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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.

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: https://t.co/53Ce6I5W0K

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! https://t.co/LcSQcRJHvE

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.

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! https://t.co/KbRHbZ8vNn @CruzHacks

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!

Somewhere over the rainbow....it was the last day of fall quarter. Have a restful holiday break Slugs. 💛💙💛💙

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. https://t.co/Aks77pkl1y

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:

🗞️ 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.🪐🌌 https://t.co/LJsMwEtCXJ (📷 by Carolyn Lagattuta)

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 https://t.co/z55F2Svoeh

🎉💯🎉 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.

Please join us in welcoming Micah Perks and Gina Dent as new associate deans in the UC Santa Cruz Humanities Division!

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. https://t.co/ryLKLutUaY

🧠 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:

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. https://t.co/dos26eOhHV

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. https://t.co/7Ej1fWJDe0