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Will Colorado's marmots will be OnlyFans' next big stars? The federal funding crisis has driven UCLA biologist Dan Blumstein's lab to seek new ways to keep the 65-year study running. Long-term studies like this are important to understand how organisms respond to a changing world. 🧪
'We're trying this out of frustration': Marmots star in OnlyFans account as researchers desperately look for ways to raise funds amid US budget cuts
As U.S. federal research budgets continue to be slashed, a team of marmot researchers have turned to unconventional sources of funding.
livescience.com
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-...
May 18, 2026 | Neil Garg receives UCLA’s 2026 Faculty Award for Excellence in Graduate Student Mentoring - California NanoSystems Institute
Distinguished Kenneth N. Trueblood Professor Neil Garg has been named one of three UCLA faculty members to receive the 2026 Faculty Award for Excellence in Graduate Student Mentoring from the UCLA Div...
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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
New Grant Disruptions at NSF - We Need Your Help to Report! – Grant Witness
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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. 🧪
Using atomic nuclei could allow scientists to read time more precisely than ever – what this research could mean for future clocks
Atomic clocks undergird modern timekeeping. A nuclear clock could be even more precise.
theconversation.com
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. 🧪
City animals act in the same brazen ways around the world
Cities breed smart wildlife because it takes savvy to survive there.
theconversation.com
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.
Contributor: The results are in, and same-sex marriage was a win for children and society
Two decades ago, fears about same-sex unions were baseless. Now the claims against marriage equality are demonstrably incorrect.
latimes.com
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. 🧪
Noticing more lizards running around? Here's the likely reason
Alligator lizards and other Southern California species are showing up about a month early thanks to the heat. And that carries some risks for these reptiles.
laist.com
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. 🔭🧪
In praise of mid-sized planets - ABC listen
Erik Petigura is a professor of physics and astronomy at UCLA who specialises in discovering planets smaller than giants like Neptune and bigger than Mars and Earth. Our Solar System has none of thes...
abc.net.au
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. 🧪
NASA’s Perseverance Mars rover discovers even older lost rivers at Jezero Crater
By plying its ground-penetrating radar in the depths of Mars’s Jezero Crater, this rover has found even older deltas buried beneath those seen on the surface from space
scientificamerican.com
Friday fun: UCLA mathematician Terence Tao answers StarTalk fans' questions about mathematics with @neildegrassetyson.com 🧪
Do We Need New Math to Understand the Universe? With Terence Tao
YouTube video by StarTalk
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🥳 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
Bruin at the Olympics: How did Alysa Liu do in Milan?
Part of Team USA's self-dubbed “Blade Angels,” Alysa Liu returned to the ice this week, competing in the women's figure skating competition at the 2026 Milan Cortina Winter Olympics.
newsroom.ucla.edu
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 🔭 🧪
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. 🧪
Marmotology (GROUNDHOGS) with Dr. Daniel Blumstein — alie ward
Tongue twisters. Frosty holidays. Scandals. Big ol’ rodent butts. Let’s talk groundhogs with UCLA conservationist, field biologist, professor and Marmotologist, Dr. Daniel Blumstein. We cover what bro...
alieward.com
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 🧪
Scientists are inventing treatments for devastating diseases. There’s just one problem.
Gene therapy treatments for rare diseases are being developed, but getting them out of the lab has proved challenging.
washingtonpost.com
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...
Marmotology (GROUNDHOGS) with Dr. Daniel Blumstein — alie ward
Tongue twisters. Frosty holidays. Scandals. Big ol’ rodent butts. Let’s talk groundhogs with UCLA conservationist, field biologist, professor and Marmotologist, Dr. Daniel Blumstein. We cover what bro...
alieward.com
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. 🧪
Are Raccoons On The Road To Domestication?
Recent studies on raccoons and dark-eyed juncos investigate how urban wildlife is evolving.
sciencefriday.com
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 🧪
