September 2020
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 line so I've been picking tiny pieces of slime out agar and mo…
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Tales from the slimery
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August 2020
Convex hull and going beyond oats
<a href="https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-13683377">https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-13683377</a>
Herbal sleeping tablets - extract of valerian root to be specific.
This has the property of beings long range attractant (like oats) but a sh…
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Convex hull and going beyond oats
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Please help maintain the slimoco network by…
Dear slimoco members,
It’s that time of year when I get billed for the hosting costs of the slimoco network and reach out to the membership to help share the cost. It’s not a huge amount ($250 a year…
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Please help maintain the slimoco network by…
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Questions and Hydration Day!
I plan to rehydrate my Physarum on Monday or Tuesday evening.
I've only ever seen and observed in the wild so I am very excited.
I've heard using AgarAgar is the best method. I'd like to keep it ha…
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Questions and Hydration Day!
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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 Belarus right now. In short, Belarusians are now behaving a lot l…
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Slime mold and human society
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June 2020
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 spore so -
Is Daywalker actually 'blind' or is something els…
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Daywalker - is it 'blind''?
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Spores now available!
I've managed to build up a good stock of spores from some of my strains ( loads of them seem to be unable to spore ), if anyone wants some yell. Pretty sure one of the lines is carrying sporulation r…
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Spores now available!
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slimoco meet up #2
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slimoco meet up #2
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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 with 25 0.5g circles of oats all inoculated with two slime oa…
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Contamination tolerance assay
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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 a lot more orange. I've also got some paler variants on the…
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Colourimetry
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May 2020
Slime TV!
The broadcast finally went out, it's taken me a while to put up a copy but -
<a href="https://drive.google.com/open?id=1bo2aKoctq5ct0TiYKZxutper0nAU8rH6">https://drive.google.com/open?id=1bo2aKoctq5ct0TiYKZxutper0nAU8rH6</a>
No one has stopped me in the street for an autograph…
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Slime TV!
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April 2020
Cosmopolitan species - who spread them?
I've just realised I'm really lax at coming on the forum at the moment - I usually do my social stuff on commute so I'm massively out of sync.
Looking at Sarah Lloyd's amazing photos ( https://sarahl…
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Cosmopolitan species - who spread them?
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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. This is my current project, inspired by quarantine boredom. UV…
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RADIOACTIVE SLIME!
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March 2020
Rotifers!
Rotifers
It's not a slime mould but since I'm confined to the house I've spent my time upgrading my microscopes with skip dived parts ( this only works if the skip you're diving into is outside an o…
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Rotifers!
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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 agar agar do? I understand what it is and that it is nutrien…
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Some beginner questions I have
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Unidentified brown slime mold
Hello, i keep this slime mold now for over 2 years now and i still have no idea what species it is, it doesn`t sporulate although it is not even kept in the dark and starvation doesn't help either. I…
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Unidentified brown slime mold
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yellow vs brown confrontation between two di…
My brown slime mold and my Physarum polycephalum encountering each other. At fist it seemed like the faster P. polycephalum tried to attack the other slime mold but they dont really harm each other,…
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yellow vs brown confrontation between two di…
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February 2020
Looking for Badhamia sp. and Dictyostelium d…
Hello all!
I am looking for the following slime moulds:
Badhamia sp.
Dictyostelium discoideum (axenic strain)
I currently only have Physarum polycephalum. I would like to add another easy to car…
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Looking for Badhamia sp. and Dictyostelium d…
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What glucose concentrations are ideal for sl…
Hello! I'm an IB student and I've decided to do my extended essay (like a research project) on physarum polycephalum :)
My experimental design is essentially creating a rectangular runner of agar, p…
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What glucose concentrations are ideal for sl…
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Other Species?
I've pretty much gotten the hang of P. polycephalum (w/ the exception of sporulation). Does anybody have recommendations for other species?
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Other Species?
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Beginner to Growing
Hi everyone! I'm so happy there is a community for slime molds, as I was feeling lonely in my social circle. What container should I have slime mold live in and what strain would be good for Michigan…
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Beginner to Growing
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