Will Gearty
@willgearty.bsky.social
Paleobiologist 🦴, Software Engineer 💻, and Open Scientist 🔍 Postdoctoral Researcher at Syracuse University (He/Him)
Hope to see you all on August 27th at 15:00UTC (10:00AM Central) for my @palaeoverse.bsky.social lecture! Details on how to register here: palaeoverse.org/events/ I'll be talking about inferring and dealing with budding phylogenetic trees, including a full tutorial!! Hope to see you all there!
Palaeoverse
A community-driven initiative advancing open science in palaeontology through shared tools, training, and resources.
palaeoverse.org
🚨Tomorrow, 15:00 UTC🚨 Join us for a talk by Pablo Milla Carmona on "Investigating evolution using theoretical morphospaces: a practical workflow with 'morphospace'"! Sign up here: palaeoverse.org/training/lec...
Palaeoverse
A community-driven initiative advancing open science in palaeontology through shared tools, training, and resources.
palaeoverse.org
Palaeoverse@palaeoverse.bsky.social · 2w ago🚨Palaeoverse Lecture Series🚨 🗓️30th July 2026, 15:00 UTC🗓️ Join us next Thursday for a talk by Pablo Milla Carmona from IBIOMAR, CONICET on “Investigating evolution using theoretical morphospaces: a practical workflow with 'morphospace'”. Sign up here: palaeoverse.org/training/lec...
PS Travel Grants! 💰Awards: Up to $1200 for in-person attendees and $250 for online attendees. 📅Deadline: 15th of August 🔗Application form: forms.gle/nxGvQu2gGY4K... If you have any questions, contact grants@paleosoc.org 📧
🚨Palaeoverse Lecture Series🚨 🗓️30th July 2026, 15:00 UTC🗓️ Join us next Thursday for a talk by Pablo Milla Carmona from IBIOMAR, CONICET on “Investigating evolution using theoretical morphospaces: a practical workflow with 'morphospace'”. Sign up here: palaeoverse.org/training/lec...
Here's a useful page with a **ton** of common tasks in #RStats, done with parallel syntax for tidyverse vs. data.table vs. base. arelbundock.com/posts/dt_tb_... #rdatatable #tidyverse
data.table vs. base vs. dplyr | Vincent Arel-Bundock
Academic website and blog of Vincent Arel-Bundock.
arelbundock.com
📣 Last call for IPC7 abstracts! 📣 Want more information? Visit their website: www.ipc7.site/index.html :link: Or IG page: @ipc7_2026 #IPC7 #Paleontology #Conference #Abstract #PaleoResearch
@etiennebacher.bsky.social and @piginatutu.bsky.social have spent a bunch of time remaking our @palaeoverse.bsky.social website, to great effect ✨! A few things are still under construction 🚧, but watch this space as we continue to refine and expand our offerings over the next year and a half! 👀
Palaeoverse@palaeoverse.bsky.social · 3w ago💻 Our new website is now live! 💻 Over the past few months, we've been working hard to create a hub of resources designed to support the palaeontological community. 🔗 Find out more and visit the new site here: palaeoverse.org
📢 deeptime 📦 v. 2.4.0 is now on #CRAN: 🏷️ added geom_text_clade() 🐛 fixed lots of bugs related to coord_trans_xy() 🏳️🌈 fixed ordering of coord_geo() scales on left and top axes Patch notes 👉 williamgearty.com/deeptime/news/ Docs 👉 williamgearty.com/deeptime/ #rstats #dataviz #geology #deeptime
The rphylopic package allows users to add silhouettes of organisms from the PhyloPic database to plots generated in base R and ggplot2.
@historicalbiology.bsky.social Historical Biology is looking for a Data Editor to join the new Data Team! Dr Brooke Long-Fox (@brooke-long-fox.bsky.social) & Dr Sarah Shelley are our current Data Editors, interested in joining them? editorresources.taylorandfrancis.com/editor_recru... #FossilFriday
Data Editor needed for Historical Biology
Data Editor needed for Historical Biology
editorresources.taylorandfrancis.com
@utknoxville.bsky.social and my home department will be hosting #2028NAPC. The first circular is out now: napc2028.sites.utk.edu
Welcome to NAPC 2028! - NAPC 2028
Join the international paleontology community for the 13th North American Paleontological Conference from May 22-26, 2028 in Knoxville, Tennessee. The North American Paleontological Conference is a m...
napc2028.sites.utk.edu
Analysis code is an increasingly important part of science but how do we ensure we keep it reproducible and future-proofed? Hit the link below to throwback to Oakleigh Wilson's conversation with Dr Ed Ivimey-Cook discussing all things code review. sortee.org/blog/2025/09...
I’m recruiting a PhD student to join our lab in the fall of 2027. If you’re excited about phylogenetics, comp bio, paleobiology, stats theory, macroevolution, etc. please get in touch! Folks at #Evol2026, you can talk to @brpetrucci.bsky.social & @sigournie.bsky.social to learn more about our lab
Marco Rubio is against birthright citizenship. But Marco Rubio *is* a birthright citizen. Ted Cruz is against birthright citizenship. But Ted Cruz was born in Canada. He only got US citizenship by a birthright citizenship law because of his US mother. They are both shameless hypocrites.
Since 1994, immigrants have paid more in taxes than they receive in benefits every year. Do not believe the lies you hear about immigrants. They are good for society and the economy.
#Evol2026 I’m launching a new research group at UNC Charlotte in January 2027. Prospective students, postdocs, and collaborators are welcome to get in touch: jacob.berv@charlotte.edu More at jakeberv.com, lab website coming soon.
BBC article about Brian Ripley of the #RStats Core team given this week's excellent news concerning 2026 Rousseeuw Price for Statistics recognition for him and the core team. www.bbc.com/news/article...
Prof Brian Ripley on developing R to manage the world's data
Prof Brian Ripley has spent the past three decades working on a computer software that analyses data.
bbc.com
📣 Attention to U.S. Paleontologists! See you email for links to take action. #paleontology #geoscience #paleo
🚨Palaeoverse Lecture Series🚨 🗓️25th June 2026, 15:00 UTC🗓️ Join us next week for a talk by Corinne Myers from the University of New Mexico on “PaleoENM: a quantitative tool to study paleoecology and macroevolution on a dynamic Earth”. 💻🌍 sign up here: bit.ly/palaeoverse-...
🚨Palaeoverse Lecture Series🚨 We are very excited to share our next four talks in the Series 🥳 We are looking forward to hearing from Corinne Myers, Pablo Milla Carmona, @brpetrucci.bsky.social, and Emilia Jarochowska! Sign up now at bit.ly/palaeoverse-...
The 2026 Rousseeuw Prize for Statistics has been awarded to the R Project. #RStats www.rousseeuwprize.org/2026
The Rousseeuw Prize for Statistics
The Rousseeuw Prize for Statistics is a biennial prize to celebrate outstanding contributions to statistics research.
rousseeuwprize.org
palaeoverse is a community-driven R package of generic functions to help streamline palaeobiological analyses and improve code readability and reproducibility. This is our last version before a major refactor in Autumn, supported by funding from the @softwaresaved.bsky.social.
📖 Published📖 SOUPE: An R package to test and optimise the phylogenetic and ecological representativeness of a taxonomic sample 🧪 🌍 🖥️ 🔎 Read more:
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Ever wondered what a hackathon is? I wrote this to accompany our paper on data- and code- sharing where all the data came from a hackathon... methodsblog.com/2026/04/09/t... Paper: besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
The What, Why and How of Hackathons
Post provided by Natalie Cooper, MEE Senior Editor In September 2025 we ran a hackathon to collect data for a paper on data- and code-sharing across the BES journals. After the event, we thought it…
methodsblog.com
![Comic. [Two images of Earth, one centered on Africa, with a dotted line behind, and the other in the foreground with a target marked in the Indian Ocean.] [caption] Dire news: An asteroid is on course to hit the Earth exactly *opposite* the Yucatán Peninsula, bringing *back* the dinosaurs.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:cz73r7iyiqn26upot4jtjdhk/bafkreicpi7i7uw3s4sgd5vpw4vhqeoc6nqabk27v6agwwuoa67syokp54q)
