Reposted by Brenna MunroMichael Le Page @mjflepage.bsky.social · 09/10/2026“I think it’s incredible that we find something so new, which is so large, in this world where we think everything is already known,” says Maarten Christenhusz 🧪 Three new species of giant waterlilies more than doubling the total to five! www.newscientist.com/article/2592...newscientist.comNumber of known species of giant waterlilies almost doubles | New ScientistA new species of giant waterlily identified with the help of social media and satellite photos is just one of three discovered in the past few years 3339
Reposted by Brenna MunroNathan K. Hensley @nathankhensley.bsky.social · 07/10/2026🚨 ALERT 🚨: All of Stuart Hall's notebooks have been digitized and are freely available to browse and read??? stuarthalldigital.bham.ac.uk/archival_mat... 4358199
Brenna Munro @brennammunro.bsky.social · 07/10/2026'As I read all of these remembrances and obituaries though, I kept coming back to Monica Coghlan...the focus is always what she caused in his life rather than what he did to hers. She was dragged through court, discredited, and destroyed as a powerful man flailed around to protect his reputation.' 0134
Brenna Munro @brennammunro.bsky.social · 05/10/2026My 15 yr old niece in Denmark brought it up to me this weekend. 140
Reposted by Brenna MunroHuman Rights Watch @hrw.org · 02/10/2026Egyptian security forces have arrested six journalists working for the independent investigative journalism platform Matsda2sh and appear to have forcibly disappeared them. Authorities should immediately disclose their whereabouts and grant access to lawyers.hrw.orgEgypt: Authorities Arrest Entire Investigative NewsroomEgyptian security forces arrested six journalists working for the independent investigative journalism platform Matsda2sh on September 28 and 29 and appear to have forcibly disappeared them. 15538
Reposted by Brenna MunroPrison Journalism Project @prisonjournalism.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Today is International Right to Know Day, which was established to celebrate freedom of information laws. But people inside prisons have difficulty getting access to critical information, oftentimes about themselves. This 2023 story from Erin highlights just one consequence.prisonjournalismproject.orgI Had the Right to KnowA debilitating spinal condition could have been treated earlier. Instead, I was told I was fine. 11912
Reposted by Brenna MunroMary Lewis @profmarylewis.bsky.social · 26/09/2026Another reflection on AI & writing at Harvard, from a former writing tutor trained by @janerosenzweig.bsky.social “AI trains us, more than anything, to parrot the AI voice. I’d rather we teach students how to find their own.” Well said! www.harvardmagazine.com/commentary/h...harvardmagazine.comI Used to Think AI Could Make Me a Better Writer | Harvard MagazineA former Harvard College writing tutor changes her mind on LLMs. 46029
Brenna Munro @brennammunro.bsky.social · 27/09/2026@dereknystrom.bsky.social you gotta watch this. 000
Reposted by Brenna MunroHuman Rights Watch @hrw.org · 27/09/2026The Syrian transitional government is signing billions of dollars in reconstruction deals. But the plans lack a human rights framework, which could leave many Syrians with a raw deal. Our new report: www.hrw.org/news/2026/09/27/syria-r… 15420
Reposted by Brenna MunroHarare Review of Books @hararereview.com · 09/04/2025Tsitsi Dangarembga receives honorary PhD from Rhodes Universitybulawayo24.comTsitsi Dangarembga receives honorary PhD from Rhodes UniversityRenowned Zimbabwean author, playwright, and filmmaker Tsitsi Dangarembga continues to rise as one of Africa's most celebrated literary icons, cementing her lega... 0124
Reposted by Brenna MunroAbilu Tangwa. @abilutangwa.bsky.social · 26/09/2026When farms stop yielding, hunger does not knock — it breaks the door. Across the Horn of Africa, soils that once fed nations are turning barren. This is not “bad weather.” This is climate change rewriting our food systems in real time. 5920561028
Brenna Munro @brennammunro.bsky.social · 25/09/2026thisisyungmea.com/the-zine-rev...thisisyungmea.comThe Zine Revival Is Happening in Cairo, Not BrooklynOnce distinctly old school, zines are making a comeback across the region, from Cairo to Beirut and everywhere in-between. 000
Reposted by Brenna MunroSamantha Asumadu @samanthaasumadu.substack.com · 22/09/2026'New analysis on UK media: British media is not delivering the news to its readers. They are delivering an agenda. The seven days after Channel 4 filmed James Orr are a damning indictment of the British press. Orr is a Cambridge associate professor.' via @newscord.org 5472221
Reposted by Brenna Munroelia ayoub @ayoub.bsky.social · 17/09/2026Friend shared this video of a man unveiling the library he hid when he fled Damascus in 2011. It’s incredible 25150293941
Reposted by Brenna MunroAlex Zucker @alexzucker.bsky.social · 14/09/2026Katrine Øgaard Jensen, ALTA: “If we think of the literary translation of a book as a cover song, just imagine if Jimi Hendrix had been asked to post-edit an AI cover of Bob Dylan’s ‘All Along the Watchtower’ instead of creating his unique take on the song.” www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/...publishersweekly.comLost in TranslationTech developers think automation will fundamentally reshape the work of literary translators, but not everyone is on board. 186
Reposted by Brenna MunroCharles Logan @charleswlogan.bsky.social · 02/09/2026"'The fact that this policy exists at all is due to the enormous work of parents across the city who spoke out against the overreach of A.I. into their kids’ classroom,” @kellyclancy.bsky.social said."nytimes.comA.I. Is to Be Banned in N.Y.C. Elementary and Middle SchoolsA new policy to be announced by the Department of Education bars younger students from using A.I., but stops short of a moratorium. 114446
Reposted by Brenna MunroWords Without Borders & WWB Campus @wwborders.bsky.social · 01/09/2026Excerpts from Tatiana Krasilnikova’s long poem “Heracleocene” on the beguiling plant species hogweed. Read about the perilous, patriarchal plant in Venya Gushchin’s translation from Russian, here: wordswithoutborders.org/read/article...wordswithoutborders.orgHeracleocene - Words Without BordersExcerpts from Tatiana Krasilnikova’s long poem on the beguiling plant species hogweed. 063
Brenna Munro @brennammunro.bsky.social · 17/08/2026But there's clearly not race-based hiring happening at Cambridge given the actually quite shocking lack of black professors, who are under-represented. So the idea that this represents some kind of larger phenomenon is unpersuasive. 110
Reposted by Brenna MunroDr Charlotte Galpin @drcharlottegalpin.bsky.social · 14/08/2026Horrific news. There is literally a trail of bodies stretching back years that result from despicable hounding by the press in this country. When will we finally get a government that doesn’t something about it 061
Brenna Munro @brennammunro.bsky.social · 11/08/2026If memory serves, there's a great display at @londonzoo.bsky.social about bringing a giraffe from Africa in its early years, which kind of creates the impression that such a feat had never been attempted before; this fascinating history should be added! 041
Reposted by Brenna MunroAthena Kugblenu @athenakugblenu.bsky.social · 07/08/2026I want kids to be thinkers before they become workers 414432
Reposted by Brenna MunroRupert Read @rupertread.bsky.social · 03/08/2026This wasn’t how it was supposed to be… The tragic truth is that, as some of us warned a decade ago, mainstream climate science has turned out to be the opposite of alarmist. It has turned out to be complacent and over-optimistic. Truthfulness - and strategic adaptation - are urgent. (Pse repost.) 48958
Reposted by Brenna MunroEmma Jacobs @emmavj.bsky.social · 29/07/2026Every commentator saying too many kids go to university has to tell their own kid to not do a degree 321272298
Reposted by Brenna MunroTim Watson @timwatson.bsky.social · 29/07/2026The Kampong is an amazing place and this looks like an amazing opportunity. 021
Reposted by Brenna MunroBen Williamson @benpatrickwill.bsky.social · 30/06/2026If you are papermaxxing with AI and swamping academic journals with claude- or chat-prompted scholar-like content, then you are taking the time and labour of editors and reviewers that others who actually put the work in deserve instead. 318941
Brenna Munro @brennammunro.bsky.social · 27/06/2026But what career is assumed from pol sci, or Eng, that you then can't access? Eng isn't a set pathway, like medicine, tho it often leads to law, teaching, journalism, or marketing; it's hard to figure out what to do next at graduation, but the point of the degree is that the skills are transferable. 100
Reposted by Brenna Munrosouth·lits @southlits.bsky.social · 24/06/2026South·lits, a new initiative about the literary Global South, presents its first event: a book club meeting to discuss Dorothy Tse's @graywolfpress.bsky.social novel City Like Water (translated from the Chinese by Natascha Bruce). Get your copy and support indie presses and bookstores! Details 👇 083
Reposted by Brenna MunroNatalia Cecire @ncecire.bsky.social · 14/05/2026Academic departments deserve to be saved, supported, resourced, allowed to grow even if they're not "best in the country," "first in the REF," "top-ranked," "at a Russell Group uni," or whatever other austerity-brained nonsense senior managers have been using to flimflam you out of solidarity 151071296
Reposted by Brenna MunroBen Phillips @benphillips1989.bsky.social · 23/06/2026A statement from Exeter UCU branch @ucu.org.uk - please share far and wide. 16231273
Reposted by Brenna MunroMongabay @mongabay.com · 18/06/2026In a global milestone, Peru’s Satipo and Nauta-Loreto regions have recognized native stingless bees as rights-bearing entities. Backed by a 2025 national law, the framework allows legal action to shield critical pollinators from deforestation and pesticides. Liz Kimbrough reports for #Mongabay.mongabay.ccStingless bees in Peru become the first insects with legal rights. Will it happen globally?Two municipalities in the Peruvian Amazon have granted native stingless bees the legal right to exist, thrive and be represented in court. This is the first time any insect has been recognized as a… 2432122
Brenna Munro @brennammunro.bsky.social · 06/06/2026This essay would be so great in an intro english class; then have them take a different zingy tiny poem and write (on paper, in class, how we do now) an essay that's in their own voice, not an "I am writing a paper I might be chat-gpt" voice, about the journey of their own reactions to the poem. 141
Brenna Munro @brennammunro.bsky.social · 06/06/2026One of the biggest American strikes of the 1940s/50s was by telephone operators, who were mostly women. 1312
Reposted by Brenna MunroAmer matar عامر مطر @amermatar.bsky.social · 26/05/2026In Feb 2025, I returned to Syria and walked back into Branch 251 — the cell where Assad’s intelligence first detained me in 2011. I found new prisoners sitting on the same floor. My new piece on why the new Syria has not dismantled the old prison system: www.thedial.world/articles/new...thedial.world“There Is Nothing More Nightmarish” — The DialThe new Syria has not dismantled the old prison system. 0187
Brenna Munro @brennammunro.bsky.social · 29/04/2026They're both integral: writing makes you wrestle with your own ideas as you try to order, distil, and express them. Writing IS thinking, that's why your intro often needs revising when you're done, you've arrived somewhere new. But the initial idea-generation is obvs crucial too! 040
Brenna Munro @brennammunro.bsky.social · 31/03/2026thank you for doing those reviews, it's such an under-appreciated labor! 020
Reposted by Brenna MunroKatrina Navickas @katrinanavickas.bsky.social · 28/03/2026This is the situation we find ourselves in 9363169
Reposted by Brenna MunroSpaghetti @spaghettibeaver.bsky.social · 26/03/2026maybe my favorite thing on the internet: neal.fun/deep-sea/neal.funThe Deep SeaScroll down the deep sea in this interactive page. 28506236
Reposted by Brenna MunroTed McCormick @tedmccormick.bsky.social · 22/03/2026Another university getting rid of things you could only ever do at a university and replacing them with stuff a 13-year-old can do on a phone 14451691634
Reposted by Brenna MunroOlúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 15/03/2026any recommended analysts/analyses/outlets on how the UAE being drawn into the Iran war will affect the RSF and the genocide in Sudan? 58914
Reposted by Brenna MunroCitizen.Coping @propcazhpm.bsky.social · 21/03/2026Thompson's hematologist at Johns Hopkins, Dr. Robert A. Brodsky, published a study revealing that the research now has an overall 94% disease-free survival rate. "[A cure is now] available to the majority, almost the entirety, of sickle cell patients.” #GoodNews #BlackSky 🌱people.comWoman Diagnosed with Sickle Cell Disease at 2-Months-Old Wakes Up with No Pain for the First Time in Her Life After New TreatmentTatyana Thompson, who was diagnosed with sickle cell disease when she was 2 months old, was successfully cured of the disease after she participated in Johns Hopkins research on sickle cell treatment. 4637011399
Reposted by Brenna MunroPhilippe Dam @philippedam.bsky.social · 11/03/2026New #Sudan coalition on atrocity prevention is welcomed step. Success will be measured by ability to deliver on protecting civilians, deter atrocities & push accountability on top of agenda. And of course, @eudiplomacy.bsky.social should be fully on board. Our take 👇 www.hrw.org/news/2026/03...hrw.orgNew Sudan Atrocity Prevention Coalition Needs to Act FastOn February 26, the United Kingdom, Germany, Ireland, the Netherlands, and Norway announced the formation of a coalition to prevent atrocities and promote justice in Sudan. 0126