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Dr Sally Le Page @sallylepage.bsky.social · 1d

The vibe is something like this. Who knows what it will actually turn out looking like though!

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Dr Sally Le Page @sallylepage.bsky.social · 1d

I don't quite understand what I'm making yet either. I just got lots of woodsy bits to play with.

Dr Sally Le Page @sallylepage.bsky.social · 1d

I don't see the issue...

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Dr Sally Le Page @sallylepage.bsky.social · 1d

Inner bark removed, I've liberally sprayed the outer face with propanol to kill any mould.

Now it's in front of a fan to dry off, before I start chemically preserving it.

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Dr Sally Le Page @sallylepage.bsky.social · 1d

I'm hopefully going to make some wall art with it - I collected a bunch of lichens, mosses and bracket fungi too.

It would have been very satisfying, had not the inner bark been like fibreglass with teeny hairs of wood sticking into my skin like microsplinters 😭

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Dr Sally Le Page @sallylepage.bsky.social · 2d

This may be too niche, but I'm prepping some bark and all I have running though my head is:

Now we've stabilised it with washi kozo, it's time to remove the old varnish. Sadly the last conservator didn't use reversible materials, so I have to chip away at it manually with my scalpel...

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Dr Sally Le Page @sallylepage.bsky.social · 2d

This may be too niche, but I'm prepping some bark and all I have running though my head is:

Now we've stabilised it with washi kozo, it's time to remove the old varnish. Sadly the last conservator didn't use reversible materials, so I have to chip away at it manually with my scalpel...

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Dr Sally Le Page @sallylepage.bsky.social · 9d

Did you know I presented Genetics Unzipped for a few years? That's got some similar sort of stories.

From season 5 onwards, about half the episodes are presented by me

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Dr Sally Le Page @sallylepage.bsky.social · 16d

Haven't got to the end, but yeah.

Though it is kinda terrifying hearing about how repressed anger etc is a huge predictor for MND, lung cancer and melanoma as well as the (more expected) inflammation and immune disorders. It's basically a long list of why repressed emotions are unhealthy.

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Dr Sally Le Page @sallylepage.bsky.social · 16d

I've not read it but I have heard it's pretty sympathetic to sexual abusers.

I'm listening to When The Body Says No and it's very thought-provoking if what he claims is true.

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Dr Sally Le Page @sallylepage.bsky.social · 16d

He's basically saying that people wouldn't be abused by their partners if they weren't so irritating.

This guy teaches people about trauma. That's his job. And he said that.

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Dr Sally Le Page @sallylepage.bsky.social · 16d

Bessel van der Kolk, the hugely influential trauma expert (who wrote The Body Keeps The Score) just said on a webinar I was watching that domestic violence rose during Covid because people do irritating things, so their partners get annoyed with them.

Good lord.

No. So much no.

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Dr Sally Le Page @sallylepage.bsky.social · 23d

📻 My BBC World Service documentary is out today!!! 🦠

If you want to hear about bacterial suicide bombers, willing cannibalism victims, faecal transplants and resurrecting Ancient Egyptian diseases, then have I got the programme for you.

bbc.com/audio/play/p... or search 'BBC The Documentary'

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Dr Sally Le Page @sallylepage.bsky.social · 23d

📻 My BBC World Service documentary is out today!!! 🦠

If you want to hear about bacterial suicide bombers, willing cannibalism victims, faecal transplants and resurrecting Ancient Egyptian diseases, then have I got the programme for you.

bbc.com/audio/play/p... or search 'BBC The Documentary'

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Dr Sally Le Page @sallylepage.bsky.social · 28d

*starts a new D&D campaign*

I'm definitely going to branch out from my usual wood elf druid.

*makes a forest gnome ranger*

Dammit!

AI generated image of a dark skinned forest gnome with blue eyes and long brown hair in furs and leathers with a bow and arrow next to a white wolf in a snowy forest.

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Dr Sally Le Page @sallylepage.bsky.social · Sep 2

I didn't know Beech Martens were a thing!

But I'm glad I wasn't optimistically calling a cat a pine marten.

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Dr Sally Le Page @sallylepage.bsky.social · Sep 2

Before I get too excited, can any of you tell me what you think this is? It's in mid Wales.

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Dr Sally Le Page @sallylepage.bsky.social · Sep 2

OK, I'm not going mad, this looks like a pine marten, right???

AAAAAHHHHHHHH!!!!!!

@vincentwt.bsky.social @wtsww.bsky.social

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Dr Sally Le Page @sallylepage.bsky.social · Sep 2

Before I get too excited, can any of you tell me what you think this is? It's in mid Wales.

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Dr Sally Le Page @sallylepage.bsky.social · Aug 18

At the pub last night, in the middle of a conversation about which bird we would be, I said:

"Even a blackbird is a predator to worms."

I'm still think about how profound it sounds (even if it isn't really)

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Dr Sally Le Page @sallylepage.bsky.social · Aug 18

Nice! I've been seeing quite a few herons too!

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Dr Dean Burnett @garwboy.bsky.social · Aug 15

I'm am absolutely on board with the blunt but long-overdue honesty of this hot drinks machine.

A hot drinks machine with an option for 'beverage with the taste of hot chocolate'. A welcome dose of honesty because vending machine hot chocolate never gets beyond 'tastes vaguely like hot chocolate' in terms of quality.

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Dr Sally Le Page @sallylepage.bsky.social · Aug 14

I have manifested myself a cat for a day!

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Dr Sally Le Page @sallylepage.bsky.social · Aug 11

Oh, I can see right down through the water just fine with polarising glasses. I just wish I could be looking on the same level as the fish instead of down at them.

Dr Sally Le Page @sallylepage.bsky.social · Aug 11

In the summer with such little rain the visibility is a good metre or two.

In the sun, the aquatic plants light up and there are literally thousands of fish just below the surface.

I'm so angry that I can't stick my face in it because of all the sewage.

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