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History of Geology @historyofgeology.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Walter Alvarez, born on this day in 1940, sitting on the Cretaceous-Paleocene boundary in the gorge of Gubbio (Italy) ...

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Dr. Monika Doubrawa @mohnika.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Quick (rethorical) question: where do we currently stand on banning private jets in the EU? ✈️ How is this still a thing? Nobody needs* a private air plane... (*I guess excluding transport for medical and other emergencies)

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Jack Ashby @jackdashby.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Rock hyraxes have miniature tusk-like incisors (they are related to elephants), which come in handy for scratching those itches. #MammalWatching #SouthAfrica

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Science Magazine @science.org · 05/10/2026

Exclusive: A new analysis refutes James Watson’s claim that he was the first to recognize the significance of the famed photograph 51. scim.ag/4rTKck8

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How did Rosalind Franklin miss the helix in her iconic DNA image? She didn’t

New analysis refutes James Watson’s claim he was first to recognize significance of famed photograph 51

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Sophie Boerman @crocsophie.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

🌊🐊 Were some of the earliest crocodylians venturing into the sea? 🦴 For our new paper in Palaeontology, we CT-scanned three skulls of “thoracosaurs” and found clues for a shallow-marine lifestyle in these enigmatic critters. ➡ doi.org/10.1111/pala... ️📖

A thoracosaur crocodylian hunting for fish in a colorful, biodiverse lagoonal ecosystem

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Julien Kimmig @jkimmig.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Last chance to apply for the postdoc in paleontology. www.smnk.de/museum/aussc... 2 years, funded through DFG project #paleontology #jobs #fossilfriday #palaeontology #museum #fossils

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Paleontologist (Postdoc) (m/f/d)

Staatliches Museum für Naturkunde Karlsruhe

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Robert Sansom @fossilrob.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Maybe Reddit isn’t quite a dumpster fire

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Dr. Monika Doubrawa @mohnika.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Congratulations, interesting to read! (this manuscript is perfectly in time. I am currently sitting on an exhibition object, which deals with the U1333/U1334 cores and the EOT). ((Sidenote (I can't message you), if still adjustable: the stratigraphic in Fig 1-3 seem to have shifted / vanished))

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Bart⚓️ @bartgonnissen.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

The Facial Expressions of Tethys by artist Julius von Bismarck. A suspended high-sea buoy that moves in real time. Sensors on a twin buoy out in the Atlantic Ocean send live satellite data to motors inside the museum. This makes the indoor buoy copy the exact, real-time movements of the ocean waves.

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depths of wikipedia @depthsofwikipedia.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

when i mention "claude" you can assume i'm talking about the albino alligator not the llm

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Kees van der Leun @sustainable2050.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Glaciologist @matthias-huss.bsky.social shows that the centre of the Great Aletsch glacier in Switzerland (the biggest in the Alps) lost 6 meters(!) of thickness just this summer. "No words...", he adds on LinkedIn.

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Dr. Monika Doubrawa @mohnika.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

I love DSDP / ODP / IODP but finding and correlating data and especially core depths & pictures across years, authors and publications is a bit of a nightmare. 🧪🚢

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Elizabeth Beston @elizabethbeston.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

What a beautiful foraminifera! #marineplankton 🦑

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Alfred Wegener Institute @awi.de · 10/09/2026

A Year in the Ice: The Tara Polar Station has begun its drift through the central Arctic!🧊🐻‍❄️On 9 September, the Tara Polar Station, reached its ice floe. From there, it will drift with the sea ice across the Arctic Ocean for a year. AWI scientist Julia Regnery is on board. www.awi.de/en/about-us/...

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Dr Alex Bond @thelabandfield.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

In 2011, one chick held the record for most plastic ever found in the species: 276 pieces, 64g. We thought that was as bad as it could get. We were wrong. The record fell in 2023. Fell again in 2024. Then in 2025: 894 pieces in a single chick. (Photo: worst chicks in 2010, 2015, 2021, 2025)

Photographs of plastic on a black background from the most affected shearwater chick in 2010 (A; maybe 20 cm2), 2015 (B; maybe 20 cm2), 2021 (C; now 15x20 cm) and 2025 (30x20 cm)

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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Imagine if the media took the words of climate scientists as seriously as it does that rando from Anthropic… Air pollution and climate change from fossil fuel use are literally killing millions of people every year, but sure, let’s focus on the idiocy that “AI is going to kill everyone in 10”.

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franz @franzanth.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

I don't think I've ever posted these posters together as a set, so here's a first. Wonders of the Deep series, commissioned by the International Seabed Authority between 2020-2022 to celebrate the fragile biodiversity of deep sea. Not for sale. #Art #SciArt

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Dr. Monika Doubrawa @mohnika.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

I was ver excited when I got the chance to spend some time at Zumaia 🦖 - might have taken quite some time to find the PETM layer which is not marked (with a very patient co-traveller trying his best to help).

photo of a coastal section with a beach, the rocks of the cliffs are thinnly layered

photo of a sign marking the Global Boundary Stratotype Section and Point of the Zumaia Section

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Dr. Monika Doubrawa @mohnika.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

Riedglacier (Riedgletscher) in Switzerland: On the left a photo from July 2013 ( (c) Günter Seggebäing (de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bordier...), on the right my picture August 2026, view from the Klein Bigerhorn.

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Dr. Monika Doubrawa @mohnika.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

Dear students, I want to read you - your struggling sentences, and your brilliant ones, your weird grammer, you rhtoughts and your (few) typos. I don't want to read the polished, blown-up over-complicated thing AI made out of you. Take the time to craft your work, and I take the time to read it.

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Dan Silverman @dmsilverman.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

I‘m far from an AI doomer, but it is amazing how many serious voices — on LinkedIn, no less! — are sharing stories about how AI slop is quickly becoming one of the top problems they see in academic writing and research “AI will 10x our research!” doesn’t seem to be surviving encounters with reality

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Julien Kimmig @jkimmig.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

Welcome to the CAMBRIAN FECAL REVOLUTION. We didn't name it the Cambrian fecal explosion for obvious reasons. I'm happy to share this paper on fecal matter and its role in Cambrian ecosystems. So if you want to read a really shitty paper (50 days free access): authors.elsevier.com/a/1nYg8cZ3X7...

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Volker Quaschning @volkerquaschning.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

Die #Klimakrise setzt Europas Stromversorgung unter Druck. Wegen Kühlwassermangels müssen fossile und #Kernkraftwerke gedrosselt werden. #Windkraft und #Photovoltaik brauchen dagegen kein Kühlwasser. Gut, dass Deutschland auf erneuerbare Energien setzt.

Länder, die Kraftwerke wegen Hitze und Dürre gedrosselt oder abgeschaltet haben

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Gavin Buckingham @handle.invalid · 05/08/2026

New Yorker cartoon feels about right

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Dr. Monika Doubrawa @mohnika.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

Cool place with cool photos (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bulverket) - and a cool project (memeland.no).

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Bulverket - Wikipedia

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Mika McKinnon @mikamckinnon.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

Halite shows up without requiring life in the evolution of minerals. Meanwhile, halite is a highly effective trap that may capture evidence of early life: pubs.geoscienceworld.org/sepm/jsedres... So… yeah, plausible.

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It’s a trap!: Modern and ancient halite as Lagerstätten | Journal of Sedimentary Research | GeoScienceWorld

ABSTRACT. Chemical sediments, such as bedded halite (NaCl), are strongly influenced by environmental conditions during deposition and, if unaltered, may

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Dr. Monika Doubrawa @mohnika.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

Actual climate change impacts don't do anything, but at least the money does... Short flights like that should not be a thing anymore in 2026 (theres a <3h train connecting the cities) - together with private jets.

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Kees van der Leun @sustainable2050.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

Five days ago, the Rhine - at the point where it enters the Netherlands - reached its lowest level ever recorded: 6.47 meter above sea level. Now it's at 6.35 m.

Graph showing decrease in water level over past 28 days, from 7.40 to 6.35

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Dr. Monika Doubrawa @mohnika.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

Most likely: both pretend nothing is happening and continue as is

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Dr. Monika Doubrawa @mohnika.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

Newsstories like this make me wonder what will happen first: - farmers stop voting for conservative/rightwing parties who negate climate change or - conservative/rightwing parties finally start working agains climate change, as it costs them too much ooe.orf.at/stories/3365...

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Dürre: Milchbauern fordern rasche Hilfe

Die Wiesen sind braun, das Gras wächst kaum noch. Auf vielen Bauernhöfen wird bereits Futter verfüttert, das für den Winter vorgesehen war. Heimische Milchbauern geraten zunehmend unter Druck und ford...

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Dr. Monika Doubrawa @mohnika.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

Like other comments say: set up Rules with common phrases those journals use & send it directly to junk. It takes some time, but eventually you can build up a working sieve - I have yet to miss a legit (journal)-email.

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Petra Korlević @petrathepostdoc.bsky.social · 06/11/2025

4 years of #invertober #SciArt goobers you know what, from going through 3-4 months of one of my worst art blocks ever to an outpouring of art 2025 was overall a good art year #HumanMade #noAI #invertebrates

a collage of 32 invertebrates in a 7x5 grid, with a list of their latin names in the middle. there are beetles, millipedes, squids, butterflies, shrimp, slugs, crabs, jellifish, starfish, grasshoppers, leaf bugs, caterpillars, nautiluses, scorpions, damselflies, mussels, velvet worm, peacock spider, isopod, mantis, mosquito
the text (white on black) in the middle:
INVERTOBER 2022

1 | Chrysina beyeri
2 | Archispirostreptus gigas
3 | Oryctes nasicornis
4 | Sepioteuthis lessoniana
5 | Battus philenor
6 | Lysmata amboinensis
7 | Cicadella viridis
8 | Ariolimax columbianus
9 | Mnemiopsis leidyi
10 | Ocypode quadrata
11 | Junonia coenia
12 | Romalea microptera
13 | Patiria miniata
14 | Polyura athamas
15 | Pulchriphyllium giganteum
16 | Allonautilus scrobiculatus
17 | Antheraea yamamai
18 | Centruroides sculpturatus
19 | Enallagma cyathigerum
20 | Platycotis vittata
21 | Chalcosoma atlas
22 | Mytilus edulis
23 | Estigmene acrea
24 | Opisthopatus roseus
25 | Greta oto
26 | Maratus volans
27 | Peponapis pruinosa
28 | Acraga coa
29 | Armadillidium maculatum
30 | Typophyllum erosum
31 | Phyllocrania paradoxa
extra | Anopheles gambiae

a collage of 32 invertebrates in a 7x5 grid, with a list of their latin names in the middle. there are beetles, bees, ants, snails, octopus, flies, crabs, moths, isopods, grasshoppers, slugs, flatworms, jellyfish, mantis, spider, wasp, scorpion, starfish, clam, leaf bug, cuttlefish, millipede, dragonfly, mosquito
the text (white on black) in the middle:
INVERTOBER 2023

1 | Thermonectus marmoratus
2 | Megachile leachella
3 | Wasmannia auropunctata
4 | Papustyla pulcherrima
5 | Diaprepes abbreviatus
6 | Amphioctopus marginatus
7 | Syrphus ribesii
8 | Hepatus epheliticus
9 | Deilephila elpenor
10 | Magicicada septendecim
11 | Drosophila melanogaster
12 | Pentidotea resecata
13 | Melanoplus devastator
14 | Glaucus atlanticus
15 | Libelloides macaronius
16 | Pseudoceros ferrugineus
17 | Morpho peleides
18 | Lucanus capreolus
19 | Phyllorhiza punctata
20 | Mantis religiosa
21 | Thomisus onustus
22 | Dasymutilla occidentalis
23 | Heterometrus spinifer
24 | Danaus chrysippus
25 | Protoreaster nodosus
26 | Siphanta acuta
27 | Chlamys islandica
28 | Sepioloidea lineolata
29 | Scolopendra polymorpha
30 | Limax maximus
31 | Celithemis eponina
extra | Sabethes sp.

a collage of 31 invertebrates in a 7x5 grid, with a list of their latin names in the middle. there are lanternbugs, butterflies, cephalopods, jellyfish, flies, spiders, wasps, flatworms, ants, chnidarians, beetles, crabs, bees, snails, isopods, sea slugs, sponges, sea cucumbers, and bottom right occupying two spaces a horseshoe crab with a long tail.
the text (white on black) in the middle:
Invertober 2025

1 | Fulgora laternaria
2 | Siproeta stelenes
3 | Sepia officinalis
4 | Cotylorhiza tuberculata
5 | Bombylius major
6 | Brachypelma smithi
7 | Chrysis ignita
8 | Bipalium choristosperma
9 | Nothomyrmecia sp.
10 | Radianthus magnifica
11 | Goliathus goliatus
12 | Macrocheira kaempferi
13 | Bombus pratorum
14 | Monadenia infumata
15 | Argema mittrei
16 | Armadillidium gestroi
17 | Lampyris noctiluca
18 | Chromodoris annae
19 | Aplysina fistularis
20 | Coccinella trifasciata
21 | Histioteuthis heteropsis
22 | Neotibicen linnei
23 | Eristalis flavipes
24 | Hierodula membranacea
25 | Tachypleus gigas
26 | Chicobolus spinigerus
27 | Kiwa hirsuta
28 | Synchlora aerata
29 | Phidippus audax
30 | Parastichopus johnsoni
31 | Gecarcinus quadratus

7x5 grid on a black background of 32 invertebrates, from jellyfish, leafhoppers, anemones, weevils, lobsters, moths, snails, flies, cuttlefish, worms, spiders, clams, spiders, caterpillars, isopods, flatworms, nudibranch, dragonflies, ticks, centipedes, sea urchins, lacewings, squid, mosquitoes
in the middle are their latin names in white text:
INVERTOBER 2025

1 | Chrysaora pacifica
2 | Graphocephala coccinea
3 | Anthopleura xanthogrammica
4 | Rhynchophorus cruentatus
5 | Panulirus versicolor
6 | Phalera bucephala
7 | Chrysomallon squamiferum
8 | Mallophora fautrix
9 | Ascarosepion pfefferi
10 | Lumbricus terrestris
11 | Dolomedes tenebrosus
12 | Siliqua patula
13 | Camponotus consobrinus
14 | Eunice aphroditois
15 | Ornithoptera alexandrae
16 | Bathynomus giganteus
17 | Pseudoceros concinnus
18 | Sceliphron caementarium
19 | Vampyroteuthis infernalis
20 | Velella velella
21 | Libellula saturata
22 | Clione limacina
23 | Cicindela albissima
24 | Perna canaliculus
25 | Scutigera coleoptrata
26 | Jorunna parva
27 | Dermacentor variabilis
28 | Chrysopa perla
29 | Mesocentrotus franciscanus
30 | Anoplognathus pallidicollis
31 | Acherontia atropos
extra | Aedes aegypti

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Dr. Monika Doubrawa @mohnika.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

Indeed, it needs the EU to push that further. There is some movement at the moment bsky.app/profile/lena... - we shall see (and hope)

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Dr. Monika Doubrawa @mohnika.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

Travelling to #Paleo4Alps by train - requires 5 different train tickets from 3 different companies (countries): two I have to print out, two I only get on my phone. Ca. 400 km in one direction = ca. 9hs train-time (in the best of times). So... who else is coming?

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Dr. Monika Doubrawa @mohnika.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

Lovely paragneiss / mica-shist fold in Ticino.

Photo of a thinly layered paragness sequence, layers leading from the front of the picture to the back, with a nice fold on the left side. This picture was taken high up in the mountains, with mostly rocky surroundings and a bit of greenery inbetween.

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Simon Kuestenmacher @simongerman600.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

This clever map shows us what time it is across the world, which regions are awake, working or sleeping, all rotating in sync with the Earth. Go to the source where the image only rotates by 3.75 degrees every 15 minutes to remain up to date. Source: buff.ly/tyQ2Z3g

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Asterix Archiv 🐗 @comedix.de · 14/07/2026

Carpe momentum – das Zitat des Augenblicks: "Kuckuck!" - "Die gehen mir langsam auf den Wecker mit ihrer Pünktlichkeit!" Seewirt und Gote in #Asterix bei den Schweizern, Seite 28. 2023 waren 92,5 Prozent der Züge in der Schweiz pünktlich. #Bahn

Der Seewirt ruft mitten in der Nacht in seiner Taverne "Kuckuck!" und ein Gast wacht kurz auf, damit er die Sanduhr umdrehen kann.

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Dr. Monika Doubrawa @mohnika.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

Nice, success with those samples!

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Dr. Monika Doubrawa @mohnika.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

I have only experience with limestones, but I would refer you to this thread: www.researchgate.net/post/How_to_... Speijer, Hesemann, Ferre's answers if weak acids do not do the trick.

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How to extract foraminifera from hard limestone rock samples? | ResearchGate

Read 9 answers by scientists to the question asked by Swagata Chaudhuri on Oct 11, 2023

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Prof. Stefan Rahmstorf @rahmstorf.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

Btw. I'm not aware of any models suggesting a "sudden collapse" of the #AMOC. The very serious real risk is that it soon passes a point of no return (tipping point) where it becomes unstable and it shutting down over 50-100 years becomes practically unstoppable. www.independent.co.uk/life-style/c...

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We’re in a heatwave, so why is a ‘cold blob’ in the Atlantic causing so much concern?

A large expanse of the North Atlantic ocean has been bucking the global warming trend and it is alarming scientists who warn the collapse of the AMOC ocean current could be catastrophic for the planet...

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Randall Munroe @xkcd.com · 02/07/2026

Asteroid Threat xkcd.com/3265/

Comic. [Two images of Earth, one centered on Africa, with a dotted line behind, and the other in the foreground with a target marked in the Indian Ocean.] [caption] Dire news: An asteroid is on course to hit the Earth exactly *opposite* the Yucatán Peninsula, bringing *back* the dinosaurs.

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fangy @jeannesfangs.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

witnessing the birth of a new all timer post is such a beautiful thing

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Dr. Monika Doubrawa @mohnika.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

Oh that looks promising on the first glance thank you! Access is for now a secondary issue, we mostly need core scans/pictures to work from, so there should be a way for that.

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Dr. Monika Doubrawa @mohnika.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

I can't say anythin about observatories - but keeping in mind the time-lenght issue, probably rather not (at least not with that purpose). If you are interested in pictures IODP/ODP/DSDP core scans you can find here: iodp.tamu.edu/database/cor... (but you need to know which core you want).

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Core Photographs and Digital Images

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Dr. Monika Doubrawa @mohnika.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

thank you :) Indeed that would be the next step, but in the best case I have somewhat of an idea what or where (site and time wise) to look for.

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Dr. Monika Doubrawa @mohnika.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

as @barrygoldman1.bsky.social noted correctly, shorter than 100k year suggestions are also very welcomed also good, I expect that there does not exist the perfect segment for our purposes, but a woman can dream

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