The final chapter

Hey guys! The Crab Therapists here with their last blog post. We will leave the beautiful bay of Tjärnö tomorrow and set sail for new adventures.
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After pulling a night shift yesterday, we finally corrected all the bugs in our dataset, analysed all of it using non-parametric multidimensional scaling and finally came to the conclusion that our little buggars showed no difference between lower pH levels and gasoline spill conditions compared to controls. Sadly, there are many reasons why we could not see any differences. For example, literature says that hermit crabs are really resilient to pollutants and acidification, and we need to consider our short time frame as well. Nevertheless, we had a lot of fun designing this study on our own and have learnt quite a lot. We successfully presented our findings today in front of our peers and are now very relieved to be free at last. Make sure you keep in touch with the official IMBRSea Youtube channel, where our movie documentary will be published shortly. It will make you cry, I promise. All the best wishes and hugs from Sweden! May science ever be with you! *mic drop* *crab therapists out*
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Written by Nadine Ofiera

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