Colautti Lab
@colauttilab.bsky.social
We work at the interface of ecology, evolution and genetics at Queen's U (Canada) using statistics, bioinformatics, field experiments, and sequencing.
Website: https://EcoEvoGeno.org
Repo: https://github.com/ColauttiLab
ORCiD: 0000-0003-4213-0711
Website: https://EcoEvoGeno.org
Repo: https://github.com/ColauttiLab
ORCiD: 0000-0003-4213-0711
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I'm excited to work w/the @ijpsjournal.bsky.social editorial team!
Reasons to submit:
-great science & people
-not for profit & affordable
-celebrates undergrad pubs w/mock covers (3 examples)
-awesome bandanas (pic of my lab)
-Primers in the Plant Sciences www.journals.uchicago.edu/journals/ijp...
Reasons to submit:
-great science & people
-not for profit & affordable
-celebrates undergrad pubs w/mock covers (3 examples)
-awesome bandanas (pic of my lab)
-Primers in the Plant Sciences www.journals.uchicago.edu/journals/ijp...
February 11, 2026 at 10:20 PM
I'm excited to work w/the @ijpsjournal.bsky.social editorial team!
Reasons to submit:
-great science & people
-not for profit & affordable
-celebrates undergrad pubs w/mock covers (3 examples)
-awesome bandanas (pic of my lab)
-Primers in the Plant Sciences www.journals.uchicago.edu/journals/ijp...
Reasons to submit:
-great science & people
-not for profit & affordable
-celebrates undergrad pubs w/mock covers (3 examples)
-awesome bandanas (pic of my lab)
-Primers in the Plant Sciences www.journals.uchicago.edu/journals/ijp...
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And CSEE is not just for researchers in Canada, we love to see our international collaborators!
This, every year, is the BEST MEETING EVER. I'm going to miss it this year, for the first time in about 20 years... take my spot! Do the things there I would have done! Learn the things I would have learned! Have the fun I would have had!*
⏰ Last call for early‑bird registration!
Tomorrow (January 30) is the final day to secure your spot at the discounted rate. Don’t miss out ~ Grab your early‑bird registration while you still can! Click the link below to register👇:
event.fourwaves.com/csee2026/pages
Tomorrow (January 30) is the final day to secure your spot at the discounted rate. Don’t miss out ~ Grab your early‑bird registration while you still can! Click the link below to register👇:
event.fourwaves.com/csee2026/pages
January 30, 2026 at 2:40 PM
And CSEE is not just for researchers in Canada, we love to see our international collaborators!
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In it's 20th anniversary year, @csee-scee.bsky.social reaches its largest size so far. 1000 members!
Canadian Ecology and Evolution is stronger than ever!!
Canadian Ecology and Evolution is stronger than ever!!
🎉 Big milestone alert! 🎉
The CSEE has reached 1,000 members, and is still growing!
A heartfelt thank you to every member for helping create such a supportive, inspiring community for ecologists and evolutionary biologists across Canada and beyond. 💚 Let's keep building this community together.
The CSEE has reached 1,000 members, and is still growing!
A heartfelt thank you to every member for helping create such a supportive, inspiring community for ecologists and evolutionary biologists across Canada and beyond. 💚 Let's keep building this community together.
January 30, 2026 at 1:58 PM
In it's 20th anniversary year, @csee-scee.bsky.social reaches its largest size so far. 1000 members!
Canadian Ecology and Evolution is stronger than ever!!
Canadian Ecology and Evolution is stronger than ever!!
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If you can only visit one place at Harvard, make it the glass flower exhibit at the Museum of Natural History.
4000 models, 847 species.
Commissioned by the university for teaching botany and created by the Czech father and son Leopold and Rudolf Blaschka 1887 through 1936.
4000 models, 847 species.
Commissioned by the university for teaching botany and created by the Czech father and son Leopold and Rudolf Blaschka 1887 through 1936.
January 29, 2026 at 4:14 PM
If you can only visit one place at Harvard, make it the glass flower exhibit at the Museum of Natural History.
4000 models, 847 species.
Commissioned by the university for teaching botany and created by the Czech father and son Leopold and Rudolf Blaschka 1887 through 1936.
4000 models, 847 species.
Commissioned by the university for teaching botany and created by the Czech father and son Leopold and Rudolf Blaschka 1887 through 1936.
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Join us at the Evolutionary Biology Centre at Uppsala University. We’re searching for an Assistant Professor in Biology. www.uu.se/en/about-uu/...
January 28, 2026 at 8:28 PM
Join us at the Evolutionary Biology Centre at Uppsala University. We’re searching for an Assistant Professor in Biology. www.uu.se/en/about-uu/...
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Are you anywhere in the world (other than Canada) and want to do a PhD in my lab in Canada at Queen's University? We have a prestigious scholarship for 3-years of PhD funding. Get in touch, applications due early February. Must love plants and evolution!
friedmanlab.ca
friedmanlab.ca
Friedman Lab
Visit the post for more.
friedmanlab.ca
January 27, 2026 at 1:18 PM
Are you anywhere in the world (other than Canada) and want to do a PhD in my lab in Canada at Queen's University? We have a prestigious scholarship for 3-years of PhD funding. Get in touch, applications due early February. Must love plants and evolution!
friedmanlab.ca
friedmanlab.ca
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In the strain on scientific publishing, we showed that total publications have grown out of control. A huge part of that was guest edited special issues by groups like #MDPI and #Frontiers.
This ongoing practice is the largest delegation of editorial power academia has ever seen.
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This ongoing practice is the largest delegation of editorial power academia has ever seen.
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The strain on scientific publishing
Abstract. Scientists are increasingly overwhelmed by the volume of articles being published. The total number of articles indexed in Scopus and Web of Science has grown exponentially in recent years; ...
direct.mit.edu
January 13, 2026 at 8:27 AM
In the strain on scientific publishing, we showed that total publications have grown out of control. A huge part of that was guest edited special issues by groups like #MDPI and #Frontiers.
This ongoing practice is the largest delegation of editorial power academia has ever seen.
2/n
This ongoing practice is the largest delegation of editorial power academia has ever seen.
2/n
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Paper submitted!!!! Way to go @jillmlove.bsky.social !!!! You're on 🔥 this year !!!!!!! #ProudPI
Preprint coming soon to a screen near you... #Mimuluspropaganda
(this post is sponsored by the "Katie thinks we should celebrate anything we can right now" corporation for public expressions of joy)
Preprint coming soon to a screen near you... #Mimuluspropaganda
(this post is sponsored by the "Katie thinks we should celebrate anything we can right now" corporation for public expressions of joy)
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January 14, 2026 at 6:45 PM
Paper submitted!!!! Way to go @jillmlove.bsky.social !!!! You're on 🔥 this year !!!!!!! #ProudPI
Preprint coming soon to a screen near you... #Mimuluspropaganda
(this post is sponsored by the "Katie thinks we should celebrate anything we can right now" corporation for public expressions of joy)
Preprint coming soon to a screen near you... #Mimuluspropaganda
(this post is sponsored by the "Katie thinks we should celebrate anything we can right now" corporation for public expressions of joy)
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“Who ends up retracted depends not only on who makes mistakes, but on who occupies positions where mistakes are most likely to occur and most likely to be discovered”
blogs.lse.ac.uk/impactofsoci...
blogs.lse.ac.uk/impactofsoci...
Why is research led by women retracted less frequently? - Impact of Social Sciences
A recent study found research by women had fewer retractions. Are women betters researchers, or does the finding reflect wider structural issues?
blogs.lse.ac.uk
January 14, 2026 at 9:26 AM
“Who ends up retracted depends not only on who makes mistakes, but on who occupies positions where mistakes are most likely to occur and most likely to be discovered”
blogs.lse.ac.uk/impactofsoci...
blogs.lse.ac.uk/impactofsoci...
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This was a very interesting read:
An untold story in biology: the historical continuity of evolutionary ideas of Muslim scholars from the 8th century to Darwin's time 🧪
www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1...
An untold story in biology: the historical continuity of evolutionary ideas of Muslim scholars from the 8th century to Darwin's time 🧪
www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1...
January 13, 2026 at 3:54 PM
This was a very interesting read:
An untold story in biology: the historical continuity of evolutionary ideas of Muslim scholars from the 8th century to Darwin's time 🧪
www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1...
An untold story in biology: the historical continuity of evolutionary ideas of Muslim scholars from the 8th century to Darwin's time 🧪
www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1...
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Great postdoc opportunity to work on metabolomics and genomics of aroma in berries (raspberry and blueberry) at UBC in beautiful Vancouver! Come explore aroma diversity and figure out what are the metabolites and genes that control it - and help us make even better berries! 🌱 🫐 ⚗️ 🧬
December 22, 2025 at 10:37 PM
Great postdoc opportunity to work on metabolomics and genomics of aroma in berries (raspberry and blueberry) at UBC in beautiful Vancouver! Come explore aroma diversity and figure out what are the metabolites and genes that control it - and help us make even better berries! 🌱 🫐 ⚗️ 🧬
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Excited to share the first two publications from our PERSIST (Predicting Evolutionary Rescue of a Species in Space and Time) project. Thanks to NSF-DEB for supporting this work! (1/3)
December 22, 2025 at 6:13 PM
Excited to share the first two publications from our PERSIST (Predicting Evolutionary Rescue of a Species in Space and Time) project. Thanks to NSF-DEB for supporting this work! (1/3)
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New Ferris Lab preprint demonstrating adaptive plasticity in Mimulus laciniatus! See @jillmlove.bsky.social post below for the link. Check it out y’all!!!!
#Mimuluspropaganda
#Mimuluspropaganda
Preprint up now! With @ferrisifolius.bsky.social, we found positive selection on leaf shape plasticity across the altitudinal range of the cutleaf monkeyflower. This experiment was a HUGE personal undertaking. If you give it a read, I’d love to hear your thoughts!
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
Phenotypic plasticity is broadly adaptive across an elevation gradient in the Cutleaf Monkeyflower
Phenotypic plasticity is a key mechanism by which organisms can cope with environmental heterogeneity, but its evolutionary consequences depend on how plastic responses align with the broader adaptive...
www.biorxiv.org
December 22, 2025 at 3:08 PM
New Ferris Lab preprint demonstrating adaptive plasticity in Mimulus laciniatus! See @jillmlove.bsky.social post below for the link. Check it out y’all!!!!
#Mimuluspropaganda
#Mimuluspropaganda
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Fabulous society. Join! And not just Canadians. The annual meeting is my favourite of all conferences and we love to have our non-Canadian friends join us.
Happy holidays from CSEE! ☃️ Now’s a great time to (re)join. Learn more: csee-scee.ca. Faculty: consider gifting CSEE memberships to students & postdocs! They're just $30/person and grant-eligible.
December 16, 2025 at 9:52 PM
Fabulous society. Join! And not just Canadians. The annual meeting is my favourite of all conferences and we love to have our non-Canadian friends join us.
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Preprint now, submit to journal in January
December 19, 2025 at 9:04 PM
Preprint now, submit to journal in January
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Exclusive: A World Bank report on obesity trends with at least 14 fake references in the text has been removed from the website and is being reviewed by the organization following a Retraction Watch inquiry.
World Bank report ‘removed for review’ of nonexistent references after Retraction Watch inquiry
A World Bank report on obesity trends with at least 14 fake references in the text has been removed from the website and is being reviewed by the organization following a Retraction Watch inquiry.&…
retractionwatch.com
December 19, 2025 at 12:03 PM
Exclusive: A World Bank report on obesity trends with at least 14 fake references in the text has been removed from the website and is being reviewed by the organization following a Retraction Watch inquiry.
Once again, our students have won an award for our department’s annual holiday door decorating contest!
December 13, 2025 at 3:44 PM
Once again, our students have won an award for our department’s annual holiday door decorating contest!
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We 💚 the Stranger Plants—and now they’re on #BSAswag!
The shirts feature bold illustrations by BSA’s own Catrina Adams, with a list of each species by common & scientific name on the back.
BSA members (exp. 2026+) get 10% off—email [email protected] for code.
www.bonfire.com/store/bsa-wi...
The shirts feature bold illustrations by BSA’s own Catrina Adams, with a list of each species by common & scientific name on the back.
BSA members (exp. 2026+) get 10% off—email [email protected] for code.
www.bonfire.com/store/bsa-wi...
December 12, 2025 at 4:29 PM
We 💚 the Stranger Plants—and now they’re on #BSAswag!
The shirts feature bold illustrations by BSA’s own Catrina Adams, with a list of each species by common & scientific name on the back.
BSA members (exp. 2026+) get 10% off—email [email protected] for code.
www.bonfire.com/store/bsa-wi...
The shirts feature bold illustrations by BSA’s own Catrina Adams, with a list of each species by common & scientific name on the back.
BSA members (exp. 2026+) get 10% off—email [email protected] for code.
www.bonfire.com/store/bsa-wi...
I can vouch for Canada and Queen’s U as both being super-supportive of cutting edge research and innovation. Don’t hesitate to reach out if you are thinking about coming here, or have questions. Email: ColauttiLab(at)gmail
www.canada.ca/en/impact-pl...
www.canada.ca/en/impact-pl...
December 12, 2025 at 9:37 PM
I can vouch for Canada and Queen’s U as both being super-supportive of cutting edge research and innovation. Don’t hesitate to reach out if you are thinking about coming here, or have questions. Email: ColauttiLab(at)gmail
www.canada.ca/en/impact-pl...
www.canada.ca/en/impact-pl...
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Made a site comparing the sizes of living things :)
The great Julius Csotonyi spent 5 months painting over 60 illustrations for the site, no ai used
> neal.fun/size-of-life/
The great Julius Csotonyi spent 5 months painting over 60 illustrations for the site, no ai used
> neal.fun/size-of-life/
December 10, 2025 at 4:03 PM
Made a site comparing the sizes of living things :)
The great Julius Csotonyi spent 5 months painting over 60 illustrations for the site, no ai used
> neal.fun/size-of-life/
The great Julius Csotonyi spent 5 months painting over 60 illustrations for the site, no ai used
> neal.fun/size-of-life/
Probably a long-shot, but is anyone aware of open-source image stacking software that would work with microscope images? Ideally to do 3D topology but even just high-res images with a wide depth of field would be useful.
December 10, 2025 at 2:51 PM
Probably a long-shot, but is anyone aware of open-source image stacking software that would work with microscope images? Ideally to do 3D topology but even just high-res images with a wide depth of field would be useful.
The Venn diagram of AI hype and academic publishing profits:
“A single person claims to have authored 113 academic papers on artificial intelligence this year, 89 of which will be presented this week at one of the world’s leading conference on AI and machine learning,”
“A single person claims to have authored 113 academic papers on artificial intelligence this year, 89 of which will be presented this week at one of the world’s leading conference on AI and machine learning,”
“Farid says that he now counsels students to not go into AI research, because of the “frenzy” in the field and the large volume of low-quality work being put out by people hoping to better their career prospects”
www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
Artificial intelligence research has a slop problem, academics say: ‘It’s a mess’
AI research in question as author claims to have written over 100 papers on AI that one expert calls a ‘disaster’
www.theguardian.com
December 7, 2025 at 2:50 PM
The Venn diagram of AI hype and academic publishing profits:
“A single person claims to have authored 113 academic papers on artificial intelligence this year, 89 of which will be presented this week at one of the world’s leading conference on AI and machine learning,”
“A single person claims to have authored 113 academic papers on artificial intelligence this year, 89 of which will be presented this week at one of the world’s leading conference on AI and machine learning,”
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Reining in large for-profit academic publishers and valuing researchers for quality over quantity must be central as we reimagine the future of scholarly publishing.
The fall of a prolific science journal exposes the billion-dollar profits of scientific publishing
One of the 15 publications that put out the most studies globally has been expelled from the indexing system for irregularities. Its publisher, Elsevier, has a 38% profit margin that reached $1.5 billion in 2024
english.elpais.com
December 6, 2025 at 1:05 PM
Reining in large for-profit academic publishers and valuing researchers for quality over quantity must be central as we reimagine the future of scholarly publishing.