Emilio M Bruna

@brunalab.bsky.social

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Professor of Tropical Ecology & Latin American Studies @UF. Past-Pres of @theATBC, AAAS Fellow. Thunderbird, Triton, Aggie. #TeamHeliconia. Views mine, not UF’s.

Screenshot of nyt article showings graph pf grants per year funded by the federal government
A panini sticker of the cabo verde football federation
ai slop art of a bird of paradise plant with the family and perennial mispelled
an ai slop poster of a heliconia for sale on wayfair that incorrectly spells heliconia and perennial and also gets the plant's proportions completely wrong.
UF tweet: .@EDSecMcMahon is correct. DEI is discriminatory by design, antithetical to the purpose of a university, and incompatible with the pursuit of . of truth. The University of Florida has already acted on that conviction. In December 2025, our Board of Trustees adopted institutional neutrality and embedded an anti-DEI mandate within the presidential contract itself, ensuring that no university funds, public or private, will underwrite DEI at this institution. Dr. Stuart Bell stands with Secretary McMahon, the Board, and the people of Florida on this. He is ready to lead UF forward as a university defined by merit, rigor, and the pursuit of truth.
Screenshot of Reuters headline: "Trump says US won 'total and complete victory' after ceasefire deal with Iran, AFP reports"
Elon saying in an interview that grok is “better than phd level in any subject, no exceptions”
Bond villain hugo drax
Screenshot of text from new yor times article: “The University of Florida College Republicans has said it has no affiliation with the Federation of College Republicans, the group that opposes it. It says it is associated with a rival national campus Republican organization, the College Republicans of America.”
Photo of tillandsia recurvata from wikipedia
An office full of planta with a blue demon poster looking on approvingly
Spanish moss hanging on a wall woth infloresences and seeds.
Screenshot of Email. text of email: Hi, the Einstein FAQ states “he connects to your canvas, sees your assignments and course materials, then guides you step by step through understanding and completing them. “ Course materials I prepared are the intellectual property of the university of florida. To whom should we send the cease-and-desist letter for unauthorized use and invoice for unpaid licensing fees and damages?
Ai generated image shared by white house on x of donald trump walking in greenland with a goddamned penguin. Read a book, ffs.
Sarirical cover of the journal Science from the not-so-funny-anymore ScientistTrump twitter account.
A capybara in Recreio dos Bandeirantes, RJ, Brazil that that the photographer has skillfully framed so that you can’t see the crowd of people going bananas for the capybara in their neighborhood. Photograph by Emilio Bruna
Tweet by total loser Matt Walsh: “I totally support turning other countries in our hemisphere into subordinate vassals of the United States. That's the very definition of an America First foreign policy.”
Tweet from chris Rufo: “Part of the trick in politics is to figure out how to set off a "feeding frenzy," which promises a payout to a large number of individuals. Right now, everyone on the Right wants to get an angle on the Somali fraud story. Which is good. Narrative leads to action.”
list of keywords auto-generated by academic analytics software, including useless ones like species epithets
Screenshot of new york times editorial by brett stephens enititled “The Case for Overthrowing Maduro”
Steven miller on X “The Democrat Party has filled our legal and judicial system with radicals who protect leftwing terrorists. This is a very real and dire crisis for our Republican form of government.”
Screenshot chris rufo saying something that makes him sound like a pretentious douche.
Parody cover of the journal science with trump on the cover
Screenshot of a tweet about kirk that got a uf faculty member’s emeritus status revoked.
“Rainbow Crosswalk defaced at the University of Florida’s Norman Hall Tunnel located on 13th Street on September 1st, 2025. Rainbow Crosswalk defaced at the University of Florida’s Norman Hall Tunnel located on 13th Street on September 1st, 2025. Photo by Juleidi Machuca | The Independent Florida Alligator”
Screenshot google translate if a phrase in english to german
NY Times correction of the Misidentification of rheas as emus
Cover of the economist. Jair bolsonaro wearing the headress of the january 6th shaman with the cover text “what brazil can teach america - the trial of jair bolsonaro”
Paper title: yes? Paper text: no.
Text from column by david brooks in the New York Times: The next year I helped organize a conference of people building local communities. We made sure that at least 30 percent of the participants were from red states. But during our discussions, the progressives in the room seemed to assume that everybody there thought like them. They dominated the conversation and left almost no space for other opinions. I watched the red-state folks just hunch over. For three days they barely spoke.
Dialogue from Brooklyn 99 season 8 episode 4. Holt: Why did I send Kevin an obscene picture? Diaz: Relax. It's not a big deal. You were just flirting. Holt: No, if I were flirting, I would have sent him a scatter plot of educational attainment versus caloric intake in Jacobin France. This is as if I've sent him…a bar graph. Rosa: Are bar graphs bad? Holt: It reduces robust data sets to a single point…GET YOUR HEAD OUT OF YOUR ASS!
Pensive.
Pitu, Gainesville’s scariest chihuahua
Decid Decosimo on x: On my first day at BU, a colleague took me to lunch & said: “Do you know what the real miracle of your hire is? You’re a white male. Do you know how much better than every other candidate you have to be to get hired here as a white man?" I couldn't believe he'd said it out loud.
Screenshot of photo from NYT interview with president lula of brazil
EB with Lucha Libre fighter Wafle
PARABIOLOGISTS: KEY PARTNERS IN TROPICAL CONSERVATION Addressing the challenges of conserving tropical eosystems requires not only soientific expertise, but also meaningful collaboration with looal communities. Tropical parabiologists-often local residents and frequently from Indigenous communities have played a critical yet frequently under-recognized role in advancing tropical biology and conservation science. Intimately connected to the ecosystems they help study, parabiologists build trust, promote culturally respeotful research, and root soientific studies in socio-ecological contexts. They strengthen local conservation capacity and improve the quality, continuity, and relevance of field data.
Biotropica’s profile text: “We are the scientific journal of the Association for Tropical Biology and Conservation. Our authors fear nothing.”
Nytimes screenshot: “I think it is very disturbing,” said Senator Susan Collins, a Republican from Maine.
Cover of parody cover if science with donald trump on the cover as if he were the scientist if the year.
Beautiful banana inflorescence
A post on x from chris rufo: “Yes, in America, I see postcolonial theorists, student vandals, Hamas revelers, and psychotic murderers on one side; and decent, hardworking Jews, Christians, and conservatives on the other. My deepest concern is what happens in America and, on that count, the calculus is clear.”
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Screenshot of proposed doe budget for international education
Screenshot showing the proposed budget of the Department of Education, eliminating the funding for the fund for improvement of secondary education
Screenshot of the proposed budget for the United States Department of education. This image shows that the international education and foreign language area studies budget request for next fiscal year is a 100% reduction from $85.7 million to $0
Homemade sign reading “leave package in back door” followed by “deje paquete puerta trasera” Paquete is slang for male genitalia.
Dean Emami of Yale Nursing school
Photo of uf commencement with the banner for each college.
Screenshot of yale graduation livestream showing procession and commentators
Image of VECTOR, the wanna be villain from despicable me.
Poster of “papas del peru” with potatoes and pope leo
Rufo tweet: “The finalist for the University of Florida presidency is a left-wing administrator who recently declared his support for "DEI 2.0" and claimed that "the climate crisis is the existential challenge of our time." Florida deserves better than a standard-issue college president.”