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Adrienne Gorny
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Assistant Professor of Plant Nematology at NC State University
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morgancarterphd.bsky.social
One real strength of @plantdisease.bsky.social is the Public Policy Board. They coordinate information about federal changes and advocate for science policy.

If you are at #PlantHealth2025, attend a PPB listening session! Not here? There are virtual sessions and emails - watch your inbox.
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August 3, 2025 at 10:50 PM
adriennegorny.bsky.social
Last week our team went out soil sampling in vegetables as part of a survey project to support root-knot nematode management in tomato and other veggies. Grad student Makayla is searching high and low for those nematodes!!
July 2, 2025 at 8:41 PM
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A proud day for the lab as Masters student Sarah gave her department seminar and passed her thesis defense!! Way to go Sarah!!
May 30, 2025 at 8:04 PM
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jeremymberg.bsky.social
REMINDER.....REMINDER......REMINDER

3 DAYS LEFT TO COMMENT ON SCHEDULE F

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May 20, 2025 at 8:33 PM
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barackobama.bsky.social
Harvard has set an example for other higher-ed institutions - rejecting an unlawful and ham-handed attempt to stifle academic freedom, while taking steps to make sure students can benefit from an environment of intellectual inquiry, rigorous debate and mutual respect. Let’s hope others follow suit.
April 15, 2025 at 3:52 AM
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The Atomic Spectroscopy Group provides standardized measurements used across wide swaths of science and industry. The Trump administration plans to cut it.
Trump cuts threaten measurement lab critical for advanced chips and medical devices
The Atomic Spectroscopy Group provides standardized measurements used across wide swaths of science and industry. The Trump administration plans to cut it.
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March 26, 2025 at 4:23 PM
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morgancarterphd.bsky.social
Ignored this email until I saw this post, so thanks for the heads up and hope other #Cornell alums will see
snowgall.bsky.social snowgall @snowgall.bsky.social · Feb 6
If you are a Cornell Alum, you can vote in the upcoming Alumni Trustee Election.

This vote is important - two of the candidates are right-wing attorneys who will work to enact their political agenda on the university's administration.

See alt text for more info.

vote.yeselections.com/cornell/
Dear Cornell Alum, I'm writing about an issue of concern that will have far-reaching consequences for students, faculty, staff, and the future of research and teaching at Cornell. I urge you to take action by voting this month in the Cornell Alumni Trustee Election. Thank you for considering. If you’re like most alums, you probably don’t think very much about the annual Cornell Alumni Trustee Election. This tradition, rare among Cornell’s peer institutions, allows alumni to elect two trustees to four-year terms every year. All alumni have an equal vote — regardless of when you graduated, or what type of degree you hold. Usually, these elections are low-key affairs, featuring candidates who have a track record of activity in alumni affairs, and who have been vetted and endorsed by the Cornell Alumni Association’s Committee on Trustee Nominations (CATN). But this year is different — on the ballot are two ultra-right-wing attorneys, not endorsed by the CATN, who petitioned with alumni signatures to become nominees. If elected, they will hold sway at a critically important time for academic freedom and university governance, and will select, along with the other members of the Board of Trustees, Cornell’s next president. They are: • J. Kennerly (Ken) Davis Jr., a leader within the Federalist Society, the far-right conservative and libertarian organization that advocates for a textualist and originalist interpretation of the U.S. Constitution. He is also active with the Alumni Free Speech Alliance and the Cornell Free Speech Alliance, which oppose anti-racist DEI efforts, and which promote the nebulous idea of “viewpoint diversity” — the idea that all opinions should be represented in classrooms, regardless of their academic, scholarly, or scientific merit. • Cindy Crawford, an attorney for the Koch brothers’ primary political advocacy group, Americans for Prosperity Foundation, which advocates to end government regulations of environmental and safety issues, to end public education as a universal good, and to promote other policies that make it easier for the ultra-rich to become richer and to control public life. What do these candidates believe? In their own words: Of his student days in the 1960s, Davis wrote: “[T]he devastation wrought upon … all of Cornell by the shameful capitulation of President James Perkins to the armed occupation of Willard Straight Hall by campus radicals taught me forever that constitutionally compliant enforcement of the law and rule-based order is absolutely essential to protecting and preserving the integrity of the academic enterprise and, indeed, all of civil society.” Apparently referring to campus protest and movements for greater equity and justice, Crawford wrote: “[W]e are at a tipping point in which all elite universities, and Cornell in particular, must decide whether they will remain beacons of learning or acquiesce to demands for censorship, conformity, and political activism. It is relatively easy to pay homage to free expression and diversity of thought. But it can be difficult to uphold those values when confronted by aggressive attempts to shout down (or shut down) that support. I have dedicated my professional life to those issues, and I can guide and defend an incoming administration that is going to face severe challenges and tough decisions that will inevitably spawn outrage, whether real or feigned.” (Crawford's professional life has been inside Koch-network organizations that seek to support billionaires and to undermine environmental regulations, public education, taxation on wealth, and other functions of civil society and the public good.) Neither candidate has a significant volunteer history with the university, unlike the CATN-endorsed candidates. This means that they have not built up the same kind of knowledge of the operations of the university as the CATN-endorsed candidates, and it appears that their interest in sitting on the board of trustees is primarily for the purpose of enacting a right-wing political agenda on the university's administration. The Cornell Free Speech Alliance and other organizations are organizing their constituencies to vote in this election. Since voter turnout is usually low, they can have a big impact. WHAT CAN YOU DO? • VOTE before February 28. Every Cornell alum, whether a holder of an undergrad or graduate degree, from any year, is eligible to vote. • Do you know your Cornell netid and password? If not, you will need to ask for assistance. You have two options: 1. Write to Help+Cornell@yeselections.com 2. Write or email Alumni Affairs at (607) 254-7150 or alumniaffairs@cornell.edu • Review the candidates’ bios. • Visit the Cornell Alums Election Page. You will need to sign in with your netid and password OR with a code that you obtain from one of the two sources above. WHO TO VOTE FOR INSTEAD? Make your choice based on the candidate bios and statements. The primary purpose of this letter is not to endorse candidates. However, we face a strategic disadvantage against the organizations that want to elect Crawford and Davis. They have two candidates, and we have four. Every voter chooses two candidates. Their votes will be concentrated on their two chosen candidates, while ours will be spread out among the remaining four. Without ranked choice voting, it will be easier to elect Crawford and Davis. Therefore, if you're not sure who to choose among the remaining four, CATN-endorsed candidates, you might consider concentrating your votes on: • Paul Hayre, an Engineering alum, who writes about the importance to his education of his 1980s student activism against apartheid in South Africa, and the positive impact that resulted at that time from students working together with campus administration to make divestment a reality. • Karen E. Stewart, an A&S alum and long-time employee of the investment management firm TIAA, whose activities include international clean water advocacy, inclusion and belonging for undergraduate students, university financial health, and childcare support for Cornell staff and faculty during the days of pandemic shut-down.
February 24, 2025 at 7:12 PM
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son-nemaweb.bsky.social
Very exciting Career Development workshop provided by the SON Industry & Student committees!

Registration & event information can be found here: nematologists.org/event-6040380

Hope to see you there!
February 18, 2025 at 6:23 PM
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morgancarterphd.bsky.social
My heart absolutely breaks for colleagues getting fired under the pretense of "cutting waste" who are doing things like improving crops, monitoring infectious diseases, and promoting workforce development.

We are going to lose so much.
February 14, 2025 at 5:25 PM
adriennegorny.bsky.social
Officially deactivated my Twitter account! Deactivating it might only be small motion in the greater picture, but no way I could keep it after that disgusting salute. Regret not doing it sooner....
January 21, 2025 at 7:53 PM
adriennegorny.bsky.social
It was a fun day for the lab as graduate student Sarah presented her latest work at the DEPP Student Symposium!! Well done Sarah! 🎉 😄
November 22, 2024 at 9:38 PM
adriennegorny.bsky.social
First post :) We had an excellent day in the field this week harvesting a sweetpotato trial looking at management of Meloidogyne enterolobii. This complex trial would not be possible without collaboration of NC Extension agents, awesome grower-cooperators, and the sweetpotato team at NCSU!
View of a sweetpotato field in North Carolina. The cloudless October sky is a beautiful blue, and the researchers are busy scoring nematode damage neat rows of sweetpotatoes, with trucks parked in the distance.
October 27, 2023 at 4:44 PM