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Three fellows in the Humanities EXCEL Program partnered with local Santa Cruz organizations to gain hands-on, real-world experience. Using disposable cameras, they captured moments of creativity, confidence, service, and joy at their paid internships. Read their reflections: https://bit.ly/3JJ357H
November 24, 2025 at 8:01 PM
Three fellows in the Humanities EXCEL Program partnered with local Santa Cruz organizations to gain hands-on, real-world experience. Using disposable cameras, they captured moments of creativity, confidence, service, and joy at their paid internships. Read their reflections: https://bit.ly/3JJ357H
Three fellows in the Humanities EXCEL Program partnered with local Santa Cruz organizations to gain hands-on, real-world experience. Using disposable cameras, they captured moments of creativity, confidence, service, and joy at their paid internships. Read their reflections: https://bit.ly/3JJ357H
November 24, 2025 at 6:38 PM
Three fellows in the Humanities EXCEL Program partnered with local Santa Cruz organizations to gain hands-on, real-world experience. Using disposable cameras, they captured moments of creativity, confidence, service, and joy at their paid internships. Read their reflections: https://bit.ly/3JJ357H
“There’s really no evidence that having kids tethered to chairs for six hours a day is the best way to have them learn,” said Rebecca London, a professor of sociology at the University of California, Santa Cruz, who advocates for more access to recess.
Do Students Get Enough Recess? What Teachers Think: The EdWeek Research Center surveyed teachers about how much recess their students need, and get.
Do Students Get Enough Recess? What Teachers Think
The EdWeek Research Center surveyed teachers about how much recess their students need, and get.
www.edweek.org
November 21, 2025 at 9:26 PM
“There’s really no evidence that having kids tethered to chairs for six hours a day is the best way to have them learn,” said Rebecca London, a professor of sociology at the University of California, Santa Cruz, who advocates for more access to recess.
UC Santa Cruz was ranked the #1 public research university in the world for highly cited researchers over the past 10 years (2014-2024) by Clarivate.
UC Santa Cruz is the top public research university in the world for highly cited researchers amid strong 2025 list
25 UC Santa Cruz researchers earned a spot on the prestigious annual list.
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November 20, 2025 at 5:40 PM
UC Santa Cruz was ranked the #1 public research university in the world for highly cited researchers over the past 10 years (2014-2024) by Clarivate.
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Not only did we launch the @ucsantacruz.bsky.social campaign in fine style this weekend, but I also fulfilled my lifelong dream of meeting SAMMY THE SLUG.
Now the work begins, to create new projects that will transform the lives of our students and make the world a better place.
Now the work begins, to create new projects that will transform the lives of our students and make the world a better place.
November 20, 2025 at 3:37 PM
Not only did we launch the @ucsantacruz.bsky.social campaign in fine style this weekend, but I also fulfilled my lifelong dream of meeting SAMMY THE SLUG.
Now the work begins, to create new projects that will transform the lives of our students and make the world a better place.
Now the work begins, to create new projects that will transform the lives of our students and make the world a better place.
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#Scialog: Early Science with the #LSST continues! Thanks to Enrico Ramirez-Ruiz @ucsantacruz.bsky.social for a terrific keynote talk, “The Calm Before the Boom: Astrophysical Transients & Stellar Stories with the Vera C. Rubin Observatory.”
November 14, 2025 at 9:21 PM
#Scialog: Early Science with the #LSST continues! Thanks to Enrico Ramirez-Ruiz @ucsantacruz.bsky.social for a terrific keynote talk, “The Calm Before the Boom: Astrophysical Transients & Stellar Stories with the Vera C. Rubin Observatory.”
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"Accurate knowledge is actually far more important than the reasoning capabilities," said @ucsantacruz.bsky.social's Yuyin Zhou on the development of #AI reasoning models. Read the recap of her SRG Pillar Meeting at @ucsfci2.bsky.social.
AI That Reasons with Medicine | intelligent imaging
University of California San Francisco
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November 17, 2025 at 11:10 PM
"Accurate knowledge is actually far more important than the reasoning capabilities," said @ucsantacruz.bsky.social's Yuyin Zhou on the development of #AI reasoning models. Read the recap of her SRG Pillar Meeting at @ucsfci2.bsky.social.
Inspiring Change: Help us invest in expanding life-changing educational opportunities and advance world-changing ideas and solutions that benefit all of us💫
November 16, 2025 at 5:02 PM
Inspiring Change: Help us invest in expanding life-changing educational opportunities and advance world-changing ideas and solutions that benefit all of us💫
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Is your school mascot genome-sequenced? 🧬
If not… maybe it’s time! 👀🧬
Big news from UCSC — researchers have just completed the first end-to-end reference genome of the Pacific banana slug 🐌🍌, an iconic resident of California’s redwood forests (and UCSC’s beloved mascot 🌲).
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If not… maybe it’s time! 👀🧬
Big news from UCSC — researchers have just completed the first end-to-end reference genome of the Pacific banana slug 🐌🍌, an iconic resident of California’s redwood forests (and UCSC’s beloved mascot 🌲).
@ucsantacruz.bsky.social
November 13, 2025 at 4:18 PM
Is your school mascot genome-sequenced? 🧬
If not… maybe it’s time! 👀🧬
Big news from UCSC — researchers have just completed the first end-to-end reference genome of the Pacific banana slug 🐌🍌, an iconic resident of California’s redwood forests (and UCSC’s beloved mascot 🌲).
@ucsantacruz.bsky.social
If not… maybe it’s time! 👀🧬
Big news from UCSC — researchers have just completed the first end-to-end reference genome of the Pacific banana slug 🐌🍌, an iconic resident of California’s redwood forests (and UCSC’s beloved mascot 🌲).
@ucsantacruz.bsky.social
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Well this is awesome. @clarivate.com has looked at the affiliations of those named “highly cited researchers” 11 years in a row. An incredible 24% listed a primary affiliation with @ucsantacruz.bsky.social - the highest of any public university on the planet.
Details: clarivate.com/academia-gov...
Details: clarivate.com/academia-gov...
November 8, 2025 at 8:54 PM
Well this is awesome. @clarivate.com has looked at the affiliations of those named “highly cited researchers” 11 years in a row. An incredible 24% listed a primary affiliation with @ucsantacruz.bsky.social - the highest of any public university on the planet.
Details: clarivate.com/academia-gov...
Details: clarivate.com/academia-gov...
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Interested in what "Ending AIDS" means? Attend our online roundtable on Dec 3 with key voices, including Justin Perez from @ucsantacruz.bsky.social and author of Queer Emergent: Scandalous Storytelling from the Twilight of AIDS in Peru.
Register today: www.eventbrite.com/e/1825853279...
Register today: www.eventbrite.com/e/1825853279...
November 11, 2025 at 8:30 PM
Interested in what "Ending AIDS" means? Attend our online roundtable on Dec 3 with key voices, including Justin Perez from @ucsantacruz.bsky.social and author of Queer Emergent: Scandalous Storytelling from the Twilight of AIDS in Peru.
Register today: www.eventbrite.com/e/1825853279...
Register today: www.eventbrite.com/e/1825853279...
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Nearly every day for the past 20 years, UC Santa Cruz and NOAA scientists have waded into Scott Creek in search of endangered coho salmon. Their long-term research could hold the key to the species’ recovery across California. 🐟
Read more: news.ucsc.edu/2025/10/cali...
Read more: news.ucsc.edu/2025/10/cali...
A Lifeline for Salmon: UCSC and NOAA Join Forces to Secure a Future for California's Most Iconic Fish
A decades-long collaboration is giving Central California’s dwindling coho salmon population a fighting chance.
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November 12, 2025 at 6:34 PM
Nearly every day for the past 20 years, UC Santa Cruz and NOAA scientists have waded into Scott Creek in search of endangered coho salmon. Their long-term research could hold the key to the species’ recovery across California. 🐟
Read more: news.ucsc.edu/2025/10/cali...
Read more: news.ucsc.edu/2025/10/cali...
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Thank you Andrew Olander and Shaheen @ssikandar.bsky.social for inviting me to visit the MCD Biology Department at @ucsantacruz.bsky.social! I love the insightful comments at my talk and the engaging conversations throughout. Hopefully I can come back, and maybe even get to see a real banana slug!
November 6, 2025 at 3:25 AM
Thank you Andrew Olander and Shaheen @ssikandar.bsky.social for inviting me to visit the MCD Biology Department at @ucsantacruz.bsky.social! I love the insightful comments at my talk and the engaging conversations throughout. Hopefully I can come back, and maybe even get to see a real banana slug!
Can a species ‘de-evolve’? Beth Shapiro, a professor of ecology and evolutionary biology at University of California, Santa Cruz, said she finds the term to be a great way to engage more people in the concept of evolution.
www.cnn.com/2025/10/30/s...
www.cnn.com/2025/10/30/s...
Tomatoes in the Galápagos appear to be evolving backward. Here’s what it could mean | CNN
In a suspected case of reverse evolution, wild tomatoes in the Galápagos have developed a defense mechanism that hasn’t been seen in millions of years.
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November 7, 2025 at 7:42 PM
Can a species ‘de-evolve’? Beth Shapiro, a professor of ecology and evolutionary biology at University of California, Santa Cruz, said she finds the term to be a great way to engage more people in the concept of evolution.
www.cnn.com/2025/10/30/s...
www.cnn.com/2025/10/30/s...
Your Giving Day gifts made a real difference—almost 2M+ in donations by 8k donors—supporting students, research, and programs that keep UC Santa Cruz moving forward. Here’s to 10 years of generosity, community, & impact 💛
November 7, 2025 at 1:51 AM
Your Giving Day gifts made a real difference—almost 2M+ in donations by 8k donors—supporting students, research, and programs that keep UC Santa Cruz moving forward. Here’s to 10 years of generosity, community, & impact 💛
It’s Giving Day at UC Santa Cruz! 🎉 You have 24 hours to make an impact and support scholarships, research, student orgs, & more. Every gift adds up + unlocks bonus funding 💙✨#give2ucsc
Give now: bit.ly/43NYt6O
Give now: bit.ly/43NYt6O
November 5, 2025 at 1:09 PM
It’s Giving Day at UC Santa Cruz! 🎉 You have 24 hours to make an impact and support scholarships, research, student orgs, & more. Every gift adds up + unlocks bonus funding 💙✨#give2ucsc
Give now: bit.ly/43NYt6O
Give now: bit.ly/43NYt6O
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6,000+ exoplanets and counting—just this year. This Thursday, Nov. 6, hear from Natalie Batalha, UC Santa Cruz’s director of astrobiology & former NASA Kepler scientist, on the search for life beyond Earth. 🌌
Free talk, hybrid format, and open to all. More info here: events.ucsc.edu/event/59th-f...
Free talk, hybrid format, and open to all. More info here: events.ucsc.edu/event/59th-f...
November 4, 2025 at 6:16 PM
6,000+ exoplanets and counting—just this year. This Thursday, Nov. 6, hear from Natalie Batalha, UC Santa Cruz’s director of astrobiology & former NASA Kepler scientist, on the search for life beyond Earth. 🌌
Free talk, hybrid format, and open to all. More info here: events.ucsc.edu/event/59th-f...
Free talk, hybrid format, and open to all. More info here: events.ucsc.edu/event/59th-f...
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Ocean sciences prof Andrew Moore @ucsantacruz.bsky.social receives AGU’s Edward A. Flinn III Award for “unselfish cooperation in research,” for decades of work w/ peers @rutgersu.bsky.social on one of the world’s most widely used community ocean models 🌊
Read more: news.ucsc.edu/2025/10/moor...
Read more: news.ucsc.edu/2025/10/moor...
Andrew Moore honored for decades of selfless service to ocean sciences community
The Edward A. Flinn III Award recognizes scientists who embody the American Geophysical Union's motto "unselfish cooperation in research"
news.ucsc.edu
October 24, 2025 at 4:50 PM
Ocean sciences prof Andrew Moore @ucsantacruz.bsky.social receives AGU’s Edward A. Flinn III Award for “unselfish cooperation in research,” for decades of work w/ peers @rutgersu.bsky.social on one of the world’s most widely used community ocean models 🌊
Read more: news.ucsc.edu/2025/10/moor...
Read more: news.ucsc.edu/2025/10/moor...
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The LMB was saddened to hear of the death of #LMBAlumni Bill Scott, who was a postdoc at the LMB working with Aaron Klug from 1993-1996. During this time he won the LMB’s postdoctoral prize for outstanding research.
Read more about Bill from @ucsantacruz.bsky.social: news.ucsc.edu/2025/10/in-m...
Read more about Bill from @ucsantacruz.bsky.social: news.ucsc.edu/2025/10/in-m...
In Memoriam: William Scott
The longtime professor of chemistry and biochemistry is remembered by family, friends, and colleagues for his immense intellect, generosity, and contributions to advance scientific research
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October 30, 2025 at 10:08 AM
The LMB was saddened to hear of the death of #LMBAlumni Bill Scott, who was a postdoc at the LMB working with Aaron Klug from 1993-1996. During this time he won the LMB’s postdoctoral prize for outstanding research.
Read more about Bill from @ucsantacruz.bsky.social: news.ucsc.edu/2025/10/in-m...
Read more about Bill from @ucsantacruz.bsky.social: news.ucsc.edu/2025/10/in-m...
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🎉 @curiossorg.bsky.social members from @ucsantacruz.bsky.social #OSPO & the #UnitedNations are collaborating on the next #RebootTheEarth #hackathon to tackle wildfire detection, response and impact solutions through #OpenSource collaboration.
📆 Nov 7-8
ℹ️ bit.ly/43Bsrec
#AcademicOSPOs #AcademicSky
📆 Nov 7-8
ℹ️ bit.ly/43Bsrec
#AcademicOSPOs #AcademicSky
United Nations and Baskin Engineering to host West Coast’s first ‘Reboot the Earth’ hackathon
The event will bring together developers to create technological solutions to address the climate crisis.
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October 30, 2025 at 4:03 PM
🎉 @curiossorg.bsky.social members from @ucsantacruz.bsky.social #OSPO & the #UnitedNations are collaborating on the next #RebootTheEarth #hackathon to tackle wildfire detection, response and impact solutions through #OpenSource collaboration.
📆 Nov 7-8
ℹ️ bit.ly/43Bsrec
#AcademicOSPOs #AcademicSky
📆 Nov 7-8
ℹ️ bit.ly/43Bsrec
#AcademicOSPOs #AcademicSky
Ari Friedlaender, an ecologist and professor at the University of California, Santa Cruz, who monitors whale migrations, said it could be that changing ocean conditions may be pushing the whales’ prey closer to shore: insideclimatenews.org/news/2410202...
Whale and Dolphin Migrations are Being Disrupted by Climate Change - Inside Climate News
Rising ocean temperatures, heatwaves and dwindling prey are forcing marine mammals into new and more dangerous waters, scientists warn.
insideclimatenews.org
October 31, 2025 at 2:26 PM
Ari Friedlaender, an ecologist and professor at the University of California, Santa Cruz, who monitors whale migrations, said it could be that changing ocean conditions may be pushing the whales’ prey closer to shore: insideclimatenews.org/news/2410202...
Some scholars at UC Santa Cruz are exploring what scares us and why. Michael Chemers, with the Center of Monster Studies at UC Santa Cruz explained how researchers are looking at monsters all throughout history. Watch now: www.ktvu.com/video/1732134
Explore the history behind monsters and what scares us and why
Some scholars at UC Santa Cruz are exploring what scares us and why. The center for Monster Studies is dedicated to looking at monsters all throughout history. Things like zombies and vampires. They'r...
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October 30, 2025 at 8:48 PM
Some scholars at UC Santa Cruz are exploring what scares us and why. Michael Chemers, with the Center of Monster Studies at UC Santa Cruz explained how researchers are looking at monsters all throughout history. Watch now: www.ktvu.com/video/1732134
UC Santa Cruz innovations have been named among TIME’s Best Inventions of 2025!🚀✨
October 28, 2025 at 2:32 PM
UC Santa Cruz innovations have been named among TIME’s Best Inventions of 2025!🚀✨
Today’s undergraduate STEM majors are tomorrow’s K-12 teachers, and Cal Teach is preparing them to transform how students see science, math, and their own potential. 🌱
This #GivingDay, your gift helps fund scholarships & training for future math + science educators: give.ucsc.edu/giving-day-2...
This #GivingDay, your gift helps fund scholarships & training for future math + science educators: give.ucsc.edu/giving-day-2...
October 27, 2025 at 2:26 PM
Today’s undergraduate STEM majors are tomorrow’s K-12 teachers, and Cal Teach is preparing them to transform how students see science, math, and their own potential. 🌱
This #GivingDay, your gift helps fund scholarships & training for future math + science educators: give.ucsc.edu/giving-day-2...
This #GivingDay, your gift helps fund scholarships & training for future math + science educators: give.ucsc.edu/giving-day-2...
Over the past 60 years, marine biologists at UC Santa Cruz have studied the behavior of northern elephant seals that journey to nearby Año Nuevo Natural Reserve with help from the National Science Foundation. 🦭
Image credit: Dan Costa; photos taken under research permit NMFS 23188
Image credit: Dan Costa; photos taken under research permit NMFS 23188
October 24, 2025 at 4:46 PM
Over the past 60 years, marine biologists at UC Santa Cruz have studied the behavior of northern elephant seals that journey to nearby Año Nuevo Natural Reserve with help from the National Science Foundation. 🦭
Image credit: Dan Costa; photos taken under research permit NMFS 23188
Image credit: Dan Costa; photos taken under research permit NMFS 23188