Ethan Linck

maybe my favorite paper I've written, I have a synthesis out today early access in @asn-amnat.bsky.social today that attempts to answer a simple but slippery question: what is an elevational range? doi.org/10.1086/737130

last week to apply for full consideration—happy to chat informally if you are on the fence!

I'm hiring a postdoc for our NSF IntBIO project on songbird behavior, physiology and fitness! Start date as early as April 1 or as late as Sept 2027. Emphasis on behavioral endocrinology and transcriptomics, plus field ornithology based on applicant interests: academicjobsonline.org/ajo/jobs/33216.

good, interesting: daniellakens.blogspot.com/2026/10/how-...

The @burkemuseum.bsky.social is offering funds to support graduate and postdoctoral research visits to the collections, including our University of Washington Herbarium! Please help us get the word out! More information is available here: www.burkemuseum.org/collections-...

Please share! Our department has two tenure-track job ads up today. Here is the #botany job, with an open mind towards multiple subdisciplines. Fantastic facilities, perfect-sized institution, easy living. Come work here! bsu.wd12.myworkdayjobs.com/External/job... @botsocamerica.bsky.social

looking for library prep / sequencing service providers that will handle degraded / historical tissue—who's good these days?

fun fact: @cjbattey.bsky.social wrote this (translating Joe Felsenstein's popG from Java) while a TA for Lorenz Hauser's popgen class in grad school

this, from Butlin & Stankowski (doi.org/10.1111/mec....) on interpreting cline width, is sharp and not intuitive:

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

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

working on a seminar

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 :)

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

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...

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...

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...

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)

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!

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

oh yeah that'll be useful

Another fisheries genetics job working with the Northwest Indian Fisheries Comission! #consgen #fisheries #fishgen nwifc.org/fisheries-ge...