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The University of California is home to the nation’s No. 1 public university (twice)! 🥇 UC Berkeley and UCLA are tied for America’s #1 public university in the new 2027 Best Colleges rankings, released today (Sept. 22) by U.S. News and World Report. Read the full story: https://bit.ly/4h7Ne0k
How do you take a T. rex’s temperature? From teeth! And it turns out, T. rex was a hottie: UCLA's fossil-based thermometer method reveals the ancient reptile's temperature was similar to yours and mine. newsroom.ucla.edu/releases/sci...
UCLA scientists used portions of dinosaur teeth to pin down Tyrannosaurus rex’s temperature for the first time, placing it at 97 degrees Fahrenheit, comparable to a human. A warm-blooded T. rex would have been an energetic predator or scavenger, not a sun-basking slowpoke. ucla.in/3TzMJ67 🧪
Tyrannosaurus rex was warm-blooded, new study confirms www.popsci.com/science/tyra...
Tyrannosaurus rex was warm-blooded, new study confirms
The King of the Dinosaurs had an internal temperature similar to you.
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New UCLA research finds that airborne dust traps about twice as much heat as climate models have estimated, even though dust likely cools the planet overall. newsroom.ucla.edu/releases/atm... @uclaupdates.bsky.social @natcomms.nature.com @bsc-cns.bsky.social
Better weather forecasts and climate models could come from new desert-dust research
New UCLA research finds that airborne dust traps about twice as much heat as climate models have estimated.
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Two @ucberkeleyofficial.bsky.social faculty members, a @uclaupdates.bsky.social physicist, and a @ucsantabarbara.bsky.social Nobel laureate were awarded the "Oscar of Science"—the 2026 Breakthrough Prize—honoring their incredible contributions to advancing science. https://bit.ly/4d1ZHPB
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 found the genes that help oak trees thrive in hotter weather. By planting acorns from these heat-adapted trees, they're building climate-resistant forests, say the researchers from UCLA & The Nature Conservancy @uclaupdates @nature.org newsroom.ucla.edu/releases/ada...
Adapting oak trees for climate change, one acorn at a time
UCLA researchers and colleagues have pioneered a new conservation approach that uses cutting-edge gene sequencing to save the trees.
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New report from @scholarsnstory.bsky.social shows teens don't want to see outdated masculine stereotypes on screen, as featured in @thr.com: www.hollywoodreporter.com/tv/tv-news/t...
Gens Z and Alpha Don’t Want to See That Rambo Bulls**t on Screen
"Joyful fatherhood" is the new one-man army, a new study out of UCLA finds.
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“What we’re risking with a rollback like this at the federal level is really human health and well-being in these marginalized groups." - Julia Silver, a senior research analyst at @uclalppi.bsky.social apnews.com/article/trum...
Trump climate health rollback likely to hit poor, minority areas hardest, experts say
The Trump administration’s revocation of a scientific finding that climate change is a danger to public health is likely to affect communities of color the most.
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As UCLA looks ahead to hosting the Athlete Village in 2028, UCLA Housing and Hospitality's senior executive chef Joey Martin spoke to @nbcla.com about what's in store. www.nbclosangeles.com/news/local/1...
15,000 athletes are expected for LA28. Here's an inside look at where they'll stay
As preparations for the 2028 Olympic and Paralympic Games get underway throughout Los Angeles, UCLA is getting ready to transition its campus into the Athlete Village.
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“I prefer calling our (adult) learners not only continuous, but the new majority student. These are learners who tend to already be employed, often supporting a family, looking for up-skilling or sometimes a career change.” - UCLA Extension's Traci Fordham
The Associated Press@apnews.com · 8mo agoMillions of adults are continuing their education by returning to school and enrolling in credit and non-credit courses, certificates, micro-credentials, job training and degree programs.
Bilingual briefing on the mental, physical & community impacts of immigration enforcement policies & on-the-record Q&A in Spanish & English. TOMORROW 2/4 (2-3:15 p.m. ET) with Dr. Maria-Elena Young @ucmerced.bsky.social & @cecimenjivar.bsky.social @uclalppi.bsky.social REGISTER: bit.ly/4atsXPb
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
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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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
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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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
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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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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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...
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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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 experts: Cybersecurity Awareness Month
UCLA has scholars with deep expertise in cybersecurity, artificial intelligence, government policy and the technology industry.
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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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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...
Historians See Autocratic Playbook in Trump’s Attacks on Science
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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 www.nbcnews.com/science/scie...
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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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
