🚀🎮 "Revolutionary" newsflash: Q-learning is still gasping for air while the rest of AI freely dances around with scalable glory. Apparently, the memo didn't reach Park at UC Berkeley, who is still lost in some time-travel paradox from 2025. 🤖📉
https://seohong.me/blog/q-learning-is-not-yet-scalable/ #Qlearning #AIresearch #UCberkeley #TechNews #TimeTravel #HackerNews #ngated

"Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear – not absence of fear." -- Mark Twain, Pudd'nhead Wilson

Sickened by the cuts to the #MarkTwainPapers at #UCBerkeley. I spent a lot of time there as a graduate student while working on my thesis. It's a gem.

https://www.sfchronicle.com/opinion/openforum/article/mark-twain-trump-president-20361118.php

#MarkTwain
#Books

Science matters, research matters! #UCBerkeley #ScienceMatters #StandUpForScience #ResearchSky #AcademicSky #USPol

RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:x7irsqqhp64woalar7obnnft/post/3lr4hoyqqps2h

I’m the daughter of an immigrant, born and raised in SoCal, educated at #Berkeley — and in 2025, I’ve never felt more proud to say those words out loud.

If 2025 has proven anything - it takes a little more than some fire to take down the #LosAngeles spirit.

#Resilience #UCBerkeley

UC Berkeley niega censurar una película armenia sobre la guerra de 44 días, aclarando que el aplazamiento fue por motivos logísticos en medio de acusaciones de presión política. #censura #EstadosUnidos #LibertadDeExpresión #PelículaArmenia #UcBerkeley https://soyarmenio.com/diaspora-armenia/berkeley-censurar-pelicula-armenia/

LMArena Gets $100M at $600M Valuation for AI Model Testing

#AI #LMArena #AIFunding #ChatbotArena #AIBenchmarks #UCBerkeley

https://winbuzzer.com/2025/05/21/lmarena-gets-100m-at-600m-valuation-for-ai-model-testing-xcxwbn/

☪️ & 💻 - Fortsetzung mit dem Projekt "Digital Hadith: Accessible Computational Tools for Studying Hadith" (Mohammad Gharaibeh). Wir freuen uns sehr auf Kolleg:innen u.a. von @vuamsterdam, @universiteitleiden, #UCBerkeley & #UCDavis.

Weitere ℹ️ siehe ⬇️.

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.

#workingclass #LaborHistory #PeoplesPark #berkeley #students #protest #activism #homelessness #reagan #PoliceBrutality #police #acab #studentprotest #university #UCBerkeley

#SF #BayArea edu institutions like #UCBerkeley take hits from #DOGE cutbacks as #Drumpf claims U.S. colleges are “dominated by #Marxist maniacs,” and #MelonHusk derides federal funding as enabling schools to “practice de facto #communism

https://www.mercurynews.com/2025/04/28/doge-cuts-hit-san-jose-state-uc-berkeley-uc-san-francisco-researcher-says-i-dont-know-that-they-understood-what-i-was-doing/?share=esooaooostculeereeeg #GiftLink #Shared Story #HigherEd

The regime launched an investigation into the University of California, Berkeley, on Friday
centered on foreign funding,
making it the latest university to be targeted by the federal government.

The investigation revives criticism from several years ago about the university’s partnership with China’s Tsinghua University.

It comes after Donald Trump earlier this week signed a series of executive orders focused on universities that he views as liberal adversaries to his political agenda.

One order called for harder enforcement of Section 117,
a federal law requiring colleges to disclose foreign gifts and contracts valued at $250,000 or more.

The Department of Education’s office of general counsel will investigate “UC Berkeley’s apparent failure to fully and accurately disclose significant funding received from foreign sources,” education secretary Linda McMahon said in a statement.

UC Berkeley denied the government’s claims, saying that for the last two years,
“UC Berkeley has been cooperating with federal inquiries regarding 117 reporting issues, and will continue to do so
#UCBerkeley
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/apr/25/trump-university-of-california-berkeley-investigation?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other

#Drumpf admin targeting of top universities does not spare #UCBerkeley whose #CalBear has been poked and probed by the President's fave pro wrestling doyenne now also in charge of the Dept of #Education.

Linda McMahon's #RWNJ minions have put the top #WestCoast public #university and research center under heat lamp of scrutiny for taking in hundreds of millions in donor dollars linked to foreign governments including #China, and a supposed culture of Title VI #discrimination against white and Jewish students. The President has personally targeted and threatened defunding the top tier #college for years, dating back to his first term.

Not only has the #campus been accused of the #CampusAntiSemitism trope but are dealing with 117 total issues laid out by federal authorities now seeking to #defund the public institution.

https://www.axios.com/2025/04/25/uc-berkeley-trump-foreign-funding

Lila Thulin: Ever heard of Fred Ross Sr.? New #documentary chronicles the legendary organizer’s work: 'American Agitators,' an award-winning film by UC Berkeley's Raymond Telles, profiles an activist who mentored Cesar Chavez and Dolores Huerta.

#Film #labor #farmworkers #ucberkeley #CesarChavez #DoloresHuerta #union
https://news.berkeley.edu/2025/03/26/ever-heard-of-fred-ross-sr-new-documentary-chronicles-the-legendary-organizers-work/

Stoking fear is the fascists' primary weapon.

Nanette Asimov: Visa revocations create ‘climate of fear’ for UC Berkeley, #Stanford international students

#gift #universities #UCBerkeley #education #fascism #tRump #immigration
https://www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/article/uc-berkeley-stanford-international-students-fear-20277989.php?utm_content=hed&sid=57f2d62b1acbcdb5538b4a4e&ss=A&st_rid=98ebc417-046c-4639-bbc2-4643319705bc&utm_source=marketing&utm_medium=copy-url-link&utm_term=alert&utm_campaign=article-share&hash=aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cuc2ZjaHJvbmljbGUuY29tL2JheWFyZWEvYXJ0aWNsZS91Yy1iZXJrZWxleS1zdGFuZm9yZC1pbnRlcm5hdGlvbmFsLXN0dWRlbnRzLWZlYXItMjAyNzc5ODkucGhw&time=MTc0NDkzMDc4NjgzMA%3D%3D&rid=OThlYmM0MTctMDQ2Yy00NjM5LWJiYzItNDY0MzMxOTcwNWJj&sharecount=Mg%3D%3D

Electric trains are quieter, more reliable than diesel. New study finds they’re healthier, too.
https://news.berkeley.edu/2025/04/16/electric-trains-are-quieter-more-reliable-than-diesel-new-study-finds-theyre-healthier-too/

#Caltrain #TransitTooter #ucberkeley

To be clear for history, the faculty of the University of California have spoken. The question now is, will the leadership of the #UC system choose to be a #harvard or a #columbia ?

#UCBerkeley #UCI #UCSD #UCDavis #UCLA #UCSB #UCSC #UCMerced #UCSF #UCR #UCOP

https://senate.universityofcalifornia.edu/_files/reports/academic-council-statement-defense-of-university-april-2025.pdf

"Roger Studley, founder and community manager of #Berkeley #Moshav, said the idea has been in development for more than a decade. He was first introduced to the concept of #cohousing while in graduate school at #UCBerkeley, around the same time he was reconnecting with his #Jewish roots after years of distance from #Judaism.

As Studley deepened his involvement in Jewish life, he began to imagine a blending of these two ideas. The result was the formation of #BerkeleyMoshav — a community where Jewish life will be one aspect of daily living, but where people of all backgrounds are welcome, he said."

https://www.dailycal.org/news/city/housing/berkeley-moshav-to-become-first-urban-jewish-cohousing-community/article_3d461ecb-495d-4c8f-95a9-9c20023270be.html

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/

Jason Pohl: Investigating the #psychedelic blue lotus of #Egypt, where ancient magic meets modern science: Online, products branded as the blue lotus promise calm moments and psychedelic trips. But they're far different from what ancient Egyptians consumed, a UC Berkeley student researcher says.

#ucberkeley #bluelotus #LiamMcEvoy #pseudoscience #Egyptology
https://news.berkeley.edu/2025/03/11/investigating-the-psychedelic-blue-lotus-of-egypt-where-ancient-magic-meets-modern-science/

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??

#HigherEd #Academia #UCBerkeley