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16 Dec 2022
(1/3) 🧵The official UC Santa Cruz Twitter handle will be dark for the foreseeable future. We are concerned about recent changes that are allowing for the increased spread of misinformation and hate speech, in opposition to our campus values and Principles of Community.
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(1/3) 🧵The official UC Santa Cruz Twitter handle will be dark for the foreseeable future. We are concerned about recent changes that are allowing for the increased spread of misinformation and hate speech, in opposition to our campus values and Principles of Community.
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(2/3) Individual campus units and departments will make their own decisions regarding the use of their respective accounts.
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(3/3) Please connect with us on the social media platforms below.
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UC Santa Cruz retweeted
15 Dec 2022
We're proud to have our @ucsc @GenomeBrowser included on this list of core biodata resources! Feedback from our users tells us that it is still an essential tool for their research and we hope the GBC will help support it and other critical resources. news.ucsc.edu/2022/12/browse…
15 Dec 2022
GBC today announces the first set of Global Core Biodata Resources (GCBRs) - a collection of 37 data resources whose long-term funding and sustainability is critical to the global research endeavour in life sciences and biomedicine. See globalbiodata.org/global-bio… #opendata
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15 Dec 2022
It's UC Santa Cruz's top 10 news stories of 2022! This year we fully sequenced a human genome, earned the Seal of Excelencia, discovered new galaxies using the James Webb Telescope, honored civil rights icon Dolores Huerta and more. 💫
Read our full list: bit.ly/3W0Xz11
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14 Dec 2022
UC Santa Cruz is shining bright in @UofCalifornia's 11 Incredible Research Breakthroughs of 2022 highlighting @khmiga's efforts in completing the first, gapless sequence of a human genome!
bit.ly/3hrksf4
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UC Santa Cruz retweeted
13 Dec 2022
Incredibly proud of our #BaskinEngineering students who led @UCSC to 3rd out of 445 universities (and tops in California!) at the @NSAGov Codebreaker Challenge, an annual competition where students complete a series of reverse engineering, cyber-security-related tasks for points.
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UC Santa Cruz retweeted
13 Dec 2022
CruzHacks, @ucsc's annual hackathon, takes place Jan. 13–15th! Each year, hundreds of college and HS students participate in the 3-day event, working together in teams to develop innovative technologies for social good. Apply by Dec. 16th! cruzhacks.com/ @CruzHacks
ALT A team of students working together during a past CruzHacks event
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13 Dec 2022
An international team of astronomers - including UCSC's @brant_robertson - have discovered the earliest & most distant galaxies confirmed to date using data from the @NASAWebb capturing light emitted by these galaxies more than 13.4 billion years ago! bit.ly/3WhnRfk
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10 Dec 2022
Somewhere over the rainbow....it was the last day of fall quarter. Have a restful holiday break Slugs. 💛💙💛💙
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9 Dec 2022
In a new study -- the first of its kind -- an all Colombian team co-led by UC Santa Cruz professor Natalia Ocampo-Peñuela used satellite mapping data to analyze how Colombia faces rising threats to bird species from an ever expanding human footprint. bit.ly/3W28yXv
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UC Santa Cruz retweeted
8 Dec 2022
Attention prospective transfer students: It's not too late to apply to transfer to a UC campus in fall 2023! @UCMerced, @UCRiverside, @UCSantaBarbara, @UCSanDiego and @UCSC are still accepting transfer applications. Apply before Jan. 6: bit.ly/2mFynSl
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UC Santa Cruz retweeted
7 Dec 2022
🗞️ The Mercury News @mercnews features Natalie Batalha @nbatalha, @ucsc professor of astronomy & astrophysics, as one of the leaders in the pursuit for signs of life on alien planets.🪐🌌
mercurynews.com/2022/12/07/u…
(📷 by Carolyn Lagattuta)
7 Dec 2022
UC Santa Cruz astronomers take lead in search for life on alien worlds bayareane.ws/3VG3qsg
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6 Dec 2022
UC Santa Cruz’s Human Rights Investigations Lab, housed in the Dolores Huerta Research Center for the Americas, has been assisting those seeking asylum in the United States and fighting back against the controversial Title 42 immigration policy.
@RCAucsc
bit.ly/3We1x6j
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5 Dec 2022
🎉💯🎉 UC Santa Cruz professor @NeedhiBhalla has been awarded the @ASCBiology Prize for Excellence in Inclusivity for her research endeavors and high-impact diversity, equity, and inclusivity actions over the years. bit.ly/3HcjNbH
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30 Nov 2022
Please join us in welcoming Micah Perks and Gina Dent as new associate deans in the UC Santa Cruz Humanities Division! bit.ly/3ipTtR4
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29 Nov 2022
UC Santa Cruz alumna Irene Vasquez has become the first-ever Cultural Ecologist for @YosemiteNPS where she will seek to preserve and assist with restoring tribal stewardship of the national park’s seven affiliated tribal nations. bit.ly/3GSEHfW
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UC Santa Cruz retweeted
28 Nov 2022
🧠 Our @braingeneers are growing live models of brain tissue (cerebral organoids) to study brain function. Keeping these organoids alive is always a challenge, but they've developed a unique method to automate growth: news.ucsc.edu/2022/11/remote…
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29 Nov 2022
Congrats, Congrats, Congrats to the UC Santa Cruz iGem team who took home a gold medal for the third year in a row from the @iGEM Grand Jamboree by producing a yeast-based therapeutic Type 2 diabetes medication that can be grown locally and affordably. bit.ly/3VsdSn2
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28 Nov 2022
New results from the @NASAWebb Transiting Exoplanet team - led by UC Santa Cruz astronomer @nbatalha -
show the presence of sodium, potassium, water, carbon dioxide, carbon monoxide and sulfur dioxide in exoplanet WASP-39b's atmosphere.
bit.ly/3ip0F00
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