Gracielle Higino
@gracielle.science
Ecology + Evolution | Open Science Community Manager @sfuscience.bsky.social | Educator | ASAPbio Fellow '23 | 3x MozFest wrangler | DRAC-EDIA Champion ‘24 | UBC Postdoc '21 - '25 | CIRTL Associate | OLS Senior Resident Fellow '25
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Additionally, applications are now open to join the 2026 Cohort of PREreview Champions.
Learn more about what to expect and apply today: content.prereview.org/2026-prerevi...
Please consider sharing this opportunity with others in your community!
Thank you!
Learn more about what to expect and apply today: content.prereview.org/2026-prerevi...
Please consider sharing this opportunity with others in your community!
Thank you!
2026 PREreview Champions - Apply NOW
Applications are now open to join the 2026 PREreview Champions Program! As we wrap up another amazing year of reflections, actions, and collaborations spearheaded by a fantastic cohort of 2025 Champio...
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November 10, 2025 at 8:09 PM
Additionally, applications are now open to join the 2026 Cohort of PREreview Champions.
Learn more about what to expect and apply today: content.prereview.org/2026-prerevi...
Please consider sharing this opportunity with others in your community!
Thank you!
Learn more about what to expect and apply today: content.prereview.org/2026-prerevi...
Please consider sharing this opportunity with others in your community!
Thank you!
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How do teens feel about their phones? @siatsfu.bsky.social Homeware Lab worked with Grade 9s to explore tech, data and emotion. Their award-winning research reveals teens’ deep connections to devices as well as the need for better data literacy. 📱
Dreams, desires and the digital world: Developing critical data literacy in teens
www.sfu.ca
November 7, 2025 at 7:14 PM
How do teens feel about their phones? @siatsfu.bsky.social Homeware Lab worked with Grade 9s to explore tech, data and emotion. Their award-winning research reveals teens’ deep connections to devices as well as the need for better data literacy. 📱
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We’re hiring a Quantitative Ecologist (Internship)!
ApexRMS is looking for an early-career ecologist who’s passionate about using data, models, and code to understand how ecosystems change including wildfire risk, carbon dynamics, species conservation, and land use.
ApexRMS is looking for an early-career ecologist who’s passionate about using data, models, and code to understand how ecosystems change including wildfire risk, carbon dynamics, species conservation, and land use.
October 30, 2025 at 5:28 PM
We’re hiring a Quantitative Ecologist (Internship)!
ApexRMS is looking for an early-career ecologist who’s passionate about using data, models, and code to understand how ecosystems change including wildfire risk, carbon dynamics, species conservation, and land use.
ApexRMS is looking for an early-career ecologist who’s passionate about using data, models, and code to understand how ecosystems change including wildfire risk, carbon dynamics, species conservation, and land use.
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Join us Oct 29 at 10:30 AM for our Criminology Seminar: “Community-based research at the intersection of criminal law, policing & public health” with faculty member Andrea Krüsi. Don’t miss it!
Register here: buff.ly/ZGyOHR3
#SFUCriminology #PublicHealth #Policing #Research
Register here: buff.ly/ZGyOHR3
#SFUCriminology #PublicHealth #Policing #Research
October 16, 2025 at 8:11 PM
Join us Oct 29 at 10:30 AM for our Criminology Seminar: “Community-based research at the intersection of criminal law, policing & public health” with faculty member Andrea Krüsi. Don’t miss it!
Register here: buff.ly/ZGyOHR3
#SFUCriminology #PublicHealth #Policing #Research
Register here: buff.ly/ZGyOHR3
#SFUCriminology #PublicHealth #Policing #Research
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New Data Viz Event 🚨
Let's be real. This is just an excuse for me to geek out about my favorite topic with my data viz sheroes.
Catch me, @allisonhorst.bsky.social, Kelsey Nanan + @shirleywu.studio on Tuesday Nov 11th @ 1pm ET. Registration link below 😊
streamyard.com/watch/dHiSp8...
Let's be real. This is just an excuse for me to geek out about my favorite topic with my data viz sheroes.
Catch me, @allisonhorst.bsky.social, Kelsey Nanan + @shirleywu.studio on Tuesday Nov 11th @ 1pm ET. Registration link below 😊
streamyard.com/watch/dHiSp8...
Art + science: Blending creativity and analysis in data visualization
Great data visualization lives at the intersection of art and science. By bridging rigorous data analysis with creative design, data visualization has the power to make complex ideas easier to interpr...
streamyard.com
October 28, 2025 at 6:12 PM
New Data Viz Event 🚨
Let's be real. This is just an excuse for me to geek out about my favorite topic with my data viz sheroes.
Catch me, @allisonhorst.bsky.social, Kelsey Nanan + @shirleywu.studio on Tuesday Nov 11th @ 1pm ET. Registration link below 😊
streamyard.com/watch/dHiSp8...
Let's be real. This is just an excuse for me to geek out about my favorite topic with my data viz sheroes.
Catch me, @allisonhorst.bsky.social, Kelsey Nanan + @shirleywu.studio on Tuesday Nov 11th @ 1pm ET. Registration link below 😊
streamyard.com/watch/dHiSp8...
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Messy folders haunting your R projects? 👻
This Wednesday Oct 29 at 4:00 PM PDT, I'll lead a workshop on Efficient File Management in R with {fs} hosted by @r-ladies-stl.bsky.social. Let's clean and organize a spooky messy folder together!
Register at www.meetup.com/rladies-st-l...
#RStats #DataBS
This Wednesday Oct 29 at 4:00 PM PDT, I'll lead a workshop on Efficient File Management in R with {fs} hosted by @r-ladies-stl.bsky.social. Let's clean and organize a spooky messy folder together!
Register at www.meetup.com/rladies-st-l...
#RStats #DataBS
October 27, 2025 at 9:51 PM
Messy folders haunting your R projects? 👻
This Wednesday Oct 29 at 4:00 PM PDT, I'll lead a workshop on Efficient File Management in R with {fs} hosted by @r-ladies-stl.bsky.social. Let's clean and organize a spooky messy folder together!
Register at www.meetup.com/rladies-st-l...
#RStats #DataBS
This Wednesday Oct 29 at 4:00 PM PDT, I'll lead a workshop on Efficient File Management in R with {fs} hosted by @r-ladies-stl.bsky.social. Let's clean and organize a spooky messy folder together!
Register at www.meetup.com/rladies-st-l...
#RStats #DataBS
Two weeks ago I was at the 1st Canadian #OpenScience and #OpenScholarship Conference, in Montreal. I usually hate conferences, but I'm super happy I went to this one! What convinced me was that they had a booth format that reminded me a lot my #MozFest days! 🧪
October 23, 2025 at 12:54 AM
Two weeks ago I was at the 1st Canadian #OpenScience and #OpenScholarship Conference, in Montreal. I usually hate conferences, but I'm super happy I went to this one! What convinced me was that they had a booth format that reminded me a lot my #MozFest days! 🧪
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The #OpenScience movement aims to transform how scientists work with each other and with society. These shifts pull in different directions — and “scientific cultures” helps make sense of the tension.
NEW BLOG: Tensions in Open Science and Scientific Culture
www.scholcommlab.ca/2025/10/21/t...
NEW BLOG: Tensions in Open Science and Scientific Culture
www.scholcommlab.ca/2025/10/21/t...
Tensions in Open Science and Scientific Culture
Open Science (OS) holds a powerful promise: to serve society by providing universal public access to knowledge. But, as we continue to see OS be adopted across the world, it becomes increasingly cl…
www.scholcommlab.ca
October 21, 2025 at 7:00 PM
The #OpenScience movement aims to transform how scientists work with each other and with society. These shifts pull in different directions — and “scientific cultures” helps make sense of the tension.
NEW BLOG: Tensions in Open Science and Scientific Culture
www.scholcommlab.ca/2025/10/21/t...
NEW BLOG: Tensions in Open Science and Scientific Culture
www.scholcommlab.ca/2025/10/21/t...
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This #OAWeek we're pleased to share this call for papers!
Publishing cultures in transition: #OpenAccess, critical #DigitalLiteracy & #DigitalInfrastructures
From Medien Pädagogik, the issue will be edited by Klaus Rummler, Natalie Marty, and our very own Urooj Nizami!
pkp.sfu.ca/2025/09/05/m...
Publishing cultures in transition: #OpenAccess, critical #DigitalLiteracy & #DigitalInfrastructures
From Medien Pädagogik, the issue will be edited by Klaus Rummler, Natalie Marty, and our very own Urooj Nizami!
pkp.sfu.ca/2025/09/05/m...
Publishing Cultures in Transition: Medien Pädagogik Call for Papers - Public Knowledge Project
The “Publishing Cultures in Transition: Open Access, Critical Digital Literacy, and Digital Infrastructures” call for papers is open until November 14th, 2025.
pkp.sfu.ca
October 21, 2025 at 2:05 AM
This #OAWeek we're pleased to share this call for papers!
Publishing cultures in transition: #OpenAccess, critical #DigitalLiteracy & #DigitalInfrastructures
From Medien Pädagogik, the issue will be edited by Klaus Rummler, Natalie Marty, and our very own Urooj Nizami!
pkp.sfu.ca/2025/09/05/m...
Publishing cultures in transition: #OpenAccess, critical #DigitalLiteracy & #DigitalInfrastructures
From Medien Pädagogik, the issue will be edited by Klaus Rummler, Natalie Marty, and our very own Urooj Nizami!
pkp.sfu.ca/2025/09/05/m...
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NEW COURSES: Registration is open SFU + PKP Open Publishing courses! Open to all, so please share with anyone interested in some professional development!
Webinar coming up Oct 30th to meet instructors (including. me!) Read more and register for webinar and courses here: pkp.sfu.ca/2025/10/01/r...
Webinar coming up Oct 30th to meet instructors (including. me!) Read more and register for webinar and courses here: pkp.sfu.ca/2025/10/01/r...
Register Now for PKP + SFU Open Publishing Courses! - Public Knowledge Project
The Open Publishing Series registration for an info webinar and the courses are open. Join the webinar on October 30 to meet the instructors.
pkp.sfu.ca
October 17, 2025 at 1:29 AM
NEW COURSES: Registration is open SFU + PKP Open Publishing courses! Open to all, so please share with anyone interested in some professional development!
Webinar coming up Oct 30th to meet instructors (including. me!) Read more and register for webinar and courses here: pkp.sfu.ca/2025/10/01/r...
Webinar coming up Oct 30th to meet instructors (including. me!) Read more and register for webinar and courses here: pkp.sfu.ca/2025/10/01/r...
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Quarto friends! I need your help:
We are implementing a new QMD parser in Quarto. It will be super nice. But it's a big change, and we want to minimize the impact.
1. Can you share a link to your Quarto project at github.com/quarto-dev/q...
2. repost this and let your Quarto friends know too?
We are implementing a new QMD parser in Quarto. It will be super nice. But it's a big change, and we want to minimize the impact.
1. Can you share a link to your Quarto project at github.com/quarto-dev/q...
2. repost this and let your Quarto friends know too?
Epic: are we production yet · Issue #63 · quarto-dev/quarto-markdown
We need to check against many large sites to get a good sense for the impact of this new syntax in practice. autogenerated qmd quartodoc-generated sites (tbd meet with @machow) sites quarto.org Shi...
github.com
October 16, 2025 at 2:13 PM
Quarto friends! I need your help:
We are implementing a new QMD parser in Quarto. It will be super nice. But it's a big change, and we want to minimize the impact.
1. Can you share a link to your Quarto project at github.com/quarto-dev/q...
2. repost this and let your Quarto friends know too?
We are implementing a new QMD parser in Quarto. It will be super nice. But it's a big change, and we want to minimize the impact.
1. Can you share a link to your Quarto project at github.com/quarto-dev/q...
2. repost this and let your Quarto friends know too?
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Over the last 3 years I've been collecting resources to share with people interested in data freelancing. I've recently compiled those resources in a GitHub Repository.
If you are interested in data freelancing, these resources may help you navigate that transition.
github.com/Cghlewis/fre...
If you are interested in data freelancing, these resources may help you navigate that transition.
github.com/Cghlewis/fre...
GitHub - Cghlewis/freelancing_resources: Resources for data freelancers
Resources for data freelancers. Contribute to Cghlewis/freelancing_resources development by creating an account on GitHub.
github.com
October 14, 2025 at 4:35 PM
Over the last 3 years I've been collecting resources to share with people interested in data freelancing. I've recently compiled those resources in a GitHub Repository.
If you are interested in data freelancing, these resources may help you navigate that transition.
github.com/Cghlewis/fre...
If you are interested in data freelancing, these resources may help you navigate that transition.
github.com/Cghlewis/fre...
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JOB OPPORTUNITY: @pkp.sfu.ca is looking for a Managing Director! This is a rare opportunity to lead a highly impactful #scholcomm organization. Role works closely with me (Scientific Director) to provide strategic and operational leadership. Help us spread the word!
pkp.sfu.ca/2025/09/17/h...
pkp.sfu.ca/2025/09/17/h...
PKP is hiring a Managing Director - Public Knowledge Project
The Public Knowledge Project, a Core Research Facility of SFU, invites applications for the position of Managing Director
pkp.sfu.ca
September 29, 2025 at 6:27 PM
JOB OPPORTUNITY: @pkp.sfu.ca is looking for a Managing Director! This is a rare opportunity to lead a highly impactful #scholcomm organization. Role works closely with me (Scientific Director) to provide strategic and operational leadership. Help us spread the word!
pkp.sfu.ca/2025/09/17/h...
pkp.sfu.ca/2025/09/17/h...
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📣We're hosting a rainbowR conference, to connect and promote LGBTQ+ people in the #RStats community and to showcase examples of working with LGBTQ+ data 🌈🎉 To help us plan, if you'd be interested in attending or speaking, please fill in this very short form (1-2 mins) docs.google.com/forms/d/1Tx0...
Interested in a rainbowR Conference?
rainbowR (https://rainbowr.org) is hosting a virtual conference (tentative date: February 26, 2026). The aim of the conference is to connect and promote LGBTQ+ people in the R community, and to showca...
docs.google.com
September 22, 2025 at 12:49 PM
📣We're hosting a rainbowR conference, to connect and promote LGBTQ+ people in the #RStats community and to showcase examples of working with LGBTQ+ data 🌈🎉 To help us plan, if you'd be interested in attending or speaking, please fill in this very short form (1-2 mins) docs.google.com/forms/d/1Tx0...
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Agora, nós contamos com quatro conselheiros externos que nos ajudarão a pensar o futuro da Rede! Brasileiros, mas morando em quatro países diferentes, eles vão trabalhar conosco em encontros semestrais e pensar novas estratégias e atuações para nossa comunidade!
#reprodutibilidade #ciênciaaberta
#reprodutibilidade #ciênciaaberta
September 11, 2025 at 11:51 AM
Agora, nós contamos com quatro conselheiros externos que nos ajudarão a pensar o futuro da Rede! Brasileiros, mas morando em quatro países diferentes, eles vão trabalhar conosco em encontros semestrais e pensar novas estratégias e atuações para nossa comunidade!
#reprodutibilidade #ciênciaaberta
#reprodutibilidade #ciênciaaberta
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Canada’s fastest academic supercomputer, Fir, is now online at SFU! As the only Canadian system ranked in the world’s top 100, it powers data-intensive computational tasks nationwide, all while protecting the country's data and running on clean energy.
Canada’s fastest academic supercomputer is now online at SFU after $80m upgrades
Simon Fraser University’s Burnaby campus is once again home to Canada’s most powerful academic supercomputer, following the installation of a new system, named Fir. The new Fir system replaces the Ced...
www.sfu.ca
September 15, 2025 at 6:31 PM
Canada’s fastest academic supercomputer, Fir, is now online at SFU! As the only Canadian system ranked in the world’s top 100, it powers data-intensive computational tasks nationwide, all while protecting the country's data and running on clean energy.
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The @force11.bsky.social team is organizing a PREreview Club to review #metascience #preprints.
They are currently looking for participants to commit at various levels to help start up the club.
If that sounds like something you'd be interested in, read more: force11.org/post/organiz...
They are currently looking for participants to commit at various levels to help start up the club.
If that sounds like something you'd be interested in, read more: force11.org/post/organiz...
Organizing a FORCE11 PREreview Club – FORCE11
force11.org
August 15, 2025 at 9:46 AM
The @force11.bsky.social team is organizing a PREreview Club to review #metascience #preprints.
They are currently looking for participants to commit at various levels to help start up the club.
If that sounds like something you'd be interested in, read more: force11.org/post/organiz...
They are currently looking for participants to commit at various levels to help start up the club.
If that sounds like something you'd be interested in, read more: force11.org/post/organiz...
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The Open Science in Action Symposium is happening on Oct 29 2025, at the @ucalgary.bsky.social. Hosted by the @hotchkissbrain.bsky.social, we’re thrilled to see proof of its growing national impact and relevance to advance practical #OpenScience in #neuroscience. www.tickettailor.com/events/hotch...
July 29, 2025 at 2:21 PM
The Open Science in Action Symposium is happening on Oct 29 2025, at the @ucalgary.bsky.social. Hosted by the @hotchkissbrain.bsky.social, we’re thrilled to see proof of its growing national impact and relevance to advance practical #OpenScience in #neuroscience. www.tickettailor.com/events/hotch...
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Interested in helping out with one of the most innovative, grassroots, publishing efforts around? The Journal of Open Source Software (@joss-openjournals.bsky.social) is looking for editors. We conduct collaborative checklist-based peer review of research software using GitHub issues.
Call for editors | Journal of Open Source Software Blog
Blog for the Journal of Open Source Software • <a href='https://joss.theoj.org'>https://joss.theoj.org</a>
blog.joss.theoj.org
August 8, 2025 at 1:39 PM
Interested in helping out with one of the most innovative, grassroots, publishing efforts around? The Journal of Open Source Software (@joss-openjournals.bsky.social) is looking for editors. We conduct collaborative checklist-based peer review of research software using GitHub issues.
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free drag name idea for a scientist: Phil Trans
August 2, 2025 at 9:34 PM
free drag name idea for a scientist: Phil Trans
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🧪 What if we could share genetic sequences in a way that is equitable, and works for the greater good?
Now in @natgenet.nature.com, we establish a framework for the open sharing of digital sequence information 🧬, compatible with FAIR, and designed to support access and benefit-sharing. 🧵
Now in @natgenet.nature.com, we establish a framework for the open sharing of digital sequence information 🧬, compatible with FAIR, and designed to support access and benefit-sharing. 🧵
The LISTEN principles for genetic sequence data governance and database engineering - Nature Genetics
This Perspective proposes a checklist of six database design considerations, LISTEN: licensed, identified, supervised, transparent, enforced and non-exclusive, aimed at ensuring access and benefit-sha...
www.nature.com
July 28, 2025 at 6:27 PM
🧪 What if we could share genetic sequences in a way that is equitable, and works for the greater good?
Now in @natgenet.nature.com, we establish a framework for the open sharing of digital sequence information 🧬, compatible with FAIR, and designed to support access and benefit-sharing. 🧵
Now in @natgenet.nature.com, we establish a framework for the open sharing of digital sequence information 🧬, compatible with FAIR, and designed to support access and benefit-sharing. 🧵
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👋We look forward to hearing from you!
OSOH Annual Feedback Survey
Thank you for being part of the Open Science Office Hours (OSOH) community this past year. Your insights will help us refine our events, resources, and outreach so they serve trainees even better in 2...
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July 16, 2025 at 3:01 PM
🗣️Help us plan our upcoming events!
✍️Complete this short online survey
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🏆Enter the draw to win one of two $50 gift cards. (Available only for people based in Canada)
👋We look forward to hearing from you!
✍️Complete this short online survey
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🏆Enter the draw to win one of two $50 gift cards. (Available only for people based in Canada)
👋We look forward to hearing from you!
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I'm doing my biannual donations from R for the Rest of Us to support organizations fighting for social justice (rfortherestofus.com/1percent). I'd like to support those impacted by ICE raids. Anyone have recommendations for organizations to donate to?
July 14, 2025 at 9:39 PM
I'm doing my biannual donations from R for the Rest of Us to support organizations fighting for social justice (rfortherestofus.com/1percent). I'd like to support those impacted by ICE raids. Anyone have recommendations for organizations to donate to?
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🧪 New paper: how can we turn decades of work to quantify the structure of species interaction networks into something relevant for biodiversity monitoring and management? @gabdans.bsky.social lays out the roadmap in a new paper in @cp-trendsecolevo.bsky.social
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Overcoming the disconnect between species interaction networks and biodiversity conservation
Decision-makers need to act now to halt biodiversity loss, and ecologists must provide them with relevant species interaction indicators to inform abo…
www.sciencedirect.com
July 3, 2025 at 2:00 PM
🧪 New paper: how can we turn decades of work to quantify the structure of species interaction networks into something relevant for biodiversity monitoring and management? @gabdans.bsky.social lays out the roadmap in a new paper in @cp-trendsecolevo.bsky.social
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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New paper from the lab: how do we make probabilistic species interaction networks more useful and robust? @francisbanville.bsky.social has some thoughts, and went through the literature to map mathematical definitions to ecological concepts.
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
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onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
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Deciphering Probabilistic Species Interaction Networks
We review how probabilistic species interactions are defined at different spatial scales. These definitions are based on the distinction between the realisation of an interaction at a specific time a....
onlinelibrary.wiley.com
June 26, 2025 at 5:26 PM
New paper from the lab: how do we make probabilistic species interaction networks more useful and robust? @francisbanville.bsky.social has some thoughts, and went through the literature to map mathematical definitions to ecological concepts.
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
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onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
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