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
And in case you needed a better example:
October 5, 2025 at 2:37 PM
And in case you needed a better example:
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.
Remember when the idea of trump as a faculty member bullying other scientist was funny hahahaha good times
September 27, 2025 at 12:10 PM
Remember when the idea of trump as a faculty member bullying other scientist was funny hahahaha good times
“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.“
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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.
But it should be 2x by a German speaker because I’m going to confess that I just google translated and removed the spaces.
Someone should code up a german-word-o-maker
Someone should code up a german-word-o-maker
September 14, 2025 at 1:17 PM
But it should be 2x by a German speaker because I’m going to confess that I just google translated and removed the spaces.
Someone should code up a german-word-o-maker
Someone should code up a german-word-o-maker
Holy smokes The Economist has come out swinging.
August 28, 2025 at 11:15 PM
Holy smokes The Economist has come out swinging.
I humbly submit for your consideration Dan Janzen (1978) in Biotropica (for context to see the acknowledgments)
August 23, 2025 at 5:39 PM
I humbly submit for your consideration Dan Janzen (1978) in Biotropica (for context to see the acknowledgments)
“I don’t know how to facilitate a workshop therefore liberals are to blame for Chris Rufo” by David Brooks in the @nytimes.com
August 22, 2025 at 3:22 AM
“I don’t know how to facilitate a workshop therefore liberals are to blame for Chris Rufo” by David Brooks in the @nytimes.com
I miss Captain Holt every day.
August 18, 2025 at 1:51 PM
I miss Captain Holt every day.
No opinion on Erend but a suggestion for the boredom - my kid dual-enrolled in college classes his senior yr of HS and he took one in portrait photography. His final project was portraits of game characters. Play for hours for your Art and then claim to be one of those polymath yale profs
August 16, 2025 at 1:48 AM
No opinion on Erend but a suggestion for the boredom - my kid dual-enrolled in college classes his senior yr of HS and he took one in portrait photography. His final project was portraits of game characters. Play for hours for your Art and then claim to be one of those polymath yale profs
Maybe chatGPT renamed the state to reflect it being the home of the legendary Chihuahua x Cthulhu hybrid.
August 9, 2025 at 11:46 AM
Maybe chatGPT renamed the state to reflect it being the home of the legendary Chihuahua x Cthulhu hybrid.
It takes a special kind of entitlement to argue that white male candidates for faculty positions in philosophy are victims of discrimination when ~75% of philosophy faculty are men and over 80% are white.
July 31, 2025 at 9:36 PM
It takes a special kind of entitlement to argue that white male candidates for faculty positions in philosophy are victims of discrimination when ~75% of philosophy faculty are men and over 80% are white.
ANNOUNCEMENT:
Stellar NYT reporter @jacknicas.bsky.social joins inimitable @petersagal.bsky.social on list of people I publicly call out for referring to the birds wandering Brazil’s Presidential Palace as “Emus”.
Rheas. They’re called rheas. Rhea americana.
R-H-E-A-S. RHEAS!
You’re welcome.
Stellar NYT reporter @jacknicas.bsky.social joins inimitable @petersagal.bsky.social on list of people I publicly call out for referring to the birds wandering Brazil’s Presidential Palace as “Emus”.
Rheas. They’re called rheas. Rhea americana.
R-H-E-A-S. RHEAS!
You’re welcome.
July 31, 2025 at 12:42 AM
ANNOUNCEMENT:
Stellar NYT reporter @jacknicas.bsky.social joins inimitable @petersagal.bsky.social on list of people I publicly call out for referring to the birds wandering Brazil’s Presidential Palace as “Emus”.
Rheas. They’re called rheas. Rhea americana.
R-H-E-A-S. RHEAS!
You’re welcome.
Stellar NYT reporter @jacknicas.bsky.social joins inimitable @petersagal.bsky.social on list of people I publicly call out for referring to the birds wandering Brazil’s Presidential Palace as “Emus”.
Rheas. They’re called rheas. Rhea americana.
R-H-E-A-S. RHEAS!
You’re welcome.
At #ATBC2025, the Association for Tropical Biology & Conservation announces a new award honoring the contributions of ParaBiologists. The inaugural recipient is Santiago Sinaca Colín from México!
July 4, 2025 at 12:23 AM
At #ATBC2025, the Association for Tropical Biology & Conservation announces a new award honoring the contributions of ParaBiologists. The inaugural recipient is Santiago Sinaca Colín from México!
Still the best profile text of any scientific journal.
See you in Oaxaca, @biotropica.bsky.social. #ATBC2025
See you in Oaxaca, @biotropica.bsky.social. #ATBC2025
June 28, 2025 at 4:22 PM
Still the best profile text of any scientific journal.
See you in Oaxaca, @biotropica.bsky.social. #ATBC2025
See you in Oaxaca, @biotropica.bsky.social. #ATBC2025
Days like today I miss @ScientistTrump.
“The pre-print is abomination and must be rejected by Science”
“He got his faculty job and all those grad students because of me”. “He won’t release the Crowther files because he’s in them”.
Then I remember he was supposed to disappear Nov 2016
“The pre-print is abomination and must be rejected by Science”
“He got his faculty job and all those grad students because of me”. “He won’t release the Crowther files because he’s in them”.
Then I remember he was supposed to disappear Nov 2016
June 6, 2025 at 4:05 PM
Days like today I miss @ScientistTrump.
“The pre-print is abomination and must be rejected by Science”
“He got his faculty job and all those grad students because of me”. “He won’t release the Crowther files because he’s in them”.
Then I remember he was supposed to disappear Nov 2016
“The pre-print is abomination and must be rejected by Science”
“He got his faculty job and all those grad students because of me”. “He won’t release the Crowther files because he’s in them”.
Then I remember he was supposed to disappear Nov 2016
I am currently seeking investors in my Florida-based (=tariff-proof) artisanal micro-batch banana farm. Please be aware we are actively negotiating with neighbor regarding location relative to property line
June 6, 2025 at 4:43 AM
I am currently seeking investors in my Florida-based (=tariff-proof) artisanal micro-batch banana farm. Please be aware we are actively negotiating with neighbor regarding location relative to property line
Dude, read the room.
June 5, 2025 at 11:24 PM
Dude, read the room.
This is a profoundly ignorant and anti-intellectually way of seeing the world from the guy Conservatives have elevated to “our leading thinker on issues related to higher ed.”
June 4, 2025 at 7:16 PM
This is a profoundly ignorant and anti-intellectually way of seeing the world from the guy Conservatives have elevated to “our leading thinker on issues related to higher ed.”
The Florida BOG is the world’s worst Conclave.
June 3, 2025 at 9:06 PM
The Florida BOG is the world’s worst Conclave.
“This app is gonna make things so much better” are words I actually said like a total dumbass
June 3, 2025 at 1:41 PM
“This app is gonna make things so much better” are words I actually said like a total dumbass