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Studying evolution, together
  • Conferences | Diversity in STEM | Joshua trees | Yucca moths

    Join me at Evolution 2025 for a research update — and the IDEA plenary

    ByJB Yoder 18 June, 202512 July, 2025

    UPDATE: The live-stream of the talk will be available on the Evolution 2025 YouTube account, opening up at 6:45pm Eastern time. UPDATE TO THE UPDATE: Here’s a followup post with the talk recording and a bibliography. The Evolution 2025 conference kicks off soon in Athens, Georgia, and I’m preparing not one but two presentations for…

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  • Joshua trees | News

    Commencement and celebrations with the Yoder Lab

    ByJB Yoder 22 May, 2025

    Multiple Yoder Lab members celebrated graduations and accomplishments at the end of the 2024-2025 school year. Master’s student Pryce Millikin walked in last Friday’s commencement ahead of his planned dissertation defense in July, and undergrad researcher Daniel Dakduk collected his diploma after finishing classes at the end of the fall semester. A couple weeks earlier,…

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  • Graduate research | Joshua trees | Projects | Yucca moths

    Help the Yoder Lab map and study the activity of Joshua trees’ specialized pollinators, yucca moths!

    ByJB Yoder 23 January, 2025

    This is cross-posted from the Joshua Tree Genome Project website. Yoder Lab grad student Pryce Millikin needs your help observing Joshua trees to figure out where their specialized pollinator moths are active. Skip down to the three steps you can follow to help us, or read more background here: Joshua trees need our help. These…

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  • Conferences | Joshua trees

    Hear the story behind our latest paper

    ByJB Yoder 5 September, 2024

    This summer’s Evolution meetings in Montréal included an event that has become a popular part of the conference: a Story Collider show featuring stories told by conference attendees. The 2024 edition collected tales from “Outside the Distribution”, including personal experiences in fieldwork and navigating the early stages of a research career — and also the…

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  • Joshua trees | Media | News

    Joshua trees take center stage in “Desert Forest” exhibition, opening Saturday

    ByJB Yoder 26 August, 202422 August, 2024

    A new exhibit at the Museum of Art and History in Lancaster, California, showcases artistic and scientific perspectives on one of the most distinctive species in the MOAH’s own back yard: Joshua trees! Desert Forest: Life with Joshua trees presents creative visual works by a diverse array of artists, in an exhibition running from September…

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  • Conferences | Joshua trees | Yucca moths

    Catch these Yoder Lab presentations at ESA 2024 in Long Beach this week

    ByJB Yoder 5 August, 2024

    The next scientific conference featuring Yoder Lab research is already underway, but it’s a good deal closer to our home base than Montréal — the Ecological Society of America annual meeting in Long Beach, California. Here’s where you can see the very latest research on Joshua trees and their pollinators, considerably less than two hours from…

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  • Joshua trees | Publication

    New publication: How more than a century of climate change affected Joshua tree flowering

    ByJB Yoder 5 August, 202421 January, 2025

    More than a century ago, in mid-June 1924, the Los Angeles Times devoted a photo spread and several column inches to the second-hand vacation story of some “Cadillac tourists” who saw Joshua trees bearing fruit. It meant, the Times reported, that rain was coming. M.C. Ellison of Sacramento, who has been touring Southern California in…

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  • Conferences | Joshua trees | Yucca moths

    These Yoder Lab presentations bring Joshua trees to Montréal for the Third Joint Congress on Evolutionary Biology

    ByJB Yoder 12 July, 20245 August, 2024

    The Third Joint Congress on Evolutionary Biology — a collaborative meeting of the American Society of Naturalists, the European Society for Evolutionary Biology, the Society of Systematic Biologists, and the Society for the Study of Evolution — begins its in-person component in Montréal, Québec in less than two weeks. Three members of the Yoder Lab will…

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  • Joshua trees | Publication

    New publication: An “unprecedented” map of Joshua tree populations

    ByJB Yoder 14 December, 202314 December, 2023

    One of the biggest challenges for studying biodiversity is answering a seemingly simple question, where does this species live? If we know where a species occurs, we can describe the habitat that it needs, assess how large and stable its populations are, and make informed predictions about what will happen to those populations if we…

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  • Joshua trees | Media | News

    WATCH: Workshopping a musical homage to Joshua trees

    ByJB Yoder 3 February, 2023

    TREELOGY is a series of musical compositions commissioned by the Soraya, CSUN’s performing arts center, to celebrate three iconic tree species of California: coast redwoods, giant sequoias, and the Yoder Lab’s favorite, Joshua trees. TREELOGY premieres in just a few weeks, and this episode of the MusiKaravan vlog travels to Joshua Tree National Park to…

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