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Sometimes I shrink myself down, squeeze through the mouth, and climb around inside a sand dollar (a flat sea urchin) #Xraymicrotomography

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Prof Richard Johnston2 years ago

Slicing through the top using @syGlassVR I long to wander through corridors inspired by the sand dollar internal architecture

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Vicky!2 years ago

That is so cool omfg

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Dunc in a bothy2 years ago

this is a “Sir this is a Wendy’s” kinda tweet

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Prof Richard Johnston2 years ago

Wendy's would be a great location for outreach tbf!

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Prof Richard Johnston2 years ago

@Lord_Forbington That's one of the things we've done!

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PalaeOzeki 'Boring girl' @palaeozeki.bsky.social2 years ago

This is amazing, this would be great for wandering through fossil bone-boring traces left by ancient organisms eating the decomposing remains

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Prof Richard Johnston2 years ago

Oooh that would be excellent! I've done crawling through tunnels excavated by ants, and micro-pores created by biological processes in rock

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pepino de mar2 years ago

Amazing! Mellita isometra?

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Prof Richard Johnston2 years ago

:) I thought nk you might be right. I scanned it over 10 years ago, I think. Noted the species down in some notes, for sure

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