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Claire McCarthy
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scientist with a PhD in toxicology | views are my own
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“Music has a alway of finding you, even in the darkest of places”
- #StrangerThings #WednesdayWisdom
Two photos of a teenage girl with long red hair and a brown shirt (one on top and one on the bottom)
December 10, 2025 at 11:57 AM
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“Sometimes, it’s extraordinarily brave just to get up and do ordinary things.” - @charliemackesy1.bsky.social #MondayMotivation
Illustration with a white horse, orange fox, gray mole, and a boy
December 8, 2025 at 12:26 PM
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What do you think of my #KPopDemonHunters inspired #holiday #DoorDecoration? #Moviesky #Musicsky
December 6, 2025 at 3:50 PM
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Post a book you love from the 80s. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.
#BookSky #bookchallenge #readingchallenge #readingcommunity #booktok #bookish #books
Cover of House on Mango Street with an Illustration of a red building with one window. There is a woman with long brown hair and her eyes closed in the window.
November 19, 2025 at 11:21 PM
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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
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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
Image of a field of purple flowers with the following quote: “I think it pisses God off if you walk by the color purple in a field somewhere and don't notice it”
November 5, 2025 at 4:32 PM
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“One day you'll look back and realise how hard it was, and just how well you did.”
@charliemackesy1.bsky.social
#WednesdayWisdom
Illustration of a white horse ridden by a boy and a mole walking next to a fox on the snowy bank of a river
November 5, 2025 at 4:20 PM
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Post a book you love from the 80s. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.
#BookSky #bookchallenge #readingchallenge #readingcommunity #booktok #bookish #books
The Gunslinger book cover with an image of a dark tower in the background and a gunslinger in a cowboy hat, trench coat, and boots with a revolver and a crow in the front
November 4, 2025 at 3:15 PM
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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
Painting showing French people in 1880s clothing along the banks of an island
October 30, 2025 at 3:25 PM
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4 books to get to know me 💙📚✨️
To Kill A Mockingbird book cover with an illustration of a tree Song of Solomon book cover with an illustration of wings Lessons in Chemistry book cover showing the bottom half of a woman wearing a red dress and heels. She is holding a TV like a purse that has a cooking show on the screen. The Covenant of Water book cover with an illustration of a river and a woman kneeling on the river bank
October 28, 2025 at 2:06 PM
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Share a TV show you love with a great Halloween episode. 📺🎃

My choice: Freaks and Geeks
Image of 4 young guys trick or treating. One is dressed in a suit with a mustache, one is the bionic woman, one is the tin man, and one has a fake knife through his head and a flannel shirt.
October 26, 2025 at 5:40 PM
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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
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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
Painting of Soft Shelled Almond Blossoms
October 23, 2025 at 2:29 PM
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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
Painting of the Little Miami River with 3 men fishing in the bank and trees surrounding it
October 21, 2025 at 1:06 PM
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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
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#blueskyartchallenge #art #painting
Painting of Alexander Hamilton
October 19, 2025 at 3:00 PM
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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
Painting of a black woman with lighter skin, long black hair, long gold earrings, wrapped in a white blanket, and with handcuffs
October 18, 2025 at 3:07 PM
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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
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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
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#blueskyartchallenge #art #painting
Painting showing a black woman wearing a black dress and apron giving a child breakfast in a room with rugs, a stove, and a Christmas tree
October 16, 2025 at 4:50 PM
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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
Painting showing the Underground Railroad
October 15, 2025 at 2:17 PM
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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
Painting of a boy with shirt black hair who is whistling
October 14, 2025 at 2:44 PM
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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
Painting of Henrietta Lacks, a black woman wearing a straw hat, a pearl necklace, and a red flower-print dress.
October 13, 2025 at 2:03 PM
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I’m reading Regretting You by Colleen Hoover and started rereading The Covenant of Water by @abrahamverghese.bsky.social for a family book club.
Regretting You book cover with ripped up pieces of paper forming the title The Covenant of Water book cover with an illustration of a river and a woman kneeling on the bank.
October 13, 2025 at 1:55 PM
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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
Fountain Square Pantomime painting showing a crowd enjoying a show at Cincinnati’s fountain square in 1892
October 12, 2025 at 4:01 PM
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#CurrentlyReading The Women by Kristin Hannah: www.goodreads.com/book/show/12...
#booksky 📚💙
The Women book cover with an illustration of a shadow helicopter
October 6, 2025 at 1:22 PM
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#musicchallenge Albums I've had on repeat at some point in my life

Day 14 - Avril Lavigne - Let Go
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Avril Lavigne let go album cover with a photo of a woman with long blonde hair wearing a black shirt and pants in front of a blurred city street with cars and people walking
October 5, 2025 at 6:23 PM