The Slime Mould Collective

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Slime mould interaction with fungi - university research.

Hi all!  I'm currently working on piece of science fiction for my creative writing degree. Put briefly, a mutation has caused various speci…

Started by James White

5 Dec 16, 2020
Reply by ian

Accessible sessions - visual impairment

I'm looking at devising some sessions for people with visual difficulties.  I've found a slime grown on thin card bakes nicely at 100C to l…

Started by ian

0 Dec 2, 2020

Colourimetry

One thing I've noticed breeding slimes is they vary in colour. Anyone who's got Daywalker and Mazie on the go might have noticed that Dw is…

Started by ian

4 Sep 3, 2020
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Contamination tolerance assay

Otherwise known as the boredom assay. I suspect some of the slime strains are more prone to contamination than others. I'm trying trays w…

Started by ian

7 Jun 21, 2020
Reply by ian

Chromatography

I wondered if the bright orange physarum have different pigments from their paler siblings, so I mashed a load into alcohol ( 80% isopropan…

Started by ian

2 Jun 21, 2020
Reply by ian

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 l…

Started by Heather Barnett

14 Jun 20, 2020
Reply by Heather Barnett

Allergies?

So I have never been allergic to anything in my life but as soon as my slime mold came in the mail and I’ve been working with it I’ve start…

Started by Quill Brezicki

5 Apr 16, 2020
Reply by RyChu

RADIOACTIVE SLIME!

April fools! Okay, so it's not radioactive. But it sure looks like it, and I figured April fools day was as good a day as any to share. Thi…

Started by Evan Brown

9 Apr 6, 2020
Reply by Evan Brown

Some beginner questions I have

       So I know a lot of these will seem very basic but I’m just starting out and trying to figure out some details still.  1. What does…

Started by Quill Brezicki

1 Mar 19, 2020
Reply by RyChu

Mandy has babies!

I wasn't expecting this to work but I tried the rancid oats method on spores from Mandy the badhamia ( that's still not a confirmed genus b…

Started by ian

1 Feb 2, 2020
Reply by RyChu

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