Congratulations to @ucla.edu prof Neil Garg (@cnsiatucla.bsky.social @uclacb.bsky.social @uclaphyssci) on receiving UCLA’s 2026 Faculty Award for Excellence in Graduate Student Mentoring🏅 Learn more about the award in the link below: cnsi.ucla.edu/may-18-2026-...

The National Science Foundation is terminating and suspending grants again, and at Grant Witness we need you to help to track them! 🧪 We can only identify research being suppressed by under-the-radar suspensions directly from researchers. Please report! grant-witness.us/posts/2026-0... #NSF

River riddle solved! The Colorado River disappeared from the geological record for 5 million years. Scientists now know where it went: Into vanished Bidahochi Lake, before eventually spilling over on a course to the Grand Canyon. ucla.in/4dO9niX 🧪

UCLA physicist Eric Hudson's team is working toward a clock based on a nucleus rather than an atom’s electrons, which could keep a steadier rhythm because it would be less sensitive to environmental disturbances such as temperature changes. They've found an answer in Thorium-229. 🧪

UCLA biologist Dan Blumstein writes that animals living in urban environments around the world exhibit common sets of behaviors. These urban animals are losing traits they would need in the wild. This “behavioral homogenization” accompanies the loss of species diversity with urbanization. 🧪

After 20 years of legalized marriage for same-sex couples, 96 independent studies confirm there is no evidence for the harms critics predicted, writes UCLA psychology professor Benjamin Karney.

How does the FDA-approved LAD-I gene therapy work? Doctors take the patient's OWN stem cells, add a healthy copy of the mutated gene, and return them. No donor needed. No transplant rejection risk. All 9 trial patients: restored immune systems. 🔗 lnkd.in/gDJzjgvx #GeneTherapy #StemCells

I am excited to share our latest paper, Uniform bacterial genetic diversity along the gut, now out in Nature Communications! www.nature.com/articles/s41.... (1/n)

What happens when an alligator lizard walks into a UCLA biology building to escape the #heatwave? Professor Brad Schaeffer tells the @laist.com how this affects the #reptiles. 🧪

Planets smaller than giants like Neptune but bigger than Mars and Earth are the most common type of planet. Why doesn't our Solar System have any of these? UCLA astronomer Erik Petigura talks about planets that are mid with Robyn Williams for The Science Show. 🔭🧪

Think you can pick a perfect #MarchMadness bracket? Let UCLA mathematician Deanna Needell and Spectrum's Ariel Wesler explain to you why you're more likely to get attacked by a shark and hit by lightning at the same time.

UCLA researchers have found that rivers in Mars' Jezero Crater delta go back at least 4.2 billion years, suggesting that the window of habitability stretches even further back in time than many scientists had imagined, write Joseph Howlett and @leebillings.bsky.social for @sciam.bsky.social. 🧪

Friday fun: UCLA mathematician Terence Tao answers StarTalk fans' questions about mathematics with @neildegrassetyson.com 🧪

🥳 Congratulations to Prof. Anne Andrews, who has been selected to receive the 2026 American Chemical Society Analytical Chemistry Division Award in Electrochemistry in recognition of her accomplishments and service! www.chemistry.ucla.edu/news/anne-an...

The discovery by UCLA organic chemists that phosphine can act like precious metals in catalytic reactions might not trickle down to catalytic converters anytime soon, but will be useful for phamaceuticals and could bring down the cost of some drugs. ucla.in/4b88BeL 🧪

Bruin brings home GOLD! 🥇💙💛 ICYMI, Alysa Liu, the charismatic Team USA figure skater who today earned a gold medal in women's free skate at the 2026 Winter Olympics, is a UCLA student and Bay Area native! UC PROUD!!! https://bit.ly/4cB67Xo

UCLA and UCSD astronomers have detected hydrogen sulfide gas in the atmospheres of four distant gas giants. The sulfur came from evaporated solid matter from the star's disk, proving that they are planets, not brown dwarfs. The method could help identify Earthlike exoplanets. ucla.in/4arfq9A 🔭 🧪

I literally howled with excitement when I read this!

Find out how much wood a woodchuck could chuck if it could chuck wood, why you shouldn't take parenting advice from a marmot, and what it's like to touch a hibernating marmot in this delightful episode of @ologies.bsky.social with UCLA marmotologist Daniel Blumstein. 🧪

Rarity Public Benefit Corporation is trying to turn a UCLA cure for a rare disease into a medicine. The bottleneck now is not showing that it works, but another key part of the drug approval process — developing the commercial manufacturing. Great story by @carolynyjohnson.bsky.social 🧪

WHAT IS A GROUNDHOG? What's their deal? Why do they have their own holiday? Beloved UCLA marmot expert Dr. Dan Blumstein chats large rodents, dens, scandals, butts, parenthood, romantic advice you should *not* take, why their blood boggles science, and aliases. www.alieward.com/ologies/marm...

UCLA researchers are developing a tool that can predict when winter salmonella outbreaks are likely to happen in wild songbirds like pine siskins so people can take down their feeders to prevent the epidemic from starting. #addBirder ucla.in/4sVM6ki 🧪

UCLA biologist Pamela Yeh joins Raffaela Lesch on Science Friday discuss how living alongside humans is changing wild animals' bodies, from raccoons to urban juncos. 🧪

UCLA astrophysicist Erik Petigura studied four baby planets in the V1298 Tau system that are becoming super-Earths and sub-Neptunes. Despite being 5 to 10 times Earth’s radius, the planets have masses only 5 to 15 times Earth’s, meaning they are about as dense as Styrofoam. ucla.in/4aPC8Kz 🧪🔭

Weird and wonderful science: How elephant poop leads to guitars and 12 other unusual UCLA research findings from 2025: ucla.in/4p8tXfY 🧪

UCLA-led research has found that by electroplating thorium onto stainless steel, they can excite its nucleus with a laser and measure the electric current it produces. The achievement can be used to miniaturize the nuclear clock. ucla.in/48L8iFL 🧪

You might know that if you're reading this on the internet, you can thank UCLA. But did you know that UCLA also brought you the nicotine patch and cleaner drinking water through reverse osmosis? 10 Bruin discoveries that are changing the world: ucla.in/4aSQbPl 🧪

Gut bacteria have evolved rapidly to digest starches in ultra-processed foods. UCLA study finds gut microbes are evolving differently in industrialized and non-industrialized parts of the world. ucla.in/4aWigp5 🧪

I had a joke about Ariadne but you probably couldn't follow the thread.

A gene therapy co-developed by UCLA's Donald Kohn has restored immune function in 59 children born without the ability to make immune cells, a disease that typically gives them only a few short years of life. With the therapy, they qre now living normal lives. 🧪

This video featuring UCLA organic chemist Neil Garg helps explain why a dreaded college class is a wildly popular crowd favorite at UCLA. 🧪

"More than 60 professors and others up and down the state say they are suppressing their work and feel anxious about causing political problems for their campus, or that their own teaching will lead to hostility against themselves. Some say it’s already happened." www.sfchronicle.com/california/a...

UCLA-led research found what caused Myanmar’s 2025 supershear earthquake: A straight, smooth fault, stress accumulation since the last major quake, and contrasting rock properties all created an ideal setting for the rupture to accelerate over hundreds of kilometers. ucla.in/4hyws8Z 🧪

UCLA astronomer Jean-Luc Margot told the Atlantic that the International Astronomical Union has been in charge of planetary nomenclature for more than 100 years, but “surprisingly, they have not defined what a moon is." 🧪

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 biologist Joey Curti is UCLA's very own batman. Join him on a recent evening where he shared the secrets of LA's bats with an eager crowd, and cleared up some myths about these important but misunderstood mammals. www.cbsnews.com/losangeles/v... 🧪

Math professor Terence Tao and neuroscientist Vidya Saravanapandian told PBS Newshour's Stephanie Sy that US's global leadership in science hangs in the balance. 🧪

A photonic lantern used for the first time on a telescope has helped UCLA-led astronomers achieve the sharpest-ever measurement of a star’s surrounding disk, revealing that is is-- surprisingly-- lopsided. ucla.in/43wGO3k 🧪

A UCLA-led effort has taught enzymes an entirely new reaction mechanism—a radical hydrogenation process that nature itself never discovered. Enzymes can now rival or surpass precious-metal catalysts, paving the way for greener pharmaceuticals, fine chemicals, and biocatalytic materials. 🧪

A blood stem cell gene therapy co-developed by UCLA’s Dr. Donald Kohn restored immune function in 59 of 62 children with ADA-SCID, a rare and fatal immune disorder, with no serious complications reported. Long-term follow-up shows 95% success rate in largest study to date. ucla.in/4ojUZke 🧪

2025's 5 Nobel Laureates who work and/or were educated in the University of California system reflect the power of a healthy, well-funded research ecosystem and of academic freedom. www.latimes.com/california/n...

Congratulations to our friend & former @uclacb.bsky.social colleague Prof. Omar Yaghi on winning the @nobelprize.bsky.social in chemistry for his groundbreaking #nano work on MOFs

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

#UCLA neuroscientists discovered brain cells in rats that are wired for #uncertainty. The neurons, most active when a #decision outcome is unknown, appear to help with decision making and flexibility. ucla.in/3Wumo7g 🧪

In the 1980s, Louis Ignarro, a UCLA pharmacology professor , studied how air pollutant nitric oxide dilated blood vessels. Then, he was on the fringes of his field. “I pursued that much to the dismay of my colleagues, who thought I was crazy,” Ignarro recalled. Viagra emerged from this work. 🧪

Funded entirely by taxpayer dollars and developed exclusively at UCLA, a first-of-its-kind drug targets cellular metabolism to promote tissue repair of multiple organs and is ready for clinical trials. ucla.in/46DzOUx 🧪

"I think the consensus that #science was a route to national #well-being and #prosperity was widely shared by people across the political spectrum until very recently. It’s only been the past few years that we’ve seen a rising lack of trust in #scientists." 🧪

❤️❤️❤️ these posters in the Geology building at UC Riverside ❤️❤️❤️ Seriously, why aren't we putting messages like these everywhere? I'd happily chip in some pro-NSF and pro-NIH billboards? 🧪

“It’s not like you can just hit pause and pick it up and continue,” Vidya Saravanapandian of UCLA’s Brain Research Institute told @latimes.com reporter @jaweedkaleem.bsky.social. 🧪