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Joined August 2010
Born 23 March

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    Jan 1

    Happy New Year, Bears! You are our light. You are our future. Fiat Lux! 🌟 ✨ 🎉 🎇 💫

    Photo of the Campanile against skyline with text "The Next 150 Years of Light Begin Today – You are our light. You are our future. Fiat Lux! – Carol Christ, Chancellor
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  2. How safe can you make football and have it still be football? 🏈 📣

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  3. It took a doctoral dissertation trip to the Philippines for Berkeley’s Kat Gutierrez to fully understand her dad, Hermes, and his world. 🌺 🌴 🌅

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    Art and science’s explosive marriage captured at Berkeley Art Museum

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  5. Retweeted
    Jan 3

    A wireless ‘pacemaker for the brain’ developed by Professor Rikki Muller could be new standard treatment for neurological disorder. Details: cc:

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  6. Retweeted
    Jan 3

    In its fight for "open access", the UC system wants publicly-funded to be free for all to read. Nobel Laureate and professor Randy Schekman went on to discuss what the change could mean for the future of :

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  7. Jan 3

    Predictions for 2019 via Mag: Genetic science will face greater control "In 2019, we can expect accelerating scientific research & practical advances using CRISPR-Cas9" — Professor Jennifer Doudna

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  8. Jan 3

    Berkeley researchers are working in cooperation with the Anti-Defamation League on a “scalable detection” system—the Online Hate Index (OHI)—to identify hate speech.

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  9. Jan 3

    🎧 LISTEN LIVE — On , University Librarian Jeffrey MacKie-Mason and Nobel laureate Randy Schekman discuss the crusade for open access.

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    🎧 LISTEN LIVE: As the negotiates with publishing giant Elsevier, what's at stake? At 10 a.m. on , University Librarian Jeffrey MacKie-Mason and Nobel laureate Randy Schekman will discuss the crusade for open access.

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  11. Retweeted
    Jan 3

    UC publishes about 10% of the country's scientific research — but it paid more than $10m in 2018 to access and publish its *own research* in scientific journals owned by this publisher. Q. Do you think publicly-funded research should be free to all?

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    Jan 3

    Bay Area peeps: join Forum from 10-11 today for a discussion of the UC’s push towards OA. I’ll be there with , Randy Schekman & . Go UC!

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  14. Jan 2

    A “bumper crop” of prestigious awards, prizes & honors will be presented tomorrow in Chicago to UC Berkeley faculty members by the American Historical Association, the nation’s most important professional association for historians. 🏆

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  15. Jan 2

    New work by the College of Natural Resources shows for the first time just how widespread & deadly the threat of pathogens from restoration nurseries may be. 😮 🌳 🍂

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  16. Jan 2

    In the tropics of South America, Berkeley scientists are finding that male hummers have traded efficient feeding for bills that are better at stabbing & plucking other hummingbirds as they fend off rivals for food & mates. 🌺😮

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    Have any New Year’s resolutions? In 2019, the Library aims to continue inspiring scholars to learn, innovate, and grow together. Here’s to a new year of discovery! 🎉

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  18. 31 Dec 2018

    "It was my first experience with grassroots politicking…And when [Obama] won, I said to myself, ‘If America is ready for its first black president, maybe Hoboken is ready for a Sikh councilman.’” 🌟

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  19. 31 Dec 2018

    Wireless ‘pacemaker for the brain’ could be new standard treatment for neurological disorders

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  20. 30 Dec 2018

    One bonk to the head may be nothing to sweat over. But mounting evidence shows that repeated blows to the cranium – may lead to long-term cognitive decline and increased risk of neurological disorders, even when the blows do not cause concussion.

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