Karina Guo

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

A couple years back, if you told me a project I worked on using machine learning would have won an award, I wouldn't have believed you. But here it is strong and proud!
As always, endless thanks to my supervisors Dr. Jason Bragg (Botanic Gardens of Sydney) and Prof. Will Cornwell (UNSW)!

Cover stories (112:10): Using machine learning to link climate, phylogeny & leaf area The cover image for our October issue shows the first part of an automated process to extract leaf area from herbarium images. Here the model’s predictions of leaves are on the pressed plant …

📸Karina Guo tells us the story behind this month's cover image:

🍂'I was going through hundreds of #herbarium sheets & realised that centuries of info across the globe were just waiting for someone to transcribe it as a digital dataset we can analyse' jecologyblog.com/2024/10/22/c...