Colautti Lab

Bittersweet to be leaving @docedge.bsky.social after a wonderful postdoc, but excited to share that I'm joining @uoregon.bsky.social next month as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Data Science.

book cover of the book "A Pocket Guide to Scientific Writing and Publishing" by Martin A. Nunez

Just got the final proofs of my book💓

Available on Amazon worldwide next week
Very exciting!

I’ve packed into it everything I’ve learned about writing and publishing over the past 20 years

I really hope it helps many jump over the writing and publishing barriers💪

Post promotion, I quit tracking conference presentations, titles of seminars, run of the mill service, etc.

OOPS! You'll eventually run into someone who cares what year you were on Grad Admissions or gave an SSE talk.

Asking people to track their years on the seminar committee is really stupid.

A critical reassessment of the novel weapons hypothesis and allelopathy as an adaptive strategy that facilitates plant invasion Plants have evolved an assortment of chemical adaptations that integrate environmental cues with developmental processes to regulate growth and reproduction. A subset of these phytochemicals may be c....

A THREAD: Our new paper, with @colauttilab.bsky.social, critically assesses whether allelopathy truly gives invaders their edge. Key takeaways 👇🧵

doi.org/10.1111/nph....

Our latest work with @colauttilab.bsky.social is out today!
Always great to work with Rob, one of the best evolutionary biologists out there. We hope this work sparks some important conversations on allelopathy and reproducibility in ecological research.
nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Friends don't let friends collect data without adding data validation.

From Rebekah Jacob 😉

M O I L A B - Join us! Join us! Our lab is based at the University of California, Berkeley, embedded in the vibrant and multicultural San Francisco Bay Area, surrounded by astonishing nature!

Network, we are looking for PhD students and Postdocs on evolutionary and ecological genomics in 2025/2026

Join our diverse and welcoming lab at UC Berkeley & HHMINEWS!

Check job ads-> www.moilab.science/team/join-us

1) kids pbs is completely free, everyone with a kid should get that because regular kids shows suck- loud and obnoxious with really rapid scene changes that suck my kids in and make them hyper.
2) being able to watch any nova/ nature/ secrets of the dead/ walk with dinosaurs anytime is awesome

A data matrix summarizing eleven Allelopathy Postulates across 41 studies testing the Novel Weapons Hypothesis (NWH). Of the 451 total cells, 351 are shaded grey, indicating that most postulates were untested in most studies. Of the remaining 100, 78 are shaded green, indicating support for the NWH while the remaining 22 indicate evidence contrary to the NWH or mixed support.

Coming soon (with @1pantunes.bsky.social)...

A little teaser of some collaborative network graphs

I’ll be at #CSEE2025 talking about patterns of collaboration in the Canadian eco/evo research community 🇨🇦

If you’re a eco/evo prof in Canada, odds are you were one of my data points… so come check it out! Wednesday - 4:30 - Science in action

@csee-sceemtgs.bsky.social

Yes actually now is a great time to share good news

Now is a great time to celebrate the good news of strangers

To be the kind of people who are happy for other people to have good things happen to them

Yes indeed

Exciting news from the IU Biology Greenhouse!

Wally, our corpse flower (Amorphophallus titanum), is officially preparing to bloom! 🪴🌸

🎥You can watch the livestream: go.iu.edu/8tM8

📷: Jessica L. Hooten, Department of Biology

Hey #Evol2025 Interested in developing tools to assess novel trait variation in a wild organism?

Come check out @inam-j.bsky.social's work using fast neutron mutagenesis in the common morning glory, today at 12:15pm in Olympia 1

I'm missing #Evol2025 @sse-evolution.bsky.social this year, but representing the lab is fantastic grad student @isabeaulewis.bsky.social speaking on Mon Jun 23 in Evolutionary Ecology III at 2:45 on kin discrimination in #Mimulus plants!

royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/...

A showy red and yellow bearded iris with green background

Time for #bloomscrolling!

New paper from Sasha Bishop’s PhD in the lab - we combine quan gen with resurrection ecology to examine plant evolution in light of global change.

The take-home is that constraints among floral traits have ⬆️ in strength leading to a decline in the rate of adaptation by 96% over a 9-yr time span.

Interested in using phylogenetics to study arboviruses? Our new review in @natrevgenet.nature.com‬ by @viralverity.bsky.social‬, @sdellicour.bsky.social‬, and Marta Giovanetti has you covered!

📖 👉 rdcu.be/epH2U

Short 🧵

My Canadian university, Queen's, is offering TWENTY 4-year funded PhDs (40k CAD/yr) for a student of ANY citizenship who has been accepted at a top 100 US university but have had offer rescinded OR are reconsidering offer due to US policy.
Details found here👇

www.queensu.ca/grad-postdoc...

“All your bases are belong to us” vibes

For more details on graduate opportunities in my lab see: rdinnager.github.io/dinnage_lab_...

Super excited to release a huge evolution project on the works for many years:

Evolution experiments synchronized across climates to understand rapid adaptation

Preprint: doi.org/10.1101/2025...
All data available: www.grene-net.org/data

#MOILAB
@ucberkeleyofficial.bsky.social
@hhmi.org

🧵👇

Photograph of a 2mL screw-cap tube containing ticks preserved in a clear liquid, labeled with a QR code generated from the baRcodeR package in R

We use ULINE (S-19297) 1.75" x 0.5" WEATHER RESISTANT label on basic laser printer. This is the default layout for the baRcodeR package in R and has good UV+cold integrity. Labels overlap around 2mL tubes for extra hold. We sometimes add clear packing tape on top for extra hold in long-term -80

Psuedoscorpion hitching a ride on a moth that I pinned yesterday!

Preprint of our first manuscript from the PERSIST project (Predicting Evolutionary Rescue of a Species In Space and Time), with @lucasjalbano.bsky.social and many other co-authors not on BlueSky

Excited to announce our paper on ancient Borrelia genomes is finally out! 🦠💀We document the evolutionary history of louse-borne relapsing fever, published today in @science.org‬ with @lucyvandorp.bsky.social and @pontus-skoglund.bsky.social #aDNA 🏺🧪🧬
Main findings and paper below: 🧵⬇️

YouTube video by Saturday Night Live Washington's Dream - SNL

What Canadians think about when we hear “51st state”

youtu.be/JYqfVE-fykk

"Women are PIs on 58% of the canceled grants, although they are PIs on only 34% of all active NSF grants.

Similarly, Blacks are PIs on 17% of the terminated grants, although they make only 4% of the total pool. Hispanic PIs and those with disabilities were twice as likely to lose a grant."

Evidence That Metapopulation Dynamics Maintain a Species' Range Limit The metapopulation hypothesis for species range limits posits that a range limit may be imposed by subtle variation in rates of either patch colonisation or extinction. Using a multi-year survey acro...

So excited that one of my MSc chapters is out now! We used a large-scale, multi-year survey to empirically test the metapopulation hypothesis for range limits: doi.org/10.1111/ele.... (1/9)

Joint species distribution modelling of multiple taxonomic groups shows that water quality explains most of the variation in aquatic community composition along a lake trophic gradient - Aquatic Ecolo... A key component of conservation biology is understanding how community composition responds to environmental conditions, including stressors (e.g., eutrophication). However, this is complicated by the...

NEW PAPER: Joint species distribution modelling of multiple taxonomic groups shows that water quality explains most of the variation in aquatic community composition along a lake trophic gradient doi.org/10.1007/s104....

#AcademicSci 🧪

I wrote this in a week where it felt like professoring while parenting (and equally, parenting while professoring) was impossible. This feeling ebbs and flows. Seems like Mothers Day is as good a time as any to share, maybe it will help someone else feel less alone.

The More Paradox
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