Cultures Memes

Mycologists spend their entire careers staring at Petri dishes wondering if that fuzzy spot is contamination or the next scientific breakthrough. The struggle is real! Every fungal researcher has experienced that moment of squinting at a culture plate, tilting it under the light, and debating whether to toss it or treasure it. That colorful mosaic of molds in the image would send any mycology lab into a spirited debate - is it a ruined experiment or a diverse ecosystem worth studying? The eternal question of "Is this contam?" haunts their dreams and fills their group chats.