William Gearty
Postdoctoral Researcher at Syracuse University
New York, New York, United States
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Top SchoolWilliam Gearty is a postdoctoral researcher and open-science advocate who bridges paleobiology, software engineering, and research reproducibility from Syracuse University. With 11 years of experience spanning Yale, Stanford, the University of Nebraska–Lincoln, and the American Museum of Natural History, he develops R packages and tools to standardize evolutionary and paleontological analyses while teaching researchers practical workflows in R and phylogenetic comparative methods. His research combines paleontological and neontological approaches to probe functional morphology, energetics, and human impacts on mammal communities—recently focusing on the diversification of secondarily marine tetrapods. Known as a hands-on open scientist, he not only promotes open-source principles institutionally but also releases his own software to make complex evolutionary analyses more reproducible.
11 years of coding experience
Bachelor of Science with Honors, Geology and Geophysics: Paleontology and Geobiology, Bachelor of Science with Honors, Geology and Geophysics: Paleontology and Geobiology at Yale UniversityNorwood High SchoolDoctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Paleobiology, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Paleobiology at Stanford University
English, French
Github Skills (174)
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meta-analysis10
mdt10
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Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
bomeara/PhylogeneticsTaskView
Jul 2022 - Oct 2022
Draft of a resurrected task view for phylogenetics in R
Contributions:3 reviews, 15 commits, 4 PRs in 3 months
resurrectedphylogeneticstask-view
willgearty/Trophic-Extremes
May 2020 - Mar 2022
Contributions:1 release, 48 commits, 19 pushes in 1 year 10 months
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