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• Climate action moves forward despite Trump’s policy rollbacks. Will it be enough?
  In addition to making current methods of travel more efficient, changes in the transportation sector could include providing the public with better options, said Anne Criss, director of climate and sustainability initiatives at the University of California, Santa Cruz’s Baskin School of Engineering.
• Autonomous cars, drones cheerfully obey prompt injection by road sign
  Researchers at the University of California, Santa Cruz, and Johns Hopkins showed that, in simulated trials, AI systems and the large vision language models (LVLMs) underpinning them would reliably follow instructions if displayed on signs held up in their camera’s view.
• Trove of Mexican genomes could help guide prescribing decisions
  Risk of an adverse drug reaction may be influenced by specific Indigenous ancestry groups. Genetic studies using a broad population category such as “Latino” or even “Mexican” wouldn’t pick up these elevated risks, the researchers say. Yet that’s the level of detail usually available in large population-based gene banks, says Max Haeussler, head of the […]
• Community unites to sustainably restore Santa Cruz’s iconic blue whale skeleton
  The Seymour Marine Discovery Center, Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering Marco Rolandi’s lab, Halon Entertainment, and swellcycle are teaming up to restore and preserve Ms. Blue, an iconic blue whale skeleton.
• Chewing gum has a mysterious effect on the brain
  In research on fidgeting, UC Santa Cruz Professor of Computational Media Katherine Isbister has found that people engage in fidgeting when they’re trying to pay attention to a task that’s taking a long time, or in a long meeting (even if at the annoyance of those around them).
• How a new system of drones and low-cost sensors can protect communities from air pollution
  A project led by Assistant Professor of Applied Mathematics Javier Gonzalez-Rocha is using drone flights and new monitoring technologies to better understand when and where farmworkers are most severely exposed to air pollution.

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