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University of California @uofcalifornia.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
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: bit.ly/4h7Ne0k
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Alison Hewitt @ahewitt.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
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...
A yellow-neon pop-art-style T. rex on a vibrant blue background looks ready to bite the pink neon cursive text, "hottie," floating above her. Is it objectifying her or complimenting her? She can't decide.
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Holly Ober @sciwri.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
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 🧪
A stylized drawing of a Tyrannosaurus rex dinosaur in glowing yellow lines on a blue background. The dinosaur is looking backward at the word "hottie" in glowing pink script. Its mouth is open, showing its teeth. Credit: UCLA
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Jennifer Ouellette @jenlucpiquant.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Tyrannosaurus rex was warm-blooded, new study confirms www.popsci.com/science/tyra...
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Tyrannosaurus rex was warm-blooded, new study confirms
The King of the Dinosaurs had an internal temperature similar to you.
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Alison Hewitt @ahewitt.bsky.social · 29/04/2026
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
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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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University of California @uofcalifornia.bsky.social · 05/05/2026
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. bit.ly/4d1ZHPB
Lily Collins and David J. Gross, 2026 Special Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics winner speak onstage during the 12th Breakthrough Prize Ceremony at Barker Hangar on April 18, 2026 in Santa Monica, California.
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Holly Ober @sciwri.bsky.social · 16/04/2026
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 🧪
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Alison Hewitt @ahewitt.bsky.social · 15/04/2026
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...
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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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UCLA Updates @uclaupdates.bsky.social · 25/02/2026
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...
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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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UCLA Updates @uclaupdates.bsky.social · 23/02/2026
“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...
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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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UCLA Updates @uclaupdates.bsky.social · 23/02/2026
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...
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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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UCLA Updates @uclaupdates.bsky.social · 23/02/2026
“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
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SciLine @sciline.org · 03/02/2026
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
Protesters holding colorful signs supporting immigrant rights at a public demonstration in Minnesota.
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UCLA Updates @uclaupdates.bsky.social · 04/11/2025
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
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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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UCLA Updates @uclaupdates.bsky.social · 30/10/2025
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...
Two teens watch television, with popcorn in a jar ready to be eaten.
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UCLA Updates @uclaupdates.bsky.social · 30/10/2025
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
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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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Rick Hasen @rickhasen.bsky.social · 28/10/2025
My explainer @uclaupdates.bsky.social @law.ucla.edu about Proposition 50 newsroom.ucla.edu/stories/how-...
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How big a deal is California’s Proposition 50?
UCLA law professor and voting rights expert Rick Hasen weighs in on the congressional redistricting measure.
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UCLA Updates @uclaupdates.bsky.social · 08/10/2025
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 🧪
Image of Omar Yaghi, smiling and wearing a black tie, sitting in an office with books behind him. The text on a blue gradient background reads, 'Winner: 2025 Nobel Prize in Chemistry. Congratulations to Omar Yaghi, UC Berkeley professor and former professor of chemistry and biochemistry at UCLA.'
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University of California @uofcalifornia.bsky.social · 07/10/2025
Discoveries that changed the world: Meet UC’s women @NobelPrize laureates bit.ly/42wZj6x
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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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UCLA Updates @uclaupdates.bsky.social · 06/10/2025
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
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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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UCLA Updates @uclaupdates.bsky.social · 06/10/2025
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...
Black-and-white photo of Sandy Gooch, in striped shirt and bouffant hairstyle, slicing a vegetable
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UCLA Updates @uclaupdates.bsky.social · 06/10/2025
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 🧪
Fred Ramsdell, a UCLA alumnus and now Nobel Prize winner, poses in front of a shelf.
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UCLA Updates @uclaupdates.bsky.social · 03/10/2025
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...
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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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UCLA Updates @uclaupdates.bsky.social · 03/10/2025
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...
Agricultural workers in California field
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UCLA Updates @uclaupdates.bsky.social · 01/10/2025
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...
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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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Los Angeles Times @latimes.com · 01/10/2025
UCLA forecasts 'stagflation-lite' economy with higher inflation and unemployment
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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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UCLA Center for Health Policy Research @uclachpr.bsky.social · 02/09/2025
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.
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UCLA Updates @uclaupdates.bsky.social · 02/09/2025
“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...
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Historians See Autocratic Playbook in Trump’s Attacks on Science
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UCLA Updates @uclaupdates.bsky.social · 29/08/2025
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...
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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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UCLA Environment @uclaioes.bsky.social · 28/08/2025
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
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UCLA Updates @uclaupdates.bsky.social · 29/08/2025
“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...
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What A Day: Xi Blinded Me With Science
China and other countries are trying to take advantage of Donald Trump’s crusade against UCLA.
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Hammer Museum 🏛️ @hammer.ucla.edu · 29/08/2025
✨💜 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.
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UCLA Luskin Center for Innovation @luskininnovation.bsky.social · 29/08/2025
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
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LAHSA appoints temporary head of agency
Today on AirTalk, a new appointee for the Los Angeles Homeless Services Authority is under scrutiny; CECOT is a maximum security prison that is being used as a place to hold deportees by the Trump adm...
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Williams Institute @williamsinstitute.bsky.social · 29/08/2025
"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
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We’ve been tracking the number of Americans who identify as transgender – soon, there will be no reliable way to measure them
The federal government has erased gender identity questions from federal surveys. Researchers say it will cost them at least a decade’s worth of data.
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UCLA Updates @uclaupdates.bsky.social · 29/08/2025
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
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Bedsores are a huge problem. This UCLA-invented scanner detects them earlier, saving lives and costs
In the U.S. alone, 2.5 million people get bedsores each year, and some 60,000 die from complications.
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UCLA IRLE @uclairle.bsky.social · 28/08/2025
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
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UCLA Updates @uclaupdates.bsky.social · 28/08/2025
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.
Eaton Fire fuel prediction map, as predicted by FuelVision.
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University of California @uofcalifornia.bsky.social · 28/08/2025
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) lat.ms/3JD8T1Z
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California Democrats and Republicans agree on one big thing: They support UC, poll shows
A poll of California voters conducted by the UC Berkeley Institute of Governmental Studies showed strong support among Republicans and Democrats for UC research, hospitals and the value of UC degrees.
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Holly Ober @sciwri.bsky.social · 28/08/2025
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. 🧪
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Holly Ober @sciwri.bsky.social · 26/08/2025
“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 🧪
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The 'Mozart of Math' rarely speaks on 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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University of California @uofcalifornia.bsky.social · 26/08/2025
Millions of people receive drugs and therapies developed in Bruin labs. Here's 8 major cancer-fighting drugs that started at UCLA 👇 bit.ly/41od5sF #SpeakUp4Science #StandUpForUC
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UCLA research helped pave the way to these 8 major cancer-fighting drugs
UCLA's cancer research has been deeply impactful, with millions of people receiving drugs and therapies developed in Bruin labs.
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UCLA Emmett Institute @uclalawemmett.bsky.social · 25/08/2025
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...
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Watch "Clearing the Air: The War on Smog" - Legal Planet
The American Experience's "Clearing the Air: The War on Smog" tells an extraordinary story. It premieres on PBS this Tuesday.
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UCLA Updates @uclaupdates.bsky.social · 19/08/2025
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...
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Trump vows to change how elections are run. The US Constitution doesn't give him that power
President Donald Trump is vowing more changes to the way elections are conducted in the U.S., but based on the Constitution there is little to nothing he can do on his own.
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UCLA Updates @uclaupdates.bsky.social · 18/08/2025
“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.”
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Bruin legend Kareem Abdul-Jabbar speaks from the heart about UCLA’s impact on his life, career and health
“America needs UCLA and the entire UC system,” he says. “And now, UCLA needs us. Let’s stand up for the university that has given us so much.”
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UCLA Updates @uclaupdates.bsky.social · 18/08/2025
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-...
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UCLA research stalls as UC Regents debate $1B White House settlement demand
UCLA faces allegations of failing Jewish and Israeli students after Oct. 7
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UCLA Updates @uclaupdates.bsky.social · 18/08/2025
"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...
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I’m an award-winning mathematician. Trump just cut my funding.
The “Mozart of Math” tried to stay out of politics. Then it came for his research.
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Rick Hasen @rickhasen.bsky.social · 18/08/2025
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
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No, President Trump Can't Ban Mail in Ballots or Voting Machines, as His Truth Social Post Suggests He Might Try to Do #ELB
This morning President Trump put out a post on Truth Social that shares some of his usual and debunked conspiracy theories about voter fraud in elections. Part of the post says that he will “lead a mo...
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UCLA Updates @uclaupdates.bsky.social · 18/08/2025
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...
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What It’s Like To Have Trump Hold Your Science Research Hostage | Crooked Media
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UCLA Updates @uclaupdates.bsky.social · 06/08/2025
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...
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Contributor: The true cost of abandoning science
American science — until now the envy of the world — will not survive the Trump administration's wanton cuts.
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UCLA Luskin Center for Innovation @luskininnovation.bsky.social · 30/07/2025
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
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