Out @ Friday Harbor Labs with our drone team conducting intertidal habitat surveys for colleagues from @ucscscience.bsky.social as part of an @waseagrant.bsky.social project. Back to Seattle tomorrow. #drone #drones #dronesforconservation

Congratulations to Valery Ortiz, currently a graduate student at the Scripps Research Institute (@scripps.edu) and former undergraduate in my lab @ucscscience.bsky.social @ucsantacruz.bsky.social, funded through the ACCESS and MARC programs run by the STEM Diversity Program!🥳🎉🎊

Our new paper on population genomics of black surfperch. I am incredibly happy, decades in the making.... onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

On Oct. 3, the Seymour Marine Discovery Center and Event Santa Cruz will host "The NEXTies: Earth and Sea," an evening celebrating the environmental pioneers who’ve made Santa Cruz a leader in climate resilience. Submit your nominations by Aug. 3 & get tickets: seymourcenter.ucsc.edu/calendar_eve...

Weather and the Whale is a major exhibition project featuring immersive displays of original science research and newly commissioned contemporary artworks at UC Santa Cruz @ucscscience.bsky.social #sciart

Just saw the exciting news that Enrico Ramirez-Ruiz (prof at @ucscscience.bsky.social and my PhD advisor) was named the president of the @astrosociety.org!! 🎉🔭 news.ucsc.edu/2025/06/enri...

A new UC Santa Cruz study found that horizontal "living levees" - gently sloped, planted barriers - can protect against rising seas and storm surge when added in front of existing levees. @ucscscience.bsky.social #naturebasedsolutions #sanmateo #sealevelrise Illustration: Punto Aparte 🧵 1/3

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94% of California's Chinook salmon die on their way to sea. A UCSC-led team has created a playbook to help water managers adjust flows—timing, temp, volume—to boost survival and restore balance in human-managed waterways. #salmon #conservation Read more: news.ucsc.edu/2025/07/faci...

Upasna Sharma, professor of molecular, cell, & developmental biology at UCSC, has received the 2025 McKnight Foundation neurobiology award, which will advance her research on how a father’s life experiences & environment can influence the health of his future children. news.ucsc.edu/2025/07/upas...

What can a 28-eyed jellyfish teach us about the ~wild~ evolution of vision? 👀🧬 Genomics Institute affiliate @aidemm.bsky.social and collaborators have sequenced the genome of a rare 28-eyed jellyfish to find out! news.ucsc.edu/2025/06/jell...

Genome BC is expanding environmental DNA monitoring across British Columbia—particularly in remote and Indigenous communities. One of the tools they're investing in is eDNA Explorer—a genomics platform that began as a research project at UC Santa Cruz and is led by ecology professor Rachel Meyer.

Congrats Carli and Jason on your #ASMS2025 awards!! 🥳😎🤩 @ucscscience.bsky.social

It’s Genome June at the Santa Cruz Museum of Natural History— in partnership with the UCSC Genomics Institute! Check out the line up of events throughout the month, most of which feature UC Santa Cruz scientists, researchers, and genomics experts. 🦣🧬🐺🌲 santacruzmuseum.org/series/genom...

Check us out at #ASMS2025 at our posters, Carli is also speaking during the Tuesday Night Young Mass Spectrometrist workshop @ucscscience.bsky.social Find me if you want a sweet Sanchez Lab logo sticker

A team of scientists, artists, engineers, and students have joined forces at UC Santa Cruz to help promote the use of stored rainwater as a resource for growing food close to home. news.ucsc.edu/2025/05/inno...

Congrats to Dr. Anne Dattilo, a @ucscscience.bsky.social student with Prof. Natalie Batalha, who got her PhD this afternoon! She is an expert in exoplanet demographics, with a focus on sub-Neptunes.

@ucscscience.bsky.social at #CBBADay2025 #Sluglife #noknownpredators thanks for hosting Cal, great day of chemical biology and professional presentations!

Congratulations to this year’s UCSC Science Distinguished Alumni! Enjoy these “then and now” photos spanning back as far as 1989, and read more about the winners and their accomplishments here: news.ucsc.edu/2025/04/the-...

One of my favorite papers of my career is out in @science.org Science Advances, and we're on the cover! In this study, we introduce a new ecological process called keystone interdependence, where the loss of one keystone species can extend across ecosystems to indirectly affect another... (1/8)

First study from my new grad lab in marine mammal brain and behavior @marmamsci-ncf.bsky.social : www.nature.com/articles/s41.... They said our beat keeping sea lion (UC Santa Cruz Pinniped Lab's Ronan) wasn't as good as humans. Oh realllly? Master's student Carson Hood did the hard work on this one

In a literal head-to-hand competition that explores the fascinating field of “biomusicality,” the smart and playful California sea lion at UC Santa Cruz named Ronan has proven her rhythm is just as precise—if not better—than us humans. Read more: news.ucsc.edu/2025/05/rona... (Photo permits #23554)

Congratulations to Beth Shapiro, UC Santa Cruz professor and acclaimed evolutionary biologist, who was elected to the National Academy of Sciences yesterday! 🏆 🤩 news.ucsc.edu/2025/04/beth...

Tomorrow 4/29 at 10:30am PST is the UC Grad Slam 2025, where UC campus champions face off to explain their graduate research in under 3 minutes! PhD candidate Jenna Myers will be representing UC Santa Cruz & presenting on her stem-cell research. Tune in and vote! gradslam.universityofcalifornia.edu

If you're a student or researcher, how are you dealing with all the uncertainty and disruption? How do the proud families who sent you to college to find your passion and make a positive impact on the world feel about it? It's so important that we hear from all of you!

Excited to have @han-arbach.bsky.social sharing their scientific journey with students @ucscscience.bsky.social how does one get from astronaut to thinking about #FrontierScience @alleninstitute.bsky.social @jaxcalhoun27.bsky.social

Congrats to UCSC undergrad Izzy Connor, named a 2025 Goldwater Scholar! A LAMAT fellow & Olympic rhythmic gymnast, she researches high-energy astrophysics, coaches gymnastics, & promotes STEM outreach—on track to earn a PhD & inspire the next generation of scientists.🏆💫 news.ucsc.edu/2025/04/astr...

Scientists from UC Santa Cruz and Colossal Biosciences have achieved a groundbreaking milestone in de-extinction science! They used ancient DNA to bring to life three wolf pups who resemble the extinct dire wolf. 🧬🐺 Read more: news.ucsc.edu/2025/04/dire...

the version of record (VoR) of our most recent paper has been published @elife.bsky.social! 🎉🥳 🧪 elifesciences.org/articles/102...

with a link to a write-up about a recent paper from my lab (pinned post) news.ucsc.edu/2025/04/chro...

Meet Patricia Schell, Deana Tanguay, and Jeannette Peters, co-recipients of the UC Santa Cruz Science Division’s first Outstanding Staff Award. The award recognizes leadership, innovation, and "invisible labor." Join us in congratulating them! news.ucsc.edu/2025/04/scie...

it's a hard and sad time in science / higher ed in the US right now. on the other hand, lots of PhDs are looking for work, so I wanted to share— I'm hiring a postdoc! it's a two-year position at UCSC to do (preferably Bayesian) modeling of marine ecosystems: recruit.ucsc.edu/JPF01892

Come be our colleague! UCSC Chemistry and Biochemistry is looking for a tenure track Assistant Teaching Professor for general chemistry courses!

Wonderful seminar and visit from @thetidgelab.bsky.social to @ucscscience.bsky.social also managed to finish a proposal and submit a review today too. Working on focusing my rage and fury into taking things over the finish line 💁🏽‍♀️

Over the weekend, 17 researchers from the Santa Cruz Institute for Particle Physics (SCIPP) were awarded the 2025 Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics for their significant contributions to particle physics. A huge round of applause for all! news.ucsc.edu/2025/04/brea...

Massive congratulations to Becky Jensen-Clem, assistant professor of astronomy & astrophysics at UC Santa Cruz, and Maaike van Kooten, a UCSC postdoc from 2020 to 2022, for being awarded the 2025 New Horizons in Physics Prize from the Breakthrough Prize Foundation! breakthroughprize.org/News/91

🎗📢 Our clinical pediatric cancer lab at @ucsantacruz.bsky.social has been cleared to begin testing patient samples! The Colligan Clinical Diagnostic Lab hopes to identify life-saving treatment options using innovative new RNA tests. 🎉https://news.ucsc.edu/2025/03/colligan-clinical-lab.html

Brain cells are more plastic than previously thought 🧠 New research from the Braingeneers, researchers from UC Santa Cruz & UC San Francisco, used in-vitro models of a specific type of brain cell to show neurons are capable of changing from one type to another. news.ucsc.edu/2025/03/most...

UCSC put on a special “Inspire NYC” event last night in New York, hosted by our Chancellor Cynthia Larive. It was such a privilege to do a deep dive into how the brilliant minds of my @ucscscience.bsky.social colleagues Kristy Kroeker and Heather Tallis work, and I enjoyed meeting many UCSC alums.

🌏 Earth can sustain life for another 100 million years, but can we? @npr.org partnered with Radiolab in this new podcast episode “Can the economy grow forever?”, which was made in conversation with UCSC astronomy professor Sandy Faber. 🎙️Give it a listen: www.npr.org/2025/03/28/1... #sciencepodcast

UC Santa Cruz astronomy Ph.D. candidate Sagnick Mukherjee has received one of the most sought-after postdoctoral awards in the field: the prestigious 51 Pegasi b Fellowship. With this support, he will continue his research on the mysteries of sub-Neptune planets. news.ucsc.edu/2025/03/pega...

Congratulations to UCSC chemistry professor Phil Crews on receiving the American Chemical Society's prestigious Ernest Guenther Award at the society’s recent spring meeting. Crews was honored for his outstanding work in the analysis, structural elucidation, & chemical synthesis of natural products.

Three UC Santa Cruz faculty members have been named 2024 fellows of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), including Raphael Kudela, Theodore Holman, and David Deamer! Help us congratulate them on this lifetime honor. news.ucsc.edu/2025/03/2024...

You're looking at the largest 3D map of our universe ever made, which helped cosmologists, including those at UCSC, see that the universe might not be expanding the way we thought. And that changes everything. 🚀🔭 Read more: bit.ly/41LZdI5 #academicsky #astronomy

What would federal funding cuts do to a community's local economy, its people, & the next generation? UC Santa Cruz Science Professors Needhi Bhalla, Susan Carpenter, & Carol Greider state it plainly and painfully in yesterday's Santa Cruz Sentinel article. www.santacruzsentinel.com/2025/03/20/g...

Glad I could play a small part in this cool story!

Thrilled to team up with @drlaurasanchez.bsky.social, @robbieshepherd.bsky.social, Conrad, and Alex and summarize a great amount of work around how advances in MS have accelerated high throughput screening for enzyme evolution! Also excited to share our collaborative work in this area pretty soon 👀!

Very excited for this one to hit the web NCI supported collaboration with @JBurdetteLab Hannah and Monicas work on branched aacrjournals.org/cancerrescom... branched chain amino acids in #HGSOC for the #MSImaging nerds lessons in ion suppression for studies using agar/agarose!

🌌 The long-accepted theory explaining the nature of our universe may need updating! 🚨 New results from a huge collaboration that includes several UC Santa Cruz astronomers hint that the influence of dark energy may change over time. Read the full announcement: news.ucsc.edu/2025/03/desi...

Last week, the Science Division announced that Erika Zavaleta, professor of ecology & evolutionary biology, has won the Outstanding Faculty Award! 🏆 The annual prize is the division's highest honor for faculty achievement. Read about her remarkable impact here: news.ucsc.edu/2025/03/zava...