Thanks Laura Mulvey for a great talk yesterday! If you missed it, the recording is now available on the The Palaeoverse Community YouTube channel and website palaeoverse.org/lectures

Happening now! 😱

If you identify as a female graduate student, please consider this opportunity! The Winifred Goldring Award will be presented to three outstanding female graduate students pursuing a career in paleontology and affiliated sciences at a degree-granting institution. Due April 30th.

📢 Version 1.4.0 of rphylopic is now live on #CRAN !

This version brings the following new features (thanks to Lewis A. Jones!):
- Generate a permalink 🔗 with full @[email protected] attribution info
- Add a phylopic legend to a base R plot 📈

rphylopic.palaeoverse.org

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Two days to go! Don't forget to sign up!

Our next event in the Palaeoverse #lecture series will be held Thurs, 25 April at 14:00 UTC! Laura Mulvey will present a talk entitled 'Assessing the adequacy of morphological models used in palaeobiology'

Sign up: bit.ly/palaeoverse-le…

#computational #palaeoecology

Not to overshadow the new ✨ release of the palaeoverse R package 📦, but if ggplot2 📊 is more your jam, this functionality exists in my deeptime R package 📦 as of last month!

williamgearty.com/deeptime/
cran.r-project.org/package=deepti…

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The #Claddis workshop will run from 8am-12pm on Wednesday 19 June. Places are filling up so make sure you register soon to guarantee your place.

🚨 Introducing PBDB Data Entry Corps!

Are you a student with a fondness for fossils who is interested in getting involved with the Paleobiology Database as a data enterer under the guidance of an experienced authorizer? 🦕🐚

Look no further - apply here! gmu.az1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_2b…

In case you missed Dr Shipley's lecture yesterday on modelling species range in the past and future, you can catch up over on our YouTube channel!

Thanks for the fantastic talk Dr Shipley!

youtube.com/watch?v=ScnBfU…

#palaeontology #palaeobiology #FossilFriday #RStats

Starting now!

📢Happening tomorrow! Mark your calendars, and visit the link below to register⬇️

Our next event in the Palaeoverse #lecture series will be held Thurs, Mar 28 at 14:00 UTC!

Dr. Benjamin Shipley will present a talk entitled 'Modelling species range shifts in the past and future'

Sign up: bit.ly/palaeoverse-le…

#computational #palaeoecology #palaeobiology

We have updated and reuploaded the 'paleobioDB' package to CRAN, which allows to query the Paleobiology Database API from R. A convenient way to get fossil data for your analyses 😎 Thanks Adrián Castro Mapas Lab for your help‼️👇docs.ropensci.org/paleobioDB/

📢 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

It was so much fun - such great questions :)