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How to get a physarum culture
Started by ian in Links & Resources. Last reply by Evan Brown on Tuesday. 13 Replies 1 Like
Full metal physaum
Started by ian in Projects & Ideas. Last reply by ian Oct 7. 4 Replies 3 Likes
Tales from the slimery - culture refreshing and sclerotia making
Started by ian in Links & Resources Oct 7. 0 Replies 1 Like
How much light can the physarum take?
Started by Dominique Baron-Bonarjee in Projects & Ideas. Last reply by Dominique Baron-Bonarjee Sep 25. 2 Replies 0 Likes
slimoco activity
Started by Heather Barnett in Links & Resources. Last reply by ian Sep 20. 3 Replies 0 Likes
Does anyone have any non physarum slimes?
Started by ian in Links & Resources Sep 20. 0 Replies 0 Likes
Moist chamber success rate?
Started by ian in Links & Resources Sep 20. 0 Replies 0 Likes
Straining!
Started by ian in Links & Resources Sep 20. 0 Replies 0 Likes
Failed to reactivate physarum backup
Started by Gaspard Bébié-Valérian in Links & Resources Sep 19. 0 Replies 0 Likes
Sourcing Physarum
Started by Heather Barnett in Links & Resources. Last reply by Colin Aug 20. 42 Replies 5 Likes
Blog Posts
Do sllime molds die?
Posted by Jan-Maarten Luursema on July 2, 2019 at 21:50 2 Comments 0 Likes
Slime mould art projects
Posted by Núria Rovira Terradas on April 12, 2019 at 16:42 0 Comments 2 Likes
Using Physarum polycephalum to solve the insulin crisis
Posted by Connor David Behr on April 8, 2019 at 18:48 0 Comments 0 Likes
Need help: starting a slime mould culture
Posted by Anastasia Bragina on December 10, 2018 at 17:28 1 Comment 0 Likes
Hello World!
Posted by Annelie Wallin on November 4, 2018 at 19:13 0 Comments 0 Likes
P. Polycephalum in London next week, opening Tuesday 18
Posted by Jan-Maarten Luursema on September 13, 2018 at 22:09 0 Comments 1 Like
QUESTION ABOUT PHYSARUM
Posted by mint taste slime mould on July 21, 2018 at 6:44 1 Comment 0 Likes
Help??
Posted by Alexander Ludlam on July 12, 2018 at 15:47 1 Comment 0 Likes
Let me know about something.
Posted by mint taste slime mould on June 19, 2018 at 11:31 1 Comment 0 Likes
An experiment with food coloring and bongo music
Posted by Jan-Maarten Luursema on June 16, 2018 at 18:19 0 Comments 0 Likes
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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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Sean left a comment for ian"Hello! Thank you for the warm welcome! I’m excited to get working with some slime mould. Just spent the day hunting/photographing some in Epping forest but pretty sure I got 95% mushrooms. Any chance I could send you some pictures of what I…"
Southwest USA Slime Mold
This group is open to anyone who lives in the southwestern United States. Our goal is to propagate slime molds and share them with others who show an interest in these fascinating organisms and to conduct experiments to improve our knowledge of slime molds.
"Hey Evan. If you need any slime mold sclerotia let me know. I’m not very active here anymore, but I am happy to send you some.
And welcome to Slime Mold Collective!"
Evan Brown replied to ian's discussion How to get a physarum culture"Lions mane and pearl oyster right now, just starting out though so we'll see how it goes. Any tips for a noob? I've heard that physarum tastes like dirty moss, didn't know there were edible slime molds though, I'll…"
ian replied to ian's discussion How to get a physarum culture"Hey there, I used to dabble in mushroom growing - used to have king oysters and lions mane on the go and a garden path bordered with Panellus stipticus ( I wish they were edible! ). What have you go growing? You know some slime moulds are eaten by…"
Luna Maldonado Fontes replied to ian's discussion How to get a physarum culture"haha I think there is always time for some coding (no matter how annoying it can be sometimes to debug). How do you mean to train a GAN on it? So that it behaves like the slime mould? That would indeed be fascinating, I wonder…"
Evan Brown replied to ian's discussion How to get a physarum culture"Hello Ian, my girlfriend and I are currently trying to start a gourmet mushroom business, and while doing research I came across something called slime molds. From there I fell down the rabbit hole, I've been watching videos, reading articles,…"
ian replied to ian's discussion How to get a physarum culture"Maybe one day I'll dust off enough coding brain cells (I used to be good thirty years ago) to understand that stuff. One of the talks I do for school groups is on the biological roots of AI, I do wonder what we'd get if we trained a Gan on…"
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