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<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><i><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">Clouds come floating into my life, no longer carrying rain or ushering storms but adding color to my sunset sky.<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">Dear postdocs,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">Hope you are enjoying the freshness of the early morning rain while staying dry. Thank you to those who attended our first book club event last Thursday! The
book club group members enjoyed meeting you all and having conversations with you!<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">With the feedback from attendees of the first book club event, we are happy to announce:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">A <b>Slack channel, #mitpda-bookclub,</b> has been launched and dedicated to the book club events. Future announcements will be communicated mainly through this channel<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoListParagraph" style="color:black;margin-left:0in;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1">
<span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Book club events will be hosted
<u>bi-monthly</u> moving forward<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoListParagraph" style="color:black;margin-left:0in;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1">
<span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">When the weather gets warmer (and not windy), we are hoping to move it outdoors<o:p></o:p></span></li></ul>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black;background:yellow;mso-highlight:yellow">We are now collecting nominations for our second book club event.</span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">
Please join the Slack channel and <a href="https://mit-postdocs.slack.com/lists/T02CAHKGZ17/F08QLFHL6ER">
nominate/vote</a>!! <b>Nomination closes Monday, May 5<sup>th</sup></b>.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">This initiative would not have been possible without the generous support of team members who spent extra time out of their busy research schedules to organize.
We truly appreciate it!<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">If you would like to see this initiative continue, please consider joining the MIT PDA Community Building Committee in August!!<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">Best,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">MIT PDA Community Building Committee Book Club Team<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">Ayoub, David, Olivia, Shahina, Yiqiao and Zoe<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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