iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

Reposted by Jess Foster 🏳️‍🌈 🌱 🧪 she/her

Sebastian S. Cocioba @atinygreencell.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

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

splicecraft.bio

SpliceCraft — the in-terminal plasmid workbench

Design, clone & mutate plasmids in a mouse-friendly terminal workbench. Everything runs on your own computer — no cloud, no account.

0297

Reposted by Jess Foster 🏳️‍🌈 🌱 🧪 she/her

Alizée Malnoë @alizeemalnoe.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

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 🌱✨

086

Jess Foster 🏳️‍🌈 🌱 🧪 she/her @jfplantstuff.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

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

160

Reposted by Jess Foster 🏳️‍🌈 🌱 🧪 she/her

Sebastian S. Cocioba @atinygreencell.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

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

youtube.com

Moments of Discovery: The Mary-Dell Chilton Story

YouTube video by National Inventors Hall of Fame - NIHF

0155

Jess Foster 🏳️‍🌈 🌱 🧪 she/her @jfplantstuff.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

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

a fluffy white and brown tabby cat raptly watching a bird doing bird stuff on tv

120

Jess Foster 🏳️‍🌈 🌱 🧪 she/her @jfplantstuff.bsky.social · 12/06/2026

i think my tiny corpse flower is trying to flower 🤩

miniature corpse flower leaf and flower spike!

040

Jess Foster 🏳️‍🌈 🌱 🧪 she/her @jfplantstuff.bsky.social · 11/06/2026

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

marchantia liverwort growing in a petri dish

020

Reposted by Jess Foster 🏳️‍🌈 🌱 🧪 she/her

Sholto David @sholtodavid.bsky.social · 17/05/2026

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.

22272114

Jess Foster 🏳️‍🌈 🌱 🧪 she/her @jfplantstuff.bsky.social · 13/05/2026

might as well use my surprise days off to catch up on some weed eating

a black and brown miniature goat on a purple leash enjoying some delicious weeds

060

Jess Foster 🏳️‍🌈 🌱 🧪 she/her @jfplantstuff.bsky.social · 10/05/2026

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.

5321100

Jess Foster 🏳️‍🌈 🌱 🧪 she/her @jfplantstuff.bsky.social · 24/04/2026

one of my prettier weirdo plants, amorphophallus atroviridis 🤩 part of my recent obsession with corpse flower varieties

a plant with very dark green leaves lined with hot pink edges

070

Jess Foster 🏳️‍🌈 🌱 🧪 she/her @jfplantstuff.bsky.social · 23/04/2026

did you know that actually-ripe limes are yellow 🤩 this one is freshly off my own basement Bearss lime tree

a bright yellow lemon-lookin fruit, but it’s a lime

030

Jess Foster 🏳️‍🌈 🌱 🧪 she/her @jfplantstuff.bsky.social · 09/04/2026

my lawn is slowly turning into violets & wild pansies and i love it

field pansies with tiny purple & white flowers

030

Jess Foster 🏳️‍🌈 🌱 🧪 she/her @jfplantstuff.bsky.social · 06/04/2026

found a fasciated dandelion while i was planting strawberries 🍓

a dandelion with a flat stem as wide as my garden glove’s fingers and multiple fused flower buds

closeup of the fused flower buds, which forms a line of dandelion petals

170

Jess Foster 🏳️‍🌈 🌱 🧪 she/her @jfplantstuff.bsky.social · 28/03/2026

omg i think we have a melanistic downy woodpecker??! 🤩🤩🤩

110

Jess Foster 🏳️‍🌈 🌱 🧪 she/her @jfplantstuff.bsky.social · 13/03/2026

xtina left me alone for an hour so i bought seven more trees like any reasonable adult

121

Jess Foster 🏳️‍🌈 🌱 🧪 she/her @jfplantstuff.bsky.social · 06/02/2026

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

030

Jess Foster 🏳️‍🌈 🌱 🧪 she/her @jfplantstuff.bsky.social · 26/01/2026

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)

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

070

Reposted by Jess Foster 🏳️‍🌈 🌱 🧪 she/her

Nick Desnoyer @nickdesnoyer.bsky.social · 15/12/2025

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!

33233

Jess Foster 🏳️‍🌈 🌱 🧪 she/her @jfplantstuff.bsky.social · 25/11/2025

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

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

1150

Jess Foster 🏳️‍🌈 🌱 🧪 she/her @jfplantstuff.bsky.social · 21/11/2025

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

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

140

Jess Foster 🏳️‍🌈 🌱 🧪 she/her @jfplantstuff.bsky.social · 23/10/2025

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!

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

080

Jess Foster 🏳️‍🌈 🌱 🧪 she/her @jfplantstuff.bsky.social · 09/10/2025

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. 🫠

040

Jess Foster 🏳️‍🌈 🌱 🧪 she/her @jfplantstuff.bsky.social · 01/10/2025

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 😭😭😭

110

Jess Foster 🏳️‍🌈 🌱 🧪 she/her @jfplantstuff.bsky.social · 20/09/2025

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

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

080

Jess Foster 🏳️‍🌈 🌱 🧪 she/her @jfplantstuff.bsky.social · 06/09/2025

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

010

Reposted by Jess Foster 🏳️‍🌈 🌱 🧪 she/her

Nick Desnoyer @nickdesnoyer.bsky.social · 11/08/2025

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)

72527

Jess Foster 🏳️‍🌈 🌱 🧪 she/her @jfplantstuff.bsky.social · 30/06/2025

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 🥰

a white and brown fuzzy kitten, looking bewildered in a live trap

160

Jess Foster 🏳️‍🌈 🌱 🧪 she/her @jfplantstuff.bsky.social · 24/06/2025

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

a baby bird with brown and tan feathers and tufts of baby fuzz still on his head. he is sitting on a fence wire with little cobwebs stuck to his feet. he is glaring as hard as he can glare at me

080

Jess Foster 🏳️‍🌈 🌱 🧪 she/her @jfplantstuff.bsky.social · 19/06/2025

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

a little bird nest tucked behind a rafter, with four or five fuzzy black baby birds huddled inside

0240

Jess Foster 🏳️‍🌈 🌱 🧪 she/her @jfplantstuff.bsky.social · 11/06/2025

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

040

Reposted by Jess Foster 🏳️‍🌈 🌱 🧪 she/her

Calli McMurray @callimcflurry.bsky.social · 04/06/2025

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

thetransmitter.org

FlyBase funding squashed amid Harvard grant terminations

The team behind the Drosophila genetics database is now requesting donations from labs to keep the resource afloat.

23647

Jess Foster 🏳️‍🌈 🌱 🧪 she/her @jfplantstuff.bsky.social · 20/05/2025

i found a two-headed dandelion 😁 i’m choosing to assume it means good luck

a gloved hand hold a dandelion with one stem and two unopened flower heads joined at the base

1151

Jess Foster 🏳️‍🌈 🌱 🧪 she/her @jfplantstuff.bsky.social · 16/05/2025

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

140

Jess Foster 🏳️‍🌈 🌱 🧪 she/her @jfplantstuff.bsky.social · 03/05/2025

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

a small scraggly citrus tree sitting on my patio waiting to be repotted

080

Jess Foster 🏳️‍🌈 🌱 🧪 she/her @jfplantstuff.bsky.social · 01/05/2025

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

a croissant decked out like a donut with chocolate icing and lil mini marshmallows

170

Reposted by Jess Foster 🏳️‍🌈 🌱 🧪 she/her

Alizée Malnoë @alizeemalnoe.bsky.social · 24/04/2025

Preprint review alert 🚨 we're looking for a preprint to review in our class, ideally containing genetics, molecular biology and biochemistry, reply with the link if interested! #preprint @prereview.bsky.social #plantscience #microbiology #drosophila #bacteriophage @biorxivpreprint.bsky.social

143