Join us for @ucirvine.bsky.social Homecoming on Feb. 28! The street festival begins at 3 p.m. on Mesa Road with live performances, activities, food and carnival games. Then, help cheer on our men's basketball team in the Bren as they take on UC Santa Barbara. More details: homecoming.uci.edu

From career success to student support | Sara Brock Rollins, UCI social science ’83, MBA ’84 mentors the next generation through LeadHER @ucirvine.bsky.social @uofcalifornia.bsky.social

Wishing you strength & momentum in the Year of the Horse! Revisit the spirit of @ucirvine.bsky.social's Lunar New Year celebration & best wishes for a year ahead filled with good fortune, success & joy! 📸 flic.kr/s/aHBqjCKeWc -photos by Steve Zylius, UC Irvine, & Carlos Puma, Puma Images

Back to her roots | At 24 years old, @ucirvine.bsky.social economics alumna (’23) and current Merage master's student Jessie Zheng, founder of Paper Sutekka, already has business cred under her belt @uofcalifornia.bsky.social

TODAY! Join us for @ucirvine.bsky.social's annual Lunar New Year celebration! Festivities kick off at 1:30 p.m. - more details below and online ⬇️

Join us Monday, February 9 at The Irvine Barclay Theatre for @ucirvine.bsky.social's 11th annual Lunar New Year Celebration! In the Year of the Horse, a symbol of vitality, momentum, and renewal, the celebration reflects the energy and spirit that have defined this tradition for more than a decade.

Three @ucirvine.bsky.social professors named co-editors of prestigious Law & Society Review | Bill Maurer and Justin Richland, anthropology, and Lee Cabatingan, criminology, law and society, to lead Law and Society Association’s flagship journal @uofcalifornia.bsky.social

Reimagining child care in California | New research from the @uofcalifornia.bsky.social charts a path forward education.uci.edu/zero-to-thre... @ucberkeleyofficial.bsky.social @ucirvine.bsky.social

Are you interested in tackling real-world challenges facing society, business, government, and non-profits? The Demographic and Social Analysis (DASA) master’s program at @ucirvine.bsky.social offers a fast-paced, nine-month experience grounded in research and hands-on, applied learning.

Nina Bandelj, @ucirvine.bsky.social sociologist, recently joined CBS LA to share insights from her new book, Overinvested: The Emotional Economy of Modern Parenting (@princetonupress.bsky.social). Tune in: www.cbsnews.com/losangeles/v... @ninabandelj.bsky.social

The Money Signal | New book by @daniellethomsen.bsky.social, @ucirvine.bsky.social political science professor, explores how fundraising matters in American politics @uchicagopress.bsky.social @uofcalifornia.bsky.social

Tomorrow (Jan 22) at 1:00pm PST, @ucisocsci.bsky.social hosts a virtual event with @ninabandelj.bsky.social, author of Overinvested! With Viviana Zelizer, Bandelj will explore what happens when children become investment projects and child-rearing becomes exhausting labor. Register: buff.ly/ThsYgv2

Researchers studying the impact of social media on society—everything from effects on teenagers’ mental health to the spread of misinformation—often work with the companies that run these platforms. But these ties evidently run much deeper than the scientific record acknowledges.

An optimistic academic | After transforming groundbreaking mathematical psychology theories into practical applications used by millions of students, Jean-Claude Falmagne has established a legacy to advance the field at UC Irvine   @ucirvine.bsky.social @uofcalifornia.bsky.social

Congrats to Claire Yoo, @ucirvine.bsky.social international studies undergrad, who’s been awarded the Social Sciences Alumni Academic Excellence Scholarship! The honor annually recognizes students for outstanding academic performance and campus service 👏

Overinvested: The Emotional Economy of Modern Parenting | New book by @ucirvine.bsky.social sociology professor @ninabandelj.bsky.social explores what happens when children become investment projects and child-rearing becomes exhausting labor @princetonupress.bsky.social @uofcalifornia.bsky.social

Study: No link between foster care entry rates and child maltreatment deaths | Rutgers and @ucirvine.bsky.social researchers’ analysis of national data shows no evidence that higher foster care placements correlate to a drop in child abuse- or neglect-related deaths @kelleyfong.bsky.social

Welcome back, Anteaters! We’re kicking off 2026 with congratulatory news for Alexis David Lopez-Rodriguez, a third-year psychology B.S. major, who's the recipient of a Social Sciences Education Enhancement Scholarship! #zotzotzot @ucirvine.bsky.social

Congrats to @laurennross.bsky.social, @ucirvine.bsky.social logic & philosophy of science Dean's Professor and Chancellor's Fellow, who’s received research funding from the John Templeton Foundation to study token causality, which concerns explanations for specific events!

Policy Responses to Tax Competition | New book by @ucirvine.bsky.social economist David R. Agrawal with James M. Poterba and Owen M. Zidar offers a critical examination of the effects of tax competition www.socsci.uci.edu/newsevents/news/2025/2025-12-16-agrawal-policy-responses-to-tax-competition

The Assault on the State named among best books of 2025 by Foreign Affairs | Work by political scientists Jeffrey Kopstein, @ucirvine.bsky.social, and Stephen Hanson, William & Mary, examines causes, consequences of the erosion of modern government institutions @uofcalifornia.bsky.social

Congrats to Eve Darian-Smith, @ucirvine.bsky.social global and international studies and law Distinguished Professor and author of Policing Higher Education, which has been named among @forbes.com' ten best higher ed books of 2025! @ucirvinelaw.bsky.social @uofcalifornia.bsky.social

Notes from a future professor | @ucirvine.bsky.social political science major Ngoc Le is fast-tracking her way to a Ph.D. while discovering the joy of research www.socsci.uci.edu/newsevents/n... @uofcalifornia.bsky.social

Congrats to @ucirvine.bsky.social anthropology Ph.D. student Fei Yuan who has been selected as one of only ten scholars worldwide to receive the 2025 China Times Young Scholar Fellowship, an honor that recognizes groundbreaking doctoral research! @uofcalifornia.bsky.social

Bad Medicine: Settler Colonialism and the Institutionalization of American Indians | New book by Sarah Whitt, @ucirvine.bsky.social global and international studies assistant professor, explores Indigenous histories tied to settler-operated institutions of the late 19th and early 20th centuries

Minding the gap | Maira Delgado Laurens, @ucirvine.bsky.social global and international studies graduate student, researches one of the world’s most dangerous migrant crossings

Congrats to Shalita Areeyaphan, a fourth-year psychology and biological sciences double major at @ucirvine.bsky.social, who is a 2025 recipient of the Social Sciences Moore Scholarship for Community and Social Change!

Economics for social good | @ucirvine.bsky.social economics graduate student Cassie Zhang – who earned her undergraduate degrees in economics and international studies as an Anteater - aims to help consumers and support students @uofcalifornia.bsky.social

Anneeth Kaur Hundle, @ucirvine.bsky.social anthropology associate professor & Presidential Chair in Social Sciences to Advance Sikh Studies, explores the lasting impact of Uganda’s 1972 expulsion of nearly 80,000 South Asians in new book, Insecurities of Expulsion

UC Irvine-led study finds protective role of culture in Latina mothers’ mental health | Findings are first to link facets of familism to postpartum health benefits Pictured: Lead author Isabel F. Almeida, UCI Chicano/Latino studies assistant professor @ucirvine.bsky.social @uofcalifornia.bsky.social

Such an inspiring event for our @ucirvine.bsky.social LeadHER mentees at @edwardslifesci.bsky.social! Our students had the recent opportunity to explore women’s leadership in action & see how purpose-driven leadership shapes one of Irvine’s most impactful companies. www.leadher.socsci.uci.edu

Beyond the books | @ucirvine.bsky.social political science Ph.D. student Jacob Sutherland explores how libraries and local governments respond to public pressure in polarized times @uofcalifornia.bsky.social

A steward of information | Ensuring that peer-reviewed scholarship is accessible is how Adrienne Nguyen, ‘13 history & anthropology, fights back against disinformation, artificial intelligence & censorship @ucirvinelaw.bsky.social @ucirvine.bsky.social @uofcalifornia.bsky.social

From data to models | @ucirvine.bsky.social cognitive sciences Ph.D. student Kathleen Medriano is challenging assumptions and traditional approaches to modeling @uofcalifornia.bsky.social @joachim.cidlab.com

Congrats to @ucirvine.bsky.social professors Padhraic Smyth and Mark Steyvers who've received a $900k grant from the National Science Foundation for a four-year study on improving human-AI decision-making! @uofcalifornia.bsky.social

Final adapted post from my forthcoming book @mitpress.bsky.social Wired for Words: The Neural Architecture of Language. This one focuses on progress over the last 2.5 decades and summarizes some of the main takeaways, IMO. @psychtoday.bsky.social www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/wire...

Where scholarship meets service | Inside @ucirvine.bsky.social's Veterans Studies Certificate Program with cofounders Bill Maurer and Anita Casavantes Bradford, as featured in the Journal of Veterans Studies #VeteransDay @uofcalifornia.bsky.social

In honor of National First-Gen Celebration Day on Nov. 8, UCI social sciences first-generation faculty share tips for navigating the college experience #CelebrateFirstGen @ucirvine.bsky.social @uofcalifornia.bsky.social

Bridging the communication gap between humans and AI | Richard Futrell, @ucirvine.bsky.social language science professor, receives NSF grant to study how humans talk about space across languages to improve human-AI interaction @uofcalifornia.bsky.social

Understanding scientific explanations | As a Ph.D. candidate in the top-ranked @ucirvine.bsky.social Department of Logic and Philosophy of Science, Jaehyun Lee investigates the very nature of scientific inquiry @uofcalifornia.bsky.social

An interdisciplinary approach | Jeremy Yeaton, UC Irvine language science Ph.D. ’25, demonstrates the value in taking a cross-pollinating approach to understanding speech loss @ucirvine.bsky.social @uofcalifornia.bsky.social @jeremyyeaton.bsky.social @gregoryhickok.bsky.social

More than a status | As a Ph.D. candidate in one of the top-ranked sociology departments in the country, UC Irvine’s Jozef Robles explores what happens to undocumented immigrants after they gain legal status @ucirvine.bsky.social @uofcalifornia.bsky.social

Teaching the whole story | Through their contributions to the High School Ethnic Studies Resource Book and their nonprofit, Educate to Empower, UC Irvine alumnae Virginia Nguyen and Stacy Yung are reshaping how students see themselves @ucirvine.bsky.social @uofcalifornia.bsky.social

My first academic article is out in the journal Latino Studies! Read if you're interested in performance, memory, and Latinx identity formation. Thanks to my colleagues, friends, and partner for supporting me in this publication process! link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Where global meets local | @ucirvine.bsky.social global and international studies graduate student Gvantsa Gasviani researches Russian exiles in Georgia @uofcalifornia.bsky.social

Building bridges | @ucirvine.bsky.social economics Ph.D. candidate Santiago Campos-Rodríguez uses unique data from the Central Bank of Costa Rica for trade and labor research @uofcalifornia.bsky.social

The mysteries of the mind | @ucirvine.bsky.social cognitive sciences Ph.D. student Allison Morehouse’s lifelong curiosity drives her quest to understand how sleep shapes memory and cognition @uofcalifornia.bsky.social

Huge congrats to Jayla Kamilla Pete, a third-year triple major in political science, anthropology and criminology, law & society at @ucirvine.bsky.social who is a 2025 recipient of the Social Sciences Moore Scholarship for Community and Social Change!

The electability gap | @ucirvine.bsky.social political science Ph.D. student Pharrell Allen combines political insight with a passion for research to examine how perceptions - not preferences - shape electoral outcomes for Black candidates @uofcalifornia.bsky.social

A life in learning | For @ucirvine.bsky.social anthropology Ph.D. student Kristen Kennefick, a love of learning has led to a life in academia and a commitment to helping others discover that same joy @uofcalifornia.bsky.social