Emilio M Bruna
@brunalab.bsky.social
Professor of Tropical Ecology & Latin American Studies @UF. Past-Pres of @theATBC, @ESA_org Secretary, AAAS Fellow. Thunderbird, Triton, Aggie. #TeamHeliconia
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What an amazing essay from the former chair of Africana Studies at Bowdoin. I'll share a few sections in the reply but seriously, read the whole thing. It's all insightful and beautifully written.
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Maybe Don’t Talk to the New York Times About Zohran Mamdani
It’s remarkable, the people you’ll hear from. Teach for even a little while at an expensive institution—the term they tend to prefer is “elite”—and odds are that eventually someone who was a studen…
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November 8, 2025 at 7:11 PM
What an amazing essay from the former chair of Africana Studies at Bowdoin. I'll share a few sections in the reply but seriously, read the whole thing. It's all insightful and beautifully written.
lithub.com/maybe-dont-t...
lithub.com/maybe-dont-t...
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10 New Insights in Climate Science report is out now just ahead of #cop30
Out now: the 2025/2026 10 New Insights in Climate Science.
A global science synthesis with new findings on extreme warming, ocean heat, disease risks, and the state of carbon markets.
Read the full report: 10insightsclimate.science
#10ClimateInsights
A global science synthesis with new findings on extreme warming, ocean heat, disease risks, and the state of carbon markets.
Read the full report: 10insightsclimate.science
#10ClimateInsights
October 30, 2025 at 12:10 PM
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"The pupils do not learn the scribal craft" is the new "the midterm average was 62%"
Academics in Assyria in the 7th c BC complain that admin is preventing them from doing research and teaching
November 3, 2025 at 12:15 PM
"The pupils do not learn the scribal craft" is the new "the midterm average was 62%"
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Did not expect one of the best paragraphs I’d read about baseball would come from an Irish newspaper
www.irishexaminer.com/sport-column...
www.irishexaminer.com/sport-column...
November 2, 2025 at 2:22 PM
Did not expect one of the best paragraphs I’d read about baseball would come from an Irish newspaper
www.irishexaminer.com/sport-column...
www.irishexaminer.com/sport-column...
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On the left, the refurbished Lincoln bathroom. On the right, picture I took in Saddam Hussein's palace in Basra in 2005.
October 31, 2025 at 5:57 PM
On the left, the refurbished Lincoln bathroom. On the right, picture I took in Saddam Hussein's palace in Basra in 2005.
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CU Boulder climate researchers compare blooms and pollinators over 100 years above Colorado Springs.
The buds and bees on Pikes Peak indicate climate change is worsening. But it’s not all “doom and gloom.”
Climate change is sending early wakeup calls to buds and bees on the slopes of Pikes Peak, CU Boulder research says.
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October 29, 2025 at 3:10 PM
CU Boulder climate researchers compare blooms and pollinators over 100 years above Colorado Springs.
at least 50% of my aunts aren’t even *relatives*
October 28, 2025 at 4:56 PM
at least 50% of my aunts aren’t even *relatives*
Miller’s language is an almost verbatim copy of one of the powers granted Brazil’s military dictatorship by Institutional Act No. 5.
(Authorization for the federal government to supersede or remove local and state authorities for reasons of “national security”)
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Institu...
(Authorization for the federal government to supersede or remove local and state authorities for reasons of “national security”)
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Institu...
October 5, 2025 at 2:31 PM
Miller’s language is an almost verbatim copy of one of the powers granted Brazil’s military dictatorship by Institutional Act No. 5.
(Authorization for the federal government to supersede or remove local and state authorities for reasons of “national security”)
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Institu...
(Authorization for the federal government to supersede or remove local and state authorities for reasons of “national security”)
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Institu...
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I can’t think right now of another foreign leader writing honestly about what it’s like to deal with Trump. It’s both unsurprising (the man is consistent) and utterly nuts.
But this is the key photo:
But this is the key photo:
October 4, 2025 at 12:06 PM
I can’t think right now of another foreign leader writing honestly about what it’s like to deal with Trump. It’s both unsurprising (the man is consistent) and utterly nuts.
But this is the key photo:
But this is the key photo:
omg this whole speech is so embarrassing. It sounds like my kid and his friends playing fortnight…when they were 12.
Hegseth: "Should our enemies choose foolishly to challenge us, they will be crushed by the violence, precision, and ferocity of the War Department. To our enemies, FAFO."
September 30, 2025 at 1:22 PM
omg this whole speech is so embarrassing. It sounds like my kid and his friends playing fortnight…when they were 12.
WTAF. They are going for the Debarment of Harvard. As in “the entire institution”.
www.wsj.com/us-news/educ...
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Trump Administration Opens New Front to Strip Harvard of Federal Funding
The government is starting a process that could make the university ineligible for future funding.
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September 30, 2025 at 2:26 AM
WTAF. They are going for the Debarment of Harvard. As in “the entire institution”.
www.wsj.com/us-news/educ...
www.wsj.com/us-news/educ...
An absolute GIANT in the study and conservation of tropical forests and one of the pillars of México’s ecological and ethnobotanical communities has passed on. Padrino to so many: Arturo Gómez Pompa news.mongabay.com/short-articl...
Arturo Gómez-Pompa, biologist who revealed the human history in “virgin” forests, has died, aged 90
In the steaming lowlands of Veracruz and the Yucatán, where strangler figs knot the canopy and howler monkeys bellow at dawn, a man with a field notebook kept noticing what others overlooked. Arturo G...
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September 29, 2025 at 1:48 AM
An absolute GIANT in the study and conservation of tropical forests and one of the pillars of México’s ecological and ethnobotanical communities has passed on. Padrino to so many: Arturo Gómez Pompa news.mongabay.com/short-articl...
This guy is such a pretentious, pseudo-intellectual douche. The number of “sensitive 14 yr old boys” who imagine this is exactly zero.
September 27, 2025 at 11:47 PM
This guy is such a pretentious, pseudo-intellectual douche. The number of “sensitive 14 yr old boys” who imagine this is exactly zero.
That sound you hear is coming from your university’s Center for Latin American Studies, where the Brazilianists won’t stop yelling about something called the “AI-5”.
Trump says he authorizes Hegseth to deploy the military to Portland, which he lyingly calls "war ravaged," and says he is authorizing "full force."
September 27, 2025 at 7:55 PM
That sound you hear is coming from your university’s Center for Latin American Studies, where the Brazilianists won’t stop yelling about something called the “AI-5”.
Texas Tech has banned a subject from discussion in their classrooms. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/26/u...
That’s all folks…it’s over.
That’s all folks…it’s over.
Texas Tech Moves to Limit Academic Discussion to 2 Genders
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September 27, 2025 at 2:59 AM
Texas Tech has banned a subject from discussion in their classrooms. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/26/u...
That’s all folks…it’s over.
That’s all folks…it’s over.
Buried in the article was this gem from the Chair of the State GOP: “Professors and state employees should not weigh in on political debates…”
A first-semester freshman at Auburn -- who has not even experienced one month as a student -- is demanding universities purge faculty members who dared to be critical of the man who created the Professor Watchlist.
Calling college presidents & donors ... as one does their first month in college.
Calling college presidents & donors ... as one does their first month in college.
I spoke with students across Alabama who considered Charlie Kirk to be a mentor and role model. I asked them what they think should happen next. www.al.com/educationlab...
September 19, 2025 at 7:17 PM
Buried in the article was this gem from the Chair of the State GOP: “Professors and state employees should not weigh in on political debates…”
“UF supports the First Amendment right to free speech and embraces our university as a place where people are able and encouraged to exchange differing viewpoints or express their feelings through peaceful protest.“
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September 19, 2025 at 7:08 PM
“UF supports the First Amendment right to free speech and embraces our university as a place where people are able and encouraged to exchange differing viewpoints or express their feelings through peaceful protest.“
(statements.ufl.edu/statements/2...)
(statements.ufl.edu/statements/2...)
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🚨 NEW: Climate change is already causing 30,000 deaths per year - a global annual economic loss of $100-350B USD - but the true damage is probably 10x higher. Out TODAY in Nature Climate Change: the first systematic look at the science of "health impact attribution" 🔓 www.nature.com/articles/s41...
September 17, 2025 at 11:57 AM
🚨 NEW: Climate change is already causing 30,000 deaths per year - a global annual economic loss of $100-350B USD - but the true damage is probably 10x higher. Out TODAY in Nature Climate Change: the first systematic look at the science of "health impact attribution" 🔓 www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Out today in @commsearth.nature.com from some of my newest colleagues at UMMP: evidence that the extinction of dinosaurs led to fundamental shifts in terrestrial environments, and that this signal is recorded in facies shifts tied to the K-Pg boundary: www.nature.com/articles/s43...
Dinosaur extinction can explain continental facies shifts at the Cretaceous-Paleogene boundary - Communications Earth & Environment
Dinosaurs promoted open habitats in the Late Cretaceous, and their extinction could have led to a radical reorganization of the landscape and ecosystem structure at the beginning of the Paleogene, acc...
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September 15, 2025 at 4:17 PM
Out today in @commsearth.nature.com from some of my newest colleagues at UMMP: evidence that the extinction of dinosaurs led to fundamental shifts in terrestrial environments, and that this signal is recorded in facies shifts tied to the K-Pg boundary: www.nature.com/articles/s43...
If you’re at UF, you know the Norman Hall tunnels have been where students paint rainbows in response to the state’s ban on rainbow crosswalks. The rainbows have been defaced & repainted several times. Painting this memorial here instead of the more visible 34th street wall is definitely a choice.
September 15, 2025 at 6:58 PM
If you’re at UF, you know the Norman Hall tunnels have been where students paint rainbows in response to the state’s ban on rainbow crosswalks. The rainbows have been defaced & repainted several times. Painting this memorial here instead of the more visible 34th street wall is definitely a choice.
Political violence is wrong but botanical violence is ok?!
First they came for the Anacardiaceae…
First they came for the Anacardiaceae…
It’s possible to hold two thoughts in your mind at the same time: First, political violence is wrong. Second, cashews are not nuts, they are legumes.
September 13, 2025 at 1:40 PM
Political violence is wrong but botanical violence is ok?!
First they came for the Anacardiaceae…
First they came for the Anacardiaceae…
Ben Sasse complaining about some faculty writing a provocative Nature editorial in a Wall Street journal editorial is peak Ben Sasse. www.wsj.com/opinion/univ...
Opinion | University Trustees Have Their Heads in the Sand
Radicals run wild because those in authority came for status and consensus, not seeking a fight.
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September 13, 2025 at 2:54 AM
Ben Sasse complaining about some faculty writing a provocative Nature editorial in a Wall Street journal editorial is peak Ben Sasse. www.wsj.com/opinion/univ...