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Will Gearty @willgearty.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

📢 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

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Will Gearty @willgearty.bsky.social · 26/11/2025

📢 deeptime 📦 v. 2.3.1 is now on #CRAN: - pos arg is now recycled in coord_geo() ♻️ - fixed reverse arg for coord_geo_radial() 🍩 - pattern code/name dictionary 📖 - new logo! ✨ Patch notes 👉 williamgearty.com/deeptime/news/ Docs 👉 williamgearty.com/deeptime/ #rstats #dataviz #geology #deeptime

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Will Gearty @willgearty.bsky.social · 18/11/2025

📢 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

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Will Gearty @willgearty.bsky.social · 27/10/2025

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.

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Will Gearty @willgearty.bsky.social · 03/10/2025

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

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Will Gearty @willgearty.bsky.social · 23/09/2025

🚨 ‘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.

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Will Gearty @willgearty.bsky.social · 06/08/2025

📢 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

Plot of global benthic δ18O data for 0 – 5.3 Ma (Lisiecki & Raymo, 2005) with geomagnetic polarity subchrons displayed on the top x-axis and planktic foraminiferal primary biozones plotted on the bottom x-axis using the deeptime package.

A mammal phylogeny (Garland et al., 1992) plotted in the fan layout using the ggtree and deeptime packages. The greyscale concentric circles in the background indicate geological stages, whereas the linear colored timescale indicates geological epochs.

Early tetrapod occurrence data (Jones et al., 2023) plotted as a taxonomic/biostratigraphic range plot using the geom_points_range() function from the deeptime package.

A stratigraphic column of Cretaceous lithostratigraphic units from the San Juan Basin, USA. The deeptime package has been used to add pattern fill which indicate the primary lithologies of the units as reported by the Macrostrat API (Peters et al., 2018) via the rmacrostrat R package (Jones et al., 2024).

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Will Gearty @willgearty.bsky.social · 23/06/2025

📢 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

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Will Gearty @willgearty.bsky.social · 28/10/2024

📢 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

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Will Gearty @willgearty.bsky.social · 17/10/2024

📢📢 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...

Figure 1: Plot of global benthic δ18O data for 0 – 5.3 Ma (Lisiecki and Raymo, 2005) with geomagnetic polarity subchrons displayed on the left y-axis and planktic foraminiferal primary biozones plotted on the right y-axis.

Figure 2: A mammal phylogeny (Garland et al., 1992) plotted using the ggtree and deeptime packages. The greyscale background indicates geological stages, whereas the colored timescale indicates geological epochs.

Figure 3: Crinoid morphological disparity data (Wright, 2017; Guillerme et al., 2020) plotted using the coord_trans_xy() and facet_wrap_color() functions to show the change in distribution across the end-Ordovician extinction.

Figure 4: A stratigraphic column of Cretaceous lithostratigraphic units from the San Juan Basin, USA. The pattern fills indicate the primary lithologies of the units as reported by the Macrostrat API (Peters et al., 2018) via the rmacrostrat R package (Jones et al., 2024).

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Will Gearty @willgearty.bsky.social · 19/08/2024

📢 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

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Will Gearty @willgearty.bsky.social · 29/07/2024

🚨🚨 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!

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Will Gearty @willgearty.bsky.social · 05/03/2024

📢 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

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Will Gearty @willgearty.bsky.social · 21/12/2023

‼️ 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

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