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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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 aneely@botany.org 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 aneely@botany.org 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 aneely@botany.org 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 aneely@botany.org 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.
How have you incorporated forklifts into your daily weightlifting routine?
a man is standing next to a forklift that says tc on the side
ALT: a man is standing next to a forklift that says tc on the side
media.tenor.com
December 9, 2025 at 1:40 PM
How have you incorporated forklifts into your daily weightlifting routine?
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.
OMG anyone who has never heard of “Windy City Heat”: watch this ‘award’ video and then check it out!
December 5, 2025 at 9:36 PM
OMG anyone who has never heard of “Windy City Heat”: watch this ‘award’ video and then check it out!
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Absolutely devastating account of the CSU's $17 million capitulation to ChatGPT, from a fellow faculty member watching it happen www.currentaffairs.org/news/ai-is-d...
AI is Destroying the University and Learning Itself
Students use AI to write papers, professors use AI to grade them, degrees become meaningless, and tech companies make fortunes. Welcome to the death of higher education.
www.currentaffairs.org
December 3, 2025 at 4:24 AM
Absolutely devastating account of the CSU's $17 million capitulation to ChatGPT, from a fellow faculty member watching it happen www.currentaffairs.org/news/ai-is-d...
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Retraction Watch has covered the problem of the “national IQ” database. Should be noted I’m far from alone in working to remove these publications. The spreadsheet of pubs which use NIQ - linked to in the article - was started by @kohngregory.bsky.social; a project also worked on by Cathryn Townsend
. @rebeccasear.bsky.social is on a mission to get all studies using a database linking #IQ and race retracted. I spoke to her for @retractionwatch.com to find out more: retractionwatch.com/2025/11/25/m...
Meet the researcher aiming to halt use of ‘fundamentally flawed’ database linking IQ and nationality
Rebecca Sear Rebecca Sear is on a mission to convince publishers to retract articles that use a database that purports to rank countries based on intelligence. To maintain the integrity of scientif…
retractionwatch.com
November 26, 2025 at 3:33 PM
Retraction Watch has covered the problem of the “national IQ” database. Should be noted I’m far from alone in working to remove these publications. The spreadsheet of pubs which use NIQ - linked to in the article - was started by @kohngregory.bsky.social; a project also worked on by Cathryn Townsend
Here’s a quick overview of the baRcodeR plugin for R, where you can print to pdf and then zoom in to take a screenshot:
cran.r-project.org/web/packages...
cran.r-project.org/web/packages...
Use baRcodeR addin
cran.r-project.org
November 15, 2025 at 3:57 AM
Here’s a quick overview of the baRcodeR plugin for R, where you can print to pdf and then zoom in to take a screenshot:
cran.r-project.org/web/packages...
cran.r-project.org/web/packages...
Yes, I think those online ones actually encode a website that redirects to the one you enter, then when the link expires it stops. With baRcodeR it actually encodes whatever text you give it.
November 15, 2025 at 3:57 AM
Yes, I think those online ones actually encode a website that redirects to the one you enter, then when the link expires it stops. With baRcodeR it actually encodes whatever text you give it.
You can use our baRcodeR package in R to make custom barcodes that last
November 14, 2025 at 10:45 PM
You can use our baRcodeR package in R to make custom barcodes that last
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What is the most profitable industry in the world, this side of the law? Not oil, not IT, not pharma.
It's *scientific publishing*.
We call this the Drain of Scientific Publishing.
Paper: arxiv.org/abs/2511.04820
Background: doi.org/10.1162/qss_...
Thread @markhanson.fediscience.org.ap.brid.gy 👇
It's *scientific publishing*.
We call this the Drain of Scientific Publishing.
Paper: arxiv.org/abs/2511.04820
Background: doi.org/10.1162/qss_...
Thread @markhanson.fediscience.org.ap.brid.gy 👇
November 12, 2025 at 10:31 AM
What is the most profitable industry in the world, this side of the law? Not oil, not IT, not pharma.
It's *scientific publishing*.
We call this the Drain of Scientific Publishing.
Paper: arxiv.org/abs/2511.04820
Background: doi.org/10.1162/qss_...
Thread @markhanson.fediscience.org.ap.brid.gy 👇
It's *scientific publishing*.
We call this the Drain of Scientific Publishing.
Paper: arxiv.org/abs/2511.04820
Background: doi.org/10.1162/qss_...
Thread @markhanson.fediscience.org.ap.brid.gy 👇
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When people celebrate the individual genius of folks in science, they should also
mourn the collective loss of genius of folks who were actively discouraged or disadvantaged from a career in science because of the same person(s)
mourn the collective loss of genius of folks who were actively discouraged or disadvantaged from a career in science because of the same person(s)
November 7, 2025 at 11:43 PM
When people celebrate the individual genius of folks in science, they should also
mourn the collective loss of genius of folks who were actively discouraged or disadvantaged from a career in science because of the same person(s)
mourn the collective loss of genius of folks who were actively discouraged or disadvantaged from a career in science because of the same person(s)
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We're excited to share the final version of our paper, where we demonstrate how confounding remains a thorny problem for claims about causal genetic influences on human behavioral and socioeconomic outcomes. (w/ @jedidiahcarlson.com @oliviarxiv.bsky.social Ruth Shaw @arbelharpak.bsky.social) 🧵👇
November 7, 2025 at 7:06 PM
We're excited to share the final version of our paper, where we demonstrate how confounding remains a thorny problem for claims about causal genetic influences on human behavioral and socioeconomic outcomes. (w/ @jedidiahcarlson.com @oliviarxiv.bsky.social Ruth Shaw @arbelharpak.bsky.social) 🧵👇
Incredible. Forget superintelligence, AI is already destroying humanity with addictive and divisive algorithms, internet enshitification, excessive energy use, and now long-debunked tropes from WWII-era eugenics. This bullshit bubble can’t burst soon enough.
bro are you fucking kidding me
November 7, 2025 at 3:34 AM
Incredible. Forget superintelligence, AI is already destroying humanity with addictive and divisive algorithms, internet enshitification, excessive energy use, and now long-debunked tropes from WWII-era eugenics. This bullshit bubble can’t burst soon enough.