Will Gearty

@willgearty

Paleobiologist 🦴, Software Engineer 💻, and Open Scientist 🔍 Postdoctoral Researcher @SyracuseU (He/Him)

Syracuse, NY

williamgearty.com

Joined August 2010

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Will Gearty
@willgearty
Sep 24, 2024
🚨 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 ⬇️
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Investigating the Biotic and Abiotic Drivers of Body Size Disparity in Communities of Non‐Volant...
Aim The species that compose local communities possess unique sets of functional and ecological traits that can be used as indicators of biotic and abiotic variation across space and time. Body...
Will Gearty
@willgearty
Jul 10
📢 deeptime 📦 v. 2.4.0 is now on #CRAN: 🏷️ added geom_text_clade() 🐛 fixed bugs related to coord_trans_xy() 🏳️‍🌈 fixed ordering of coord_geo() scales on left/top axes Patch notes 👉 williamgearty.com/deeptime/news/ Docs 👉 williamgearty.com/deeptime/ #rstats #dataviz #geology #deeptime
Will Gearty
@willgearty
Nov 18, 2025
📢 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
Will Gearty
@willgearty
Oct 14, 2025
Happy Indigenous Peoples' Day!
Will Gearty
@willgearty
Sep 23, 2025
🚨 ‘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.