The Slime Mould Collective

An international network of/for intelligent organisms

SLIMOCO brings together artists, scientists and others interested in slime moulds - to share research, knowledge, experiments, images...

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slimoco online meet up

Started by Heather Barnett in Projects & Ideas. Last reply by RyChu on Saturday. 5 Replies

Slime TV!

Started by ian in Links & Resources. Last reply by RyChu on Saturday. 1 Reply

How to get a physarum culture

Started by ian in Links & Resources. Last reply by Katharina Cromme May 12. 41 Replies

Cosmopolitan species - who spread them?

Started by ian in Links & Resources. Last reply by Kenneth Ramos Apr 25. 3 Replies

Allergies?

Started by Quill Brezicki in Projects & Ideas. Last reply by RyChu Apr 16. 5 Replies

How do you grow a P. Polycephalum from spores?

Started by Cire Sniknej in Links & Resources. Last reply by ian Apr 16. 8 Replies

Coronavirus - Just checking up on everybody

Started by RyChu in Links & Resources. Last reply by RyChu Apr 10. 5 Replies

RADIOACTIVE SLIME!

Started by Evan Brown in Projects & Ideas. Last reply by Evan Brown Apr 6. 9 Replies

Rotifers!

Started by ian in Ramblings. Last reply by RyChu Mar 22. 1 Reply

yellow vs brown confrontation between two different slime molds

Started by Cyrill Fromm in Links & Resources. Last reply by RyChu Mar 20. 1 Reply

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Waking up the Blob!

Posted by Shlurek on May 22, 2020 at 16:00 0 Comments

exhibition

Posted by lori solondz on April 3, 2020 at 14:43 0 Comments

The one to rule them all...

Posted by François-Joseph Deminiere on March 11, 2020 at 7:20 0 Comments

Slime mold video "Journey to the Microcosmos"

Posted by Brent on February 18, 2020 at 22:56 0 Comments

Talking with slime molds, the pronoun question

Posted by Jan-Maarten Luursema on December 28, 2019 at 11:13 0 Comments

Is Slime Mould generally friendly?

Posted by Martin Maschke on October 24, 2019 at 1:36 3 Comments

Where to get a s.M

Posted by Lasse on October 19, 2019 at 20:34 0 Comments

Do sllime molds die?

Posted by Jan-Maarten Luursema on July 2, 2019 at 21:50 2 Comments

Slime mould art projects

Posted by Núria Rovira Terradas on April 12, 2019 at 16:30 0 Comments

Using Physarum polycephalum to solve the insulin crisis

Posted by Connor David Behr on April 8, 2019 at 18:48 1 Comment

Top Content 

1 Slime mould experiment ideas for a lab report

Slime mould experiment ideas for a lab report
2 Why slime?

Why slime?
3 Sourcing Physarum

Sourcing Physarum
4 Substrate experiment

Substrate experiment
5 On enclosures

On enclosures
6 Metatrichia floriformis

Metatrichia floriformis
7 Lamproderma echinulatum

Lamproderma echinulatum
8 Elaeomyxa cerifera 1262

Elaeomyxa cerifera 1262
9 Physarum population density effect on pattern formation and granularity - Sensor Offset (SO): 3

Physarum population density effect on pattern formation and granularity - Sensor Offset (SO): 3
10 population density 1 - 72

population density 1 - 72
 

Welcome to the Slime Mould Collective!

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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mint taste slime mould liked ian's discussion Slime TV!
Saturday
RyChu liked ian's discussion Slime TV!
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Waking up the Blob!

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Shlurek posted a status
"picked up petri dishes. started to wake up the slime: mazy, mandy and daywalker are fed with oatmeal in the corner cabinet."
Friday
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ian posted a discussion

Slime TV!

The broadcast finally went out, it's taken me a while to put up a copy but -https://drive.google.com/open?id=1bo2aKoctq5ct0TiYKZxutper0nAU8rH6No one has stopped me in…See More
Friday
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Sara is now a member of The Slime Mould Collective
Thursday
Welcome Them!
Shlurek posted a status
"petri dishes ordered at the drug store around the corner."
Tuesday
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0048 Zeiss Axiostar @ 100X Myxomycete less than 1 mm , Kenneth D. Ramos 2020

I oftentimes use my Axiostar much like a CMO dissecting microscope, the scale bar was made by photographing a plastic ruler at 100x, so I cannot attest to its accuracy, however a microscope stage micrometer is in my future. Corticolous myxomycetes…
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KOU is now a member of The Slime Mould Collective
Tuesday
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Shlurek posted a status
"the blob letter arrived today! we will open it as soon as we got our petri dishes. unboxing pictures will follow!"
May 18
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"interest in slime molds"
May 15
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May 15
Heather Barnett replied to Heather Barnett's discussion slimoco online meet up
"ok great, perhaps 5pm US east coast / 12 noon UK time would work, but will see who else is in over the next few days and then we can firm up..."
May 12
Heather Barnett replied to Heather Barnett's discussion slimoco online meet up
"you are welcome to be anti-social online :)"
May 12
ian replied to Heather Barnett's discussion slimoco online meet up
"I'm a social phobic sod that disabled all the cameras on their devices ( yes really  ) but I'm in - I can't put tippex on my work laptop cam :) 30th's good earlier would be good too."
May 12
Katharina Cromme replied to ian's discussion How to get a physarum culture
"Ian, dear Ian hardly to imagine something more generous than sending precious slime mould to one another. Nothing is for free, really! But it is all about taking and receiving.  Therefore, I humbly ask for some slimy moldy attention - with…"
May 12
Heather Barnett posted a discussion

slimoco online meet up

Seeing as we're all - to varying degrees - locked down with our slime moulds, would anyone like to join a slimoco online meet up sometime later this month?I was thinking of an informal meet up on Zoom, where members can share what they're up to and…See More
May 11
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Profile IconKatharina Cromme and Andrew Lucas joined The Slime Mould Collective
May 11
Shlurek replied to ian's discussion How to get a physarum culture
"hi dear ian,we want to experiment with the blob. watch how he eats the flake. give him mushrooms so that he eats them. otherwise i can't think of anything else. no, wait: we want to cut him into several pieces, take them to the kindergarten and…"
May 9
Peter replied to ian's discussion How to get a physarum culture
"Back in history The motile grex caught my eye Now it’s time to see.   Are they Physarum Or Dictyostelium? Both fascinating.   Interpretive dance Best left to the clever moulds Would love a sample."
May 9
 
 
 

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