Rachel Bezner Kerr, professor of global development, says: “In some regions of the world it will become not possible to grow food, or to raise animals. That’s if we continue on our current trajectory.”

This article lists Merlin Bird ID, out of the Lab of Ornithology, as one of 4 free mobile applications for identifying flora and fauna.

Visiting assistant professor of law, Ezra Young, discusses the lack of consequences faced by insurers who discriminate based on gender identity.

“Studies show that kids privately disagree with social norms they publicly endorse,” says Michael Macy, professor of information science and sociology. “Kids even have a term for that kind of inauthenticity – they call them posers.”

“Like many of the changes Twitter has enacted since Elon Musk took over, the rollout of Twitter Blue has been frenetic and wildly inconsistent,” says Brooke Erin Duffy, associate professor of communications. 

Louis Hyman, professor of industrial and labor relations, discusses the history of mass layoffs in corporate America.

Kaushik Basu, professor of economics, weighs on on Twitter's decision to offer paid-only verifications.

“Talk is cheap but it’s not that cheap, it’s not nothing,” says Cathy Creighton, director of the ILR Buffalo Co-Lab. “If you can’t get systems changed, then incrementalism is better than doing nothing — it creates a stone that rolls downhill and gets bigger.”

In a study led by Ian Hewson, professor of microbiology, a team of researchers discovered a unicellular ciliate to be the cause of significant sea urchin deaths.

Ilana Brito, associate professor of biomedical engineering, discusses microbiome research from the University of Trento.

Video shows trash-collecting robots that were deployed by a team of student researchers, Fanjan Bu, Ilan Mandel, Wen-Ying Lee, and Wendy Ju, to better understand human-robot interactions.

Saule Omarova, professor of law, discusses options for more secure banking in this opinion essay.