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PhD candidate in Botany @ UBC, Michaletz Lab.
https://msimovic21.github.io/
pinned post!
🚨 New R package! 🚨 balancR provides tools for data balancing + robust scaling analysis, based on our recent Global Ecology & Biogeography paper:
doi.org/10.1111/geb....
Co-developed with my PhD advisor
@seanmichaletz.bsky.social
Check it out 👉
michaletzlab.github.io/balancR/
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Haley A Branch
12 days ago
So excited to have been accepted to write this piece. Thanks to all who have entertained my ramblings over the years and have encouraged me in my passion for
#ecophysiology
and
#evolution
🙏
#IAmABotanist
🌱
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Tyler King
15 days ago
I don’t know if this counts as a watershed moment or whatever but it is significant that even the NYT has to drop the pretense and call it what it is.
www.nytimes.com/2026/02/06/u...
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Katie Stuble
23 days ago
Paid Summer Internships... Join us for a summer of ecological research at the Holden Arboretum. Opportunities in restoration ecology, population ecology, plant ecophysiology, forest health, and more. On-site housing available at low cost.
lnkd.in/gjWUznhj
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Peter Sagal
26 days ago
Some history from a historian.
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BSA-ecophys
over 1 year ago
Here is a working Starter Pack for Plant Ecophysiologists! Please let us know if you want to be added to this list in a comment or DM.
#botany
#plantecophys
#PhysFam
go.bsky.app/Pbq39H7
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VAW Glaciology
about 1 month ago
We’re advertising a fully funded 4-year PhD position on modelling firn changes at the glacier scale within the SNF-funded deFIRN project, based at ETH Zurich & WSL. Apply here:
jobs.ethz.ch/job/view/JOP...
@wslresearch.bsky.social
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Sean Michaletz
about 1 month ago
🍁Funding for new PhD students ($40k/yr) & postdocs ($70k/yr) coming from outside Canada. Contact me if interested in
#Ecophysiology
at
#UBC
in
#Vancouver
! Possible topics: leaf physiology, thermal ecology, microclimate, scaling, tree physiology, forest ecology, more!
michaletzlab.org
Please share!
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Andrew Heiss
about 1 month ago
Perennial reminder of this excellent paper about how secret police forces are swamped with underachievers “We don’t want clever people. We want mediocrities.” (Ungated summary here
ajps.org/2019/10/08/w...
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Charlotte Grossiord
about 1 month ago
🌳PhD Opportunity in plant ecophysiology🌡️ Join EPFL (Switzerland) for fully-funded 4yr PhD on tree responses to air drought and heat. Climate chamber + long-term experiments to uncover physiological thresholds under climate change.
www.epfl.ch/labs/perl/pe...
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PhD Position: Tree Physiological Responses to Atmospheric Drought
We invite applications for a fully funded four-year PhD position at the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), Switzerland, with a planned start date in June 2026. The selected candidate wil...
https://www.epfl.ch/labs/perl/perl-home/open-positions/upcoming-phd-opportunity-thermal-and-atmospheric-drought-thresholds-in-european-trees-starting-june-2026/
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Brian J. Enquist
2 months ago
New postdoctoral fellowship opportunity! Please pass along. Excited to announce the launch of the Tom Lovejoy Fellowship Program at the University of Arizona for innovative research to protect species, sustain ecosystems, and promote a thriving planet
lovejoycenter.arizona.edu/lovejoy-fell...
🧪🌐🌾
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Kim Cobb
2 months ago
It is hard to overstate how critical
@ncar-ucar.bsky.social
is to climate science in the US and around the world. It's the beating heart of our field. Generations of scientists have trained there, and almost everyone I know relies on deep collaborations with NCAR scientists. It's end is unthinkable.
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AGU (American Geophysical Union)
2 months ago
The Trump Administration's plan to dismantle the
@ncar-ucar.bsky.social
is senseless & dangerous. It would weaken weather forecasting, climate research, & the science that keeps people safe. We urge that this plan be abandoned. Call Congress to
#SaveNCAR
today.
buff.ly/7ka1BQA
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Save NCAR from being dismantled today!
The Trump Administration has vowed to dissolve the center that provides critical extreme weather and climate data for our nation.
https://buff.ly/7ka1BQA
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Sean Michaletz
2 months ago
Check out our
#MichaletzLab
presentations at
#AGU2025
this week!
@agu.org
@agubiogeosciences.bsky.social
@gec-agu.bsky.social
@nicolebison.bsky.social
@milossimovic.bsky.social
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ᴅʀ. ᴍᴏᴡɪɴᴄᴋᴇʟ'ꜱ
3 months ago
🎄 ANNOUNCEMENT: R Package Development Advent Calendar 2025! 🎄 Starting December 1st, I'm launching a 25-day journey through modern R package development. here's why you should follow along 🧵
#rstats
#RPackageAdvent2025
#OpenSource
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Temporal Ecology Lab
5 months ago
Our department at UBC is hiring for a professor of forest ecophysiology, including "tree ecophysiology; plant abiotic or biotic stress physiology; forest mortality and climate change responses; forest carbon balance; tree water relations; or nutrient use." Learn more at:
tinyurl.com/5da56f5c
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Golden Ears is surely one of the prettiest mountains in SWBC.
3 months ago
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This would be absolutely hilarious if it wasn't so frightening
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Karen De Pauw 🌼
3 months ago
We published this open letter on
#UrbanForests
as essential(!!) infrastructure for climate resilience & biodiversity aimed at policymakers at
#COP30
. 4🗝️priorities🧵👇
@plantspeopleplanet.bsky.social
@fornalab.bsky.social
@fbwugent.bsky.social
@meisebotanicgarden.bsky.social
@westsyduhie.bsky.social
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Kate Johnson
3 months ago
Check out our new paper!
@brodersenlab.bsky.social
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Adrien Fabre
3 months ago
🎴NEW PAPER!🎴 Majorities in 11 HICs support: ✅Foreign aid ✅Debt relief for low-income countries (LICs) ✅An international carbon price financing a worldwide basic income ✅An international 2% tax on wealth above $1 million with 30% funding LICs and much more.
bsky.app/profile/wid....
A 🧵⬇️
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David Shiffman, Ph.D. 🦈
4 months ago
I think about this post every day 🧪
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Kate Johnson
4 months ago
The cover of
@jxbotany.bsky.social
is my painting of Tulip Poplar, a North-American native & global street tree that was the focus of our paper visualising freezing spread & freeze-thaw embolism in leaves! A lovely way to finish this multi-year mutli-country project 🔗below
@brodersenlab.bsky.social
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Aaron Rupar
4 months ago
Mamdani: "We can respond to oligarchy and authoritarianism with the strength it fears, not the appeasement it craves. After all, if anyone can show a nation betrayed by Donald Trump how to defeat him, it is the city that gave rise to him."
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Philip Bump
4 months ago
Mamdani quotes Eugene V. Debs, who earns a roar of approval just at the mention of his name.
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New Phytologist
4 months ago
High
#temperature
acclimation of
#photosystem
II in land plants
#TansleyReview
by
@bposch.bsky.social
et al.
nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
@hultinelab.bsky.social
#PlantScience
#photosynthesis
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Curtis Suttle
4 months ago
Applications are now open for two two-year UBC Biodiversity Postdoc Fellowships
biodiversity.ubc.ca/training-and...
. $77,000 /y + benefits and $7000 /y research funds.
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ANU Research School of Biology
4 months ago
Join us on campus & online on Thursday, 30 October 2025 at 1pm for a seminar by Josef Garen, Postdoctoral Research Fellow at Hawkesbury Institute for the Environment, Western Sydney University. Details:
rb.gy/2pdjbo
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Brian J. Enquist
4 months ago
Please pass along, I’m recruiting PhD students to join our Macroecology Lab
@uofa-eeb.bsky.social
We study phys ecology, macroecology, biodiversity - spanning scaling, trait-based ecology, theory, comparative biology & ecoinformatics. Several avenues for funding. Please reach out if interested🧪🌐🌾
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Kelly
4 months ago
US Government accounts have arrived on Bluesky. Block on sight. Protect your digital space. Be aware that the DHS account in particular is known to quote dunk on regular people to encourage their followers to harass them. The detach quote function will come in very handy here…
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David Shiffman, Ph.D. 🦈
4 months ago
WOW! Our survey of scientists who stopped using Twitter and started using Bluesky is now the #1 most-shared on social media article in the history of the journal Integrative and Comparative Biology! Thanks for reading it, everyone!
@sicbjournals.bsky.social
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Scientists no Longer Find Twitter Professionally Useful, and have Switched to Bluesky
Synopsis. Social media has become widely used by the scientific community for a variety of professional uses, including networking and public outreach. For
https://doi.org/10.1093/icb/icaf127
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Kevin Mueller
4 months ago
are economic valuations of ecosystem services a slippery slope? or worse, a trick? here is a case study for pondering, told in a creative way by my colleague John Van Stan 🧪🍁🌐
doi.org/10.1093/bios...
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A cautionary tale about urban trees: could ecoservice monetary estimates become economic sleights of hand?
Abstract. Estimating the monetary value of ecosystem services bridges biophysical and economic systems, facilitating dialogue and decision-making among div
https://doi.org/10.1093/biosci/biaf119
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Brian J. Enquist
5 months ago
This looks to be a fundamental theoretical advance by
@jpodwyer.bsky.social
et al. Using linkage disequlibrium-based Ne to back out σ² and then predict fluctuation sizes from a single temporal snapshot is a real advance for broad application 🧪🌐https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.adu6396
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Genomic demography predicts community dynamics in a temperate montane forest
Species population sizes fluctuate over time, and these temporal dynamics play a key role in governing the maintenance of biodiversity. Although modeling approaches have been developed to characterize...
https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.adu6396
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Sweta Agrawal
5 months ago
The Agrawal lab is moving! This January we will be setting up shop at
#UBC
in Vancouver, in the department of
#Zoology
! We are actively recruiting at all levels, especially masters and PhD students. These position are
#funded
! Please send anyone interested my way!
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Luiza Aparecido
5 months ago
Hi all! If you are a PhD or soon to be PhD looking for a postdoc in plant thermotolerance, I would love to discuss project ideas for the University of Utah Wilkes Center Postdoc Fellowship, app due late Jan 2026! Msg me if there is interest. Tnx!
wilkescenter.utah.edu/funding-oppo...
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Wilkes Center Postdoctoral Program - The Wilkes Center for Climate Science & Policy
Apply to become a postdoctoral scholar! This postdoctoral scholar program will help create the next generation of leaders in climate science and policy. It endeavors...
https://wilkescenter.utah.edu/funding-opportunities/wilkes-center-postdoctoral-program/
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Oxford Ecosystems
5 months ago
An ancient yew tree in Scotland that is half the age of the Holocene has caught our attention. What a privilege to be in the presence of one of the oldest trees in Europe.
@ymalhi.bsky.social
explains the significance of this giant.
@naturerecovery.bsky.social
@ecioxford.bsky.social
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Alpine ridges 💚⛰️
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Richard McElreath 🐈⬛
about 1 year ago
My default explanation for sudden changes in a time series is change in measurement. So glad to see another example, sent to me by a colleague who shares my cynicism. Short, clear explanation of Liquid Chromatography-Tandem Mass Spectrometry. Which is important to the story.
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Maybe it's just YOUR testosterone that's low
How the measurement tools have led us to falsely believe our T is low
https://eryney.substack.com/p/maybe-its-just-your-testosterone
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British Ecological Society
5 months ago
A drone image of an Amazonian forest in Brazil 🍂🔷💜🌳 Each tree crown has been highlighted with a different colour using Meta's Segment Anything model. This was part of a review into remote sensing methods for tropical forest restoration.
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British Ecological Society
5 months ago
Did you know that it's officially
#PeerReviewWeek?
📑💭 Whether you're looking to learn more about
#PeerReview
for the first time or want to brush up on some best practice tips, check out our free guide below 👇
https://f.mtr.cool/eoffzyiudg
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An article I peer reviewed a while ago was just published yesterday. Very happy to participate in the wonderful human project that is science 💚
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Thomas Lin Pedersen
5 months ago
I am beyond excited to announce that ggplot2 4.0.0 has just landed on CRAN. It's not every day we have a new major
#ggplot2
release but it is a fitting 18 year birthday present for the package. Get an overview of the release in this blog post and be on the lookout for more in-depth posts
#rstats
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ggplot2 4.0.0
A new major version of ggplot2 has been released on CRAN. Find out what is new here.
https://www.tidyverse.org/blog/2025/09/ggplot2-4-0-0/
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Tom Kimmerer, PhD
6 months ago
One of our most spectacular trees in autumn is baldcypress, with its glorious deep orange color in late fall. Baldcypress is not only interesting as a deciduous conifer, but also as our eastern redwood and as the longest-lived of all trees in the east. Enjoy the story at Our Trees.
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Tom Kimmerer (@tomkimmerer)
One of our most spectacular trees in autumn is baldcypress, Taxodium distichum. Their color is a splendid deep orange, often blended with foliage that is still green. Baldcypress, of course, gets its ...
https://substack.com/@tomkimmerer/note/c-152688296?utm_source=notes-share-action&r=4vismm
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Memento (new) Morty 🌙
6 months ago
Sorry I can't shut the fuck up about what RFK Jr is doing, but I just get mad when I think about having to tell my kid that there used to be safe and effective ways to prevent disease, but a man who sounds like a piece of wobbling sheet metal took them away to unburden everyone's mitochondria
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The International Biogeography Society
6 months ago
We can't wait to hear Dr.Brian McGill's talk for this month's Funk lecture! Learn more and register here:
www.biogeography.org/news/news/se...
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Haley A Branch
6 months ago
Thank you
@octoqueenphd.bsky.social
for the opportunity to ramble about
#evolution
,
#plants
,
#Disability
I hadn't realized HOW much plants have impacted my day-to-day and shaped my view of the world. Take a listen and keep your eyes out for more "Unwell to Begin With" - a FANTASTIC podcast name.
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Sean Michaletz
6 months ago
What drives photosynthesis temperature sensitivity? New
#GCB
paper from
#MichaletzLab
grad
#JosefGaren
uses
#FAsTeR
to show it's 1‑day weather, not traits, origin climate, or phylogeny!
www.researchgate.net/publication/...
@ubcbiodiversity.bsky.social
@science.ubc.ca
@globalchangebio.bsky.social
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Prof. Vigdis Vandvik
6 months ago
Come work with us! Fully funded
#PhD
position in global change ecology - working in a cross-disciplinary cohort of 8 PhD students studying mountains in transition. 🧪🌐🏔️
@btwnthefjords-uib.bsky.social
@cesam-uib.bsky.social
www.jobbnorge.no/en/available...
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PhD Research Fellow in global change ecology (285493) | University of Bergen
Job title: PhD Research Fellow in global change ecology (285493), Employer: University of Bergen, Deadline: Wednesday, October 1, 2025
https://www.jobbnorge.no/en/available-jobs/job/285493/phd-research-fellow-in-global-change-ecology
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Field work in the BC temperate rainforest is hard, but these perfectly ripe red huckleberries helped a lot along the way!
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The ground squirrels living on the shore of Alleyne Lake are kind of fearless..
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I think the biggest mistake I've made in my academic career so far is using Mendeley to manage my references...
@elsevierconnect.bsky.social
for the love of god please discontinue this shockingly bad software ASAP and spare future researchers the pain of having to switch to Zotero
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