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... #EduSky

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...

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... #ResearchPowersProgress #HigherEd #AcademicSky #EduSky #ScienceSky

My explainer @uclaupdates.bsky.social @law.ucla.edu about Proposition 50 newsroom.ucla.edu/stories/how-...

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 🧪

Discoveries that changed the world: Meet UC’s women @NobelPrize laureates https://bit.ly/42wZj6x

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

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...

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 🧪

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: laist.com/news/los-ang...

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: newsroom.ucla.edu/releases/and...

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: newsroom.ucla.edu/advisories/u...

UCLA forecasts 'stagflation-lite' economy with higher inflation and unemployment

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.

“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...

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 www.nbcnews.com/science/scie...

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. ucla.in/47NATtO

“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.” #ResearchPowersProgress crookedmedia.substack.com/p/what-a-day...

✨💜 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.

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. Listen: laist.com/shows/airtal... #UCLA #UCLALuskin @ucanr.edu

"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

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. newsroom.ucla.edu/stories/inve... #ResearchPowersProgress #StandUpforUC

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

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.

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

Meet Joseph Curti, a #UCLA #bat scientist. 11 of California's 25 bat 🦇 species have been detected in the Santa Monica Mountains. By controlling insect 🦟populations, dispersing seeds 🌱and pollinating plants 🌺, #bats provide ecosystem services that humans depend on more than we realize. 🧪

“I find that this administration in particular has been extremely radical with how it is changing the scientific ecosystem in a way that even the first Trump administration was not. This is not normal, and I think a lot of people don’t see the damage that is being done.” bit.ly/3JxOv2b 🧪

Millions of people receive drugs and therapies developed in Bruin labs. Here's 8 major cancer-fighting drugs that started at UCLA 👇 https://bit.ly/41od5sF #SpeakUp4Science #StandUpForUC

Our Ann Carlson wrote her forthcoming book, "Smog and Sunshine: The Surprising Story of How Los Angeles Cleaned Up Its Air," to dispel the many myths about LA air pollution. She helps narrate this new documentary airing Tue 8/26 on @pbs.org #ClearingTheAirPBS legal-planet.org/2025/08/25/w...

UCLA Law's @rickhasen.bsky.social: “The president has very limited to zero authority over things related to the conduct of elections.” apnews.com/article/trum...

“UCLA didn’t just launch my basketball career,” says alumnus Kareem-Abdul Jabbar. “It gave me the tools and confidence to pursue life off the court as a writer and advocate for social justice.”

Professor Carrie Bearden on Spectrum News last week: “The research doesn’t just pick up where it left off. If it’s just a delay, it’s an unnecessary delay that’s impacting the search for cures.” spectrumnews1.com/ca/southern-...

"This is not a routine policy shift—it is a deliberate dismantling of the institutions, funding, and freedoms that have sustained American science for generations." - Professor Terence Tao newsletter.ofthebrave.org/p/im-an-awar...

No, President Trump Can’t Ban Mail in Ballots or Voting Machines, as His Truth Social Post Suggests He Might Try to Do electionlawblog.org?p=151633

Professor Aradhna Tripati and DGSOM's Monique Trinh spoke with the What a Day podcast about the wide-ranging impacts of the recent research suspensions and cuts crooked.com/podcast/what...

Steven Furlanetto, a professor of physics and astronomy at UCLA, on why cutting research funds have dire consequences: "American science, and especially the emerging generation of young scientists, will not survive these cuts." www.latimes.com/opinion/stor...

Freshwater flood deaths are rising with climate-driven extreme rainfall. @gregspierce.bsky.social stresses the urgent need to invest in public warning systems to prevent future tragedies. Read more in @washingtonpost.com: www.washingtonpost.com/climate-envi... #UCLA #UCLALuskin

Why repeal the endangerment finding? If the rule is finalized, the legal battle over the repeal will begin and could end up with the overturning of Mass v. EPA. And in the meantime, EPA will have less work to do issuing new GHG rules it doesn’t believe in. legal-planet.org/2025/07/30/w...

“Despite grand claims, a new report shows noncitizen voting hasn’t materialized” electionlawblog.org?p=151246

I told @npr.org: "Most people who make claims that noncitizen voting is a big problem are doing so for political purposes. It's a way of demonizing immigrants . . . of trying to claim that Democrats cheat. And no amount of evidence is going to stop people from making politically expedient claims."

The latest Latino GDP report from UCLA's CESLAC and Cal Lutheran's CERF shows the California Latino GDP surges past $1 trillion, as Latinos help power state economy newsroom.ucla.edu/stories/cali...

Student Affairs’ Brian MacDonald discusses UCLA's Comic-Con ties through GeekEd and how fandom can inspire student success newsroom.ucla.edu/stories/brui...

As Celine Parreñas Shimizu, dean of UCLA's Theater, Film and Television School, takes the helm, she faces many questions and a rough time for universities. But she's ready to face them: "To me, there is no greater place on Earth than the classroom. "via @variety.com variety.com/2025/film/ne...

EVs have been an important tool for reducing air pollution emitted by the transportations sector. However, unintended emissions by fast chargers remain to be addressed, new research from UCLA Fielding School of Public Health shows. newsroom.ucla.edu/stories/air-... @uclaupdates.bsky.social

Replication research acts as a "thermometer" for how well scientific processes are working. New practices aim to improve replication rates across fields. By @akmontoya.bsky.social @uclaupdates.bsky.social: theconversation.com/research-rep... #science 🧪

Tequila's roots might stretch from Mexico across the Pacific, according to an anthropologist. Filipino sailors and migrants may have shared coconut distilling techniques: theconversation.com/filipino-sai... By @stephenacabado.bsky.social @uclaupdates.bsky.social

Ann Philbin, director emeritus of ‪‪@hammer.ucla.edu‬, is steering her $500K Getty Prize award grant to #PublicBroadcasting — a bold nod to the role journalism plays in informing and connecting communities. @npr.org @laist.com @KCRW.com www.latimes.com/entertainmen...

No bird knowledge or expertise is required, said Project Phoenix program director and UCLA ornithologist Olivia Sanderfoot, who's calling on volunteers to join their work tracking bird behavior to help understand the impact of wildfire smoke (via @latimes.com) www.latimes.com/science/stor...

Featured in L.A. Times: Edith de Guzman, PhD ’23, brings shade inequity—and climate justice—to the spotlight at Descanso Gardens 🎨 ✨ Her exhibition explores who gets cooling shade in a warming L.A. ucla.in/4lvhWQH

There were 2,026 immigration arrests in the Los Angeles region from June 1 – 26, according to the latest dataset from the Deportation Data Project newsroom.ucla.edu/stories/depo...