Will Gearty

📢 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

🚨Palaeoverse Lecture Series🚨 🗓️29th October 2026, 15:00 UTC🗓️ Next Thursday, @basantakhakurel.bsky.social from Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München will talk about “Accounting for Rate Heterotachy in Morphological Phylogenetics: An overview in RevBayes”. Sign up: palaeoverse.org/training/lec...

1/ Two really fun reviews just landed back to back in Current Biology, both on a question I never get tired of: why did animals take over when they did? One argues animals engineered their own world. The other argues oxygen and temperature had to line up first.

🚨Palaeoverse Lecture Series🚨 We are very excited to share our next four talks in the Series 💻🦕🌎🌿🐚 This time, we're looking forward to hearing from Basanta Khakurel, Abigail Keeler Parker, Corentin Gibert, and Lizzy Steell! If you are interested, sign up here: palaeoverse.org/training/lec...

📈 Do you use data science tools for palaeobiological research? 👩‍💻 Are you interested in learning how to create these tools from scratch, and in improving the clarity of your workflows? If so, consider applying to our new Palaeoverse Mentorship Scheme! Find out more: palaeoverse.org/training/men...

🧬🌿 Morphological Phylogenetics Workshop | IOE, UK 🌿 Join us on 9–11 November 2026. 🎓 Student travel bursaries available! 📝 Register here: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F... 🔗 More info: systass.org/morphologica... #workshop #morphology #phylogenetics

Congrats to @paleodb.bsky.social on our 2,000,000th occurrence!!!! This momentum occurrence is Larcopyle buetschlii, a radiolarian from the E-ODP collections. The collections is from Site U1344 (IODP expedition 323). paleobiodb.org/classic/basi...

📢 We are just a few days away from the Paleo Society short course! 📅 When? Saturday, October 10th, from 8:30 am to 5 pm 📍 Where? At the Bluebird Ballroom 2C See you there! 💃

🚨 New CRAN Task View: Package Development and Maintenance #rstats #cran By Lluís Revilla and Heather Turner @heathrturnr.fosstodon.org.ap.brid.gy URL: cran.r-project.org/view=Package...

❓ Most #AcademicOSPOs run lean. So where can a small team find specialist skills, project capacity and outreach energy? 🎓 Graduate students. Our new article shares how members make graduate hiring work. 📖 curioss.org/news/small-t... #AcademicSky #OpenSource #OSSEducation

Tyrannosaurus xkcd.com/3300/

A reminder that our lecture series continues today - 15:00 UTC!

🎉 We've reached 100 users 🎉 Our new Zulip community workspace is growing, and we’re excited to now have over 100 palaeontologists sharing knowledge and discovering new opportunities. Thank you to everyone who has joined so far! If you're interested, sign up here: palaeoverse.org/zulip/join-z...

🚨Palaeoverse Lecture Series🚨 🗓️24th September 2026, 15:00 UTC🗓️ Next Thursday, Emilia Jarochowska from Utrecht University will talk about “CarboKitten.jl – stratigraphic forward modeling of marine carbonate rocks and its applications in paleobiology”. Sign up here: palaeoverse.org/training/lec...

Geology Class xkcd.com/3292/

Trade xkcd.com/3290/

🚨 PS SHORT COURSE ANNOUNCEMENT GSA 2026 October 10th (location TBD) A primer for researchers of all stages interested in trait-based paleoecology and deep time vegetation-climate interactions. Description in comment below!

Open Palaeontology has a new look 💜 Our brand-new website is live! Same mission as ever: Diamond Open Access palaeo research — free to publish, free to read, for everyone. Come explore ➡️ www.openpalaeo.org #PaleoSky #OpenAccess #Palaeontology

Don't forget to come along to our talk today - 15:00 UTC!

⛰️ NPS-PS Paleontology in the Parks Fellowship Program is now OPEN! 👀 We are seeking a candidate to assist with an inventory of fossil birds from NPS lands. 📌 The selected candidate is expected to: ◾Work remotely 20-30 hours per month ◾ Maintain online access and participate in regular meetings.

🚨Palaeoverse Lecture Series🚨 🗓️27th August 2026, 15:00 UTC🗓️ Join us next Thursday for a talk by @brpetrucci.bsky.social from Iowa State University on “Budding phylogenetic trees: inference with BEAST2 and post-processing with paleobuddy”. Sign up here: palaeoverse.org/training/lec...

Our new Zulip community workspace is live! This is a place to connect with other palaeontologists and discover/share: 👩‍💻 Upcoming conferences & workshops 💼 Job opportunities 📄 Publications 💰 Grants & funding prospects 📚 Resources (e.g. books & websites) Join here: palaeoverse.org/zulip/join-z...

Survey time - we want to hear from YOU! Your answers will help us better understand how the community uses and accesses @paleodb.bsky.social and will help shape future work on the database. Browsed Navigator once? Entered 1,342 taxa? Either way, we want your feedback! forms.gle/GFZukC1koFAb...

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!

🚨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...

The Assault On Science Funding Continues: www.science.org/content/blog... punches not pulled -->

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

📣 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! 👀

The rphylopic package allows users to add silhouettes of organisms from the PhyloPic database to plots generated in base R and ggplot2.

@utknoxville.bsky.social and my home department will be hosting #2028NAPC. The first circular is out now: 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.

Asteroid Threat xkcd.com/3265/

#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...

📣 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

Cool to see my PhD chapter see some more action in the media 8+ years later!

Plate Flip xkcd.com/3258/

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: