“There’s a very tight labor market, so that puts workers in a position where they have both an accumulation of lots of grievances and they feel empowered,” says Eli Friedman, associate professor and chair of International & Comparative Labor.

Brooke Duffy, an associate professor of communication at Cornell University, said courses promising to turn people into influencers have proliferated in recent years, though rarely at colleges and universities. For example, she pointed to SocialStar Creator Camp, an incubator program for young social media influencers.

Eliot Miller, a researcher and collections manager at the Cornell Lab of Ornithology who was not involved in the study says: “It’s happening. It’s not just species being lost at random. There’s a predictability to it. It’s important, if a little disappointing.”

Emma Greig, project leader of Project FeederWatch with the Cornell Lab of Ornithology, recommends bee balm (Monarda), cardinal flowers (Lobelia cardinalis) and hanging baskets of fuchsia.

Nikole Lewis, assistant professor of astronomy, discusses the James Webb Space Telescope and explains that on WASP-96b, the clouds are made of sand.

Coverage of a new study by authors including Flavio Lehner, a professor of earth and atmospheric science at Cornell University.

Drew Pascarella, a senior lecturer on finance at Cornell University, comments on this story about Elon Musk rethinking his offer to buy Twitter.

Continued coverage of the first images release from the James Webb Space Telescope includes Ray Jayawardhana, dean of the College of Arts and Sciences.

Jonathon Schuldt, associate professor of communication and executive director of the Roper Center, co-authors this opinion piece with Peter Enns, professor of government, to discuss the 2024 election. 

Webb compiled the composite shot in 12.5 hours, achieving well beyond what its predecessor the Hubble Space Telescope could in weeks. "Fantastic -- galaxies upon galaxies upon galaxies," said Jonathan Lunine, chair of the astronomy department. 

Humans have achieved spectacular large-scale engineering feats, but “we are still kind of stuck when it comes to engineering miniaturized machines,” said Itai Cohen, physicist and senior author of a new Nature study describing his team’s cilia chip. 

“People can’t fact check the world,” said Dr. Richard Friedman, professor of clinical psychiatry. “They’re awash in competing streams of information, both good and bad. They’re anxious about the future, and there are a lot of bad actors with the ability to weaponize that fear and anxiety.”