Karina Guo
@botanicallykarina.bsky.social
🧬🌿 | Birds | Fish | My Cat
A PhD student with the Botanic Gardens of Sydney and USyd. Working on genetics behind Myrtle rust and paperbarks for restoration.
Tldr: #wetlands #plantdisease #genetics #botany #restoration #ecology
A PhD student with the Botanic Gardens of Sydney and USyd. Working on genetics behind Myrtle rust and paperbarks for restoration.
Tldr: #wetlands #plantdisease #genetics #botany #restoration #ecology
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
#astrophotography #photography #nature
July 18, 2025 at 3:12 AM
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
#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 😌
June 28, 2025 at 11:28 PM
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 😌
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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.
June 28, 2025 at 3:25 PM
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.
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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.
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.
June 23, 2025 at 1:12 PM
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.
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
June 20, 2025 at 5:27 AM
Birding at Oxley Creek to end a week of conferencing. Here's a group of royal spoonbills doing their spoon billing business
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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.
This is very important for restoration and conservation practices.
January 10, 2025 at 12:10 AM
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.
This is very important for restoration and conservation practices.
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
June 16, 2025 at 6:15 AM
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
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Happy Pride Month, humans! I invented the rainbow, but you made it beautiful!
June 1, 2025 at 10:11 PM
Happy Pride Month, humans! I invented the rainbow, but you made it beautiful!
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Not to pick favourites but, isn't she gorgeous
ID: Corybas acontiflorus, Spurred Helmet Orchid
ID: Corybas acontiflorus, Spurred Helmet Orchid
May 20, 2025 at 12:45 AM
Not to pick favourites but, isn't she gorgeous
ID: Corybas acontiflorus, Spurred Helmet Orchid
ID: Corybas acontiflorus, Spurred Helmet Orchid
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just remembered that wikipedia has a list of fish named after other fish
May 14, 2025 at 8:06 AM
just remembered that wikipedia has a list of fish named after other fish
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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
May 10, 2025 at 7:13 PM
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
April 27, 2025 at 11:15 PM
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 😔
April 27, 2025 at 11:00 PM
Myrtle rust spotted! Everywhere I look I see her out of the corner of my eye 😔
Dipodium variegatum - Rose hyacinth orchid
April 25, 2025 at 4:35 AM
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
April 25, 2025 at 2:47 AM
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)!
As always, endless thanks to my supervisors Dr. Jason Bragg (Botanic Gardens of Sydney) and Prof. Will Cornwell (UNSW)!
Congratulations to the winner of the 2024 Harper Prize, @botanicallykarina.bsky.social! 🏆
Read our blog post with Karina here: buff.ly/4aEocNt 🍃
Read our blog post with Karina here: buff.ly/4aEocNt 🍃
April 23, 2025 at 12:39 PM
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)!
As always, endless thanks to my supervisors Dr. Jason Bragg (Botanic Gardens of Sydney) and Prof. Will Cornwell (UNSW)!
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📸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...
🍂'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...
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 …
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October 23, 2024 at 11:20 AM
📸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...
🍂'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...