The doggies of the sea. They're cute. They're playful. And they're getting bigger.
According to a new study led by scientists at UC Santa Cruz male California sea lions have gotten bigger as the population grew over the past 50 years because they are now foraging on a more diversified group of prey and expanding the places where they are eating. https://bit.ly/3LKepOZ
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UC Santa Cruz biologist Beth Shapiro has been elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, one of the nation’s oldest and most prestigious honorary societies.
A leader in the field of paleogenomics and ancient DNA, Shapiro uses genetic material recovered from the remains of plants and animals that lived long ago to study evolution and explore how species and ecosystems have changed over time. https://bit.ly/3KROGCp
Beth Shapiro, professor of ecology and evolutionary biology at UC Santa Cruz, has been elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, one of the nation’s oldest and most prestigious honorary societies.
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UC Santa Cruz Professor @brant_robertson talks about discovering the earliest and most distant galaxies, including one that's 33 billion lightyears away on last night's '60 Minutes.'
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As NASA's Webb telescope scours the universe to find light from the first stars and galaxies, it is also capturing the universe like never before. Scott Pelley got an inside look at Webb's new discoveries.
Two major stem cell research projects at UCSC have received $2.6 million in funding!
Professor of Biomolecular Engineering Camilla Forsberg and Postdoctoral Scholar Bryce Manso will lead a project to investigate the connection between aging and platelet production.
Max Haeussler, Assoc. Research Scientist will lead a project to build a user-friendly database that brings together a wide range of single cell RNA-sequencing data. https://bit.ly/3Ucyro1
The California Institute for Regenerative Medicine (CIRM) will provide more than $2.6 million in total funding for two major stem cell research projects led by scientists at UC Santa Cruz, the organization announced.
UC Santa Cruz post doctoral candidate Huazhi Ge's research focuses on resolving the cloud dynamics of giant planets to inform future space missions and observations.
Now, he has won a prestigious 51 Pegasi b Fellowship from the Heising-Simons Foundation to support his research to be conducted at the California Institute of Technology.
Congrats Huazhi! 🎉
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Where is your squid coming from? Most likely unregulated waters, according to a new international study lead-authored by UCSC's Katherine Seto.
The study explores how squid fishing expanding into unregulated spaces is presenting challenges for sustainability, resource equity, and questionable human rights and labor practices.
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Scientists and policymakers have voiced growing concerns about the decline of global squid stocks, but little has been done to date to target squid fishing activities that are expanding into unregulated spaces, according to a new international study.
Researchers at UC Santa Cruz working to develop novel RNA-based medicines are teaming up with a new group of collaborators—players of the online game Eterna.
The game’s new “OpenASO: RNA Rescue” challenge will tap into the collective intelligence of Eterna’s 250,000 registered users to help design an RNA drug for the treatment of hemophilia A.
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Oh no biggie. We're just over here, part of a team of international astronomers, who have directly measured the mass of a single, isolated star using gravitational lensing for the first time. Gravitational microlensing was first predicted by Einstein in his general theory of relativity 100 years ago!
Congrats to UC Santa Cruz postdoctoral scholar Peter McGill, the lead author of this study.
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