Ethan Linck

Avian suture zones in Pan Amazonia Abstract. Suture zones are geographic regions encompassing multiple phylogeographic breaks and contact zones involving pairs of closely related taxa (anima

12) Rego et al. 2026. Avian suture zones in Pan Amazonia. Ornithology (doi.org/10.1093/orni...)

wouldn't be a paper announcement tweet without some sort of innovative typo

Genomic Evidence for Local Adaptation to Elevation and Climate Sheds New Light on Variable Responses to Global Change in American Pikas (Ochotona princeps) Click on the article title to read more.

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....

11) @peterinnes1.bsky.social et al. 2025. Evolutionary genetics of alternative splicing in plants. New Phytologist (doi.org/10.1111/nph....)

Quantifying the unrecorded loss of avian phylogenetic diversity Humans have drastically reduced avian diversity, with the majority of extinctions occurring on islands. Previous studies have quantified various aspects of this decline, including both taxonomic and ....

10) Faurby et al. 2026. Quantifying the unrecorded loss of avian phylogenetic diversity. Ecography (doi.org/10.1002/ecog...)

SLiM 5: Eco-evolutionary Simulations Across Multiple Chromosomes and Full Genomes Abstract. Evolutionary simulations of multiple chromosomes, even up to the scale of full-genome simulations, are becoming increasingly important in populat

9) Haller et al. 2025. SLiM 5: Eco-evolutionary Simulations Across Multiple Chromosomes and Full Genomes. Molecular Biology & Evolution (doi.org/10.1093/molb...)

Ancient stickleback genomes reveal the early stages of parallel adaptation Abstract. The parallel evolution of traits and their underlying genetic basis is well studied; however, studies of the parallel chronology of adaptive gene

8) Laine et al. 2025. Ancient stickleback genomes reveal the early stages of parallel adaptation. Evolution (doi.org/10.1093/evol...)

Variability, Drivers, and Utility of Genetic Diversity‐Area Relationships in Terrestrial Vertebrates The Genetic Diversity Area Relationship (GDAR) is a proxy-based prediction of genetic diversity loss. We empirically derived and assessed variation in GDARs across 51 terrestrial vertebrate species, ...

7) Schmidt et al. 2025. Variability, Drivers, and Utility of Genetic Diversity-Area Relationships in Terrestrial Vertebrates. Ecology Letters (doi.org/10.1111/ele....)

When Raptors Are Away, Opossums Will Play: Woolly Opossums as Carrion Feeders in Harpy Eagle Nests Scavenging by New World marsupials is rarely documented. We recorded woolly opossums (Caluromys lanatus) scavenging prey remains from a Harpy eagle’s nest in central Brazil. The low overlap in activi...

6) Machado et al. 2025. When Raptors Are Away, Opossums Will Play: Woolly Opossums as Carrion Feeders in Harpy Eagle Nests. Biotropica (doi.org/10.1111/btp....)

back at you! poor thing :(

she's Dosed

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

5) DeRaad et al. 2025. Strong selection maintains a narrow, stable tension zone between grosbeak species in the Great Plains. Evolution (doi.org/10.1093/evol...)

Genomic analyses in Drosophila do not support the classic allopatric model of speciation Abstract. The allopatric model of speciation has dominated our understanding of speciation biology and biogeography since the Modern Synthesis. It is uncon

4) Yusuf et al. 2026. Genomic analyses in Drosophila do not support the classic allopatric model of speciation. Evolution Letters (doi.org/10.1093/evle...)

Recent Demographic History Inferred by High-Resolution Analysis of Linkage Disequilibrium Abstract. Inferring changes in effective population size (Ne) in the recent past is of special interest for conservation of endangered species and for huma

3) Santiago et al. 2020. Recent Demographic History Inferred by High-Resolution Analysis of Linkage Disequilibrium. Molecular Biology & Evolution (academic.oup.com/mbe/article/...)

the student evals from onithology are in

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

When do tropical birds breed? The case of Colombian species assemblages ABSTRACT. Understanding when tropical birds breed is key to life-history theory and to predicting how species will respond to environmental change. While e

2) Moreno-Palacios et al. 2026. When do tropical birds breed? The case of Colombian species assemblages. Ornithology (doi.org/10.1093/orni...)

I'll consider this after tenure

The Genetic Consequences of Dispersal and Immigration in a Wild Great Tit Population Understanding how dispersal impacts the genetic makeup of populations is essential for predicting their responses to environmental change. Gene flow—via within-population dispersal and external immig...

1) Estandía et al. 2026. The Genetic Consequences of Dispersal and Immigration in a Wild Great Tit Population. Molecular Ecology (doi.org/10.1111/mec....)

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

nicely put!

beginning a 2000-word email to the comic right now

this joke was made in a lab to torment me

i hope it's helpful! looking to update it next summer

I find it hard to teach from a textbook, and it's been nice to develop this material over the past three years (and presumably many more to come). Feel free to use / reuse as needed, and drop me a line if you see errors or have suggested additions. (I've only given things the lightest proofread.)

This material is complemented by three computer lab activities that introduce students to the fundamentals of Python and genetic data analysis with scikit-allel, also up on GitHub: github.com/elinck/conse...

(or, if you prefer, a .pdf: github.com/elinck/popge...

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...

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