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Welcome to EarthTalk

EarthTalk is an open scientific effort to understand the electrical activity of living fungal networks and what these signals reveal about how fungi sense, compute, and respond to their environment.

My long-term goal is to build a fungal data layer for Earth: a structured way to read the "vital signs" of soil, plants, and ecosystems using mycelial electrical activity. I work from the hypothesis that fungal networks are the closest biological analogue to Earth's nervous system, and that decoding their signals can help humanity prevent ecological damage, improve food supply, and reconnect with the living world.

This workspace is my evolving lab notebook, protocol archive, and thinking engine.

🧭 Where to Start

1. Explore the Experiments

👉 Experiment Digest

My experiments, the analysis that came out of them, what I think the results mean, the questions they open up, and the backlog of future tests.

2. Thoughts & Ideas

⚙️ Journal Entries

Private notes, summarized by AI or developed through a conversation with AI - to help me track the evolution of my thinking over time. Raw, but hopefully organized enough to see the progression.

3. Use the Open Protocols

🔓 Open Protocols

Step-by-step guides for setup, equipment, and code. If you want to replicate my work or run your own experiments, start here.

4. Education

📚 What I'm Learning

📖 What I'm Reading

This is the knowledge I'm building in parallel with the experiments. If you're curious, you can follow along, ask questions, or start discussions.

🧪 Contribute to EarthTalk

Do you want to collaborate? Would love to connect with:

  • Experimenters running fungal blocks or AMF tests
  • Hardware & sensing engineers
  • Researchers validating signals
  • Data scientists exploring patterns
  • Curious minds who want to learn by doing

To join:

  1. Read a protocol
  2. Run your first measurement
  3. Share your data or findings via Notion, GitHub, or email

If you ran an experiment - whether it worked or didn't - please share it. Every result moves the science forward.

🧰 Tools & Methods

I try to keep things simple, measurable, and reproducible:

  • ESP32 microcontrollers
  • ADS1115 analog-to-digital converters
  • Acupuncture needles + alligator clips (as electrodes)
  • InfluxDB + CSV logging + Python
  • This page as the open R&D HQ

Don't assume anything and verify everything.

📬 Contact

Thoughts, insights, or collaboration ideas?

👤 Who Am I?

I'm Moshe Lokshin, nobody in particular - just someone with a deep curiosity and a long pull toward fungi who finally found the time and space to explore it. This work feels meaningful, I'm learning a lot, and I'm having a lot of fun. Talk to you soon.

Cheers Moshe

✍️ Note on the Writing Style

I'm not a professional writer, and most of my early notes are messy, nonlinear, and full of typos. To make this more useful for others, I've run much of the content here through ChatGPT to make it clearer and more inviting for new contributors.

This project is about building signal, not showing off polish. If something sounds well-written, it's probably AI-assisted. If it's rough, it's probably me.

Either way, the goal is the same: clarity, compounding research, and progress.