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Emma Scales

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New York
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Covers:  science, agriculture, research & development, scientific research, advocacy, history of science, academia
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Emma Scales’s Biography

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Emma is a biologist, writer, artist, and science advocate. As a Ph.D. candidate at Cornell University, she researches the molecular underpinnings of symbioses in fungi and bacteria. She is broadly interested in how beneficial biotic interactions between diverse organisms shape ecosystems and drive evolution.

In 2025, she co-founded and co-led the McClintock Letters initiative, a nationwide op-ed writing campaign that allowed people to hear directly from scientists in their own communities about…

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Debate consensus affirms political involvement of cultural organizations

Debate consensus affirms political involvement of cultural organizations

The affirmative team argued that cultural organizations exist because of an inherent imbalance in power and t…

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Senator Tim Kaine speaks at Batten School on war powers

Senator Tim Kaine speaks at Batten School on war powers

Kaine spoke about how he became invested in war powers after watching congressional deliberations of the Iraq…

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Student Council AirBus service run at full capacity

Student Council AirBus service run at full capacity

During Thanksgiving and winter breaks this year, Student Council continued to run a discounted shuttle servic…

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Student voting increases more than fourfold since 2015

Student voting increases more than fourfold since 2015

Exactly 1,051 ballots were cast in the Virginia Senate race in the University Precinct, compared to 224 in 20…

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How the Cavalier Daily became independent: A lesson in resilience and integrity

How the Cavalier Daily became independent: A lesson in resilience and integrity

In 1979, University President Frank Hereford attempted to censor The Cavalier Daily after it had reported ext…

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Fully staffed police, ambassador presence on Halloween

Fully staffed police, ambassador presence on Halloween

U.Va. Police will be fully staffed tonight in anticipation of the increase in "high-risk situations" tonight …

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The Lab Bench under Fascism

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The Lab Bench under Fascism Written by SNAP member Emma Scales Footnotes are denoted with superscript. References are denoted with brackets. *This article contains discussion of sensitive subjects including genocide, racism, and murder. It in no way encapsulates the full scale of atrocities committed by the fascist regimes discussed herein, nor does it attempt to.
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