Simon Goring
@sjgoring.bsky.social
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.”
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.”
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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July 5, 2025 at 9:24 PM
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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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
June 27, 2025 at 5:08 PM
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
Are all dog’s teeth canines? How do dentanarians even know which tooth to work on?
June 26, 2025 at 9:17 PM
Are all dog’s teeth canines? How do dentanarians even know which tooth to work on?
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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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May 17, 2025 at 8:23 PM
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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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!
March 30, 2025 at 3:48 PM
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!
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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
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@yesiuoy.bsky.social @anthropocenebio.bsky.social
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March 30, 2025 at 7:25 AM
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...
@yesiuoy.bsky.social @anthropocenebio.bsky.social
authors.elsevier.com/c/1krTD8g13f...
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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 […]
[Original post on fediscience.org]
The short necked giraffe is a […]
[Original post on fediscience.org]
March 26, 2025 at 7:36 PM
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 […]
[Original post on fediscience.org]
The short necked giraffe is a […]
[Original post on fediscience.org]
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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 […]
[Original post on fediscience.org]
[Original post on fediscience.org]
March 21, 2025 at 7:30 PM
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 […]
[Original post on fediscience.org]
[Original post on fediscience.org]
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
March 28, 2025 at 7:34 AM
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
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Happy to see that our recent work has been featured in this article out now in @eos.org !!
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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February 21, 2025 at 6:12 PM
Happy to see that our recent work has been featured in this article out now in @eos.org !!
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🚨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
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
March 26, 2025 at 7:31 AM
🚨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
Ongoing hydrogeology position at #uwa, open to international applicants.
https://internal.jobs.uwa.edu.au/en/job/519834/lecturer-hydrogeology
#academicchatter #fedijobs #getfedihired
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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March 25, 2025 at 9:40 AM
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
Super cool work on outreach at #kr10 go do a virtual cave tour in Thailand: www.geo.sc.chula.ac.th/virtual/klan...
@pages-ipo.bsky.social
@pages-ipo.bsky.social
Klang Cave
Virtual Tour
www.geo.sc.chula.ac.th
March 25, 2025 at 9:24 AM
Super cool work on outreach at #kr10 go do a virtual cave tour in Thailand: www.geo.sc.chula.ac.th/virtual/klan...
@pages-ipo.bsky.social
@pages-ipo.bsky.social
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...
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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March 25, 2025 at 9:14 AM
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...
Good pollen, great multiproxy #palaeoecology #paleoecology
@neotomadb.bsky.social
doi.org/10.1177/0959...
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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!
March 24, 2025 at 7:27 PM
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!
Will Signal ban their accounts for breaking the law? It's in the TOS after all.
March 24, 2025 at 7:20 PM
Will Signal ban their accounts for breaking the law? It's in the TOS after all.
Holy crap-o-saurus! This is really impressive! Amazing job!
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
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
March 24, 2025 at 2:24 PM
Holy crap-o-saurus! This is really impressive! Amazing job!
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
March 24, 2025 at 9:37 AM
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
Really cool stuff from @arachnocampa.bsky.social talking about sources of detrital Th into caves that can impact U-Th dating. The challenges of working in places where humans, tephra, coconut crabs and seismology exist (aka, everywhere).
March 24, 2025 at 8:18 AM
Really cool stuff from @arachnocampa.bsky.social talking about sources of detrital Th into caves that can impact U-Th dating. The challenges of working in places where humans, tephra, coconut crabs and seismology exist (aka, everywhere).
Now @arachnocampa.bsky.social talking about dating difficult speleothems at #kr10.
Nice to start the day off with geochronology!
@pages-ipo.bsky.social
Nice to start the day off with geochronology!
@pages-ipo.bsky.social
March 24, 2025 at 8:04 AM
Now @arachnocampa.bsky.social talking about dating difficult speleothems at #kr10.
Nice to start the day off with geochronology!
@pages-ipo.bsky.social
Nice to start the day off with geochronology!
@pages-ipo.bsky.social
Now Christopher Kinsley talking about Curaçao stalagmites and the IBIS Bayesian approach for age-depth models in U-Th dating. Learning lots about how we need to modify our age modeling tables in @neotomadb.bsky.social! #kr10 @pages-ipo.bsky.social @pickeringrobyn.bsky.social
March 24, 2025 at 7:51 AM
Now Christopher Kinsley talking about Curaçao stalagmites and the IBIS Bayesian approach for age-depth models in U-Th dating. Learning lots about how we need to modify our age modeling tables in @neotomadb.bsky.social! #kr10 @pages-ipo.bsky.social @pickeringrobyn.bsky.social
One thing I’ve already learned at #kr10 that really surprised me is that most work is done on stalagmites, because the interaction between flow-water and the cave atmosphere is a critical element in capturing the climate signal. I’ll have to learn more, but I think that’s the gist 😅
March 24, 2025 at 7:48 AM
One thing I’ve already learned at #kr10 that really surprised me is that most work is done on stalagmites, because the interaction between flow-water and the cave atmosphere is a critical element in capturing the climate signal. I’ll have to learn more, but I think that’s the gist 😅
Cool talk by Denis Scholz about geochronology, laminae counting and Monte Carlo simulation. Now Georgina Luti talking about petrography and the dating of the Cradle of Humankind. #kr10 @pages-ipo.bsky.social @pickeringrobyn.bsky.social
March 24, 2025 at 7:40 AM
Cool talk by Denis Scholz about geochronology, laminae counting and Monte Carlo simulation. Now Georgina Luti talking about petrography and the dating of the Cradle of Humankind. #kr10 @pages-ipo.bsky.social @pickeringrobyn.bsky.social
Prof Mosa Moshabela, Vice Chancellor of the University of Cape Town reminding us the importance of this conference, and our studies for the real lived experiences of people, particularly as we face increasing climate pressures in our countries. #kr10
March 24, 2025 at 7:11 AM
Prof Mosa Moshabela, Vice Chancellor of the University of Cape Town reminding us the importance of this conference, and our studies for the real lived experiences of people, particularly as we face increasing climate pressures in our countries. #kr10