Video: Journalist Charles Piller recently spoke at the UC Davis College of Biological Sciences about uncovering fraud and misconduct in Alzheimer's research -- the topic of his book, "Doctored" youtu.be/rCPMtNZjGcI?...

The cost of surface water in California swings wildly between drought years and wet years, while groundwater prices are much more stable. Joint management of surface and groundwater is needed for price stability, UC Davis researchers say www.ucdavis.edu/climate/news...

New UC Davis study uncovers how cells prevent dangerous blood sugar crashes, offering hope for better ways to avoid hypoglycemia in people with diabetes. ucdav.is/4pV7vIy #FromLabsToLives #DiabetesAwarenessMonth

Parenting lessons...from poison frogs? At the next Davis Science Cafe, herpetologist Eva Fischer talks about the home life of small, colorful amphibians. Wed. Nov. 12, 5:30 p.m., G Street Wunderbar @ucdlands.bsky.social

Ever freeze on a trail after spotting something that might be a snake? That instinct comes from deep in our evolutionary past. 🐍 UC Davis research reveals that primate encounters with snakes helped shape our highly developed visual system. Learn more:

New work shows how extraterrestrial factors influenced both the most recent ice age and that of the late Paleozoic, 340 to 280 million years ago. Recent, human-caused climate change risks upsetting a delicate balance @ucdlands.bsky.social www.ucdavis.edu/blog/deep-wa...

Throwback treat: @ucdavis.bsky.social Professor Jay Stachowicz talking Halloween fashion… for decorator crabs! 🦀✨

Happiness shared is happiness doubled, goes an old proverb. A new UC Davis study says shared pleasure is good for you, too @ucdlands.bsky.social www.ucdavis.edu/news/sharing...

Drought takes a toll on rice crops, but now farmers have help deciding what to plant. #UCDavis & partners developed a tool that calculates the cost of transitioning to less thirsty crops like dry beans, sunflower or tomato. #UCDavisDelivers…economic stability #UCDD caes.ucdavis.edu/news/new-too...

UC Davis scientists have identified a new species of trapdoor spider, Aptostichus simus, in California's coastal dunes. www.ucdavis.edu/climate/news...

California playgrounds and open spaces are getting hotter, but few have much shading and many are actually losing tree cover, a team led by the UC Davis Urban Science Lab finds www.ucdavis.edu/climate/news...

Is that a weed or a plant? It can be hard to tell, but now there’s help. #UCDavis researchers developed WeedChat, an AI-powered chatbot to help growers, gardeners and anyone with green space identify and treat weeds, helping stop the spread of unwanted plants. caes.ucdavis.edu/news/weedcha...

So one of the first (and pretty successful, IIRC) posts on the Egghead blog was about the "buckyegg" molecule created in Balch's lab back in 2006! www.ucdavis.edu/news/improba...

With support from a Bilinski Fellowship at Bodega Marine Lab, @ucdavis.bsky.social PhD candidate Elisabeth Sellinger collaborated w/ @farallonesnews.bsky.social & Monterey Bay National Marine Sanctuaries to highlight the power of #seagrass to store carbon & sustain coastal life: youtu.be/p3MfEPjE8aw

Congratulations to chemist Alan Balch, UC Davis' longest-serving professor, on his retirement. Balch has been researching, teaching and mentoring at UC Davis since 1970. @ucdlands.bsky.social lettersandsciencemag.ucdavis.edu/science-tech...

Novel Alternative Methods (NAMs) and traditional animal models should not be pitted against, but complement each other in finding the best models to study human diseases, writes UC Davis veterinarian and biomedical scientist Kent Lloyd @mousebiology.bsky.social www.nature.com/articles/d41...

James Letts is working out the structures of nature's most complex machines. It promises to open up new treatments for stroke, heart disease and aging biology.ucdavis.edu/news/tiny-en...

Esmeralda Padilla-Garcia, a student at @santarosajc.bsky.social, spent a summer at the Bodega Marine Lab working w/ the California Collaborative Fisheries Research Program & finding unexpected connections between marine science & a passion for human health: marinescience.ucdavis.edu/blog/my-summ...

Franklin's bumble bee (Bombus franklini) hasn't been seen in the wild since 2006. A study of genomes of museum specimens shows the bee was likely in a long-term decline that led to inbreeding, population bottlenecks and vulnerability to environmental shocks. www.ucdavis.edu/blog/populat...

UC Davis scientists are taking part in a $40M effort, led by @vtengineering.bsky.social and funded by @arpa-h.bsky.social, to develop new tools to clean up indoor air and protect against illness @ucdavisengineering.bsky.social www.ucdavis.edu/news/federal...

Congratulations to Megan Dennis, associate director @ucdgenomecenter.bsky.social, on being elected to the board of the American Society for Human Genetics! @geneticssociety.bsky.social www.ashg.org/uncategorize...

Federal funding fuels discoveries that flow #FromLabsToLives. @ucdavis.bsky.social researchers are reviving kelp & white abalone, tracing pollution’s legacy, and showing how seagrasses safeguard coasts: marinescience.ucdavis.edu/ripple-effec... 📸: Jessica Lee, @karolcha.bsky.social, Whitehead Lab

The NIH has awarded a training grant to UC Davis for a joint program for residents in both veterinary and human internal medicine. It's the first joint program of its kind in the US @ucdavishealth.bsky.social @ucdavisvetmed.bsky.social health.ucdavis.edu/news/headlin...

Federally funded programs with Continuing and Professional Education at @ucdavis.bsky.social help evaluate and improve California's child welfare and juvenile probation placement systems. Learn more about this bit.ly/478rGtZ and what's at stake with federal funding cuts bit.ly/4q8bzWl

UC Davis researchers have learned how breast milk nurtures the good bacteria that help babies thrive from the very beginning. This scientific discovery is key to protecting infant health, especially for the most vulnerable. #FromLabsToLives #SpeakUp4Science https://bit.ly/4n440Nm

UC Davis has launched phase 2 of From Labs to Lives, highlighting the value of federally funded research. Phase 2 features people who benefit from UC Davis research, such as patients, farmers and pet owners www.ucdavis.edu/news/uc-davi...

UC Davis research improves the lives of Americans and ensures the world we live in is healthy, safe, prosperous and secure for all. FromLabsToLives | #SpeakUp4Science Learn more about UC Davis research: https://www.ucdavis.edu/research/labs-to-lives https://youtu.be/Bvl5okSBc9M?si=Mn2denEGrxkK4FDt

@ucdavis.bsky.social research improves the lives of Americans every day. Read how it can help CA almond growers to adopt sustainable & cost-effective farming practices. bit.ly/4n2xQSn Learn more about the importance of federal research funding. lnkd.in/gG5GWmKu #FromLabsToLives #SpeakUp4Science

We're excited to be recruiting an NIH funded postdoc to work in the Coop lab at UC Davis. We're specifically interested in candidates who are want to work at the intersection of human genetics, GWAS, and population genetics modeling. Please RT

The @uofcalifornia.bsky.social just made Nobel history. In only 3 days, UC faculty and alumni earned 5 Nobel Prizes, including a world record: 4 faculty winners in a single year. Explore the stories behind the prizes: www.universityofcalifornia.edu/news/uc-wins...

Treatments based on CRISPR gene editing are bringing hope to parents of children with rare diseases. Clear communication about the long road ahead is needed, writes UC Davis grad student and 'rare disease mom' Celena Lozano @ucdaviscns.bsky.social www.ucdavis.edu/blog/wheres-...

Desmosomes are structures that stick cells together, especially in tissues under stress like hearth muscle. Scientists are uncovering how desmosomes can also transmit forces from the outside to the inside of a cell. @ucdavisengineering.bsky.social www.ucdavis.edu/blog/stretch...

How do animals learn behaviors when parental care is limited? A new study shows that Great Tit juveniles learn from siblings and other adult birds www.ucdavis.edu/climate/news...

The existence of small, starless clumps of dark matter can help astronomers learn more about the mystery stuff that makes up a quarter of the universe @ucdlands.bsky.social www.ucdavis.edu/news/astrono...

Astrophysicist Adam Reiss will give a talk at UC Davis Nov. 4 about the Surprising Expansion History of the Universe #Expanse @ucdlands.bsky.social lettersandsciencemag.ucdavis.edu/news-notewor...

Lab experiments show how cold, clear mountain lakes like Tahoe could change as the climate warms www.ucdavis.edu/climate/news...

It's Nobel Prize week! If you've ever wondered how exactly people decide who wins one...here you go: www.sciencenews.org/article/nobe... Longer more detailed version here: www.snexplores.org/article/nobe... Thing I learned: Even when people try their hardest to avoid bias, the system gets you...

Personality is more flexible than we think. @ucdavis.bsky.social researchers studied daily behaviors and the Big Five traits over multiple years, showing how our personalities shift with time. Do you know your Big Five? Visit our magazine to find out.

New work from @huisinglab.bsky.social at UC Davis shows how delta cells in pancreatic islets dampen insulin production and prevent a sudden drop in blood sugar. It could lead to new ways to help people with diabetes. www.ucdavis.edu/news/newly-r...

We are thrilled to announce that our NEW Large Language Model will be released on 11.18.25.

Equatorial Guinea recently announced Vision 2030, a plan to eliminate malaria from the central African country. The plan includes UC Malaria Initiative researchers who aim to use gene drives to eliminate malaria-carrying mosquitoes @ucdavisvetmed.bsky.social www.ucdavis.edu/blog/uc-mala...

You might have heard that we are all made of star dust. Here’s a little more about what that means. 🧵

Every year, millions of people of every faith make religious pilgrimages. UC Davis anthropologists studying a new pilgrimage site in Peru have come up with a model to understand how these journeys of faith and hope get established @ucdlands.bsky.social www.ucdavis.edu/news/uc-davi...

In the past year, UC Davis received $961M in research funds - and also filed 187 new inventions, secured 70 patents and generated $2 billion in economic activity in California 2025researchimpact.ucdavis.edu

From shells and skins to undersized or damaged fruit, there's value in what food processing leaves behind. The new Byproduct Database at UC Davis will help find new uses for waste material @ucdaviscaes.bsky.social www.ucdavis.edu/food/news/tu...

New treatments for postpartum depression are needed and psychedelics are a candidate. But a new UC Davis study in mice raises red flags about psilocybin @ucdavisipn.bsky.social @ucdlands.bsky.social www.ucdavis.edu/news/psilocy...

The blockbuster drug rapamycin has been central to Ted Powers' career in molecular biology. But as Powers learned about rapamycin's origins, he became convinced a debt is owed to the indigenous people of Rapa Nui, where the drug was discovered theconversation.com/a-billion-do...

Human eggs and sperm have to have the right number of chromosomes. Work led by UC Davis biologist Neil Hunter is uncovering how this critical event happens www.ucdavis.edu/news/landmar...

If an almond farmer wants to know the nutrition status of his trees, it can take 2-3 weeks to get lab results. A new UC Davis invention brings that down to five seconds. @ucdaviscaes.bsky.social @ucdavisengineering.bsky.social www.ucdavis.edu/news/ai-tool...

The fungal disease Valley Fever thrives in the dry soil of California's Central Valley and other western states. Often misdiagnosed, researchers are finding that cases in dogs can help predict spread in people www.ucdavis.edu/health/news/...