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\title{PLOS Science Wednesday: Hi reddit, my name is Nicholas Money and I
published a paper in PLOS ONE which showed mushroom spores act as nuclei
for raindrops using environmental electron microscopy -- Ask Me
Anything!}



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  \date{April 24, 2026}


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Hi Reddit, My name is Nicholas Money. I'm a biologist at Miami
University in Oxford, Ohio and specialize in the study of fungal growth
and reproduction. I am fascinated by the extraordinary mechanisms of
spore discharge in these organisms that include high-velocity spurts,
exploding gas bubbles, and a catapult that launches mushroom spores. I
am the senior author of a 2015 paper in PLOS ONE titled, ``Mushrooms as
rainmakers: How spores act as nuclei for raindrops''. A couple of years
ago I was struck by research by atmospheric chemists that suggested that
50 million tons of fungal spores are ejected into the atmosphere every
year. This made me wonder whether the mechanism of drop expansion that
powers the discharge of mushroom spores could be reactivated once the
spores were airborne. If this happened in clouds, it could play a
significant role in the condensation of water and stimulate rainfall.
The PLOS ONE paper reports experiments that offer a proof of concept
using environmental scanning electron microscopy. This work was
co-authored by my doctoral student, Maribeth Hassett, and long-term
collaborator Mark Fischer, a physicist at Mount St. Joseph University in
Cincinnati. I'll be answering questions at 1pm ET -- Ask Me Anything!%
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