Jess Foster 🏳️‍🌈 🌱 🧪 she/her

@jfplantstuff.bsky.social

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Plant researcher at Indiana University ~ plant pathogen interactions ~ also janky cats, tropical fruit trees, tiny goats Apprentice Petalsmith

a fluffy white and brown tabby cat raptly watching a bird doing bird stuff on tv
miniature corpse flower leaf and flower spike!
marchantia liverwort growing in a petri dish
a screenshot from adventure time with finn and jake as flowers being attacked by caterpillars. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f_7zMntWq7Q
a black and brown miniature goat on a purple leash enjoying some delicious weeds
a plant with very dark green leaves lined with hot pink edges
a bright yellow lemon-lookin fruit, but it’s a lime
a nondescript little seedling that looks like every other seedling ever
a tiny sprout, not really recognizable as a plant yet
field pansies with tiny purple & white flowers
a dandelion with a flat stem as wide as my garden glove’s fingers and multiple fused flower buds
a small woodpecker eating at a suet feeder, with no red markings and a very dark colored belly omg
i am holding a teeny tiny ziplock baggie labeled “welwitschia mirabilis” containing two precious seeds
my hand holding a tiny arbys restaurant model inside my car
a cat standing in a cleared path. the uncleared snow is approximately cat height
confocal microscopy of plant leaf cells. red is chlorophyll in the chloroplasts, green is a gfp reporter
an adorable young cat sprawled on his back on a cat tree, limbs akimbo, eyes closed and mouth slightly ajar.
a fortune cookie fortune reading, “there is a prospect of a thrilling time ahead of you.” i do not like thrilling times
three little green blobs sitting on top of rocky soil under a clear plastic dome
neutralization of alkaline lysis step in a miniprep to extract plasmid dna from bacteria
kitten sitting on my legs, recovering from surgery
a tiny baby sugar apple fruit, it looks like a raspberry but green. maybe the size of a quarter or so
a white and brown fuzzy kitten, looking bewildered in a live trap
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
a little bird nest tucked behind a rafter, with four or five fuzzy black baby birds huddled inside
a gloved hand hold a dandelion with one stem and two unopened flower heads joined at the base
a small scraggly citrus tree sitting on my patio waiting to be repotted
a croissant decked out like a donut with chocolate icing and lil mini marshmallows
six scion twigs from yangmei trees, grafted onto a myrica pensylvanica to within an inch of its life 😅
the euthanasia coaster - a hypothetical roller coaster with a large uphill followed by multiple loops, designed such that each successive loop is faster and tighter and increases the G forces upon the rider to the extent that they pass out and die
a plant with long, completely flat segmented stems that look like green tapeworms
a sunny windowsill next to a desk, already crammed with as many plants on it as i could fit
a jade plant with a large cluster of small white and pink-tinged flowers blooming next to a sunny window
a photo of almost a dozen brown eggs from my chickens
a small flower with light purple petals and bright yellow stamen, growing out of some mulch
a confocal microscope image showing the green and red fluorescent outlines of some plant cells expressing some fusion proteins
a close up image of a gnarled, weirdly textured leaf bit. it’s sitting in a small cup with a small amount of nutrient gel to keep the cells alive while simultaneously confusing them about their purpose in life
an autoclavable condiment cup partially filled with white gel, upon which a little green piece of a seedling yangmei leaf rests, hopefully being convinced to make a callus
nerd (for scale) standing in front of a velvety maroon corpse flower about three in height
a video showing a lab shaker set on low speed with an oldschool long-armed lamp on it to which is taped paintbrushes that are placed overhead of the plants you want to annoy, such that the brushes are continuously stroking the plant leaves in little circles
about a dozen petri dishes with little snippets of twigs in them
a normal glass jar with several thin brown twigs floating around in sterilization solution
a closeup picture of a small shrub branch cut short, with a small piece of twig from a yangmei fruit tree grafted on. both are covered in grafting tape while we wait to see if the new twigs survive
a fused clump of citrus flowers at varying stages of development, forming a weird little ball of flower bits and pollen
image shamelessly stolen from google, showing a tree branch with long nondescript green leaves and multiple bunches of amazing deep red fruits that can be best likened to edible pom pom balls
a 4-panel conversation between bart and lisa simpson, as they shiver in cold army hammocks at a rundown camp. lisa: "i feel like i'm gonna die, bart" bart: "we're all gonna die, lis" lisa, annoyedly: "i meant soon" bart, sadly: "so did i"
my hand next to a key lime stem, showing off its giant pointy thorns nearly as long as my pinky finger
two inch square starter pot with tiny green bits in question looking about 5mm in diameter
my hand holding a branch of my lemon guava tree, showing off several round green fruits
a scared, skinny brown tabby cat in a small metal cage
rows of tiny seedlings only millimeters tall
magenta liquid in a tube
mortars and pestles sitting in ice, where i am grinding leaves into a liquid for protein extraction
a young seedling trying to grow
an arabidopsis plant showing a small amount of variegation on three leaves, surely this is worth $$$
blue stained plant hairs on a tobacco leaf
a diseased lookin benthi leaf
a nanodrop dna quantifier showing i have produced exactly 100.0 nanograms per microliter