Media Coverage
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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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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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Inside Climate News
Reintroduced Carnivores’ Impacts on Ecosystems Are Still Coming Into Focus
“It’s not that there’s not evidence consistent with a trophic cascade in Yellowstone,” said Chris Wilmers, a professor of wildlife ecology at the University of California Santa Cruz, and the paper’s lead author. “It’s that the effects are a lot more complicated and weaker than what was initially thought.”
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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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Lookout Santa Cruz
Don’t rush the trails: Conservation must come before recreation
An opinion column in Lookout Santa Cruz cited research by Professor Chris Wilmers on the impacts that the mere presence of people can have on mountain lions.
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Lookout Santa Cruz
UC Santa Cruz announces $750 million fundraising campaign through 2030
UC Santa Cruz has launched a public campaign to raise $750 million by 2030, building on the $360 million already secured since a quiet 2020 kickoff to support student programs, scholarships, research and new facilities.
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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.
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Scientific American
Does Information Ever Really Disappear? Physics Has an Answer
“Once the black hole is completely evaporated, all that’s left is the Hawking radiation, so it has to be there,” says University of California, Santa Cruz, physicist Edgar Shaghoulian. Also in Yahoo News.