Jess Foster 🏳️‍🌈 🌱 🧪 she/her

Feeling proud of where SpliceCraft is at right now. Still got more details to add and UI jank to solve, but powerful af and open source. Made, with love, for this community. Enjoy. SpliceCraft.bio

Our new study on plant light harvesting complexes (LHCII) is live 🎉 We found that complexes engaged in energy dissipation show enhanced fluorescence intermittency ("blinking"). This links a native photoprotective state in plants (qH) to the fluorescence dynamics of individual antenna complexes 🌱✨

i’m not saying storm-predicting headaches are the lamest psychic power, but i’m not not saying it

Mary-Dell Chilton died today. She should have won a Nobel for creating modern plant bioengineering. youtube.com/watch?v=AXc9677PvEA

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 🤩

more marchantia !! 🤩 thank you, @rhcalderon.bsky.social i’ma try real hard not to kill it this time

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.

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

picked up a little arby’s after work

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)

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!

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

vaguely ominous 😅

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

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. 🫠

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 😭😭😭

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

love this 🤩 making photosynthesis more efficient without modifying rubisco!

gorgeous images 😍

we need more of things like this! fantastic opportunity for someone to GROW as a scientist 😃 🌱

To promote the collection, I’ve launched a designer clothing line where synthetic biology meets aesthetics. I will give out 100 free limited edition shirts to the first who retweet and order with their handle in the name! Available here → nickdesnoyer.com 🧵(6/7)

got home from work today, stepped outta my car and immediately heard faint mewing coming from my back yard. nothin like an hour of feral kitten herding in 90* heat 🤣 but lookit this face 🥰

my barn nest’s baby birbs all fledged today 🥲 this little guy got caught up in a cobweb so i had to help him get outside. such tiny anger

found a bird nest in my little goat barn 🥰 nest is comprised of half moss, half goat hair 🤣

i consider myself extremely lucky to have landed in the Innes lab. congratulations again, Roger! :)

FlyBase, a crucial resource for drosophila research, has lost its funding because its grant is awarded to Harvard. The team is scrambling to find other sources of funds, including donations from labs. Read more: www.thetransmitter.org/community/fl... @flybase.bsky.social

a mystery

note to self: codon optimize *before* designing all the primers 🥲

the plant gods have smiled upon me with this beautiful red finger lime i found at my local feed store of all places 🤩 i don’t question i just accept

side benefit of your PI getting inducted into the National Academy of Sciences: free cronuts 🥳 🥳 congratulations again, Roger!! @inneslab.bsky.social