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T. Mason Linscott

@madmollusc.bsky.social
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He/him | On the snail trail | Linscottlab.com Assistant Professor at NMSU General ecophysiology and gastropod fan.

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T. Mason Linscott @madmollusc.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
This may sound silly, but growing up and during my grad years I really came to admire Dolly's commitment to her craft and to her community. There are few celebrities I felt proud of and she was one of them - she lived so fully and with such grace to her family and fans.
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Kevin Kocot @kmkocot.bsky.social · 17/02/2026
Tenure Track Assistant Professor and Curator of #Mollusca at the Natural History Museum Denmark, University of Copenhagen: employment.ku.dk/tenure-track...
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211-0252/25-2N - Tenure Track Assistant Professor and Curator of Mollusca
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Rebecca Nagle @rebeccanagle.bsky.social · 11/11/2025
Tribal citizens who live and work on their reservation do not have to pay state income taxes, but OK courts aren’t following the rules. Tribes in the state are asking SCOTUS to weigh in.
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5 largest tribes in Oklahoma are asking SCOTUS to take up tax case involving Muscogee citizen
The U.S. Supreme Court is considering whether to take up an Oklahoma tax case involving Muscogee Nation citizen Alicia Stroble. Now the five largest tribes in the state are weighing in, hoping SCOTUS…
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Phillip Davidson @the-phil-osopher.bsky.social · 05/09/2025
Our lab at Mississippi State is recruiting graduate students (PhD/MSc) to join us in Spring or Fall 2026! If you—or someone you know—are interested in researching evo-devo and comparative genomics of horned dung beetles, check out our site & get in touch! davidsonlab-msu.github.io
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Davidson Lab
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T. Mason Linscott @madmollusc.bsky.social · 17/11/2025
The Linscott Lab at NMSU is looking for new graduate students interested in ecophysiology, systematics, and trait evolution (often in molluscs)! Please reach out to contact me and see more at my lab website (linscottlab.com) and here: shorturl.at/DvUZa.
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Michael Freeman @afreeparticle.com · 26/06/2025
This is the idealized model of an animal. You may not like it, but this is what peak performance looks like. 🎢⚛️🧪
Figure from a paper with three cubes:

a) A cube with a rectangular cube connected labels "mouth" and "anus"
b) A cube with double the edge length The tube inside spirals around.
c) Another cube with all linear dimensions doubled, including straight tube.

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Fig. 1. (a) Idealized model of an animal. (b) Model from (a) increased in size while keeping the gut surface : gut
volume ratio constant. (c) Model from (a) increased in size with identical effects on the surface : volume ratio
for the whole body and for the gut.
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Daniel Ibrahim @danielibrahim.bsky.social · 27/05/2025
How to find Evolutionary Conserved Enhancers in 2025? 🐣-🐭 Check out our paper - fresh off the press!!! We find widespread functional conservation of enhancers in absence of sequence homology Including: a bioinformatic tool to map sequence-diverged enhancers! rdcu.be/enVDN github.com/tobiaszehnde...
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Conservation of regulatory elements with highly diverged sequences across large evolutionary distances
Nature Genetics - Combining functional genomic data from mouse and chicken with a synteny-based strategy identifies positionally conserved cis-regulatory elements in the absence of direct sequence...
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Rebecca Nagle @rebeccanagle.bsky.social · 27/05/2025
(4/4) More here: www.azcentral.com/story/news/l... And here: apnews.com/article/supr...
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Supreme Court refuses to hear Oak Flat case, clearing a roadblock for huge copper mine
The U.S. Supreme Court has turned down a request by Apache Stronghold to hear a case over a proposed copper mine at Oak Flat.
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Elinne Becket, PhD @bielleogy.bsky.social · 27/05/2025
Advice needed: A former student now in industry is asking about pros/cons of doing an industry-sponsored PhD, given the current climate and not getting in anywhere this cycle. I remember there was chatter about this a couple years ago but it's a good time to revive this chat. Please RT.
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Francesca Raffini Lab @francescaraffini.bsky.social · 26/05/2025
🐌✨ Become a snail detective! 🕵️🐚🔍 Join our WinkleWatcher Luisa Kumpitsch on shore 🌊 and help scientists crack the case of snail shell colors 🔴🟠🟡🟢🔵🟣 with WinkleWatchers. Who knew science could be this fun? ℹ️ www.gu.se/en/news/beco... #CitizenScience #MarineBiology
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Become a snail detective – help scientists solve the colour mystery
Why do periwinkles have such different colours? This is a mystery that scientists are now trying to solve, and to do so they are calling for help from the public in a citizen science project.
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Molecular Biology and Evolution @molbioevol.bsky.social · 14/05/2025
Zancolli, @marcrr.bsky.social @agneeshbarua.bsky.social et al. show that venom glands in marine predatory snails evolved via functional divergence from digestive organs, involving gene expression shifts and enhanced secretory machinery. 🔗 doi.org/10.1093/molbev/msaf095 #evobio #venom #mollusca
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Amazing Digital Carcass @amagire.bsky.social · 30/04/2025
ohhh it is Not Good how many people think "just buy organic" is the answer to food safety infrastructure being dismantled in the U.S.
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Richard Sever @richardsever.bsky.social · 29/04/2025
"The core strategy is to slow NIH spending to generate surpluses...then use surpluses as justification for slashing the budget...unspent [$] won’t be because NIH doesn’t have good science to spend on [but] because the administration has blocked spending" donmoynihan.substack.com/p/the-nih-bu...
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科学探求おしゃべり番組「ススメ!有孔蟲」 @susume-foram.bsky.social · 19/04/2025
Shell formation is happening right here, right now! If you look carefully, you can see the shape of the next chamber emerging faintly in the cytoplasm, a blueprint From here it gradually calcifies Behind the scenes of live observation research #foraminifera #shell formation #biomineralization
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Jon Puritz @jonpuritz.marineevoeco.com · 25/04/2025
xkcd.com/3081
XKCD comic about PhD timelines making a political statement about illegal student seizures and illegal imprisonment of foreign students.
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Mike Melton @mikemelton.bsky.social · 25/04/2025
Some more Zammara smaragdina cicada from @casabentbill.bsky.social #invertefest #bugsky #cicadas #nature
A close-up of a brightly colored insect with shimmering green and gold body, large dark eyes, and newly emerged, crumpled wings patterned with blue, yellow, and white.
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Jim Musil Painter @jimmusilpainter.bsky.social · 21/04/2025
My painting TROUT WATER
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Patsy “Resistance Kitty” Evans Ph.D. @drharmony.net · 21/04/2025
🚨Today the entire staff of the Institute of Museum and Library services were cut by DOGE!
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Graham Coop @gcbias.bsky.social · 08/04/2025
Inside me there are two wolves. One of them has a 15 genome edits the other 20 genome edits. Neither of them is a dire wolf.
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T. Mason Linscott @madmollusc.bsky.social · 09/04/2025
I am thrilled to announce I'll be starting as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Biology at New Mexico State University this Fall! I can't wait to work with some amazing colleagues and students amidst the sky islands of the SW! Woooo more ecophysiology, evolution, and snails!
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UAINE @mahtowin1.bsky.social · 09/04/2025
Blackfeet tribal members are suing the federal government, saying that Trump's tariffs on Canada violate the Constitution and tribal treaty rights. It's the latest example of tribes flexing their sovereign status to oppose new federal policy. montanafreepress.org/2025/04/07/b...
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Blackfeet tribal members sue feds over Canada tariffs
The lawsuit — filed one day before thousands of people participated in nationwide protests against the Trump Administration — is the latest example of tribes flexing their sovereign status to oppose n...
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Nina Schiettekatte @ninamds.bsky.social · 08/04/2025
Interested in calculating complexity metrics for 3D surfaces? Please check out our new package 'habtools' and associated paper @methodsinecoevol.bsky.social ! - Paper: doi.org/10.1111/2041... - R package: jmadinlab.github.io/habtools/
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Bill Wuest @wmwuest.bsky.social · 08/04/2025
NSF GRFP Awards by the Year: 2021 - 2074 2022 - 2193 2023 - 2555 2024 - 2036 2025 - 1000 Again, these funding cuts will have drastic longterm effects on the scientific future of the US....... @jeremymberg.bsky.social @altnih4science.bsky.social
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Anahí Espíndola (she/ella) @analyssi.bsky.social · 27/03/2025
The deadline for the @systbiol.bsky.social Early Career Travel Funds to attend the #Evolution2025 meetings is coming up! (Mar 31). Get your application in soon!!
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University of California Museum of Paleontology @ucmpberkeley.bsky.social · 18/03/2025
A recent Executive Order would gut the only federal agency dedicated to America’s museums. The Institute of Museum & Library Services makes up only 0.0046% of the federal budget. Take action now: www.congressweb.com/aam/95/
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General Public: Urge Congress to Save IMLS
On March 14, President Trump issued an Executive Order directing further cuts to the government agency that efficiently provides CRITICAL funding to museums and libraries in all 50 states.The Institut...
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Axios @axios.com · 17/03/2025
Exclusive: Navajo Code Talkers disappear from military websites after Trump DEI order
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Navajo Code Talkers get "DEI" label as military info disappears under Trump order
Also vanishing: The Civil War regiment from "Glory," women pilots from WWII and a Medal of Honor winner.
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Randall Munroe @xkcd.com · 17/03/2025
Lungfish xkcd.com/3064
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C. Chen @ Jamsteeeec @squamiferum.bsky.social · 08/03/2025
[New Paper] in Ecology reveals deep-sea snails in family Laubierinidae as obligate associates of crinoids (likely parasitic), including first-ever in situ observations of all 4 genera! This relationship was last seen in fossils >200 mil years old! FREE READ: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/share/author...
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Dr. Davey F. Wright ⛏️🦕🧬 @daveyfwright.bsky.social · 27/02/2025
Concordance between genomes, fossils, and morphology? With * molluscs *??? Science is healing
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Dr. Kat Napaaqtuk❄️ @napaaqtuk.bsky.social · 25/02/2025
Holy crap. When the Native groups are scrubbing the word Native from their websites, we are in fricking deep trouble. Also **** the UA BOR. That was a cowardly move and they should be ashamed.
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Dr. Jasmina Wiemann @jwiemann.bsky.social · 24/02/2025
Apply now for SVP’s Futures Award! 🦕 This award ($5,000 USD) is intended to support a summer research experience for current undergraduate students (incl. community colleges) who are Black, Indigenous, and/or members of other racial or ethnic minority groups! Link: vertpaleo.org/svp-futures-...
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SVP Futures Award – Society of Vertebrate Paleontology
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Rebecca Nagle @rebeccanagle.bsky.social · 24/02/2025
In a phone call w/ Sen Murkowski HHS Sec RFK Jr vowed to spare Indian Health Services (IHS) from the 10% job cuts proposed across HHS. IHS, the treaty-based fed program that provides healthcare to 2.8 mil Native Americans already has a 30% vacancy rate. alaskabeacon.com/2025/02/21/y...
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‘You do not treat people in this manner’: Alaska Sen. Murkowski condemns Trump firings, other acts • Alaska Beacon
Alaska U.S. Sen. Lisa Murkowski criticized Trump's administration in a tele-town hall, responded to questions from concerned constituents.
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Daniel Hering @danielheringude.bsky.social · 10/02/2025
Something unsual for #MolluscMonday. Caddis larvae with mollusc cases.
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Chris Gug @gugunderwater.bsky.social · 20/02/2025
One of the most beautiful baby snails I’ve come across. Many gastropods spend time in a life stage knows as the veliger stage, wherein they drift through the open ocean, filtering microscopic prey & phytoplankton. . . #veliger #gastropod #marinesnail #mollusc #blackwater
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McGill Biology @biomcgill.bsky.social · 21/02/2025
The sea butterfly, Corolla spectabilis, a free-swimming marine mollusc.
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T. Mason Linscott @madmollusc.bsky.social · 24/02/2025
Feel bad I went here then subsequently forgot about it. Well, will be posting some updates soon related to all things Oreohelix and other cool EPC systems.
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T. Mason Linscott @madmollusc.bsky.social · 13/12/2023
Oreohelix sp. (not haydeni, evolutionary convergence!) from Rattler Gulch mating. Oreohelix are a snail group that inhabit semiarid outcrops and give live birth (ovoviviparity). This birthing mode is thought to help them hold on to offspring to give birth during opportune times (e.g. rain).
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T. Mason Linscott @madmollusc.bsky.social · 13/12/2023
Flipped O. haydeni hybrida in the wild! Super cool and super rare to see in most land snail species.
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T. Mason Linscott @madmollusc.bsky.social · 13/12/2023
Oreohelix haydeni from Franklin ID. Brought back to the lab for some snail raising. Did pretty well for the few months we raised them.
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T. Mason Linscott @madmollusc.bsky.social · 13/12/2023
Oreohelix idahoensis at the Lucile caves!
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T. Mason Linscott @madmollusc.bsky.social · 13/12/2023
Well, this feed is pretty empty so I am going to post some of my snail pics.
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