Category Archives: journal club

Falling through the gap

Posted on 26 Oct, 2022 by Jeremy Yoder

There is a hole. Right at the top of our science. In the introductions to our peer-reviewed papers, where we should explain the need for the new research results we are about to present, there is more and more often … Continue reading →

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Recent reading: 18 Sept 2022

Posted on 18 Sep, 2022 by Jeremy Yoder

Los Angeles doesn’t really get full-on summer heat until September, after months of building warmth and time elapsed since that last gasp of winter rains and spring fog. This year we (and most of the rest of the western U.S.) … Continue reading →

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Recent reading: 2 Sept 2022

Posted on 2 Sep, 2022 by Jeremy Yoder

It’s the end of the first week of classes on my campus, after a spring and summer of more or less successful, mostly in-person conferences (more on that later, I think). I’ve got two big lecture sections of Evolutionary Biology … Continue reading →

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Recent reading: 29 April 2022

Posted on 29 Apr, 2022 by Jeremy Yoder

How is this month already almost over? Four weeks ago I was just starting to realize that an unexpected, astonishingly good flowering season for Joshua trees meant I needed to shoehorn in some fieldwork, eyeing the data analysis I needed … Continue reading →

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Recent reading: 1 April 2022

Posted on 1 Apr, 2022 by Jeremy Yoder

April Fool’s Day is no one’s favorite holiday, as far as I can tell. I do remember a time when it was sort of fun to be listening to Morning Edition over breakfast and slowly realize that the totally serious-sounding … Continue reading →

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Recent reading: 18 March 2022

Posted on 18 Mar, 2022 by Jeremy Yoder

In the last fortnight, I saw one long-gestating project finally published, and got to be a small part of the publication of what’s arguably the biggest-ever study of adaptive evolution. I subjected an SUV full of students to a botany-themed … Continue reading →

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Recent reading: 4 March 2022

Posted on 4 Mar, 2022 by Jeremy Yoder

It’s now two weeks since I resumed in-person teaching, and so far, so good. It’s shockingly refreshing to actually interact with students directly, even with everyone masked, and to be able to just improvise with a specimen picked up on … Continue reading →

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Recent reading: 18 Feb 2022

Posted on 18 Feb, 2022 by Jeremy Yoder

Fieldwork in the spring is always a bit tricky, but I’ve fortunately been able to put my teaching commitment aside for a week to help plant Joshua tree seedlings in an ongoing experiment in climate adaptation. It was a scramble … Continue reading →

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Recent reading: 4 Feb 2022

Posted on 4 Feb, 2022 by Jeremy Yoder

It’s been an eventual two weeks in evolutionary biology. Meanwhile, I’ve somehow kept a lab-field course on track with minimal in person engagement, planned a bit for actual fieldwork in a couple weeks from now, and started wrangling a couple … Continue reading →

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Recent reading: 21 Jan 2022

Posted on 21 Jan, 2022 by Jeremy Yoder

The period between semesters is supposed to be quiet. I’ve been mentally dumping things to do into this one — paper revisions, reviewing service, analysis of long-awaited new data, a first draft of a new grant, writing my (eek) application … Continue reading →

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