Ethan Linck
@elinck.bsky.social
Biologist, writer. Assistant Professor in the Department of Ecology at Montana State University. Interested in evolution, conservation, genetics, and ecology. https://elinck.org + https://ethanlinck.substack.com
new paper (my first w/ a Tok Pisin abstract)! our 2024 camera trap record of the rare New Britain Thrush prompted a review of all known observations of the species since its description—a mere 15 total. led by MS student Jason Gregg for the brand-new Journal of Lost Species: doi.org/10.66264/3c8...
Major #Botany2026 FOMO, but the drive MA->OR starts this week. So, sharing from afar: I’m recruiting grad students for my new lab at OSU! Info: www.mckenzie-lab.org . We're going to have FUN with systematics, speciation genomics, methods, natural history, and more in North Am angiosperms. Reach out!
played hooky and made it up the Villard Spires (12,020’) in the Beartooths last Friday 👍👍
Please help us spread the word about a postdoc position on population and demographic modeling in Tom Miller’s lab at Rice University. It is part of our SERDP-funded project on habitat-based conservation of threatened and endangered species in the Mariana Islands. app.box.com/s/5804wjthga...
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grateful to have received the lab's first NSF grant to study cyclical processes of speciation with new theory and tools (applied to Melanesian birds). ad to come, but I'll be looking for a postdoc with computational biology chops—please reach out! (and repost) www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/...
29) Chambers et al. 2025. Hot droughts in the Amazon provide a window to a future hypertropical climate. Nature (doi.org/10.1038/s415...) (giving up on threading since it doesn't really function on this site)
Hot droughts in the Amazon provide a window to a future hypertropical climate - Nature
Thirty years of forest demographic data, combined with recent ecophysiological measurements, reveal that intense Amazon droughts sharply increase tree mortality once soil moisture falls below a thresh...
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published ahead of print in @asn-amnat.bsky.social, by me et al.: doi.org/10.1086/743270 the first test (I think) of dynamic range models (spatially explicit population dynamic models) for mechanistic forecasting of near-term range shifts. they outperform a traditional species distribution model!
Dynamic range models improve the near-term forecast for a marine species on the move | The American Naturalist: Vol 0, No ja
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lab website update! about three years overdue. thanks to @fraserlab.com for the great open-source jekyll template: elinck.org
Linck Lab
This is the official web page for Ethan Linck's lab at Montana State University.
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Another fisheries genetics job working with the Northwest Indian Fisheries Comission! #consgen #fisheries #fishgen nwifc.org/fisheries-ge...
Fisheries Geneticist - NWIFC | Northwest Indian Fisheries Commission
Download the full Fisheries Geneticist EXTERNAL Announcement (PDF) Position Overview: The Northwest Indian Fisheries Commission (NWIFC) is seeking a
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This semester I developed and taught a course on applied population genomics. Lab activities proceed from the basics of the command line and Git to variant calling with workflow managers and a suite of downstream analyses (e.g., ADMIXTURE). All materials can be found here: elinck.org/genomics_eco...
Please repost: My department at USC is hiring for a teaching-track faculty position. We are looking for someone principally to teach statistics for biologists, but there will be opportunities for other courses in statistics & algorithms applied to biology usccareers.usc.edu/job/los-ange...
Full-Time, Teaching-Track Faculty Position in Quantitative and Computational Biology at USC
Learn more about applying for Full-Time, Teaching-Track Faculty Position in Quantitative and Computational Biology at USC
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zoomer grad student just referred to events between 1995 and 2000 as "the late 1900s" 💀
shared that "accidental aRt" tumblr with a student and noticed it was last updated 6 years ago...feeling old
when people tell you not to buy a -80 freezer from VWR you should listen to them 🫠
In a sea of opinions about the role of LLMs in academics I offer my own. Apart from being harmful, exploitive plagiarism machines, LLMs rob us of the opportunity to experience the gift of friction in writing, which changes how we think. We must not give away that gift. doi.org/10.1002/fee....
Thinking like a mountain in the age of AI
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We're hiring a post doc! Looking for a global change ecologist to work with Jenny McGuire & a multidisciplinary team including me and @jameststroud.bsky.social on the ecology side of things please share widely!
Shout out to @elinck.bsky.social for putting me on to this album. Farewell Transmission in particular is in my personal pantheon
Luke O'Neil@lukeoneil47.bsky.social · 5mo ago23 years old today
get your fresh hot highly contiguous Clark's Nutcracker genome here: doi.org/10.1093/g3jo... (lead by @peterinnes1.bsky.social & feat. @mdcarling.bsky.social)
A chromosome-scale genome assembly for Clark's Nutcracker (Nucifraga columbiana)
Abstract. Focal and intelligent passerine songbirds, corvids (Aves: Corvidae) have served as models for research on the genomics of hybridization and cogni
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"They lead very different lives than us" — @jasongregg.bsky.social on seabirds
student, to me: "has anyone ever told you that you have a wonderfully whimsical walk" (??)
not saying English bird names aren't a mess, but it's good to remember that someone decided to call a fish "Dolly Varden"
The party told you to reject evidence that mouth pipetting is fun and cool and safe. It was their final, most essential command.
my Ph.D. student Lizzy & I contributed to this perspective on range-wide signatures of local adaptation in American Pika—her first coauthuored paper: doi.org/10.1111/mec....
Genomic Evidence for Local Adaptation to Elevation and Climate Sheds New Light on Variable Responses to Global Change in American Pikas (Ochotona princeps)
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baby is getting all four molars at once. our fates are ruled by an old and angry god
