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Dr. Morrigan Nolan 🏳️‍⚧️

@morrisonnolanpaleo.bsky.social
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Researcher, Teacher, Lab Manager. Research Scientist at Virginia Tech. Ediacaran-Cambrian Paleobiogeochemistry, esp stable isotopes.

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Admirable Women @admirablewomen.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
Mary Golda Ross is the first-known #NativeAmerican female engineer & a key pioneer of the US Space Race. #WorldSpaceWeek🚀 A citizen of the Cherokee Nation, she spent >3 decades performing aerospace design & engineering work laying the groundwork for modern interplanetary exploration. #WomenInSTEM 🧵
A black-and-white, profile-angle photograph of Mary Golda Ross (1908–2008), the first known Native American female engineer and a key pioneer of the American Space Race, working at her drafting table. Seated and facing left, Ross rests her forearms on a large drafting surface covered in technical drawings and mathematical graphs. She holds a pencil in her right hand and holds up a sheet of paper with her left, seemingly reviewing complex flight paths or rocket designs. She wears a dark, short-sleeved blouse featuring a light-colored collar, a wrist watch on her left arm, and prominent rounded earrings. Her dark hair is styled neatly away from her face, which carries an expression of quiet focus and intellect. Scattered across the workspace are precision drafting tools, including rulers, a t-square, a technical compass, and an ink well, while a mechanical drafting arm anchors the foreground. The plain paneled walls create a minimalist office environment. The overall mood is serious and professional, highlighting a foundational Indigenous woman in mid-century aerospace engineering.
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Dr. Morrigan Nolan 🏳️‍⚧️ @morrisonnolanpaleo.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
I recently got back from fieldwork with Dr.s @egmitchell.bsky.social, Tory Botha , @yarongliu.bsky.social, and Phil Wilby. This was my first time visiting Newfoundland. It was wonderful to visit these sites and do fieldwork on Avalonian Material!
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Dr. Morrigan Nolan 🏳️‍⚧️ @morrisonnolanpaleo.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Very excited to have joined the @deeptimeecology.bsky.social Group working with @egmitchell.bsky.social at @camzoology.bsky.social ! As a research technician, I will be processing data for analysis of Ediacaran Community Ecology!
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Alex Wild @alexwild.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Another museum in trouble
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Skye McDavid @skyemcdavid.com · 04/09/2026
Anthropic stole TEN books written by my late grandfather. My grandmother to this day receives the occasional royalties check from publishers. But Anthropic, a TRILLION-dollar company, just shrugs and steals to regrind it into slop.
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Sarah McAnulty, Ph.D. @sarahmackattack.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Attention Philadelphia! We're hosting a rally to demand that Drexel University maintain The Academy of Natural Sciences Museum open to the public. Join us on Tuesday morning at 10am in front of the academy. Please spread the word, we need all hands on deck! RSVP here: luma.com/1qwnrqz2
A dinosaur on a white background with the text SAve the academy of Natural sciences museum rally Tuesday Sept 8 10am in front of the academy 1900 ben Franklin Parkway. "Tell Drexel University "Keep the museum open!" with the logos for Philly Science Action, Skype a Scientist, and Green Philly
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Dr. Morrigan Nolan 🏳️‍⚧️ @morrisonnolanpaleo.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
I am quite heartened to see @societyofvertpaleo.bsky.social is continuing legal efforts to fight the Trump administration's attack on Bear's Ears National Monument vertpaleo.org/svp-sues-the...
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Dr. Morrigan Nolan 🏳️‍⚧️ @morrisonnolanpaleo.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
I am deeply saddened by the impeding closure of the Academy of Natural Sciences public Museum. In 2024 I wanted terribly to see the Tiktaalik holotype while it was in the US. My first attempted to drive to Philly, my car’s engine blew out and my hopes were scuppered. ansp.org/learn/Journa...
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changing-the-future-of-the-academy
The Academy of Natural Sciences will be closing its museum at the end of September, but preserving its research and collections mission.
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GeophotoMarli @marlimiller.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
Preparing an Earth Sci or Geog course for fall? Please check out geologypics.com. There, find >5500 searchable captioned photos for free download to promote good instruction. Just uploaded 60 new photos I shot from this year-- coastal to desert, rocks to landforms. Please share! #teaching #geology
six colorful Earth Science photos: melange, cross-bedding, differential erosion, soft-sediment deformation, desert varnish, Oregon Coast
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Nate O @nateo.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
I don’t mean to put Sasha on the spot here, and he correctly identifies this as such; it’s just that we do not have to have this conversation. We need to eat the frame bsky.app/profile/sash...
WRONG
- negating their frame reinforces it
- starts with what it isn't, instead of what it is
- your argument is shaped like their argument
autism is bad
FACT CHECK! autistic people are productive members of society
autism
THEY'RE DOING
EUGENICS
RIGHT
- you eat their frame
- starts with what's actually happening
- contains and explains what they're doing
- your argument is shaped like kirby
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Adrienne Mayor @amayor.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
Have you ever seen baby Griffins and Chimeras? Toddler and teenage Satyrs? Infant Centaurs and Minotaurs? download my article on "Baby Monsters" www.academia.edu/172123553/Ba...
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Dr. Fim @fim.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
Ansel Adams on assignment for IBM - one of my favourite shots. Not the usual landscape but the skill of a woman weaving magnetic core memory. The beat up nails captures total “woman in STEM” vibes.
A woman with extremely short painted nails weaving magnetic core memory. A series of rows and columns of wires in a grid.
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Louie Zong @everydaylouie.bsky.social · 26/05/2025
ancient friends
a stylized 3d render of a kid drawing at a table, surrounded by ancient fish and sea creatures of the devonian and silurian.
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Shoji Nishimoto / 西本昌司 @nishimoto.rocks · 20/08/2026
A big hexagonal cross-section of quartz observed at a pegmatite outcrop in Hamada, Shimane, Japan.
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Steven J. Gibbons @stevenjgibbons.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
In the continuing onslaught of in-your-face AI, it is now almost impossible to open a scientific paper without an AI-summary coming up. Your first instinct may be “Ah that is useful”, but is it really close to the truth or what the author intended? (contd. - full "rant" on lnkd.in/p/euwbwNgY)
Snapshot of how the article “Improvements to Seismic Monitoring of the European Arctic Using Three-Component Array Processing at SPITS“ by S. J. Gibbons et al. (https://doi.org/10.1785/0120110109) appears on line with an AI-generated summary. The author has highlighted each of the highlights listed by the AI with criticism to how useful it is, even to the point of distracting from the true key points.
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Cay @caymanwent.bsky.social · 01/05/2026
Repost to make it die faster
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Amypteride🏳️‍⚧️🔻🕷🦂 @amypteride.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
And yall can thank @jopabinia.bsky.social for talking so well about carcinisation often, it was the final push to create this beautiful absurdity of a carcinised eurypterid xD Thanks for reading/watching and I'll see you on the next #Cheliceratime! 3/3
The animal drawn looks like a crab but with folded and forwarded pincer claws, huge dragonfly-like eyes and an boxy abdomen behind it
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Metin Seven, Moon Child's dad 🌝 @seven.eurosky.social · 18/08/2026
Social media post, describing a routine…

> turns on my computer
> disables a new Al feature that was turned on by default
> opens my email
> disables a new Al feature that was turned on by default
> launches a software
> disables a new Al fea
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Jen Rice @jenrice.bsky.social · 04/06/2026
I am obsessed with this finalist in this year's Michigan “I voted” sticker design contest
Cat saying "I voted now let me sleep"
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Steven J. Gibbons @stevenjgibbons.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
The abstract should tell you what you really need to know. Please read what the authors have written and not what interpretation an LLM gives it. (4/n)
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Dr. Davey F. Wright ⛏️🦕🧬 @daveyfwright.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
Bleak but not hopeless (yet). Trends in AI-focused vs collections-based NSF funding
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Darren Naish @tetzoo.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
Ok, time for a thread about what I saw yesterday at #CrystalPalace. As you can see, just about everything has been repaired and re-painted, and in places (like the previously misidentified Xiphodon) re-positioned. It looks fantastic and you have to check it out, even if you've visited before...
View of some of Crystal Palace models from top of the hill.3D print of pterosaur head being held in front of actual models way back in the distance, Iguanodon at left.Darren and Megalosaurus.Local mural on side of building celebrating Crystal Palace prehistoric animals. Art by Nacho Welles.
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Petra Korlević @petrathepostdoc.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
If you see this, post your marine-themed art! oldie #SciArt portrait for @zoologistedel.bsky.social
A5 format drawing of a sailboat with blue sails, on a teal sky with clouds and a cutout of the sea below all the way to the bottom of the sea. A person with glasses and wavy blond hair with an octopus tshirt is on the boat looking down into the sea at a concerned octopus, next to it is a starfish showing off its booty, and next to it a dumbo octopus. on the boat there is also a mosquito and a cool octopus with sunglasses. on the sailboat pole a confused koala sits while a hoverfly stares at it. the colors of all creatures range from yellow, through orange, to red.
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Will Tattersdill @tattersdill.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
So here we go then: the result of many years thinking about how dinosaurs make science and the imagination work together. It's written for both literary critics and scientists and my dearest hope is that it will help foster an academy where we talk to each other more
Photo of a copy of 'The Social Dinosaur', out now from Bloomsbury omg
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Howard Lee @hlee.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
"The authors found that the PETM was marked by widespread browning of Earth's landscapes. Against a backdrop of elevated atmospheric CO₂, global warming and reduced rainfall" ⚒️🧪 phys.org/news/2026-08...
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Paleontologists reconstruct forests of 56 million years ago with chilling parallels for our warming planet
If you want to know how rapidly pumping carbon dioxide into the atmosphere will affect future forest ecosystems, you have to look into the distant past. The researchers behind a new study published in...
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Elaine Burke @elaineburke.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
"If you were surprised by people using Meta’s smart glasses to harass and covertly film women on the street, then you quite simply haven’t been paying attention. This kind of tech-enabled abuse is commonplace, and it is predominantly aimed at women." www.irishtimes.com/technology/2...
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Women continue to bear the brunt of bad tech decisions
Meta’s smart glasses are just the latest example of technology being used in ways developers should have anticipated
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Dr. Morrigan Nolan 🏳️‍⚧️ @morrisonnolanpaleo.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
Between this post and several of his replies, I both disagree with his view, and am also reminded: I am an academic at a stage in my career where I move frequently. At my previous position, I had a 2 year contract at a small uni. I try to stay very politically involved, so I follow elections ...
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They/Thempress of The Labyrinth @theythem.press · 25/07/2026
isabel fall was right, btw: “And the moment [queer activists’] work reached a usable stage—the moment society was ready to accept plastic gender, and scientists were ready to manipulate it—the military found a new resource…the military can make gender tactical.”
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Judge orders Hegseth to explain US military’s new testosterone policy
Court questions plan to offer male hormone treatment to cisgender troops while denying it to trans service members
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Dr Alex Fitzpatrick @animalarchaeology.com · 12/08/2026
📜 If you’re a museum professional or researcher interested in heritage science, I’ll be speaking at the Heritage Science for Museum Professionals Conference next month in Liverpool! 🧪 www.liverpool.ac.uk/archaeology-...
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Heritage Science for Museum Professionals Conference | Department of Archaeology, Classics and Egyptology | University of Liverpool
Heritage Science for Museum Professionals is a new initiative funded by the National Museums Liverpool Collaboration Fund. The project aims to make analytical science more accessible to museum and her...
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ursiday @ursiday.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
The beetle on my cat's head
Digital illustration of a Goliath beetle with the colors of a tortoiseshell tabby catPhoto of the back of a longhair torbie cat's head with a similar pattern to the beetle in the previous image
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Natalia (娜塔莉) @wrycritic.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
Metal (or sedimentary) rocks. Did you know, bats roosting in caves, led to generational accumulations of fossilised bat remains. There are entire rocks, composed almost entirely of fossilized dead bat bodies. 📍Late Quaternary Carlsbad Cavern, New Mexico
"Accumulation of skulls and disarticulated skeletons of bats" from https://www.caves.org/wp-content/uploads/Publications/JCKS/v87/87_4_265.pdf
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Howard Lee @hlee.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
Jack Hills Zircon dated to 4.404 billion years old, right around the time the Moon itself finished crystallizing ⚒️ spacedaily.com/t-a-zircon-c...
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A zircon crystal small enough to sit on a fingertip, found in the Jack Hills of Western Australia, has been dated to 4.404 billion years old, right around the same moment a 2025 study says the Moon it...
A speck of ancient Earth and our newborn Moon may have formed within moments of each other, upending how scientists understand the young solar system's violent beginning.
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Benjamin Tausig @burrata.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
It was a lot of adjusting, and I just hope it'll buy me a few years of being able to run the class more or less normally before the tech gets even creepier (I'm not going to say "better").
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Grand Admiral Shaun Duke @shaunduke.net · 11/08/2026
This is a sentiment I am hearing all over in academia. Most of the fixes to limit AI use make courses less accessible and less suitable for online education. Lots of folks trying to avoid it because they don't want accessibility to die.
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Cephalopods Daily @cephalopodsdaily.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
I can only hope to be as cool as this octopus one day... 🐙📷Dave Maass (@maassive.bsky.social)
A Larger Pacific striped octopus standing in a tank with two arms with its suckers visible. It is leaning on a plastic tube with two of its arms, and its striped mantle is drooping down, facing the camera. One arm is reaching back behind the mantle and is curled, making it look like the octopus is deep in thought.
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The Geologists' Association @geolassoc.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
'James Hutton and the Restless Earth' is an interesting documentary by Karine Polwart, Dave Milligan & Pippa Murphy, which weaves together the thoughts of Angus Millar, Professor David Farrier & Ilana Halperin plus music specially created for the programme ⏰19.15 BST Sunday 9th August, BBC Radio 4
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Callan Bentley @callanbentley.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
Lime and cherry flavored amygdules in Mid-continent Rift basalts.⚒️
Pale green spots with dark centers surrounded by dark gray rock. Fingertips for scale White spots bordered by red in a black rock. Viewed through a hand lens
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O w l l i e 🦉 @eternowllie.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
Google's AI seems to be able and willing to divulge private and personal information stored on users' Google Drives and such. Screenshots taken from here: www.reddit.com/r/IndieDev/s...
Reddit user KlubKofta: A player found out the ACTUAL name of my game's upcoming character from the Google Search AI - I has never told the name to anyone.

See more at: https://www.reddit.com/r/IndieDev/s/3qoLQczWfmScreenshots taken from here: https://www.reddit.com/r/IndieDev/s/3qoLQczWfmScreenshots taken from here: https://www.reddit.com/r/IndieDev/s/3qoLQczWfmScreenshots taken from here: https://www.reddit.com/r/IndieDev/s/3qoLQczWfm
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Sophie M. @sophiesaurus98.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
Let’s work together to make a better future where AI is universally understood to mean Allosaurus Images.
Skeletal mount of Allosaurus fragilis, looming menacingly towards the viewer.
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Our Public Lands & Waters @publiclandswaters.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
The destruction of the Rio Grande in Big Bend National Park has begun. #bigbend #nationalparks #publiclands #protectpubliclands #bigbendnationalpark
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The Bulldozers Have Arrived in Big Bend National Park
Contractors are grading roads and surveying the Rio Grande corridor even as lawmakers, outfitters, and residents plead for basic answers about a $1.7 billion border barrier project
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Andy Farke @andyfarke.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
Paleontology trivia with Andy: 1) Annually, the NFL hires more quarterbacks than US museums hire dinosaur paleontology curators. 2) We know more about the osteology of T. rex than we do about the osteology of the most common lizard in suburban southern California, the western fence lizard.
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yaoi gagarin @mel.bzky.team · 05/08/2026
me impulse ordering indian takeout when im hungry
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Mike Riverso @mikeriverso.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
As an educator, no, really, I’m pretty anti-AI in most cases. That offloading of mental load means intentionally deskilling yourself, removing yourself from being an active participant in your own life, and isn’t even trustworthy.
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404 Media @404media.co · 04/08/2026
“DO NOT MENTION ALPR USAGE TO THE OCCUPANTS OF THE VEHICLE. DO NOT MENTION ALPR USAGE IN YOUR REPORT OR COMPLAINT."
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‘DO NOT MENTION ALPR USAGE’: How Cops Are Trying to Hide the Existence of Flock
“DO NOT MENTION ALPR USAGE TO THE OCCUPANTS OF THE VEHICLE. DO NOT MENTION ALPR USAGE IN YOUR REPORT OR COMPLAINT."
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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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Fossillocator @fossillocator.bsky.social · 01/08/2026
Hey @coastalpaleo.bsky.social saw some whales at the Virginia Tech geosciences museum
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EMILY WILSON @emilyrcwilson.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
No professional accomplishment has ever made me happier than this. theonion.com/translator-o...
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Translator Of Original ‘Minions’ Epic Poem Slams ‘Sexless, Bloodless’ Film Adaptation
PHILADELPHIA—In a 4,500-word essay published in Harper’s Magazine, Emily Wilson, known for her popular translation of the Minions epic poem, blasted the latest film Thursday as a “sexless, bloodless” ...
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Leah McElrath @leahmcelrath.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
Google is creating an epistemological crisis.
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Tom Sharpe @tomsharperocks.bsky.social · 26/07/2026
It's been a while, but it's always worth posting that the famous tongue-twister 'She sells sea shells' has NOTHING to do with Mary Anning, as was shown by folklorist Stephen Winick. He found the first connection comes from 1977, but it seems to date from a 1975 book. blogs.loc.gov/folklife/201...
Left, portrait of Mary Anning wearing a green cloak and straw bonnet, holding a hammer and with a basket over her arm; top centre, title page of an 1855 book, Letters and Sounds an Introduction to English reading by Alex. Melville Bell; top right photograph of Bell with grey hair and full beard; bottom, extract from his book with  the lines 'She sells sea-shells. Does she sell sea-shells?'.
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