I wanted to get a video of this ghost crab but every time I got close to their hole they scuttled back in, so I tried getting clever with it. I made a little sandcastle and shoved my phone into it, hit record, and walked away. Crab was VERY suspicious of this addition to their environment.

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Stopped in Oxfam for some fair-trade chocolate and came away with a new hobby

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Today is National Biscuit Day, and it’s about time that I populated this account with biscuit (cookie) sets from the past few years. Here are some of my favourites. 🧵 First up, a set inspired by the delicious designs of William Morris and John Henry Dearle.

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That's fascinating, I never knew about these companies! I'd be curious what the success rate has been with being able to extract and sequence DNA from something like a letter. I'd love to be able to try this someday. It could be transformative for my research. #AncestryHour

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I’m afraid I can’t even get to almost feeling sorry for her. Her wealth and privilege generally insulate her from the real-world consequences of her kind of bigotry. That she wrote books which in part seemed to condemn bigotry makes it that much worse that she’s now such an unrepentant bigot.

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