UAW strike has been authorized! This is a ULP strike, which does not violate the no-strike clause in a contract, and cannot be deemed unlawful by UCOP. More information about UAW 4811 strike and faculty rights coming. See our FAQ buff.ly/4alOW7B for more info!

We’re honored to have written a letter of support for this important bill.

Between vacation photos and cookout invitations posted on their private text thread, a group of Mississippi sheriff’s deputies who called themselves the Goon Squad traded pictures of rotting corpses and joked about rape and shocking people with Tasers. They did it all in front

A year ago today we lost our first lab member, just days before he was set to graduate. Please join us in remembering this giant. Miss you, Ken!

🔥BIG shoutouts to our fellow 2024 Public Impact Research (PIR) Awardees: Terence Keel and Nick Shapiro and Steven Shoptaw. Learn more about the cutting edge work all PIR Awardees are respectively leading at #UCLA. www3.research.ucla.edu/reo/internalfu…

It’s important to note that UCLA cancelled the award ceremony for this👇🏽

A new Los Angeles Times op-ed written with one of my fave colleagues, Dr. Nick Shapiro (Nick Shapiro), about California’s new indoor heat rules, the exclusion of prisons, and what we can do about it (hint: it includes closing prisons) UCLA Heat Lab Carceral Ecologies UCLA Life Sciences UCLA Labor Center

URGENT! ⚠️ CCWF is experiencing a deadly heat wave & we need you to make calls, send emails & spread the word! Tragically, an incarcerated person died from heatstroke & neglect over the weekend. This was preventable & is UNACCEPTABLE. Toolkit: bit.ly/CCWF-heat

On July 18, don't miss a conversation with Whiting grantee Los Angeles Review of Books about climate crisis and what writing can do to enact change, featuring David Wallace-Wells, Jenny Offill, Bharat Venkat, and Jonathan Blake. RSVP: buff.ly/4cxfWml

As Nick Shapiro and Bharat Venkat state in Los Angeles Times, "CA has a moral & legal obligation to ensure that incarcerated people are protected from heat." Cal/OSHA: incarcerated Californians deserve our immediate action! latimes.com/opinion/story/…

👋🏽hoping to take on a PhD student this yr. If you are interested in SGM health, HIV, mHealth, would love to hear from you. I’ll also be looking for a post-doc with experience in EMA/intensive longitudinal methods interested in SGM & house and ballroom communities. ❤️🙏🏽 #zotzot

In part, they pointed out that diversion efforts haven't been adequately funded and also bail in LA is much higher than elsewhere in the state -- so bringing bail practices in line with other counties would quickly reduce the population.

Never more enraged than when I’m texting people in prison asking about the heat. Prisons were excluded from recently passed indoor heat rules because of the cost of AC. latimes.com/opinion/story/…

Tenure track job in disability studies in our dept recruit.apo.ucla.edu/JPF09783

Who wants to hang in phoenix? Flight got rerouted

📍SATURDAY 10:30AM📍 Please join us in honoring the Angelversary of #StanleyWilsonJr virtually with his family, loved ones, and guest speakers. 📌Register at Jlanow.org/vasignup 📌

Does anyone have a good protocol or presentation template for undergrads to present work-in-progress to the lab or collaborators? We’re working on getting more structured

Introducing our Fall 2025 catalog, featuring new books from Esra Akcan, @zboratory, Resistance never dies, DrTulasiSrinivas, Maristella Svampa, Invisible(HU)man, & 🐺Dr. Wolff🐺 plus many more. Check it out now! bit.ly/3ENyHXd?utm_so…