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Cornell University: Cornell Tech’s New Faculty Are Changing How AI Learns, Reasons, and Solves Problems. “Six new faculty members will join Cornell Tech during the coming year, bringing expertise in artificial intelligence, machine learning, programming languages, and operations research at a pivotal moment for the future of computing. Their work tackles some of the field’s most pressing […]

RE: https://na.social/@news/117096689107213327

"Come back to the US so we can throw you in a concentration camp for your impudence!"

#USPol #USPolitics #CornellUniversity #ICEMUSTBEDESTROYED #FuckICE

Cornell Chronicle: Cornell expands AI Critical Literacy Program for incoming students. “After a successful pilot launch in the spring, Cornell’s AI Critical Literacy Program will be offered in the fall to all incoming students as well as other interested students, faculty members and staff. The expanded program will feature four modules – ‘What is Generative AI?’; ‘Ethical Questions […]

#WildlifeWednesday

A Cornell deer 🦌 Not really afraid of humans, just like the deer in Nara. My local Darby Creek deer never let me take their photos like this 🤔

#Hiking #Walking #Wildlife #Nature #Deer #CornellUniversity #Animal #Photography

7/27/2026

Will Wildfire Smoke Harm Your Outdoor Plants? Here’s What Experts Say https://www.allforgardening.com/1910280/will-wildfire-smoke-harm-your-outdoor-plants-heres-what-experts-say/ #AnthonyGarza #CornellUniversity’sCooperativeExtensionProgram #garden #gardening #GroundsSupervisor #HillaryJufer #HorticultureProgramManager #OutdoorPlants #WildfireSmoke

#Virginia - #ClimateChange and Its Effect on #Gardening – 2025

By Elaine Mills, Extension Master Gardener, January 22, 2025

Climate-Conscious Gardening

"To quote David W. Wolfe, Professor of Plant & Soil Ecology at #CornellUniversity,
'We are in the unfortunate situation of being the first generation of gardeners, ever, who cannot rely on historical weather records to tell us what our climate is, or what to expect in the future.'

"Join Master Gardeners in the Arlington/Alexandria unit of Virginia #CooperativeExtension in a series of monthly articles updated from their original posting in 2021 as we explore the topic of climate change and practical actions individuals can take in their home landscapes in response. This month, we’ll present an overview."

Read more:
https://mgnv.org/climate-change/climate-change-and-its-effect-on-gardening-2025/

#SolarPunkSunday #VirginiaCooperativeExtension #ClimateChangeGardening #ClimateChangeAdaptation #Drought #HeavyRains #WeatherExtremes #FoodSystems #FoodSecurity #BuildingResiliency

Archaeologists May Have Been Wrong About Olive Oil for Decades, New Study Finds

A new study challenges decades of archaeological interpretations by showing that Medi…
#dining #cooking #diet #food #mediterranean #MediterraneanDiet #MediterraneanFood #MediterraneanOliveOil #OliveOil #Archaeology #CornellUniversity #foodscience #Mediterranean #Olive #organicchemistry #Prehistory
https://www.diningandcooking.com/2721322/archaeologists-may-have-been-wrong-about-olive-oil-for-decades-new-study-finds/

Archaeologists May Have Been Wrong About Olive Oil for Decades, New Study Finds

A new study challenges decades of archaeological interpretations by showing that Mediterranean soils can alter the chemical traces of anci…
#dining #cooking #diet #food #MediterraneanOliveOil #OliveOil #Archaeology #CornellUniversity #foodscience #Mediterranean #Olive #organicchemistry #Prehistory
https://www.diningandcooking.com/2721322/archaeologists-may-have-been-wrong-about-olive-oil-for-decades-new-study-finds/

Archaeologists May Have Been Wrong About Olive Oil for Decades, New Study Finds https://www.diningandcooking.com/2721322/archaeologists-may-have-been-wrong-about-olive-oil-for-decades-new-study-finds/ #Archaeology #CornellUniversity #FoodScience #Mediterranean #MediterraneanOliveOil #Olive #OliveOil #OrganicChemistry #Prehistory

Hype for the Future 250G: Tompkins County, New York

https://novatopflex.wordpress.com/2026/07/08/hype-for-the-future-250g-tompkins-county-new-york/

Cornell Chronicle: Digital research repository arXiv to start new chapter as nonprofit. “When [Professor Paul] Ginsparg returned to Cornell as a professor in 2001, he brought the online research repository arXiv with him. And for 25 years it has remained at Cornell, where it has grown into a global clearinghouse for millions of research papers, accessible to anyone with an internet connection. […]

Unsere Blogreihe „Frauen in der Wissenschaft“ stellt #TIB-Kolleginnen vor, die Einblicke in ihre Wege und ihre persönlichen Erfahrungen in der Wissenschaft geben. Dr. Lauren Snyder studierte Ökologie & Naturschutz an der #BostonUniversity und promovierte an der #CornellUniversity.
Im Interview spricht sie darüber, warum klare Zielvorstellungen genauso wichtig sind wie Offenheit für Unerwartetes und warum die Menschen, mit denen man arbeitet, eine wichtige Rolle spielen: https://blog.tib.eu/2026/05/19/frauen-in-der-wissenschaft-dr-lauren-snyder

Our blog series "Women in Science" introduces #TIB colleagues who provide insights into their careers and personal experiences in science. Dr Lauren Snyder studied Ecology & Conservation Biology at #BostonUniversity and earned her PhD at #CornellUniversity.
In this interview, she talks about why having clear goals is just as important as being open to the unexpected, and why the people you work with play such an important role: https://blog.tib.eu/2026/05/19/women-in-science-dr-lauren-snyder

Muzzling goes to new extremes on US campuses

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://electronicintifada.net/blogs/michael-f-brown/muzzling-goes-new-extremes-us-campuses

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

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:
https://www.allaboutbirds.org/cams/wildflower-great-horned-owls/

#CornellUniversity #MerlinApp #Birdwatching #Birding #Owls

#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.

#OpenScience #AcademicPublishing

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!

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
#CornellUniversity | #CornellDuffieldCollegeofEngineering

Glad to have been part of this initiative and to have met so many talented students.

https://news.weill.cornell.edu/news/2026/03/students-design-ai-powered-health-solutions-at-cornell-health-hackathon

#WeillCornellMedicine #AI #Hackathon #CornellUniversity

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.
#corpspeak #growthhacking

https://it.slashdot.org/story/26/03/08/0216238/workers-who-love-synergizing-paradigms-might-be-bad-at-their-jobs?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed

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/

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

Large-scale online deanonymization with LLMs
From Cornel University Computer Science

We 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

https://arxiv.org/abs/2602

#computerscience #cornelluniversity #AiResearch #privacy #anonymity #llm #HackNews #athropic #pseudonymity
#deanonymization

#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 Lanternfly

The 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
#MaineDepartmentOfAgricultureConservationAndForestry

#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

#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.

https://flip.it/hRlvoU

#TrumpAdministration #Universities #HigherEducation #Cornell #CornellUniversity #DEI #Antisemitism