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Official channel for UCLA news, stories, research, perspectives and updates - fact-driven, locally sourced (Go Bruins!) and human-curated. https://newsroom.ucla.edu/ | Connect with our experts: https://ucla.in/4eBkOqU
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Professor Cecilia Rios-Aguilar co-authored this piece on how the federal government shutdown adds more complications for those who need college financial aid: edsource.org/2025/governm...
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COMMENTARY: How the federal shutdown hurts students seeking financial aid
The federal government shutdown has caused California students and families to face a more complicated financial aid process, delaying access to federal awards and requiring additional time to complet...
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November 4, 2025 at 5:41 PM
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Latest Teens & Screens report shows that yes, they still watch TV and movies and want more content centered on mix-gendered friendships not romance newsroom.ucla.edu/releases/tee...
Two teens watch television, with popcorn in a jar ready to be eaten.
October 30, 2025 at 4:20 PM
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UCLA professor Terence Tao and postdoctoral scholar Vidya Saravanapandian on America's changing science infrastructure, which have left many questioning its future www.pbs.org/newshour/sho...

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Top researchers consider leaving U.S. amid funding cuts: 'The science world is ending'
A poll from the journal Nature found that 75% of researchers in the U.S. are considering leaving the country. That includes a man who’s been dubbed the "Mozart of Math." Stephanie Sy examines what’s b...
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October 30, 2025 at 3:40 PM
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My explainer @uclaupdates.bsky.social @law.ucla.edu about Proposition 50

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How big a deal is California’s Proposition 50?
UCLA law professor and voting rights expert Rick Hasen weighs in on the congressional redistricting measure.
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October 28, 2025 at 4:40 PM
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Congratulations to former UCLA professor Omar Yaghi on winning the Nobel Prize in chemistry for his pioneering work in the development of metal-organic frameworks. Read more: ucla.in/48Vy1vt #NobelPrize #AcademicSky 🧪
Image of Omar Yaghi, smiling and wearing a black tie, sitting in an office with books behind him. The text on a blue gradient background reads, 'Winner: 2025 Nobel Prize in Chemistry. Congratulations to Omar Yaghi, UC Berkeley professor and former professor of chemistry and biochemistry at UCLA.'
October 8, 2025 at 4:25 PM
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Discoveries that changed the world: Meet UC’s women @NobelPrize laureates https://bit.ly/42wZj6x
Discoveries that changed the world: Meet UC’s women Nobel laureates
Nearly a quarter of the women who have received Nobel Prizes in science have ties to UC.
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October 7, 2025 at 8:18 PM
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Medical drugs don't just happen. @washingtonpost.com shares how university research becomes life-saving and life-changing medicines including UCLA's Louis Ignarro's work on the cardiovascular effects of nitric oxide that led to Viagra. www.washingtonpost.com/education/in... #ResearchPowersProgress
Trump slashed funding for universities that helped create these vital drugs
Medications that prevent HIV, shrink tumors and treat seizures were invented with government funding. At research universities, that money is now canceled or in jeopardy.
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October 6, 2025 at 8:41 PM
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New special collections alert: @uclalibrary.bsky.social has acquired the papers of Sandy Gooch, founder of Mrs. Gooch’s Natural Food Markets — the first natural foods supermarket chain in the U.S. newsroom.ucla.edu/releases/ucl...
Black-and-white photo of Sandy Gooch, in striped shirt and bouffant hairstyle, slicing a vegetable
October 6, 2025 at 3:26 PM
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UCLA alumnus Fred Ramsdell received the @nobelprize.bsky.social today in Physiology or Medicine — our 17th Nobel Prize for an alum or faculty member, and the third prize in five years for a Bruin. ucla.in/4oaVlKd #nobelprize #academicsky 🧪
Fred Ramsdell, a UCLA alumnus and now Nobel Prize winner, poses in front of a shelf.
October 6, 2025 at 3:23 PM
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Prof Pamela Munro and Tongva-Kumeyaay scholar Virginia Carmelo researched the plant names. Recovering them, creating new ones and recording them for people to hear will bring Native Americans closer to their ancestors and their relationship to the land. Via @laist.com:

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Hear and get familiar with Tongva plant names while hiking Coldwater Canyon Park
Nonprofit Tree People has worked with Native Americans and university scholars to show the Tongva language as a living culture
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October 3, 2025 at 8:39 PM
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Read more from the @uclaanderson.bsky.social Forecast’s outlook for the national and California economies — where they are now and when they will recover — as weakness persists and the risk of rising layoffs leading to a recession is now a tangible possibility:
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Agricultural workers in California field
October 3, 2025 at 8:19 PM
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October is Cybersecurity Awareness Month!

UCLA has scholars with deep expertise in cybersecurity, artificial intelligence, government policy and the technology industry, as well as useful information on how to stay safe online:

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UCLA experts: Cybersecurity Awareness Month
UCLA has scholars with deep expertise in cybersecurity, artificial intelligence, government policy and the technology industry.
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October 1, 2025 at 8:15 PM
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UCLA forecasts 'stagflation-lite' economy with higher inflation and unemployment
UCLA forecasts 'stagflation-lite' economy with higher inflation and unemployment
The UCLA Anderson Forecast released Wednesday predicts economic growth will slow next quarter as the costs of the Trump administrations tariffs fully take hold, leading to a 'stagflation-lite' scenario.
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October 1, 2025 at 8:13 PM
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Join the @uclachpr.bsky.social on 9/10 as we present the updated California Elder Index™ dashboard, which measures older adults’ basic living costs — housing, health care, food, transportation, and some misc. expenses — in each of California's 58 counties. Register: ucla.in/3JQdk9G.
September 2, 2025 at 6:20 PM
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“Science is a source of social power,” said Daniel Treisman, a political scientist at the University of California, Los Angeles. “It always poses a potential threat.”
www.nytimes.com/2025/08/31/s...
Historians See Autocratic Playbook in Trump’s Attacks on Science
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September 2, 2025 at 5:58 PM
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Fields medal winner Terence Tao thinks the administration’s actions are increasingly pushing young scientists to leave the U.S., and if trends continue, Tao said he could not rule out leaving, too.
#ResearchPowersProgress #SpeakUp4Science #StandUpforUC
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The 'Mozart of Math' rarely speaks about politics. The wide-ranging cuts to science funding made him change that.
UCLA's Terence Tao called the Trump administration's actions an "existential threat" to academic research in the U.S.
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August 29, 2025 at 9:33 PM
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A new #UCLA study shows how African elephant poop helps ebony trees grow, the slow-growing source of wood used for guitars and pianos 🎸 In areas where elephants are poached, researchers found nearly 70% fewer ebony saplings.

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August 28, 2025 at 8:01 PM
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“I can’t tell you the number of people who are getting aggressive inquiries, many from out of the country,” Professor Tracy Johnson, UCLA’s dean of Life Sciences. “What we’re looking at is the potential for a serious brain drain.”

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What A Day: Xi Blinded Me With Science
China and other countries are trying to take advantage of Donald Trump’s crusade against UCLA.
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August 29, 2025 at 9:14 PM
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✨💜 Noah Davis’ paintings are as magical as they are real.

"I feel there is immense freedom in painting to create your own universe – if you don’t let ‘Art History’ or pretense get in the way."—Noah Davis

⏳ “Noah Davis” closes this Sunday, August 31.
August 29, 2025 at 5:10 PM
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LA is fighting rising heat with shade – a vital tool to cool neighborhoods and protect residents. @edithdeguzman.bsky.social highlights how targeted shade and cooling strategies can improve health and equity on @laist.com's AirTalk.

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LAHSA appoints temporary head of agency
Today on AirTalk, a new appointee for the Los Angeles Homeless Services Authority is under scrutiny; CECOT is a maximum security prison that is being used as a place to hold deportees by the Trump adm...
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August 29, 2025 at 5:31 PM
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"Though data sources are being erased, the transgender population will not be. And yet it will likely be at least a decade before we can publish updated figures on the estimated number of people in the US who identify as transgender." - Jody Herman and @aflor017.github.io for @theconversation.com
We’ve been tracking the number of Americans who identify as transgender – soon, there will be no reliable way to measure them
The federal government has erased gender identity questions from federal surveys. Researchers say it will cost them at least a decade’s worth of data.
theconversation.com
August 29, 2025 at 5:36 PM
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95% of pressure ulcers, also known as bedsores, are preventable. But identifying them before damage was done was difficult until nursing professor Barbara Bates-Jensen, helped invent the SEM Scanner and revolutionized woundcare.
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Bedsores are a huge problem. This UCLA-invented scanner detects them earlier, saving lives and costs
In the U.S. alone, 2.5 million people get bedsores each year, and some 60,000 die from complications.
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August 29, 2025 at 4:34 PM
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From higher wages to heat safety, workers won big in 2024 💪

A new report with @ucblaborcenter.bsky.social features three case studies unpacking key victories for workers in fast-food, warehousing, and agriculture industries.

Learn more in the thread below ⬇️
Read the report at bit.ly/SOTU-2024
August 28, 2025 at 6:00 PM
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Researchers from the @uclasamueli.bsky.social and their collaborators have developed FuelVision, a new system that could help enhance nationwide wildfire preparedness by combining satellite imagery with artificial intelligence to rapidly and accurately identify wildfire fuel sources.
Eaton Fire fuel prediction map, as predicted by FuelVision.
August 28, 2025 at 6:04 PM
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Republican and Democratic voters share common ground when it comes to the University of California: Both sides express widespread support for UC, its research, medical centers and ability to elevate the lives of students, a statewide poll shows. (via @latimes) https://lat.ms/3JD8T1Z
California Democrats and Republicans agree on one big thing: They support UC, poll shows
A poll of California voters conducted by the UC Berkeley Institute of Governmental Studies showed strong support among Republicans and Democrats for UC research, hospitals and the value of UC degrees.
www.latimes.com
August 28, 2025 at 4:34 PM