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People are adjusting to global warming too quickly | Earth.com
A new study led by researchers at the University of California, Los Angeles, and Princeton University has found a more effective way to communicate the real impact of climate change and cut through public indifference … Rachit Dubey, an incoming UCLA communications professor and cognitive psychologist, explained that when participants viewed continuous temperature data for a town, it left them with only a vague sense of gradual change. In contrast, seeing whether or not a lake froze each winter made the environmental shift much more tangible.
AI helped these autistic people make sense of others | Washington Post
Autistic Translator and similar tools are especially helpful for people with autism because those people generally think in terms of rules, said Elizabeth Laugeson, clinical professor and director of UCLA’s Program for the Education and Enrichment of Relational Skills, who works with autistic individuals to develop social skills and maintain relationships.
Whooping cough vaccine provides powerful protection | The Conversation
(Questions answered by UCLA’s Annette Regan) The World Health Organization estimates that 24.1 million pertussis cases and 160,700 deaths occur worldwide in children under 5 each year. Pertussis is highly contagious. Upon exposure, 80% of people who have not been previously exposed to the bacterium or vaccinated against the disease will develop an infection.
Hopes of testing for PTSD like we test for flu | San Diego Union-Tribune
(Commentary by UCLA’s Jo Sornborger) In my work directing a PTSD treatment program at UCLA, I’ve seen how traumatic episodes can damage service members — and the families to whom they return. PTSD symptoms range from re-experiencing the traumatic event to aggression, impulsivity, hypervigilance, fear and depression.
Preventing homelessness through data | Los Angeles Times
It was created by the California Policy Lab at UCLA, a research institute that has access to data from county agencies such as the departments of health and social services, which interact with people at their most vulnerable. The Policy Lab sifts through all that data, evaluating some 500 markers to generate a list of individuals and families that its model predicts to be at high risk of becoming homeless.
These 5 job industries are most at risk of automation | Arizona Republic
Latino workers in Arizona are more likely than any other racial or ethnic group to lose their jobs to automation, according to a new study by [UCLA]’s Latino Data Hub.
Will U.S. science survive Trump 2.0? | Nature
Researchers interviewed by Nature say that it takes time to train a new generation of recruits, in part because of the unique institutional realities that come with being a government scientist: researchers need to understand government procedures as well as the administrative and statutory context for their work. “The destruction is so pervasive and severe that it’s just not going to be possible to go back to the way things were,” says Blake Emerson, an administrative-law researcher at the University of California, Los Angeles.
