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Harvard “is seriously considering resolving its dispute with the White House through the courts rather than a negotiated settlement.”

The university president said “the suggestion that Harvard was open to paying $500 million is ‘false’”

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Thompson on campus for town hall on research cuts Academic workers from UC Davis, proudly wearing their union colors, filled Ballroom B of the Activities and Recreation Center past capacity for a listening session Thursday with speakers including Rep...

Karen Jetter worked on 2 USDA-funded projects now defunded.
One is Southwest Regional Food Business Center, which works with farmers, food entrepreneurs & institutional buyers like hospitals in California, Arizona, Nevada & Utah
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A Fish Falls From the Sky and Sparks a Brush Fire in British Columbia Officials say a flying osprey dropped its catch, which then struck power lines, causing sparks that ignited dry grass.

Folks often assume that sheer number of wildfires in West must be linked to intentional arson--despite abundant evidence to contrary. But this partly stems from profound underestimation re: just how easy it can be to spark a fire under right conditions... www.nytimes.com/2025...

Great to see Steve Fennimore @ucdavisplants.bsky.social will continue to pursue his passion for killing weeds

CAL FIRE’s Tribal Wildfire Resilience Program has awarded $4.7 million to support tribes and tribal nonprofits in implementing workforce training, cultural approaches to land stewardship, and wildfire resilience projects.

One cow ran more than 13 miles in four hours in the middle of the night — trailed all the while by at least one wolf, cameras set up by Tina Saitone @ucanr.edu showed.

A tree without leaves among leafy trees in an orchard. Photo by Caleb Hampton

Neglected orchards attract pests that affect neighboring farms
“If there are a lot of moths in one orchard and there is another orchard nearby, you will likely get some moths migrating into that orchard,” @jrijal.bsky.social @ucanr.edu told @calebmhampton.bsky.social
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This wide-ranging session was recorded live and is now available in its entirety at the link below! BTW, as a "bonus," I also discussed the recent tsunami alert "kerfuffle" (and why we need to do better contextualizing watches vs warnings vs advisories from NOAA/NWS!). #CAwx #CAwater #CAfire

Tampopo is a great film. I’ll look for Taste of Things

TODAY 10am Come talk about California weather with @weatherwest.bsky.social 😎
Link below

California's economy is already getting hit by immigration raids The number of people reporting to work in the private sector in California has decreased by 3.1% — a downturn only recently matched by the COVID-19 lockdown.

“If it’s true that we are going into a phase in which a lot of these workers are either deported, or scared enough that they won’t go to work, this will be a massive impact,” Giovanni Peri, int'l economics professor at @ucdavisare.bsky.social told @suhauna.bsky.social
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TOMORROW 10am: Daniel Swain @weatherwest.bsky.social, @ucanr.edu climate scientist, will discuss California's unusual weather.
Link below

Study reveals universal color curve for arabica coffee roasting A new study in Scientific Reports reveals that all Arabica coffee follows the same color development pattern during roasting, potentially transforming quality control and industry standards.

Despite different roasting profiles, techniques & origins, all Arabica coffee follows the same color curve
"Color isn't just about appearance; it's a key indicator of quality for many products, including coffee," said Irwin Donis-González @ucanr.edu to @phys.org.web.brid.gy phys.org/news/2025-07...

"Out of roughly 1,700 respondents polled earlier this month, 60% said they were very concerned that home insurance will become more expensive, and almost as many said they will be unable to obtain home insurance due to climate change risks."

My premium doubled and I feel lucky to get insurance 🤯

USDA Cuts Food Business Centers Supporting Black Farmers The Regional Food Business Centers distributed more than $600,000 and helped launch 325 new businesses.

This comes after several cuts to grants, financial assistance, and programs by President Trump’s administration. U.S. Rep. Alma Adams (NC) says the administration is “stripping away a lifeline” to agriculture communities as farmers struggle to make ends meet."

A tsunami warning is in effect for portions of the North Coast to the Oregon border with a tsunami advisory active from the Bay Area south to Southern California. Anticipated wave heights have been reduced slightly near Crescent city but peak impacts still expected around coastal harbors and Inlets

Screenshot of latest warning text, which begins: "BULLETIN Public Tsunami Message Number 5 NWS National Tsunami Warning Center Palmer AK 827 PM PDT Tue Jul 29 2025 UPDATES ------- * Revised alert areas ...THE TSUNAMI WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT... ...THE TSUNAMI ADVISORY REMAINS IN EFFECT... Tsunami Warning in Effect for; * CALIFORNIA, The coast from Cape Mendocino, California to The Oregon/Cal. Border * ALEUTIAN ISLANDS, Samalga Pass, Alaska (30 miles SW of Nikolski) to Attu, Alaska including the Pribilof Islands Tsunami Advisory in Effect for; * CALIFORNIA, The coast from The Cal./Mexico Border to Cape Mendocino, California including San Francisco Bay * OREGON, The coast from The Oregon/Cal. Border to The Oregon/Wash. Border including the Columbia River estuary coast * WASHINGTON, Outer coast from the Oregon/Washington border to Slip Point, Columbia River estuary coast, and the Juan de Fuca Strait coast "

Further update as of ~9:20pm Pacific Time on 7/29: There has been a *localized* upgrade to Tsunami Warning for segment of NorCal coast due to potential for <6 ft inundation near Crescent City. Rest of U.S./Canada West Coast remain under (lesser) Advisory. tsunami.gov/events/P...

Due to mass confusion, clarifying again:

Tsunami Watch: Tsunami of indeterminate magnitude is possible; stand by.
Tsunami Advisory: Tsunami is likely *but will probably be small.* Evacuations unlikely.
Tsunami Warning: Tsunami is likely *and may be large.* Evacuations needed.

Tsunami advisory update: revised peak wave heights slightly lower with the latest update as of 8pm, still highest for Crescent City, Port San Luis and less than 1 ft. around the Bay Area. Observed max tsunami heights have been low so far. #CAwx 7/29/2025

Update for folks: Following a very large (M 8.7) and relatively shallow undersea subduction zone quake in the West Pacific east of Kamchatka, Russia, there is a considerable threat of a damaging basin-wide #tsunami. For late-breaking details, visit: https://tsunami.gov

Updated estimated impact times for areas under a tsunami watch, California impacts would begin just before midnight for the NorCal coast and between 12am-1am for the Bay Area #CAwx 7/29/2025

Earthquake off coast of Russia revised to magnitude 8.7 from prior estimate of M8.0.

Tsunami threat to U.S. West Coast being evaluated. Standby.

This is coming up Saturday...join us! 🌳☂️🍦😎 Details at www.descansogardens.org/event/a-cele...
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‘I Feel So Much Better’: CalFresh Healthy Living, UC Programs Boost Health of Older Adults CalFresh Healthy Living (CFHL) brings free nutrition education and wellness support to people eligible for the federal SNAP.

It is tragic to see such good programs have to shutter due to the federal government's elimination of funding to support it.

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Revised IPM Pest Notes now available covering Bermudagrass, Nutsedge, and Russian Thistle. Because the best defense starts with understanding the offense! anrcatalog.ucanr.edu/Details.aspx... anrcatalog.ucanr.edu/Details.aspx... anrcatalog.ucanr.edu/Details.aspx...
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In top illustration, a scattered pattern of conventional suburban sprawl. In lower illustration, a cluster development pattern can provide the same total amount of housing as the scattered pattern, but is much safer and more effective because it retains (or creates) a protective “agricultural-urban interface” near the existing residential core, with clustered development and a protective agricultural-urban interface farther away.

To coexist with inevitable wildfires, development guidelines should integrate community location and design, empowering residents of fire-prone regions to survive wildfire, write Max Moritz, wildfire specialist @ucanr.edu et al @cellpress.bsky.social
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California dairy farmers get $230 million to help cover costs of bird flu losses Dairies say the USDA relief money helped them sustain operations as bird flu decimated milk production, but critics say the aid perpetuates industrial farming practices that make herds vulnerable to d...

California dairy farmers get help for avian influenza losses
“We’re going to help them because it was a disastrous thing that hit the industry,” Daniel Sumner @ucdavisare.bsky.social @ucanr.edu tells @susrust.bsky.social
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Get ready for heat later this summer, Bay Area

Weather models suggest that the ridge of high pressure pushing against low pressure along the coast “will become (unseasonably) intense over” California in early August, wrote @weatherwest.bsky.social @ucanr.edu

“When strong northwesterly winds blow parallel to the California coast, they tend to blow [warm] surface water away from the coast,” said @weatherwest.bsky.social @ucanrwater.bsky.social. Cold water rises to the surface to fill the void, contributing to the coastal chill, according to Swain

Is that Walla Walla, the place so nice they named it twice? 😂