Renee Davis
@reneedavis.bsky.social
Mycologist, engineer, systems designer (Univ Washington, Fmr R&D Director @fungiperfecti) working on regenerative ecotechnology and applying fungal principles to human systems 🍄🌱🌎
reneeadeledavis.substack.com
reneeadeledavis.substack.com
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
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...
www.sporesight.co
October 17, 2025 at 11:04 PM
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
Loving this incredible microbial resource and collection from Erin A. Miller and The Biomimicry Institute's Ask Nature program. asknature.org/collection/m...
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.
asknature.org
October 7, 2025 at 6:52 PM
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.
Hear me out: Spirit Halloween stores are decomposers, moving in on newly dead/closed commercial/retail spaces.
September 13, 2025 at 8:35 PM
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.
Hear me out: Spirit Halloween stores are decomposers, moving in on newly dead/closed commercial/retail spaces.
Reposted by Renee Davis
"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)"
September 2, 2025 at 11:56 AM
"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)"
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
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…
luma.com
September 2, 2025 at 10:59 PM
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
#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...
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.
reneeadeledavis.substack.com
August 4, 2025 at 2:11 AM
#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...
Reposted by Renee Davis
“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...
July 21, 2025 at 1:07 PM
“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/...
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/...
CALL FOR PAPERS | Flourishing as Ongoingness and Collectivity in Form and Process: A Dialectical Encounter
Guest Editors: Ryan McGranaghan, Renee Davis, and Nick Travaglini In a time of disorientation and raw emotion, the question of flourishing becomes even more urgent—and profoundly collective. We invite...
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July 19, 2025 at 1:29 AM
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/...
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/...
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. 🌱
www.washingtonpost.com/home/2025/07...
I spoke about what it might mean to choose education over extraction, and how healing doesn’t always come in a bottle. 🌱
www.washingtonpost.com/home/2025/07...
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.
www.washingtonpost.com
July 19, 2025 at 12:49 AM
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. 🌱
www.washingtonpost.com/home/2025/07...
I spoke about what it might mean to choose education over extraction, and how healing doesn’t always come in a bottle. 🌱
www.washingtonpost.com/home/2025/07...
Eugenia Bone and I talked about psilocybin, community science, and systems thinking earlier this month. Check out the recording! aprilpride.substack.com/p/psilocybin...
Psilocybin Mushrooms Beyond the Trip: Ecology, Industry & Personal Truths
Listen now | How psilocybin microdosing may support women navigating menopause’s brain and hormone shifts.
aprilpride.substack.com
July 19, 2025 at 12:29 AM
Eugenia Bone and I talked about psilocybin, community science, and systems thinking earlier this month. Check out the recording! aprilpride.substack.com/p/psilocybin...
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.
June 21, 2025 at 1:13 AM
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...
onbeing.org
June 20, 2025 at 2:15 PM
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!
lu.ma/uc79ia9x
#mycology #psilocybin #sciencephilosophy #salon
Moderated by April Pride @SetSet. Join us!
lu.ma/uc79ia9x
#mycology #psilocybin #sciencephilosophy #salon
June 15, 2025 at 11:28 PM
Hosting a virtual salon July 7 with Eugenia Bone on her newest book Have a Good Trip 🍄
Moderated by April Pride @SetSet. Join us!
lu.ma/uc79ia9x
#mycology #psilocybin #sciencephilosophy #salon
Moderated by April Pride @SetSet. Join us!
lu.ma/uc79ia9x
#mycology #psilocybin #sciencephilosophy #salon
Beautiful essay and meditation on decentralized mind, and thinking as a whole person. emergencemagazine.org/essay/suprac...
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.
emergencemagazine.org
June 12, 2025 at 4:19 AM
Beautiful essay and meditation on decentralized mind, and thinking as a whole person. emergencemagazine.org/essay/suprac...
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
- 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
April 20, 2025 at 2:43 AM
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
- 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
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
April 20, 2025 at 1:45 AM
🌀 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
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
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...
Painting as process / The world is being created
Ghost pipe as a guide; art as a method for ecological inquiry and world-making.
reneeadeledavis.substack.com
April 8, 2025 at 5:11 PM
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...
Currently listening: Song of the Cedars, a song co-created with the Los Cedros cloud forest in Ecuador. youtu.be/ZxRjncYGLHE?...
Song of the Cedars
YouTube video by Cosmo Sheldrake - Topic
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April 8, 2025 at 3:44 PM
Currently listening: Song of the Cedars, a song co-created with the Los Cedros cloud forest in Ecuador. youtu.be/ZxRjncYGLHE?...
Who needs regenerative time? ✋🏼 h/t Amanda Joy Ravenhill
April 2, 2025 at 6:13 PM
Who needs regenerative time? ✋🏼 h/t Amanda Joy Ravenhill
Focus on intermediary orgs in systems change medium.com/good-shift/g...
Governance in and for complexity
Part 1: collective governance within intermediary organisations
medium.com
March 26, 2025 at 5:52 PM
Focus on intermediary orgs in systems change medium.com/good-shift/g...