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Welcome to L&S, the largest college in the nation's #1 public university. "Our mission is to constantly expand the horizons of knowledge through research and teaching." - Executive Dean, Jennifer Johnson-Hanks

Learn more: https://ls.berkeley.edu/about
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🌟 From Nobel Prize-winning experiments to the future of computing, UC Berkeley leads quantum information science. The new Roger Herst Quantum Nexus will help scientists, students, and industry leaders access groundbreaking quantum activity now and into the future!

➡️ https://bit.ly/48V0jGh
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December 18, 2025 at 11:53 PM
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💡 Did you know? Zoonotic diseases like COVID-19 jump from animals to humans. UC Berkeley Integrative Biology Professor Cara Brook is studying wild fruit bats in Madagascar to test vaccines and prevent future pandemics before they start. 🦇

Read more: https://bit.ly/4ahjriF

#ResearchExcellence
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December 17, 2025 at 8:05 PM
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🪸 UC Berkeley (@ucberkeleyofficial.bsky.social) researchers report that sponges likely evolved first, reshaping our view of early animal evolution and the base of the animal tree of life.
This research was funded by the Life Sciences Research Foundation and HHMI.

Read More ↠ https://bit.ly/4axMbnf
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December 4, 2025 at 10:30 PM
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📚 Third-year English & Rhetoric major, and Mellon Mays Fellow, Kelly Chuang shares how speculative fiction, vision, and unreliable narrators shape her research and her work in the humanities.

Read more: https://bit.ly/44K0bXg
#SpeculativeFiction #Humanities #StudentSpotlight
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December 3, 2025 at 5:26 PM
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Silicon Valley’s hustle culture is back and intensifying, and UC Berkeley Ethnic Studies Professor Carolyn Chen explains what’s driving it — from AI to changing ideas of work, community, and purpose.

Read more: https://bit.ly/4ox0VWN
#UCBerkeley #SiliconValley #HustleCulture
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December 2, 2025 at 7:05 PM
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🌟 UC Berkeley dean of biological sciences, Richard Harland, shares how his basic research has inspired emerging treatment for a rare bone disease called FOP.
➡️ Read more: https://bit.ly/3KrDvUP
#UCBerkeley #ResearchWithResults
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December 1, 2025 at 7:55 PM
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#FacultyFriday: UC Berkeley Arts & Humanities Dean Sara Guyer discusses the modern utility of a #humanities degree: “The arts and humanities classroom really helps us understand the world. We’re comfortable being in complexity.”

Read more: https://bit.ly/4i1putm
#UCBerkeley #LiberalArts
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November 28, 2025 at 4:04 PM
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#Alumni Spotlight: Purvi Kunwar credits her UC Berkeley interdisciplinary double major (political economy & development studies) with laying the foundation for a dynamic career that has spanned public health, education and biotechnology 🌟 Read more: https://bit.ly/3M2D4ko
#SocialSciences
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November 26, 2025 at 4:02 PM
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🌟 UC Berkeley molecular & cell biology alum, Wendy Marie Ingram Ph.D. '15, transformed a tragedy into a positive movement by founding Dragonfly Mental Health.

“Action is my coping mechanism,” says Wendy.

Read more here: https://bit.ly/3JcDq72

📷: Aga Ignas
#Research #Impact #CalAlum
Wendy Ingram speaks about Dragonfly Mental Health at a conference, sharing her journey from UC Berkeley researcher to global advocate for mental wellness in academia. Event hosted by Behavioral Teaching Solutions; Photo by Aga Ignas.
November 25, 2025 at 7:14 PM
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#FacultyFriday: UC Berkeley's Prof. Roland Bürgmann is studying "earthquake weather" and the effect of climate on seismic activity. Are the atmosphere & solid earth connected? 🤔 His research may offer new insights into earthquake forecasting. Read more: https://bit.ly/4oSFgJW
#Research #Earthquakes
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November 21, 2025 at 4:12 PM
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🐋 Sperm whales communicate in ways similar to humans according to a new study from UC Berkeley and Project CETI (Cetacean Translation Initiative) by Linguistics Professor Gašper Beguš.

Read more here: https://bit.ly/3KbEMiN
#Linguistics #Research #Impact
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November 19, 2025 at 9:10 PM
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A UC Berkeley (@ucberkeleyofficial.bsky.social) study led by Professor David Harding finds that how applicants explain their past crimes can affect hiring decisions. Those who took responsibility and showed change were most likely to be hired.

Read more – https://bit.ly/4nVVsc7
#Sociology #Research
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November 13, 2025 at 5:50 PM
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🌎 Finch chirps are more than mindless chatter — they actually convey meaning.
UC Berkeley (@uofcalifornia.bsky.social) researchers found that zebra finches understand what they’re hearing.

Read more – https://bit.ly/4hTNIG7

#UCBerkeley #Neuroscience #AnimalCommunication #Finches #Science
Three male and two female zebra finches, including two mating pairs. Females are typically all gray, though here one female is a white morph. Males are colorful, with red cheeks, zebra stripes on their chest and brown patches with white spots on their sides. Julie Elie sits on the ground in the Australian outback in 2008, wearing a sun hat and using a large microphone and telescope setup to study the calls of zebra finches.
November 12, 2025 at 7:10 PM
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Artificial intelligence is transforming society and raising deep questions.

UC Berkeley Philosophy, led by Alva Noë and supported by Sarah Douglas, is launching a new initiative on the philosophy of AI.

Read more – https://bit.ly/47KxmL5

#UCBerkeley #Philosophy #AI
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November 10, 2025 at 8:04 PM
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🚀 NASA’s ESCAPADE mission — led by UC Berkeley — launches in early November.

Twin “Blue and Gold” satellites will map Mars’ magnetic fields and atmosphere in 3D to aid future human exploration.

Read more ⇨ https://bit.ly/4oXxFtc

#UCBerkeley #NASAMission #Mars #ESCAPADE
Engineers in cleanroom suits work with twin ESCAPADE spacecraft, Blue and Gold, developed by UC Berkeley and Rocket Lab, preparing them for launch as part of NASA’s mission to map Mars’ magnetic field and upper atmosphere in 3D. A Blue Origin New Glenn rocket stands on the launchpad at sunrise in Cape Canaveral, Florida, ready to carry the twin UC Berkeley ESCAPADE satellites to Mars for NASA’s first dual-satellite mission to another planet.
November 6, 2025 at 10:05 PM
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🧐Chimpanzees may have more in common with human thinkers than we thought. A new study co-authored by Emily Sanford at the University of California, Berkeley (@ucberkeleyofficial.bsky.social) shows they can rationally revise their beliefs when given new evidence.

Read more ➥ https://bit.ly/4qKyDug
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November 6, 2025 at 9:10 PM
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⏰ There are fewer than 500 atomic clocks in the world, and the one inside UC Berkeley's Kolkowitz Lab is not just keeping time for the planet. It's helping researchers "test fundamental physics, to search for new physics, and to test relativity." ▶️ https://bit.ly/3Jj2nOh

#Physics #BasicScience
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November 3, 2025 at 9:33 PM
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#FacultyFriday: By designing innovative new algorithms that harness the power of quantum computers, UC Berkeley professor Lin Lin is making game-changing contributions to both fields of computational mathematics AND quantum science. 💡 Read more >> https://bit.ly/48RPqVW
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October 31, 2025 at 4:02 PM
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Generative #AI tools are everywhere, and UC Berkeley's Division of Social Sciences is helping students and faculty use these tools wisely: "We see generative AI as a tool to supplement — not substitute — intellectual curiosity and the pursuit of knowledge." ➡️ https://bit.ly/47B7RNp
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October 29, 2025 at 3:55 PM
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🏆 UC Berkeley‘s Mike Zaletel was named a 2025 American Physical Society Fellow for "pioneering contributions to the understanding of topological aspects of condensed matter.”

💡Read more here: https://bit.ly/3KQdTRw
#UCBerkeley #Research #APSFellows #Physics
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October 27, 2025 at 3:01 PM
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#FacultyFriday: Exploring the forms of Postcolonial African Literature with UC Berkeley Professor Farah Bakaari, a scholar of 20th and 21st century African literature.

💡Read more here: https://bit.ly/4hmEXnH
#UCBerkeley #Research #English
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October 24, 2025 at 8:20 PM
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🧠 Professor Na Ji is transforming our understanding of how the brain processes visual information and about diseases, addiction, and other neurological conditions through her research at UC Berkeley.

Read more here: https://bit.ly/4hd5Fio
#UCBerkeley #LettersAndScience #ResearchImpact #Neuroscience
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October 17, 2025 at 7:15 PM
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🏆#ICYMI: University of California sets a world record with five Nobel Prizes in one week, including UC Berkeley's emeritus professor of physics John Clarke and chemist Omar Yaghi!

Read more here: https://bit.ly/4okwnId
#NobelPrize #Physics #Chemistry #BasicScience #ResearchExcellence
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October 16, 2025 at 4:00 PM
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📢 ICYMI: “...These Nobel laureates reflect the excellence of our universities, the strength of our innovation ecosystem, and the boundless creativity that defines the Golden State.” - Gov Gavin Newsom 🌟 Read more: https://bit.ly/47q3BjO

#FiatLux #GoBears #Research
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October 14, 2025 at 8:05 PM
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🦠 UC Berkeley's Andrew Dillin is launching CURED, a new center that connects efforts across campus to discover cures for unmet, rare, and emerging diseases.
“We are decentralizing the normal path to clinical breakthrough.”
Read more: https://bit.ly/42CVDkK
#GlobalHealth #ResearchImpact #CURED
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October 10, 2025 at 6:55 PM