Sean Michaletz

SEEKING: Canada Excellence Research Chair in Ocean Ecological Modelling. Joint position at @UBCoceans and @UBCeoas. Associate Professor/Professor (Tenure) position. DEADLINE: SEPT 11, 2025! https://ubc.wd10.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/ubcfacultyjobs/details/Canada-Excellence-Research-Chair-in-Ocean-Ecological-Modelling_JR21451

SEEKING: Canada Excellence Research Chair in Ocean Ecological Modelling. Joint position at @ubcoceans.bsky.social and @eoas.ubc.ca. Associate Professor/Professor (Tenure) position.

DEADLINE: SEPT 11, 2025!
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My department @utoronto.ca (www.utm.utoronto.ca/biology/) is hiring a molecular biologist in any field (e.g., ecology, evolutionary biology, etc.). Please encourage any excellent finishing PhD students, postdocs or assistant professor to apply here:
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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!

47th New Phytologist symposium: Extreme Heat: extending the thermal limits of life
Hosted by the University of Cordoba, Span, June 2026
Stay tuned for updates!
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The abstract submission deadline for #AGU25 has been EXTENDED to 31 July at 5:00PM ET!

Submit your abstract today: www.agu.org/annual-meeting

AGU25 abstract submission deadline is quickly approaching!

Join us in NOLA by submitting to our session “B054 - Heat and Microclimate Impacts on Plant Functioning: From Molecules to the Biosphere”.
Confirmed invited speakers: Chris Doughty (NAU) and Kim Novick (IU)!

Hey, wow, congrats Dr. Middleton! 🤩 🎉

Empirical evidence of widespread exaggeration bias and selective reporting in ecology - Nature Ecology & Evolution Analysing >18,000 effect sizes from recent ecology studies published in five leading journals, the authors identify widespread under-powered designs, exaggeration bias, selective reporting and few ...

Empirical evidence of widespread exaggeration bias and selective reporting in ecology 🌎🌐🧪 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

@maitner.bsky.social you and Mike have similar office aesthetics

Join us at @cts.cuni.cz if you have a recent PhD or expect to finish by the end of the year.
Two years of academic freedom in highly inspiring environment!

Celebrate #Biodiversity in style!

Support the #UBC Biodiversity Research Centre with exclusive logo swag - where science meets style & conservation comes to life! Order t-shirts, mugs, & water bottles by 31 July! beatymuseum.ubc.ca/brc-merch @zoology.ubc.ca @science.ubc.ca @ubcbotany.bsky.social

Oh heck yeah! Somehow I don't have a Beatles t-shirt (which is crazy), but I've had airport compliments on my Depeche Mode Violator shirt (including from an immigration person in Reykjavík which was awesome) 🤣

Submit an abstract to our #AGU2025 session "Heat and Microclimate Impacts on Plant Functioning: From Molecules to the Biosphere" (agu.confex.com/agu/agu25/pr...) @nicolebison.bsky.social @luiza-aparecido.bsky.social @bposch.bsky.social @agu.org @agubiogeosciences.bsky.social @gec-agu.bsky.social

(PDF) Hydraulics and Structural Mechanics Jointly Shape Root‐to‐Leaf Scaling of Xylem Conduit Traits PDF | Xylem conduit morphology is shaped by the challenges of minimizing hydraulic resistance and preventing conduit wall collapse during vertical sap... | Find, read and cite all the research you nee...

Keep an eye out for this work to be published soon!

In the meantime, check out two of Milos' recent related papers:

shorturl.at/CPF9s

shorturl.at/bfLPs

Milos Simovic

Huge congrats to @milossimovic.bsky.social for receiving a Best Presentation Award at #ISEPEP10 for his talk on mechanisms linking fine root traits to climate change-induced yellow-cedar decline! #MichaletzLab @science.ubc.ca @ubcbiodiversity.bsky.social @zoology.ubc.ca @isepep10.bsky.social

@milossimovic.bsky.social just released #balancR (michaletzlab.github.io/balancR) -a new tool for resolving data imbalance in scaling analyses! Based on methods developed in shorturl.at/bfLPs and applied in shorturl.at/CPF9s. #MichaletzLab @ubcbiodiversity.bsky.social @zoology.ubc.ca @science.ubc.ca

💡 New for AGU25: Easily browse the sessions that will best fit your abstract! Just paste the copy of your abstract into the Session Finder, browse the suggestions, and click your chosen session to complete your abstract submission!

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Excellent anecdote Mike!

I learned the same lesson in my first field season in grad school. My supervisor said success didn’t require being smart, just ‘doing it’ all the time (sadly not over Schlitz). He was mostly right, but IME you can do other things too, esp as you get further along :)

If you're doing research on the interaction between plants and high temperatures - anywhere from the molecular 🧬 to the biosphere scale 🌏 - consider submitting an abstract for our session at #AGU2025!! 🪴🌾

Submit an abstract to our #AGU2025 session "Heat and Microclimate Impacts on Plant Functioning: From Molecules to the Biosphere" (agu.confex.com/agu/agu25/pr...) @nicolebison.bsky.social @luiza-aparecido.bsky.social @bposch.bsky.social @agu.org @agubiogeosciences.bsky.social @gec-agu.bsky.social

🌎 Now Accepting Abstracts for AGU25!

🔬 This is an unparalleled opportunity for researchers, scientists and professionals to add their voice to the conversation of "Where Science Connects Us."

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Predicting how plants will fare in the heat is not so easy Anticipating how plants will respond to rising temperatures is critical—not just for plants, but for whole ecosystems. How organisms respond to heat is often studied at small scales—such the behavior ...

Research on plant response to rising temperatures is often studied at small scales, then extrapolated across whole ecosystems. But that doesn't always translate into an accurate prediction at a larger scale.

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Scaling plant responses to heat: From molecules to the biosphere Predicting plant responses to rising temperatures, including acute heat waves and hot droughts of varying intensity and duration, is central to addressing the climate and biodiversity crises. However,...

Researchers in a new #ScienceReview highlight recent progress revealing how and why plant responses to heat change across scales, from molecules to the biosphere. scim.ag/3HZ7im9

Hey, congrats!

Scaling plant responses to heat: From molecules to the biosphere Predicting plant responses to rising temperatures, including acute heat waves and hot droughts of varying intensity and duration, is central to addressing the climate and biodiversity crises. However,...

New in @sciencemagazine, a review on Scaling plant responses to heat (www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...). Increased temperature along with acute heat waves threaten the ability of terrestrial vegetation to act as a carbon sink, but predicting how plants will respond to heat is challenging.

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Cover of special issue on plants and heat (image not from this paper)

Scaling challenges

Canopy microclimate variation

Plants are facing the #heat – from molecules to the biosphere –but predicting their responses isn’t easy. New @science.org paper w/ @mekevans.bsky.social & Jia Hu shows how plant responses to #warming can shift or reverse across #scales, and how new research can improve prediction. shorturl.at/mQB2c

NEW EPISODE of #FireEcology Chats! 🔥🎙️ Bob Keane joins Madeleine Lopez, Jeffrey Kane, and @davidfreemangreene.bsky.social to discuss how non-serotinous conifers persist on the landscape following high-severity fire. #SNFECO 🌲
Listen here: fireecology.org/feco-podcast...

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Tree plumbing is hard. Xylem “pipes” must move water & not collapse. New study in #PlantCell&Environment (shorturl.at/CPF9s) led by #MichaletzLab PhD candidate @milossimovic.bsky.social shows how #mechanics (not just #hydraulics) shape xylem traits from leaves to roots, across 5 spp & 600k conduits.