Emilio M Bruna
@brunalab.bsky.social
Professor of Tropical Ecology & Latin American Studies @UF. Past-Pres of @theATBC, AAAS Fellow. Thunderbird, Triton, Aggie. #TeamHeliconia. Views mine, not UF’s.
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In other Bolsonaro family news: Carlos (Jair's son) was elected senator, Michelle (Jair's wife) was elected senator, and Jair Renan (Jair's son) was elected as federal deputy.
October 5, 2026 at 1:12 AM
In other Bolsonaro family news: Carlos (Jair's son) was elected senator, Michelle (Jair's wife) was elected senator, and Jair Renan (Jair's son) was elected as federal deputy.
I hate to be That Guy, but 47-45 for Bolsonaro is a “hyperventilating into a paper bag” result. PL appears to have over-performed at every level, and with a stacked senate…the ulcer I don’t have is already killing me.
October 5, 2026 at 12:48 AM
I hate to be That Guy, but 47-45 for Bolsonaro is a “hyperventilating into a paper bag” result. PL appears to have over-performed at every level, and with a stacked senate…the ulcer I don’t have is already killing me.
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The rise in dengue in the US was predicted a quarter century ago by #climate scientists in the first US National Climate Assessment.
This article doesn't mention climate change.
thehill.com/policy/healt...
This article doesn't mention climate change.
thehill.com/policy/healt...
Florida’s dengue outbreak reportedly largest US has seen in decades
A dengue fever outbreak in the state of Florida appears to have grown to the largest in the continental U.S. in decades, totaling 252 reported cases this year in the Sunshine State according to an …
thehill.com
October 4, 2026 at 3:12 PM
The rise in dengue in the US was predicted a quarter century ago by #climate scientists in the first US National Climate Assessment.
This article doesn't mention climate change.
thehill.com/policy/healt...
This article doesn't mention climate change.
thehill.com/policy/healt...
A lot of talk today on how university Presidents so re-upping this thread about how the President of Mexico’s UNAM responded to some local students getting beaten by cops on his campus.
When students were attacked by cops in the México City protests of 68, UNAM’s Rector - Javier Barros Sierra - stayed silent for fear of jeopardizing university funding.
Just kidding. He ordered all flags to 1/2 mast, led 80,000 down Av. Insurgentes, & gave an epic speech defending free expression
Just kidding. He ordered all flags to 1/2 mast, led 80,000 down Av. Insurgentes, & gave an epic speech defending free expression
October 4, 2026 at 7:37 PM
A lot of talk today on how university Presidents so re-upping this thread about how the President of Mexico’s UNAM responded to some local students getting beaten by cops on his campus.
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Unless Congress reclaims its power, this will just become the new normal. A good first step would be to impeach Vought.
www.nytimes.com/2026/10/02/u...
www.nytimes.com/2026/10/02/u...
National Science Foundation Diverted $1.4 Billion in Science Funds Mandated by Congress
The move, affecting about one-fifth of the National Science Foundation’s primary research budget, is the latest sign of how the White House is asserting more control over grants.
www.nytimes.com
October 2, 2026 at 8:27 PM
Unless Congress reclaims its power, this will just become the new normal. A good first step would be to impeach Vought.
www.nytimes.com/2026/10/02/u...
www.nytimes.com/2026/10/02/u...
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New study published in @natecoevo.nature.com !
We assembled the largest global dataset of plant–pollinator networks to ask a simple question: do interactions become more specialised towards the tropics? doi.org/10.1038/s415...
Study led by @saileesakhalkar.bsky.social and myself ☺️
1/8
We assembled the largest global dataset of plant–pollinator networks to ask a simple question: do interactions become more specialised towards the tropics? doi.org/10.1038/s415...
Study led by @saileesakhalkar.bsky.social and myself ☺️
1/8
September 30, 2026 at 1:29 PM
New study published in @natecoevo.nature.com !
We assembled the largest global dataset of plant–pollinator networks to ask a simple question: do interactions become more specialised towards the tropics? doi.org/10.1038/s415...
Study led by @saileesakhalkar.bsky.social and myself ☺️
1/8
We assembled the largest global dataset of plant–pollinator networks to ask a simple question: do interactions become more specialised towards the tropics? doi.org/10.1038/s415...
Study led by @saileesakhalkar.bsky.social and myself ☺️
1/8
If we Nick Saban had to fill out travel reimbursement forms after “creating value for the university” he would lose his fucking mind.
This morning on ESPN's First Take, Nick Saban argued player and coach pay are "totally different markets."
"That's like asking me 'Does a student's scholarship equal the professor's pay?' I mean, how much value does a coach create for a university?" 📺 💰️
"That's like asking me 'Does a student's scholarship equal the professor's pay?' I mean, how much value does a coach create for a university?" 📺 💰️
September 30, 2026 at 4:22 PM
If we Nick Saban had to fill out travel reimbursement forms after “creating value for the university” he would lose his fucking mind.
I asked the white house’s Super Intelligence and so it’s settled right?
September 30, 2026 at 12:37 PM
I asked the white house’s Super Intelligence and so it’s settled right?
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"For a generation, people learning how to address global warming were taught the ideas in the “Wedges” paper by Princeton's Socolow & Pacala.
"What they didn’t learn was: “Wedges” was significantly shaped by oil giant BP—one of the single global entities most responsible for causing climate change."
"What they didn’t learn was: “Wedges” was significantly shaped by oil giant BP—one of the single global entities most responsible for causing climate change."
How BP Execs Influenced a Climate Study That Shaped a Generation of Global Policy
BP sponsored an elite Princeton research center to address the climate problem without getting off fossil fuels. Its key work, a paper known as “Wedges,” guided climate discourse for a generation.
www.propublica.org
September 27, 2026 at 9:12 PM
"For a generation, people learning how to address global warming were taught the ideas in the “Wedges” paper by Princeton's Socolow & Pacala.
"What they didn’t learn was: “Wedges” was significantly shaped by oil giant BP—one of the single global entities most responsible for causing climate change."
"What they didn’t learn was: “Wedges” was significantly shaped by oil giant BP—one of the single global entities most responsible for causing climate change."
This is among the most intellectually flaccid editorials I’ve ever read. “Humanities & social-science programs…do more to subtract from the sum of human knowledge than add to it” is quite a take from…
someone who majored in American Studies.
www.wsj.com/opinion/the-...
someone who majored in American Studies.
www.wsj.com/opinion/the-...
Opinion | The Ph.D. Job Crisis Is a Needed Market Correction
Universities will produce fewer underemployed, overcredentialed and aggrieved young people.
www.wsj.com
September 27, 2026 at 11:28 PM
This is among the most intellectually flaccid editorials I’ve ever read. “Humanities & social-science programs…do more to subtract from the sum of human knowledge than add to it” is quite a take from…
someone who majored in American Studies.
www.wsj.com/opinion/the-...
someone who majored in American Studies.
www.wsj.com/opinion/the-...
This works out to an average of $258-341K per player, assuming a 120 player roster.
(Faculty make…less).
gatorswire.usatoday.com/story/sports...
(Faculty make…less).
gatorswire.usatoday.com/story/sports...
How much does Florida spend on its football roster?
The Athletic estimates Florida spent between $31 million and $41 million to build its 2026 football roster.
gatorswire.usatoday.com
September 26, 2026 at 11:31 PM
This works out to an average of $258-341K per player, assuming a 120 player roster.
(Faculty make…less).
gatorswire.usatoday.com/story/sports...
(Faculty make…less).
gatorswire.usatoday.com/story/sports...
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Thoughts and prayers for research data managers everywhere. You are not alone. We will get through this together techcommunity.microsoft.com/blog/excelbl...
Excel now supports multiple values in a single cell | Microsoft Community Hub
Lists, arrays in cells, and nested arrays introduce new ways to store and organize related information, helping you keep data together without sacrificing...
techcommunity.microsoft.com
September 25, 2026 at 8:47 AM
Thoughts and prayers for research data managers everywhere. You are not alone. We will get through this together techcommunity.microsoft.com/blog/excelbl...
The Smithsonian has a respository of their 3d scans with downloadable files and YES you can 3d print a triceratops 3d.si.edu
3d Digitization
3d.si.edu
September 24, 2026 at 11:01 PM
The Smithsonian has a respository of their 3d scans with downloadable files and YES you can 3d print a triceratops 3d.si.edu
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Confirming the White House’s planned EO to exert more political control on NIH seems to be “dead”
www.statnews.com/2026/09/23/n...
www.statnews.com/2026/09/23/n...
White House plan to increase control of NIH grants appears 'dead'
A planned EO that would have greatly enhanced White House influence over grants at the NIH is “looking dead,” a source said.
www.statnews.com
September 23, 2026 at 11:34 PM
Confirming the White House’s planned EO to exert more political control on NIH seems to be “dead”
www.statnews.com/2026/09/23/n...
www.statnews.com/2026/09/23/n...
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What's behind this tidal wave of epidemics? In the largest study ever conducted on emerging infectious diseases, we show that the popular explanation - "our relationship with nature is out of balance" - doesn't hold up. Out now in Nature, after half a decade of work: www.nature.com/articles/s41...
The anthropogenic fingerprint on emerging infectious diseases - Nature
Emerging infectious disease outbreak risks are ubiquitous worldwide, and highest in landscapes where people, livestock and fragmented natural ecosystems coexist, but detection and data ...
www.nature.com
September 23, 2026 at 3:07 PM
What's behind this tidal wave of epidemics? In the largest study ever conducted on emerging infectious diseases, we show that the popular explanation - "our relationship with nature is out of balance" - doesn't hold up. Out now in Nature, after half a decade of work: www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Really good news about USFS facilities that had been proposed for closure
Favorite news item in the recent weeks www.newsfromthestates.com/article/fore...
Forestry Service Reverses Course, Plans To Keep Critical Big Island Hub Open
In March, when the Trump administration announced its plan to close the Hilo-based Institute of Pacific Islands Forestry headquarters, along with dozens of other U.S. Forest Service research facilitie...
www.newsfromthestates.com
September 21, 2026 at 6:34 PM
Really good news about USFS facilities that had been proposed for closure
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Vought's goals are a) to reduce scientific funding generally, and b) especially to universities. Political appointees within agencies can already block spending. This would centralize this power in the White House. By requiring unanimity, it would ensure far less money will be spent on science.
September 20, 2026 at 2:38 PM
Vought's goals are a) to reduce scientific funding generally, and b) especially to universities. Political appointees within agencies can already block spending. This would centralize this power in the White House. By requiring unanimity, it would ensure far less money will be spent on science.
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This is a VERY significant decision, given the impact of the rule change, which was set to upend the student visa process which has been in place for the last half-century.
Colleges and universities said the rule would impose millions in costs and cause a big drop in enrollment.
Colleges and universities said the rule would impose millions in costs and cause a big drop in enrollment.
BREAKING: Judge Dennis Saylor (GWBush/MA) temporarily blocks Trump admin drive to impose a 4-year limit on student visas now issued for length of study. Calls the rationale for the new rule "exceptionally weak." Doc: www.documentcloud.org/documents/28...
PAHEIvDHSOrd091426
www.documentcloud.org
September 14, 2026 at 9:39 PM
This is a VERY significant decision, given the impact of the rule change, which was set to upend the student visa process which has been in place for the last half-century.
Colleges and universities said the rule would impose millions in costs and cause a big drop in enrollment.
Colleges and universities said the rule would impose millions in costs and cause a big drop in enrollment.
This is nuclear. I don’t think any of my i ternational students *didn’t* go OPT after graduation. This is a very clever way to decimate US science AND higher ed simultanously.
This will devastate our research+innovation capacity, bedrock of the 21st century economy.
35% of *all* employed people in the US with STEM PhD degrees are both foreign-born *and* graduated from a US university. —> nap.nationalacademies.org/resource/292...
Shutting them out is extremist folly.
35% of *all* employed people in the US with STEM PhD degrees are both foreign-born *and* graduated from a US university. —> nap.nationalacademies.org/resource/292...
Shutting them out is extremist folly.
September 13, 2026 at 9:50 PM
This is nuclear. I don’t think any of my i ternational students *didn’t* go OPT after graduation. This is a very clever way to decimate US science AND higher ed simultanously.
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The US President's new proposal to tax international students has been approved by the White House for release this week.
It's an unprecedented $100,000 tax on int'l grads who stay to work after graduation on Optional Practical Training (most grads do), a crucial bridge to remaining by any channel.
It's an unprecedented $100,000 tax on int'l grads who stay to work after graduation on Optional Practical Training (most grads do), a crucial bridge to remaining by any channel.
September 12, 2026 at 10:56 PM
The US President's new proposal to tax international students has been approved by the White House for release this week.
It's an unprecedented $100,000 tax on int'l grads who stay to work after graduation on Optional Practical Training (most grads do), a crucial bridge to remaining by any channel.
It's an unprecedented $100,000 tax on int'l grads who stay to work after graduation on Optional Practical Training (most grads do), a crucial bridge to remaining by any channel.
I mean COME ON. The editors, ffs. retractionwatch.com/2026/09/08/e...
Editors of higher education journal coauthor editorial with fake references
Taylor & Francis is investigating an article in one of its journals after the editors published an editorial about academic freedom that contains multiple fake references and citation errors.&n…
retractionwatch.com
September 8, 2026 at 6:21 PM
I mean COME ON. The editors, ffs. retractionwatch.com/2026/09/08/e...
anyhumanever.com/life/1682611...
I couldn’t believe that my first try try on this remarkable site was someone born in the Amazon and then I died before the age of 5
I couldn’t believe that my first try try on this remarkable site was someone born in the Amazon and then I died before the age of 5
A life, one of over 100 billion lives
In 143 CE, in the countryside near Manaus, a boy was born.
anyhumanever.com
September 5, 2026 at 12:57 PM
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I couldn’t believe that my first try try on this remarkable site was someone born in the Amazon and then I died before the age of 5
I couldn’t believe that my first try try on this remarkable site was someone born in the Amazon and then I died before the age of 5
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O Serrapilheira seleciona novo(a) diretor(a)-executivo(a) para liderar a instituição. Para isso, lançamos uma chamada pública em busca de candidatos.
Tem interesse ou conhece alguém que pode se interessar? Compartilhe!
Saiba mais no site: serrapilheira.org/serrapilheir...
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Serrapilheira abre seleção para novo(a) diretor(a)-executivo(a)
Instituto, que completa dez anos em 2027, lança chamada pública para substituir o geneticista Hugo Aguilaniu O Instituto Serrapilheira, que completará dez anos em 2027, seleciona novo(a) […]
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August 6, 2026 at 2:14 PM
O Serrapilheira seleciona novo(a) diretor(a)-executivo(a) para liderar a instituição. Para isso, lançamos uma chamada pública em busca de candidatos.
Tem interesse ou conhece alguém que pode se interessar? Compartilhe!
Saiba mais no site: serrapilheira.org/serrapilheir...
Tem interesse ou conhece alguém que pode se interessar? Compartilhe!
Saiba mais no site: serrapilheira.org/serrapilheir...
Beat me to it....this is a wonderful way to learn about the many quiet ways Dolly tried to make the world a better place for all (and especially those who needed most).
I recommend to you this podcast series about Dolly Parton by Jad Abumrad (creator of Radio Lab). You may ask: how did a MacArthur Award winning pub radio guy meet Dolly? Because she personally funded his father's vaccine research, that's how.
www.wnycstudios.org/podcasts/dol...
www.wnycstudios.org/podcasts/dol...
Dolly Parton's America : Episodes | WNYC Studios | Podcasts
The story of a legend at the crossroads of America’s culture wars.
www.wnycstudios.org
August 25, 2026 at 7:30 PM
Beat me to it....this is a wonderful way to learn about the many quiet ways Dolly tried to make the world a better place for all (and especially those who needed most).