ICYMI yesterday, watch this excellent episode of #ElectionScienceOfficeHours, part of the #CaltechElectionIntegrity project, on YouTube as host & @caltechlcssp.bsky.social Co-Director @rmichaelalvarez.bsky.social talks w/ @microsoft.com's Matt Masterson. m.youtube.com/watch?v=6lbi...

ICYMI yesterday, watch this excellent episode of #ElectionScienceOfficeHours, part of the #CaltechElectionIntegrity project, on YouTube as host & @caltechlcssp.bsky.social Co-Director @rmichaelalvarez.bsky.social talks w/ @microsoft.com's Matt Masterson. m.youtube.com/watch?v=6lbi...

Here's the latest #ElectionScienceFieldNotes Substack essay from @caltechlcssp.bsky.social Co-Director @rmichaelalvarez.bsky.social. Read "Evaluating Voter List Integrity" and subscribe at the following link: electionscience.substack.com/p/evaluating...

Caltech scientists have developed an artificial intelligence (AI)–based method that dramatically speeds up calculations of the quantum interactions that take place in materials. www.caltech.edu/about/news/n...

Join @caltech.edu's @rmichaelalvarez.bsky.social, @caltechlcssp.bsky.social co-dir, as he hosts @microsoft.com's Matt Masterson for a Conversation on Elections, Tech & the Current Information Environment on #ElectionScienceOfficeHours TODAY  Tues, 9/16, 11am PACIFIC caltech.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

Excellent Substack from @caltechlcssp.bsky.social 's @rmichaelalvarez.bsky.social on #ElectionScienceFieldNotes remembering the late @caltech.edu former president David Baltimore noting his leadership role in forming the Caltech MIT Voting Technology Project open.substack.com/pub/election...

Focused laser-like light that covers a wide range of frequencies is highly desirable for many scientific studies. But creating such broadband and coherent light has been difficult to achieve with anything but bulky energy-hungry tabletop devices. www.caltech.edu/about/news/u...

Do LLMs have consistent personalities? Read & find out what this important research says! Project: psychology-of-ai.github.io Paper: arxiv.org/abs/2509.03730 @caltechlcssp.bsky.social @caltech.edu

LIGO, Virgo, and KAGRA celebrate anniversary, announce verification of Stephen Hawking's Black Hole Area Theorem. www.caltech.edu/about/news/t...

Have you been working on a methods project this summer? If you are thinking about publishing your project, consider our CUP Elements method series! www.cambridge.org/core/publica...

" #Biotech Beyond Conventional Containment: A Workshop on Policy & Governance " is happening at @caltech.edu on 10/6. Register to attend the Workshop's PUBLIC SESSION hosted by @caltechlcssp.bsky.social #Biotechnology #BiotechPolicy www.biotech-beyond-containment-caltech2025.org/registration

David Baltimore, President Emeritus and the Judge Shirley Hufstedler Professor of Biology, Emeritus at Caltech and a co-recipient of the 1975 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, passed away on September 6, 2025. He was 87 years old. www.caltech.edu/about/news/c...

Researchers at Caltech and Gran Sasso Science Institute in Italy teamed up with Google DeepMind to develop a new AI method–called Deep Loop Shaping–that can better hush unwanted noise in LIGO's detectors. www.caltech.edu/about/news/a...

Caltech researchers have been developing a neural network made out of strands of DNA instead of electronic parts that carries out computation through chemical reactions rather than digital signals. www.caltech.edu/about/news/d...

#ICYMI yesterday, @caltechlcssp.bsky.social Co-Director @rmichaelalvarez.bsky.social, @caltech.edu, had a fascinating conversation with UCLA's Natalie Masuoka on the implications of California's redistricting on Asian American voters. Watch now on YouTube: youtu.be/O3-mt2M5mmU?...

Enjoyed this discussion on the effect of Prop 50's new redistricting map on Asian American voters & more with @caltechlcssp.bsky.social's @rmichaelalvarez.bsky.social & UCLA's Natalie Masuoka - and not just because I was name-checked!🙂 www.youtube.com/watch?v=O3-m...

🟠TOMORROW, WED., SEPT. 3🟠 @caltechlcssp.bsky.social Co-Director @rmichaelalvarez.bsky.social hosts UCLA's Natalie Masuoka on #ElectionScienceOfficeHours to discuss California's redistricting and its effect on Asian American voters. ⏬️REGISTER TODAY!!!⏬️

A new study from Caltech reports that two candidate drugs to activate mitophagy do not function in their intended manner to mitigate the effects of Parkinson's; instead, they simply damage cells. www.caltech.edu/about/news/p...

🗳🔬Election Science Field Notes🔬🗳 New on #Substack from @caltechlcssp.bsky.social Co-Director @rmichaelalvarez.bsky.social. See the link below, read Professor Alvarez's first entry, and subscribe to receive each new entry in your in-box. #ElectionScienceFieldNotes #DataNotDrama @caltech.edu

Our next #ElectionScienceOfficeHours webinar, part of the #CaltechElectionIntegrity project, is 9/3 at 11 am PT. Join host @rmichaelalvarez.bsky.social and guest Natalie Masouka for a discussion on "Potential Impacts of Redistricting on California's Asian Americans." caltech.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

Investigating solar corona structures has led Paul Bellan, Caltech professor of applied physics, and his former graduate student Yang Zhang (PhD '24) to discover a new equilibrium state of the magnetic field and its associated plasma. www.caltech.edu/about/news/b...

We should learn more tomorrow about the @cagovernornewsom.bsky.social plan to put redistricting on the November ballot. Here @justinlevitt.bsky.social and I discuss why this is happening and the implications for the 2026 midterms: youtu.be/8KRTLt3IAwM?...

In case you missed it last week, please listen to our recording of host @rmichaelalvarez.bsky.social and his guest @justinlevitt.bsky.social on #ElectionScienceOfficeHours via YouTube, ApplePodcasts, or Spotify! CC: @caltech.edu @caltechlcssp.bsky.social #LoyolaLawSchool

Neurons are the primary cells responsible for receiving and sending signals throughout the brain and nervous system. The human brain contains approximately 86 billion neurons, with trillions of connections among them. scienceexchange.caltech.edu/topics/neuro...

Today!

Such a delight to spend #ElectionScience Office Hours with ‪@rmichaelalvarez.bsky.social yesterday, discussing the latest redistricting nonsense. Thanks to @caltechlcssp.bsky.social for the conversation! youtu.be/8KRTLt3IAwM open.spotify.com/episode/7qH4... podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/e...

And here is the video! With the amazing @justinlevitt.bsky.social, on the great redistricting controversy. youtu.be/8KRTLt3IAwM?...

DEADLINE TOMORROW, FRI, AUG 15 Submit your proposal to our Call for Papers, Posters, Panels, and Participants. Info below. ⏬️⏬️⏬️⏬️

While you may be listening to *another* podcast this evening, when it's over, get into your #ElectionScienceOfficeHours era and listen to host @rmichaelalvarez.bsky.social chatting with guest @justinlevitt.bsky.social on Redrawing Congressional Districts. share.google/x9W2fd8c9Xyr... @caltech.edu

Great #ElectionScienceOfficeHours episode, part of the #CaltechElectionIntegrity Project, TODAY, Aug 13, at 11 am PACIFIC with host @rmichaelalvarez.bsky.social and guest @justinlevitt.bsky.social Topic: The Push to Redraw Congressional Districts 🟠REGISTER BELOW🟠 CC: @caltech.edu

A new study from Caltech uses satellite imaging of the Sagaing Fault's motion to improve models of how such faults may behave in the future. www.caltech.edu/about/news/i...

"Protecting the Election: AI & Governance in Elections" is Oct 16-17 at WashU, co-organized by @washupolisci.bsky.social's Betsy Sinclair & @caltechlcssp.bsky.social Co-Director @rmichaelalvarez.bsky.social. Call for Papers, Posters, Panels & Participation due 8/15: polisci.wustl.edu/protecting-e...

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Join #ElectionScience Office Hours on 8/13 as @justinlevitt.bsky.social of Loyola Law School joins @rmichaelalvarez.bsky.social, @caltechlcssp.bsky.social Co-Director for What's Behind the Push to Redraw Congressional Districts Before the 2026 Midterms? www.protectingtheelection.us/blog-3-1/ele...

New work from LCSSP at @caltech.edu affiliated researchers:

Listen to our latest LCSSP video as Co-Director @rmichaelalvarez.bsky.social visits with @caltech.edu post-doc scholar @beamagistro.bsky.social, Research Associate in Computational Social Science, about their joint work, her research in AI and Climate change & her new book! youtu.be/6kkSNTesvXM?...

“One of our goals is to try to understand, as best we can, how all of these new artificial intelligence technologies are driving this broad area of social, political, and economic change,” (@caltechlcssp.bsky.social Co-Director) @rmichaelalvarez.bsky.social says.

We now have 18 (EIGHTEEN❗️) fascinating episodes of Election Science Office Hours available to watch on YouTube or listen to via podcast on Apple Podcasts and Spotify. Visit the @caltech.edu Election Integrity Project's ESOH web page here to catch up: lindeinstitute.caltech.edu/research/lcs...

The latest epi of Election Science Office Hours, part of the @caltech.edu Election Integrity Project is up! Host & LCSSP Co-Director @rmichaelalvarez.bsky.social had a great discussion w/ @nmsecofstate.bsky.social @sosmaggie.bsky.social about her work in, and study of elections. youtu.be/KADAwVJJpnw

The @caltechlcssp.bsky.social post-doc biotechnology researcher John Marken (PhD '23) chats with our Center's Policy Lead, Sara Kassir, on his perspectives on policy that he has honed as a technologist at @caltech.edu. youtu.be/E70nRN9cRlA