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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif">Dear colleagues and friends,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif">I am writing to ask for your help with a personal matter regarding my partner Sara Joy Hawkins. Sara is a researcher in olfaction science and immunology, but she is an “honorary”
member of sorts in the vision science community, as she is a co-author on the following project (ECVP presentation and submitted preprint):<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:36.0pt"><i><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif">Maiello, G., Dehn, K., Hartmann, F.T., Morgenstern, Y.,
<b>Hawkins, S.J.</b>, Offner, T., Walter, J., Hassenklöver, T., Manzini, I., & Fleming, R.W. (2023) Human shape perception spontaneously discovers the biological origin of never-before-seen stimuli. ECVP 2023 45th European Conference on Visual Perception, Paphos,
Cyprus — August 27 – 31, 2023<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:36.0pt"><i><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif">Dehn, K. I., Maiello, G., Hartmann, F. T., Morgenstern, Y.,
<b>Hawkins, S. J.</b>, Offner, T., Walter, J., Hassenklöver, T., Manzini, I., & Fleming, R. W. (2024). Human shape perception spontaneously discovers the biological origin of novel, but natural, stimuli. bioRxiv, 2024-12.</span>
</i><i><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif"><a href="https://doi.org/10.1101/2024.12.21.629735">https://doi.org/10.1101/2024.12.21.629735</a>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif">Sara has been dealing with a malignant brain cancer since 2019. Unfortunately, we learned in November that the cancer has recurred for a second time. Right now, we are coordinating
treatment across two medical teams—one in the UK and one in Germany. I am thus raising funds to help coordinate Sara’s care, cover housing and transportation costs during treatments in different countries, and incorporate immunotherapy into her range of options.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif">I started a fundraiser on GoFundMe and it would mean so much if you could take a look at it. I know many of you have donated already, and I am hugely grateful. If you can, please
also consider sharing the campaign link across any channels you think might be appropriate (Twitter/X, Bluesky, Facebook, LinkedIn, email, etc). I know some of you have large social media following, and the wider the reach, the better.
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent:36.0pt"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif"><a href="https://gofund.me/22b6f44b">https://gofund.me/22b6f44b</a>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif">Thank you kindly for taking the time to read this message and for any support you can give.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif">All the best,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif">Guido<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black;mso-ligatures:none;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">Dr. Guido Maiello<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black;mso-ligatures:none;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">campus: Building 44, Room 4106<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black;mso-ligatures:none;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">email: <a href="mailto:G.Maiello@soton.ac.uk" target="_blank"><span style="color:#196AD4">G.Maiello@soton.ac.uk</span></a> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black;mso-ligatures:none;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">website: <a href="https://www.guidomaiello.com/" target="_blank"><span style="color:#196AD4">guidomaiello.com</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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