syncytial virus epidemics with implications for vaccination
The age structure and intensity of RSV outbreaks differ across urban and rural locations.
https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.ady5457
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The Italian Conference on Computational Social Science is accepting submissions! Join us in Torino with your best work!
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A super-important work done by the Epistorm consortium is out: Epistorm-Mix: Mapping Social Contact Patterns for Respiratory Pathogen Spread in the Post-Pandemic United States
www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1...
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Epistorm-Mix: Mapping Social Contact Patterns for Respiratory Pathogen Spread in the Post-Pandemic United States
Human contact patterns are a fundamental determinant of respiratory pathogen transmission, yet nationally representative post-pandemic data for the United States are limited. We present Epistorm-Mix, ...
https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.11.20.25340662v1
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Manlio De Domenico
4 months ago
Working in theory/data-driven social science/methods for computational social science? The second Italian Conference on Computational Social Science is coming: follow
@cs2italy.bsky.social
for updates and visit our website
cs2italy.org
for details. ๐จ Abstract submission deadline: January 15, 2026
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The Effects of Remote Working on Scientific Collaboration and Impact
arxiv.org/abs/2511.18481
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The Effects of Remote Working on Scientific Collaboration and Impact
The COVID-19 pandemic shifted academic collaboration from in-person to remote interactions. This study explores, for the first time, the effects on scientific collaborations and impact of such a shift...
https://arxiv.org/abs/2511.18481
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Adam Kucharski
4 months ago
Turns out interest in Metaverse had about a ~9 month half life.
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4 months ago
Latest out in Plos Comp Bio: "Epydemix: An open-source Python package for epidemic modeling with integrated approximate Bayesian calibration". A new package in Python for epidemic modeling. Paper:
journals.plos.org/ploscompbiol...
. Website with lots of tutorials:
www.epydemix.org
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