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

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

💙💛 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

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

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! @columbiaup.bsky.social @uofcalifornia.bsky.social

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

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: ⬇️

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.

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.

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

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 @ucirvine.bsky.social @uofcalifornia.bsky.social

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! @ucirvine.bsky.social

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!

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   @ucirvine.bsky.social @uofcalifornia.bsky.social

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: link.springer.com/article/10.1...

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 @ucirvine.bsky.social @uofcalifornia.bsky.social

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 @uofcalifornia.bsky.social @uwmadison.bsky.social

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 @ucirvine.bsky.social @uofcalifornia.bsky.social

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 @ucirvine.bsky.social @uofcalifornia.bsky.social

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

“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.

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 @ucirvine.bsky.social

Study: Immigrant workers in Europe and North America earn 18% less than native-born workers, lack access to higher-paying industries, occupations & companies | Multi-university study published in @nature.com examines pay differences for 1st & 2nd generation immigrant workers across 9 countries

Beyond the syllabus | UC Irvine sociology Ph.D. candidate Jennifer Cabrera earns Lauds & Laurels recognition for her work bridging research, representation and community—online and off @ucirvine.bsky.social @uofcalifornia.bsky.social

Detecting dementia earlier | With $4 million grant, UC Irvine cognitive scientist Aaron Bornstein seeks to develop inexpensive assessment of cognitive ability @ucirvine.bsky.social @aaronbornstein.bsky.social @uofcalifornia.bsky.social

Huge congrats to David A. Snow, @ucirvine.bsky.social sociology Distinguished Professor emeritus, who has been named the recipient of the W.E.B. Du Bois Career of Distinguished Scholarship Award from @asanews.bsky.social!

Wired for Words: The Neural Architecture of Language | New book by @ucirvine.bsky.social cognitive and language scientist @gregoryhickok.bsky.social explores 150 years of research on how the brain enables language *Presale available now w/ 25% discount at @barnesandnoble.com* @mitpress.bsky.social

Friendship and philanthropy | UC Irvine School of Social Sciences Dean’s Leadership Society makes $1.6 million impact @ucirvine.bsky.social @uofcalifornia.bsky.social

From @ucirvine.bsky.social to @georgetownlaw.bsky.social | Political science alum Gabriella Chadsey ’20 chases her dreams to protect the environment

UC Irvine-led study explores an unexpected archaeological find | Artifact discovered at site of 19th-century U.S. military fort raises questions about identity, race, sexuality and culture @ucirvine.bsky.social @uofcalifornia.bsky.social @ucberkeleyofficial.bsky.social @uidaho.bsky.social

Congrats to Brenda Nicolas, @ucirvine.bsky.social global & international studies assistant professor, who has received a $17,500 grant from the Institute for Citizens & Scholars to support her work on Indigenous communal practices!

A Los Angeles tax law passed in 2022 intending to raise money for affordable housing may end up costing the county in the long run by flatlining commercial and luxury home sales and subsequent property-tax collections on post-sale values. ...

UC Irvine closes commencement season with second LIFTED ceremony | 94 percent of in-prison bachelor’s program graduates earn honors socialecology.uci.edu/news/closing... @ucirvine.bsky.social @uofcalifornia.bsky.social

UC Irvine-led study explores growth, destabilizing factors in world-city formation | Findings, published in Journal of Urban Affairs, offer comparative look at Hong Kong and Shanghai @ucirvine.bsky.social

A living legacy | The Luce Family Fellowship in Mathematical and Behavioral Sciences established to support graduate research, honor life and work of internationally acclaimed UC Irvine Distinguished Professor of cognitive sciences R. Duncan Luce @ucirvine.bsky.social

Huge congrats to our 37 Order of Merit honorees, a distinction awarded to only 2% of graduating UCI social sciences students! The honor recognizes academic excellence, original research, leadership activities, and service contributions to the School of Social Sciences, UCI campus, or community.

And we’re giving a big @ucirvine.bsky.social soc sci shoutout to Nora Bradford! While completing her Ph.D. in cognitive sciences at UC Irvine - studying how metacognition can be distorted and improved - Bradford has also carved out a parallel path as a science writer.

An ongoing journey | Olivia Dinh's time as an undergrad in the @ucirvine.bsky.social political science department has inspired a lifetime of civil rights litigation   @uofcalifornia.bsky.social

Congrats to Caroline Martínez, a sixth-year UCI sociology graduate student, who is the 2025 recipient of the A. Kimball Romney Award for Outstanding Graduate Paper! @ucirvine.bsky.social @uofcalifornia.bsky.social

Congrats to Yunjie (Ellen) Shi, @ucirvine.bsky.social logic & philosophy of science grad student, recipient of the faculty-nominated School of Social Sciences Outstanding Service Award!

Set up for success | Graduating senior Mackenzie Maxwell took a nontraditional path to UC Irvine - and found her purpose in research and mental health advocacy @ucirvine.bsky.social @uofcalifornia.bsky.social

Congrats to Dahyun Park, UCI economics major, recipient of the 2025 Charles A. Lave Paper Prize! Below, Park shares her award-winning work on the impact of fully remote work on fertility rates and where she plans to go from here. @ucirvine.bsky.social

Congrats to Alisson Rowland, @ucirvine.bsky.social political science graduate student, who’s the recipient of the 2025 Social Sciences Kathy Alberti Prize! The honor recognizes a graduate student who holds truly outstanding promise as a future professor or academic.

Congrats to Cynthia Ramirez, fourth-year @ucirvine.bsky.social sociology & Chicano/Latino studies double major, who's the undergrad recipient of the '25 Justice & Equity Research Paper Award! The honor recognizes top graduate & undergraduate research papers addressing race, justice & related topics.

Congrats to Kelley Fong, @ucirvine.bsky.social sociology assistant professor, who’s been named a 2025 National Academy of Education (NAEd)/Spencer Postdoctoral Fellow. The one-year, $70,000 fellowship supports scholars who promise to make significant contributions to the field of education.

Congrats to Lavanaya Garg, @ucirvine.bsky.social poli sci undergrad, recipient of the Outstanding Honors Thesis Award! The honor recognizes Garg for her outstanding undergraduate honors thesis on judicial discretion & structural bias in U.S. asylum adjudication.

Congrats to Weijie Xu, fourth-year UCI language science grad student and recipient of the UCI School of Social Sciences Outstanding Scholarship award! The faculty-nominated award recognizes an outstanding graduate student for high intellectual scholarship and achievement. @ucirvine.bsky.social

Purpose in practice | UC Irvine political science and international studies double major Zeynep Karatas is thoughtful, driven, and just getting started @ucirvine.bsky.social @uofcalifornia.bsky.social

Congrats to MacKenzie Bonner, third-year @ucirvine.bsky.social sociology graduate student, winner of the 2025 Etel Solingen Award for Outstanding Paper in International Relations! The honor recognizes originality, strong theoretical foundation, well-developed research design and empirical analysis.

A legacy worth building | UC Irvine graduating senior James Paredes is earning four majors and preparing to make a lasting impact @ucirvine.bsky.social @uofcalifornia.bsky.social @ucwashington.bsky.social