Pardon my double post, but it’s worth mentioning that the Star Trek: Discovery people chose to name a character after real-life mycologist Paul Stamets. Naming the character after the person they got a bunch of ideas from is an unusual step for a TV series, and I have to wonder if part of their decision to do so is in the service of spreading not only his ideas but the results of his research, which shows that fungi are a branch of life that ought to be studied much more closely than the scientific community has done in the past. The more people we have looking at them the better!