iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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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

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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.

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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 🌱✨

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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

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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

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Moments of Discovery: The Mary-Dell Chilton Story

YouTube video by National Inventors Hall of Fame - NIHF

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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

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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!

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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

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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.

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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

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

they've locked down our grow rooms now as well. a third party under IU police supervision has been allowed to water the plants but we ourselves don't have access to anything. i can't really do any work/experiments at this point so i'm just taking some mental health days off until we know more.

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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.

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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

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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

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Jess Foster 🏳️‍🌈 🌱 🧪 she/her @jfplantstuff.bsky.social · 17/04/2026

my Welwitschia sprout is taller and greener! im a bit concerned that it doesn’t wanna open its cotyledons but im just letting it do its thing and hoping for the best 😅

a nondescript little seedling that looks like every other seedling ever

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Jess Foster 🏳️‍🌈 🌱 🧪 she/her @jfplantstuff.bsky.social · 13/04/2026

i just found one of these the other day too! kinda surprised nobody accused it of being gmo 😆

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Jess Foster 🏳️‍🌈 🌱 🧪 she/her @jfplantstuff.bsky.social · 10/04/2026

global warming 😅 the baby seedlings are actually really sensitive to drought so for now it’s living in my tropical cabinet

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Jess Foster 🏳️‍🌈 🌱 🧪 she/her @jfplantstuff.bsky.social · 10/04/2026

one of my Welwitschia seeds sprouted!! 🤩😅 (it’s the little orange nubbin)

a tiny sprout, not really recognizable as a plant yet

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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

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

hadn't planned to, but my dandelions tend to replant themselves regardless lol

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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

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

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

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Jess Foster 🏳️‍🌈 🌱 🧪 she/her @jfplantstuff.bsky.social · 26/03/2026

ebay 😆 you can set an alert that emails you. there’s actually another listing right now with 20 seeds left! these are my first attempt so i dont know yet about germination.

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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

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Jess Foster 🏳️‍🌈 🌱 🧪 she/her @jfplantstuff.bsky.social · 11/02/2026

ugggh protect your braincells and feel better soon 🫠

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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 🤔

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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

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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!

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