First time at the GRC & GRS next month. Looking forward to meeting all the amazing minds and sharing my own piece of work. I've heard amazing things about this conference! 🌿

Jenn Sunday@jennsunday.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Want to think about ecology differently this summer? Still some spots at the 2026 Unifying Ecology Across Scales GRC. www.grc.org/unifying-eco...

Supporting myrtle rust restoration in a foundation wetland species using genomics! New paper out, involving whole genome sequencing, rust assays, population genetics... From barely anything known of this species to quite something! doi.org/10.1111/mec.... 🧪

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

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

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

The 5 stages of the ‘enshittification’ of academic publishing

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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.

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.

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)!

Journal of Ecology@journalofecology.bsky.social · last yr.

Congratulations to the winner of the 2024 Harper Prize, @botanicallykarina.bsky.social! 🏆 Read our blog post with Karina here: buff.ly/4aEocNt 🍃

📸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...

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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