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UC Irvine School of Social Sciences @ucisocsci.bsky.social · 18h

Congrats to Nathan Bui, political science & urban studies at @ucirvine.bsky.social, a 2025 recipient of the Social Sciences Moore Scholarship for Community and Social Change! The $1,000 award supports students who demonstrate the most promise, potential to enact change & improve the community.

Bui awarded Moore Scholarship for Community and Social Change

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UC Irvine School of Social Sciences @ucisocsci.bsky.social · 4d

Teaching biology from a global perspective | Qiwen Zheng, ’22 international studies and ecology and evolutionary biology, brings an international perspective as Knowles Teaching Fellow

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Teaching biology from a global perspective

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UC Irvine School of Social Sciences @ucisocsci.bsky.social · 7d

New @ucirvine.bsky.social Center for Language, Intelligence, and Computation to serve as hub for scientific study of language | Research center is led by Richard Futrell, language science professor, and housed in the School of Social Sciences

New UC Irvine Center for Language, Intelligence, and Computation to serve as hub for scientific study of language

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UC Irvine School of Social Sciences @ucisocsci.bsky.social · 12d

💙💛 A warm Anteater welcome from @ucirvine.bsky.social social sciences dean Bill Maurer ⬇️💛💙

#zotzotzot #ucipride

Welcome home, Anteaters!

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UC Irvine School of Social Sciences @ucisocsci.bsky.social · 14d

With @acls1919.bsky.social grant funding, @ucirvine.bsky.social's Tiara Na’puti is tracing the history of a Samoan canoe on display in Social Sciences Tower to bring attention to the complex past and present of Indigenous Pacific Islanders in Southern California

Na'puti receives funding for Indigenous research and connections with the canoe at UCI

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UC Irvine School of Social Sciences @ucisocsci.bsky.social · 15d

💙💛 We’re back!!! We had so much fun meeting so many new faces today at our annual undergrad BBQ as we kickoff another great year in @ucisocsci. To all of our new Anteaters out there, welcome home! 💛💙⁠ ⁠ #zotzotzot #ucipride #ucirvine @ucirvine.bsky.social

UC Irvine School of Social Sciences @ucisocsci.bsky.social · 18d

New @ucirvine.bsky.social Center for Socially Engaged Philosophy aims to address real world problems | Research center is led by @cailinmeister.bsky.social, logic & philosophy of science Chancellor’s Professor, and housed in the School of Social Sciences

New UC Irvine Center for Socially Engaged Philosophy aims to address real world problems

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UC Irvine School of Social Sciences @ucisocsci.bsky.social · 21d

Congrats to Kevin Olson, @ucirvine.bsky.social political science professor, who’s been named the recipient of @apsa.bsky.social's Charles Taylor Book Award for his latest work, Subaltern Silence: A Postcolonial Genealogy!

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Olson receives Charles Taylor Book Award for work on subordination and resistance

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UC Irvine School of Social Sciences @ucisocsci.bsky.social · 22d

LPS Summer Development Program at @ucirvine.bsky.social marks fourth year of expanding access to graduate study | Funded by the National Science Foundation, the weeklong program brings students from around the world to explore graduate-level topics and connect with LPS faculty and graduate mentors

UC Irvine’s Logic and Philosophy of Science Summer Development Program marks fourth year of expanding access to graduate study

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UC Irvine School of Social Sciences @ucisocsci.bsky.social · Sep 4

We have another warm Anteater welcome to share: Beijie Ann Tang, the new director of the @ucirvine.bsky.social Long U.S.-China Institute. More, including a video intro of Ann: ⬇️

UCI soc sci spotlight: Beijie Ann Tang

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UC Irvine School of Social Sciences @ucisocsci.bsky.social · Sep 3

And another warm @ucirvine.bsky.social soc sci welcome to Crystal Robertson, our newly hired political science assistant professor! Crystal specializes in research on race, ethnicity, and politics; gender and politics; and political psychology.

New faculty interview: Crystal Robertson

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UC Irvine School of Social Sciences @ucisocsci.bsky.social · Sep 2

We’re giving a warm @ucirvine.bsky.social soc sci welcome to David Inman, a newly hired assistant professor of language science. David specializes in research on languages, grammatical systems and computational modeling.

New faculty interview: David Inman

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UC Irvine School of Social Sciences @ucisocsci.bsky.social · Aug 28

Research team earns best article award from @psychonomicsociety.bsky.social | @ucirvine.bsky.social’s @meganakpeters.bsky.social & Brian Maniscalco, along with @qmul.bsky.social's Lucie Charles, honored for work on metacognition published in Psychonomic Bulletin & Review

Research team earns best article award from Psychonomic Society

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UC Irvine School of Social Sciences @ucisocsci.bsky.social · Aug 26

The Weight of the White Coat: Latinos Navigating American Medicine (@ucpress.bsky.social) | New book by UC Irvine Chicano/Latino studies professor & department chair Glenda M. Flores explores the personal & professional journeys of Latina/o doctors

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The Weight of the White Coat: Latinos Navigating American Medicine

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UC Irvine School of Social Sciences @ucisocsci.bsky.social · Aug 21

Congrats to Tauhid Bin Kashem, ’25 UC Irvine political science Ph.D., who has received the Best Dissertation Award from the American Political Science Association Migration and Citizenship Section!

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Bin Kashem ’25 receives APSA Best Dissertation Award

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UC Irvine School of Social Sciences @ucisocsci.bsky.social · Aug 19

Congrats to Etel Solingen, @ucirvine.bsky.social political science Distinguished Professor and Thomas T. and Elizabeth C. Tierney Chair in Peace Studies, who has received the Emerging Markets Inspiration Conference Lifetime Achievement Award from the Stockholm Business School!

Solingen lauded at annual Stockholm University Conference

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UC Irvine School of Social Sciences @ucisocsci.bsky.social · Aug 14

Finding her why | Through UC Irvine’s Summer Program in Research and Leadership, psychology major Lily Paris Zahraii took her first steps into academic research and discovered much more along the way

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Finding her why

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Lauren Ross @laurennross.bsky.social · Aug 7

Congratulations to Jessica Lauman-Lairson for defending her excellent dissertation on "A Middle-Range Account of Analogical Inference" 🎉
Jeff Barrett and I co-advised, w Kyle Stanford on her committee! @ucisocsci.bsky.social‬

Check out her new Synthese pub here:
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UC Irvine School of Social Sciences @ucisocsci.bsky.social · Aug 12

Lauding applied learning | UC Irvine cognitive sciences assistant professor and first-gen scholar Cherlyn Ng receives Distinguished Early-Career Faculty Award for Teaching for making course content exciting, accessible and applicable

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Lauding applied learning

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UC Irvine School of Social Sciences @ucisocsci.bsky.social · Aug 6

Training the next generation of population science researchers | Two-week NextGenPop residential program hosted at @ucirvine.bsky.social brings 17 students to campus for advanced instruction, career development and networking

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Training the next generation of population science researchers

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UC Irvine School of Social Sciences @ucisocsci.bsky.social · Aug 4

The power of connection | Pat Guinet ’83 pays it forward as the new chair of the UC Irvine School of Social Sciences Dean’s Leadership Society

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The power of connection

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UC Irvine School of Social Sciences @ucisocsci.bsky.social · Jul 30

Policy with purpose | UC Irvine political science and sociology double major Jared Castaneda selected for prestigious public policy institute program

www.socsci.uci.edu/newsevents/news/2025/2025-07-30-jared-castaneda-policy-with-purpose

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UC Irvine School of Social Sciences @ucisocsci.bsky.social · Jul 29

Zoning in | UC Irvine economics Ph.D. student Noah Kouchekinia wins two national grants to study housing policy

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UC Irvine School of Social Sciences @ucisocsci.bsky.social · Jul 24

“Learning a language is hard. Yet children who struggle with simple tasks, like tying their shoes or performing basic addition, manage to master it,” says UC Irvine language science graduate student Niels Dickson. He’s received a $12,912 NSF grant to study how children accomplish this complex task.

Dickson receives grant to apply computational cognitive models to language acquisition

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UC Irvine School of Social Sciences @ucisocsci.bsky.social · Jul 22

Three from social sciences among 21 to be honored at annual UC Irvine Lauds and Laurel event | O.C. foundation leader Shelley Hoss, M.B.P.A. '87, to receive 2025 Extraordinarius award

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Three from social sciences among 21 to be honored at annual UC Irvine Lauds and Laurel event

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