The Slime Mould Collective

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Photos Iridescent Slime Moulds

Dear Collective, I'm looking to write a letter to Journal of Fungi regarding structural colour. Some slime Moulds *do* have this, it is th…

Started by Colin in Links & Resources

0 Oct 25, 2020

Slime mold and human society

I joined the collective to find people, researchers who would be interested in observing a real-life social 'experiment' happening in Belar…

Started by Alexandra in Links & Resources

24 Oct 3, 2020
Reply by ori elisar

Newbie questions

Hi all, I’m very new to the world of keeping slime molds and found a few wild specimens on a walk yesterday, and have already placed them i…

Started by Carter in Links & Resources

1 Sep 19, 2020
Reply by ian

Got myself a new wild slime!

was thinking about Ian's post on biosecurity and not spreading Carolina worldwide, and the easiest option I could think of was to find my o…

Started by Patrick Barry in Links & Resources

6 Sep 15, 2020
Reply by Patrick Barry

Tales from the slimery

Hi  I've been literally up to y knees in petri dishes for the last four weeks - round three of breeding kicked off with my highly inbred li…

Started by ian in Links & Resources

2 Sep 3, 2020
Reply by ian

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 in Projects & Ideas

4 Sep 3, 2020
Reply by ian

Convex hull and going beyond oats

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-13683377 Herbal sleeping tablets - extract of valerian root to be specific. This has the p…

Started by Patrick Barry in Links & Resources

0 Aug 27, 2020

Slime moulds in digital form

Quite a few projects going on to replicate their behaviour in the grasshopper community: https://discourse.mcneel.com/t/physarium-slime-in-

Started by Patrick Barry in Links & Resources

0 Aug 13, 2020

Are physarum eating bacteria on oats?

Hi all, I have been getting an increasing amount of mold on my plates and was wondering about ways to mitigate that. I assume one source co…

Started by Adam Strandberg in Links & Resources

5 Aug 13, 2020
Reply by RyChu

Daywalker - is it 'blind''?

I should have done this ages ago. Daywalker doesn't make spores when exposed to day light. We know physarum requires daylight exposure to s…

Started by ian in Exhibitions & Events

9 Aug 13, 2020
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