i’m not saying storm-predicting headaches are the lamest psychic power, but i’m not not saying it
Jess Foster 🏳️🌈 🌱 🧪 she/her
@jfplantstuff.bsky.social
Plant researcher at Indiana University ~ plant pathogen interactions ~ also janky cats, tropical fruit trees, tiny goats Apprentice Petalsmith
Mary-Dell Chilton died today. She should have won a Nobel for creating modern plant bioengineering. youtube.com/watch?v=AXc9677PvEA
Moments of Discovery: The Mary-Dell Chilton Story
YouTube video by National Inventors Hall of Fame - NIHF
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Pöpli wants to know why there are commercials in Cat TV. ruins the hunt and he’s not gonna buy car insurance im pretty sure
i think my tiny corpse flower is trying to flower 🤩
Surprised to discover that Thermo Fisher appears to show a fake western blot for the validation of one of their p53 antibodies. I've added a diagram to show the very similar bands. This does not appear to be one of the "published figures" but their own internal data.
might as well use my surprise days off to catch up on some weed eating
this is not my ideal way of seeing my lab published in Science magazine, but, here we are. Roger is well known as a devoted life-long plant scientist, but he is also an incredible human being who shows constant kindness and encouragement to everyone around him. this is simply not fair.
Science Magazine@science.org · 3mo agoBreaking news: Indiana University plant microbiologist Roger Innes has been locked out of his laboratory by the school in response to a request by one of his federal funders. The move comes after Innes complained about the government’s prosecution of Chinese postdocs. https://scim.ag/4tsDqRr
one of my prettier weirdo plants, amorphophallus atroviridis 🤩 part of my recent obsession with corpse flower varieties
did you know that actually-ripe limes are yellow 🤩 this one is freshly off my own basement Bearss lime tree
my lawn is slowly turning into violets & wild pansies and i love it
found a fasciated dandelion while i was planting strawberries 🍓
omg i think we have a melanistic downy woodpecker??! 🤩🤩🤩
xtina left me alone for an hour so i bought seven more trees like any reasonable adult
fun wintertime game: is it static electricity, or did i forget to turn the electrophoresis box off before i touched the gel 🤔
got a decent amount of snow… feral cat for scale (if you zoom in on his forehead there is a perfect snowflake in his fur)
Pleased to share this thoughtful essay by Jess on my flower design project🌹🧬 As a small thank-you for spreading the work, I'm randomly giving away 5 of these new morphogenesis hoodies to whoever reposts this!
Jess@jessnash.bsky.social · 8mo agoGenetic engineering, painting, sculpting, floristry, and fantasy are united in @nickdesnoyer.bsky.social 's flower design art project. New essay out now on a blossoming frontier of transgenic art!
stressful week but i took a pretty picture of plant chloroplasts so that's nice
Pöpli when i tell him it’s not actually even friday yet
waiting for ligations to ligate and just acquired some marchantia liverwort starts from a neighboring lab. look at these tiny babies! 🥰 i made them a little greenhouse so here’s to hoping they stay alive. thank you @rhcalderon.bsky.social lab!
just me over here anxiously waiting to see if a three year old agar stab will grow
a person standing in front of a bed with the words `` are you alive '' written on it .
Alt: a cat looking very concerned with the caption, "are you alive?"
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just discovered that they make hot water heaters these days where you have to press a button to spark the pilot light, but the pilot is located behind a non-removable metal panel such that you physically cannot just use a match to light it if, say, the stupid cheap plastic button is not working. 🫠
just dropped my foundling kitten off at the vet to get fixed. i know exactly how safe and beneficial it is but my anxiety brain is still 😭😭😭