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Official account of UC Santa Barbara, a dynamic environment where beauty meets brilliance. Follow for news, achievements, and discoveries out of #UCSB.

[UC Santa Barbara @ucsantabarbara]

Six roads to safety: #UCSB researchers found that the number of roads out of a community is strong predictor of wildfire fatalities.

17 million Americans live in communities below this threshold, making them at high risk to wildfires.

🔗 https://t.co/ySByL5a3rB

[UC Santa Barbara @ucsantabarbara]

#UCSB's Dorit Hanein was elected to the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering College of Fellows for advancing cryo-imaging techniques.

Her work allows scientists to see cells in 3D, close to how they exist in real life.

https://t.co/e9cyuDz5MN

[UC Santa Barbara @ucsantabarbara]

Following the inauguration of UC Santa Barbara Chancellor Dennis Assanis, the campus hosted an academic symposium that highlighted breakthroughs and innovations by UCSB researchers across disciplines.

Full story: https://t.co/YAFSmxdBu8

[University of California @UofCalifornia]

Hungry gray whales are making unusual detours into San Francisco Bay, and researchers at @ucsantabarbara are using AI-powered thermal cameras to help protect them. The new system detects whale blows and heat signatures in real time, alerting nearby ships to slow down or reroute to avoid deadly collisions. https://t.co/6U4dJmIs46

[University of St Andrews @univofstandrews]

Tracking animal adaptations during the COVID-19 lockdown, scientists from St Andrews, the Smithsonian, @Yale and @UCSantaBarbara show in @ScienceMagazine how human presence and habitat changes affect how animals behave

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#EverToExcel

[UC Santa Barbara Baseball @UCSB_Baseball]

Now presenting your 2026 BIG WEST REGULAR SEASON CHAMPS 🏆

#GoChos

[University of California @UofCalifornia]

Cement production creates nearly as many CO2 emissions as all passenger cars worldwide. Researchers at @UCSantaBarbara found that replacing limestone with basalt in cement production could cut emissions by more than 80%—using technology that already exists.

[UCSB ECE @ucsbece]

🎉Congrats to ECE undergraduate Roland Yin on receiving the NSF Graduate Research Fellowship — one of the most prestigious honors in STEM!🏆

@UCSBengineering @ucsantabarbara

🔗https://t.co/fWkWdfXwUw

[University of California @UofCalifornia]

Three UC Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism (@ucbsoj) alumni and a @UCSantaBarbara alumna were awarded 2026 @PulitzerPrizes , one of the most prestigious honors in journalism.

[UC Santa Barbara @ucsantabarbara]

#UCSB's first fully online master's degree is here 💻

Coming to @UCSBEngineering in fall 2027, the new Master of Engineering and Technology Leadership program offers an interdisciplinary curriculum designed for working professionals.

Full story: https://t.co/NXucJuhFwy

[UC Santa Barbara @ucsantabarbara]

#UCSB is poised to join a group of collaborating partners in a new era of battery prototyping.

Full story: https://t.co/UWfF0zYOq7

[UC Santa Barbara @ucsantabarbara]

Developed by #UCSB NCEAS researchers, the Wildfire Resilience Index is the first tool to measure social & ecological wildfire resilience simultaneously, at 90-meter resolution, across 700+ million pixels spanning the western U.S., Canada, & Alaska:

https://t.co/wsLxXkdNpQ

[UC Santa Barbara @ucsantabarbara]

#UCSB researchers from the Materials Department have uncovered the elusive quantum mechanism that explains decades-old experimental puzzles💡

This discovery opens the door to engineering more stable devices with longer lifespans.

Full story: https://t.co/wOWMRf3wZG

[Aspen Daily News @AspenDailyNews]

The quantum revolution in physics — whose 100th anniversary we have just celebrated — taught us that at the most basic level the... https://t.co/FRFBiDYIow

[Scientific American @sciam]

Scientists are designing techniques to smash up space rocks that could be headed our way
https://t.co/fr9NszS1fV

[Meredith Turner @UC_Newsroom]

Wow! Three scientists from @UCBerkeley and @UCSantaBarbara took home the “Oscars of Science.”

Their breakthroughs include dark matter, mathematics, and theoretical physics.

Proud to see @UofCalifornia researchers recognized on one of science’s biggest stages.

[UC Santa Barbara @ucsantabarbara]

Could the next big antibiotic or cancer therapy be found on the nearest coral reef? 🪸 #UCSB researchers have found that reefs are home to a vast array of previously unknown bioactive metabolites.

Full story: https://t.co/TbHBgOqtH7

[Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics @KITP_UCSB]

Congratulations to KITP Permanent Member Dr. David J. Gross for receiving the 2026 Special Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics!

Read the full story from UC Santa Barbara here:
https://t.co/IH6NsZhf4q

#BreakthroughPrize #ucsb #kitp

[University of California @UofCalifornia]

Scientists at @ucsantabarbara are studying ocean health and coastal resilience—research that helps protect California communities.

California Science and Health Research Bond Act #SB895 supports this vital work. Urge your lawmakers to invest in UC research.

https://t.co/2SQEtd8bW8

[UC Santa Barbara @ucsantabarbara]

Congratulations to UC Santa Barbara's David Gross, who just won the 2026 Special Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics, for a lifetime of groundbreaking contributions to theoretical physics, from the strong force to string theory.

Full story: https://t.co/jT4gvm0wBK