Emilio M Bruna @brunalab.bsky.social · 3hIf we Nick Saban had to fill out travel reimbursement forms after “creating value for the university” he would lose his fucking mind. 130
Emilio M Bruna @brunalab.bsky.social · 7hI asked the white house’s Super Intelligence and so it’s settled right? 000
Reposted by Emilio M BrunaMadhusudan 🦉 Katti @leafwarbler.myatproto.social · 27/09/2026"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."propublica.orgHow BP Execs Influenced a Climate Study That Shaped a Generation of Global PolicyBP 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. 057
Emilio M Bruna @brunalab.bsky.social · 28/09/2026This 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… <checks author’s byline> someone who majored in American Studies. www.wsj.com/opinion/the-...wsj.comOpinion | The Ph.D. Job Crisis Is a Needed Market CorrectionUniversities will produce fewer underemployed, overcredentialed and aggrieved young people. 2104
Emilio M Bruna @brunalab.bsky.social · 27/09/2026This works out to an average of $258-341K per player, assuming a 120 player roster. (Faculty make…less). gatorswire.usatoday.com/story/sports...gatorswire.usatoday.comHow 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. 130
Emilio M Bruna @brunalab.bsky.social · 25/09/2026Ahem. www.yahoo.com/news/us/arti...yahoo.comMost Florida universities fell in national rankings, per U.S. News & World ReportOf the eight Florida universities recognized nationally, five dropped in the U.S. News & World Report’s annual national rankings. Two universities climbed and one stayed steady. Florida’s two top-25 p... 040
Reposted by Emilio M BrunaRichard McElreath 🐈⬛ @rmcelreath.bsky.social · 25/09/2026Thoughts and prayers for research data managers everywhere. You are not alone. We will get through this together techcommunity.microsoft.com/blog/excelbl...techcommunity.microsoft.comExcel now supports multiple values in a single cell | Microsoft Community HubLists, arrays in cells, and nested arrays introduce new ways to store and organize related information, helping you keep data together without sacrificing... 2841582
Emilio M Bruna @brunalab.bsky.social · 25/09/2026The Smithsonian has a respository of their 3d scans with downloadable files and YES you can 3d print a triceratops 3d.si.edu3d.si.edu3d Digitization 380
Reposted by Emilio M Brunaanil oza @aniloza.bsky.social · 24/09/2026Confirming the White House’s planned EO to exert more political control on NIH seems to be “dead” www.statnews.com/2026/09/23/n...statnews.comWhite 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. 713360
Reposted by Emilio M BrunaColin Carlson @colincarlson.bsky.social · 23/09/2026What'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...nature.comThe anthropogenic fingerprint on emerging infectious diseases - NatureEmerging infectious disease outbreak risks are ubiquitous worldwide, and highest in landscapes where people, livestock and fragmented natural ecosystems coexist, but detection and data ... 8553276
Emilio M Bruna @brunalab.bsky.social · 21/09/2026Really good news about USFS facilities that had been proposed for closure 050
Reposted by Emilio M BrunaDon Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 20/09/2026Vought'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. 724866
Reposted by Emilio M BrunaAaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 14/09/2026This 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. 71030289
Emilio M Bruna @brunalab.bsky.social · 13/09/2026This 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. 510542
Reposted by Emilio M BrunaMichael Clemens @mclem.org · 12/09/2026The 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. 21432712
Emilio M Bruna @brunalab.bsky.social · 08/09/2026I mean COME ON. The editors, ffs. retractionwatch.com/2026/09/08/e...retractionwatch.comEditors of higher education journal coauthor editorial with fake referencesTaylor & 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… 111
Emilio M Bruna @brunalab.bsky.social · 05/09/2026anyhumanever.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 5anyhumanever.comA life, one of over 100 billion livesIn 143 CE, in the countryside near Manaus, a boy was born. 010
Reposted by Emilio M BrunaInstituto Serrapilheira @serrapilheira.org · 06/08/2026O 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...serrapilheira.orgSerrapilheira 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) […] 032
Emilio M Bruna @brunalab.bsky.social · 25/08/2026Beat 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). 064
Emilio M Bruna @brunalab.bsky.social · 24/08/2026today I learned tumblr still exists (!) which means this still exists: scientistswithawesomenames-blog.tumblr.com. Dr. Doom, Dr. Chingon, Dr. Van Halen... 220
Reposted by Emilio M BrunaAlex Wild @alexwild.bsky.social · 04/08/2026A gallery of Amazonian ants.alexanderwild.comAnts of the Amazon Rainforest - Alex WildA sampling of one of the world's most diverse ant faunas 36222
Emilio M Bruna @brunalab.bsky.social · 20/08/2026Most full-time professors only get paid for 9 months of work per year 3416
Emilio M Bruna @brunalab.bsky.social · 14/08/2026In preparation for my GenEd class on rain forests I am (re)watching the spectacularly bad movie PRIMAL, in which Nicolas Cage plays a wildlife trapper who catches a 400 lb white jaguar in the Brazilian Amazon which he decides to ship back to the US on the same cargo ship as ....wait for it... 261
Emilio M Bruna @brunalab.bsky.social · 12/08/2026university has been pressuring faculty nonstop for months to ensure ALL course materials meet federal accessibility standards - including alt-text for images in pdfs & lecture slides - or else big-time consequences. It took weeks of summer break. Also our university, in today's email to faculty. 180
Emilio M Bruna @brunalab.bsky.social · 09/08/2026The response from an associate dean in late 2025 when I asked if we would be taking the changing funding landscape into account in tenure & promotion decisions: “the money will all be there, just in different pots.” 1205
Emilio M Bruna @brunalab.bsky.social · 06/08/2026So close…if only the word “alligator” was there it would be a contender for the most florida headline ever. www.wcjb.com/2026/08/06/t...wcjb.comTwo men arrested after machete fight in Publix parking lot, police sayEverette Krichbabum and James Tristian Gay were arrested after an alleged machete and hatchet fight in a Publix parking lot, officials said. 130
Emilio M Bruna @brunalab.bsky.social · 06/08/2026Great - a Mythos agent goes rogue in testing, sets up fake github profiles, and starts spamming users to try its malicious code. Two things are obvious: www.bbc.com/news/article... 110
Emilio M Bruna @brunalab.bsky.social · 05/08/2026“There’s so much fraud in the [Medicare] system” says with a straight face the Senator during whose tenure as CEO of Columbia/HCA Healthcare the company committed & pled guilty to the largest fraud in Medicare history and paid a $1.7 billion fine. Excuse me while I find something to set on fire. 031
Emilio M Bruna @brunalab.bsky.social · 03/08/2026He block is temporary, and can be renegotiated in the final funding bill. Keep pushing back. 000
Emilio M Bruna @brunalab.bsky.social · 31/07/2026I mean technically “grass is like humans beings” in that competition to spread seed has led to some wildly exagerated morphologies but I’m almost positive that this wasn’t what he meant. 000
Reposted by Emilio M BrunaShelly Gaynor @shellygaynor.bsky.social · 31/07/2026At #Botany2026, I was hoping to start recruiting for my lab group. If you are interested in polyploidy and population genetics, please reach out. 05963
Reposted by Emilio M BrunaOlúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 30/07/2026at least Nigeria ended up in the same region. you'll never believe where they put Cameroon and Ivory Coast lmfao 1517524
Reposted by Emilio M BrunaVirginia Gewin @virginiagewin.bsky.social · 29/07/2026📣Journalists--The @ntbgarden.bsky.social journalism fellowship is being held in Miami, Florida for the first time this fall! Get your applications in.ntbg.orgApply for the National Tropical Botanical Garden's Environmental Journalism Program at The Kampong in Miami - National Tropical Botanical GardenOffered in Miami, Florida November 8-14, 2026 The Hawai‘i-based National Tropical Botanical Garden (NTBG) is […] 055
Emilio M Bruna @brunalab.bsky.social · 29/07/2026Some wild p-hacking & hilariously bad stats in S2E13 of ER: "Benton...you're going to Paris to present the clamp-and-run study. Simon did a chi-square analysis of our result. Our P-value was. 06, which means we're one successful outcome away from statistical significance."imdb.com 150
Emilio M Bruna @brunalab.bsky.social · 23/07/2026@noamross.net i think grant witness made another congressional hearing? www.nytimes.com/2026/07/22/u... 110
Emilio M Bruna @brunalab.bsky.social · 19/07/2026I haven’t worked or slept in a month for THIS?!? 060
Emilio M Bruna @brunalab.bsky.social · 18/07/2026www.insidehighered.com/news/governm... it’s official: four year limit for student visas. Can apply to USCIS to extend if necessary but case-by-case decision. Also must depart 30 days after concluding program (previously 60). This will wreck so many departments, collaborations, research programs…insidehighered.comTrump Administration Finalizes Limits on Student VisasInternational students previously could stay as long as their program lasted. The Trump administration is ending that 1978 policy. 1108
Reposted by Emilio M BrunaJody Rosen @jodyrosen.bsky.social · 17/07/2026Funny Graceland sendup but what makes this A+ is its spoof of broader trends: 80s boomer-pop's Scramble for Africa (Simon, Byrne et al) AND the Magical Negro theme that ran thru such period pieces as U2's Rattle & Hum, Billy Joel's "River of Dreams," &—of course, supremely—TOTO I bless the rains... 1534892
Reposted by Emilio M BrunaNoam Ross @noamross.net · 16/07/2026The Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) has been gutted under this administration, and now its grantees are receiving termination letters en masse. Please help us report by submitting your grant and spreading the word! 🧪 04943
Reposted by Emilio M BrunaTimothy McBride @mcbridetd.bsky.social · 16/07/2026AHRQ is cancelling research grants Researchers across the country are receiving official notices that AHRQ is ending grants that had already gone months without funding open.substack.com/pub/ahsituat... 01218
Emilio M Bruna @brunalab.bsky.social · 15/07/2026Because parking the bus in world cups has historically worked out so well for england. 160
Reposted by Emilio M BrunaTrevor Caughlin @trevorcaughlin.bsky.social · 10/07/2026New job--please share! Looking for a postdoc to deep learning methods for identifying plant species from drone imagery. The two year position offers a salary of $78,000 and the option to be based in Boise, Idaho, or Burns, Oregon. For more info: caughlinlab.com/join-the-lab/ #postdoc #drones #aicaughlinlab.comJoin the lab! – Caughlin lab 13538
Reposted by Emilio M BrunaGabriella Ventura @gabriellamvt.bsky.social · 07/07/2026Essa virada histórica da Argentina torna a nossa eliminação ainda mais vergonhosa. A seleção brasileira foi eliminada sem parecer minimamente disposta a evitar esse resultado. Vexame, sim. 213432