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Visit us at https://science.ucsc.edu/ 🐋 🔭 🧬
Visit us at https://science.ucsc.edu/ 🐋 🔭 🧬
It’s Giving Day at UC Santa Cruz! Support high-impact science by giving to the projects that inspire you most. With 40+ initiatives in the Science Division, from student experiences to equity and access, every gift makes a difference. See all projects here: sites.google.com/ucsc.edu/giv...
November 5, 2025 at 5:56 PM
It’s Giving Day at UC Santa Cruz! Support high-impact science by giving to the projects that inspire you most. With 40+ initiatives in the Science Division, from student experiences to equity and access, every gift makes a difference. See all projects here: sites.google.com/ucsc.edu/giv...
6,000+ exoplanets and counting—just this year. This Thursday, Nov. 6, hear from Natalie Batalha, UC Santa Cruz’s director of astrobiology & former NASA Kepler scientist, on the search for life beyond Earth. 🌌
Free talk, hybrid format, and open to all. More info here: events.ucsc.edu/event/59th-f...
Free talk, hybrid format, and open to all. More info here: events.ucsc.edu/event/59th-f...
November 4, 2025 at 6:16 PM
6,000+ exoplanets and counting—just this year. This Thursday, Nov. 6, hear from Natalie Batalha, UC Santa Cruz’s director of astrobiology & former NASA Kepler scientist, on the search for life beyond Earth. 🌌
Free talk, hybrid format, and open to all. More info here: events.ucsc.edu/event/59th-f...
Free talk, hybrid format, and open to all. More info here: events.ucsc.edu/event/59th-f...
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Today’s undergraduate STEM majors are tomorrow’s K-12 teachers, and Cal Teach is preparing them to transform how students see science, math, and their own potential. 🌱
This #GivingDay, your gift helps fund scholarships & training for future math + science educators: give.ucsc.edu/giving-day-2...
This #GivingDay, your gift helps fund scholarships & training for future math + science educators: give.ucsc.edu/giving-day-2...
October 27, 2025 at 2:26 PM
Today’s undergraduate STEM majors are tomorrow’s K-12 teachers, and Cal Teach is preparing them to transform how students see science, math, and their own potential. 🌱
This #GivingDay, your gift helps fund scholarships & training for future math + science educators: give.ucsc.edu/giving-day-2...
This #GivingDay, your gift helps fund scholarships & training for future math + science educators: give.ucsc.edu/giving-day-2...
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It was very inspiring last night to hear from @ucscscience.bsky.social professor @roxannebeltran.bsky.social about her research, in which she uses tagged seals to explore our oceans. Just fourteen tagged seals can provide detailed data on 1% of the entire 3D volume of the world’s oceans every year!
October 26, 2025 at 10:04 PM
It was very inspiring last night to hear from @ucscscience.bsky.social professor @roxannebeltran.bsky.social about her research, in which she uses tagged seals to explore our oceans. Just fourteen tagged seals can provide detailed data on 1% of the entire 3D volume of the world’s oceans every year!
Ocean sciences prof Andrew Moore @ucsantacruz.bsky.social receives AGU’s Edward A. Flinn III Award for “unselfish cooperation in research,” for decades of work w/ peers @rutgersu.bsky.social on one of the world’s most widely used community ocean models 🌊
Read more: news.ucsc.edu/2025/10/moor...
Read more: news.ucsc.edu/2025/10/moor...
Andrew Moore honored for decades of selfless service to ocean sciences community
The Edward A. Flinn III Award recognizes scientists who embody the American Geophysical Union's motto "unselfish cooperation in research"
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October 24, 2025 at 4:50 PM
Ocean sciences prof Andrew Moore @ucsantacruz.bsky.social receives AGU’s Edward A. Flinn III Award for “unselfish cooperation in research,” for decades of work w/ peers @rutgersu.bsky.social on one of the world’s most widely used community ocean models 🌊
Read more: news.ucsc.edu/2025/10/moor...
Read more: news.ucsc.edu/2025/10/moor...
"Data shows that expansion of those who participate in academic science produces better science that has a wider impact." From a new research-backed defense of DEI programs published today by Needhi Bhalla @ucsantacruz.bsky.social and peers @ucsdmedschool.bsky.social and @uofmass.bsky.social 👏🏾👏🏼👏
@joann-trejo.bsky.social, @marymunson4.bsky.social and I have a commentary in @natcellbio.nature.com on recent attacks on DEI in biomedical research: "If scientific research, especially biomedical research, is meant to serve everyone, then it requires that everyone has an opportunity to participate"
Scaling back DEI programmes and the loss of scientific talent
Nature Cell Biology - Programmes that support diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) in science are under attack in the USA. Data indicate that diversity in the scientific workforce increases...
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October 23, 2025 at 10:22 PM
"Data shows that expansion of those who participate in academic science produces better science that has a wider impact." From a new research-backed defense of DEI programs published today by Needhi Bhalla @ucsantacruz.bsky.social and peers @ucsdmedschool.bsky.social and @uofmass.bsky.social 👏🏾👏🏼👏
Congratulations to NEXTies Earth + Sea winners: UCSC professor Andrew Fisher won the "Brainwave Award" for his work as a scientist in the field of hydrogeology, and Darryl Wong and Gage Dayton shared the honor of winning the "Big Idea Award" for their environmental project work. 🏆👏
October 21, 2025 at 4:51 PM
Congratulations to NEXTies Earth + Sea winners: UCSC professor Andrew Fisher won the "Brainwave Award" for his work as a scientist in the field of hydrogeology, and Darryl Wong and Gage Dayton shared the honor of winning the "Big Idea Award" for their environmental project work. 🏆👏
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From @ucscscience.bsky.social, Danny Cruz (Porter, biomolecular engineering and bioinformatics) is a Cellular and Molecular Biology Ph.D. Student at the University of Michigan, and Ciara Bolt (Kresge, B.S. Molecular, Cell and Developmental Biology) is a research associate at Natera.
October 21, 2025 at 3:49 PM
From @ucscscience.bsky.social, Danny Cruz (Porter, biomolecular engineering and bioinformatics) is a Cellular and Molecular Biology Ph.D. Student at the University of Michigan, and Ciara Bolt (Kresge, B.S. Molecular, Cell and Developmental Biology) is a research associate at Natera.
Need proof that the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History is worth preserving? Here are century-old fish preserved in essentially rum–a sweet twist that kept their DNA intact 🧬
What that DNA is telling us today is surprising even the most seasoned scientists:
news.ucsc.edu/2025/10/rum-...
What that DNA is telling us today is surprising even the most seasoned scientists:
news.ucsc.edu/2025/10/rum-...
High-proof alcohol preserved century-old fish DNA to enable ‘genomic time travel’
Unusual preservative in specimen jars proved to be a sweet solution for studying changes in genetic diversity among fish populations in the Philippines since the early 1900s
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October 17, 2025 at 5:09 PM
Need proof that the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History is worth preserving? Here are century-old fish preserved in essentially rum–a sweet twist that kept their DNA intact 🧬
What that DNA is telling us today is surprising even the most seasoned scientists:
news.ucsc.edu/2025/10/rum-...
What that DNA is telling us today is surprising even the most seasoned scientists:
news.ucsc.edu/2025/10/rum-...
Congratulations to Fitnat Yildiz, distinguished professor of microbiology and environmental toxicology at UC Santa Cruz, for receiving $7.7 million in funding from the NIH to conduct precision research aimed at preventing cholera – a global health problem.
Read more: news.ucsc.edu/2025/10/yild...
Read more: news.ucsc.edu/2025/10/yild...
NIH awards Fitnat Yildiz $7.7 million to find new molecular paths for preventing cholera
Grants will fund research to determine the mechanisms and consequences of a molecule produced by the bacteria that causes the disease
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October 16, 2025 at 3:33 PM
Congratulations to Fitnat Yildiz, distinguished professor of microbiology and environmental toxicology at UC Santa Cruz, for receiving $7.7 million in funding from the NIH to conduct precision research aimed at preventing cholera – a global health problem.
Read more: news.ucsc.edu/2025/10/yild...
Read more: news.ucsc.edu/2025/10/yild...
New research from UCSC’s Center for Coastal Climate Resilience puts a dollar value on the storm protection mangroves provide—showing they reduce hurricane property damages by millions to billions. Read more:
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October 15, 2025 at 5:45 PM
New research from UCSC’s Center for Coastal Climate Resilience puts a dollar value on the storm protection mangroves provide—showing they reduce hurricane property damages by millions to billions. Read more:
news.ucsc.edu/2025/10/mang...
news.ucsc.edu/2025/10/mang...
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Nobel laureate Carol Greider has been named an @americancancersoc.bsky.social Professor 🎉 Her work at @ucsantacruz.bsky.social aims to overcome longstanding barriers to new cancer treatments—understanding how telomere length is regulated and accurately measuring it.
🔗 news.ucsc.edu/2025/10/grei...
🔗 news.ucsc.edu/2025/10/grei...
Carol Greider receives American Cancer Society Professor Award
The award includes a grant that will support Greider's research that advances her Nobel-winning discovery of the DNA caps at the ends of chromosomes called telomeres
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October 7, 2025 at 8:52 PM
Nobel laureate Carol Greider has been named an @americancancersoc.bsky.social Professor 🎉 Her work at @ucsantacruz.bsky.social aims to overcome longstanding barriers to new cancer treatments—understanding how telomere length is regulated and accurately measuring it.
🔗 news.ucsc.edu/2025/10/grei...
🔗 news.ucsc.edu/2025/10/grei...
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In the wake of Jane Goodall’s passing last week, many of our researchers here at UC Santa Cruz shared fond memories of Goodall and appreciation for her role as a champion of the natural world. Hear from a few faculty members who have been and will continue to be inspired by her legacy ⬇️
October 8, 2025 at 8:01 PM
In the wake of Jane Goodall’s passing last week, many of our researchers here at UC Santa Cruz shared fond memories of Goodall and appreciation for her role as a champion of the natural world. Hear from a few faculty members who have been and will continue to be inspired by her legacy ⬇️
🔬Our 8-foot-tall cryoEM microscope is one of only 232 in the world—helping researchers fight influenza, RSV & more. Through global partnerships, we’re breaking down cost + distance barriers so scientists everywhere can accelerate discovery. 🌍✨ bit.ly/4nz9ml4
@ucsantacruz.bsky.social
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October 7, 2025 at 5:18 PM
🔬Our 8-foot-tall cryoEM microscope is one of only 232 in the world—helping researchers fight influenza, RSV & more. Through global partnerships, we’re breaking down cost + distance barriers so scientists everywhere can accelerate discovery. 🌍✨ bit.ly/4nz9ml4
@ucsantacruz.bsky.social
@ucsantacruz.bsky.social
Just one year after graduating from UC Santa Cruz, Ciara Bolt (Kresge ’24, MCD biology) is thriving as a research associate at Natera, a global leader in cell-free DNA testing.
“UCSC greatly prepared me for my career path,” Bolt said.
Read the full article: news.ucsc.edu/2025/09/ciar...
“UCSC greatly prepared me for my career path,” Bolt said.
Read the full article: news.ucsc.edu/2025/09/ciar...
October 1, 2025 at 8:01 PM
Just one year after graduating from UC Santa Cruz, Ciara Bolt (Kresge ’24, MCD biology) is thriving as a research associate at Natera, a global leader in cell-free DNA testing.
“UCSC greatly prepared me for my career path,” Bolt said.
Read the full article: news.ucsc.edu/2025/09/ciar...
“UCSC greatly prepared me for my career path,” Bolt said.
Read the full article: news.ucsc.edu/2025/09/ciar...
A powerful gathering at the Communicating Climate Solutions Symposium in mid-September, hosted by UCSC's Science Communication Program and the Center for Coastal Climate Resilience, focused on how we share and shape solutions to climate challenges. 🌍
Read more: news.ucsc.edu/2025/09/crea...
Read more: news.ucsc.edu/2025/09/crea...
October 1, 2025 at 6:44 PM
A powerful gathering at the Communicating Climate Solutions Symposium in mid-September, hosted by UCSC's Science Communication Program and the Center for Coastal Climate Resilience, focused on how we share and shape solutions to climate challenges. 🌍
Read more: news.ucsc.edu/2025/09/crea...
Read more: news.ucsc.edu/2025/09/crea...
🌊🌍 This Friday, Oct 3, at the Seymour Center, the NEXTies: Earth + Sea honors the environmental pioneers who’ve made Santa Cruz a leader in climate resilience, including amazing UC Santa Cruz faculty and staff. Don’t miss it!
🎟️ seymourcenter.ucsc.edu/calendar_eve...
🎟️ seymourcenter.ucsc.edu/calendar_eve...
September 30, 2025 at 9:47 PM
🌊🌍 This Friday, Oct 3, at the Seymour Center, the NEXTies: Earth + Sea honors the environmental pioneers who’ve made Santa Cruz a leader in climate resilience, including amazing UC Santa Cruz faculty and staff. Don’t miss it!
🎟️ seymourcenter.ucsc.edu/calendar_eve...
🎟️ seymourcenter.ucsc.edu/calendar_eve...
🌫️ UC Santa Cruz researchers Peter Weiss-Penzias and Eyal Rahav have recently been awarded a $737k grant from the Heising-Simons Foundation to find out what’s really in the fog that rolls across California’s coast and how a warming climate might affect it.
Learn more: bit.ly/42cycyu
Learn more: bit.ly/42cycyu
September 29, 2025 at 4:37 PM
🌫️ UC Santa Cruz researchers Peter Weiss-Penzias and Eyal Rahav have recently been awarded a $737k grant from the Heising-Simons Foundation to find out what’s really in the fog that rolls across California’s coast and how a warming climate might affect it.
Learn more: bit.ly/42cycyu
Learn more: bit.ly/42cycyu
When the new year starts, we come out as one to greet new first-year and transfer students. A warm hello helps them feel seen, supported and stoked about their young journey in the sciences.
The chats b/w the students and folks across our division was a true warm-up for the start of classes today!
The chats b/w the students and folks across our division was a true warm-up for the start of classes today!
September 25, 2025 at 7:28 PM
When the new year starts, we come out as one to greet new first-year and transfer students. A warm hello helps them feel seen, supported and stoked about their young journey in the sciences.
The chats b/w the students and folks across our division was a true warm-up for the start of classes today!
The chats b/w the students and folks across our division was a true warm-up for the start of classes today!
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Out @ Friday Harbor Labs with our drone team conducting intertidal habitat surveys for colleagues from @ucscscience.bsky.social as part of an @waseagrant.bsky.social project. Back to Seattle tomorrow. #drone #drones #dronesforconservation
August 7, 2025 at 9:37 PM
Out @ Friday Harbor Labs with our drone team conducting intertidal habitat surveys for colleagues from @ucscscience.bsky.social as part of an @waseagrant.bsky.social project. Back to Seattle tomorrow. #drone #drones #dronesforconservation
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Congratulations to Valery Ortiz, currently a graduate student at the Scripps Research Institute (@scripps.edu) and former undergraduate in my lab @ucscscience.bsky.social @ucsantacruz.bsky.social, funded through the ACCESS and MARC programs run by the STEM Diversity Program!🥳🎉🎊
August 8, 2025 at 6:52 PM
Congratulations to Valery Ortiz, currently a graduate student at the Scripps Research Institute (@scripps.edu) and former undergraduate in my lab @ucscscience.bsky.social @ucsantacruz.bsky.social, funded through the ACCESS and MARC programs run by the STEM Diversity Program!🥳🎉🎊
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Our new paper on population genomics of black surfperch. I am incredibly happy, decades in the making....
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Population Genomics, Local Adaptation and Cryptic Speciation in a Temperate Reef Fish, the Black Surfperch, Embiotoca jacksoni, Using Genome‐Wide Resequencing
The black surfperch, Embiotoca jacksoni , exhibits limited dispersal due to its lack of a pelagic larval stage and offers a unique model for studying local adaptation and potential cryptic speciation...
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August 12, 2025 at 3:55 PM
Our new paper on population genomics of black surfperch. I am incredibly happy, decades in the making....
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
On Oct. 3, the Seymour Marine Discovery Center and Event Santa Cruz will host "The NEXTies: Earth and Sea," an evening celebrating the environmental pioneers who’ve made Santa Cruz a leader in climate resilience. Submit your nominations by Aug. 3 & get tickets: seymourcenter.ucsc.edu/calendar_eve...
July 23, 2025 at 8:36 PM
On Oct. 3, the Seymour Marine Discovery Center and Event Santa Cruz will host "The NEXTies: Earth and Sea," an evening celebrating the environmental pioneers who’ve made Santa Cruz a leader in climate resilience. Submit your nominations by Aug. 3 & get tickets: seymourcenter.ucsc.edu/calendar_eve...
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Weather and the Whale is a major exhibition project featuring immersive displays of original science research and newly commissioned contemporary artworks at UC Santa Cruz @ucscscience.bsky.social #sciart
Weather and the Whale — Institute of the Arts and Sciences
Weather and the Whale is a major exhibition project featuring immersive displays of original science research and newly commissioned contemporary
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June 15, 2025 at 12:10 PM
Weather and the Whale is a major exhibition project featuring immersive displays of original science research and newly commissioned contemporary artworks at UC Santa Cruz @ucscscience.bsky.social #sciart
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Just saw the exciting news that Enrico Ramirez-Ruiz (prof at @ucscscience.bsky.social and my PhD advisor) was named the president of the @astrosociety.org!! 🎉🔭 news.ucsc.edu/2025/06/enri...
Enrico Ramirez-Ruiz named president of Astronomical Society of the Pacific
UC Santa Cruz astrophysicist is the first Latino president in society's 135-year history
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June 25, 2025 at 9:50 PM
Just saw the exciting news that Enrico Ramirez-Ruiz (prof at @ucscscience.bsky.social and my PhD advisor) was named the president of the @astrosociety.org!! 🎉🔭 news.ucsc.edu/2025/06/enri...