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Baskin Engineering is now on Bluesky! 💙 We’ll still be here 👋 but if you’re on Bluesky, come find us and give us a follow! bsky.app/profile/baskinengin… #Bluesky #BaskinEngineering
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“... the end product of jailbreaking an #LLM that’s capable of teaching you how to build a deadly virus is that you now have an LLM that’s capable of teaching anybody how to build a very dangerous virus.” says @ucscgenomics Director David Haussler.
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🔎 Where did life on Earth begin? #BaskinEngineering Prof Emeritus David Deamer and Research Associate Bruce Damer guest edited a new special issue of Astrobiology, “An Origin of Life on Land,” exploring growing evidence of life's origins.
Learn more: bit.ly/42Ph5m8
ALT Hot springs in Yellowstone National Park.
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🧬A partnership between @ucscgenomics & @GoogleResearch has developed new methods to improve pangenome references, cutting errors when identifying genetic variants by 50%! A step forward in making genomics more representative of human diversity.
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For years, residents of Pajaro Valley have lacked access to timely, accurate air quality data. #BaskinEngineering prof @JavierGRocha is changing this by deploying a network of drones & sensors to empower community decision-making.
Via @pajaronian: bit.ly/4nBD49y
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👏 Congrats to #BaskinEngineering Assistant Professor Yuanchao Xu on receiving a @NSF CAREER Award! Xu will develop protocols to improve the security and efficiency of the software and hardware that power complex data centers.
Learn more: bit.ly/3ON4koV
ALT Baskin Engineering branded graphic with Yuanchao Xu's portrait photo and supporting text that says "National Science Foundation CAREER Award recipient! | Yuanchao Xu, Assistant Professor, Computer Science and Engineering."
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Baskin Engineering at UCSC retweeted
🌱🧬 Register now: There is still limited space left at our May 1st symposium on conservation genomics at the UC Santa Cruz campus! Beth Shapiro will be giving a keynote on how (and why) to de-extinct a mammoth 🦣
Details and registration: events.ucsc.edu/event/sequen…
ALT Beth Shapiro in front of a mammoth skeleton, with headline "Sequence to Survival: Using Genomics to Save Biodiversity, UC Santa Cruz Merrill Cultural Center, May 1, 1-4:30pm, free and open to the public.
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Meet #BaskinEngineering alumna Laura Miller, founder and CEO of TempDev, a specialized healthcare IT consulting firm!
Via ValientCEO: bit.ly/4u5LCHT
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While the world focuses on the power consumption of massive AI data centers, #BaskinEngineering researchers are looking at a more efficient alternative: the human brain.
Via @Inc: bit.ly/4t5nRPy
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Clumps of mouse brain cells the size of peppercorns learned to keep a pole upright on a virtual moving cart — the video game equivalent of balancing a ruler vertically on your palm. Led by #BaskinEngineering researchers.
Via @ScienceNews: bit.ly/41QflbU
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👏CONGRATS to the #BaskinEngineering students and alumni who have been awarded a prestigious @NSF Graduate Research Fellowship!
The program has played a key role in developing the talent pipeline that sustains U.S. leadership in science.
Learn more: bit.ly/3QE9ofD
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Baskin Engineering at UCSC retweeted
🌱🧬 Register now: There is still limited space left at our May 1st symposium on conservation genomics at the UC Santa Cruz campus! Beth Shapiro will be giving a keynote on how (and why) to de-extinct a mammoth 🦣
Details and registration: events.ucsc.edu/event/sequen…
ALT Beth Shapiro in front of a mammoth skeleton, with headline "Sequence to Survival: Using Genomics to Save Biodiversity, UC Santa Cruz Merrill Cultural Center, May 1, 1-4:30pm, free and open to the public.
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A new @CodeSignalCom ranking shows UCSC #BaskinEngineering students are among the top coders in the country! 🎉 We rank among the top 50 universities nationwide for producing graduates with the skills today’s top employers are hiring for. Read more: bit.ly/4tIFKnM
ALT Student smiles while sitting at a long table with a laptop in front of her
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🚀 #BaskinEngineering students are launching a satellite into space this weekend! UCSC's SlugSat student org is part of @NASA's CubeSat Launch Initiative, which supports the launch of student-built satellites.
Watch the @SpaceX livestream of mission NG-24!
#NASA #Space
ALT SlugSat students visiting NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory.
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🏆 @nvidia hackathon WINNER!🤯Congrats to #BaskinEngineering student Preet Karia for placing first at the #NVIDIA GTC 2026 Agents for Impact Hackathon!
Preet built an #AI -powered tool called Loomin that turns physics notes into 3D visualizations.💡
🔗 bit.ly/3Q096iR
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A #BaskinEngineering faculty-student team—Assistant Professor Vanessa Jonsson and Ph.D. student Divya Venkatraman—will build a resource to understand ‘immune visibility’ with support from the W. M. Keck Foundation’s Bridge Funding Initiative.
Learn more: bit.ly/3NQYPoH
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🧠“We’re trying to understand the fundamentals of how neurons can be adaptively tuned to solve problems,” said #BaskinEngineering Ph.D. student Ash Robbins, who helped train brain organoids to solve a goal-directed task.
Via @singularityhub: bit.ly/4bG9Mm4
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🎉A #BaskinEngineering team placed 3rd at the '26 @MistralAI Worldwide Hackathon for their cybersecurity platform! “We were competing against YC founders, Google DeepMind researchers, Meta product managers, & other AI experts," said student Anthony Lamas. bit.ly/4bzzY1O
ALT UC Santa Cruz team from left to right: Anthony Lamas, Ivan Severinov, and Daniel Perlov.
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"Both of us have recently moved from denial to contemplation that AI will soon be in a position to replace us," says David Haussler, distinguished prof of biomolecular eng and J. Xavier Prochaska, prof of astronomy and astrophysics at UCSC.
Via @mercnews: bayareane.ws/4sW5j4q
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A team of scientists from #BaskinEngineering trained brain organoids to solve a well-known engineering benchmark — demonstrating the increasing complexity of lab-grown brains.
Via @PopMech: bit.ly/4uo8bse
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Goodbye single-use plastics!🌱Wonderfil, a startup by #BaskinEngineering alumna Shiloh Sacks (B.S. ’21, electrical engineering) and co-founder Amelia Eichel, makes it easy to refill soap products with self-serve dispensers.
Via @LookoutSCruz: bit.ly/47qgkCE
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