Will Gearty

🚨 New paper! 🚨 "Investigating the Biotic and Abiotic Drivers of Body Size Disparity in Communities of Non‐Volant Terrestrial Mammals" out now in @GEB_macro with @RealKateLyons and Lawrence Uricchio. #macroecology #mammals Open access ➡️ onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/ge… More below ⬇️

📢 rphylopic 📦 1.6.0 is now on #CRAN!! - resolve_phylopic() retries failing API calls 🔄 - geom_phylopic() works with ggplot2 4.0 🪛 - add_phylopic_tree() for base R trees 🪾 - get_phylopic() can get og source files from @PhyloPic 👤 rphylopic.palaeoverse.org #Rstats

Happy #FossilFriday! Interested in fossil data handling & building analysis-ready databases? New paper with @ThePalaeoverse team led by @LewisAlanJones, in Palaeontology @ThePalAss Hope it helps! onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/pa… cc @willgearty @PrincessQuatris @PedroLGodoy

Happy Indigenous Peoples' Day!

Another paleo position open: Professor of Practice and Curator in Charge, Vertebrate Paleontology Laboratory at UT Austin apply.interfolio.com/175702

@Trends_Ecol_Evo 📢 Press release from UNL: news.unl.edu/article/intern…

🚨 ‘Earth system engineers’ and the cumulative impact of organisms in deep time sciencedirect.com/science/articl… Honored to be among the long author list of this new paper out now in @Trends_Ecol_Evo that looks to bridge the ecosystem engineering and paleontological literature.

@Trends_Ecol_Evo Huge shoutout to Simon Darroch, Michelle Casey, Ali Cribb, and @RealKateLyons for somehow summarizing all of the ideas our working group has had over the last several years.

@Trends_Ecol_Evo 'Earth system engineering' combines core tenets of ecosystem engineering, niche construction 🏗️, and legacy effects ⌚️. We illustrate this framework using the 🦴fossil record, and show how it can be applied across the tree of life, and throughout Earth history 🌎.

@Trends_Ecol_Evo In the paper, we present a new 🕸️framework applicable to both modern and ancient engineering-type effects. To this end, we propose a new term – 🌍‘Earth system engineering’ – to describe 🦠biological processes that alter the 🏢structure and 🚂function of planetary spheres.

Aug 28, 10 AM PT – Unlocking Collaborative Power with Git, GitHub CI/CD & LLMs in Pharma 💻⚕️ Automated QC, fewer errors, faster workflows 🔗 r-consortium.org/webinars/unloc… #rstats #opensource #clinicaltrials #pharma #DevOps #LLM #GitHub #CI_CD

📢 deeptime: an R package that facilitates highly customizable and reproducible visualizations of data over geological time intervals 🔗 doi.org/10.1080/209644… Fully #openaccess in @BigEarthData1 with insight about deeptime 📦 development and code examples! #rstats #geology

📢 rredlist 📦 1.1.0 is now on #CRAN!!! - wrapper to download multiple assessments ⬇️ - wrapper to extract assessment data from lists of assessments 🐍 - filter latest assessment to a particular scope 🌏 Docs 👉 docs.ropensci.org/rredlist/index… #rstats #iucn #redlist #api

@TyrantLzrdQueen Fantastic news! Congrats!

Thrilled to share that starting in late August, I'll be Natural History Museum Specialist for the History Museum at the Castle in Appleton, WI! I'll be overseeing the exhibition and programming of the nat his collection, which is being moved from the old Weis Earth Science Museum

Charting the course to a strong and sustainable future. Exciting conversations are underway. As part of the #BHLTransition from Smithsonian hosting, we’re seeking ambitious ideas for BHL’s future. Learn more ➡️ blog.biodiversitylibrary.org/2025/07/transi… #ILoveBHL

Today proves that Republicans were serious about one promise: to cut taxes for the wealthy. All the rest was bullshit.

Wishing everyone a happy Fourth of July! 249 years since we declared independence from a king, the work of living up to our founding promise is more important than ever - and it calls on each of us to do what we can for our country.

This Fourth of July, we remember that the United States of America has no kings. Wishing you a safe and happy Independence Day.

📢 deeptime 📦 v. 2.2.0 is now on #CRAN: - geom_text_phylo() for adding labels to radial trees 🏷️ - timescales updated to ICS 2024/12 🗓️ - support for ggplot2 4.0.0 📈 Patch notes 👉 williamgearty.com/deeptime/news/ Docs 👉 williamgearty.com/deeptime/ #rstats #dataviz #geology #deeptime