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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!
Bringing scientific insight to the causes of individual events
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December 18, 2025 at 7:56 PM
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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

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Policy Responses to Tax Competition David R. Agrawal
December 16, 2025 at 6:29 PM
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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

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The Assault on the State named among best books of 2025 by Foreign Affairs
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December 11, 2025 at 6:05 PM
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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!

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Policing Higher Education named among Forbes’ ten best higher ed books of 2025
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December 9, 2025 at 11:23 PM
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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

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Notes from a future professor
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December 4, 2025 at 7:36 PM
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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!

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Fei Yuan named one of ten global China Times Young Scholar Fellows
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December 2, 2025 at 10:12 PM
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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
Bad Medicine: Settler Colonialism and the Institutionalization of American Indians
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November 24, 2025 at 3:53 PM
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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
Minding the gap
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November 20, 2025 at 5:55 PM
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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!
Areeyaphan awarded Moore Scholarship for Community and Social Change
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November 19, 2025 at 5:51 PM
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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

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Economics for social good
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November 18, 2025 at 5:53 PM
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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
Insecurities of Expulsion: Afro-Asian Entanglements in Transcontinental Uganda
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November 17, 2025 at 9:40 PM
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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
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UC Irvine-led study finds protective role of culture in Latina mothers’ mental health
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November 17, 2025 at 7:15 PM
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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.

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November 14, 2025 at 8:57 PM
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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

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Beyond the books
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November 14, 2025 at 7:40 PM
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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

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Adrienne Nguyen: A steward of information
Adrienne Nguyen, B.A.s History and Anthropology ‘13
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November 13, 2025 at 9:30 PM
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From data to models | @ucirvine.bsky.social cognitive sciences Ph.D. student Kathleen Medriano is challenging assumptions and traditional approaches to modeling

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From data to models
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November 13, 2025 at 5:46 PM
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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!

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Improving human-AI decision-making
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November 12, 2025 at 8:44 PM
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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...
Wired for Words: Understanding Language and the Brain
After 150 years of mystery, neuroscience has finally cracked the code on how language works in the brain—and the answer is surprisingly elegant.
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November 9, 2025 at 10:39 PM
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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

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Where scholarship meets service
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November 10, 2025 at 7:53 PM
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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

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First-rate advice for first-year and first-generation Anteaters
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November 7, 2025 at 7:38 PM
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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

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Bridging the communication gap between humans and AI
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November 6, 2025 at 6:02 PM
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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

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Understanding scientific explanations
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November 5, 2025 at 6:33 PM
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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

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An interdisciplinary approach
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November 4, 2025 at 9:17 PM
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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

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More than a status
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October 30, 2025 at 5:40 PM
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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

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Teaching the whole story
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October 29, 2025 at 6:28 PM