All the below tweets are in English.
今日は、University of California, Santa Barbara です。
A team of UCSB scientists have successfully begun the restoration of heavily contaminated streams in the Sierra Nevadas |The UCSB Current
https://t.co/i86oM0JADd pic.twitter.com/manIklDWTR— UCSB Bren School (@brenucsb) November 14, 2018
Professor Roland Geyer warns against the accumulation of plastic in the environment. Plastic is ending up in our food, sea salt, and even tap water. https://t.co/E9Z3f43YK7 pic.twitter.com/z9GWbFHUJh
— UCSB Bren School (@brenucsb) November 10, 2018
Santa Barbara has had its share of disasters for the year, which makes this recent paper, co-authored by several Bren faculty, salient for our community and others. https://t.co/gel6EoZLnr (Photo credit: Mike Eliason) pic.twitter.com/UE9BZrZRfU
— UCSB Bren School (@brenucsb) June 22, 2018
Can text messages empower voters? Bren professor Mark Buntaine and colleagues examined how sending texts about corruption can help hold Ugandan politicians accountable. Read more about it in the UCSB Current: https://t.co/4y2JoKEP1h @MarkBuntaine pic.twitter.com/zZP7tZBqOk
— UCSB Bren School (@brenucsb) June 21, 2018
What do we know about the overall health, sustainability, and equity of the food system across the United States? Check out the @UCSUSA 50-State Food System Scorecard to see how states' rank in #farm and #food health: https://t.co/Jhk7MHnvNw pic.twitter.com/0sPbwzGKj3
— UCSB Bren School (@brenucsb) June 19, 2018
Check out this new Electric Vehicle Infrastructure Projection Tool (EVI-Pro) that allows users to estimate how much #EV charging cities and states need. @ENERGY https://t.co/TePouF0R0r pic.twitter.com/EFJtnGn0KL
— UCSB Bren School (@brenucsb) June 18, 2018
How healthy is Hawaiʻi's ocean environment? Check out the first Ocean Health Index report for the state to find out: https://t.co/b9SCCdg4Zd @CiHawaii @ConservationOrg @OceanHealthIndx pic.twitter.com/zYBG1YVV41
— UCSB Bren School (@brenucsb) June 17, 2018
“The choices that we make today will define our collective future.” – Narendra Modi. India has pledged to abolish all single-use plastic by 2022 – making the most ambitious global action to date to combat plastic pollution https://t.co/IzGQx5361Q via @guardian #plastic #India pic.twitter.com/PRITRV8dhj
— UCSB Bren School (@brenucsb) June 13, 2018
The Evergreen State is getting greener. A large coal-fired power plant in Washington will make the switch to solar – bringing the state closer to its goal to get CO2 emissions to 1990 levels by 2020. https://t.co/jTsNMAbEER @TransAlta via @NRDC #solar #Centralia pic.twitter.com/plrNNqbf49
— UCSB Bren School (@brenucsb) June 12, 2018
Shining a light on illegal fishing: @GlobalFishWatch uses satellites to monitor brightly lit commercial fishing vessels at night to help crack down on illegal fishing and make seafood more sustainable. https://t.co/Zfpa6mq1Vg via @oceansdeeply pic.twitter.com/RfCklISGfX
— UCSB Bren School (@brenucsb) June 12, 2018
#DYK: Big data centers are big energy consumers. For example, a typical Google search uses as much energy as illuminating a 60-watt light bulb for 17 seconds. Read more on energy consumption of big data, and possible solutions: https://t.co/BKcf3aQOmg via @YaleE360 pic.twitter.com/ZBmlxR3n8m
— UCSB Bren School (@brenucsb) June 11, 2018
The stunningly lopsided growth of wind power in the US. See why a huge swath of the country has hardly any wind turbines at all https://t.co/0rLKMJmrOx via @voxdotcom #wind #windpower #renewables pic.twitter.com/L91BoeYf7l
— UCSB Bren School (@brenucsb) June 9, 2018
Do You Know Where Your Plastic Goes? Now that imports to China are restricted, exporting countries are turning to other potential buyers to receive their plastic scrap. https://t.co/eVDNFEPCqV via @OurOcean
— UCSB Bren School (@brenucsb) June 8, 2018
54% of fishing on the high seas would be unprofitable without governments covering some industry costs. New study on #BrenUCSB researchers Chris Costello & @juansmayorga, w @NatGeo, @GlobalFishWatch, @UNBC & @UWAresearch https://t.co/e8qLjAWWSH @ScienceAdvances pic.twitter.com/h8KNA4em6F
— UCSB Bren School (@brenucsb) June 7, 2018
Large companies invest heavily in renewable energy, yet whether or not these investments can transform America's grid remains uncertain https://t.co/H9aSqE9tg7 via @nytimes #renewables #solar #wind
— UCSB Bren School (@brenucsb) June 6, 2018
Whether it's about a greasy pizza box or a plastic yogurt cup – we've all asked the question: "Can you recycle this?" Here are six things that are commonly recycled wrong and why.+ https://t.co/Y77IY62Y7y @NYTScience pic.twitter.com/RmkKZu7bET
— UCSB Bren School (@brenucsb) June 6, 2018
Why Plant Trees in Cities? Because they protect our most vulnerable residents from "urban heat island effect." Read more here: https://t.co/E7SIpo8jXW via @NewCities pic.twitter.com/xh86ISjT3P
— UCSB Bren School (@brenucsb) June 5, 2018
The cost of fish waste: Industrial fisheries that rely on bottom trawling wasted 437M tonnes of fish and missed out on $560B in revenue over the past 65 years https://t.co/x85obXyMsr @UBC pic.twitter.com/9tdmgzbJWf
— UCSB Bren School (@brenucsb) May 18, 2018
To meet it's 2030 zero-emission vehicle goal, California needs to install 229,000-279,000 public #EV chargers by 2025. See the full @NREL report on #CA Plug-in EV Infrastructure Projections here: https://t.co/yu9oQdFcN1 pic.twitter.com/Eiq1Fl818I
— UCSB Bren School (@brenucsb) May 13, 2018
How to save the high seas: As the United Nations prepares a historic treaty to protect the oceans, scientists highlight what’s needed for success. https://t.co/8uTvqDGhsp via @nature pic.twitter.com/NC4S7PTFhU
— UCSB Bren School (@brenucsb) May 12, 2018
How much water should California cities use? Seasonal differences, benchmarks, and other considerations: https://t.co/Jx8CarisWc @ucdavis pic.twitter.com/t6bR1bRiK2
— UCSB Bren School (@brenucsb) May 7, 2018
The global status of #coal: Existing coal producers are getting richer, but investing in new mines is becoming a thing of the past. https://t.co/Zms5OmXK04 via @business pic.twitter.com/U3gndt10Zu
— UCSB Bren School (@brenucsb) May 4, 2018
Our new data on the distribution of US climate and energy opinions featured today in the NYTimes: https://t.co/7axL8QLGT2
— mattomildenberger (@mmildenberger) November 1, 2018
My oped with @leahstokes and @awh in the NYT previews research from our forthcoming article in the American Political Science Review. Our findings are sobering: We find that Congressional elites don't have any idea what the public wants 1/ https://t.co/u0PgOu1B91
— mattomildenberger (@mmildenberger) October 31, 2018
For the last six months, I've thought the most off-the-radar important green politics story is how the PEI Green Party is posed to become the first elected Green Party government in the world – and in a first-past-the-post system no less https://t.co/xFlhfmasfp
— mattomildenberger (@mmildenberger) September 8, 2018
Australia’s political turbulence should remind us all of a simple fact political scientists still ignore: not only is climate change real, climate change is already having serious impacts on political fortunes worldwide. 1/https://t.co/7X6kZTceM4
— mattomildenberger (@mmildenberger) August 24, 2018
Local Fox news station in Utah did a fantastic segment on our new climate opinion data, breaking down belief patters in Utah. @peterdhowe https://t.co/NaCKSUFePD
— mattomildenberger (@mmildenberger) August 9, 2018
Today, we released updated maps of US climate opinions at state and local scales. Tons of new questions: public beliefs that global warming affects US weather, public support for a carbon tax and more. Check them out here at @YaleClimateComm : https://t.co/7LGgFMOyav
— mattomildenberger (@mmildenberger) August 7, 2018
A new @MisOfFact post by @leahstokes and myself. The appearance of favorable conditions for climate reforms in the 1980s was illusory: instead, the apparent absence of interest group and partisan barriers reflected absence of policy threat. https://t.co/FkBalbpPd5
— mattomildenberger (@mmildenberger) August 6, 2018
My thoughts on Ontario's decision to repeal its cap and trade system, in @AlternativesJ #onpoli #capandtrade #climatechangehttps://t.co/Az53lUGwQ4
— mattomildenberger (@mmildenberger) July 26, 2018
A great summary of my new research with @mmildenberger and @awh by @_cingraham in @washingtonpost today. https://t.co/TBlcuOhpup
— Leah Stokes (@leahstokes) November 2, 2018
Does giving rebates from carbon taxes actually increase support for climate policy? An op ed in @macleans from @riversNic and I shows that the evidence from BC is not very strong. Program implementation for the Canadian climate rebates will matter a lot. https://t.co/VR7auxOnKU
— Leah Stokes (@leahstokes) October 27, 2018
The best call to climate action I've ever read. "This work must be habitual. Every day some learning and conversation. Every week a call to Congress. Every year a donation to a nonprofit advancing the cause. In other words, a practice." https://t.co/4wWnMLjTCa
— Leah Stokes (@leahstokes) October 7, 2018
In Trump’s plan to rollback car pollution standards, the public loses. Who wins? Like a favored child, big oil companies get their way again. Read about how they have lied and stalled for decades to block climate action in my op-ed on @CNN https://t.co/aDxesziv2b
— Leah Stokes (@leahstokes) August 7, 2018
What helped fuel the heatwave across the globe? Climate change. It's time the media started reporting on it. My op-ed in today's @latimes https://t.co/z98B0BtYuY
— Leah Stokes (@leahstokes) July 15, 2018
"In a Deep Blue or Red State? You Can Still Influence Politics" Nice piece by @eitanhersh https://t.co/cbF8y8Qg8w
— Hahrie Han (@hahriehan) October 29, 2018
“There is a broad effort to deny the science of climate change and its links to the horrible wildfires in California, and it’s just not accurate,” – @leahstokes @UCSBPoliSci https://t.co/zohH1aKHXG @erinblogan @washingtonpost #climatechange
— Dennis Dimick (@ddimick) August 16, 2018
I've made the case in my research that these types of interventions are actually likelier to succeed than Afghanistan and Iraq would make us think. But key variable is democratic intentions of intervener. Will you build institutions? None of that here.https://t.co/k17UMu8gb4 https://t.co/mSxbbJF5kZ
— William Nomikos (@wnomikos) July 4, 2018
Very cool mapping of Collins's position along the SC ideological spectrum by @M_A_Bailey.
If only we could convince the Senator that she's playing a one-shot game…https://t.co/2iG0El1qHG pic.twitter.com/BDIIS2Bpvn
— Paasha Mahdavi (@paashamahdavi) July 2, 2018
"What Trump doesn’t get about ideology in Iran. It’s about nationalism, not theocracy." Great @monkeycageblog piece by @Swarthy_Bastard https://t.co/jGitb7P5bB
— Paasha Mahdavi (@paashamahdavi) June 27, 2018
Groundwater is a vital resource used in food production, manufacturing and household water supplies. But, according to researchers at #UCSB, the world may have less fresh water than previously thought. https://t.co/fIeS93jQzv
— UC Santa Barbara (@ucsantabarbara) November 19, 2018
#UCSB researchers have discovered that discrepancies between simulations of melting Arctic sea ice and real-life observation can be attributed to complicated internal drivers. https://t.co/NbXSf60Tuo
— UC Santa Barbara (@ucsantabarbara) November 16, 2018
To confront the many environmental threats to our planet, #UCSB’s @brenucsb has launched a new initiative called the Environmental Market Solutions Lab, which will design durable solutions to approach environmental challenges. https://t.co/aa1qkcyrvj
— UC Santa Barbara (@ucsantabarbara) November 12, 2018
Just in time for #ElectionResults2018, #UCSB’s American Presidency Project—a leading source of presidential documents online—has unveiled an updated and user-friendly interface for its thousands of users! https://t.co/lwA7oTJXmL
— UC Santa Barbara (@ucsantabarbara) November 8, 2018
Plants’ blooming patterns can tell us a lot about our planet’s health. That’s why #UCSB researchers have teamed up on a statewide project that will facilitate climate change research. https://t.co/Hghx0p5Gs4
— UC Santa Barbara (@ucsantabarbara) November 2, 2018
#UCSB ecologist Bill Murdoch looked at current projections of population growth and took a different spin on it. His research found that population growth could be less dire if more attention is paid to the wellbeing of the poor in African countries. https://t.co/Pg02qSDR8w
— UC Santa Barbara (@ucsantabarbara) October 27, 2018
How exactly will climate change affect the future of global food security? This is a question that researchers at #UCSB are racing to answer to prepare aquatic farmers for climate change. https://t.co/WjtPk1a45a
— UC Santa Barbara (@ucsantabarbara) September 19, 2018
The California Coastal Act increases property values, according to new @brenucsb research. https://t.co/WCjkuO7J1V
— UC Santa Barbara (@ucsantabarbara) September 14, 2018
While promoting ocean #biodiversity though #overfishing has had positive results, the process may end up hurting the cause instead, according to researchers from #UCSB and @uoregon. https://t.co/lP4kcRlIgF
— UC Santa Barbara (@ucsantabarbara) August 30, 2018
With the rise of digital currencies, will physical cash become a thing of the past? Probably, says #UCSB economics professor Rod Garratt. https://t.co/MqL9rwmjB9
— UC Santa Barbara (@ucsantabarbara) August 18, 2018
Wildfires are inevitable, but increasing home losses, fatalities and costs are not. So say #UCSB researchers Max Moritz, Naomi Tague and Sarah Anderson, in a new piece co-authored for @ConversationUS. https://t.co/u1euoP6iFe
— UC Santa Barbara (@ucsantabarbara) August 15, 2018
New wildfire-prevention software developed by #UCSB professor Christina Tague shows forestry officials where best to bulldoze fire breaks, cut down trees, or clear scrub. https://t.co/g1fElOLZ1Z
— UC Santa Barbara (@ucsantabarbara) August 10, 2018
Equitable access to healthy food sources is more important than ever. A new study conducted by #UCSB researchers on fishing fleets shows important implications for how our planet shares food and wealth. https://t.co/smKSi316QD
— UC Santa Barbara (@ucsantabarbara) August 9, 2018
After being called “young and naïve” by a politician, #UCSB student Rose Strauss turned the situation around to inspire many to push forward and make their voices heard. https://t.co/UjZ5U8ZhC9
— UC Santa Barbara (@ucsantabarbara) July 28, 2018
The more complex and connected a system is, the more susceptible it is to disruptive cyber-attacks. Thankfully, #UCSB professor João Hespanha has suggested a new method for protecting those increasingly complex and connected power grids from attack. https://t.co/Hb12HjW47A
— UC Santa Barbara (@ucsantabarbara) July 26, 2018
Today’s sociopolitical drama parallels the time between the two world wars, an era #UCSB Ph.D. candidate Brian J. Griffith knows well. His class on the interwar crisis allows students to share what they’ve learned by contributing to the course blog. https://t.co/SUqrmevNw6
— UC Santa Barbara (@ucsantabarbara) July 21, 2018
The dangers of weaponized #AI may not be so far off from the dystopian articles circulating lately. Giovanni Vigna, #UCSB professor & co-founder of @lastlineinc, sat down with @Forbes to explain how hackers use AI systems to build vulnerabilities. https://t.co/IIoq3TkQ5L
— UC Santa Barbara (@ucsantabarbara) July 18, 2018
Just how far apart are Republicans and Democrats when it comes to views on climate change? Not all that far, as it turns out. According to scientists from #UCSB and @CUBoulder, they’re just too party-focused to notice. https://t.co/5GOgWRncQM
— UC Santa Barbara (@ucsantabarbara) July 17, 2018
2 years after the UK decided to leave the European Union, the recent resignations of Brexit secretary David Davis and Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson will make the difficult #Brexit process even more difficult, according to #UCSB scholar Benjamin J. Cohen. https://t.co/zskLkLSFvU
— UC Santa Barbara (@ucsantabarbara) July 14, 2018
A new paper by researchers from #UCSB and @UW show that short-term management responses to disasters may be inefficient and even maladaptive in the long term. https://t.co/5yuXOnWq2N
— UC Santa Barbara (@ucsantabarbara) July 11, 2018
Tens of thousands of pounds of carbon emissions. Hundreds of thousands of kilowatt hours. More than a million gallons of water. Those are just some of the annual environmental savings coming soon to #UCSB, courtesy of The Green Initiative Fund. https://t.co/0dLvsZfwdk
— UC Santa Barbara (@ucsantabarbara) July 10, 2018
Launching in Aug., the EXPORTS campaign aims to better understand the movement of carbon in the ocean. 7 years in the making, this ambitious endeavor has 100+ scientists and crew, including #UCSB oceanographer David Siegel, the science lead on the project. https://t.co/3rRfphoata
— UC Santa Barbara (@ucsantabarbara) July 10, 2018
#UCSB Nobel laureate Shuji Nakamura is one of 38 naturalized citizens whose contributions to the U.S. will be celebrated by the Carnegie Corporation of New York as part of its annual “Great Immigrants” tribute. https://t.co/ijSIU7LtfE
— UC Santa Barbara (@ucsantabarbara) July 2, 2018
#UCSB political science professor Kathleen Bruhn spoke with @nytimes ahead of Mexico's presidential election. On President-elect Andrés Manuel López Obrador: “He genuinely thinks he is the best outcome for Mexico." https://t.co/JDGmzS43dx
— UC Santa Barbara (@ucsantabarbara) July 2, 2018
#UCSB scholar who advised senior officials in the Department of Defense outlines national security implications of the U.S.-NoKo summit. https://t.co/q0kqxQuurg
— UC Santa Barbara (@ucsantabarbara) June 12, 2018
Santa Barbara locals know that most summer days start off gloomy—that doesn’t seem to be the case this year. #UCSB researchers Dar Roberts and Max Moritz found that decreasing cloud cover due to the warming climate increases chances of bigger wildfires. https://t.co/6P9Cad1YaT
— UC Santa Barbara (@ucsantabarbara) June 2, 2018
Holly Gore’s research focusses on the work by Isamu Noguchi and other American designers from that era. The #UCSB scholar was one of ten recipients to be awarded a fellowship from the American Council of Learned Societies for her project. https://t.co/q4YuTq9XZT
— UC Santa Barbara (@ucsantabarbara) May 25, 2018
#UCSB ROTC cadets put their leadership skills to the test and get a taste of life in the Army through a 3-day training trip at the U.S. Army’s Fort Hunter Liggett in Monterey County. https://t.co/VyeTgzNGvT
— UC Santa Barbara (@ucsantabarbara) May 22, 2018
Harry Truman’s decisions around the use of nuclear weapons during WWII have consequences even today. UCSB historian Alex Wellerstein will discuss this when he presents the Lawrence Badash Memorial Lecture tomorrow at 4 p.m. in the McCune Conference Room. https://t.co/Y0JqEUyu7n
— UC Santa Barbara (@ucsantabarbara) May 9, 2018
A team from #UCSB conducts the first land-use analysis of future food systems focusing on aquatic farming. Consequently, aquaculture may be able to help reduce environmental impacts without the abandonment of meat as a food source. https://t.co/pwfrQLA4ip
— UC Santa Barbara (@ucsantabarbara) May 8, 2018
Researchers at #UCSB have partnered with @Google to build a quantum computer. So far, they have made great progress in the global race to building the first quantum machine to outperform the world’s best classical supercomputers. https://t.co/Fm29YMu3lx
— UC Santa Barbara (@ucsantabarbara) April 25, 2018
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