Lila Thulin: Meet three Black trailblazers in #STEM: Berkeley alumni Lloyd Ferguson, Mary Blackburn and Marvin Poston paved the way for Black scientists and engineers. Black Lives at Cal is developing a tour that spotlights their stories.

#ucberkeley #BlackMastodon
https://news.berkeley.edu/2025/02/28/meet-three-black-trailblazers-in-stem/

Ok we got one (1) R1 saying something, at last!

"we will stand up for Berkeley's values and defend them to the very best of our ability."

Was that so hard??

https://www.europesays.com/1880907/ Curio Aims To Solve The Nuclear Waste Problem–And Profitably #DeepIsolation #EdMcGinnis #Lightbridge #nuclear #orano #PerPeterson #PowerGeneration #PowerPlant #reactor #UCBerkeley

https://www.europesays.com/?p=1839782 Creighton volleyball signs 6-foot-1 setter from Switzerland #AnnaleaMaeder #Basel #bluejay #creighton #CreightonVolleyballSign #Culture #CurrentTeam #home #jays #LastSeason #LocalNews #match #Nachrichten #national #navigate #Nouvelles #schweiz #setter #sports #Suisse #switzerland #UCBerkeley #volleyball #Weather #week #year

#US / Israeli Postdoc sues UC Berkeley Student Union, Alleging anti-Semitic discrimination

Karin Yaniv, an Israeli postdoctoral researcher at UC Berkeley, has filed a federal lawsuit against her graduate student union, alleging that the union has created a hostile work environment for Israeli Jews.

Yaniv claims the union's actions, which she characterizes as anti-Semitic, violate Title VII of the Civil Rights Act and the California state law. The complaint details numerous instances of alleged discrimination, including the union making anti-Israel statements, supporting anti-Israel protests and the #BDS movement, and marginalizing Jewish union members. Yaniv seeks a court order to stop the alleged discrimination, require anti-discrimination training, and award damages. The lawsuit was filed in U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California.

Yaniv is represented by the Fairness Center. #Ynet published this story today with a typical hyperbolic "culture of anti-Semitism" in the headline, forgetting to explain to their readers that the so-called "Fairness Center" is a right-wing litigation center that primarily pursues anti-union litigation. It offers free legal aid to those allegedly harmed by public employee union officials. Nothing to do with anti-Semitism, it seems, rather union-busting.

https://www.fairnesscenter.org/cases/yaniv-v-uaw-4811-news-release/

PDF https://www.fairnesscenter.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/Yaniv-ECF-1-Complaint-Exs.-01.24.25.pdf

Hebrew https://www.ynet.co.il/judaism/article/hk67eknk1l

@academicchatter
@israel
@palestine
#IsraelOccupation
#IsraelWarCrimes
#UCBerkeley
#Antisemitism
#academicchatter

A team at UC Berkeley has trained Sky-T1-32B-Preview, a reasoning model that matches the performance of O1-Preview on popular reasoning and coding benchmarks.
What makes this even more remarkable is that the training was completed in 19 hours for less than $450 - O1's training costs could have been in the millions.
To top it off, all of the code has been released as open source!

https://novasky-ai.github.io/posts/sky-t1

My poor kiddo is sick with an atrocious GI bug. Evidently, it's going around their housing at #Cal.

The timing is super not great with Finals, but the professors have been very understanding.

Thank you for being kind!

#GoldenBears
#UCBerkeley
#CommunalLiving

#UCBerkeley just did a video on #furries and it's really good!

I _might_ be in some of the B-roll taken from #WickedChicken. I recognize many of the furries in the video as well.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ty2qK_aT_lw

Still not sure if will be this or Bluesky but happy to find out once again - eager to connect about #museum #research #digitaleducation #DigitalCollections #ai4culture #artificialintelligence #philosophy #technology currently based at #ucberkeley #GermanStudies - and open for #serendipity

Know any UC Berkeley anti-ableist alumni you can nominate? Get it in by Dec 15. https://awards.berkeley.edu/achievement-awards/ #UCAccesNow #UCBerkeley

Tessa McLean: UC Berkeley scientists make groundbreaking climate discovery

"Trees have long done the heavy lifting of sequestering carbon dioxide from the atmosphere, but no matter how big the planting spree, nature won’t catch up to human impact on our warming planet. But UC Berkeley scientists recently made a discovery that could help potentially mitigate the effects of climate change, and it’s just the beginning of more work with the groundbreaking material.

The specially designed, porous yellow powder dubbed COF-999 the group created can capture carbon dioxide from the air, keeping it from being released until it can be moved underground or to a capture facility. Published this week in the journal Nature, the research details the unique substance and its potential uses to address climate change."

#ucberkeley #carboncapture #climatechange
https://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/uc-berkeley-scientists-make-climate-discovery-19861548.php

October 1, 1964 - The Free Speech Movement was launched at the University of California–Berkeley when mathematics grad student Jack Weinberg was arrested for setting up an information table for CORE (Congress of Racial Equality) in front of Sproul Hall, the administration building.

JackWeinberg #FreeSpeechMovement #UCBerkeley

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Q: Do you keep in touch with your #teachers ?

If not - maybe you should.

4 yrs ago (after 11 yrs of silence), I emailed my retired #UCBerkeley #thesis chair for advice. Not only did he help me - but he became a pen pal - with my kids. He sends my kids things like custom coloring books - and they send him fossils. Now he is their teacher. #STEM #womeninSTEM #environmentaleducator #Cal

"The Berkeley Mafia was the term given to a group of University of California-trained economists in Indonesia who were given technocratic positions under the Suharto dictatorship during the late 1960s... Their work focused on promoting free-market capitalism in Indonesia and reversing many of the progressive economic reforms that had been introduced by the Sukarno government."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berkeley_Mafia

Going to see #TheDecemberists this weekend. On a prior tour at #GreekTheater at #UCBerkeley, I attended in fur. Singer/writer #ColinMeloy said "I love being on the west coast, everyone makes such good lifestyle choices here. Except this guy. In the cat suit." (pic insta.kil, IG)

The ’80s Multi-Processor System That Never Was https://hackaday.com/2024/06/20/the-80s-multi-processor-system-that-never-was/ #universityofcalifornia #computerhacks #berkeleyrisc #ucberkeley #multicore #berkeley #parallel #research #lisp #risc #spur

The ’80s Multi-Processor System That Never Was - Until the early 2000s, the computer processors available on the market were essent... - https://hackaday.com/2024/06/20/the-80s-multi-processor-system-that-never-was/ #universityofcalifornia #computerhacks #berkeleyrisc #ucberkeley #multicore #berkeley #parallel #research #lisp #risc #spur

Holographic 3D Printing is REAL!
3D Printing Nerd @ #UCBerkeley
#Science #Physics #Engineering #AM #3DPrinting
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ha0QA7iLGy8

Today in Labor History May 15, 1969: Police fought students in the Battle for People's Park at the University of California Berkeley, California. The battle was over a small strip of land that the students had claimed as community commons. Governor Ronald Reagan sent in National Guards to reclaim the Park. Police gunfire killed a bystander, James Rector, and wounded 60 others, including Alan Blanchard, who was blinded for life. Street fighting continued for 17 days. Another 150 demonstrators would be shot and wounded. The battle for the park has continued ever since, with the university continuing to claim ownership and threatening to turn the park into everything from units of student housing to a parking lot. The defenders of the park have done numerous direct actions over the past 50 years to defend the park, provide mutual aid, provide free food and clothes to unhoused folks, and offer community classes. As recently as 2024, the cops have attacked, beaten, and/or arrested park defenders.