@ucsbblumcenter.bsky.socialMeet Russell Nylen, an Anthropology graduate student and a 2026-27 Cooperative Economics Research Award recipient at the UCSB Blum Center. The project studies a Brazilian coalition that opposes bauxite mining and promotes agroecology in Minas Gerais.
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@ucsbblumcenter.bsky.socialMeet Dr. Gaye Theresa Johnson, Director of the Blum Center and Professor of Black Studies at UC Santa Barbara. A historian of freedom struggles and cultural politics, she advocates for farmworkers' rights, reproductive justice and housing justice. #UCSB #BlumCenter
@ucsbblumcenter.bsky.socialMeet Bedlam Oak, a Communication graduate student and a 2026-27 Cooperative Economics Research Award recipient at the UCSB Blum Center. The project studies how the Isla Vista Food Cooperative, a community-owned grocery store, balances its stakeholders' needs.
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@ucsbblumcenter.bsky.socialMeet Mary Michael, a Ph.D. candidate in Film and Media Studies at UC Santa Barbara and a Blum Center Graduate Student Assistant. She studies how migrants use e-governance technologies in Dubai and leads community listening for our Central Coast Regional Equity Initiative. #UCSB #BlumCenter #CCREI
@ucsantabarbara.bsky.socialRising seas threaten to accelerate beach erosion and due to our beachfront location, #UCSB must navigate these geographic changes. In 2024, the university adopted a sea level rise adaptation strategy, and the shoreline adaptation team is seeking community input:
@ucsbblumcenter.bsky.socialMeet Şeyma Özdemir, a Sociology graduate student and a 2026-27 Cooperative Economics Research Award recipient at the UCSB Blum Center. The project studies the paid, underpaid and unpaid care work that sustains farmworker families on California's Central Coast.
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@ucsbblumcenter.bsky.socialMeet Dr. Abby Cunniff, a Blum Center postdoctoral scholar who studies environmental justice, carceral geography and environmental labor. Their book on incarcerated firefighters is due from UC Press in 2027. Abby works on our Central Coast Regional Equity Initiative. #UCSB #BlumCenter #CCREI
@ucsantabarbara.bsky.socialWith snakes emerging from her scalp + a stony superpower, Medusa has terrified people for millennia. But how did she get that way? That question is explored in the new musical "A Legacy of Stone," which #UCSB student-run Shrunken Heads Production Company stages Oct. 16-18. https://ow.ly/EobZ50ZXHbb
@cookiesinheaven.bsky.socialLooking forward to this talk tonight
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@ucsb-cs.bsky.socialCalling all CS and CE students! Join ACM at UCSB tomorrow for an info session with Arista Networks!
Meet their team, explore internships and full-time opportunities, and enjoy free pizza! 🍕
Oct. 14 | 12–1 PM | Henley Hall 1010
No registration required!
@ucsbblumcenter.bsky.socialMeet Alena K. Shalaby, a Global Studies graduate student and a 2026-27 Cooperative Economics Research Award recipient at the UCSB Blum Center. The project studies how community groups deliver health care to migrants along Central America's transit routes.
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@ucsantabarbara.bsky.socialAn international team of researchers led by #UCSB has discovered that after elephants pass, decomposition creates nutrient hotspots that can persist on the landscape for years, possibly decades.
Full story: https://ow.ly/xbUF50ZXgIB
@ucsbblumcenter.bsky.socialMeet Karen Vannessa Cepeda Rivera, a Theater, Dance, and Performance Studies graduate student and a 2026-27 Cooperative Economics Research Award recipient at the UCSB Blum Center. The project studies how cooperative art projects led by women in Colombia resist state violence and misogyny.
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@ucsantabarbara.bsky.socialA new fund at #UCSB will help students transform ideas at the intersection of Indigenous studies and environmental action into projects with community impact.
Full story: https://ow.ly/VzBg50ZWSNY
@ucsantabarbara.bsky.socialWhat do populations in Bolivia & Tanzania have in common? They have strikingly similar gut microbiomes, researchers at #UCSB & Stanford University have found. "We’re learning another way that urbanization & industrialization have rapidly impacted our bodies and our health."
https://ow.ly/Y0Ll50ZVzFf
@ucsbblumcenter.bsky.socialMeet the seven recipients of the UCSB Blum Center’s 2026-27 Cooperative Economics Research Awards. Their research spans cooperatives, care networks and collective organizing in Ghana, Colombia, Indonesia, Brazil, Central America and California. Funded by the family of Dr. U.S. Awasthi.
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@ucsantabarbara.bsky.socialNitrogen is essential for proteins and DNA, yet most organisms can’t use nitrogen gas directly from the atmosphere. Biogeochemists at #UCSB and UCLA have found that a rare form of nitrogen gas can act as a natural fingerprint for microbial nitrogen conversion.
@ucsantabarbara.bsky.socialNew findings about young infants out of #UCSB: Saliva is one key piece of evidence. The work that Brandon Woo, a Psychological & Brain Sciences researcher, is doing delivers nuance to a longstanding debate scholars in human development have had about how much babies know.
@ucsb-cs.bsky.socialBig news! 🎉 CS faculty receive a $1 million NSF award to develop AI that uncovers the scientific laws governing complex systems.
This also marks the first federal grant for UCSB's Real AI initiative! 🏆
Read more: www.cs.ucsb.edu/happenings/a...
@ucsantabarbara.bsky.socialThe calls alerting the winners went out at 3 a.m. and everything changed: A look back at 2025 when two #UCSB professors, Michel Devoret and John Martinis, won the Nobel Prize in Physics for work they did together.
Full story: https://ow.ly/Fcn750ZVuR2
