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Ethan Linck

@elinck.bsky.social

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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

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Ethan Linck @elinck.bsky.social · Jun 11

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

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Ethan Linck @elinck.bsky.social · 21h

we only have to lump it to November, but will then pay ~$300 more a month for the privilege

Ethan Linck @elinck.bsky.social · 23h

unoriginal but underrated explanation for why Americans are so miserable

Ethan Linck @elinck.bsky.social · 23h

I have organized my life around not having to drive regularly since ~2009. we're about a week into having to do so for childcare, and man this blows

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Dan Garisto @dangaristo.bsky.social · 14d

We used to live in a society.

hyperphysics.phy-astr.gsu.edu/hbase/electr...

Hyperphysics' presentation of Coulomb's Law.

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Ethan Linck @elinck.bsky.social · 15d

I can't help but notice polarization and societal dysfunction have increased since we stopped making websites like this

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Ethan Linck @elinck.bsky.social · 19d

today is your last chance to comment on the feds' plan to rescind the roadless rule, which I urge you to strongly oppose on recreational and scientific grounds: www.regulations.gov/document/FS-...

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Ethan Linck @elinck.bsky.social · 19d

you hate to see it

Ethan Linck @elinck.bsky.social · Aug 26

yes he does

Ethan Linck @elinck.bsky.social · Aug 26

it's time for my class to learn about some Guys

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Ana Bedoya @botana-bedoya.bsky.social · Aug 19

Plant genome sequencing needs to go tropical. Check out this commentary I wrote with Felipe Zapata (UCLA) and María José Sanín (Montgomery Botanical Center) out today in Nature Reviews Biodiversity 1/5 www.nature.com/articles/s44...

Plant genome sequencing needs to go tropical

Nature Reviews Biodiversity - Whole-genome plant sequencing is heavily biased towards species from temperate regions and species with utilitarian values. An expansion of efforts to include tropical...

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Ethan Linck @elinck.bsky.social · Aug 17

i keep a facebook account open for the usual reasons (marketplace, that one aunt) and about two years ago began getting deluged with friend requests from random birders / nature guides around the world. when did this cultural norm get established?

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Ethan Linck @elinck.bsky.social · Aug 13

my university information security office sends out fake "happy birthday!" phishing emails from an official address with a QR code and if you scan the QR code they enroll you in mandatory training

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Ethan Linck @elinck.bsky.social · Aug 4

up for retention this semester; working off examples of dossier materials from colleagues. how are you people so productive??

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Jessica Budke 🌱🥼🔬 @mossplants.bsky.social · Aug 2

Know an Evolutionary Genomicist looking for a faculty position? Join us in EEB @utknoxville.bsky.social Position is open for studying any organism, but personally I have some botany bias. 🌱 Apply before Sept 19 for full consideration. apply.interfolio.com/170735 Please share widely. Thanks!

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Ethan Linck @elinck.bsky.social · Jul 18

I’ll email you!

Ethan Linck @elinck.bsky.social · Jul 17

looking for successful examples of applied / practical evolutionary / population / conservation genomics courses, at the graduate or advanced undergrad level. have you taught something like this? what worked?

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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · Jul 16

1. Kevin Gross and I just posted a new science-of-science preprint.

This one explores the looming peer review crisis. As many of you know, it's becoming significantly more difficult for journal editors to find scholars willing to serve as peer reviewers for submitted manuscripts.

Will anyone review this paper? Screening, sorting, and the feedback cycles that imperil peer review

Scholarly publishing relies on peer review to identify the best science. Yet finding willing and qualified reviewers to evaluate manuscripts has become an increasingly challenging task, possibly even ...

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Dr. David Miller 🏳️‍🌈 @davidimiller.bsky.social · Jul 10

🧪 BREAKING (good news): Senate subcommittee says NO! to Trump's proposed slashes to NASA & NSF funding.

Today, the subcommittee said to keep NASA + NSF funding at $33.9 billion, the same as in FY24.

See 7:15 below. Full Senate appropriations committee meets tomorrow about it.

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