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🧠 The humble moss growing on your walls and sidewalks produces complex electrical waves that look startlingly like neural activity. Scientists recorded fast spikes, rhythmic fluctuations, and slow depolarization waves traveling through moss cushions — signals that resemble action potentials and neuron-like spike trains normally associated with brains. A computer scientist spent 178 hours monitoring common rough-stalked feather moss (Brachythecium rutabulum) and found that moss cushions behave as interconnected excitable systems, coordinating signals across space and time. The researcher proposes that moss could serve as a living substrate for biohybrid sensors and unconventional computing. doi.org/10.1098/rsos.252341 #Science #Botany #NeuralNetworks #Mosstodon
#science #Mosstodon #botany #neuralnetworks

On the usual hunt for a nice spot to sit.

#sillyScribbles #mosstodon

A photo of a moss covered tree trunk with a wee branch sticking out to the right, against a dark green blurred backdrop with a few bright spots. Part of the mossy trunk is in sunlight, part in shadow. A scribbled figure sits on the wee branch, gazing into space, arms resting on raised knees. Underneath them it says "Sometimes I sit and think and sometimes I just sit".
#Mosstodon #sillyscribbles

Mossy land art created by artist Jon Foreman in Minwear Woods, Wales 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿

#Art #Mosstodon #Moss

Intricate spiral patterns meticulously arranged around a tree trunk using only natural moss.
#art #Mosstodon #moss

Look at this stump. What a perfect stump.
#mosstodon #mushrooms
Looking straight down at a tree stump in dappled shade and sunlight, covered in green miss and bracket mushrooms at various stages: young white lumps, green fan shapes, and old blackening fans.
The same stump seen from the side, surrounded by forest greens, grass, maple leaves, white avens, jack in the pulpit, and Virginia creeper.
#Mosstodon #Mushrooms

Woodland is a great place to be when it's hot - cooler, and full of lovely old trees and moss

#Mosstodon #Trees #Woodland #Nature #NaturePhotography

The base of a big old tree trunk in dappled shade, with supporting roots that act like flying buttresses on an old church. These roots and the base of the trunk are smothered in thick green moss.
#nature #naturephotography #Mosstodon #trees #woodland

Saddle bridge near Combestone tor, a couple of summers ago, #Dartmoor, #Devon #photography #mosstodon
willow tree hangs over a bridge and a stream
#photography #Mosstodon #Devon #dartmoor

Things I found growing on stuff.

#mosstodon #nature #photography #fungiFriends #lichenSubscribe #gardening

Damp red sandstone mottled with black, sprinkled with young feathery candleflame lichens.
A bit of rotting lumber with what I think is staghorn's fungus rising up like skeletal fingers.
iNaturalist tells me this is Xylodon flaviporus growing on my porch, but all I can see is what looks like a little bleached corral reef covered in algae.
I like to take regular photos of the golden fan shaped jelly fungus growing in the cracks of the green paint on my old bench. I only get to see it after a few days of rain, it always looks so pretty.
#photography #nature #Mosstodon #gardening #lichensubscribe #fungiFriends

Yesterday I was making an album of my favorite photos from my UK trip. Here's one in Bute Park, Cardiff, Wales. I always wanted to go to Wales, and now that I've been, I wish I could have stayed.
#ThickTrunkTuesday #mosstodon #wales
The base of a beautiful tree trunk, twisting lightly as it goes up, with green moss on the exposed roots.
#Mosstodon #Wales #thicktrunktuesday

Tidigare idag i en skog nära mig.
#mosstodon
Ett gammalt knotigt träd står i en skogsbacke med mossa och bräken
Ett stort jättekast ligger mitt på en skogsstig med två tofsar bräken och mossa som växer ovanpå och träd runtomkring
Träd sträcker sig mot varandra i en grön skogsbacke och en blå himmel med rusiga vita moln som skymtar genom lövverket
#Mosstodon

Technically not my first #mosstodon, because it's what littlest kid made just for fun while I was working out on the porch.
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