Jess Foster 🏳️‍🌈 🌱 🧪 she/her

an adorable young cat sprawled on his back on a cat tree, limbs akimbo, eyes closed and mouth slightly ajar.

Pöpli when i tell him it’s not actually even friday yet

yay!! so happy for you:)

but why does gold have an expiration date ?

im all about the lazy methods as long as they work 😅

im super excited to see if this works 😁

oh you just have a Not Deer

a fortune cookie fortune reading, “there is a prospect of a thrilling time ahead of you.” i do not like thrilling times

vaguely ominous 😅

this would give me ever so much anxiety

wikipedia says yer 27F is actually 8F 😅

three little green blobs sitting on top of rocky soil under a clear plastic dome

the little greenhouse. made from a cherry tomato container with plastic wrap temporarily covering the air holes while i acclimate them to less than 100% humidity

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!

omg that is genius 🤩

aw lame :( but at least the leaf discs are okay

not the one you just used for tc? 😬

the autoclavable cutting mat is genius

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?"

just me over here anxiously waiting to see if a three year old agar stab will grow

so.. make a tasty version 😅

sometimes science feels like magic

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. 🫠

"green" 😆

we have these in my lab 😅

kitten sitting on my legs, recovering from surgery

hard part is over 🙂

what ... what's wrong with zinc fingers

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 😭😭😭

were you able to find one?

now that's purty 🤩

a tiny baby sugar apple fruit, it looks like a raspberry but green. maybe the size of a quarter or so

omggg look what i found in my tiny potted sugar apple treeeee 🤩 fingers crossed that it actually grows

Dual-cycle CO2 fixation enhances growth and lipid synthesis in Arabidopsis thaliana Carbon fixation through the Calvin-Benson-Bassham (CBB) cycle accounts for the majority of carbon dioxide (CO2) uptake from the atmosphere. The CBB cycle generates C3 carbohydrates but is inefficient ...

love this 🤩 making photosynthesis more efficient without modifying rubisco!

looks great!