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Mom, Scientist, Equestrian and Artist. www.hehnlylab.com
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Zebrafish Rock!
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Useful tool for the cilia in your life!
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angela oliverio
28 days ago
Introducing ** Incendiamoeba **, a eukaryote that can live at temperatures well beyond what we thought possible. 63C!! Read
@hbrappap.bsky.social
thread to see what we’ve already started to learn from this amazing organism!
doi.org/10.1101/2025...
#MicroSky
#protistsonsky
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#evobio
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Zebrafish Rock!
about 1 month ago
Research assistant post, for those interested!
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Zebrafish Rock!
about 2 months ago
Contains new works from
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@sthyme.bsky.social
,
@lovelessradio.bsky.social
,
@otamplin.bsky.social
, Hammerschmidt Lab, Ron Kwon Lab, Martik Lab,
@tillymommersteeg.bsky.social
, Lecaudey Lab,
@timesaunders.bsky.social
,
@dangrimes.bsky.social
,
@akankshi.bsky.social
among others!
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We’re hiring! 🧬 Join the Hehnly Lab
@syracuseu.bsky.social
to study how cells build tissues — focusing on centrosomes, cytoskeleton & trafficking. Postdoc position open:
www.sujobopps.com/postings/111...
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Postdoctoral Researcher – Cell and Developmental Biology
The Hehnly Lab seeks a highly motivated Postdoctoral Researcher to join a dynamic group investigating the molecular and cellular mechanisms governing centrosome function, cytoskeletal organization, an...
https://www.sujobopps.com/postings/111207
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Kevin Wright
3 months ago
Thanks to
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I now know that elephantnose fish have something called a "Schnauzenorgan" that is loaded with mechanosensory nerve fibers Biology is amazing.
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Biomedical Picture of the Day BPoD
3 months ago
Understanding how the left-right organiser – a structure that only exists transiently in the early embryo – begins 📷 Yan Wu & Yiling Lan et al
@lovelessradio.bsky.social
lab
@syracuseu.bsky.social
in
@dev-journal.bsky.social
➡️
bpod.org.uk/archive/2025...
with Lux Fatimathas
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Lerit Lab
3 months ago
We are hiring! We are currently interviewing for an entry level staff position in the lab, but it is not too late to submit a postdoc application! Send a note of interest to me and apply here:
bit.ly/3VmmM7m
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Journal of Cell Science
3 months ago
Eric Peterman
@errricpeterman.bsky.social
, Jeffrey Rasmussen
@jraslab.bsky.social
@uwbiology.bsky.social
& colleagues discover that microtubules regulate tissue-level navigation in skin-resident macrophages.
journals.biologists.com/jcs/article/...
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Lerit Lab
4 months ago
@ascbiology.bsky.social
Abstract submissions are open! Submit an abstract to the ‘Emerging concepts in centriole and centrosome assembly and function’ minisym. PRIZES for trainee talks & posters plus a mixer thanks to generous sponsors
@jcellsci.bsky.social
@dshb-antibodies.bsky.social
& Nikon
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Soni Lacefield
4 months ago
My department at Dartmouth Medical School is hiring a tenure-track Assistant Professor. We are looking broadly for a biochemist or cell biologist. Please share this add!
apply.interfolio.com/171438
@dartmouthbcb.bsky.social
@futurepislack.bsky.social
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Piali Sengupta
3 months ago
A huge shoutout to all the dedicated grants management specialists at the NIH who are working around the clock to push grants out before the Sep 30 deadline. And also to the POs responding to frantic emails. Not an easy job under the best of circumstances and right now it's the pits. Thank you!
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Development
3 months ago
In honour of Postdoc Appreciation Week, here are three ways we support postdocs: 1. Since 2023, we’ve supported 24 postdocs as they transition to becoming a group leader through our Pathway to Independence programme. Meet our latest fellows:
journals.biologists.com/dev/pages/pi...
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Lotte B. Pedersen
3 months ago
KIF13B controls ciliary protein content by promoting endocytic retrieval and suppressing release of large extracellular vesicles from cilia: Current Biology
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KIF13B controls ciliary protein content by promoting endocytic retrieval and suppressing release of large extracellular vesicles from cilia
Rezi et al. show that kinesin-3 KIF13B regulates ciliary protein content by promoting endocytic retrieval and small extracellular vesicle (EV) release of ciliary proteins while suppressing their relea...
https://www.cell.com/current-biology/fulltext/S0960-9822%2825%2901088-7
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🚨 New preprint! 🚨
#Zebrafish
LRO
#cilia
are structurally diverse & essential for LRO morphogenesis.
#Optogenetics
+
#vEM
reveal new roles for cilia in organ architecture. 👉
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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Alex Merz 🇺🇸🇨🇦🇺🇦
4 months ago
National Institute of General Medical Sciences R35 MIRA awards issued within the last 14 days. I am still waiting to see if mine is funded. Regardless of my outcome, I am in awe of the dedicated program and awards management staff who are so clearly doing their damndest to fund strong science. 🧬🔬🧪🥼🇺🇸
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Jeremy Berg
4 months ago
New York Times story with profiles of researchers whose grants were terminated. [Gift Link]
www.nytimes.com/2025/08/24/o...
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Opinion | America First? Not When It Comes to Your Health.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/24/opinion/trump-defunding-medical-research.html?unlocked_article_code=1.gk8.iN9o.HYW2vUoXfu0I&smid=url-share
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🎉 Congratulations to Dr. Favour Ononiwu on a successful PhD defense! 🎓✨ 👏 Wishing her all the best as she takes the next steps in her career
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The New Yorker
5 months ago
Compared with the curated pictures that are the mainstay of social media, Adrienne Salinger’s images of teens in their bedrooms, taken in the ’80s and ’90s, offer a sense of the perilousness of adolescence.
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Teen-Agers in Their Bedrooms, Before the Age of Selfies
Adrienne Salinger’s cult photography book from the nineties makes a comeback.
https://www.newyorker.com/teen-agers-in-their-bedrooms-before-the-age-of-selfies?utm_medium=social&utm_social-type=owned&utm_source=bluesky&mbid=social_bluesky&utm_brand=tny
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Odds of winning NIH grants plummet as new funding policy and spending delays bite
Funding multiyear grants up front will sharply cut number of investigators receiving awards
https://www.science.org/content/article/odds-winning-nih-grants-plummet-new-funding-policy-and-spending-delays-bite?utm_campaign=News+from+Science&utm_medium=ownedSocial&utm_source=facebook&fbclid=IwQ0xDSwL13bpleHRuA2FlbQIxMQABHobnLsaCbx8KEuZNWHOBFb7GCuolOxgCrUDzrQCKoC0KMNO5AY4WLJJlA_tA_aem_tbyhbaq20pUX1__jIGcCoA
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Manning Research Group
5 months ago
Yay! New paper out in PNAS:
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
. How do dynamical forces generated by tissue movement affect organ morphology changes during embryonic development? Using Kupffer’s vesicle in zebrafish embryo we showed that dynamical forces produce shape changes in a developing organ.
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Piali Sengupta
5 months ago
Want to publish a NIH-funded paper in Nature? Well - unless your institution has an agreement with Springer, you'll have to be mega-rich to be compliant with NIH's new no-embargo policy. Springer is insisting on gold OA - that's $12,690 and that's extortion.
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Crystal Rogers, PhD
6 months ago
Please comment on this! The complexity of living systems cannot be fully recapitulated by in vitro or computational approaches alone. While advances in non-animal model technologies offer complementary tools, they lack the full physiological and developmental context of a living organism.
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boehninglab
6 months ago
This is extraordinarily dangerous and will slow academic biomedical research and drug development. A total ban is on the horizon.
www.drugdiscoverytrends.com/nih-announce...
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NIH announces end to funding for animal-only studies - Drug Discovery and Development
Drug Discovery and Development covers strategies and technologies related to pharmaceutical research and development and drug formulation.
https://www.drugdiscoverytrends.com/nih-announces-end-to-funding-for-animal-only-studies/
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David Shiffman, Ph.D. 🦈
6 months ago
My latest for American Scientist Magazine helps give scientists the tools to fight back against politicized charges that our research is silly or pointless- tools that will work whether you’re asked “why are we funding this” from your asshole uncle at Thanksgiving or an asshole US Senator. 🧪🌎
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“Why Are We Funding This?”
Long-standing myths about “silly science” have contributed to the reckless slashing of government-supported research.
https://www.americanscientist.org/article/%E2%80%9Cwhy-are-we-funding-this%E2%80%9D
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Zebrafish Rock!
7 months ago
Looking for fluorescent reporters for your favorite tissue/organ? Check out the zTrap Gene Trap & Enhancer Database (
ztrap.nig.ac.jp/ztrap/
) from the Kawakami Lab at NIG! Travel grants are available for shelf-screen (Email Sensei Koichi for more info) 😎 Contact details:
ztrap.nig.ac.jp/members.html
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Meet Athena, a REU undergraduate from the University of Arizona, who had her first experience observing live zebrafish embryos 🐟 in our
@syracuseu.bsky.social
lab. Welcome to Dev Bio, Athena! 🧬🔬
#REU2025
#ZebrafishDevelopment
#SyracuseBiology
#UndergradResearch
#DevelopmentalBiology
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Hehnly lab postdoc Yan Wu looking beautiful with her poster at the
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office of research postdoc poster session. She presented on her recent study featured in @dev-journal.bsky.social.
7 months ago
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Development
7 months ago
Mitotic events help distinguish left from right Read this Research Highlight showcasing work from Yan Wu, Yiling Lan, Heidi Hehnly (
@lovelessradio.bsky.social
@syracuseu.bsky.social
) and colleagues:
doi.org/10.1242/dev....
🎥Mitotic events are required for KV formation
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Development
7 months ago
To learn more about the story behind the paper, we caught up with first authors Yan Wu and Yiling Lan, and the corresponding author Heidi Hehnly
@lovelessradio.bsky.social
, an Associate Professor and Associate Director of the BioInspired Institute at
@syracuseu.bsky.social
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@LaBonneLaB
7 months ago
It is beyond disturbing when the NIH and HHS Directors do not understand that animal models are essential in research
www.statnews.com/2025/05/19/a...
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There is no replacement (yet) for animal models in medical research
The NIH is “reducing animal use in research.” But there is no replacement for animal models.
https://www.statnews.com/2025/05/19/animal-models-research-nih-biology-medical-breakthroughs-nobel-prize/
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A fun interview we did with Development about our recent paper. Check it out!
journals.biologists.com/dev/article/...
Can check out paper here:
journals.biologists.com/dev/article/...
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The people behind the papers – Yan Wu, Yiling Lan and Heidi Hehnly
The vertebrate left-right axis is established during embryonic development by a ciliated organ called the left-right organiser. In zebrafish, this organ is known as Kupffer's vesicle (KV). A new paper...
https://journals.biologists.com/dev/article/152/10/dev204888/368031/The-people-behind-the-papers-Yan-Wu-Yiling-Lan-and
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Katherine W. Rogers
8 months ago
Happy to share a new preprint from my lab! We characterize the on/off kinetics, light dosage-dependence, and more for a suite of optogenetic signaling activators in zebrafish embryos 💡
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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An optogenetic toolkit for robust activation of FGF, BMP, and Nodal signaling in zebrafish
Cell signaling regulates a wide range of biological processes including development, homeostasis, and disease. Accessible technologies to precisely manipulate signaling have important applications in ...
https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.04.17.649426v1.abstract?%3Fcollection=
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Zebrafish Rock!
8 months ago
New work from
@lovelessradio.bsky.social
et al. 🐟
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Wyoming Wormboy
8 months ago
BTW. If you’re a scientist and are feeling hollowed out, depressed, fried, frustrated, confused, and simply exhausted by everything, I understand you. You are perfectly sane and you are not alone.
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Jeremy Berg
8 months ago
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60 Minutes
8 months ago
The National Institutes of Health, the largest funder of biomedical research in the world, has fired 1,300 employees and cancelled more than $2 billion in federal research grants.
https://cbsn.ws/4daiCrv
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How cuts at the National Institutes of Health could impact Americans' health
Cuts and layoffs to the National Institutes of Health threaten medical research around the U.S., agency insiders warn.
https://cbsn.ws/42NNr01
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Jeremy Berg
8 months ago
For those wanted to hear (or read) this strategy plainly articulated, listen to NIH Effective Director Chris Rufo's interview on The Daily
www.nytimes.com/2025/04/11/p...
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Shawn Burgess
9 months ago
GRCz12tu is available on Genbank. This will be one of two genomes that will be considered "reference" genomes, there will also be a GRCz12ab assembly coming. It has entered the NCBI annotation pipeline and will also go into the Ensembl annotation pipeline.
www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/datasets/gen...
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Danio rerio genome assembly GRCz12tu
- Danio rerio
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/datasets/genome/GCA_049306965.1/
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Dr. Ahna Skop
9 months ago
If you're working on innovative cell biology research, Molecular Biology of the Cell (MBoC) is the place to share it. I’m proud to serve on the editorial team Submit your work today:
www.molbiolcell.org
#CellBiology
#MBoC
#ScientificPublishing
@ascbiology.bsky.social
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Molecular Biology of the Cell (MBoC)
https://www.molbiolcell.org/
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Katherine Eban
9 months ago
NEW
@vanityfair.com
: When Americans died, were blinded, had eyeballs removed from tainted eye drops,
@fda.gov
relied on Dr Timothy Pohlhaus, among its few top sterile drug manufacturing experts. He, thousands more, were fired from US health agencies yesterday.
www.vanityfair.com/news/story/t...
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The Expert Who Kept Eye Drops From Blinding You Was Fired Yesterday
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and the so-called Department of Government Efficiency terminated thousands of experienced public health professionals in an April Fools’ Day massacre. We’re all about to pay the ...
https://www.vanityfair.com/news/story/the-expert-who-kept-eye-drops-from-blinding-you-was-fired-yesterday
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American Society for Cell Biology
9 months ago
The termination of the NIH MOSAIC program is a critical loss. As one of the 5 societies supporting MOSAIC scholars, ASCB remains dedicated to supporting early-career scientists & broadening the biomedical workforce. We'll continue our mentorship & development efforts through the end of the grant.
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ASCB Responds to the NIH’s Termination of the MOSAIC Program - ASCB
As one of the five scientific societies funded to provide professional development support through the NIH Maximizing Opportunities for Scientific and Academic Independent Careers (MOSAIC) program, th...
https://www.ascb.org/society-news/ascb-responds-to-the-nihs-termination-of-the-mosaic-program/
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John Wallingford
9 months ago
Director of the Nat'l Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD) was summarily dismissed yesterday. So here's your reminder that birth defects kill twice as many American kids as cancer. But there is no St. Jude's for birth defects. Only the NICHD.
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
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‘One of the darkest days’: NIH purges agency leadership amid mass layoffs
In shock move, four institute directors at the US biomedical agency are removed from their posts.
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-025-01016-z
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BK. Titanji
9 months ago
There is no other way to say this: Today is the day the CDC was essentially dissolved. What's left is a husk. People will die as a direct result.
www.wired.com/story/cdc-gu...
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The CDC Has Been Gutted
Thousands of CDC employees who worked on things like preventing HIV and lead poisoning have been told they were subject to a reduction in force. Experts say people will die.
https://www.wired.com/story/cdc-gutted-rif/
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Wyoming Wormboy
9 months ago
International scientists rethink U.S. conference attendance | Science | AAAS
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International scientists rethink U.S. conference attendance
Opposition to Trump administration and fears of customs run-ins are shifting travel plans
https://www.science.org/content/article/international-scientists-rethink-us-conference-attendance
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Rebecca D. Burdine, PhD
9 months ago
Bookmark this site and
#RT
! This site shows where the cuts are impacting the US by location.
theimpactproject.org/the-impact-m...
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The Impact Map - The Impact Project
The Impact Map provides timely data on policy, funding, and workforce changes and their localized effect.
https://theimpactproject.org/the-impact-map/
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Journal of Cell Science
9 months ago
Tomohiro Yorimitsu and Ken Sato investigate the role of IDRs in sensing negative membrane curvature in ER tubules. Highlight:
journals.biologists.com/jcs/article/...
Article:
journals.biologists.com/jcs/article/...
#OpenAccess
#ReadandPublish
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Noelle Dwyer
10 months ago
Every $1 we give to NIH (National Institutes of Health) returns average of $2.56 to our economy! And that doesn’t even count the long term benefits of new inventions, lives saved, health preserved!
www.forbes.com/sites/michae...
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NIH Grants Fueled $95 Billion In FY 2024 Economic Activity, Finds New Report
National Institutes of Health grants generated almost $95 billion in economic activity nationwide in FY 2024 according to a new report by United for Medical Research.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/michaeltnietzel/2025/03/12/nih-grants-fueled-95-billion-in-economic-activity-finds-new-report/
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Jeremy Berg
10 months ago
His home institution weighs in...
stanforddaily.com/2025/01/29/s...
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Stanford must oppose Jay Bhattacharya's appointment
To protect the eminence of U.S. biomedical research and its own researchers, Stanford must oppose the nomination of Jay Bhattacharya to serve as Trump’s NIH director, Sanchez writes.
https://stanforddaily.com/2025/01/29/stanford-must-oppose-bhattacharya-appointment/
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I think we all need some fun news right now.
@syracuseu.bsky.social
is having a sweet
#BioArt
event coming up, mark your calendars!
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