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"In other words, all hell broke loose." With the findings of shocked quartz at three archaeological sites, #UCSB researchers and collaborators propose a scenario in which a fragmented comet exploded aboveground, sending shockwaves and extreme heat to Earth. Full story: ow.ly/OSVP50WYSsN

A new UCSB kelp study can inform habitat conservation and recovery efforts along the coasts 🌊 Full story: ow.ly/913t50WYmwF

As federal research funding faces steep cuts, UC scientists are pushing brain-computer interfaces forward: restoring speech after ALS, easing Parkinson’s symptoms, and improving bionic vision with AI (that’s us 👋 at @ucsantabarbara.bsky.social). 🧠 www.universityofcalifornia.edu/news/thrilli...

This summer, junior high and high school teachers collaborated with UCSB grad students and staff from the IHC, UCSB Library, and Santa Barbara Trust for Historic Preservation to conduct research on the history of community celebrations surrounding Fiesta and develop lesson plans for their students.

Students in the Santa Barbara area will spend this year reexamining and reinterpreting the century-old Old Spanish Days celebration a.k.a Fiesta. Full story: ow.ly/RxW350WXa3R

Join us for the BML Seminar Series! On 9/17, Holly Moeller @mixotrophe.bsky.social, an Associate Professor in the Dept of Ecology, Evolution, and Marine Biology at UCSB, will present "Trade, Borrow, or Steal: How Acquired Metabolism Drives Evolutionary Innovation." ucdavis.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

A leading expert in cellular tomography, UCSB professor Dorit Hanein has been elected as a Fellow of the American Society for Cell Biology (ASCB) 🏆 Full story: ow.ly/jsbu50WViwz

UCSB researchers have created a non-electronic soft robotic device that quickly and autonomously guides a soft tube into the trachea. The innovative tool improves airway access and raises survival odds in critical medical emergencies.💡 Click here to read more: news.ucsb.edu/2025/022019/...

UC’s future is at stake. Your stories show why protecting research, education, health care, and innovation matters for all Americans. Share your UC story today: https://bit.ly/47l90cu #StandUpForUC

In a medical emergency, every second counts. Researchers at #UCSB are demonstrating a soft robotic device designed for non-experts that could benefit millions of intubations a year. Full story: ow.ly/m3So50WVv7T

Human impact on the ocean will double by 2050, UCSB scientists warn | The Current 🧪🦑🌎

At UCSB, federal research investments fuel innovations that benefit society & the economy—but those funds are now at risk. From containing brain cancers to developing new therapeutics for chronic diseases, projects cut short by federal budget reductions were the focus of town hall ow.ly/CR5l50WNHP8

Soon, many of Earth’s oceans could be fundamentally and forever altered. The #NYTimes is highlighting an impactful new study by #UCSB marine biologist and ecologist Ben Halpern, exposing human impact on the world’s most vulnerable marine habitats: ow.ly/RCJ550WTz02

#UCSB has secured a lease on a 105k-square-foot R&D facility in Goleta 🔬🌊 Aptly named OASIS, the facility will be a launchpad for cutting-edge technologies, helping power UCSB’s impact on innovation and U.S. economic growth. Full story: ow.ly/ACZX50WTimn

Do waves in California sound the same as waves in Tahiti, if you could hear their infrasound? 🌊👂 In a new study, #UCSB scientists captured the hidden acoustic and seismic signatures of breaking waves and traced where along the coast those signals originated: ow.ly/UfII50WQGG2

At UCSB, federal research investments fuel innovations that benefit society & the economy—but those funds are now at risk. From containing brain cancers to developing new therapeutics for chronic diseases, projects cut short by federal budget reductions were the focus of town hall ow.ly/CR5l50WNHP8

🎮 New study: Teen gaming addiction may stem more from pre-existing mental health issues (like anxiety & depression) than from video games themselves. It is not just about the joystick, but it’s about what’s going on in the mind. 🧠 Read more: news.ucsb.edu/2025/022004/... #commsky #psychsci #gaming

UCSB's Jim Salzman has been elected to the prestigious American College of Environmental Lawyers (ACOEL) 🏆 The UCSB Bren School professor has devoted his career to fostering laws and policies that encourage landowners to provide nature’s services for the benefit of us all: ow.ly/4Hk150WN1mU

Welcome to the Noise-robust Phases of Quantum Matter (#stablephases25 ) program at KITP! August 19, 2025 - Oct 23, 2025 Learn more: buff.ly/4ISF2zj 🧪

UCSB's Gary Horowitz has been awarded the 2025 Dirac Medal, a prestigious honor recognizing his groundbreaking work in gravitational physics and string theory 🏆 Full story: ow.ly/70G450WHCcq

UCSB’s Gaucho Racing club spent a year building an electric F1 car to compete at the annual Formula SAE Electric (FSAE-E) races in Michigan 🏎️⚡️ The goal? To give students a real-world taste of the automotive industry and its many facets for future careers 📐 ow.ly/fPvc50WEFf8

This year, UCSB launched 2 new semiconductor-manufacturing summer courses! 🔬☀️ “Equipment Maintenance Technician” & “Microchip Fabrication I,” emphasize precision, documentation, teamwork & the iterative nature of device fabrication, all skills essential for careers in semiconductor manufacturing.

Destructive cosmic airbursts may be more common than once thought, according to new papers co-authored by UCSB’s James Kennett ☄️ Full story: ow.ly/k05o50WCjFx

From the world's first email to saving millions of premature newborns to CRISPR gene editing, history-making innovation is happening across the UC system every day. www.universityofcalifornia.edu/news/7-world...

The faculty papers of renowned theoretical physicist and string theorist Joseph Polchinski (1954–2018) are now available for research. Polchinski was a professor of physics @ucsantabarbara.bsky.social and member of @kitp-ucsb.bsky.social. #ucsblibrary #ucsb #ucsantabarbara #physics #stringtheory

"This work challenges these centuries-old assumptions." ☄️🔭 Researchers at UCSB, The University of Texas at Austin, Yale University and National Taiwan Normal University have found that some sun-like stars emerge with their rotational axis tilted 🔭 Full story: ow.ly/VaJz50WAN4o

UCSB undergrads have teamed up to combat the rising tide of discarded plastics in research laboratories 🥽♻️ Full story: ow.ly/q6Oj50WARxb

National Science Foundation (NSF)-funded research from #UCSB and nine other institutions explores how to make nature-based climate solutions more effective. One key focus: how the world’s forests pull carbon from the atmosphere and store it in long-lived trees 🌲 ow.ly/M2h850WAQAq

Exciting to see CERF Cronin Award recipient Kat Beheshti featured in the @UCSantaBarbara "The Current" news.ucsb.edu/2025/0... #CroninAward #EarlyCareerAchievement #CoastalResearch #CoastalRestoration

“We may laugh at the birds in parking lots eating the leftover French fries, but actually not all birds are able to change their behaviors to take advantage of these human-provided resources.” @ucsantabarbara.bsky.social: news.ucsb.edu/2025/021980/... #behavioralflexibility #grackles #habitatloss

The UCSB Cylinder Audio Archive: Over 10,000 recordings free to download cylinders.library.ucsb.edu

I just earned my PhD from UCSB and am excited to join NC State as Assistant Professor of German this fall. So grateful to my committee—Patrice Petro, Leila Rupp, Catherine Nesci, and Ervin Malakaj—for supporting my dissertation Queering the Archive: Transgender Identities in Weimar and Nazi Germany.

After a great summer teaching Social Networks at UCSB, I wanted to share 4 of my favorite network examples we explored in class 🧪🧵 1. Who Will Be the Next Pope? 2. The Hidden Network of Trees 🌳 3. The Beer Graph 🍺 4. The Oracle of Bacon 🥓🎬

Join us in welcoming UC's 22nd president, James B. Milliken! He brings decades of experience and a deep commitment to expanding access, increasing social mobility, and helping students from all backgrounds earn a college degree. Learn more at ucop.edu/president youtu.be/H4-tDlKmHI8?...

A hand-colored volume of 13th-century Persian poetry, a rare photographic record of the 1979 Iranian Revolution, and a family photo album from the Qajar dynasty (1789–1925) form a deeply personal and historically rich gift to #UCSB Library’s Special Research Collections: ow.ly/QEE150WwQIb

Excited to share that I’ve been promoted to Associate Professor with tenure at UCSB! Grateful to my mentors, students, and funders who shaped this journey and to @ucsantabarbara.bsky.social for giving the Bionic Vision Lab a home! Full post: www.linkedin.com/posts/michae...

#UCSB Distinguished Professor Sara Poot Herrera is leading UC Mexicanistas to connect scholars across the U.S., Mexico & Europe through Mexican literary traditions 🧠 ✍️ Full story: ow.ly/LkK650WuLJw

Biochemist Yang Yang has been named a 2025 Freeman Hrabowski Scholar by the Howard Hughes Medical Institute—a first for a UCSB faculty member. The Yang Lab combines chemistry, biology and A.I. to focus on designing, discovering and evolving previously unknown enzyme functions: ow.ly/fm7O50WwPlZ

Did you know UCSB was part of the birth of the internet? 🤯 Back in 1969, the U.S. Department of Defense organized and funded a select group of university scientists across the country to build a fast, secure, far-flung communications network—and that included faculty at #UCSB: ow.ly/O1LI50WvyFb

A sweeping new UCSB-led study has amassed one of the largest datasets ever collected on plastic pollution in rivers 🔬 Spanning four continents and eight countries, the study reveals the scale of river plastic waste and offer solutions to stop it at the source 🌎 ow.ly/E96R50WvoMN

#UCSB's Justin Wilson has partnered with the mineral recovery company REEGen to develop a new approach to extract rare earth elements from end-of-life products like electronic waste from phones, batteries and discarded catalytic converters. Full story: ow.ly/fj5X50WuMaB

Protecting nature may depend on where — not just how — we farm, scientists from UCSB, University of California, Berkeley and Conservation International have found in a new study. ow.ly/uzkI50Wu5Ym

A team including #UCSB researchers showed that A.I. methods applied to satellite data provide a powerful new way to assess industrial fishing activity in marine protected areas 🐠 Full story: ow.ly/Jcle50Wv08r

Hi Blue Sky! 👋 We are the Environmental Markets Lab (emLab), a team of scientists @ucsantabarbara.bsky.social that advances economic research to deliver practical solutions for people and the planet. Read the thread to learn more about us! 🧵

Smart phones, desktop computers, tablets—not all screens are created equal, according to Amy Gonzales, an expert in digital equity and associate communication professor at UCSB 📲 "There is a reason that digital equity has long been a bipartisan issue." Full story: ow.ly/zUgc50WryoS

Today it was announced that UCSB's next chancellor will be Dr. Dennis Assanis, a distinguished scholar and accomplished higher education leader. Approved by the UC Board of Regents, he'll assume his role on Sept. 1, 2025. ow.ly/haUT50WrqjM

New #UCSB research reveals why some rivers flow in a single channel and why others split into many. This breakthrough could transform flood planning and river restoration 💧 Full story: ow.ly/RoJQ50WonXa

Famously hard to understand, UCSB mathematics professor Björn Birnir is helping us get closer to predicting turbulence, which is paving the way for better weather forecasts and a deeper understanding of natural systems. Full story: ow.ly/VbXv50WnIiG

Jeff Sakamoto, professor of materials and mechanical engineering at UC Santa Barbara, was recently announced as one of twelve members of the 2025 Class of Fellows of The Electrochemical Society (ECS). 🎉