Steve Reiners, professor of horticulture at Cornell University, says now is the time to start planning for indoor plantings if you want to prepare transplants for your vegetable garden this year.

Landon Schnabel is an assistant professor of sociology at Cornell University. He focuses on gender inequality alongside other dimensions of social inequality, including sexual orientation and race. He argues that the success of the French abortion rights vote underscores the role of culture, religion and secular governance in the preservation and progress of individual freedoms.

International

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Cornell University climate scientist Flavio Lehner notes that the Smokehouse Creek fire, like the Eastland County fires of 2022, sits geographically near a dividing line between regions of the country that are forecast to experience either more or less precipitation in the future.

Energy, Environment & Sustainability

Atkinson Center for a Sustainable Future

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Art Wheaton serves as director of labor studies at Cornell’s School of Industrial and Labor Relations (ILR) and says the potential strike by Teamsters at A-B is a story told in nearly all Union negotiations.

Business, Economics & Entrepreneurship

Industrial and Labor Relations

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The Supreme Court heard a pair of cases that will influence the future of online speech and the limits of future tech regulation.

Law and Policy

Cornell Tech

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The owner of Tumblr and WordPress.com, Automattic, is reportedly in talks with major AI companies to provide training data from users’ posts. Following the news, both sites now have a policy allowing users to opt-out of data sharing with third parties.

Cornell Tech

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Victoria Beard, a professor of city and regional planning and director of the Cornell Mui Ho Center for Cities, comments the growing threat of water shortages in cities around the world.

Energy, Environment & Sustainability

Architecture, Art and Planning

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Andrew Farnsworth, a research associate at Cornell University’s Lab of Ornithology says birds striking buildings is a primary source of bird population declines and should be addressed.

New York City

New York State

Lab of Ornithology

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Jason Londo, associate professor of fruit crop physiology and climate adaptation, says so far, the mild winter has been okay for fruit crops, but things can change quickly with one extreme weather event.

New York State

Food & Agriculture

Agriculture and Life Sciences

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Google is pausing the ability for its Gemini AI to generate images of people, after the tool was found to be creating inaccurate historical images. 

Computing & Information Sciences

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