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Unpredictable spring weather may cause chaos for local gardeners this year https://www.allforgardening.com/1750543/unpredictable-spring-weather-may-cause-chaos-for-local-gardeners-this-year/ #ChrisZeisz #CornellUniversity #garden #gardening #PlantingSeason #RecordRainfall #SpringWeather #SteveReiners #UnpredictableConditions
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Post for a late / early #SolarPunkSunday... #OwlCams! Check out the baby #Owlets!
"The #GreatHornedOwlCam just got a whole lot cuter this week thanks to two new arrivals. Athena, the female owl, stood watch over the nest as her first egg hatched a down-covered owlet on April 8 after 34 days of incubation. The second owlet arrived two days later, on April 10. Over the next six weeks, viewers will get an intimate look at the nestling period of one of the sky’s most formidable predators."
Read more:
https://www.allaboutbirds.org/cams/owlets-hatch-at-the-wildflower-center-great-horned-owl-nest/Live feed:
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#arXiv has announced that, from July 1, 2026, it will become an independent #nonprofit after many years at #CornellUniversity. The stated goals are greater organizational flexibility, faster technological development, broader partnerships, and long-term financial sustainability, while keeping the same mission:
🌍 https://blog.arxiv.org/2026/04/02/arxiv-is-becoming-an-independent-nonprofit/
Sounds like a reasonable and probably necessary step for a platform that has long become core research infrastructure.
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An independent arXiv
I’m a bit late passing this news on, but a few weeks ago arXiv announced that from 1st July 2026 it will be establishing itself as an “independent nonprofit organization”. It has been hosted for many years by Cornell University. You can read here about the reasons for this and how it will work, and there is a lengthier article in Science magazine, but the quick summary is
This transition allows for faster technological development, greater organizational flexibility, expanded partnerships, and long-term financial sustainability. A platform built by scientists for scientists, the new arXiv will continue to serve researchers worldwide with the same dedication to free and open scientific discovery.
Such a move creates opportunities, but also carries risks. The sustainability of the new-look arXiv will depend on finding appropriate sources of income, for example. I wish arXiv well in this move. There’s an advertisement for the post of Chief Executive, if anyone fancies the job!
One possible future model for the Open Journal of Astrophysics is as a standalone non-profit organization of some sort, funded also by donations. Currently we are funded by the Library at Maynooth University, where I am based. Having made the decision not to charge fees of any kind, we lack any source of income other than the University. I am very grateful for that support, but we are run on a very tight budget. We keep costs to an absolute minimum, but are not free.
I have written before about what I think the future of Diamond Open Access could look like. I would like to see a range of Diamond Open Access journals offering a choice for authors and serving different sub-disciplines. Most universities nowadays have publishing operations so there could be network of federated journals, some based on arXiv and some based on other repositories and others with different models, such as SciPost. Perhaps institutions are worried about the expense but, as we have shown the actual cost, is far less than they are wasting on Article Processing Charges.
Everything is working well right now at OJAp, but it is not reasonable that the expense of running a journal that serves the global astrophysics community should fall entirely on one small University in Ireland. It won’t be sustainable in the long run, either, if we continue to grow at the present rate. Compare us with the Diamond Open Access publisher SCIPOST, which has a long list of sponsors covering its costs; we have none. My only hope at the moment of turning OJAp into an independent organization is to win the lottery!
Another thing makes me nervous. Many modern universities, which are nominally non-profit institutions, are managed by people who care far more about revenue generation than about academic scholarship and research. I worry that someone upstairs might pressurize us to introduce charges to generate income by threatening to close us down.
I know that money is very tight in astrophysics these days but if you have access to any potential sources of funding – then please consider supporting OJAp!
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Global Atlas Will Track Human And Climate Impact On River Systems
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https://news.cornell.edu/stories/2026/03/global-atlas-will-track-human-and-climate-impact-river-systems
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“Rivers are critical resources that affect everything from watersheds to agriculture to energy. But rivers, in turn, have been impacted by humans, often in the form of hydraulic infrastructure such as dams and wells.
A new [Cornell] project… will create a global record that shows how river systems around the world have changed under human influence over the last 75 years…”
#GIS #spatial #mapping #research #spatialanalysis #spatiotemporal #water #waterresources #river #remotesensing #earthobservation #climatechange #climate #change #resources #humanimpacts #survey #monitoring #hydraulic #infrastructure #dams #wells #engineered #canals #global #spatialdata #opendata #history #anthropocene #freshwater #DARE #sediment #discharge #transport #temperature #fish #biodiversity #atlas #ecology #ecosystems #riverine #delta #model #modeling #machinelearning #AI
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Glad to have been part of this initiative and to have met so many talented students.
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Workers Who Love 'Synergizing #Paradigms ' Might Be Bad at Their Jobs
#CornellUniversity makes an announcement. "Employees who are impressed by vague corporate-speak like ' #synergistic leadership,' or 'growth-hacking paradigms' may struggle with practical decision-making, a new Cornell study reveals.
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“Iran, Israel and the U.S. have all struck #oil and #gas facilities since the war started, worsening #supply concerns.
In economic terms, this is already the largest oil supply shock ever,” said Nicholas Mulder, an assitant professor of history who studies the economic impacts of wars at #CornellUniversity. As Gulf producers reduce output and shut down production, he explained, “we are seeing roughly three to four times as many barrels of oil lost as during the 1973 and 1979 #OilCrises.”
<https://apnews.com/article/markets-oil-iran-trump-war-brent-72e8c9a29c2ba1fd761ee968f3d4e553>
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How John Meadow’s LDV Hospitality Came To Rule The Food World
94 If you’ve had an unforgettable meal in New York City, you can probably thank John Meadow, who is the mastermind behind …
#dining #cooking #diet #food #Italiancuisine #CornellUniversity'sSchoolofHotelAdministration #HotelSeville #Italia #Italian #italiancuisine #italiano #italy #JohnMeadow #LDVHospitality #scarpetta #ThePlazaHotel
https://www.diningandcooking.com/2547621/how-john-meadows-ldv-hospitality-came-to-rule-the-food-world/ -
How John Meadow’s LDV Hospitality Came To Rule The Food World https://www.diningandcooking.com/2547621/how-john-meadows-ldv-hospitality-came-to-rule-the-food-world/ #CornellUniversity'sSchoolOfHotelAdministration #HotelSeville #Italia #Italian #ItalianCuisine #italiano #italy #JohnMeadow #LDVHospitality #scarpetta #ThePlazaHotel
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Dormant oils and how they work in gardening https://www.allforgardening.com/1634525/dormant-oils-and-how-they-work-in-gardening/ ##hub #agriculture #AgricultureU0026Forestry #AGROCHEMICALS #AI #content #control #cornell #CornellUniversity #diy #DIYU0026ExpertContent #Enabled #expert #forestry #garden #gardening #Highlights #home #HomeImprovementHub #HowTo #improvement #maintenance #Neutral #Overall #OverallNeutral #Pest #PestControl #story #StoryHighlightsAIEnabled #u0026 #University #yard #YardMaintenance
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Large-scale online deanonymization with LLMs
From Cornel University Computer ScienceWe show that large language models can be used to perform at-scale deanonymization. With full Internet access, our agent can re-identify Hacker News users and Anthropic Interviewer participants at high precision, given pseudonymous online profiles and conversations alone, matching what would take hours for a dedicated human investigator. We then design attacks for the closed-world setting. Given two databases of pseudonymous individuals, each containing unstructured text written by or about that individual, we implement a scalable attack pipeline that uses LLMs to: (1) extract identity-relevant features, (2) search for candidate matches via semantic embeddings, and (3) reason over top candidates to verify matches and reduce false positives. Compared to classical deanonymization work (e.g., on the Netflix prize) that required structured data, our approach works directly on raw user content across arbitrary platforms. We construct three datasets with known ground-truth data to evaluate our attacks. The first links Hacker News to LinkedIn profiles, using cross-platform references that appear in the profiles. Our second dataset matches users across Reddit movie discussion communities; and the third splits a single user's Reddit history in time to create two pseudonymous profiles to be matched. In each setting, LLM-based methods substantially outperform classical baselines, achieving up to 68% recall at 90% precision compared to near 0% for the best non-LLM method. Our results show that the practical obscurity protecting pseudonymous users online no longer holds and that threat models for online privacy need to be reconsidered.
Simon Lermen, Daniel Paleka, Joshua Swanson, Michael Aerni, Nicholas Carlini, Florian Tramè
#computerscience #cornelluniversity #AiResearch #privacy #anonymity #llm #HackNews #athropic #pseudonymity
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#MDACF - #InvasiveInsects on the Horizon: #BoxTreeMoth and #SpottedLanternfly
February 25, 2026
"Two invasive insects are spreading in the United States. Neither is known to be established in Maine, although both are closing in around our borders. Please be aware of these insects and report any suspicious sightings to help our efforts to manage them.
Box Tree Moth
If you have #boxwood plantings, keep your eyes out for box tree moth. This invasive pest was first discovered in #NewYork in 2021 and has subsequently spread to at least 10 other states despite state and federal quarantines. It has also been confirmed in #NewBrunswick, Canada near the Maine border.
Boxwoods infested with box tree moth are characterized by leaf defoliation, the presence of silken threads, and girdling of twigs. A heavy infestation will lead to plant mortality.
Although adult moths are strong fliers, box tree moth mostly moves to new areas as eggs and overwintering caterpillars on boxwood plants. These life stages are easy to miss, so it's important to check your boxwoods carefully for signs of this new invasive insect. If you suspect you have box tree moth, immediately contact [email protected].
Spotted LanternflyThe spotted lanternfly (SLF) is a large planthopper that has been spreading around the eastern half of the United States since 2016, where it is now in 18 states. It is still not known to be established in Maine, although we periodically receive reports of adult lanternflies, generally observed at rest areas and in warehouses.
Originally from Asia, the spotted lanternfly "hitchhiked" to Pennsylvania as egg masses on stone tile imports. When the eggs hatched in the spring, the little planthopper nymphs found their way to some preferred host plants, like tree-of-heaven, maple, and grape. Planthoppers have straw-like mouthparts (stylets) that they insert into plants to suck out the juices. This type of feeding can severely weaken the plant and sometimes spread diseases. The spotted lanternfly sticks its stylet into the stem and bark of plants, extracting the sap and exuding honeydew," a sticky liquid that rains down on surfaces, promoting the growth of sooty mold.
The spotted lanternfly has caused plant mortality in states where its firmly established. Please familiarize yourself with the different life stages of this bug and report any sightings. Please send photos or collect the specimen and email us: [email protected]."
Source:
https://www.maine.gov/dacf/about/news/news.shtml?id=13343929
Box Tree Moth
(Cydalima perspectalis)Exotic Insect Pest Fact Sheet (via #CornellUniversity)
https://cals.cornell.edu/integrated-pest-management/outreach-education/fact-sheets/box-tree-moth
#SolarPunkSunday #SaveTheTrees #Forestry #Stewardship #CitizenScience #InvasiveSpecies #InvasiveSpeciesWeek
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#SnowWashing Is Everywhere—Fabric Experts Explain When It Works and When It Doesn’t
From #rugs and #blankets to #sweaters, this old-world laundry trick can refresh fabrics without water or detergent. Experts break down how to reap the benefits—and when to skip it.
By Terri Robertson, Published: Jan 30, 2026
"I can barely scroll TikTok or Instagram these days without coming across a post about the latest laundry trend—snow washing, or #snötvätt in Swedish. This traditional cleaning method is sort of like taking your #wool clothing, blankets, and rugs to #MotherNature’s #DryCleaner.
"It’s free, completely natural, and nothing new to those who live in Nordic countries. Many knitters are hip to the process too. But everyone else might be wondering, does this really work?
"Enter Fran Kozen and Larissa Shepherd, experts in fiber science and apparel design at #CornellUniversity who are demystifying the trend—and as it turns out, it’s a really good one."
Learn more:
https://www.countryliving.com/home-maintenance/cleaning/a70203964/snow-washing-trend/Archived version:
https://archive.ph/pJ5OV#SolarPunkSunday #SnowWashing #SnowCleaning #Winter #Laundry #NaturesDryCleaning #WoolBlankets #WoolClothing
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#Google Fulfilled #ICE Subpoena Demanding #StudentJournalist’s #Bank and #CreditCard Numbers
#AmandlaThomasJohnson didn’t know how much information ICE requested in a subpoena until months later. Google never gave him a chance to fight it.
Jessica Washington. February 10 2026
Excerpt: "Amandla Thomas-Johnson had attended a protest targeting companies that supplied weapons to Israel at a #CornellUniversity job fair in 2024 for all of five minutes, but the action got him banned from campus. When President Donald Trump assumed office and issued a series of executive orders targeting students who protested in support of #Palestinians, Thomas-Johnson and his friend Momodou Taal went into hiding."Google informed Thomas-Johnson via a brief email in April that it had already shared his metadata with the Department of Homeland Security, as The Intercept previously reported. But the full extent of the information the agency sought — including usernames, addresses, itemized list of services, including any IP masking services, telephone or instrument numbers, subscriber numbers or identities, and credit card and bank account numbers — was not previously known.
" 'I’d already seen the subpoena request that Google and Meta had sent to Momodou [Taal], and I knew that he had gotten in touch with a lawyer and the lawyer successfully challenged that,' Thomas-Johnson said. 'I was quite surprised to see that I didn’t have that opportunity.'
"The subpoena provides no justification for why ICE is asking for this information, except that it’s required 'in connection with an investigation or inquiry relating to the enforcement of U.S. immigration laws.' In the subpoena, ICE requests that Google not 'disclose the existence of this summons for indefinite period of time.'
Thomas-Johnson, who is British, believes that ICE requested that information to track and eventually detain him — but he had already fled to Geneva, Switzerland, and is now in Dakar, Senegal."The #ElectronicFrontierFoundation, which is representing Thomas-Johnson, and the #ACLU of Northern California sent a letter to Google, #Amazon, #Apple, #Discord, #Meta, #Microsoft, and #Reddit last week calling on tech companies to resist similar subpoenas in the future from #DHS without court intervention. The letter asks the companies to provide users with as much notice as possible before complying with a subpoena to give them the opportunity to fight it, and to resist gag orders that would prevent the #TechCompanies from informing targets that a subpoena was issued.
" 'Your promises to protect the privacy of users are being tested right now. As part of the federal government’s unprecedented campaign to target critics of its conduct and policies, agencies like DHS have repeatedly demanded access to the identities and information of people on your services,' the letter reads.
" 'Based on our own contact with targeted users, we are deeply concerned your companies are failing to challenge unlawful surveillance and defend user privacy and speech.' "
Read more:
https://theintercept.com/2026/02/10/google-ice-subpoena-student-journalist/Archived version:
https://archive.ph/zEa6d
#ResistICE #ResistFascism #USPol #Authoritarianism #Fascism #ICEOut #DefundICE #Orwellian #BigBrother #NineteenEightyFour #FreePalestine #FreeGaza #SilencingDissent #SilencingFreeSpeech #DepartmentOfHomelandInsecurity -
Cornell University has agreed to pay $60 million to end discrimination investigations against it. $30 million will go to the U.S. government, while $30 million is earmarked for research to strengthen U.S. agriculture. The agreement requires Cornell to provide admissions data to the government so it can ensure race is not considered, follow all Title VI and Title IX laws. and conduct annual campus surveys on antisemitism. However, the university does not admit any wrongdoing in agreeing to the terms. Here's more from @AxiosNews.
#TrumpAdministration #Universities #HigherEducation #Cornell #CornellUniversity #DEI #Antisemitism
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#CornellUniversity
Another one falls! This is an abomination and affront to all that is good and decent. Fuck Trump and Cornell.Cornell University to pay $60M in deal with Trump administration to restore federal funding
"Cornell University has agreed to pay $60 million and accept the Trump administration’s interpretation of civil rights laws in order to restore federal funding and end investigations into the Ivy League school. Cornell President Michael Kotlikoff ...'
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French Bread Pizza Isn’t From France. Here’s Where It Actually Comes From
It can be said that pizza is a culinary icon. Humbly stated, it is so beloved that there have been many renditions of it, one of which is the French bread pizza. You m…
#dining #cooking #diet #food #Frenchcooking #Cooking #CornellUniversity #francais #france #French #FrenchBread #frenchbreadpizza #frenchcooking
https://www.diningandcooking.com/2322388/french-bread-pizza-isnt-from-france-heres-where-it-actually-comes-from/ -
French Bread Pizza Isn’t From France. Here’s Where It Actually Comes From https://www.diningandcooking.com/2322388/french-bread-pizza-isnt-from-france-heres-where-it-actually-comes-from/ #Cooking #CornellUniversity #francais #france #French #FrenchBread #FrenchBreadPizza #FrenchCooking
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Reuters: USDA Migrates Data Archive to New Website, Dropping Cornell’s Mann Library. “Archived crop and livestock reports from the U.S. Department of Agriculture were set to transfer to a new government website on Wednesday with the agency’s existing online archive, hosted by Cornell University’s Mann Library, decommissioned, the USDA and a Cornell official said on Tuesday.”
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The Latest Projects from Cornell’s ECE 4760/5730 - ECE 4760/5730 is the Digital Systems Design Using Microcontrollers course at Corne... - https://hackaday.com/2025/08/30/the-latest-projects-from-cornells-ece-4760-5730/ #cornelluniversity #microcontrollers #digitalsystems #ece4760/5730
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The Latest Projects from Cornell’s ECE 4760/5730 https://hackaday.com/2025/08/30/the-latest-projects-from-cornells-ece-4760-5730/ #CornellUniversity #Microcontrollers #microcontrollers #DigitalSystems #ECE4760/5730
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Cornell Chronicle: Research at risk: Protecting national defense from cyberattacks. “Their interdisciplinary research team commissioned a new cyber test range; initiated industry partnerships; and developed case studies about cyberattacks that have infiltrated chip supply chains (CrowdStrike, Stuxnet and Operation Grim Beeper are a few well-known examples). But in April, a stop-work order […]
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But if she were a country music act?
Or white?
There's places in NYC and Newark that will support and love her.
#cornelluniversity #blackmastodon https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/music/story/2025-04-25/kehlani-loses-cornell-gig-university-president-cites-anti-israel-sentiments
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Kehlani Removed From #CornellUniversity Performance Due to Opposition to Israel’s War in #Gaza
The president of the university, which recently had more than $1 billion in funding frozen by the #Trump administration, said that #Kehlani “has espoused #antisemitic, anti-#Israel sentiments in performances, videos, and on social media
By Matthew Strauss
April 24, 2025#FakeAntisemitism
#PermanentCeasfireNow
#IsraelWarCrimes
#ArrestNetanyahuAndGallant
#USHandsOffICC
#StopGazaGenocide
#GazaBelongsToPalestine
#NeverStopTalkingAboutPalestine
#StopArmingIsrael
#BDS #DivestFromIsrael
#RestoreFundsToUNRWA
#SolidarityWithPalestine is #NotAntisemitism
#EqualRightsForAllFromTheRiverToTheSea is #NotAntisemitic
#JewHatredHurtsPalestine
#Palestine #MiddleEast #WestAsia #politics
#USA #US #USPolitics
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https://www.npr.org/transcripts/nx-s1-5357619
Universities push back against Trump's cuts on #federalfunding
