#astromycologist

[kidneys-and-custard]

I just found out there’s a real person named Paul Stamets who works as a mycologist

[electricspacekoolaid]

The Real Life Paul Stamets ‘Star Trek Discovery’

In Star Trek Discovery scientist Lt. Paul Stamets is an “astromycologist” specializing in mushrooms and “spore-drive” technology. The fictional Star Trek scientist is actually based on a real life American scientist with the same name.

Paul Stamets is a Mycologist with a passion for fungi and mushrooms believing that mushrooms can one day save the world. His work focuses on finding extraordinary uses for mushrooms creating applications that seem right out of Gene Roddenberry’s Star Trek universe. Stamets has shown how fungi can be utilized to clean polluted soil, replacing toxic insecticides and also treating viruses. Paul has invented paradigm-shifting uses for fungal extracts including some that have the ability to boost immunity and fight viruses. These extracts were discovered from a rare, gnarled mushroom found in old growth forests in the Pacific Northwest which protects from small pox.

[nanotopian]

Next Tardis prototype. Today someone at the OSC asked me what my background was. My response: AstroMycologist. They believed me! 😁 #doctorwho #astromycologist #mycelium #biosonification #mushroomtoronto #mushroom #tardis (at Ontario Science Centre) https://www.instagram.com/p/B0KZI53gfrE/?igshid=tzh03mu04mep