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Cal Alumni Association: Hard questions about AI in the classroom
In this recent article, faculty advisor Carl Boettiger describes how he teaches his students to critically assess any AI-based findings, rather than accept them as objective facts.
October 5, 2026
Open & Local AI Language Models: Part of a More Sustainable Future for Scientific Computing
Our perspectives on the value of open and local AI models in science
September 8, 2026
HMN 2026: why we don’t need more data centers to build better AI
Health Medicine Net's recent story on DSE's commentary in Nature and interview with Berkeley News.
September 2, 2026
JupyterGIS published in the Journal of Open Source Software
GeoJupyter's flagship tool to enhance open collaboration on geospatial data analysis is published for the first time in an academic journal.
August 19, 2026
Midland: US-China researchers propose UN Global Plastics Treaty reporting framework
A reshare of Packaging Insights' story on our recent Science publication that proposes a global reporting framework within the United Nations Global Plastics Treaty.
August 19, 2026
Packaging Insights: US-China researchers propose UN Global Plastics Treaty reporting framework
A feature on faculty co-director Doug McCauley's recent paper in Science regarding the United Nations' ongoing Global Plastics Treaty negotiations.
August 17, 2026
GeoJupyter Blog: Exploring Reproducibility in Geospatial GUIs Through Code Generation
Undergraduate intern Benny Szeghy describes the benefits of Map2Cell for enabling reproducibility in GUI-driven geospatial workflows.
August 14, 2026
The Daily Californianian: ‘The future of AI’ is away from data centers, UC Berkeley researchers argue
UC Berkeley's student-run newspaper interviews faculty co-director Fernando Pérez about our recent commentary in Nature.
August 14, 2026