jess kalin 🌱🦋🌕

research associate @ WSU | m.s. in entomology | ecology | weed science | conservation | hiking | MI → ID | she/her

[jess kalin 🌱🦋🌕 @kalinjes]

week in photos ✨

[jess kalin 🌱🦋🌕 @kalinjes]

love being CC’d on a drama email chain that doesn’t involve me 🍿

[jess kalin 🌱🦋🌕 @kalinjes]

conferences just aren’t the same when you don’t know anyone…

[jess kalin 🌱🦋🌕 @kalinjes]

friday photo dump 💚

[jess kalin 🌱🦋🌕 @kalinjes]

happy holidays 💚❤️

[jess kalin 🌱🦋🌕 @kalinjes]

we’re at the point in the year where 3 layers of clothes doesn’t keep me warm ):

[jess kalin 🌱🦋🌕 @kalinjes]

i told my bf i wanted to go on a date but didn’t wanna plan anything and 3 hours later he sends me an itinerary for a day in the city 🥰🥰 i’m so spoiled

[jess kalin 🌱🦋🌕 @kalinjes]

my boyfriend put hammock mounts in the house for me, and my cat is just as excited as i am about it

[DNA&RNA Universe 𝕏 @DNA_RNA_Uni]

Lablife 😅

[jess kalin 🌱🦋🌕 @kalinjes]

my cat is apparently a lap cat now

[Jeffery Tompkins @JATompkins]

The Plains states are not the Midwest. I won't be taking questions

[jess kalin 🌱🦋🌕 @kalinjes]

of course. always.

[Josh Trebach, MD @jtrebach]

if a bug got stuck in ur ear and u went to the ER and they removed the bug and put it in a little specimen cup would u want to keep the bug

[jess kalin 🌱🦋🌕 @kalinjes]

i’d also like to add that my coworker said that the cats weren’t friendly. i had one jump in my arms in under 10 minutes

[jess kalin 🌱🦋🌕 @kalinjes]

made friends with the cats at one of the farms. look at the handsome toe girl scream 🥲 i would die for them 💚😭😍

[jess kalin 🌱🦋🌕 @kalinjes]

my thesis is finally available on proquest and it’s taken me 4 months to feel like i don’t have to be working on something 24/7

[jess kalin 🌱🦋🌕 @kalinjes]

found a horny toad while doing soil sampling today!!! he had my heart immediately 💚💚💚

[jess kalin 🌱🦋🌕 @kalinjes]

@FugaPericulum there was absolutely no one around, both times i went this week. what a break that i needed so badly!!

[jess kalin 🌱🦋🌕 @kalinjes]

highlights from this week

[🇨🇦🇺🇸 Lynn Sosnoskie 🇺🇸🇨🇦 @LynnSosnoskie]

YOU’VE GOT TO GET IN THE HABIT OF HARVESTING FIELDS THAT ARE WEEDY LAST AND CLEANING EQUIPMENT BECAUSE SPECIES LIKE PALMER AMARANTH AND WATERHEMP CAN BE EASILY TRANSPORTED BY CROP PRODUCTION ACTIVITIES

[jess kalin 🌱🦋🌕 @kalinjes]

i’m tipsy and love my cat