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Andrea Isabel López

@andrea-isabel.bsky.social
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#SciComm & #PublicHealth | Public Engagement Strategist @CienciaPR and Science Communication PhD Student @UW-Madison LSC | Boricua 🇵🇷 | www.andreaisabel.com

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Andrea Isabel López @andrea-isabel.bsky.social · 02/12/2025
💙 #GivingTuesday 💙 Today I’m supporting CienciaPR, where every donation fuels community science programs, science education, and reliable information. My goal is $500 and I’ve raised $155 so far. Donate: givebutter.com/xiq2JT/andre... #CienciaBoricua
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Nuestra Ciencia es Cultura
Empoderando a Puerto Rico con Comunicación Científica
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Andrea Isabel López @andrea-isabel.bsky.social · 02/12/2025
💙 #GivingTuesday � Hoy apoya a CienciaPR, donde cada donación impulsa esfuerzos comunitarios, educación científica y acceso a información confiable. Mi meta es $500 y llevo $155. Dona aquí: givebutter.com/xiq2JT/andre... #CienciaBoricua
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Nuestra Ciencia es Cultura
Empoderando a Puerto Rico con Comunicación Científica
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Andrea Isabel López @andrea-isabel.bsky.social · 14/11/2025
I work at CienciaPR, and today I ask for your support to strengthen the mission I live every day. Goal: raise $500 to continue bringing science closer to our people. Donate today! givebutter.com/xiq2JT #CienciaBoricua
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Nuestra Ciencia es Cultura
Empoderando a Puerto Rico con Comunicación Científica
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Andrea Isabel López @andrea-isabel.bsky.social · 14/11/2025
Trabajo en CienciaPR y hoy pido tu apoyo para fortalecer la misión que vivo cada día. Meta: recaudar $500 para continuar acercando la ciencia a nuestra gente. ¡Dona hoy! givebutter.com/xiq2JT #CienciaBoricua
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Nuestra Ciencia es Cultura
Empoderando a Puerto Rico con Comunicación Científica
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Andrea Isabel López @andrea-isabel.bsky.social · 16/09/2025
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Amazon y Bad Bunny construirán una escuela en Puerto Rico
La empresa y el artista urbano sellaron una alianza enmarcada en la serie de conciertos que terminará el sábado próximo
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Andrea Isabel López @andrea-isabel.bsky.social · 13/08/2025
This summer I joined Camino al Altar to talk with religious leaders about bridging science and faith to improve health outcomes in Puerto Rico. Grateful for the conversation. Listen here: open.spotify.com/episode/7ocM...
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Educación en ciencia y comunidad religiosa
Camino al Altar · Episode
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Andrea Isabel López @andrea-isabel.bsky.social · 06/08/2025
Join me Aug 12 at 15:00 CEST / 9 AM EDT / 8 AM CDT for the next @mscl.bsky.social Colloquium. I’ll present findings from Ciencia Puerto Rico's work with community leaders on climate change, extreme heat, and the role of culturally grounded communication. Register: lnkd.in/daB4vzQW
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Andrea Isabel López @andrea-isabel.bsky.social · 01/07/2025
Last Feb, I joined The Spirit of Asilomar summit as a Next Gen Leader. This piece explores conversations that emerged during the event around religion & science, and how to move past that divide to foster more inclusive and responsible biotech. Read here: repository.rice.edu/items/b7d6fb...
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5.5 The Future of Biotechnology: A Show of Good Faith
Religion and biotechnology are often seen as being in conflict, but this narrow view can deepen divisions and alienate communities. Building biotechnology’s future requires learning from the past and ...
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Andrea Isabel López @andrea-isabel.bsky.social · 30/06/2025
Deadline Extended to July 14! The Inclusive and Reflexive Facilitation Fellowship (IRFF) is still accepting applications! This free program supports facilitators and trainers working with scientists to grow inclusive, reflexive practices. Apply by July 14: www.cienciapr.org/irff
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New Program - Inclusive and Reflexive Facilitation Fellowship (IRFF)
Inclusive and Reflexive Facilitation Fellowship (IRFF) is a free new program for career development professionals who support scientists. IRFF will provide facilitators and trainers (or facili-trainer...
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Andrea Isabel López @andrea-isabel.bsky.social · 17/06/2025
¡Ya está abierta la solicitud para la Inclusive and Reflexive Facilitation Fellowship! Programa GRATIS para quienes apoyan el desarrollo profesional de científicos. Mejora tu facilitación, únete a colegas y recibe un estipendio. ¡Solicita antes del 8 de julio 2025! 🔗 www.cienciapr.org/irff
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New Program - Inclusive and Reflexive Facilitation Fellowship (IRFF)
Inclusive and Reflexive Facilitation Fellowship (IRFF) is a free new program for career development professionals who support scientists. IRFF will provide facilitators and trainers (or facili-trainer...
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Andrea Isabel López @andrea-isabel.bsky.social · 17/06/2025
Excited to announce the Inclusive and Reflexive Facilitation Fellowship, a FREE program for career development professionals supporting scientists. Enhance your facilitation skills, join a vibrant peer group, and receive a development stipend. Apply by July 8, 2025! 🔗 www.cienciapr.org/irff
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New Program - Inclusive and Reflexive Facilitation Fellowship (IRFF)
Inclusive and Reflexive Facilitation Fellowship (IRFF) is a free new program for career development professionals who support scientists. IRFF will provide facilitators and trainers (or facili-trainer...
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Andrea Isabel López @andrea-isabel.bsky.social · 16/06/2025
Back from @icahdq.bsky.social, where I shared CienciaPR’s work on how Puerto Rican community leaders are navigating climate change. Also presented on our efforts to make science more culturally relevant, which received a Top Poster Award from the Intercultural Communication Division. Seguimos! 🇵🇷
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Elizabeth Jacobs, PhD @elizabethjacobs.bsky.social · 28/05/2025
RFK Jr. wants to block NIH scientists from publishing in the best medical journals. This is censorship by the United States government. Y’all getting nervous yet? www.politico.com/news/2025/05...
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RFK Jr. threatens to bar government scientists from publishing in leading medical journals
The health secretary said the New England Journal of Medicine, the Journal of the American Medical Association and The Lancet are in bed with pharma.
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Andrea Isabel López @andrea-isabel.bsky.social · 27/05/2025
“A rare move that bypasses the traditional system of vaccine recommendations from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.”
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RFK Jr. ends covid shot recommendation for healthy children, pregnant women
Currently the vaccine is recommended for all people over 6 months of age.
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Reuters @reuters.com · 21/05/2025
FDA tightens requirements for COVID vaccine, adding trials for healthy adults reut.rs/3Sgxhrk
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FDA tightens requirements for COVID vaccine, adding trials for healthy adults
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration on Tuesday said it plans to require new clinical trials for approval of annual COVID-19 boosters for healthy Americans under age 65, effectively limiting them to older adults and those at risk of developing severe illness.
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Apoorva Mandavilli @apoorvanyt.bsky.social · 15/05/2025
RFK Jr. said multiple times during his house and senate hearings today that no scientists have been fired from federal agencies. Our reporting has shown that hundreds, if not thousands, of scientists have been let go from NIH/CDC/FDA
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Dr. David Miller 🏳️‍🌈 @davidimiller.bsky.social · 05/05/2025
🧪 If you had your NSF grant terminated, I'd *highly* recommend going to this Friday's webinar. Friday May 9 at 2-3 pm ET Will talk about both the appeals process, in addition to allowable closeout costs. Share widely. Register here: us02web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
Webinar on Responding to NSF Grant Terminations 

Join the Federation of Associations in Behavioral and Brain Sciences (FABBS) on Friday, May 9th, at 2:00 PM ET for an informative webinar on responding to NSF grant terminations. We will discuss the rules, procedures and available options for grantees who have had their grant terminated.
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Andrea Isabel López @andrea-isabel.bsky.social · 29/04/2025
¿Eres líder comunitaria y te interesa el cambio climático? Te invitamos a unirte a una de tres conversaciones virtuales sobre el impacto del cambio climático en Puerto Rico. Las sesiones se realizarán el 7, 14, y 21 de mayo a las 6PM por Zoom. Puedes registrarte aquí: bit.ly/sesionesCien... .
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Andrea Isabel López @andrea-isabel.bsky.social · 29/04/2025
¿Eres líder comunitaria y te interesa el cambio climático? Te invitamos a unirte a una de tres conversaciones virtuales sobre el impacto del cambio climático en Puerto Rico. Las sesiones se realizarán el 7, 14, y 21 de mayo a las 6PM por Zoom. Puedes registrarte aquí: bit.ly/sesionesCien... .
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Andrea Isabel López @andrea-isabel.bsky.social · 24/04/2025
Thrilled to be back home in Puerto Rico and sharing the incredible work that CienciaPR is doing to uplift science and community!
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Mary Feeney @mkfeeney.bsky.social · 24/04/2025
For the last 3 yrs, I was the director for the Science of Science program at the NSF. We funded projects on science communication - science communication to the public, communication of public priorities to scientists, citizens engagement & participation in science. 🧵
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Megan Zahneis @mzahneis.bsky.social · 19/04/2025
Here's a copy of an NSF grant termination notice that went out today. "NSF is issuing this termination to protect the interests of the government pursuant...on the basis that they no longer effectuate the program goals or agency priorities." Not subject to appeal. #HigherEd #AcademicSky
Text of email: Dear [redacted],

The U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF) has undertaken a review of its award portfolio. Each award was carefully and individually reviewed, and the agency has determined that termination of certain awards is necessary because they are not in alignment with current NSF priorities. Effective immediately, the following are terminated: [redacted]

NSF is issuing this termination to protect the interests of the government pursuant to NSF Grant General Conditions (GC-1) term and condition entitled Termination and Enforcement; on the basis that they no longer effectuate the program goals or agency priorities. This is the final agency decision and not subject to appeal. Costs incurred as a result of this termination may be reimbursed, provided such costs would otherwise be allowable under the terms of the award and the governing cost principles. In accordance with your award terms and conditions, you have 30 days from the termination date to furnish a summary of progress under the award and an itemized accounting of allowable costs incurred prior to the termination date. 

Sincerely, [redacted] Division Director 
Office of Budget Finance and Award Management (BFA) 
Division of Grants and Agreements (DGA)
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Liz Neeley @lizneeley.bsky.social · 03/04/2025
For science communicators at #SciTalk25 just encountering some of these ideas, our colleague @andrea-isabel.bsky.social contributed an introduction to reflexivity in 2023 www.aldacenter.org/thelink/post... (The Link is another helpful resource to bookmark)
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How Reflexivity Can Make You a Better Science Communicator | Alan Alda Center for Communicating Science
The Alan Alda Center for Communicating Science helps professional scientists, researchers, and graduate students to explain their work and its significance clearly and vividly to their target audience...
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Science Magazine @science.org · 27/02/2025
A new White House freeze on using government-issued credit cards is the latest shock for federal scientists, potentially affecting everything from conference travel to needed purchases for clinical care or lab work. scim.ag/4hV9oRb
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Trump credit card freeze sparks alarm at health agencies
“Cost efficiency” order could block travel, supplies for labs and patient care
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Liz Neeley @lizneeley.bsky.social · 08/02/2025
Well. I have been informed that it is the weekend, again. When you are ready to sit down together & figure out what just happened and what to do, we’ve got you: buttondown.com/liminalcreat... It’s also okay if you’re coming in hot! “What the actual fuck??” is a sensible start place at the moment.
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Week 3
Figuring out what to focus on now & what to focus on next in science and higher ed
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Darby Saxbe @darbysaxbe.bsky.social · 04/02/2025
🚨BREAKING. From a program officer at the National Science Foundation, a list of keywords that can cause a grant to be pulled. I will be sharing screenshots of these keywords along with a decision tree. Please share widely. This is a crisis for academic freedom & science.
list of banned keywords
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Liz Neeley @lizneeley.bsky.social · 01/02/2025
The news cycle right now - even just for science & higher ed - is overwhelming. We have to do it, but fortunately, we don’t have to do it alone. My team is focused on tracking what’s happening to research funding, jobs & salaries, shared datasets, university responses & safety of our communities
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Benji Jones @benjij.bsky.social · 28/01/2025
i wrote about something strange happening within the environmental movement — many of its supporters have careened into the far right www.vox.com/climate/3935...
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RFK Jr. and the new far-right environmentalist
Something strange is happening inside the environmental movement.
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Andrea Isabel López @andrea-isabel.bsky.social · 27/01/2025
"NSF reviews grant applications based on two criteria: intellectual merit and broader impacts... a crucial component of those broader impacts relate to increasing the participation of underrepresented groups in the scientific process." Deeply concerning news. Diversity in science in essential.
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Andrea Isabel López @andrea-isabel.bsky.social · 25/01/2025
Great resource! Would love to see Puerto Rico included in these stats—especially since the NIH also supports important work there.
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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 19/01/2025
I was raised in a multi-generational organizing family and I can say with firsthand knowledge that 20th century organizers read theory and they studied history and literature quite closely The need to do that hasn’t changed If studying history isn’t part of your organizing work, change that
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Andrea Isabel López @andrea-isabel.bsky.social · 13/01/2025
I'm thrilled to be featured in the #CivicScienceMeans nanoseries on CivicSciTV's QuickTake program! Want to learn more about civic science? Check out the series here: lnkd.in/edBBXpBG
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Andrea Isabel López @andrea-isabel.bsky.social · 03/12/2024
Let's transform Puerto Rico with science! Help Ciencia Puerto Rico raise $5,000 to continue impacting communities and students. Donate here: YoApoyoCienciaPR.org and share this initiative.
Ciencia Boricua book cover
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Andrea Isabel López @andrea-isabel.bsky.social · 03/12/2024
Let's transform Puerto Rico with science! Help Ciencia Puerto Rico raise $5,000 to continue impacting communities and students. Donate here: YoApoyoCienciaPR.org and share this initiative.
Ciencia Boricua book cover
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Andrea Isabel López @andrea-isabel.bsky.social · 03/12/2024
¡Transformemos Puerto Rico con ciencia! Ayuda a Ciencia Puerto Rico a recaudar $5,000 para continuar impactando comunidades y estudiantes. Dona aquí: YoApoyoCienciaPR.org y comparte esta iniciativa.
Una persona utiliza materiales de ciencia comunitaria del programa Ciencia CoLab.
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Truthout @truthout.org · 02/12/2024
A new peer-reviewed study finds that books by women of color, often featuring diverse characters, are frequent targets.
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Book Bans Overwhelmingly Target Children’s Books by People of Color, Study Finds
A new peer-reviewed study finds that books by women of color, often featuring diverse characters, are frequent targets.
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Andrea Isabel López @andrea-isabel.bsky.social · 27/11/2024
De verdad que no hay sentimiento mas lindo que aterrizar en Puerto Rico
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Andrea Isabel López @andrea-isabel.bsky.social · 25/11/2024
“Robert F. Kennedy Jr. received the most positive reception, as 47% of respondents said Kennedy—controversial due to his vaccine skepticism and support for fringe health theories—is a good choice for Health and Human Services secretary, 34% said he’s not good and 19% said they haven’t heard enough.”
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Conrad Hackett @conradhackett.bsky.social · 24/11/2024
Republican support for school vaccine requirements dropped from 79% in 2019 to 57% in 2023. www.pewresearch.org/science/2023... 🧪🌐
Chart shows a decline in the share of Republicans who support vaccine requirement for children to attend public schools.
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Dr. Merciless NDN Savage @ecohugger.bsky.social · 13/11/2024
Super excited that this amazing book is finally available for preorder. It was written by over 50 Indigenous Peoples from around the world and contains stories, poetry, and critical thought pieces on how TEK is used and extracted from our communities and what folks are doing to protect it.
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Prof Sam Illingworth @samillingworth.com · 18/11/2024
New research in @natureportfolio.bsky.social reveals that intellectual humility boosts trust in scientists & their research. When scientists come across as humble, people trust them more. A reminder of the power of humility in effective #Science🧪 & #Scicomm. Full study: doi.org/10.1038/s415...
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The effect of seeing scientists as intellectually humble on trust in scientists and their research - Nature Human Behaviour
Across five pre-registered studies, Koetke et al. find that perceptions of scientists’ intellectual humility positively affect the perceived trustworthiness of scientists and their research.
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muriahu.bsky.social @muriahu.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
The words we use matter! 💬 Check out this article on using “interest-holders” as a more inclusive alternative to "stakeholders" ⬇️ onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.... #SciComm
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“Interest‐holders”: A new term to replace “stakeholders” in the context of health research and policy
Background Given the colonial connotations of the term “stakeholder”, its continued use may be perceived as disrespectful to Indigenous Peoples. While several groups have introduced alternative term...
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Niels G. Mede @nielsmede.bsky.social · 18/11/2024
Yesterday I created this #starterpack. Unfortunately, it's dominated by Western scholars, whereas much of the important research outside Europe/US is underrepresented... 🌍 So please help me de-Westernize the list and (self)nominate #scicomm scholars from non-Western countries, so I can add them!
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Andrea Isabel López @andrea-isabel.bsky.social · 17/11/2024
“Collaboratively imagining a shared future together, it seems, may be an important first step toward creating it.”
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PlanetaKike @planetakike.bsky.social · 17/11/2024
Del ataúd a la urna
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Andrea Isabel López @andrea-isabel.bsky.social · 16/11/2024
Great resource for anyone thinking of applying to #STEM PhD programs.
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Andrea Isabel López @andrea-isabel.bsky.social · 16/11/2024
“It is not only a question of what constitutes ‘crossing the boundary’ from neutral communication to activism, but also who makes that judgement, and what values are used in doing so. One person’s ‘neutral’ communication can be perceived by another to be activism.”
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Andrea Isabel López @andrea-isabel.bsky.social · 16/11/2024
“Communication is seen as an area of relative weakness for scientists.” 👀 #scicomm
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Public Trust in Scientists and Views on Their Role in Policymaking
Americans’ trust in scientists is slightly higher than it was last year, but remains lower than before the COVID-19 pandemic.
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Cailin O’Connor @cailinmeister.bsky.social · 15/11/2024
I don’t know about “known for” but I was most proud of finishing this
Venn diagram of Backstreet Boys 4 year olds and philosophers
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