#slimemoulds — Public Fediverse posts

https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/399880082

#SlimeMoulds #Nature #Macro #Photography #SilentSunday

‘This is dangerous’: #SlimeMoulds and the bitter debate over the nature of #intelligence | | The Guardian

https://www.theguardian.com/news/ng-interactive/2026/sep/08/this-is-dangerous-slime-moulds-and-the-bitter-debate-over-the-nature-of-intelligence

"The way she described [slime mould path optimization] put me in mind of large language models [ #llm ] and their techniques of brute pattern-matching – an incomplete simulation of human thought that is described increasingly as intelligence."

Yes! So, yes!!!
Slime Moulds as Nature's large language models! *cackling on sooo many levels*

https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/395922367

#SlimeMoulds #Macro #Photography #Nature #SilentSunday

https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/393001227

#SlimeMoulds #Macro #Photography #Nature

https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/393001227

#SlimeMoulds #Macro #Photography #Nature

The best time to find slime molds is in the summer after heavy rain. Well, that’s exactly what we have had at the house… or should I say, ON the house??

Slime molds have 2 stages: plasmodial and fruiting. In the first, they are capable of movement. They can climb things. In the second, they can have very cool shaped bodies as they prepare to release their spores.

This one climbed the wooden siding of my house. 😳

Chocolate Tube Slime
[Stemonitis splendens]

#SlimeMolds #SlimeMoulds #Protists

🥴 Oh, the BBC has found the *real* hidden wonder of the universe: slime moulds. 📸 Because apparently, photographing microscopic blobs of goo is the pinnacle of cultural achievement now. 🍄 Who knew the next big thing in art would be... gelatinous fungi? 🙄
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c9d9409p76qo #slimemoulds #gelatinousfungi #culturalachievement #microscopicart #BBCnews #HackerNews #ngated

Blown out Comatricha nigra fruiting bodies dancing in the wind

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=f_W6Lxp9koc&t=1692s&pp=ygUaZm9yZXZlciBhbmQgYSBkYXkgc3luZHJvbWU%3D

#Wrathmonth #Slimemoulds #Myxomycetes

Slime moulds
Overlooked and underestimated. Utilises macrophotography. This 3mm tall Lamproderma gracile is one of 175 species of slime mould found on a 1km forest track, which shows just how common they are. Classified as Amoebozoans, the three life stages of slime moulds – amoeba, plasmodium and spore-bearing fruiting body – perform important roles.

Photograph: Sarah Lloyd

@photography
#macrophotography
#SlimeMoulds

Found this Lycogala flavofuscum slime mold just as it was beginning to fully harden. Kind of a cool color and texture. (Especially since it started out a smooth cotton candy pink color.)

#TextureTuesday #SlimeMolds #SlimeMoulds

Raspberry Slime Mold [Tubifera ferruginosa] displaying its own little fireworks.

#nature #SlimeMoulds #SlimeMold

Dog vomit and wolf’s milk: the extraordinary world of #SlimeMoulds
By Daniel Harwood 25 January 2023 Horniman Museum & Gardens
https://www.horniman.ac.uk/story/dog-vomit-and-wolfs-milk-the-extraordinary-world-of-slime-moulds/

Barry Webb, “Comatricha with Droplets.” Fungi and Slime Molds Finalist. Beautiful Comatricha nigra slime moulds gleam with water droplets on a rotting fence post in November in Beaconsfield, Buckinghamshire, U.K.

@photography
#CloseUp
#SlimeMoulds

The microscopic world hidden within an #autumnleaf has won the Royal Society Publishing #photography competition 2023.

Overall winner Irina Petrova Adamatzky researches the electrical activity of #fungi, #slimemoulds and other #microorganisms, at #UnconventionalComputing Lab, UWE Bristol.

‘I unintentionally captured this scene while collecting samples of slime moulds in a field near my home in Somerset, noticed them the evening before and had intended to gather samples…

72 hours in the life of a slime mold.

This week I discovered a slime mold taking over an old stump behind the house. Over the next 3 days I took a picture of it at the same time of day. Notice the section that grasped the twig - how it then didn’t proceed like the remainder of the mass. Once slime molds leave the plasmodium stage and enter the fruiting stage, the change is FAST.

#SlimeMoulds #slimemoldsunday #slimemold #enteridiumlycoperdon #myxogastria

“My eyes were starting to learn slime mold. My ways of seeing were altering, thanks to my new friends who were showing me what to look for. What was once invisible was quickly becoming apparent.”
Read “Creatures That Don’t Conform,” by Lucy Jones. https://emergencemagazine.org/essay/creatures-that-dont-conform/ Photo by Barry Webb. #SlimeMolds #SlimeMoulds

​​“How do we see the world as sacred again? By radical noticing.” In this narrated essay, author Lucy Jones brims with awe upon discovering slime molds in the woods near her home. Listen to this week's podcast, “Creatures That Don’t Conform.” https://emergencemagazine.org/podcast/ #Podcast #SlimeMolds #SlimeMoulds

This week on our podcast, we bring you a story from down deep among the forest floor. Journalist and author Lucy Jones brims with awe upon discovering slime molds and explores what might happen if, rather than trying to decipher such creatures, we instead bask in the wonder of their obscurity. Listen to “Creatures That Don’t Conform.” https://emergencemagazine.org/podcast/ Photo by Barry Webb. #SlimeMolds #SlimeMoulds #Podcast