Media Coverage
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BBC Wildlife Magazine
Researchers played elephant seals the calls of their nemeses. This is what happened next
“Male elephant seals come back to the exact same breeding location year after year and engage in competitive interactions with a number of familiar individuals,” says Caroline Casey, research scientist and adjunct professor at the University of California, Santa Cruz, in a statement. “It would make sense, then, that they would retain some memory of…
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Miami Herald
Florida’s first offshore fish farms are coming. Are they floating hazards?
If Ocean Era is committed to preserving the environment, one net pen isn’t likely to harm the Gulf, said Rod Fujita, a marine ecologist at the University of California Santa Cruz. “The big question is, what happens after that?” Fujita said.
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Scientific American
Mars Has Lightning, Scientists Prove
This is the first time there has been convincing evidence that electrical activity on Mars is actually occurring, says Francis Nimmo, a planetary scientist at the University of California, Santa Cruz, who wasn’t involved in the study.
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Discover Magazine
Our Brains May Have Pre-Configured Instructions to Understand the World When We’re Born
Using lab-grown brain organoids, scientists from the University of California, Santa Cruz led by Assistant Professor of Biomolecular Engineering Tal Sharf found that neurons begin firing in recognizable, information-like patterns long before any sensory system is active. Additional coverage in StudyFinds and The Debrief.
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Mercury News
What California’s big, gross elephant seals can teach us about life
“I mean, everything they do is extreme,” says Daniel Costa, professor of ecology and evolutionary biology at UC Santa Cruz. “They’re the deepest-diving pinniped and they dive for longer than any other seal or sea lion. They also fast for longer. Everything they do is just pushing the limits.”
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Science Magazine
NIH shake-up to grant decision-making sparks concern over political meddling
“My colleagues are asking who would agree to volunteer their time on an NIH study section if their ranking of grants will not be what drives awarding,” Carol Greider, a Nobel Prize winner and molecular biologist at the University of California, Santa Cruz, tells ScienceInsider.
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SFGate
Why California is seeing an earthquake cluster right now
Emily Brodsky, an earthquake physicist at UC Santa Cruz, said it’s difficult to draw any conclusions from the activity in San Ramon. “Although it’s the kind of thing you might expect to happen before a big earthquake, we can’t distinguish that from the many, many times that has happened without a big earthquake,” she told…
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Scientific American
New Research Shows How AI Could Transform Math, Physics, Cancer Research and More
“I had not seen anything that impressive [in math] from an LLM before,” says Ryan Foley, an astrophysicist at the University of California, Santa Cruz, who was not involved in the study. “I suspect LLMs are going to upend how theories are created, vetted and improved.”
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Monterey County Herald
Kelp restoration film reveals extent of crisis, hope for recovery
UC Santa Cruz Center for Coastal Climate Resilience evolutionary biologist Malin Pinsky’s research is driven by the understanding of the severity of these kelp die-offs.
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New York Times
The Art World Chooses Its Favorite Films About Artists
Acclaimed artist, filmmaker, and Distinguished Professor of The Arts and History of Consciousness Isaac Julien contributed an appreciation of Derek Jarman’s film “Caravaggio” (1986) to a feature story about films with artists as protagonists.
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New York Times
5 Minutes That Will Make You Love Alto Saxophone
Distinguished Professor of History and Critical Race and Ethnic Studies Eric Porter wrote about the alto saxophonist and composer Arthur Blythe’s ‘Lenox Avenue Breakdown’ as part of a New York Times feature story.
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Quanta
Cosmic Paradox Reveals the Awful Consequence of an Observer-Free Universe
This conclusion struck physicists as paradoxical, given that we too could conceivably live in a closed universe. And we clearly see far more than a single state around us. “On my desk there are an infinite number of states,” said Edgar Shaghoulian, a physicist at the University of California, Santa Cruz.