A childhood dream of capturing sunlight became a career in organic electronics. Meet Thuc-Quyen Nguyen, @ucsantabarbara.bsky.social's next Faculty Research Lecturer, whose research and mentorship are shaping new materials and scientists. science.ucsb.edu/news/pursuit...

UCSB research is in the national spotlight. Good Morning America featured Dr. Emily Jacobs and the Longitudinal Menopause Project, studying how the brain changes across menopause. Watch: www.goodmorningamerica.com/video/134237... @bowers-wbhi.bsky.social @ucsantabarbara.bsky.social

How to know if brain fog is menopause-related

ABC News’ Dr. Tara Narula shares how to know whether brain fog is menopause-related or memory loss.

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Congratulations to physics professor David Weld on being named a 2026 National Brown Investigator. A major honor for curiosity-driven quantum science at UCSB, with up to $2M over five years to support new work with ultracold atoms and quantum optical systems. #QuantumScience

UC Santa Barbara@ucsantabarbara.bsky.social · 2mo ago

UCSB physics professor David Weld has been selected for Caltech’s 2026 National Brown Investigator Awards 🏆 An atomic physicist who studies quantum dynamical phenomena using ultracold quantum degenerate gases, Weld will receive up to $2 million over five years. 🔗 https://ow.ly/67GV50Z5EPN

National recognition continues for Laura Simone Lewis. The @ucsantabarbara.bsky.social assistant professor has earned the @ampsychfdn.bsky.social Robert L. Fantz Memorial Award for Young Psychologists. Congratulations, Laura! #UCSBScienceOfMind psych.ucsb.edu/news-events/...

What can chimpanzees and bonobos teach us about memory, friendship, and the evolution of human social cognition? UCSB assistant professor Laura Simone Lewis joins APA’s Speaking of Psychology to discuss the social minds of great apes. www.apa.org/news/podcast...

At @ucsantabarbara.bsky.social, climate policy meets regional action. California Natural Resources Secretary Wade Crowfoot joined students, researchers and local partners for conversations on wildfire resilience and community preparedness. Read the full story: science.ucsb.edu/news/uc-sant...

@ucsantabarbara.bsky.social is joining Google's REPLIQA! With $10M from Google.org, we partner with @harvard.edu, @mit.edu, @ucsandiego.bsky.social & @uarizona.bsky.social for quantum life sciences research. Read the REPLIQA announcement: blog.google/innovation-a... 🧬💻 #UCSBScience #REPLIQA

Our new initiative to apply quantum science and AI to the life sciences

Google's REPLIQA program funds academic institutions to apply quantum science and AI to life sciences for scientific breakthroughs.

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Congrats to Karen Szumlinski on the 2026 Distinguished Teaching Award from @ucsantabarbara.bsky.social 🏆 From neuro research to K-6 outreach as "The Brain Lady," she's a force for science. 🧠 Full award announcement: tinyurl.com/Szumlinski-A... #Neuroscience #UCSB

BREAKING: Is "clean" beauty actually safe? 🚨 New @ucsantabarbara.bsky.social research shows >90% of analyzed "clean" hair products carry health hazards, exposing an "environmental injustice of beauty" for women of color. Data in The Current: news.ucsb.edu/2026/022517/...

Huge news! @ucsantabarbara.bsky.social ecologists Deron Burkepile and Yong Zhou have been named 2026 @ecologicalsociety.bsky.social Fellows. Congratulations to both on this incredible recognition! Read more: news.ucsb.edu/in-focus/ucs...

UCSB professors honored by Ecological Society of America

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Congratulations to UCSB Physics researcher Skyler Palatnick, newly named a 2026 51 Pegasi b Fellow! 🔭✨ Supported by @heisingsimonsfdn.bsky.social, he is developing metasurface optics to block starlight and reveal hidden exoplanets. Read more: news.ucsb.edu/2026/022493/... #51PegasibFellows

The first step to modern AI? #Statistics. Huge congratulations to @ucsantabarbara.bsky.social Statistics Pioneer Sreenivasa Rao Jammalamadaka, who has just been awarded the prestigious IISA Lifetime Achievement Award! Read more about his 50-year career: science.ucsb.edu/news/statist...

"It's not all doom and gloom. I'm actually cautiously optimistic." 💧 For #EarthMonth, listen to @ucsantabarbara.bsky.social Prof. Debra Perrone on @npr.org’s Short Wave podcast discussing the global groundwater crisis and how we can solve it. Listen (jump to 6:11): www.npr.org/2026/03/24/n...

The world has a groundwater problem. Can we solve it? : Short Wave

Groundwater is responsible for about half of the water people use globally. It’s drying up. Hayes Kelman started noticing the family farm in western Kansas was slowly getting less water around the tim...

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A proud day for #UCSBScience. Congratulations to our four newest AAAS Fellows!

UC Santa Barbara@ucsantabarbara.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Four professors at UC Santa Barbara have joined the esteemed ranks of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) 🏆 Since 1874, AAAS has recognized scientists, engineers and innovators for their achievements across disciplines. Full story: https://ow.ly/JElm50YzkeH

Congrats to 4 @ucsantabarbara.bsky.social researchers named 2025 @aaas.org Fellows! 🔬 • Shelly Gable (Psychology) • Javier Read de Alaniz (Chemistry) • David Morrison (Math/Physics) • Kelly Caylor (Geography/Bren) See our legacy of Fellows since 1982: science.ucsb.edu/aaas-fellows 📸 Perko & Liang

A proud day for the UCSB Sciences. Congratulations to our four newest AAAS Fellows!

American Association for the Advancement of Science@aaas.org · 4mo ago

Join us in congratulating the new 2025 AAAS Fellows class! This distinction is among the highest in the scientific community and honors scientists, engineers, and innovators whose efforts on behalf of science and its applications are scientifically or socially distinguished. https://bit.ly/4svrgaB

A huge congratulations again to Prof. Weber from all of us across the UCSB Sciences! We are incredibly proud to see his pioneering work recognized with this well-deserved honor. 👏🧠

Media Neuroscience Lab@medianeuro.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Check out this article on MNL PI Dr. René Weber’s election as a SANS Fellow and his journey pioneering media neuroscience science.ucsb.edu/news/rene-we...

@ucsantabarbara.bsky.social ranked 14th in North America at the 86th Putnam Math Competition! Congrats to top scorers Xiaohan Zhang, Victor Bernal Ramirez, and David Qiao! 👏 Full story: science.ucsb.edu/news/mathema...

UCSB Science researchers developed a liquid battery that captures sunlight and releases it as heat on demand. Published yesterday in @science.org, the new material boasts an energy density roughly double that of a standard lithium-ion battery. science.ucsb.edu/news/bottlin...

"Breakthroughs don’t happen in silos; they happen at the boundaries." — Dean Shelly Gable Kicking off the 90th Birthday Symposium for Nobel Laureate Alan Heeger. Honoring the pioneer who cemented @ucsantabarbara.bsky.social's reputation as a global titan in materials research. 🧪

New year, new discoveries. We are proud to welcome our newest faculty to the Division of Mathematical, Life, & Physical Sciences at @ucsantabarbara.bsky.social. 🧵 Meet the researchers joining us this year:

Hello, Bluesky! 🦋 We are the Division of Mathematical, Life, and Physical Sciences at UC Santa Barbara. Follow along to see how we're changing the world from the edge of the Pacific. 🌊 🔭