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
Just read this and already one of the coolest papers I’ve read in a while.
Where we collect seed for restoration matters. In a new paper led by Jayden Engert, we examined where nurseries source seed for rainforest plantings and discuss what that means for restoration success.
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www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
November 27, 2025 at 10:27 PM
Just read this and already one of the coolest papers I’ve read in a while.
Mexican soap operas aspire to this level of batshit bonkers
I wrote 4000 words about Nuzzi/Lizza/RFK, please read it before it gets taken down by HR
The Olivia Nuzzi and RFK Jr. Affair Is Messier Than We Ever Could Have Imagined
Inside the most important, and also least important, story of our time
www.theringer.com
November 27, 2025 at 12:46 PM
Mexican soap operas aspire to this level of batshit bonkers
I am married to a Brazilian and can confirm that they have an almost supernatural ability to carry a grudge in silence for decades knowing that one day they will triumphantly dance on the emotional grave of their enemy and/or husband. It’s super hot.
Good morning to Brazilian reporter Manuela Borges, who’s been waiting eleven years for this petty moment. ❤️ 🇧🇷
November 26, 2025 at 7:23 PM
I am married to a Brazilian and can confirm that they have an almost supernatural ability to carry a grudge in silence for decades knowing that one day they will triumphantly dance on the emotional grave of their enemy and/or husband. It’s super hot.
Are you looking for a postdoc? Let's develop a proposal for the University of Florida's "Ewel Postdoctoral Fellowship in Ecology and Environmental Science in the Tropics and Subtropics". Applications due January 11, 2026.
postdoc.aa.ufl.edu/current-post...
postdoc.aa.ufl.edu/current-post...
Ewel Postdoctoral Fellowship | Office of Postdoctoral Affairs - University of Florida
postdoc.aa.ufl.edu
November 25, 2025 at 2:09 PM
Are you looking for a postdoc? Let's develop a proposal for the University of Florida's "Ewel Postdoctoral Fellowship in Ecology and Environmental Science in the Tropics and Subtropics". Applications due January 11, 2026.
postdoc.aa.ufl.edu/current-post...
postdoc.aa.ufl.edu/current-post...
AYFKM
“Charles T. Canady, the next director of UF’s Hamilton School for Classical and Civic Education, will earn a $500,000 salary”
www.alligator.org/article/2025...
“Charles T. Canady, the next director of UF’s Hamilton School for Classical and Civic Education, will earn a $500,000 salary”
www.alligator.org/article/2025...
Newly appointed Hamilton School director to be paid $500,000 - The Independent Florida Alligator
As director, Canady will earn $500,000 — nearly double what he was making as a justice on the Florida Supreme Court.
www.alligator.org
November 20, 2025 at 11:56 PM
AYFKM
“Charles T. Canady, the next director of UF’s Hamilton School for Classical and Civic Education, will earn a $500,000 salary”
www.alligator.org/article/2025...
“Charles T. Canady, the next director of UF’s Hamilton School for Classical and Civic Education, will earn a $500,000 salary”
www.alligator.org/article/2025...
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One thing we know about the US overthrowing Latin American governments is that it always works out super-well with zero unintended negative consequences.
November 18, 2025 at 2:36 AM
One thing we know about the US overthrowing Latin American governments is that it always works out super-well with zero unintended negative consequences.
UF researchers coauthor more papers with authors based in China than with those based in any other other country in the world. This policy would wreck US science.
“The prohibited activities would include joint research, co-authorship on papers, and advising a foreign graduate student or postdoctoral fellow. The language is retroactive, meaning any interactions during the previous 5 years could make a scientist ineligible for future federal funding.”
U.S. Congress considers sweeping ban on Chinese collaborations
Researchers speak out against proposal that would bar funding for U.S. scientists working with Chinese partners or training Chinese students
www.science.org
November 14, 2025 at 4:45 AM
UF researchers coauthor more papers with authors based in China than with those based in any other other country in the world. This policy would wreck US science.
Turkey (Meleagris gallopavo) was domesticated in Mexico.
It’s how you end up with language like “paperwork American” or the idea that Thanksgiving turkey is some sort of natural ethno-national tradition that certain other groups are incapable of ever appreciating
November 13, 2025 at 9:40 PM
Turkey (Meleagris gallopavo) was domesticated in Mexico.
🎶 God wears his sunglaaaasses to smite… 🎶
What's from Chicago, hates Illinois Nazis, and is holy as fuck?
It's the Pope in 1982.
It's the Pope in 1982.
November 13, 2025 at 4:06 PM
🎶 God wears his sunglaaaasses to smite… 🎶
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You been hit by a smooth hymnal
What's from Chicago, hates Illinois Nazis, and is holy as fuck?
It's the Pope in 1982.
It's the Pope in 1982.
November 13, 2025 at 4:07 AM
You been hit by a smooth hymnal
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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.
lithub.com/maybe-dont-t...
lithub.com/maybe-dont-t...
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…
lithub.com
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.
coloradosun.com
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...
www.wsj.com/us-news/educ...
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.
www.wsj.com
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...
news.mongabay.com
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...