@seanmichaletz.bsky.social
Associate Professor, The University of British Columbia (UBC). Ecophysiology, ecosystem ecology, macroecology, scaling, fire. michaletzlab.org
Recent study revealed plants are starting to lose more water under high temperatures. Known as "leaky plants," the abnormality is increasing because of #ClimateChange, potentially converting them from carbon sinks to carbon sources @seanmichaletz.bsky.social www.theweathernetwork.com/en/news/clim...
30.11.2025 18:41 — 👍 6 🔁 4 💬 1 📌 0Congrats!!!
27.11.2025 18:49 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0🚨 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/
Sonoran Desert landscape looking west across Avra Valley from Tucson Mountain Park. In the foreground, a desert trail winds through cholla cacti, saguaros, ocotillo, and native shrubs. The valley stretches to distant mountain ranges on the horizon under a dramatic sky of blue patches and white cumulus clouds with rays of light breaking through.
Please pass along - We've extended the CAMBIUM fellowship deadline to December 15! Our NSF NRT supports new grad students to harness biodiversity big data to adapt to & mitigate climate change impacts. Great fit for evolutionary genomics, bioinformatics, ecology & more. cambium.arizona.edu 🧬🌐🌎
26.11.2025 19:19 — 👍 25 🔁 37 💬 1 📌 0
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
06.10.2025 22:12 — 👍 62 🔁 69 💬 0 📌 1
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47th New Phytologist Symposium: Extreme Heat – extending the thermal limits of life
2–5 June 2026
University of Córdoba, Spain
Travel grant and selected speaker application deadline: 2 February 2026
Poster abstract deadline: 2 March 2026
www.newphytologist.org/events/47-nps
#PlantScience
Excited to share our fresh-off-the-press Annual Review on the role of temperature in metabolic scaling! We review the state of the field on this topic and unpack confusion about the various ways the term "scaling" is used in metabolic theories. www.annualreviews.org/content/jour...
07.11.2025 00:58 — 👍 22 🔁 11 💬 1 📌 0#UBC Botany is hiring an Assistant Professor in Non-Seed Plant Diversity - come work with us in beautiful #Vancouver, BC! Please repost!
academicjobsonline.org/ajo/jobs/31140
Check out our new pub led by lab postdoc, Dr. Brad Posch! 👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽
05.11.2025 19:10 — 👍 11 🔁 6 💬 0 📌 0
Venn diagram of major strategies used to cope with heat stress with examples of species expected to specialize in heat tolerance/acclimation (yellow circles), heat avoidance through drought-deciduousness (green circles), and heat avoidance through homeothermic leaf cooling (blue circles).
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
Submit an abstract to our #EGU2026 session "Microclimate Variation and Heat Impacts on Vegetation: From Molecules to the Biosphere"(meetingorganizer.copernicus.org/EGU26/sessio...) @kalimiddleby.bsky.social @santiagotrueba.bsky.social @sonyageange.bsky.social @egu.eu @egubg.bsky.social @hs.egu.eu
03.11.2025 22:46 — 👍 15 🔁 7 💬 0 📌 0
Save the date! 47th New Phytologist Symposium on 'Extreme Heat: extending the thermal limits of life'. Explore how extreme heat affects plants that underpin ecosystem productivity.
2-5 June 2026, Cordoba, Spain.
@newphyt.bsky.social
www.newphytologist.org/events/47-nps
Congrats to @bposch.bsky.social for leading the writing of the New Phytologist Tansley Review on High‐temperature acclimation of photosystem II in land plants. @newphyt.bsky.social
nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
High‐temperature acclimation of photosystem II in land plants nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... @newphyt.bsky.social
03.11.2025 14:42 — 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0Check out our new Tansley Review on leaf heat acclimation in @newphyt.bsky.social, the result of a great collaboration with an even greater team! @martijnslot.bsky.social @seanmichaletz.bsky.social @nicolebison.bsky.social @luiza-aparecido.bsky.social @owenatkin.bsky.social @hultinelab.bsky.social
03.11.2025 17:16 — 👍 3 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0
Drawing of a researcher looking out thoughtfully at mountains, grasslands and intertidal study systems
New paper out today in Ecology Letters! In this synthesis we dive into the equilibrium assumption in ecology - why it's everywhere in ecological theory, the evidence for it in nature, when meeting the assumption is important, how to achieve it in empirical research, and more! tinyurl.com/yh6kyysm
03.11.2025 13:31 — 👍 100 🔁 40 💬 3 📌 3
New paper led by @bposch.bsky.social out in @newphyt.bsky.social . We reviewed evidence, mechanisms, and consequences of high temperature acclimation of leaf heat tolerance: nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
03.11.2025 14:37 — 👍 30 🔁 15 💬 0 📌 1Thank you @ecologicalsociety.bsky.social's Theoretical Ecology Section for the Best Theory paper award for our @science.org paper on eco-evo emergence of macroecological scaling!
esa.org/theory/award...
PhD advert for Genomic and trait-based indicators of restoration success
Exciting PhD opportunity advertised by superstar colleague Prof. Rachael Gallagher "Genomic and trait-based indicators of restoration success" (collaboration with Botanic Gardens of Sydney). See attached image. Contact Rachael directly for more information (email in advert). Closes 30th Nov.
29.10.2025 00:52 — 👍 9 🔁 6 💬 0 📌 1
Please help circulate this postdoc fellowship opportunity! (And shameless plug that here at OSU there would be opportunities to build intersections between forest biology, remote sensing, modeling, or creative uses of the impressive new OSU supercomputer.) www.simonsfoundation.org/grant/simons...
28.10.2025 03:19 — 👍 5 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
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
21.10.2025 01:07 — 👍 4 🔁 4 💬 0 📌 1Congrats, Arif!!!
10.10.2025 16:24 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Interested in learning about research into Cerrado fire ecology? Curious to hear about my views and experiences in plant sciences? Check out this new interview @botany.one
botany.one/2025/10/fran...
Gracias @caordonezparra.bsky.social for the opportunity 😊
Data manager Rice Rivers Center..a beautiful VCU owned field station.
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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...
We are searching for a Forest Ecophysiologist (tenure track Assistant or Associate Professor) to join the Department of Forest and Conservation Sciences, University of British Columbia Faculty of Forestry. Please share! Details are here: ubc.wd10.myworkdayjobs.com/ubcfacultyjobs
25.09.2025 21:28 — 👍 225 🔁 175 💬 2 📌 4Wow, congrats Suttle Lab!
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We mourn the passing of our Editor-in-Chief Steve Long.
His vision to establish one of the first journals dedicated to Global Change over 30 years ago was truly ahead of its time. Through GCB, researchers have demonstrated that biology and ecosystems are not simply victims of global change..
Let's keep this trend running
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Come work with us!
In two week's time, application deadlines close for eight fully funded #PhD positions who will be working together on understanding and mitigating global change impacts and feedbacks from mountains:
cmt.w.uib.no/open-positio...
