Trick or Treat Month: Slime with Alexis Nikole Nelson!

Trick or Treat Month returns... and this time it's personal! Join us for another month of spooky themes and special surprise guest apparitions! Try not to get too scared!
And so we close the ancient, flesh-bound spell book on another Trick or Treat Month... but we're going out on top, baby! Alexis Nikole Nelson has appeared, as if by magic, to lead us into the deep, dark woods and point out all the slimy, sticky, gross stuff on the ground that she says we can eat. I guess I trust her!
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[This or That]
Round 1 - Blue glowing slime
scripps.ucsd.edu/news/tube-worm-slime-displays…
ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5103273
Round 2 - Eating parents’ slime
animalmicrobiome.biomedcentral.com/articles/10…
wired.co.uk/article/caecilians-limbless-amphib…
sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/10/101029104603…
analyticalsciencejournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.…
Round 3 - Snottites
ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3246232
nationalgeographic.com/science/article/see-the…
Round 4 - Mating plug
journals.biologists.com/jeb/article/218/9/1410…
link.springer.com/article/10.1023/A:1005596707…
ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1564092
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/mrd.2…
[Trivia Tiebreaker]
Hagfish slime on road
southernfriedscience.com/your-car-has-just-bee…
[Ask the Science Couch]
Slime molds and biocomputers
sciencedirect.com/topics/agricultural-and-biol…
nature.com/articles/s41598-019-55749-9
ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5755296
link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s12668-014-0…
newscientist.com/article/dn23713-slime-mould-c…
techhq.com/2023/04/biocomputers-an-alternative…
[Butt One More Thing]
Bird nestling fecal sac / mucus membrane
audubon.org/news/what-are-fecal-sacs-bird-diap…
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/jav.00…

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