@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! 🏆
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@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
@ucsantabarbara.bsky.social#UCSB has launched a new minor in environmental humanities 👏 The program, based in the College of Letters & Science, examines how culture, history, ethics, research and storytelling shape the ways people understand and respond to environmental change.
Full Story: https://ow.ly/MS2v50ZV9B7
@ucsantabarbara.bsky.socialFrom early issues of “Lowrider” magazine to files on gang violence reduction initiatives, and decades of photographs, audio recordings and video footage, the Luis J. Rodriguez Papers are now open for research in #UCSB Library’s Department of Special Research Collections.
@ucsb-cs.bsky.socialBig news! 🎉 UCSB's new undergraduate BS degree in AI is officially here — and the inaugural cohort just kicked off their freshman seminar with renowned AI researcher Professor Xifeng Yan! 🤖
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@mediamosaiclab.bsky.social[1/3] 📢 We’re recruiting a PhD student to join @nibasaleem.bsky.social’s lab at UC Santa Barbara in Fall 2027!
Interested? Reach out to Dr. Saleem at [email protected] with your CV + a brief description of your research interests.
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@ucsantabarbara.bsky.socialThree #UCSB researchers received honors this year from the American Geophysical Union: David Valentine for the 2026 Ambassador Award; Leander Anderegg for the James B. Macelwane Medal, and Kelly Caylor has been elected as an AGU Fellow.
@ucsantabarbara.bsky.socialChosen as one of the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation’s 2026 Experimental Physics Investigators, #UCSB's Bolin Liao is working to develop a platform for imaging and controlling quantum interactions with 2D materials.
Full story: https://ow.ly/xQC850ZU4GX
@quantaofgeorge.bsky.socialGreat seminar today at #UCSB by @symbionticism.bsky.social discussing 100+ years of work on #Wolbachia! An impressive animal -> microbe -> virus interaction!
@ucsantabarbara.bsky.social#UCSB's John Bowers, a pioneer in silicon photonics, received the Distinguished Lifetime Achievement Award at the inaugural UC Regents Innovation Awards 🏆
Full story: https://ow.ly/35K850ZTc8K
@ucsantabarbara.bsky.socialThe effects of gratitude interventions differ across countries and cultures 🙏 In a megastudy, #UCSB's Hongbo Yu and collaborators tease out these differences across 34 countries, with findings that illustrate the importance of cultural context.
@ucsantabarbara.bsky.social#UCSB is top-ranked for value and career placement by the Princeton Review! Based on academics, costs, financial aid, debt, graduation rates, and alumni career and salary data, the campus is the No. 15 Best Value College and No. 20 for Best Career Placement among public schools 🏆
@ucsantabarbara.bsky.socialThrough the National Science Foundation’s Quantum Leap Challenge Institutes program, #UCSB researchers are poised to tackle hurdles on the road to building widespread quantum-based technologies. A total of eight Institutes will receive between $28-$37 million over 5 years: https://ow.ly/V89r50ZSpOi
@ucsantabarbara.bsky.socialEconomist and demographer Shelly Lundberg, a distinguished professor and Leonard Broom Professor of Demography at #UCSB, has won the 2026 Jacob Mincer Award by the Society of Labor Economists for her lifetime contributions to labor economics 🏆
Full story: https://ow.ly/nBns50ZRAyZ
@ucsantabarbara.bsky.socialThe arts are blooming this fall at #UCSB. From Romeo and Juliet to metaphysical spirituality. From the creative art of hard science to the handcasted names on a museum wall. There’s plenty to take in, and much of it is accessible for free. 🍁🎭
Full story: https://ow.ly/EcuZ50ZREO2
@ucsantabarbara.bsky.socialOn Dolly Parton Day, #UCSB professor, author and "Dollyologist" Helen Morales shares about Dolly's radical empathy and the cultural power that let her hold contradictions—and people—together 💓
Full story: https://ow.ly/qNhH50ZRyYw
@ucsb-cs.bsky.socialIs AI reshaping the internet and human mind simultaneously? 🤔
Join CS Professor Arpit Gupta & CS Affiliate Miguel Eckstein at the UCSB Library's next AI in Action Lecture on 9/29 at 4 PM to learn more! 🌐 🧠
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@ucsblibrary.bsky.socialStarting college comes with a learning curve! 🎓 ✨
Recent @ucsantabarbara.bsky.social grads shared their top advice for new students:
🌟 Say 'yes' to new opportunities
💡 Use available resources early
💙 Give yourself grace
⏳ Cherish every moment!