Simon Goring

@sjgoring.bsky.social

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I contain multitudes. Chief among them: silly things, serious things, maudlin things. Data science, databases, data ethics, R, Python, JavaScript, jokes, UBC and #yvr

A Hobo spider in a Petri dish. The spider has a blackish abdomen but is otherwise brown and unremarkable.
The sky above the Vancouver Flea Market, with bright blue sky, white clouds and darkness on the horizon.
The sky is blue above the UBC west mall, looking northwards. Trees line each side of the mall, people are visible, but in the distance.
Cows in a pasture. The cows are eating fresh green grass and are very lovely.
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.
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.
Prof Mosa Moshabela, vice chancellor of the University of Cape Town talking to the attendees of the 10th Karst Record conference.
A picture of the opening slide for the Karst Record 10 meeting. A lecture hall filled with happy and excited people.
Jars of rye-berries with a syringe filled with red winecap mushroom inoculum.
Red Latinoamericana de Polen. Ciclo de Talleres y Charlas Charla: Presentatcon de la Base de Datos Paleoecologica de Neotoma y la Base de Datos Latinoamericana de Pollen Expositora: Ph.D Suzette Flantua, Universidad de Bergen Ftcha: 17 de febrero de 2025 Hora: 10:00am (Hora Estandard Oriental) Lugar: Zoom The image includes a QR code for the zoom link.
A wooden Christmas tree, made from distressed wood and wound with small LED lights that is clearly hand made and also, probably made by someone who has bitten off more than he can chew.
A living room floor with a leaf blower sitting in the middle of it. There is an open door showing what looks like the laundry room of a small apartment. That is the end of the alt text.
A small hazel shrub in a training pot. The branches have been pruned and there are no leaves on the shrub.
A set of colour that I claim represent some sort of cataloguing system for publications. But if you read the alt text you’ll know it’s totally made up.