Karina Guo

After a few years of benign neglect I am rebuilding bionames.org, which is a database of 5.4 million taxonomomic names for animals, linked to half a million DOIs and 278K PDFs. Dream is for every species name to be linked to its original publication using a persistent identifier #PID

Pixel!

Blessed with a good day of birding. Sat and watched the birds come and go, even a kangaroo with their joey came and had a drink. Everyone gotta go sit in nature and reflect on their ecosystems every now and then.

Pictured: black necked stork, glossy ibis, Lantham's snipe, red backed fairywren

Loving the summer sea... A blue button, gorgeous but apparently also a sign of CC

The 5 stages of the ‘enshittification’ of academic publishing

Academic publishing now shows the same decline that has hit social media and online marketplaces.

Ok, so since there's nothing coordinated anywhere, I've decided to make my own crowd-sourced list of ecology and conservation conferences here. If you know of a conference that fits, please add it to the list! Let's turn this into a useful resource for the community tinyurl.com/yb6e6mb2

Wait a second, I just did that too!

Ah unfortunately its out of the range, iNaturalist got it down to the genus, Urocoma. Im based in Australia. But here's a top down and bottom up image of it if helpful :)

Morning all, found a new friend. Anyone got an ID on this beauty? For the first time iNaturalist wasn't of help

#moths #teammoth

Impressed at the ability for a smartphone camera (S24) to capture the night sky. All it took was a dark night and a 24s exposure

#astrophotography #photography #nature

Celebrating the introduction of our son into our life! Our little leopard #cat! For thise wondering he was adopted and will be 100% indoor unless on a harness and leash 😌

IMO the way you get a PhD is to just put your head down and work your ass off, while having the luck to avoid toxic PIs and get a grant here and there. Doesn’t mean you’re smart, more likely you’re too dumb to quit.

Screenshot of the Editorial.

New Editorial: "Naming is caring" rdcu.be/esS4x

We can now carry in our pockets applications that accurately identify the plants around us. These are interesting tools for researchers, but they also help everyone to appreciate the diversity of the natural world.

Birding at Oxley Creek to end a week of conferencing. Here's a group of royal spoonbills doing their spoon billing business

Lantanas (2/2) 🌿 #art #illustration

Our latest research at ReCER (just published in Nat Com – rdcu.be/d5fHO) shows that although vegetation types are useful descriptive tools, they do not characterise the evolutionary history and adaptive potential of single species.
This is very important for restoration and conservation practices.

Missed it? Here's a digital link for it: tinyurl.com/t2zdursu

As always, happy to chat about anything wetland and myrtle rust! Also open to discussions on modelling, carbon, and breeding for conservation 💪✨️

I'll be chatting about how we can use genotyping to optimise which individuals we choose in translocation projects. This can help bolster ecosystem resilience through considering short term beneficial traits, genetic diversity and long term climate survival.

At #ICCB2025? Come see me at my poster tonight. I'm number 53 near the back :)

An amazing first day so far at the #ICCB2025! Honoured and thankful to be around this diverse group of researchers. Looking forward to making more connections across the world! @society4conbio.bsky.social

Happy Pride Month, humans! I invented the rainbow, but you made it beautiful!

#pixelart #artpost

Not to pick favourites but, isn't she gorgeous

ID: Corybas acontiflorus, Spurred Helmet Orchid

just remembered that wikipedia has a list of fish named after other fish

How could you not be impressed by a bird in your yard? This dude can fly anywhere and it came here to hang out with you

Should I wear a plastic bag over my socks to keep my feet dry in this wet weather

Myrtle rust spotted! Everywhere I look I see her out of the corner of my eye 😔

Dipodium variegatum - Rose hyacinth orchid

Spotted a new population of an endangered fern (Grammitis stenophylla) at Royal National Park. Was a surprise when I popped it on iNaturalist