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Milos Simovic
@milossimovic.bsky.social
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PhD candidate in Botany @ UBC, Michaletz Lab.

https://msimovic21.github.io/
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Milos Simovic @milossimovic.bsky.social · Jul 14
🚨 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/
milossimovic.bsky.social
Golden Ears is surely one of the prettiest mountains in SWBC.
November 23, 2025 at 2:03 AM
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This would be absolutely hilarious if it wasn't so frightening
drmikewiser.bsky.social Mike Wiser @drmikewiser.bsky.social · 5d
It’s awful. I’ve finally decided I need to demo how bad it is. In my intro lecture, I have several in class activities where I show the students chat GPT output and have them identify what’s wrong.

This attempt at the carbon cycle was in this week’s classes.
A shocking terrible attempt at diagramming the carbon cycle. There is a cloud labeled CO2. An arrow pointing from it to a volcano is labeled photosynthesis. An arrow from the cloud to a river is labeled respiration. An arrow from a tree points to the word diffusion floating in the water. A rock in the water has an arrow pointing to the word sedimentation. There is an arrow from sedimentation to the word limestone. There is an arrow from the word limestone to the volcano, labeled burial. There is another rock labeled rocks. The word decay floats by itself in the river.
November 21, 2025 at 7:58 PM
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karen-depauw.bsky.social
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
plantspeopleplanet.bsky.social Plants, People, Planet @plantspeopleplanet.bsky.social · 16d
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 🧵
An overhead view of a complex arrangement of trees and vegetation amidst tall buildings in a busy urban setting.
November 11, 2025 at 8:19 AM
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kateplantphys.bsky.social
Check out our new paper! @brodersenlab.bsky.social
jxbotany.bsky.social Journal of Experimental Botany @jxbotany.bsky.social · 7d
❄️🌱 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 🧪
Fig. 8.Comparative progression of drought- and freeze–thaw-induced embolism in leaves of young L. tulipifera. (A–C) The spread of embolism during three periods from 5 h to ∼25 h after the beginning of drought. (D–F) The spread of embolism during three periods from 5 min to 15 min after thawing began. Embolisms are colour-coded according to when they occurred, as indicated by the scale at the bottom of the figure.
November 19, 2025 at 7:10 PM
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adrien-fabre.bsky.social
🎴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 🧵⬇️
https://prod.wid.world/www-site/uploads/2025/11/WorldInequalityLab_WP2025_26_-Public-International-Redistribution-in-High-Income-Countries_Final.pdf
November 14, 2025 at 3:03 PM
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whysharksmatter.bsky.social
I think about this post every day 🧪
Screenshot of a Tweet pointing out that academic spam is actually in its own way kind of encouraging.
November 7, 2025 at 12:15 PM
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kateplantphys.bsky.social
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
Watercolour painting of a young Tulip Poplar tree on the cover of 'Journal Experimental Botany', for volume 76, Issue 18, 2025
November 5, 2025 at 5:11 PM
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atrupar.com
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."
November 5, 2025 at 4:38 AM
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pbump.com
Mamdani quotes Eugene V. Debs, who earns a roar of approval just at the mention of his name.
November 5, 2025 at 4:20 AM
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newphyt.bsky.social
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
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).
November 4, 2025 at 5:19 AM
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virosphere.bsky.social
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.
October 24, 2025 at 8:55 PM
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biologyanu.bsky.social
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
October 21, 2025 at 1:07 AM
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bjenquist.bsky.social
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🧪🌐🌾
October 21, 2025 at 5:13 AM
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broadwaybabyto.bsky.social
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…
October 17, 2025 at 11:05 PM
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whysharksmatter.bsky.social
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

doi.org/10.1093/icb/... 🧪
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
doi.org
October 15, 2025 at 7:29 PM
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kevin-e-mueller.bsky.social
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...
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
doi.org
October 9, 2025 at 12:11 PM
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bjenquist.bsky.social
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
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...
www.science.org
October 7, 2025 at 7:14 PM
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hokuba.bsky.social
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!
Agrawal lab logo. A fly in the UBC colors, with dots framing its body.
October 1, 2025 at 6:59 PM
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luiza-aparecido.bsky.social
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...
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...
wilkescenter.utah.edu
October 1, 2025 at 5:55 PM
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oxfordecosystems.bsky.social
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
September 30, 2025 at 9:08 AM
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Alpine ridges 💚⛰️
September 26, 2025 at 9:29 PM
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rmcelreath.bsky.social
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.
Maybe it's just YOUR testosterone that's low
How the measurement tools have led us to falsely believe our T is low
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December 3, 2024 at 9:50 AM
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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.
September 17, 2025 at 6:03 PM
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britishecologicalsociety.org
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
September 15, 2025 at 11:30 AM
milossimovic.bsky.social
An article I peer reviewed a while ago was just published yesterday. Very happy to participate in the wonderful human project that is science 💚
September 15, 2025 at 3:32 PM