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UC Berkeley @ucberkeleyofficial.bsky.social · 11m

The scientists were cited for creating “molecular constructions with large spaces through which gases and other chemicals can flow. These constructions, metal-organic frameworks, can be used to harvest water from desert air, capture carbon dioxide, store toxic gases or catalyze chemical reactions.”

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UC Berkeley @ucberkeleyofficial.bsky.social · 11m

Congratulations to Omar Yaghi, a Jordanian-American chemist at UC Berkeley, who was awarded the 2025 Nobel Prize in Chemistry today, sharing it with Richard Robson of the University of Melbourne, Australia, and Susumu Kitagawa of Kyoto University, Japan. news.berkeley.edu/2025/10/08/u...

UC Berkeley’s Omar Yaghi shares 2025 Nobel Prize in Chemistry - Berkeley News

Yaghi created a field called reticular chemistry, which involves stitching together molecular building blocks to form porous structures — metal-organic frameworks (MOFs) — with myriad applications.

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UC Berkeley @ucberkeleyofficial.bsky.social · 1d

John Clarke, UC Berkeley emeritus professor, has been awarded the 2025 #NobelPrize in #Physics. The @nobelprize.bsky.social committee honored Clarke "for the discovery of macroscopic quantum mechanical tunneling and energy quantization in an electric circuit." news.berkeley.edu/2025/10/07/j...

John Clarke, UC Berkeley emeritus professor, awarded 2025 Nobel Prize in Physics - Berkeley News

The Nobel Prize committee honored Clarke "for the discovery of macroscopic quantum mechanical tunneling and energy quantization in an electric circuit."

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UC Berkeley @ucberkeleyofficial.bsky.social · 4d

Today, CA Governor Gavin Newsom signed a bill to create “quantum innovation zones” across the state, positioning the UC Berkeley campus as a leader in the race to establish California and the Bay Area as a center of an emerging economy. news.berkeley.edu/2025/10/03/g...

Gov. Newsom visits UC Berkeley to sign bill encouraging quantum innovation - Berkeley News

The bill helps cities establish 'quantum innovation zones' to attract and retain businesses built on quantum information science, an area expected to evolve into a trillion-dollar-plus industry.

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UC Berkeley Engineering @berkeleyengineer.bsky.social · 5d

A team led by Lining Yao, assistant professor of mechanical engineering, developed an AI-driven framework to optimize and automate the design of complex truss robots!

Read our story: bit.ly/3IKp4KT

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UC Berkeley @ucberkeleyofficial.bsky.social · 5d

🔗 Learn more about how research at UC Berkeley is changing the world: berkeley.edu/research-impact

Research With Results - University of California, Berkeley

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UC Berkeley @ucberkeleyofficial.bsky.social · 5d

While studying in the lab of UC Berkeley's Jay Keasling, Hill-Maini devoted himself to learning everything about Neurospora intermedia — a widespread fungus that is traditionally used in Indonesia to make a food called oncom from soy pulp — so it can be adapted broadly to Western food waste.

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UC Berkeley @ucberkeleyofficial.bsky.social · 5d

Chef-turned-chemist Vayu Hill-Maini has a passion: to transform food waste into culinary delights using fungi.

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UC Berkeley @ucberkeleyofficial.bsky.social · 6d

Victoria Coleman, with extensive industry, government and academic experience in aerospace technology, will lead UC Berkeley's efforts to forge a research alliance between academia, Nasa and the tech industry. news.berkeley.edu/2025/10/01/f...

Former Air Force chief scientist to guide program development at Berkeley Space Center - Berkeley News

Victoria Coleman, with extensive industry, government and academic experience in aerospace technology, will lead the campus's efforts to forge a research alliance between academia, NASA and the tech i...

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UC Berkeley @ucberkeleyofficial.bsky.social · 7d

🔗 Read the release on #BerkeleyNews: news.berkeley.edu/2025/09/29/u...

UC Berkeley ranked No. 1 public school in the U.S. by the Wall Street Journal - Berkeley News

It was the second year in a row Berkeley received the distinction.

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UC Berkeley @ucberkeleyofficial.bsky.social · 7d

It’s not déjà vu, it’s a fact! For the second year in a row, UC Berkeley has been ranked the #1 public school in the U.S. by @wsj.com’s 2026 Best Colleges list.

UC Berkeley #1 public college According to WSJ/College Pulse 2026 Best Colleges in the U.S.

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UC Berkeley @ucberkeleyofficial.bsky.social · 7d

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101 in 101 - YouTube

UC Berkeley professors and researchers are challenged to explain the "101" of their field of study in only 101 seconds.

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UC Berkeley @ucberkeleyofficial.bsky.social · 7d

Bowles is an assistant professor of agroecology in the Department of Environmental Science, Policy and Management at UC Berkeley, studying ways to make agriculture less dependent on pesticides and how we can better clean up farmland runoff contaminating groundwater across the state.

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UC Berkeley @ucberkeleyofficial.bsky.social · 7d

From pesticides to groundwater contamination, the ways we make our food can damage the environment, surrounding communities and human health. Tim Bowles is thinking about how to create more sustainable and ecological agricultural methods.

Watch him explain the study of agroecology: bit.ly/3KP35ms

Watch a professor explain agroecology in 101 seconds - Berkeley News

Drawing both from ecological sciences and generations of farming wisdom, agroecology aims to create more sustainable ways to grow food.

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UC Berkeley UDAR @berkeleyinspire.bsky.social · 9d

Assistant Professor Jonathan Weigel will be honored as the 2025 Philomathia Prize recipient at Philomathia Day on Oct. 15. His research focuses on seeing how a fragile state can build its capacity to better serve its citizens.

Learn more: https://gather.berkeley.edu/event/philomathia-day/

Philomathia Day

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UC Berkeley Law @ucberkeleylaw.bsky.social · 8d

The UC Berkeley Law Clinical Program’s 2024-25 Annual Report showcases the stories, voices, and impact fueled by over 200 students who took part in 15 clinics last school year, seven in-house and eight at the East Bay Community Law Center. https://bit.ly/46siX71 #UCBerkeleyLaw

Clinical Program's Annual Report Highlights Broad Reach and Impact

Our Clinical Program’s 2024-25 Annual Report showcases the stories, voices, and impact fueled by over 200 students who took part in 15 UC Berkeley Law clinics last school year, seven […]

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UC Berkeley @ucberkeleyofficial.bsky.social · 11d

Elena Conis, a journalism and history professor at UC Berkeley, explains how attitudes and federal policy about vaccines have evolved in the U.S. news.berkeley.edu/2025/09/26/t...

The history of vaccine hesitancy, from smallpox to COVID-19 - Berkeley News

Elena Conis, a journalism and history professor at UC Berkeley, explains how attitudes and federal policy about vaccines have evolved in the U.S.

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UC Berkeley @ucberkeleyofficial.bsky.social · 11d

When immigrant and U.S.-born entrepreneurs team up, their startups perform better than those founded by either group alone, according to a new study from @berkeleyhaas.bsky.social and Cheung Kong Graduate School of Business. newsroom.haas.berkeley.edu/research/for...

For startup success, teams with both U.S.-born and immigrant founders have an edge - Haas News | Berkeley Haas

When immigrant and U.S.-born entrepreneurs team up, their startups perform better than those founded by either group alone, according to a new study. An analysis of nearly 91,000 U.S. startups by rese...

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UC Berkeley @ucberkeleyofficial.bsky.social · 12d

Long Le-Khac, an assistant professor of ethnic studies at UC Berkeley, has published a 1,900-entry dataset that he hopes will be used to investigate which works are discussed as “Asian American” in scholarly circles — and who that leaves out. news.berkeley.edu/2025/09/16/w...

What counts as ‘Asian American literature,’ anyway? - Berkeley News

Long Le-Khac, an assistant professor of ethnic studies at UC Berkeley, just published a 1,900-entry dataset that he hopes will be used to investigate which works are discussed as “Asian American” in s...

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UC Berkeley College of Letters & Science @berkeleyls.bsky.social · 20d

🗓️ WEDNESDAY, OCT 8: Join us for a screening of The Last Class, the hit documentary capturing UC Berkeley Professor Emeritus Robert Reich's last semester. Writer & comedian W. Kamau Bell will join Prof Reich for a conversation after the film.

🎟️ TICKETS ARE ONLINE >> https://bit.ly/4gxZ0PA

Event details for screening of The Last Class with photos of Robert Reich and W. Kamau Bell.

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UC Berkeley @ucberkeleyofficial.bsky.social · 13d

🎧 Listen to UC Berkeley philosopher Alva Noë discuss how humans are in a constant state of becoming, and how art works to unveil us to ourselves in ways that empirical inquiry, common in scientific fields, cannot. news.berkeley.edu/2025/09/19/b...

Berkeley Talks: How art allows us to see everyday things anew - Berkeley News

"Life and art are entangled," says UC Berkeley philosopher Alva Noë. "An engagement with an artwork is an engagement with oneself."

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Space Sciences Laboratory @ucbssl.bsky.social · 13d

NASA's Carruthers mission launched this morning and is communicating with the Mission Operations Center at the @UCBerkeley
Space Sciences Laboratory.
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UC Berkeley @ucberkeleyofficial.bsky.social · 14d

Dacher Keltner, a UC Berkeley distinguished professor of psychology who has led the discipline’s study of human emotion, power and the concept of awe, was honored this month with a lifetime achievement award from the Association for Psychological Science. news.berkeley.edu/2025/09/22/d...

Dacher Keltner, UC Berkeley psychologist, receives prestigious lifetime achievement award - Berkeley News

Keltner, a distinguished professor of psychology at Berkeley, has led the discipline's study of human emotion, power and the concept of awe throughout his career.

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UC Berkeley @ucberkeleyofficial.bsky.social · 15d

UC Berkeley is the #1 public university in the country, according to recent 2026 @usnews.com rankings. This is the 16th time over the past two decades that Berkeley has claimed the top spot in the annual U.S. News Best Colleges rankings.✨🐻 news.berkeley.edu/2025/09/22/u...

UC Berkeley named top public school in the country by ‘US News’ - Berkeley News

Of the more than 1,700 U.S. colleges and universities evaluated, Berkeley claimed the No. 1 spot of all public schools in the 2026 U.S. News & World Report rankings.

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UC Berkeley @ucberkeleyofficial.bsky.social · 15d

Co-developed by UC Berkeley's William Boos, an artificial intelligence-based weather model delivered a timely prediction of a stalled monsoon this season, helping farmers decide when to plant their crops. news.berkeley.edu/2025/09/16/a...

AI revolutionizes weather prediction to help farmers in India - Berkeley News

Co-developed by UC Berkeley's William Boos, an artificial intelligence-based weather model delivered a timely prediction of a stalled monsoon this season, helping farmers decide when to plant their cr...

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