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Twitter Hate Speech Surged with Musk, Study Shows

April 27, 2023
Professor Paul Smaldino and colleagues collected data that showed daily use of hate speech by those who previously posted hateful tweets nearly doubled after Musk finalized the sale. And the overall volume of hate speech also doubled sitewide. Read more here.

How to Find Your New Favorite Hobby

April 20, 2023
In this TIME article, health psychology Professor Matthew Zawadzki, who has researched the connection between leisure and well-being, suggests asking yourself how you want an activity to make you feel. Read more here.

Rate of Older Californians Dying of Malnutrition Accelerated

April 12, 2023
“You might be admitted with diabetes but at the same time you’re also malnourished, and so the malnourishment adds to your problems,” said Professor Paul Brown. Read more here.

California Program for Migrant Children Could Be a Model

April 2, 2023
Sociology professor Stephanie L. Canizales writes an insightful guest commentary about a California program for migrant children that could be a national model if legislators support it. Read more www.elkgrovenews.net

How Universities Became Giant Piggy Banks for Billionaires

March 8, 2023
Professor Charles Eaton's book "Bankers in the Ivory Tower: The Troubling Rise of Financiers in US Higher Education," is referenced in Business Insider article looking at university endowments. Read more www.businessinsider.com

Japanese American Artists Recall the Trauma of Wartime

March 7, 2023
Professor ShiPu Wang joins Ueno in the episode “Reflection and Reconciliation: Legacies of the Japanese American Incarceration and the Arts,” to contextualize the various oral history recordings excerpted in the show. Read more www.smithsonianmag.com

Study Finds Childhood Exposure to Weed Killer May Increase Risk of Disease in Young Adulthood

March 2, 2023
Children who are exposed to glyphosate, the most widely used herbicide worldwide, may suffer from liver inflammation and metabolic disorder in early adulthood, according to a new study by a team that includes Public Health Chair and Professor Asa Bradman. The study, published in the journal...

Award-winning Films Connecting ‘Unseen’ Communities Around the World

March 1, 2023
Global Arts Studies Professor Yehuda Sharim’s film “El Ojo Comienza en la Mano,” a documentary about a Central Valley farm worker who never gave up his love of painting, has been garnering awards and nominations around the world since it came out in 2022. The son of working-...

Matlock Receives International Cognitive Science Prize

February 6, 2023
Teenie Matlock, Cognitive and Information Sciences professor and the McClatchy Chair in Communications, has been awarded the fourth Jeffrey L. Elman Prize for Scientific Achievement and Community Building — one of the highest honors in the Cognitive Science Society. Read more here.

Community and Labor Center's New Study Highlights Farmworkers' Health Challenges

February 3, 2023
A new landmark study by the UC Merced Community and Labor Center shows farmworkers across California are facing serious health challenges on a daily basis. The goal of the Farmworker Health Study was to examine agricultural worker health and well-being, in addition to health care...

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