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Simon Goring

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I contain multitudes. Chief among them: silly things, serious things, maudlin things. Data science, databases, data ethics, R, Python, JavaScript, paleoecology, AWS, jokes (good and bad).

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Simon Goring @sjgoring.bsky.social · Nov 30

Why don’t people talk more about the live-action remake of The Lion King?

It’s always: “Simon, can we get on with the department meeting”, “Simon, the next speaker needs to go now.”, “Simon, I don’t think this paper is suited for our journal.”

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Simon Goring @sjgoring.bsky.social · Jul 5

Glad to see all the work folks have put in to getting testate amoebae into @neotomadb.bsky.social is paying off! Great new paper about their use as paleoecological indicators: doi.org/10.1016/j.qu... #paleoecology

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Simon Goring @sjgoring.bsky.social · Jul 5

Offered. Are they accepting?

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Richard Zussman @richardzussman.bsky.social · Jun 27

NEW - North Vancouver RCMP is investigating after an explosive device went off beside MLA Bowinn Ma’s office in North Vancouver-Lonsdale. NDP MLAs have been told to close their constituency offices today. #bcpoli

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Simon Goring @sjgoring.bsky.social · Jun 26

Are all dog’s teeth canines? How do dentanarians even know which tooth to work on?

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John (Jack) Williams @iceageecologist.bsky.social · May 17

Interesting bibliometric analysis of #palynology papers and NeotomaDB datasets noting that papers per year has peaked, but the number of international coauthorships has grown, suggesting that the field has reached a new stage of maturity journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.... @neotomadb.bsky.social

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Agathe Lisé-Pronovost @agathe-mag.bsky.social · Mar 30

I had a fantastic week at the Karst Record #KR10 conference in Cape Town 🇿🇦. Sharing the joy of #speleomag and learning all about cave rocks science! Thanks @pickeringrobyn.bsky.social and the organisers ⭐️. 3 awards went to #unimelb students!

À group photo of he participants from Australia

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Rob Marchant @rob-marchant.bsky.social · Mar 30

Many UK #peatlands are degraded due to historical drainage, reduced #biodiversity, #carbon and water storage. New findings show testate amoebae as #bioindicators for tracking habitat peatland and #restoration
@yesiuoy.bsky.social @anthropocenebio.bsky.social
authors.elsevier.com/c/1krTD8g13f...

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Simon Goring @sjgoring.bsky.social · Mar 30

Hahah, the smell is burned into my memory.

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Simon Goring @sjgoring.bsky.social · Mar 29

My #bonsai app is reminding me it’s spring! Lots of work to do when I get home.

A screenshot from the Bonsai Care app. The screen shows a list of bonsai and the tasks that need to be done. The list is long, indicating spring is coming soon.

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Dr Micha Campbell @michcampbell.fediscience.org.ap.brid.gy · Mar 26

Excellent mid-week field trip to the West Coast Fossil Park today! The fossil beds are incredible, I had a lot of fun picking through sediment in their sieves for microfossils. Found a shrew tooth, which was pretty exciting!

The short necked giraffe is a […]

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Microsfossils. The most exciting is the small shrew tooth, the brown one third from the top.

Fossil bed. Most of these are the now extinct short necked long horned giraffe, of which they've found 300 individuals!

An artists rendition of the short necked giraffe. Made from driftwood collected nearby. Note the eucalypt tail!

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Dr Micha Campbell @michcampbell.fediscience.org.ap.brid.gy · Mar 21

Day 2 of the #kr10 field trip took us to three caves in the cradle. Sterkfontein (home of famous australopithecus' little foot and Mrs Ples), Coopers (we got to get into the deposit and look for fossils - SO MANY!) And Wonder - the biggest formations I've […]

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People standing on a raised walkways above a collapsed gallery in sterkfontein cave. The sun is out, and the sky has some puffy white clouds.

A collapsed cave, showing some dolomite mixed with infilled sediments. The sediments are FULL of fossils.

Large cave decorations - huge stalactites and shawls line a wall. The calcite is white and shining, and the formations are bigger than you can imagine.

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Simon Goring @sjgoring.bsky.social · Mar 28

Really exciting to see the SISAL and speleothem community working with @neotomadb.bsky.social to improve a whole-environment understanding of the past! #kr10 #paleoecology #paleoclimatology

A workshop group learning about the integration of speleothem data from SISAL into the Neotoma Paleoecology Database. People are arranged around a square table, while the presented talks.

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Sophie Warken @swinnyy.bsky.social · Feb 21

Happy to see that our recent work has been featured in this article out now in @eos.org !!

Eos @eos.org · Feb 21

New research dates the German Laacher See eruption to 150 years before the onset of the Younger Dryas. eos.org/articles/cav...

Cave Deposit Links Greenland’s and Europe’s Climate Records with a German Volcano - Eos

Dating a late Pleistocene eruption has big implications for understanding the Younger Dryas—and current climate change.

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Simon Goring @sjgoring.bsky.social · Mar 26

Yep.

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Dr Micha Campbell @michcampbell.fediscience.org.ap.brid.gy · Mar 26

🚨Job alert🚨
Ongoing hydrogeology position at #uwa, open to international applicants.

https://internal.jobs.uwa.edu.au/en/job/519834/lecturer-hydrogeology

#academicchatter #fedijobs #getfedihired

Current staff : Jobs at UWA : IN DEVELOPMENT

internal.jobs.uwa.edu.au

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Simon Goring @sjgoring.bsky.social · Mar 25

I think this work would be really interesting to do with @neotomadb.bsky.social. We have site locations and linked publications through the database. Let me know if you’re interested support!

Simon Goring @sjgoring.bsky.social · Mar 25

Great talk by @pickeringrobyn.bsky.social at #kr10 talking about issues of neo-colonialism in karst & speleothem research. Includes this cool paper looking at volcanology: doi.org/10.30909/vol... @pages-ipo.bsky.social

How inclusive is volcanology? Insights from global bibliometric analyses | Volcanica

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Simon Goring @sjgoring.bsky.social · Mar 25

Super cool work on outreach at #kr10 go do a virtual cave tour in Thailand: www.geo.sc.chula.ac.th/virtual/klan...
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Klang Cave

Virtual Tour

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Simon Goring @sjgoring.bsky.social · Mar 25

Just saw this really cool paper using paleoecological data to discuss conservation issues around settlement in Madagascar.
Good pollen, great multiproxy #palaeoecology #paleoecology
@neotomadb.bsky.social
doi.org/10.1177/0959...

Vegetation dynamics and drivers of change in the Central Highlands of Madagascar during the last 6300 years: Pre- and post-human settlement - Andriantsilavo HI Razafimanantsoa, William J Bond, Lindsey...

The Central Highlands region of Madagascar is currently dominated by open and mosaic ecosystems, and the region is targeted for afforestation projects. At prese...

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Simon Goring @sjgoring.bsky.social · Mar 25

Any soundtrack with Jane Siberry gets my vote.

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Kay Thee Abortion Doula, PhD.♎ @drkalyncoghill.blacksky.team · Mar 24

Hey, my friend is collecting data for her dissertation. Can y'all repost this and share with your networks that work with the youth? Thanks!

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Simon Goring @sjgoring.bsky.social · Mar 24

Will Signal ban their accounts for breaking the law? It's in the TOS after all.

Simon Goring @sjgoring.bsky.social · Mar 24

The idea that I’m a “big shot” really just serves to reinforce my imposter syndrome 😂

Simon Goring @sjgoring.bsky.social · Mar 24

Holy crap-o-saurus! This is really impressive! Amazing job!

Ondrej Mottl 🌿💻📈🌍⏳ @ondrejmottl.bsky.social · Mar 4

1/🧵Introducing VegVault🌿🔒🏛️
A global database linking paleo- & neo-vegetation data with functional traits & abiotic drivers!
🚀A powerful tool for researchers exploring biodiversity dynamics across time & space

🔗 Website: bit.ly/VegVault
#VegVault #Ecology #Paleoecology #Vegetation #FunctionalTraits

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Simon Goring @sjgoring.bsky.social · Mar 24

Apologies for missing a couple talks by Silvia Frisia and Adam Hartland. Listening to Gang Xue now, talking about 14C in speleothems from dissolved and carbonate ages. Ages are consistently older than U-series dates because of old soil carbon pools. #kr10 @pages-ipo.bsky.social