#astromycologist

[bee-calm]

head over heels

#once again forcing you to look at my ocs #ocs #original characters #oc #original character #gfs in space #say hi to vi (owns a cafe in a spaceship) #and eden (an astromycologist who named her cat after a type of mushroom) #ghost draws

[tafkarfanfic]

Real-life mycologist Paul Stamets with Anthony Rapp, who plays Doctor Paul Stamets, astromycologist, on Star Trek Discovery.

#paul stamets #and also the other paul stamets #anthony rapp #star trek discovey #st disco

[selfindulgentfandomstuff]

Yippeeee they are real!! :D

Elis Carter is my self insert on the left! He is a quantum cosmologist serving aboard the USS Discovery!!

P/aul S/tamets (without slashes, I just am terrified of normal fans finding this LOL) on the right, is an astromycologist serving aboard the USS Discovery!!

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Basic outline for some of the lore..

- Paul met Elis about 12 years ago (from the starting episode of the show) when Elis was finishing up their dissertation for their PhD and starting out in

S/tarfleet Academy as a cadet. Paul was just beginning his research into the interdimensional mycelial network, which at the time was only theoretical. He brought Elis on as a research assistant.

The two worked long hours during the day and into the night for years, but the experience brought them closer together than the usual relationship between colleagues. They eventually fell in love with each other.

They would stay a couple for 6 years, up until Elis graduated from the academy and got reassigned to a deep space station monitoring astrophysical phenomena of cosmological importance.

The relationship ended amicably and the two didn’t think they’d ever see each other again.

The next time they saw each other they both had been assigned to the USS Discovery…

Of course by now 6 years had passed and Paul had moved on and married H/ugh C/ulber. But the two were still glad to see each other and happy to be friends and colleagues again :)

#I wish nothing but the best for you too #<- ship tag for Paul x Elis and all subsequent relationship eras (when they’re together. when they’ve broken up. when they meet again) #selfship #selfship community #f/o #f/o community #selfship art #f/o art #self insert #self insert art #self insert community #trans self insert #gay selfship #we need a type of tag for selfships where the selfship is doomed from the start and we all know it’ll fall apart eventually… #but we still love while we can

[spacetimewithstuartgary]

Turning up gravity for space fungi study

Fungi in space have been a plot point in Star Trek: Discovery, but they are also a very real problem for astronauts and space stations. United Nations co-sponsored testing by a team from Macau in China subjected fungi to hypergravity with ESA's fast-spinning centrifuge.

A team from the Astrobiology group of the State Key Laboratory of Lunar and Planetary Sciences at the Macau University of Science and Technology of Macau—a special administrative region of China—used ESA's Large Diameter Centrifuge at the ESTEC technical center in the Netherlands to test the growth of fungal colonies under double normal Earth's gravity.

Up until now the Macau team has been making use of 3D clinostats—otherwise known as random positioning machines, which continuously shift their orientation of the gravity vector to simulate microgravity conditions—to test how fungi respond to weightlessness.

Access to the LDC was arranged through HyperGES, part of the Access to Space for All initiative of the United Nations Office of Outer Space Affairs, UNOOSA.

The LDC is an 8 m-diameter four-arm centrifuge that gives researchers access to a range of hypergravity up to 20 times Earth gravity for weeks or months at a time.

At its fastest, the centrifuge rotates at up to 67 revs per minute, with its six gondolas placed at different points along its arms weighing in at 130 kg, and each capable of accommodating 80 kg of payload.

Their two weeks using the LDC enabled the Macau team extended testing into hypergravity conditions, supported by ESA's Life Support & Physical Sciences Instrumentation Laboratory team.

Fungal species were grown until full mature grown was achieved, and then examined to check for genetic or "phenotypic" stress reactions.

Next, one of the selected fungal species underwent a second generation of exposure to hypergravity to see if any stress reactions or alterations were maintained, or whether cumulative effects might be observed. As part of the analysis, selected samples were also analyzed under a scanning electron microscope at ESA's nearby Materials and Electrical Components Laboratory.

"The study of fungi in space is called 'astromycology,' a subset of astrobiology," explains Marta Filipa Simões, leader of this project from Macau University of Science and Technology.

"The ship's engineer in Star Trek: Discovery is an astromycologist, but this is indeed a real field of study and an increasingly important one. Fungi have a long history of making it into space and can have serious impacts once they are there."

The Russian space station Mir experienced fungal contamination as it aged. Portholes became obscured while plastics and metals were corroded, triggering malfunctions in turn—and wider concerns for the station structure.

Prof. Simões adds, "The International Space Station has had its own issues in rooms where crewmembers exercise, with higher humidity leading to fungal contamination on the walls. They have to do a lot of regular cleaning and disinfecting to prevent it.

"In a closed system like the ISS, any time you have the growth of biofilms, which fungi use to stay in place, you can have problems. This can be a serious concern because fungi might also trigger infections or allergic responses in astronauts, whose immune systems are themselves depressed in space. Conversely many fungal species appear to have their growth promoted in microgravity conditions—it is part of our present study to try and better understand why."

Some fungi are always going to make it to space, with hardy fungal spores able to adhere to all sorts of surfaces and tissues, such as the human body. Spacecraft cleanrooms are never pristine in practice; biological surveys show they are home to fungi and other microorganisms.

"We are never going to be able to get rid of fungi entirely as we venture into space, so we need to understand them," says André Antunes, part of the research team of Macau University of Science and Technology.

"In addition, they offer positive opportunities as well as risks. Down on Earth fungi are employed to make food—such as yeast for fermentation—as well as medicines, chemical enzymes for industry as well as metal nanoparticles used in numerous fields.

"For future space settlement they might be harnessed to cover different types of needs,, including recycling, or mining essential minerals out of planetary surfaces. These are seen as essential in helping to reduce costs and ensure sustainability of crewed space exploration."

The next HyperGES team to perform experiments on the LDC comes from Mahidol University, Thailand. They team will investigate how watermeal—the smallest flowering plant on Earth, even smaller than the more familiar duckweed—responds to changing gravity levels to assess its usefulness for space-based life support systems.

TOP IMAGE....Fungi species being prepared for exposure to hypergravity inside a spinning gondola of ESA's Large Diameter Centrifuge. Credit: UNOOSA

LOWER IMAGE....Fungi observed on the ISS, growing on a panel of the Russian Zarya Module where exercise clothes were hung to dry. Credit: NASA/ESA

#science #space #astronomy #physics #news #esa #astrophysics

[twincityhacker]

Star Trek: Discovery Headcanon Time:

The reason Paul Stamets is an astromycologist is because of Hugh. The got into a friendly debate about space, and after it nearly spiraled into an unfriendly debate Paul decided to figure out what Hugh thought so great about it. Hugh also tried going the oppisate direction about "what's so cool about dirt."

Neither of them completely got it. But Paul stopped thinking of space as a near endless place devoid of life... and it's now a near endless place nearly devoid of life.

Paul also discovered his beloved field of astromycology though this study.

#star trek #star trek discovery

[my-timing-is-digital]

@quantumstarpaths continued from [ x ]

A ruminative nod, intertwined with a look of profound understanding pertaining to the transience of life that was familiar to all humanoids, ensued Stamets’ statements; Data could sympathise with his scepticism. He was cognisant of the many negative experiences the Commander had endured during his time. His work had been diminished to an inconsequential, unreliable, and error prone experiment after Discovery’s feigned destruction; the android could imagine it might be challenging for him to envision anyone carrying on his work in the future. But the android was optimistic with regards to the continuation of Stamets’ work; they had virtually exhausted every last ounce of the resources that facilitated faster than light travel. Dilithium was no longer a material they had in abundance; supplies were running low and they were in desperate need of a dependable alternative... And maybe, just maybe, the arrival of the Discovery and her crew could turn the tide, could hoist the Federation and Starfleet out of the detrimental feedback loop they had been incarcerated in for decades.

His words hammered home and he was glad his respectful persuasions had convinced Stamets to continue to pursue his aspirations and refine his admirable work and showcase to everyone in the Federation, and to former allies, that his invention was worth the investment. And that his devotion to the spore drive would be rewarded with new additions, with an evolution of spore drives that would be build atop the bedrock of his ingenious initiative and 23rd century resourcefulness.

‘I am glad I could be of assistance,’ he said reverently, the brims of his yellow eyes coruscating with anticipation. ‘Never make Starfleet retrogress to their old ways; if Starfleet Command approves of your invention and it is funded by the Federation, it could help usher in a new era. Your propulsion system could be implemented on a number of starships, rehabilitate the frail organisation that once prized itself for its strong alliances with over 300 planets, and help renovate the balance that has been non-existent for decades... Starfleet is not going to eradicate its problems, not on their own, and the Federation itself is kept on artificial respiration to protract its existence... ‘Pardon the ramblings of an obsolete Soong-type android, but I cannot express how difficult it has been to watch the organisations and ideals you once dedicated your life to and would have given your life for, crumble to dust, right before your eyes...’

It was not his intention to pressure the astromycologist into further perfecting the spore drive as fast as he could. Nor did his words insinuate that the achievements he had accomplished thus far were far from sufficient. On the contrary, the android was simply zealous to be reinstated as a Starfleet officer and venture out into the galaxy for exploratory purposes. At present, he was just an over-qualified cyberneticist, and although it was an honourable vocation, his destiny lay among the stars. Always had.

‘Well, to say myriad events have transpired during your absence would be somewhat of an understatement. But I believe I could truncate an infinitesimal number of these events by sharing a fragment of my life’s story,’ he said obligingly, establishing a chronologically sound order of snippets that represented the most salient features of his life.

Data provided Stamets with an encapsulation of the events relevant to his existence. He told him about his annihilation on the Scimitar in 2379, the attack on Mars in 2385 and the subsequent ban on synthetics. His resurrection in 2399*, the delightful discovery that his half-brother, Altan Inigo Soong, and the cyberneticist Bruce Maddox had devised over a hundred sentient androids, among whom his daughter, Soji. His reinstatement as Lieutenant Commander on the U.S.S. Pathfinder in 2417, his resignation in 2539, after which he permanently moved to Coppelius, where he worked alongside other cyberneticists to improve and develop the creation of artificial lifeforms, and devoted his spare time to his family life, to attending conferences on cybernetics, robotics, artificial intelligence. And then, The Burn...

‘⸺ I learned of The Burn after one of the repair shuttlecrafts returned from a routine maintenance check on the satellites orbiting Coppelius. They apprised us of the extraordinary readings their long range sensors had detected. And, as it turned out, a starship travelling at warp had been obliterated just outside our solar system. A complement of 500 Starfleet officers deceased. Within a matter of seconds. The magnitude of the catastrophe made it difficult to turn a blind eye. Though, reluctant as I was, I yielded to the hardship, hence why I offered my services ⸺ as did a great number of my people...’ he trailed off, his eyes glazing over as he recalled that fateful day in 3069. ‘I am sorry you had to travel to this particular point in time. The Federation debilitated. Starfleet barely operational...’

#quantumstarpaths #verse // to unpath'd waters undream'd shores #ooc: I moved the thread to beta hope that's ok with you! #this is also way too long #I was like: ok don't exaggerate your reply #me an hour later: feck I might've overdone it #but listen 32nd century data has many opinions and feelings about the federation and starfleet #and he doesn't want to subject his daughter to his lamenting (and yes soji is still alive because no way in hell I'm going to separate -- #-- these two precious androids; they will live together for all eternity) #so I'm sorry stamets but you're data's new victim; now you can be complain buddies together :3 #* since this is my discovery au everything that's happened in picard season 3 is irrelevant

[prue84]

Headcanon: The Discovery/Strange New Worlds Vs TOS conundrum

This is how I personally consider Star Trek Discovery and Strange New Worlds in relation to The Original Series. Headcanon/canon-fix, sort of.

Discovery is set in a divergence timeline, very close to the main but different, unwillingly created by doctor Gabrielle Burnham when she used the Red Angel suit to travel through time.

Doctor Burnham was meant to be left for dead by the Klingons and miraculously survive the brutal attack (either disabled or needing a long recovery), with Michael to grow up with her. Michael would eventually pursue a scientific career that would lead her to meet and work with astromycologist Stamets. But, by removing herself from her own time and being officially recorded as dead, doctor Burnham changed not only the future of her own daughter (who was left orphaned) and of Sarek's family (the house where Michael was adopted into) but also the lives of people either she or her daughter were meant to meet or influence, and even bigger events within the Federation, as no Commander Burnham was meant to serve in Starfleet.

All the people doctor Burnham was meant to meet, work with or inspire, or were meant to meet a Michael Burnham who didn't grow up in a Vulcan household, had their lives changed. For most of these people, the changes were subtle (a childhood love that was never experienced, a schoolmate that never was, a fellow scientist who started their research without a Burnham at their side), for others the course that was set for their life was drastically modified.

The perceived death of a Gabrielle Burnham and consequent different career for her daughter Michael caused changes such as the enlisting of Kirk's older brother, Samuel Kirk, while Stamets and his friend Straal have the opportunity to start their research that lead to the spore drive.

Captain Pike also grows into a similar and yet different person, both in personality and in how he approaches his role as captain and relates to his crew. The Pike he was meant to be was recruited as a cadet by Section 31 to take part to black ops. As a young officer, he would be involved in a top-secret mission to recover a time crystal to finally replace the one destroyed during the Klingon attack to the Burnhams. The mission would be brutal and the discover of the Daedalus Project would test Pike's moral compass so much that he would destroy the time crystal and then leave Section 31, but not before his personality was drastically influenced and the heaviness of this dark secret weighting him, making him a strict and somehow cold commanding officer, vary of especially females officers. While achieving a successful carrer, he wasn't meant to become the most decorated captain of his time, like his divergence counterpart.

Spock, with the presence of a sister he wasn't meant to have and consequent split attention from Amanda, grows into a slightly different Vulcan teenager, and his different life leads him to the decision to get to know T'Pring, the Vulcan his father chose for him as his future bondmate, and start a physical and romantic relationship with her - while his counterpart shared no time with her and his only memory of her is how she looked when they both were children.

The ripples of the changes reached out beyond timespace, sparkling the creation of a different Mirror Universe that would reflect the essential presence and influence of Michael Burnham, a universe that would eventually cross Burnham's path.

It is unknown if the Spock whose message to Picard Michael watches in the future is the Spock she learned to call “brother” or the Spock that continued with his life unaltered, and who never knew a person called Michael Burnham, and it's likely no-one will ever know, unless Michael manages to find her way back to the past and live through it to witness her brother's attempt (or not) to unify Vulcans and Romulans.

The change to the timeline also means that it is unclear if Pike's fate is really set as it looks, or if whenever Pike discovered to his future - or attempted to change it - he actually accessed his future, and not the future of the Pike who was meant to be.

The doomed fate of Spock and T'Pring engagement is also unsure.

(Notes and musing behind the cut)

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Notes Since the decision to make Michael Burnham Spock's lost sister, the new course for tv Trek is placing one retcon after retcon, so much that Strange New Worlds feels like a soft retcon to most of what didn't work/is outdated in both The Cage and The Original Series. While Strange New Worlds - from what I read - sounds entertaining and refreshing, it's becoming clear that the more the series will continue the more it'll be hard to see these new Enterprise iterations as prequel to The Original Series. It's hard to reconcile the Jeffrey Hunter!Pike from the lost 1965 pilot to the charming and wonderful character played by Anson Mount. Not to mention Peck!Spock and the heavy retcon of his relationship with T'Pring, or why M'Benga is suddenly the CMO but then he'll be demoted to just physician (senior?) under Kirk. And please, let's not even talk about Chapel, who is an (OC) complete new character, and Spock's feelings for her. It's not only the big things but also the small things: I can't just see Celia Rose Gooding as a young Nichelle Nichols (although they both have charming smiles!) nor I can't see any reasons to put Sam Kirk in Starfleet (another Kirk - let's remember that technically George on the Kelvin is TOS canon, since it's pre-split, and Winona's presence, while not confirmed canon, would imply that she's could be an officer as well). Yeah - I have a beef with most of the decisions that impact on characters or relationships established on TOS. But. The material itself is good (and the casting even more) and it would be a great disservice to dismiss it and pretend it doesn't exist. This is my attempt at keeping The Original Series as it is, untouched, and at the same time saving everything that has been narrated in new Trek so far.

This is also a way for me to keep all three Spocks (well, actually five, if we include Prime in AOS and Mirror) together to be played with - and yeah, to keep a door open for Pike's escape to his fate.

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Crossposted Livejournal: prue84.livejournal.com/88551.html Dreamwidth: prue84.dreamwidth.org/80435.html AO3: archiveofourown.org/works/43736121

#Star Trek #1.0.1 (Discovery) #Michael Burnham #Christopher Pike #Spock #Headcanons #Canon-fix #|| #star trek discovery #strange new worlds

[noworneverphantom]

I'm looking for a memorable quote from Stamets right now... but the internet isn't much help and I don't have the time to watch the entire series again lol.

If anybody has a favorite quote from Stamets, I'd love to hear it!! Anything helps, I'm really just looking for some kind of quote from my favorite astromycologist

(yes I'm being vague on purpose)

#star trek discovery #paul stamets #discovery

[tvsotherworlds]

[quantumstarpaths]

@cadetxtilly said: “Happy birthday to my favorite astromycologist!” Tilly exclaimed as she rounded the corner. She wasn’t scheduled to visit, but of course Tilly wasn’t going to let something like that stop her from seeing Paul. She had a box in her arms but immediately set it on the nearest available surface in favor of hugging him.

“It’s so good to see you! Sorry if you’re busy, but I couldn’t skip your day!”

She hugged him again, really savoring it this time. When they pulled back, Tilly grabbed the box from the table and set it in Paul’s hands.

“I know it’s a little old-fashioned, but I thought you’d still enjoy it.”

Inside the box is a white gold pocket watch with a round, slightly yellowed face. Delicate Roman numerals indicate the hours. Hand-painted mushrooms glint green-gold-silver beneath the glass. A worn, dark brown leather watch band lies in a second compartment below the first.

“Adira gave me some painting pointers,” Tilly explained. “And I used some ground up mushrooms to give the painting its bioluminescence. I figured you might prefer a pocket watch to go with your opera attire, but if you ever wanted something more casual, you could go for the band.”

She paused, rocking on her heels and chewing her bottom lip.

“-Is it okay?”-cadetxtilly

Despite everything that had been put into building the walls around himself, they had, in recent years, undergone several heavy blows that had left him with people he cared about. The woman whose voice he heard now was one of them--was, really, the first of them.

He looked up from his station, eyebrows raising in an expression that turned quickly from a general confusion to a genuine happiness that was rare to him. He even returned the hug, and happily at that. “I’m always busy,” he said, his tone warm. “But I can make time for you.” Again he was hugged, and again he returned it, truly enjoying it.

Then they pulled back, and he took the box that was offered to him, the same quirk of his eyebrows returning to his features, this time accompanied by a small smile. He opened it, gently taking the watch from its place in order to look at it closer, to inspect the small mushrooms. Everything about the piece was delicate, making him feel nervous that he would drop it despite having no reason to doubt the steadiness of his hands.

(He exhaled a huff of laughter at her comment on his opera attire. He could just imagine it, him going to the opera in coattails with a watch in his pocket. He was sure Hugh would enjoy the enthusiasm.)

“It’s...beautiful,” he said, looking at it a moment longer before returning it to the box, not wanting to risk damaging it by keeping it out when he had no reason to, replacing the lid and returning it to the spot on the table. He would certainly add it to his wardrobe, whether he was going to the opera or not, since the band allowed it.

“Thank you.” It was simple, but the emotion in the words was genuine. He never put so much weight on physical objects, but it meant something to him that she came here, that she’d put so much work into the gift, and it was beautiful. It was perfect.

#* ANSWERED. #cadetxtilly #* PAUL'S BIRTHDAY 2022

[kidneys-and-custard]

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

#star trek discovery #paul stamets #astromycologist #anthony rapp #star trek #disco

[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.

#star trek #Star Trek discovery #paul stamets #mushrooms #mycology #Fungi #science #science fiction #spore drive #sci fi #technology #gene roddenberry #boldly go #discovery #universe #space #Astronomy #astromycologist

[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

#doctorwho #astromycologist #mycelium #biosonification #mushroomtoronto #mushroom #tardis

[benmin]

Stamets meeting a real astromycologist

#star trek discovery #anthony rapp #AbSciCon #his reaction! #*

[taserweb]

what should i change my url to

taserweb tchallahh tkuvma (canon star trek url) tellarite/tellarites  (canon star trek url) batnya rogve1 ltpstamets astromycologists

#text #pwease help me #i cant decide #leaning towards astromycologists though #i just love star trek discovery okay #parker talks

[doitforstamets]

A doctor & an astromycologist.

#my edit #my edits #culmets #star trek discovery #paul stamets #hugh culber #disco s4 #star trek discovery s4 #spaceboos #space boos #wilson cruz #anthony rapp #* #star trek #star trek discovery edit #s4 promo