iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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Nicola Rennie @nrennie.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

If you missed today's @rinpharma.bsky.social workshop, here are a few of my favourite "quick fixes" for some common #ggplot2 issues 📊 1. Use {ggview} to preview plots at the same size and resolution as you want to save them with ggsave() to avoid the annoying resizing #RStats #DataViz

library(ggview)
ggplot(mtcars, aes(wt, mpg)) +
geom_point() +
canvas(
width = 6, height = 4,
units = "in",
dpi = 300
)

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Karina Guo @botanicallykarina.bsky.social · 09/06/2026

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! 🌿

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Karina Guo @botanicallykarina.bsky.social · 27/05/2026

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.... 🧪

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Rod Page @rdmpage.bsky.social · 09/02/2026

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

bionames.org

BioNames

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Karina Guo @botanicallykarina.bsky.social · 29/01/2026

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

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Karina Guo @botanicallykarina.bsky.social · 26/01/2026

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

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The Conversation AUNZ @aunz.theconversation.com · 06/01/2026

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

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The 5 stages of the ‘enshittification’ of academic publishing

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Karina Guo @botanicallykarina.bsky.social · 18/07/2025

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

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Karina Guo @botanicallykarina.bsky.social · 18/07/2025

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

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Karina Guo @botanicallykarina.bsky.social · 29/06/2025

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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Ainsley S @americanbeetles.bsky.social · 28/06/2025

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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Nature Plants @natplants.nature.com · 23/06/2025

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.

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Karina Guo @botanicallykarina.bsky.social · 20/06/2025

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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Maurizio Rossetto @mrossettorecer.bsky.social · 10/01/2025

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.

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Karina Guo @botanicallykarina.bsky.social · 17/06/2025

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

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Karina Guo @botanicallykarina.bsky.social · 16/06/2025

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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God @thegodshow.com · 01/06/2025

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

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Karina Guo @botanicallykarina.bsky.social · 20/05/2025

Not to pick favourites but, isn't she gorgeous ID: Corybas acontiflorus, Spurred Helmet Orchid

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depths of wikipedia @depthsofwikipedia.bsky.social · 14/05/2025

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

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lukelukeluke @lukelukeluke.bsky.social · 10/05/2025

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

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Karina Guo @botanicallykarina.bsky.social · 28/04/2025

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

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Karina Guo @botanicallykarina.bsky.social · 27/04/2025

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

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Karina Guo @botanicallykarina.bsky.social · 25/04/2025

Dipodium variegatum - Rose hyacinth orchid

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Karina Guo @botanicallykarina.bsky.social · 25/04/2025

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

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Karina Guo @botanicallykarina.bsky.social · 23/04/2025

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)!

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Journal of Ecology @journalofecology.bsky.social · 23/10/2024

📸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...

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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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