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Brenna Munro

@brennammunro.bsky.social
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Assoc. prof at the U of Miami; African and postco lit; gender and sexuality studies; third culture kid, emotionally attached to too many places. She/her/hers. Anything I say represents only myself.

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Brenna Munro @brennammunro.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
Love that book.
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Michael 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...
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Number of known species of giant waterlilies almost doubles | New Scientist
A 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
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Brenna Munro @brennammunro.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
this.
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Nathan 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...
Stuart Hall notebook: NOTES ON THE REPRODUCTION OF IDEOLOGIES AND THE MEDIA (Orange notebook, "Summit Students Pad")Stuart Hall notebook page with headline: "Problems for a Marxist Theory of the Media" and a series of bulletpoints. Lined notebook paper with black handwriting.
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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.'
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Brenna Munro @brennammunro.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
My 15 yr old niece in Denmark brought it up to me this weekend.
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Human Rights Watch @hrw.org · 02/10/2026
Egyptian 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.
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Egypt: Authorities Arrest Entire Investigative Newsroom
Egyptian 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.
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Brenna Munro @brennammunro.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Love this.
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Prison Journalism Project @prisonjournalism.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Today 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.
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I Had the Right to Know
A debilitating spinal condition could have been treated earlier. Instead, I was told I was fine.
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Mary Lewis @profmarylewis.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Another 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...
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I Used to Think AI Could Make Me a Better Writer | Harvard Magazine
A former Harvard College writing tutor changes her mind on LLMs.
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Brenna Munro @brennammunro.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
@dereknystrom.bsky.social you gotta watch this.
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Human Rights Watch @hrw.org · 27/09/2026
The 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…
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Harare Review of Books @hararereview.com · 09/04/2025
Tsitsi Dangarembga receives honorary PhD from Rhodes University
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Tsitsi Dangarembga receives honorary PhD from Rhodes University
Renowned Zimbabwean author, playwright, and filmmaker Tsitsi Dangarembga continues to rise as one of Africa's most celebrated literary icons, cementing her lega...
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Abilu Tangwa. @abilutangwa.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
When 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.
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Brenna Munro @brennammunro.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
thisisyungmea.com/the-zine-rev...
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The Zine Revival Is Happening in Cairo, Not Brooklyn
Once distinctly old school, zines are making a comeback across the region, from Cairo to Beirut and everywhere in-between.
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Samantha 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
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elia ayoub @ayoub.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Friend shared this video of a man unveiling the library he hid when he fled Damascus in 2011. It’s incredible
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Alex Zucker @alexzucker.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Katrine 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/...
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Lost in Translation
Tech developers think automation will fundamentally reshape the work of literary translators, but not everyone is on board.
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Charles 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."
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A.I. Is to Be Banned in N.Y.C. Elementary and Middle Schools
A new policy to be announced by the Department of Education bars younger students from using A.I., but stops short of a moratorium.
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Words Without Borders & WWB Campus @wwborders.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Excerpts 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...
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Heracleocene - Words Without Borders
Excerpts from Tatiana Krasilnikova’s long poem on the beguiling plant species hogweed.
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Brenna Munro @brennammunro.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
But 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.
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Dr Charlotte Galpin @drcharlottegalpin.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
Horrific 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
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Brenna Munro @brennammunro.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
If 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!
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Athena Kugblenu @athenakugblenu.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
I want kids to be thinkers before they become workers
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Rupert Read @rupertread.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
This 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.)
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Emma Jacobs @emmavj.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
Every commentator saying too many kids go to university has to tell their own kid to not do a degree
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Tim Watson @timwatson.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
The Kampong is an amazing place and this looks like an amazing opportunity.
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Brenna Munro @brennammunro.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
I say yes!!
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Brenna Munro @brennammunro.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
Miami an affordable city? LAUGHABLE.
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Ben Williamson @benpatrickwill.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
If 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.
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Brenna Munro @brennammunro.bsky.social · 27/06/2026
But 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.
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south·lits @southlits.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
South·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 👇
Poster with details for a south·lits event: a virtual book club meeting on Dorothy Tse's novel City Like Water
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Natalia Cecire @ncecire.bsky.social · 14/05/2026
Academic 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
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Ben Phillips @benphillips1989.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
A statement from Exeter UCU branch @ucu.org.uk - please share far and wide.
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Mongabay @mongabay.com · 18/06/2026
In 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.
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Stingless 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…
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Brenna Munro @brennammunro.bsky.social · 09/06/2026
Really helpful.
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Brenna Munro @brennammunro.bsky.social · 06/06/2026
This 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.
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Brenna Munro @brennammunro.bsky.social · 06/06/2026
One of the biggest American strikes of the 1940s/50s was by telephone operators, who were mostly women.
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Amer matar عامر مطر @amermatar.bsky.social · 26/05/2026
In 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...
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“There Is Nothing More Nightmarish” — The Dial
The new Syria has not dismantled the old prison system.
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Brenna Munro @brennammunro.bsky.social · 28/05/2026
100% no.
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Brenna Munro @brennammunro.bsky.social · 11/05/2026
Grammatical mistakes also now welcome.
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Brenna Munro @brennammunro.bsky.social · 29/04/2026
They'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!
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Brenna Munro @brennammunro.bsky.social · 13/04/2026
Testimony IS evidence.
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Brenna Munro @brennammunro.bsky.social · 31/03/2026
thank you for doing those reviews, it's such an under-appreciated labor!
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Katrina Navickas @katrinanavickas.bsky.social · 28/03/2026
This is the situation we find ourselves in
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Each university, acting independently and rationally to maximise its own market position, makes decisions that seem optimal when viewed in isolation. Close the underperforming philosophy department. Expand the business school. Withdraw from modern languages. Double down on computer science 
But when every university follows the same market-share playbook, the collective result risks the sector becoming a monoculture, with some subjects vanishing from entire regions or parts of the tariff tables - despite their broader societal value 
The implications of coordination failure aren't just theoretical - they are reshaping the physical and intellectulal geography of education in real-time 
Let's imagine three post-92 universities in the North East and Yorkshire each offered degrees in East Asian languages, all with madast onralmont Lanh inetitutian
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Spaghetti @spaghettibeaver.bsky.social · 26/03/2026
maybe my favorite thing on the internet: neal.fun/deep-sea/
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The Deep Sea
Scroll down the deep sea in this interactive page.
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Ted McCormick @tedmccormick.bsky.social · 22/03/2026
Another 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
Post from Andrew A.N. Deloucas
@aandeloucas.com:

In line with discussion about the job market, the latest majors being closed at Syracuse University:

Nine majors "sunsetting":
• Classical civilization
• Classics (Greek and Latin)
• Digital humanities
• Fine arts
• German
• Latino-Latin American studies
• Middle Eastern studies
• Modern Jewish studies
• Russian
ALTThe First University in the Nation to Build a Center Dedicated to the Creator Economy
Syracuse University is creating something that doesn't exist anywhere else in higher education.
The Center for the Creator Economy is the first academic center of its kind on a U.S. college campus. Led jointly by the S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications and the Martin).
Whitman School of Management, the center reinforces Syracuse University's commitment to bold, forward-looking academic leadership.
By aligning strengths in entrepreneurship, media, communications, athletics and digital infrastructure, the University is charting how higher education can prepare students for the 21st-century economy.
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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 15/03/2026
any recommended analysts/analyses/outlets on how the UAE being drawn into the Iran war will affect the RSF and the genocide in Sudan?
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Citizen.Coping @propcazhpm.bsky.social · 21/03/2026
Thompson'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 🌱
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Woman Diagnosed with Sickle Cell Disease at 2-Months-Old Wakes Up with No Pain for the First Time in Her Life After New Treatment
Tatyana 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.
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Philippe Dam @philippedam.bsky.social · 11/03/2026
New #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...
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New Sudan Atrocity Prevention Coalition Needs to Act Fast
On 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.
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