Jess Foster 🏳️🌈 🌱 🧪 she/her
@jfplantstuff.bsky.social
Plant researcher at Indiana University
~ plant pathogen interactions ~
also janky cats, tropical fruit trees, tiny goats
Apprentice Petalsmith
~ plant pathogen interactions ~
also janky cats, tropical fruit trees, tiny goats
Apprentice Petalsmith
vaguely ominous 😅
October 31, 2025 at 10:19 PM
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!
October 23, 2025 at 8:01 PM
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!
sometimes science feels like magic
October 10, 2025 at 2:22 PM
sometimes science feels like magic
hard part is over 🙂
October 1, 2025 at 10:36 PM
hard part is over 🙂
omggg look what i found in my tiny potted sugar apple treeeee 🤩 fingers crossed that it actually grows
September 19, 2025 at 11:59 PM
omggg look what i found in my tiny potted sugar apple treeeee 🤩 fingers crossed that it actually grows
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 🥰
June 30, 2025 at 10:35 PM
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
June 24, 2025 at 12:09 AM
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 🤣
June 19, 2025 at 12:31 PM
found a bird nest in my little goat barn 🥰 nest is comprised of half moss, half goat hair 🤣
i found a two-headed dandelion 😁 i’m choosing to assume it means good luck
May 20, 2025 at 3:41 PM
i found a two-headed dandelion 😁 i’m choosing to assume it means good luck
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
May 3, 2025 at 10:49 PM
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
May 1, 2025 at 5:47 PM
side benefit of your PI getting inducted into the National Academy of Sciences: free cronuts 🥳 🥳 congratulations again, Roger!! @inneslab.bsky.social
yangmei grafting attempt #2! 🤞
April 26, 2025 at 8:42 PM
yangmei grafting attempt #2! 🤞
my emotions this week
April 22, 2025 at 9:40 PM
my emotions this week
i found a plant that looks like tapeworms and just had to have it 😆
March 23, 2025 at 1:36 AM
i found a plant that looks like tapeworms and just had to have it 😆
love my new window at work 🥰
March 18, 2025 at 9:01 PM
love my new window at work 🥰
did you know those sad little hardware store succulent plants eventually flower if you take care of them?
March 17, 2025 at 4:24 PM
did you know those sad little hardware store succulent plants eventually flower if you take care of them?
this unseasonably warm weather has really kick started my retirement fund
March 15, 2025 at 12:12 AM
this unseasonably warm weather has really kick started my retirement fund
i live in the midwest so i know it’s just a temporary fool’s spring, but the crocuses are blooming and it makes me happy
March 12, 2025 at 8:29 PM
i live in the midwest so i know it’s just a temporary fool’s spring, but the crocuses are blooming and it makes me happy
took a picture of a leaf today:)
February 22, 2025 at 1:14 AM
took a picture of a leaf today:)
a mere three weeks later and i am beginning to see callus forming on some of my yangmei leaf bits! 🤩 (it’s the weird bumpy whiteish stuff distorting the leaf). it’s basically a mass of undifferentiated cells that don’t know what their job is yet. soon i will try to convince them to grow new shoots 😁
February 19, 2025 at 10:40 PM
a mere three weeks later and i am beginning to see callus forming on some of my yangmei leaf bits! 🤩 (it’s the weird bumpy whiteish stuff distorting the leaf). it’s basically a mass of undifferentiated cells that don’t know what their job is yet. soon i will try to convince them to grow new shoots 😁
yangmei tissue culture attempt #2, now featuring tiny bits of leaves in individual sterile condiment cups on callus induction media 😅
January 27, 2025 at 10:58 PM
yangmei tissue culture attempt #2, now featuring tiny bits of leaves in individual sterile condiment cups on callus induction media 😅
our biology greenhouse has two (!) devil’s tongue mini corpse flowers (amorphophallus konjac) in bloom right now! they’re so cute compared to the giant corpse flower that bloomed last year 🤩🤩
January 23, 2025 at 8:42 PM
our biology greenhouse has two (!) devil’s tongue mini corpse flowers (amorphophallus konjac) in bloom right now! they’re so cute compared to the giant corpse flower that bloomed last year 🤩🤩
when you need to do an experiment that requires mechanical stress (ie, touching) of your plants but you dont wanna sit there poking them for an hour 😆
December 19, 2024 at 6:05 PM
when you need to do an experiment that requires mechanical stress (ie, touching) of your plants but you dont wanna sit there poking them for an hour 😆
i cut the sterilized twigs into little pieces, trying to leave at least one node per piece, and stuck them in some tubes and petri dishes filled with special plant growy hormone jello and table sugar 3/
December 15, 2024 at 12:46 AM
i cut the sterilized twigs into little pieces, trying to leave at least one node per piece, and stuck them in some tubes and petri dishes filled with special plant growy hormone jello and table sugar 3/
i sterilized the yangmei (and some bonus feijoa) twig bits in a jar of tap water using an aquatab sterilizer tablet so here’s to hoping 🤞 2/
December 15, 2024 at 12:46 AM
i sterilized the yangmei (and some bonus feijoa) twig bits in a jar of tap water using an aquatab sterilizer tablet so here’s to hoping 🤞 2/