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I'm hiring a postdoc to help build tools for inferring complex speciation histories with genomic data. strong computational skills are a must, but this is a training opportunity. 60K$+ salary, 2 years, details flexible. please reach out! (and repost) ad here: jobs.montana.edu/postings/53150

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Postdoctoral Researcher

The Department of Ecology at Montana State University is seeking a Postdoctoral Research Scholar as part of NSF-funded research on speciation under alternating cycles of gene flow and isolation (fundi...

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Ethan Linck @elinck.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

sitting bolt upright in bed in a cold sweat as I realize I confused narrow- and broad-sense heritability in a lecture last week

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Nico Mongiardino Koch @nmkphylo.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

The PROGressive PHYLOgenetics LAB is now officially open and I'm looking to hire at all levels!! If you are interested in phylogenetics and macroevolution, and enjoy any/all of the following: fossils, morphology, genomics, simulations, or method development, please reach out to me :)

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Ethan Linck @elinck.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

soliciting alternative terms for the "basal Neoaves" that don't use "basal"

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Ethan Linck @elinck.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

curious how other labs with relatively few hands-on research tasks involve undergrads

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Ethan Linck @elinck.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

counterpoint: the office is a few blocks from my house and I will invite you to a Barbecue

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Ethan Linck @elinck.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

✅ 𝘌𝘵𝘩𝘢𝘯 𝘓𝘪𝘯𝘤𝘬 𝘩𝘢𝘴 𝘣𝘦𝘦𝘯 𝒎𝒂𝒓𝒌𝒆𝒅 𝒔𝒂𝒇𝒆 𝘧𝘳𝘰𝘮 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘧𝘪𝘳𝘴𝘵 𝘳𝘶𝘯𝘢𝘸𝘢𝘺 𝘭𝘰𝘯𝘨𝘣𝘰𝘢𝘳𝘥 𝘰𝘧 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘴𝘦𝘮𝘦𝘴𝘵𝘦𝘳

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Ethan Linck @elinck.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

cool senior forest ecologist job with @wilderness.org, salary 92-108K, location ideally here in Bozeman, Denver, or DC, but other locations considered: thewildernesssociety.careers.hibob.com/jobs/1737380...

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Careers

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Ethan Linck @elinck.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

this strikes me as the worst place on the internet to have this conversation, but I'm dying to read smart perspectives on principled use and disclosure of AI / LLM chatbots for scientific programming

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David Tan @mangrovepitta.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

My 2nd PhD chapter on the phylogeography of the Mangrove and Blue-winged Pittas is now on BioRxiv! Here we used genomic and palaeogeographic methods to show that, despite their similarities, the 2 species are strongly diverged, potentially due to differing ecologies. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

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Rhett Ayers Butler @rhettayersbutler.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

Four Melanesian countries are planning a network of marine reserves across one of the world’s richest stretches of ocean. Papua New Guinea, Vanuatu, and Fiji announced the Melanesian Ocean Corridor of Reserves in May. Solomon Islands joined in June. news.mongabay.com/2026/07/mela...

Mussau Island in the Manus Marine Protected Area, Papua New Guinea. By Justin Hofman.

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Ethan Linck @elinck.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

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...

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Patrick McKenzie @patrickmckenzie.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

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!

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Ethan Linck @elinck.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

played hooky and made it up the Villard Spires (12,020’) in the Beartooths last Friday 👍👍

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Evan Fricke @efricke.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

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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M3 demography postdoc.docx | Powered by Box

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Ethan Linck @elinck.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

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/...

screenshot of public abstract of NSF award, linked in post

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Alexa Fredston @afredston.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

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!

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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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Ethan Linck @elinck.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

lab website update! about three years overdue. thanks to @fraserlab.com for the great open-source jekyll template: elinck.org

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Linck Lab

This is the official web page for Ethan Linck's lab at Montana State University.

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Ethan Linck @elinck.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

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...

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Doc Edge @docedge.bsky.social · 28/04/2026

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...

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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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Ethan Linck @elinck.bsky.social · 22/04/2026

zoomer grad student just referred to events between 1995 and 2000 as "the late 1900s" 💀

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Ethan Linck @elinck.bsky.social · 10/04/2026

oh yeah my field notes totally look like this too ebird.org/checklist/S3...

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Ethan Linck @elinck.bsky.social · 06/04/2026

shared that "accidental aRt" tumblr with a student and noticed it was last updated 6 years ago...feeling old

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Ethan Linck @elinck.bsky.social · 30/03/2026

when people tell you not to buy a -80 freezer from VWR you should listen to them 🫠

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gavin jones @ecologyofgavin.bsky.social · 16/03/2026

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....

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Thinking like a mountain in the age of AI

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Benjamin Freeman @benjaminfreeman.bsky.social · 17/03/2026

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!

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Ethan Linck @elinck.bsky.social · 12/03/2026

there is no greater grift than edutech software

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Jesse Alston @jessealston.bsky.social · 04/03/2026

Shout out to @elinck.bsky.social for putting me on to this album. Farewell Transmission in particular is in my personal pantheon

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Ethan Linck @elinck.bsky.social · 03/03/2026

"They lead very different lives than us" — @jasongregg.bsky.social on seabirds

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Ethan Linck @elinck.bsky.social · 25/02/2026

student, to me: "has anyone ever told you that you have a wonderfully whimsical walk" (??)

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Ethan Linck @elinck.bsky.social · 12/02/2026

grant rejected! currently 0 for 2 at NSF. onward 🫡

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Ethan Linck @elinck.bsky.social · 04/02/2026

not saying English bird names aren't a mess, but it's good to remember that someone decided to call a fish "Dolly Varden"

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Ethan Linck @elinck.bsky.social · 02/02/2026

The party told you to reject evidence that mouth pipetting is fun and cool and safe. It was their final, most essential command.

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Ethan Linck @elinck.bsky.social · 29/01/2026

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....

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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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Ethan Linck @elinck.bsky.social · 16/01/2026

baby is getting all four molars at once. our fates are ruled by an old and angry god

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Ethan Linck @elinck.bsky.social · 13/01/2026

the student evals from onithology are in

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Ethan Linck @elinck.bsky.social · 13/01/2026

the world is a wild place: occrp.org/en/feature/m...

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Ethan Linck @elinck.bsky.social · 12/01/2026

gonna do the old science twitter thing and post my reading here this year

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Ethan Linck @elinck.bsky.social · 09/01/2026

this joke was made in a lab to torment me

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Ethan Linck @elinck.bsky.social · 22/12/2025

I've slowly been reformatting notes from my population and conservation genetics course at Montana State University into a web book—a rough draft is now live here: elinck.org/popgen_conge...

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Dave Baltrus 🦦 @surtlab.bsky.social · 18/12/2025

Fewer amounts of new specific solicitations and more broad ones going forward Panels larger and with larger suites of research grants to evaluate and broader expertise within them Probably longer waits to sort through funding decisions

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Ethan Linck @elinck.bsky.social · 18/12/2025

what do we think this will mean, practically speaking

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Ethan Linck @elinck.bsky.social · 20/11/2025

"Chlorospingus" has to be near the top of the list when it comes to humiliating bird names

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Ethan Linck @elinck.bsky.social · 09/11/2025

graphic design standards at science have slipped precipitously over the last 50 years

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Ethan Linck @elinck.bsky.social · 23/10/2025

I suspect this is a sign of things to come—that opportunities to pursue an open-ended Ph.D. in EEB (i.e., a project not tightly tied to a particular grant) will be increasingly rare (www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...)

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