The Death and Rebirth of a blog

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 Hello friends, 

This week marks the end of our use of blogger to run Naturalism Next. However, our blog is going to be reborn on substack! If you follow our content, please subscribe to that publication to keep up with our work. 

Much love for your support over the years,

The Naturalism Next Team

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