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Claire McCarthy
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scientist with a PhD in toxicology | views are my own
“Music has a alway of finding you, even in the darkest of places”
- #StrangerThings #WednesdayWisdom
December 10, 2025 at 11:57 AM
“Sometimes, it’s extraordinarily brave just to get up and do ordinary things.” - @charliemackesy1.bsky.social #MondayMotivation
December 8, 2025 at 12:26 PM
December 6, 2025 at 3:50 PM
Post a book you love from the 80s. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.
#BookSky #bookchallenge #readingchallenge #readingcommunity #booktok #bookish #books
November 19, 2025 at 11:21 PM
Check out some #CoolScienceImages (with music by The Faim) from the @natureportfolio.nature.com collection of the BRAIN Initiative Cell Atlas Network (#BICAN). www.nature.com/collections/... #neuroscience #FluorescenceFriday 🧪
November 7, 2025 at 4:21 PM
It's Book Quote Wednesday and the word is COLOR.

“I think it pisses God off if you walk by the color purple in a field somewhere and don't notice it.”
- The Color Purple by Alice Walker

#Booksky #bookqw
November 5, 2025 at 4:32 PM
“One day you'll look back and realise how hard it was, and just how well you did.”
@charliemackesy1.bsky.social
#WednesdayWisdom
November 5, 2025 at 4:20 PM
Post a book you love from the 80s. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.
#BookSky #bookchallenge #readingchallenge #readingcommunity #booktok #bookish #books
November 4, 2025 at 3:15 PM
Choose 20 paintings that have stayed with you or influenced you — one painting per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just paintings.

19/20, Georges Seurat, A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte, 1884-1886

#blueskyartchallenge #art #painting
October 30, 2025 at 3:25 PM
4 books to get to know me 💙📚✨️
October 28, 2025 at 2:06 PM
Share a TV show you love with a great Halloween episode. 📺🎃

My choice: Freaks and Geeks
October 26, 2025 at 5:40 PM
Check out some #CoolScienceImages (with music by The Faim) from a @cp-cancercell.bsky.social study.
Galeano Niño et al. showed that tumor-infiltrating bacteria promote cancer cell quiescence and treatment resistance. www.cell.com/cancer-cell/... #FluorescenceFriday 🧪
October 24, 2025 at 2:27 PM
Choose 20 paintings that have stayed with you or influenced you — one painting per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just paintings.

12/20, Albert Robert Valentien, Soft Shelled Almond Blossom, 1903

#blueskyartchallenge #art #painting
October 23, 2025 at 2:29 PM
Choose 20 paintings that have stayed with you or influenced you — one painting per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just paintings.

10/20, Robert Duncanson, Blue Hole, Flood Waters, Little Miami River, 1851

#blueskyartchallenge #art #painting
October 21, 2025 at 1:06 PM
Choose 20 paintings that have stayed with you or influenced you — one painting per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just paintings.

8/20, John Trumbull, Alexander Hamilton, 1806
npg.si.edu/object/npg_N...

#blueskyartchallenge #art #painting
October 19, 2025 at 3:00 PM
Choose 20 paintings that have stayed with you or influenced you — one painting per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just paintings.

7/20, Henry Mosler, The Quadroon Girl, 1878
www.cincinnatiartmuseum.org/art/explore-...

#blueskyartchallenge #art #painting
October 18, 2025 at 3:07 PM
Check out some #CoolScienceImages from a @natureportfolio.nature.com study. Ciccone et al. showed that loss of BPTF restores estrogen response & suppresses metastasis in preclinical models of #BreastCancer. www.nature.com/articles/s41... #FluorescenceFriday #BCAM 🧪
October 17, 2025 at 12:27 PM
Choose 20 paintings that have stayed with you or influenced you — one painting per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just paintings.

5/20, Horace Pippin, Christmas Morning, Breakfast, 1945
www.artchive.com/artwork/chri...

#blueskyartchallenge #art #painting
October 16, 2025 at 4:50 PM
Choose 20 paintings that have stayed with you or influenced you — one painting per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just paintings.

4/20, Charles T. Webber, The Underground Railroad, 1893

#blueskyartchallenge #art #painting
October 15, 2025 at 2:17 PM
Choose 20 paintings that have stayed with you or influenced you — one painting per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just paintings.

3/20, Frank Duveneck, The Whistling Boy, 1872
www.cincinnatiartmuseum.org/art/explore-...

#blueskyartchallenge #art #painting
October 14, 2025 at 2:44 PM
Choose 20 paintings that have stayed with you or influenced you — one painting per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just paintings.

2/20, Kadir Nelson, Henrietta Lacks (HeLa): The Mother of Modern Medicine, 2017

#blueskyartchallenge #art #painting
October 13, 2025 at 2:03 PM
I’m reading Regretting You by Colleen Hoover and started rereading The Covenant of Water by @abrahamverghese.bsky.social for a family book club.
October 13, 2025 at 1:55 PM
Choose 20 paintings that have stayed with you or influenced you — one painting per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just paintings.

1/20, Joseph Henry Sharp, Fountain Square Pantomime,1892

#blueskyartchallenge #art #painting
October 12, 2025 at 4:01 PM
#CurrentlyReading The Women by Kristin Hannah: www.goodreads.com/book/show/12...
#booksky 📚💙
October 6, 2025 at 1:22 PM
#musicchallenge Albums I've had on repeat at some point in my life

Day 14 - Avril Lavigne - Let Go
youtube.com/playlist?lis...
October 5, 2025 at 6:23 PM