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Sally Bourliakas

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Mum, scientist, Sci-Fi reader Studio Ghibli fan☮️ 🐈 🪄 ! I’ve had #LongCovid for 4+years Covid is Airborne wear FFP2/3 masks! Air filtration needed in schools & workplaces now. #Teamclots #RejoinEU #FreePalestine

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Sally Bourliakas @sallybourliakas.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Stop Disability cuts in Oxfordshire I've just signed this petition. Will you add your name and share too? you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/no...
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No Cuts to Social Care for Disabled People
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Oxfordshire Disabled People Against Cuts
We oppose Oxfordshire County
Council's decision to cut social care support for disabled people by:
• Scrapping free council-arranged transport introducing a £10 daily fee
• Charging £9.87 for the previously free telecare system, which helps people live independently in their homes
• Cutting the disability-related expenditure (DRE) allowance from 35% to 25%
Why is this important?
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目Disabled people have already borne the brunt of austerity cuts over the past 16 years including huge cuts to the health element of Universal Credit that began in April this year.
We demand that the council scraps these callous cuts that will further impoverish and isolate disabled people.
These cuts will further impoverish and isolate disabled people.#Disability
Please sign to stop cuts in Oxfordshire you.38degrees.org.uk/p/oxdpac926
keep sharing it - hopefully we can get more people involved
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Mike Sivier @midwalesmike.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
The latest proposals for reforming Personal Independence Payment contain some genuinely welcome ideas, but there is a serious problem buried among them. #PIP #DisabilityBenefits #DWP #WelfareReform #TheWhipLine youtu.be/IWAiyOgJZOY
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PIP Changes Sound Good… Until You Get to THIS Bit
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Sally Bourliakas @sallybourliakas.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
#Disability #DPAC petition.parliament.uk/petitions/77...
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Petition: Create a National Disability Hate Strategy for the UK
Develop and fund a National Disability Hate Strategy, co-produced with Disabled People’s Organisations, to tackle disability hate crime, online abuse, discrimination, public stigma and improve awarene...
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Sally Bourliakas @sallybourliakas.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
#Disability #PIP #LongCovid petition.parliament.uk/petitions/77... Please sign and share
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Petition: Create a National Disability Hate Strategy for the UK
Develop and fund a National Disability Hate Strategy, co-produced with Disabled People’s Organisations, to tackle disability hate crime, online abuse, discrimination, public stigma and improve awarene...
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Sally Bourliakas @sallybourliakas.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
@laylamoran.bsky.social x.com/drseanmullen...
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Dr. Sean Mullen (@drseanmullen) on X
You’ve got to hand it to them. They changed the language. Changed the guidance. Changed the metrics. Changed the dashboards. Changed what counted. Changed what we counted. Spent months arguing dropl...
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Sally Bourliakas @sallybourliakas.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
#YourParty @thisisyourparty Link to North Oxfordshire #YourParty protobranch Whatsapp group Please join us to help set up the branch 🤗 if you live in #Bicester #Banbury #Witney #Woodstock chat.whatsapp.com/EYipjbGgg1iCe2…@yourpartyuk.bsky.social Also facebook facebook.com/share/g/1VTe...
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Kelly @broadwaybabyto.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
This is shameful discriminatory and misogynistic reporting. People aren’t choosing disability to be “cool”. Young women don’t have to “prove” to you that they’re sick. Disability rates are skyrocketing because we’ve left a disabling virus rip through the population for over 6 years.
Photo from the telegraph. Red background with a roll of wheelchair stickers on white paper. Text reads “how having a disability became cool”
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Molly Crabapple @mollycrabapple.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
ICE got permission to cut open a Cuban hunger striker’s stomach and insert a gastric tube to make him easier to forcefeed Nuremberg trials are too merciful for these monsters www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
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ICE given permission to force-feed Cuban hunger striker with gastric tube
Exclusive: court orders seen by Guardian show agency given approval to fit Texas detainee with tube without his consent
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Sally Bourliakas @sallybourliakas.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
#YourParty Link to North oxfordshire's @yourpartyuk.bsky.social facebook group We are in process of starting our branch & would love to hear from you there or in our Watsapp group ( link in facebook page) if you live in #Bicester #Banbury #Woodstock or #Witney www.facebook.com/share/g/1VTe...
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Jo Purvis @jopurvis.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Reminder of the 2024 General Election result in Holborn and St Pancras. Labour Keir Starmer 18,884 Independent Andrew Feinstein 7,312 Green David Stansell 4,030 For some reason, the BBC is suggesting that Greens were his main opposition 🤔
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Sally Bourliakas @sallybourliakas.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
Great first meting of North Oxford @yourpartyuk.bsky.social proto branch to talk about setting up branch: Please join whatsapp group of interested in getting involved in #Bicester #Banbury #Witney #Woodstock areas as all included in #NorthOxforshire #YourParty branch facebook.com/share/p/1ZomV5…
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Sally Bourliakas @sallybourliakas.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
Great first meting of North Oxford @yourpartyuk.bsky.social proto branch to talk about setting up branch: Please join whatsapp group of interested in getting involved in #Bicester #Banbury #Witney #Woodstock areas as all included in #NorthOxforshire #YourParty branch facebook.com/share/p/1ZomV5…
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Sally Bourliakas @sallybourliakas.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
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Sara Hummingbird @sarahumm.bsky.social · 15/06/2026
UN HR Chief warned “I urge the UK Government to rescind its decision to proscribe Palestine Action & to halt investigations & further proceedings against protesters...to review & revise... its definition of terrorist acts, to bring it fully in line with international human rights norms & standards”
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UK: Palestine Action ban ‘disturbing’ misuse of UK counter-terrorism legislation, Türk warns
GENEVA – The UK Government’s decision to proscribe the ‘Palestine Action’ protest group under terrorism legislation raises serious concerns that counter-terrorism laws are being applied to conduct tha...
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AdyBee 🐝 @adybee.bsky.social · 15/06/2026
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BladeoftheSun @bladeofthes.bsky.social · 12/06/2026
Why can we proscribe Palestine Action who have never committed terrorism. But not Tommy Robinson and his supporters who have?
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Lil Boo-kens 👻 @paleosol.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
Striking directly into the hearts of the millennial geologists, Randall! ⚒️🧪
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Lil Boo-kens 👻 @paleosol.bsky.social · 24/03/2026
The Great Wall at Mutianyu, north of Beijing. Limestones and marine sed rocks fill the basin to the south, with crystalline basement rocks dramatically faulted and rising above to the north. The Great Wall straddles the first ridge. 🧪⚒️ #China #GreatWall #geology
A white man wearing an orange shirt and dark green-brown pants, standing on the Great Wall of China. The wall is a brick and stone structure with intermittent towers, trailing up the hill into the distance.A view out a lookout from a tower in the Great Wall of China. Bricks are seen in the foreground along the left margin of the frame. Another lookout tower is in the center of the frame. Crystalline basement rocks rise in the distance, to the north of the wall.A view out a window of a lookout tower, framed by bricks, and with the Great Wall trailing into the distance along a ridgeline. Snow is present on the north side in the shadows of the wall (left side).View of steps up the great wall (lower right of frame) and tilted brick wall angled from lower left and rising to upper right corner. Lookout holes for guards and archers are present in the brick wall.
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Lil Boo-kens 👻 @paleosol.bsky.social · 24/03/2026
Orthoclase phenocrysts in the granite that makes up the foundation of the Great Wall of China. Lots of chlorite present, too, with the occasional gneiss or amphibolite xenolith. ⚒️🧪 #GreatWall #China #geology #stone
Building stones at the base of the Great Wall of China.Close-up of building stones, with pink rectangular orthoclase, gray blobs of quartz, and a greenish groundmass that includes chlorite.Foundation of the Great Wall, showing building stones overtopped by bricks. Trees dot the landscape along the southern side of the wall.
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Lil Boo-kens 👻 @paleosol.bsky.social · 27/04/2026
A couple more neat rocks from the Great Wall at Mutianyu. Chlorite veins and amphibolite xenoliths in granite. Some of the amphibolite xenoliths are folded, too! Don't tell my soft-rock colleagues that I take pics of igneous and metamorphic rocks. 😆 🧪⚒️ #GreatWall #China #geology #xenolith
Granite building stone, rough-cut, with a human thumb on the left side of the image for scale. The rock is grayish with pink orthoclase crystals and a white and black groundmass/background. A neon green chlorite vein squiggles down the left 1/3 of the rock, and a black blob of amphibolite floats in the upper right quadrant of the rock.Annotations showing the green chlorite squiggle and the black amphibolite blob.Close-up image of a black amphibolite xenolith, which is set apart from the gray-white-pink background of the granite. Human thumb in upper left for scale.Annotation of a black amphibolite xenolith showing the internal folds with red looping lines.
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Space Telescope Science Institute @stsci.edu · 24/04/2026
The #NASAWebb’s stunning images of space have captured our imagination, but they're only part of the story. About 75% of Webb's observations produce a powerful type of data called spectra. 🔭 🧪
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What Webb Learns from Light
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American Physiological Society @apsphysiology.bsky.social · 24/04/2026
Sleep during pregnancy isn’t just about rest, it affects heart and metabolic health. Research presented at #APS2026 highlights why it should be treated as a priority. Read more on the #ISpyPhysiology blog: ow.ly/Zhxy50YP1go Helen Collins Center For Cardiometabolic Science 🧪
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Why Sleep During Pregnancy is a Health Issue, Not a Luxury - I Spy Physiology Blog
Many people assume poor sleep during pregnancy and the weeks after giving birth is simply part of the experience. The physical changes of pregnancy—and the demands of caring for a newborn—can make rest feel out of reach. But research shows sleep does far more than fight fatigue. It plays a direct role in protecting heart … Continue reading Why Sleep During Pregnancy is a Health Issue, Not a Luxury
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MU-Peter Shimon 🀄 @mu-peter.bsky.social · 24/04/2026
100,000-Year-Old Neanderthal Teeth May Reveal How Early Humans Moved Across Europe 🏺🧪 www.discovermagazine.com/100-000-year... Learn how teeth from a Polish cave not only reveal family ties but also hint at Neanderthal lineages across Europe.
3D renderings of Neanderthal teeth from Stajnia Cave in Poland.
(Image Credit: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology/CC BY)
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Helen Branswell 🇨🇦 @helenbranswell.bsky.social · 24/04/2026
#Flu season is over, but pediatric flu deaths continue to be reported. In the week ending 4/18, 6 more deaths were reported to #CDC. They bring the season's total so far to 149 deaths in kids; more such reports may come. ~85% of those kids were not fully vaccinated. www.cdc.gov/fluview/surv...
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Dr Noor Bari @njbbari3.bsky.social · 24/04/2026
The season hasn’t even started, and we have paediatric deaths already. 😥 #flu
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Art Candee 🍿🥤 @artcandee.bsky.social · 22/04/2026
Democratic Senator Chris Murphy on Donald Trump's war in Iran: "We shouldn't sugar coat or normalize this degree of gross, unacceptable incompetence being exercised here. We essentially have a talk show host and a couple real estate developers who are in charge of our war strategy." Spot on!
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Candace Lane 🌎💙US @bluecandace.bsky.social · 22/04/2026
He is bankrupting our country, just like all his other ventures
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Scott Dworkin @dworkin.bsky.social · 23/04/2026
Tell Congress: Trump is abusing power and violating the Constitution every single day. Enough. Impeach him.
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Contact Congress today!
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The Zubeck @thezubeck.bsky.social · 13/06/2025
Apparently Tel Aviv is being hit with Iranian Ballistic missiles. The Iron Dome isn’t stopping all of them. Israel really has no one to blame but itself and the Trump administration for green lighting the attack. Tel Aviv wouldn’t be bombed had it not started this war. Who knows where it will end.
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Aaron Stewart-Ahn @badideas.bsky.social · 05/03/2026
This is all I’ve wanted to see from a Democrat since Jan 2025. You can see the exact microsecond in Kristi Noem’s eyes when she realizes fascism inevitably eats its servants.
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ℂ𝕒𝕥𝕞𝕒𝕟ℝ𝕖𝕤𝕚𝕤𝕥𝕤 🏳️‍🌈 ✡️ 😸 🌊 @stevefm20.bsky.social · 05/03/2026
According to reporter Tara Palmeri, Verglas shows up at least 681 times in the Epstein files, a result of the longstanding friendship between the two men that continued way past the point of Epstein’s conviction as a predator and sex offender. www.queerty.com/surprise-the...
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Surprise! The man behind Melania’s nude photos just popped up in the Epstein Files... 681 times - Queerty
Yet another link in the Epstein chain...
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AdyBee 🐝 @adybee.bsky.social · 05/03/2026
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AdyBee 🐝 @adybee.bsky.social · 05/03/2026
Popped down there this afternoon (can’t load my photos on here for some reason) they’ve done a magnificent job 👍
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Waltham Windmill
We're working with the Waltham Windmill Trust to repair and restore the windmill back to full working condition. Our task started a few weeks ago with the fabrication of a temporary roof, which was co...
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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 05/03/2026
Starmer to provide update on British response to escalating Middle East crisis – UK politics live
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Starmer to provide update on British response to escalating Middle East crisis – UK politics live
The prime minister is expected to offer an update on the unfolding crisis across the region in a press conference this afternoon She says “we will always offer protection to genuine refugees” and outlines how the UK has taken in Ukrainian and Hong Kong refugees. She says “restoring control at our borders is not a betrayal of Labour values”. She says we must attract high-skilled workers. And that “the privilege of living in this country forever must be earned”. Continue reading...
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Nelly Probin @lillmagill.bsky.social · 05/03/2026
A long excellent thread. Economic renewal is possible, if the government had the courage and political will of the 1945 government.
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Esther @elhopkins.bsky.social · 05/03/2026
I see a certain right wing newspaper saying that Trump is now calling Starmer a “loser” and saying “he has no future”. This is not very patriotic, regardless of your views on Starmer, they blatantly support Trump. A man who has insulted our soldiers and it all over the #EpsteinFiles.
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Long Covid Advocacy @longcovidadvoc.com · 05/03/2026
A member of the community @kschnickelfritz.bsky.social has written an excellent template to send to your MP about the Pulse Today Course 👇 💌 tinyurl.com/4bf386jc If you can write directly to Pulse Today email is: 📧 support@pulse365.uk
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ME CPD module for GPs
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Long Covid Advocacy @longcovidadvoc.com · 05/03/2026
⚠️ We have serious concerns about Dr Alastair Miller running a GP course for MECFS Diagnosis & Management for Pulse Today. Miller is: 🔹ex-chair of BACME 🔹reviewer of PACE 🔹GET researcher 🔹anti-NICE 🖇️ tinyurl.com/muvtjbda 📧 support@pulse365.uk
A screenshot of a purple-themed announcement text inviting General Practitioners (GPs) to a free virtual event on March 24th titled "Pulse 365." The text highlights a session on "ME/Chronic Fatigue Syndrome – not just tired all the time" presented by Dr. Alastair Miller, a consultant physician at the Royal Liverpool University Hospital. It notes the event aims to support GPs in confident decision-making, earlier diagnosis, and management, following a Department of Health and Social Care announcement regarding the key role GPs play in caring for patients with mild and moderate ME/CFS.
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Politics in the U.K. @politicsintheuk.bsky.social · 14/02/2026
Johnson, Gove, Rees-Mogg, and possibly David Davis were plotting with paedophile Jeffrey Epstein and white supremacist Steve Bannon to bring down a British Prime Minister. Why this treason isn’t front-page news is a disgrace for the journalistic profession in the UK.
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Scientists for Global Responsibility @responsiblesci.bsky.social · 12/02/2026
“Just as tobacco was deemed incompatible with the health of athletes, fossil fuels are incompatible with the future of sport.”🧪
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Kai Kupferschmidt @kakape.bsky.social · 11/02/2026
Five years after the rollout of Covid-19 vaccines started, it seems the mystery of why the Astra-Zeneca and J&J vaccines led to a rare but deadly side effect of unusual blood clots and bleeding has finally been solved. 
 It's a fascinating case of molecular mimicry that may help make vaccine safer.🧪
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Rare, dangerous side effects of some COVID-19 vaccines explained
“Groundbreaking” study uncovers why adenovirus-based shots caused life-threatening blood clots and bleeding in some people
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ARC Dark Matter Centre @darkmatteraus.bsky.social · 11/02/2026
On International Day of Women and Girls in Science, we asked the #WomenOfDarkMatter what inspired them to pursue their studies in physics. 🧪
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EMBO @embo.org · 11/02/2026
Happy International Day of Women and Girls in Science! 🧪 Don't forget to send in your nominations for the FEBS | EMBO #WomenInScience Award. Deadline: 15 May Read more: www.embo.org/the-embo-communities/f… #award
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Colette Delawalla, PhD @cdelawalla.bsky.social · 11/02/2026
Idk I just feel like releasing this on Women and Girls in Science day with the top people being in the Epstein files and only THREE (3) women being in the top FIFTY...is on the nose. www.forbes.com/sites/alexkn...
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Forbes 250: America’s Greatest Innovators
The Forbes Innovator 250: America's Greatest Innovators showcases the visionaries shaping our future. Find the full list of great minds and the mark they are leaving on our history.
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EMBO @embo.org · 11/02/2026
Happy International Day of Women and Girls in Science! 🧪 The EMBO Women in Science Lectures address issues related to gender and diversity in science. Find out more and apply here: www.embo.org/funding/lecture-travel…
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KOJAMF🤘🖤🤘 @kojamf.bsky.social · 11/02/2026
Dr. Jane Goodall "Today, on International Day of Girls and Women in Science, we celebrate Dr. Jane Goodall, an iconic trailblazer whose research forever changed science" 🔍🐵👱‍♀️
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ESA Space Transport @transport.esa.int · 11/02/2026
Women aren’t just reaching for the stars, they’re engineering the rockets that get us there. On International Day of Women and Girls in Science, these are some of the faces of @esa.int Space Transportation.
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David Shiffman, Ph.D. 🦈 @whysharksmatter.bsky.social · 11/02/2026
Happy International Day of Women and Girls in Science! Follow these awesome women ocean scientists, many of whom I'm proud to call colleagues and delighted to call friends. 🧪🦑🌍🐟 go.bsky.app/7MdiLgo
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