Will Gearty
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Will Gearty
@willgearty.bsky.social
Paleobiologist 🦴, Software Engineer 💻, and Open Scientist 🔍
Postdoctoral Researcher at Syracuse University (He/Him)
📢 rphylopic 📦 1.6.0 is now on #CRAN!

- resolve_phylopic() retries failing API calls 🔄
- geom_phylopic()/add_phylopic() work with ggplot2 4.0.0 🪛
- add_phylopic_tree() wraps add_phylopic() for base R trees 🪾
- get_phylopic() can get og source files from #PhyloPic 👤

rphylopic.palaeoverse.org
#Rstats
November 18, 2025 at 3:30 PM
I'm building a new webapp that enables users to build 100% reproducible workflows for paleontological data science with zero technical experience. It's still a work-in-progress, but I'm hoping to work with potential users and other computational paleontologists to make it as useful as possible.
October 27, 2025 at 7:33 PM
Happy Indigenous Peoples' Day!
October 14, 2025 at 2:36 AM
I'll be presenting a poster at USRSE'25 next week and a talk at GSA later in October, both about paleopal and its development! Come check it out!

#USRSE25 #GSAConnects2025
October 3, 2025 at 2:42 PM
🚨 ‘Earth system engineers’ and the cumulative impact of organisms in deep time
sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Honored to be among the long author list of this new paper out now in @cp-trendsecolevo.bsky.social that looks to bridge the ecosystem engineering and paleontological literature.
September 23, 2025 at 7:57 PM
📢 deeptime: an R package that facilitates highly customizable and reproducible visualizations of data over geological time intervals

🔗 doi.org/10.1080/2096...

Fully #openaccess in @bigearthdata1.bsky.social with insight about deeptime📦 development and code examples!

#rstats #geology #paleontology
August 6, 2025 at 1:06 PM
📢 deeptime 📦 v. 2.2.0 is now on #CRAN:

- geom_text_phylo() for adding labels to radial phylogenies 🏷️
- timescales updated to ICS 2024/12 🗓️
- compatibility with ggplot2 4.0.0 📈

Patch notes 👉 williamgearty.com/deeptime/news/

Docs 👉 williamgearty.com/deeptime/

#rstats #dataviz #geology #deeptime
June 23, 2025 at 3:20 PM
📢 deeptime 📦 v. 2.1.0 is now on #CRAN:

- black/white default labels for better contrast 🔲
- nested faceted plots with colored strips 🪺
- scale name partial matching 🌘

Patch notes 👉 williamgearty.com/deeptime/news/

Docs 👉 williamgearty.com/deeptime/

#rstats #dataviz #geology #deeptime
October 28, 2024 at 1:50 PM
📢📢 New preprint out now on @EarthArXiv!

"deeptime: an R package that facilitates highly customizable visualizations of data over geological time intervals"

That's right, there is now a proper citable paper for my deeptime R package!

doi.org/10.31223/X58...
October 17, 2024 at 7:43 PM
📢 deeptime 📦 v. 2.0.0 is now on #CRAN with many new features ✨

- use USGS strat patterns with ggplot2🪨
- add horizontal timescales to radial trees 🍩
- built-in timescales updated (incl. colors) 🏳️‍🌈

Documentation: williamgearty.com/deeptime

#rstats #dataviz #geology #deeptime
August 19, 2024 at 2:31 PM
🚨🚨 New preprint out now on EcoEvoRxiv about the impact of fossils (or lack thereof) on our ability to accurately reconstruct continuous trait evolution (ecoevorxiv.org/repository/v...)!

If you're at #Evol2024, check out @bethanyjallen.bsky.social 's talk at 4:30pm in 520D for details!
July 29, 2024 at 5:27 PM
📢 deeptime v. 1.1.0 is now on #CRAN with many new features ✨!!

- geom_points_range(): plot strat ranges 🐚
- facet_grid/wrap_color(): change strip colors 🌈
- coord_geo_radial(): pretty radial trees 🍩

williamgearty.com/deeptime

#rstats #dataviz #geology #deeptime #paleobiology
March 5, 2024 at 8:43 PM
‼️ Version 1.3.0 of rphylopic is now live on CRAN!

This version brings resolve_phylopic(), which allows you to use taxonomic names from GBIF, WoRMs, PaleobiologyDB, OTOL, and to get silhouettes from PhyloPic.

rphylopic.palaeoverse.org

#rstats #dataviz
December 21, 2023 at 9:43 PM