Milos Simovic
PhD candidate in Botany @ UBC, Michaletz Lab.
msimovic21.github.io
- Reposted by Milos SimovicI 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...
- Reposted by Milos SimovicPaid 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
- Reposted by Milos SimovicSome history from a historian.
- Reposted by Milos SimovicHere 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/Pbq39H7at://did:plc:ww6vvvbhh5gmjts6zye4soms/app.bsky.graph.starterpack/3l5ccs4l24k2b
- Reposted by Milos SimovicWe’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 @slfdavos.bsky.social
- Reposted by Milos Simovic🍁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!
- Reposted by Milos SimovicPerennial 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...)
- Reposted by Milos Simovic🌳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...
- Reposted by Milos SimovicNew 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... 🧪🌐🌾
- Reposted by Milos SimovicIt 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.
- Reposted by Milos SimovicThe 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
- Reposted by Milos SimovicCheck out our #MichaletzLab presentations at #AGU2025 this week! @agu.org @agubiogeosciences.bsky.social @gec-agu.bsky.social @nicolebison.bsky.social @milossimovic.bsky.social
- Reposted by Milos Simovic🎄 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
- Reposted by Milos SimovicOur 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
- Golden Ears is surely one of the prettiest mountains in SWBC.
- This would be absolutely hilarious if it wasn't so frightening
- Reposted by Milos SimovicWe 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
- In their Open Letter, Manuel Esperon-Rodriguez, et al. highlight the importance of #UrbanForests as essential infrastructure to policy makers at #COP30, which begins today in Brazil 👇 nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/... #NatureBasedSolutions #PlantScience 🧵
- Reposted by Milos SimovicCheck out our new paper! @brodersenlab.bsky.social
- ❄️🌱 RESEARCH 🌱❄️ Ice spreads in a predictable pattern through young L. tulipifera, governed by anatomy and vein architecture. Leaf lethality always involves damage to photosynthetic tissues and can involve air embolism - Johnson et al. 🔗 doi.org/10.1093/jxb/... #PlantScience 🧪
- Reposted by Milos Simovic🎴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 🧵⬇️
- Research shows strong public support for global climate & redistributive policies — and this new study by @adrien-fabre.bsky.social confirms it, through an original survey representative of the population in 🇫🇷 🇩🇪 🇮🇹 🇵🇱 🇪🇸 🇬🇧 🇨🇭 🇯🇵 🇷🇺 🇸🇦 🇺🇸 Read more: wid.world/news-article...
- Reposted by Milos SimovicI think about this post every day 🧪
- Reposted by Milos SimovicThe 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
- Reposted by Milos SimovicMamdani: "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."
- Reposted by Milos SimovicMamdani quotes Eugene V. Debs, who earns a roar of approval just at the mention of his name.
- Reposted by Milos SimovicHigh #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
- Reposted by Milos SimovicApplications 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.
- Reposted by Milos SimovicJoin 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
- Reposted by Milos SimovicPlease 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🧪🌐🌾
- Reposted by Milos SimovicUS 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…
- Reposted by Milos SimovicWOW! 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 doi.org/10.1093/icb/... 🧪
- Reposted by Milos Simovicare 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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- Reposted by Milos SimovicThe 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!
- Reposted by Milos SimovicHi 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...
- Reposted by Milos SimovicAn 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
- Alpine ridges 💚⛰️
- Reposted by Milos SimovicMy 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.
- Reposted by Milos SimovicA 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.
- Reposted by Milos SimovicDid 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 👇 f.mtr.cool/eoffzyiudg
- An article I peer reviewed a while ago was just published yesterday. Very happy to participate in the wonderful human project that is science 💚
- Reposted by Milos SimovicI 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
- Reposted by Milos SimovicOne 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.
- Reposted by Milos SimovicSorry 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
- Reposted by Milos SimovicWe 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...
- Reposted by Milos SimovicThank 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.
- Had the pleasure earlier this summer of speaking with the absolutely brilliant @stressedbranch.bsky.social about countering ableism & eugenics in evolutionary biology, how her ballet training informs her science & what plants teach us about crip life unwell-to-begin-with.podbean.com/e/episode-2-...
- Reposted by Milos SimovicWhat 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
- Reposted by Milos SimovicCome 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...
- Field work in the BC temperate rainforest is hard, but these perfectly ripe red huckleberries helped a lot along the way!
- The ground squirrels living on the shore of Alleyne Lake are kind of fearless..
- 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
- Reposted by Milos SimovicPlease share! Our lab is recruiting a PhD student to join us starting fall 2026. Our group is broadly interested in plant molecular evolution and comparative genomics. More info about our lab and grad programs at Colorado St. is available on our lab website. sites.google.com/site/danielb...
- Reposted by Milos SimovicWe see here a self-styled "honest broker" with decades of experience in downplaying climate change presenting an age-old climate denial trope: using *annual* rainfall data as argument against an increase in *extreme* rainfall. Does he *really* not know better? Or assume his readers won't? 🧵1/5
- 🚨 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/
- Reposted by Milos SimovicPOSTDOC: Interested in Systems Analysis & addressing Global #Environmental Challenges? Austrian Academy Sciences is funding 25 4-year postdocs for US-based researchers. @iiasa.ac.at can host these #fellowships! Deadline 15 Sept 2025. More info: stipendien.oeaw.ac.at/en/fellowshi...
- Celebrating Canada Day in typical B.C. style, with a nice scramble across the high ridge connecting Mt. Cook and Mt. Weart! #canadaday #garibaldiprovincialpark #armchairtraverse
- Reposted by Milos Simovicthinking about plant diversity + soil organic matter with Šárka & Gerrit was fun! "We hypothesize that: (i) net effects of plant diversity on C contents are the most positive, and result in accrual of both POM and MAOM, for soils whose C storage is limited primarily by plant inputs, and ..."
- ‼️Fresh out @natcomms.nature.com Un(der)explored links between #plant #diversity and #POM and #MAOM in soil nature.com/articles/s41... @idiv-research.bsky.social @eisenhauerlab.bsky.social @akademievedcr.bsky.social @charlesuni.cuni.cz @kevin-e-mueller.bsky.social
- Reposted by Milos SimovicClimate warming is not a recent phenomenon; it has had detectable impacts on plants for at least 134 years! The onset of phenological plant response to climate warming @newphyt.bsky.social nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... 🧪🌎🌿🌐🌳 🍁 #PlantBiology @cideinvestiga.bsky.social @csic.es
- Reposted by Milos SimovicSubmit 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
- Reposted by Milos SimovicThere are excessive heat warnings in a lot of places right now, so just a reminder - although your instruments do not generally like a cool drink of water, you do need that. Please do not let your Overly Honest Methods include "measurements were halted due to heat exhaustion".
- Reposted by Milos Simovic🌆🌱 City lights stretch the seasons New research shows that artificial light at night (ALAN) has a stronger impact than temperature on extending plant growing seasons in cities – especially by delaying the end of the season. 🔗 www.nature.com/articles/s44... #SciComm 🧪 #LightPollution
