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Juanita Rodriguez

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๐Ÿ‡จ๐Ÿ‡ด ๐Ÿ‡ฆ๐Ÿ‡บ Senior Research Scientist and Hymenoptera curator at Australian National Insect Collection CSIRO. Opinions my own. She/her.

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A vision of humanโ€“AI collaboration for enhanced biological collection curation and research Abstract. Natural history collections play a crucial role in our understanding of biodiversity, informing research, management, and policy in areas such as

Just published! A vision of humanโ€“AI collaboration for enhanced biological collection curation and research. academic.oup.com/bioscience/a...

30.03.2025 23:59 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 8    ๐Ÿ” 5    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Breaking language barriers: โ€˜Not being fluent in English is often viewed as being an inferior scientistโ€™ Biologist Tatsuya Amano works to make science a fairer place for non-fluent speakers.

โ€˜Not being fluent in English is often viewed as being an inferior scientistโ€™
www.nature.com/articles/d41...

11.02.2025 10:19 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 5    ๐Ÿ” 1    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Phasing in and out of phytophagy: phylogeny and evolution of the family Eurytomidae (Hymenoptera: Chalcidoidea) based on Ultraconserved Elements We present the first global molecular phylogenetic hypothesis for the family Eurytomidae, a group of chalcidoid wasps with diverse biology, with a representative sampling (197 ingroups and 11 outgroup...

The #Eurytomidae UCE phylogeny that I've been working on in the past few years is now out as a preprint. By using museum samples at NMNH and CIRAD, we generated the first global phylogeny of this diverse but poorly studied #Chalcidoidea family. ๐Ÿงช

www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

03.02.2025 05:42 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 51    ๐Ÿ” 16    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 1
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Three new species of Australian miracine parasitoid wasps collected by regional schools as part of the Insect Investigators citizen science project (Hymenoptera, Braconidae, Miracinae) Miracinae is a poorly known and rarely collected subfamily of parasitoid wasps belonging to the family Braconidae. Here, three new species are described from material collected by Australian regional ...

Three new species of Australian Miracinae wasps described by wonderful PhD student Mollie Slater-Baker from specimens collected by regional schools #hymenoptera #taxonomy #citizenscience jhr.pensoft.net/article/137806

28.01.2025 11:20 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 21    ๐Ÿ” 4    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

This is such a cute photo!! Hi Lu! I may see you at ESA this year?

22.01.2025 22:12 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 2    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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The Increasing Disconnection of Primary Biodiversity Data from Specimens: How Does It Happen and How to Handle It? Abstract. Primary biodiversity data represent the fundamental elements of any study in systematics and evolution. They are, however, no longer gathered as

Increasing Disconnection of Primary Biodiversity Data from Specimens: How Does It Happen and How to Handle It? academic.oup.com/sysbio/artic...

21.01.2025 15:03 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 21    ๐Ÿ” 12    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 1

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