Jess Foster 🏳️‍🌈 🌱 🧪 she/her

i hope she continues feeling better! <3

ugggh protect your braincells and feel better soon 🫠

good lord what is this like the fifth time? stahp

fun wintertime game: is it static electricity, or did i forget to turn the electrophoresis box off before i touched the gel 🤔

a cat standing in a cleared path. the uncleared snow is approximately cat height

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)

ooo who’s that

🤣🤣 okay, fair enough

wait why are pumpkins so strange?

🫠

they want us to feel helpless. fight it.

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!

just free mStayGold, testing a promoter for localization

confocal microscopy of plant leaf cells. red is chlorophyll in the chloroplasts, green is a gfp reporter

stressful week but i took a pretty picture of plant chloroplasts so that's nice

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