Jimmy Bernot is an assistant professor at the University of Connecticut (USA), where he specializes in parasitic copepod evolution, taxonomy, and systematics. He has been a taxonomic editor in WoRMS for copepods since 2017 and a Steering Committee member since 2022. He has been engaged in a variety of WoRMS activities, including co-chairing the last four WoRMS Top-Ten New Species awards and participating in the 2020 WoRMS Images working group. As an active taxonomist and collections researcher, Jimmy values WoRMS’s role as the preeminent taxonomic database for marine organisms and appreciates daily the substantial time savings WoRMS provides users by streamlining access to information on taxonomy, authorities, literature, species diversity, and more. He is interested in making additional biodiversity data more readily available in WoRMS, especially type-specimen data, host-parasite associations, and interactive identification keys. Jimmy is also interested in expanding the incorporation of images in WoRMS through integration with other databases, with a particular interest in adding images from species descriptions so that they are more readily available to users for identification purposes. As a computational biologist, he is interested in automating these processes when possible to more efficiently collect, organize, and distribute these data. In addition to these scientific endeavors, Jimmy is actively involved in science communication and would like to increase the visibility of WoRMS and awareness among the scientific community and the general public through engagement efforts in digital and social media.
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