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Top researchers consider leaving U.S. amid funding cuts | PBS NewsHour
As part of the Trump administration’s push to slash federal spending, the National Science Foundation was forced to suspend $1 billion in grants. The cuts directly hit [Terence] Tao and UCLA’s Institute for Pure and Applied Mathematics, where he directs special projects. “Suddenly, my life is fund-raising and finding alternative sources of funding and making sort of triage plans. If — how do you — like, if funding is — if we can’t restore funding, like, what do you cut first?” [said Tao.] (UCLA’s Vidya Saravanapandian was also featured.)
Will Proposition 50 survive a legal challenge? | Los Angeles Times
Already, Proposition 50 has survived challenges in state court and is unlikely to be successfully challenged if passed, said Richard Hasen, professor of law and director of the Safeguarding Democracy Project at UCLA School of Law. “If you’re a Republican in California, or you’re a Democrat in Texas, you’re about to get a lot less representation in Congress,” Hasen said. “I don’t think there’s anything you can do about that.” (Hasen was also featured by Slate and KCAL-TV – approx. 1:40 mark.)
UCLA biologist leads night walks to hunt for bats along the L.A. River | LAist
We’re here tonight to chase bats with the help of Joey Curti, a bat biologist and postdoctoral research fellow at UCLA’s La Kretz Center for California Conservation Science. It’s part of a two-part bat educational series organized by the Theodore Payne Foundation. “They do a lot of things that I think people don’t realize,” Curti said. “And really in the pest control services that they provide for us, they prevent a lot of human illness. So they’re kind of vital for the ecosystem. And I don’t think we realize that because they’re flying around at night and we never see them.”
ICU nurse, veteran among U.S. citizens caught in ICE dragnet | CBC News
University of California, Los Angeles, law professor Jonathan Zasloff says ICE has effectively been operating with “impunity” despite the growing cases of U.S. citizens and legal immigrants getting caught up in their raids. “They could break all these constitutional rights and nothing could happen to them,” he said.
Wife of detained British journalist left in the dark | NPR’s “Morning Edition”
Immigration experts like Ahilan Arulanantham at the UCLA School of Law say the decision fits into a larger pattern. “No question, there is a policy to suppress the viewpoints of pro-Palestine speakers,” [said Arulanantham.]
Glass House farms ICE raid: bleak confinements, deportations | USA Today
Graeme Blair, political science professor at the University of California, Los Angeles, and one of the data project’s leaders, said the detention logs are helpful for depicting some general trends. As administrative records, he said, they are likely to have some omissions and errors.
A kid’s gut health might influence their future mental health | HealthDay News
Young children whose gut microbiomes contained certain bacteria were more likely to develop a mood disorder as tweens, researchers reported Oct. 30 in the journal Nature Communications … “By linking early-life microbiome patterns with brain connectivity and later symptoms of anxiety and depression, our study provides early evidence that gut microbes could help shape mental health during the critical school-age years,” senior researcher Bridget Callaghan, chair of developmental psychology at UCLA, said in a news release.
Gen Z has ‘remixed’ the act of viewing media itself | Paste
UCLA’s latest Teens and Screens Report reveals that Gen Z is craving less sex in movies and television, more friendship, and rarely watches on an actual TV. Beneath these stats is a portrait of a generation quietly rewriting what connection, and long-form storytelling, can mean in the digital age.
The toll of ‘false hope’ autism treatments | Washington Post
“There’s danger and then there is just the overall cost,” said Dr. Shafali Jeste, chair of pediatrics at the UCLA David Geffen School of Medicine and a child neurologist specializing in autism. “Cost doesn’t just mean money, but cost in time, in energy, in emotional investment.”
