Happy Slime Mold Sunday from these pulsing protista plasmodia! What youre seeing as pulsing or breathing is the bidirectional flow of cellular components across the plasmodium which is one giant cell composed of many single cells merged together. Slime molds display “network intelligence” and are able to coordinate decisions across their plasmodium, actively tracking down food while moving away from competitors. They can sense light, humidity, and make decisions about when to form apores based o