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A bird species evolved during the COVID-19 pandemic. Here’s why | KTLA
A UCLA biologist studying the dark-eyed juncos’ biological adaptations for their new urban environment discerned that the birds’ bill shape became more like that of their non-urban counterparts in the absence of people during the pandemic closures at the Westwood campus.
A UCLA study found diversity slips in streaming shows | CBS News
“When you have an audience consistently hungry for diverse stories, like we’ve found in our research, you should really have show creators from a wide range of backgrounds who can set stories like that in motion,” said Michael Tran, a co-author of the Hollywood Diversity Report. “It’s a sizable shift. It’s not just a blip in the data.”
Allegations of faulty AI in high-profile suit | San Francisco Chronicle
Eugene Volokh, a law professor at UCLA who blogs about AI misuse in the legal profession, said while Charlotin’s database was the most thorough of its kind, it also doesn’t include obvious AI hallucinations that aren’t called out by the court. And it can’t list mistakes that weren’t spotted.
Assessing Karen Bass’ 2025 as she launches reelection campaign | KNX
It has been quite a year for Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass. Jim Newton, editor of the UCLA Blueprint magazine and a longtime observer of Los Angeles politics, says he believes some of the criticism over the wildfire response and recovery is unfair. Some is not. “Her poll numbers are soft, but she's not running against her poll number. She's running against opponents, and so far I would say she's got a very good chance of being reelected,” he said.
What the Venezuelan oil blockade means for gas prices | ABC News
The news caused a “knee-jerk reaction” in oil markets due to heightened uncertainty tied to the U.S.-Venezuela conflict, Christopher Tang, a professor at the UCLA Anderson School of Management who studies supply chains, told ABC News.
Trump pushes asylum seekers to apply in other countries | New York Times
Hiroshi Motomura, a law professor at the University of California, Los Angeles, said the asylum system had long been due for a reckoning because of the pressures it has been under for generations.
The struggle to keep America’s workers safe | Wall Street Journal podcast
Dr. Jane Fazio is a pulmonologist for the UCLA medical system. In the past five years, she’s begun seeing more and more silicosis patients, including men in their 20s, 30s and 40s. Silicosis was something she’d read about in medical school, but it wasn’t something she expected to see in 21st-century America.
Is Ozempic safe for weight loss? | NBC’s “Today”
“I understand there is an argument that obesity is a chronic disease like hypertension, diabetes, and once you need to be on it, you should be on it for lifetime. But I don’t think the data is there for the effectiveness of this class of drug on a long-term basis. There is a potential, but we’re not there,” Dr. Zhaoping Li, professor of medicine and chief of the division of clinical nutrition at the University of California, Los Angeles, tells Today.com.
