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

#science #ocean #stem #academadon #academia #research

BIG NEWS! 🎉

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

#genomics #science #academadon #academia #womeninstem

ICYMI!

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.'

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/nasa-webb-telescope-new-views-universe-60-minutes-transcript-2023-04-09/

@ucscscience
#science #scicomm #Astronomy #academadon #space #monday

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

#science #academadon #academia #STEM

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! 🎉
http://bit.ly/3zxJkXV

#space #research #highered #Astronomy #academadon

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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.
http://bit.ly/3l0iBzJ

#science #climatechange #academadon #research #ocean

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.
http://bit.ly/3xFH6om

#science #RNA #eterna #biology #stem #videogame #Research #academadon

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.

http://bit.ly/3YcRlfI

#Astronomy #academadon #space #science #scicomm

I’m just a girl, sitting in a freezing car in front of a school, waiting for her kid at a school dance. #momlife #academadon #winter #canada

I’m just a girl, sitting in a freezing car in front of a school, waiting for her kid at a school dance. #momlife #academadon #winter #canada

Fewer krill, fewer humpback whales? Maybe.

A new study led by scientists at UC Santa Cruz shows reduced krill supplies lead to fewer pregnancies in humpback whales—a finding that could have major implications for industrial krill fishing. http://bit.ly/3XP2ceV

@NSF
#science #ocean #academadon #academia #research

Enjoying this moment in the semester (day before first class meetings) when it’s zero problems and all possibilities. #histodons @histodons #academadon

“This study is redefining what constitutes the outer limits of our galaxy."

Yuting Feng - a doctoral student at UC Santa Cruz - leads a new study discovering some of the most distant stars in the Milky Way’s halo a million light years away! These new observations allowed researchers to trace the outer limits of the Milky Way’s halo.

Dare we say it's out of this world! ⭐ :_stars: (Sorry.)
https://bit.ly/3GXjIrX

#Astronomy #spacescience #space #academadon

With the amount of water we've seen the city of Santa Cruz is starting to feel like a sponge. California could see 22 trillion gallons of rain in the coming days...but what does that mean for our state's drought?

@WashingtonPost sits down with UC Santa Cruz professor of hydrogeology Andrew Fisher and David Feldman, the director of the University of California Irvine’s water institute, to discuss. https://bit.ly/3GTyq31

#academadon #scicomm #science

Authorities are investigating who is behind the rumors about spring semester starting next week. #academadon #academics #histodons @histodons

Nothing like starting off a Friday with an R&R for a paper that had been languishing for way too long. #academadon #academicmasdoton

Have submitted 1st paper of 2023. Fingers crossed 🤞🏽 #academadon #academicsonhere

Benefits and drawbacks of collective, digital social annotation of readings vs. individual annotation on paper? It's for a class on reading comics, so I sort of want them to be able to draw in response if they're interested.
#academadon #teachingwriting #HistoriansOnMastodon #ComicsSchool

Working on a limerick about the Registrar.

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