10 relaxing minutes of slime molds under the microscope (turn on captions)
I've been working on a microscope setup to film slime molds up close and felt that the footage could make a very relaxing and interesting video. Similar to w...
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Allergies?
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Sporulation of Physarum
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where to get other types besides physarum
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How to get a physarum culture
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Artwork project - in need of high res slime mould imagery to draw from
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Artist collaboration: beautiful slime colonies in Petri dishes
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Daywalker availability?
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11 Year Old Science Project
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How Dark , is Dark
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Request for Carolina strain!
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Colourful mould experiment! (Images)
Posted by Liam on August 18, 2024 at 9:31 0 Comments 0 Likes
Advice on slime mould mazes? - A request
Posted by G on June 13, 2024 at 11:21 3 Comments 0 Likes
Physarum
Posted by Duan on October 3, 2023 at 14:23 0 Comments 1 Like
If you are a professional, I would love to hop on a call about Physarum!
Posted by Emile Marija on August 29, 2023 at 23:08 1 Comment 1 Like
Physarum Roseum
Posted by Robert on August 26, 2023 at 3:13 0 Comments 0 Likes
First sclerotia!
Posted by Ben Gruver on July 31, 2023 at 15:04 0 Comments 2 Likes
Slime Mold Integrated Wearable Device
Posted by Jasmine Lu on November 14, 2022 at 21:57 2 Comments 4 Likes
sclerotium for a treatise anyone?
Posted by Aaron Senitt on October 2, 2022 at 23:35 0 Comments 0 Likes
Unidentified other mold
Posted by Mimi Osborne on November 25, 2021 at 20:37 1 Comment 0 Likes
Slime Mould commission
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The Slime Mould Collective is a portal for interesting, progressive and ground breaking research and creative practice working with the simple yet intelligent organisms. If you are involved with or interested in slime moulds as a scientist, artist, designer, teacher, philosopher... (etc), please join and share what you do...
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Fireworks after feeding!
Added a timer with the hours passing to give a better time perspective! Also cool explosion effect after feeding! First time I see this type of behaviour tim...
Slime mold finding and consuming Oat flakes
In the first video of the channel, I documented the movement and behaviour of my Physarum polycephalum slime mold.Just trying the formats and hopefully find ...
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"I know it’s been ages since I posted this but if anyone is curious I was developing a medical condition called mast cell activation syndrome which basically means my mast cells are overactive. They are what activates when you have an allergic…"
"Update:
I think i finally achieved finished sporangia. The sporangia are a lot larger and more complex than anything I've gotten before and after a bit of time the individual sporangium turned from a moist/shiny black to a dull grayish colour.…"
"The sporangia are well formed as are the rest of the fruitbody components and spores are released but a dust cloud is seldom noticed but only on occasion and during observation through the dissecting microscope and slide preparation for observing…"
"and in your cultures do your sporangia release spores into the air, like a dust cloud?
I assume this is a hallmark to know if the sporangia are well formed and viable for germination..."
"I keep the plasmodia in the dark, with the exception of removal for observation with the dissecting microscope. Using moist chamber cultures, petri dishes (plastic or borosilicate) with dampened paper towel and oat flakes. I don't…"
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