Renee Davis

Fungi as your Futurist — Sporesight Fungi as your Futurist is a free toolkit inviting you to be more like a mushroom. Through 12 principles, it poses new ways to design regenerative futures, inspired by nature’s intelligence. Download n...

If we’re to tackle humanity’s biggest challenges, we need radical new ways of being. If you want to think like fungi, we developed ✨ FUNGI AS YOUR FUTURIST✨, a playbook of fungal design principles - 🔗 www.sporesight.co/fungi-futures via @sporesight.bsky.social

The Nature of Life in Its Smallest Forms — Collection — AskNature Ant, plant, humpback whale, or human––we each begin life as a single cell. And some of us stay that way. Get to know our single-celled relatives like never before.

Loving this incredible microbial resource and collection from Erin A. Miller and The Biomimicry Institute's Ask Nature program. asknature.org/collection/m...

Those of you who know me know that I enjoy biological and ecological metaphors for organizations.

Hear me out: Spirit Halloween stores are decomposers, moving in on newly dead/closed commercial/retail spaces.

"Mycorrhizae play such a fundamental role in transmitting information between plant and fungal organisms that some researchers have drawn parallels between the Common Mycorrhizal Network (CMN) and our internet network, leading to talk of the Wood Wide Web (Read, 1997)"

Amazing

The Acid Queen: The Psychedelic Life and Counterculture Rebellion of Rosemary Woodruff Leary · Zoom · Luma Rosemary Woodruff Leary has been known only as the wife of Timothy Leary, the Harvard professor-turned-psychedelic high priest, whose jailbreak captivated the…

Just joined April Pride + Eugenia Bone for last month’s Psychedelic Salon. Excited for the next one: The Acid Queen with Susannah Cahalan + Erika Dyck, moderated by April. Rosemary Woodruff Leary was so much more than Timothy Leary’s wife. This re-centers her voice and legacy. luma.com/yhq9d3ea

Hexagon People: A Theory of Civic Coherence Or, Interstitionaries Gonna Interstitate

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Soils as outer space Imagine the underground as a cosmos, with gravitational fields of kinship and relational depth. This is an essay about soil, space, biotech, and the invisible forces that hold us.

#Soils and space both are vast, largely unmapped, and essential to life. Yet they are perceived radically differently. Space is so much about projection, but soils are examples of entanglement. reneeadeledavis.substack.com/p/soils-as-o...

“The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom.” What is the role of human researchers in the age of AI? Great synthesis here, with many thought-provoking ideas that deserve broader discussion. Thoughts🧵 > cadmusjournal.org/article/volu...

Flourishing is not a fixed point. It’s a dance of becoming.
I’m co-editing a special section in Leonardo (MIT Press) with @aerosciengineer.bsky.social on flourishing and we’re inviting your work.

🌀 July 1 – Sept 15
💠 Topics: kinship, attention, beautiful questions
🔗 leonardo.info/opportunity/...

The ghostly white plant that has sparked a war among foragers Used medicinally by Native Americans for centuries, Monotropa uniflora — a.k.a. ghost pipe — is having a moment on social media. Not everybody is happy about it.

Just quoted in the WA Post in an article about ghost pipe, a plant caught in the crosshairs of TikTok, herbalism, and ecological ethics.
I spoke about what it might mean to choose education over extraction, and how healing doesn’t always come in a bottle. 🌱
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Psilocybin Mushrooms Beyond the Trip: Ecology, Industry & Personal Truths Listen now | How psilocybin microdosing may support women navigating menopause’s brain and hormone shifts.

Eugenia Bone and I talked about psilocybin, community science, and systems thinking earlier this month. Check out the recording! aprilpride.substack.com/p/psilocybin...

Cecilia Vicuña on Mushrooms, Brain Rot, and the End of the World "There are lots of studies devoted to what A.I. is doing to the human brain," the poet and artist told the mycologist Giuliana Furci. "It's actually rotting the brain."

www.interviewmagazine.com/art/cecilia-...

We recently at the Aspen Institute to talk about flourishing - what it is, how we assess it, and what it looks like to build a field of Flourishing Studies. TY @aspeninstitute.bsky.social for hosting us and to @aerosciengineer.bsky.social who has been convening these discussions in salons for years.

Loving On Beings Hope Portal series these days - here is the journal woth prompts onbeing.org/wp-content/u...

Hosting a virtual salon July 7 with Eugenia Bone on her newest book Have a Good Trip 🍄
Moderated by April Pride @SetSet. Join us!

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#mycology #psilocybin #sciencephilosophy #salon

Supracellular – Sophie Strand Opening up to “a supracellular state,” Sophie Strand uses her imagination to feel herself as part of the more-than-human: as river, as mycelial network, as the blood of a monarch butterfly.

Beautiful essay and meditation on decentralized mind, and thinking as a whole person. emergencemagazine.org/essay/suprac...

research as leisure activity my favorite form of entertainment is downloading PDFs ✦ plus favorite Fluxus artists and early programs

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Hyperlocal work feels like:
- Facilitating/hosting regenerative dialogs/salons
- Offering plant and mushroom walks and nature journal workshops
- Regenerative economic development discussions
- Picking up litter
- Making efforts to talk to my neighbors more

🌀 New on Substack: How I Work
Journals, sketchbooks, digital gardens, rituals, and Friday synth-time... I’ve spent decades building a life-work ecosystem that helps me think, create, and imagine.
I’m sharing the rhythms and tools that help me. Maybe there's a seed in there for you.
🌱 Link in bio

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Thank you !

Painting as process / The world is being created Ghost pipe as a guide; art as a method for ecological inquiry and world-making.

In 2022 I began a painting of ghost pipe, but it refused to become a portrait. It's not a product and not intended to be finished. It’s a portal to the partnership strength of science and art. The future isn't a fixed point, but a process 🕸️🎨 reneeadeledavis.substack.com/p/painting-a...

Song of the Cedars - A Conversation with Giuliana Furci, Robert Macfarlane, César Rodríguez-Garavito, and Cosmo Sheldrake Bringing in the voice of the forest, four members of the More Than Human Life Collective share the story of co-composing a song with the Los Cedros cloud forest in Ecuador and explore how its authorsh...

And a great interview about the process here - emergencemagazine.org/conversation...

YouTube video by Cosmo Sheldrake - Topic Song of the Cedars

Currently listening: Song of the Cedars, a song co-created with the Los Cedros cloud forest in Ecuador. youtu.be/ZxRjncYGLHE?...

The Forest For the Trees: How “Backyard Biology” Can Lead to Scientific Breakthroughs Though famed for his voyage around the world on HMS Beagle, with its auspicious stop in the Galapagos Islands, Charles Darwin was actually a notorious homebody. From the day he stepped back ashore …

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Who needs regenerative time? ✋🏼 h/t Amanda Joy Ravenhill

Governance in and for complexity Part 1: collective governance within intermediary organisations

Focus on intermediary orgs in systems change medium.com/good-shift/g...

Reclaiming Hope for Alternative Futures Part 1 — Transition Models and Metaphor: Proposing a new model for systems transformation

Currently reading: the petal model for a post capitalist framework and model for systems change medium.com/onioncollect...

Woodland (2020) – Sarah Anne Johnson In Woodland, I documented the forests around my home in Manitoba.  I then transformed the photographs with paint, metal leaf, holographic tape, photo-spotting ink, and photoshop to create a more hones...

Art I’m appreciating today - sarahannejohnson.ca/works/woodla...