Excited to announce a new academic credential at USC @dornsife.usc.edu Intensives 12 units / document skills that are valuable to you & employers Our first three: 📊Survey Design and Analysis ✍️Writing and Responsible AI 🧬AI for Molecular Biology dornsife.usc.edu/intensives/

After global innovation win, USC Dornsife graduate aims to make calling for help safer dornsife.usc.edu/news/stories...

Check out the nice video that @texasastronomy.bsky.social postdoc Jenna Samuel made to explain her work on galaxy formation in the early cosmos! 🧪

Congratulations to @dornsife.usc.edu Loker Institute Director & Chem Prof Surya Prakash and Loker Managing Director Robert Aniszfeld who were inducted into theNational Academy of Inventors at the annual conference hosted at USC.

They designed, tested, calculated, collaborated and competed — all before heading back to middle and high school. California just hosted the Science Olympiad Tournament for the first time, and @usc.edu was the stage, welcoming more than 2,000 of the nation's top young #STEM students. bit.ly/4nVgxVD

Congratulations to Coral Wheeler @socialistscientist.bsky.social on getting tenure! Fantastic news and well deserved!!!

Congratulations to @dornsife.usc.edu Econ PhD student Joshua Levy on his work being featured in the New York Times. -> pro se complaints with AI generated text rose from 0 to 18% since 2019 www.nytimes.com/2026/05/25/u...

As an example, the image below shows how early galaxies of different masses (each row) would look if we could see the brightness in all stars (left), or the stars weighted by age (middle), or just what JWST can see (right). As powerful as JWST is, there's a lot going on that it can't resolve!

Hot off the virtual presses: Jenna Samuel @texasastronomy.bsky.social) has led a huge new effort to understand galaxy formation in the early Universe. These simulations can serve as key comparisons with JWST observations to see where our best models do and do not work 🧪 arxiv.org/abs/2605.24104

This is what I assume is an AI-generated short form article on our paper that came out almost coeval with us dropping it on the arXiv … And honestly, it’s a pretty good popular science level summary. gist.science/paper/2605.2...

The formation of galactic disks is a surprisingly tough topic to understand. In a great paper, UCI grad student Olti Myrtaj shows how and why the Milky Way disk undergoes 3 distinct phases (chaotic -> thick disk -> thin disk). A thin disk requires a virialized inner CGM and slow(er) gas accretion. 🧪

The next generation of scientists and engineers is coming to @usc.edu More than 2,000 K–12 students arrive tomorrow for the 42nd annual Science Olympiad National Tournament. We’re proud to help welcome them to campus. ✌️ today.usc.edu/top-k-12-stu...

Proud to share our latest paper led by PhD student Olti Myrtaj ➡️ Why did the Milky Way evolve in three kinematic phases? arxiv.org/abs/2605.22806

One of our newest economics graduates is headed to the world final of a global innovation competition. Darnell Adler was named one of three U.S. winners of Red Bull Basement for Lifeline AI, his personal safety startup. We’re cheering you on, Darnell. Fight On! ✌️ dornsife.usc.edu/news/stories...

The smiles say it all. Today, we celebrated 2,700+ USC Dornsife graduates as they crossed the stage, cheered on by the people who helped them get here. Congratulations, Trojans. We’re so proud of you. Fight On! ✌️

Congratulations to our 368 outstanding new doctoral graduates! Their scholarship reflects the breadth of USC Dornsife, from chemistry and neuroscience to creative writing and economics. We're proud of you, Trojans. Fight On! ✌️

Here’s the podcast for our Dad Brain episode. What actually happens to a man when he becomes a father — in his brain, his body and his sense of who he is? Great discussion with @darbysaxbe.bsky.social professor of psychology @dornsife.usc.edu podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/d...

Attn: SF Bay Area alumni -- Hope you can join us for this special event!

What happens to a man’s brain, body and identity when he becomes a father? Join Dean James Bullock and Darby Saxbe, prof. of psychology and author of Dad Brain, for a conversation about fatherhood and family, with live Q&A. Register here for this free event, held via Zoom: bit.ly/4tVoZpK

Congratulations to Natalia Molina on being named a 2026 Guggenheim Fellow! The honor will support her new book project, Hidden Histories in the Garden, which brings to light the stories of the workers who built and maintained the Huntington. dornsife.usc.edu/news/stories...

Excited to head to the San Francisco waterfront on April 30 for a special evening with @dornsife.usc.edu alumni and parents! Join me at the Ferry Building to hear firsthand about all the amazing things happening at the college. See you in the Bay Area! RSVP by April 26: bit.ly/USCBayArea26

Impressive work by Patricio Gallardo of @upenn.edu and @dornsife.usc.edu Prof. Kris Pardo et al. => pairwise velocities measure gravitational force law on cosmic scales, 1/r^n w/ n= 2.1 ±0.3, MOND is a poor fit (PTE=3.65×10−3), while ΛCDM fits well (PTE=0.17). dornsife.usc.edu/news/stories...

Join us on on April 24 to discuss the new book "Dad Brain" with the author, @dornsife.usc.edu Prof. of Psychology Darby Saxbe to learn what her research reveals about the ways fatherhood changes men and how being a dad can shape workplaces and society. Register here: usc.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

Congrats @dornsife.usc.edu Chem Prof. Richard Brutchey for his 2026 ACS Langmuir Lectureship recognizing his work on molecular programming related to controlled surface chemistry dornsife.usc.edu/chemistry/20...

USC Dornsife Public Exchange welcomes climate leader with deep LA policy experience dornsife.usc.edu/news/stories...

AI is moving fast. The work of making it trustworthy has to keep pace. USC’s new Institute on Ethics and Trust in Computing is focused on exactly that, with our School of Philosophy helping put human questions at the center of technological ones. today.usc.edu/new-usc-inst...

Today we @dornsife.usc.edu and @usc.edu Viterbi School of Engineering are launching a new effort that brings together the liberal arts and computer science to enable #AI for the public good. today.usc.edu/new-usc-inst...

Good news - no evidence for ecosystem or harm for human health - Noelle Held, marine biogeochemist and principal investigator for the CLEAN Waters project, which is measuring post-fire water quality after Palisades and Eaton fires. www.latimes.com/environment/...

A real treat to return to my old stomping grounds at the @uciphyssci.bsky.social for the advancement exam of my exceptional PhD student Patricia Fofie, who passed with flying colors on her research using numerical simulations to understand how super massive black hole feedback affects galaxy shapes

Fun podcast with Prof. @karenlloyd.bsky.social & alumna Laurie Barge exploring how Earth’s most extreme environments are shaping where and how scientists search for life beyond Earth. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/d...

Extremely thought provoking essay by @dornsife.usc.edu English Prof Emily Hodgson Anderson, including the idea that the earliest examples of ‘ghostly’ writing made us as a society more comfortable with not knowing, or not asking, how some forms of writing were produced. lithub.com/ghost-writin...

Great conversation with @dornsife.usc.edu Prof. @karenlloyd.bsky.so + alumna Laurie Barge, senior research scientist at @nasajpl.bsky.social Highlights include life that thrives with pH levels 1000 times more basic than bleach! youtu.be/kwvxYkv92A0

This week we welcome Barnard College Professor Amy Zhou to our department colloquium!

This generous gift to Huntington-USC Institute on California and the West will enable new understandings of the past to inform public dialogue in the West + support partnerships with nonacademic professionals and practitioners dornsife.usc.edu/news/stories...

This is going to be fun! 👽🧬🌋

Looking forward to meeting alumni in San Diego this weekend!

What an honor

This is what the most distant confirmed galaxy looks like. The light we're receiving was emitted when the Universe was ~15x smaller in linear size than today, and right now it's ~30 billion light-years away from us. The light was emitted when the Universe was <300 million years old. Pretty amazing!

USC names Beong-Soo Kim as its 'next generation' president

The Heineman Foundation, the American Institute of Physics, and the AAS are pleased to announce Alice Shapley as the winner of the 2026 Dannie Heineman Prize for Astrophysics. www.aip.org/aip/alice-sh... 🔭 @aip.bsky.social

New findings from @dornsife.usc.edu Earth sciences Professor Sylvain Barbot could reshape risk assessments for Istanbul, one of the world’s most vulnerable megacities. today.usc.edu/how-hidden-f...

This week we welcome UC Merced Professor Tanya Golash-Boza to our department colloquium!

First paper since moving to @dornsife.usc.edu led by PhD student Jorge Sarrato-Alós along with Valenciano, Di Cintio, Brook, and Maccio' -> In both FIRE & NIHAO sims: early-forming galaxies have bigger DM cores, while late-forming galaxies are more cuspy arxiv.org/abs/2601.17113

I can't wait to talk about how cool life is deep beneath our feet! Join us for this fun discussion with Laurie Barge (NASA/JPL) and me!

Join me live on Feb 26 for a conversation with @dornsife.usc.edu researchers & alumni on how Earth’s most extreme environments are shaping where & how scientists search for life beyond our planet. Register Now: usc.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

We’ll miss Joel and his enthusiasm for the field he greatly impacted. Being his graduate student in the 90s was an amazing experience. www.nytimes.com/2026/01/17/s...

Great recognition Prof Doug Capone --> 2025 Highly Ranked Scholar status: #26 globally in the Marine Sciences This award has places him in the top 0.05% of all scholars worldwide. scholargps.com/highly-ranke...

Congratulations to evolutionary biologist Toby Kiers on winning the Tyler Prize for Environmental Achievement. This prize, administered by @dornsife.usc.edu celebrates Kiers’ research is on mycorrhizal fungi connecting plant roots across forest floors. dornsife.usc.edu/news/stories...

Po’pay, a Tewa religious leader, led the Pueblo Revolt, the most successful Indigenous rebellion in what’s now the USA - By Prof. Peter Mancall, Director of the Early Modern Studies Institute and Professor of History, Anthropology, and Economics @dornsife.usc.edu dornsife.usc.edu/news/stories...

If powerful #AI systems can sometimes start behaving like sociopaths, how do we keep them aligned with human values? We explore what it might take to keep them in check — including a built-in sense of “vulnerability,” so it has something to lose by causing harm. dornsife.usc.edu/news/stories...