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Emilio M Bruna

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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.

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This sounds exxxcellent. Any chance we can see the deck?

07.03.2026 00:29 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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The Most Chilling Detail in the U.S. Attack on an Iranian Naval Ship The Iranian warship was taking part in an international exercise with many other countries—including the United States.

This is a chilling crime. A shame on our country. The Iranian ship was unarmed. The US knew this. The sailors were murdered by our navy, and the survivors were left to die at sea.
newrepublic.com/post/207429/...

06.03.2026 12:29 👍 8924 🔁 4287 💬 520 📌 607
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Threads thread: thriller_instinct 3d Is it okay to bully 40 and 50 year olds who are on social media just for being on it, cuz like why are you here - 254 Q 3.1K G 28 746 corporateash 18h ••• My ICQ UIN is 7231680. That number is burned into my consciousness. I inadvertently learned that you could see private conversations in public chat rooms when using Telnet instead of a browser on GeoCities. I can tell you the difference in audible dial-up handshakes between 1200, 2400, 14.4 kbps modems. I needed a edu email address to join Facebook after my university was admitted. We were here at the beginning. We made social media. You wouldn't be in my Top 8. I have usernames older than you. 852 Q62 G6 72

“I have usernames older than you.”.
Holy shit

06.03.2026 01:05 👍 19873 🔁 4199 💬 744 📌 1111
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How UF’s law school got faculty to ‘bend the rules’ for James Uthmeier The professor tasked with overseeing the attorney general’s course review warned UF’s law school dean he was willing to “bend the rules” but not ignore them altogether.

www.miamiherald.com/news/politic...

06.03.2026 05:08 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Not quite but as close as possible.

05.03.2026 17:02 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Also edit *isn’t that the group that wanted to…”

05.03.2026 15:41 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

(Technically they would have to follow the laws of the country in which they registered the ship so they were negotiating with French Polynesia to plant a flag and then leave them alone)

05.03.2026 15:38 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Fun fact: O’Neill was on board of the Seasteading Institute.

If you said “didn’t that that the group that wanted to create floating cities classified as ships in international waters arguing they wouldn’t be subject to the laws of any country?”

Yes. Yes it is.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Sea...

05.03.2026 15:36 👍 25 🔁 17 💬 2 📌 1

(or rather - that when we were looking at ‘Spanish Moss’ we might be looking at multiple species)

05.03.2026 14:12 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

It was on the ground on a branch so I picked it up to hang in my office. Totally random, got a species I’m guessing most of us didn’t realize was what we were looking at when gazing lovingly at Spanish Moss. Thanks for making my day.

05.03.2026 14:10 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Photo of tillandsia recurvata from wikipedia

Photo of tillandsia recurvata from wikipedia

Small Ball Moss, Tillandsia recurvata.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tilland...

05.03.2026 14:07 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
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CIR 1466/UW205: Florida's Native Bromeliads University of Florida, Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences Extension outreach is a partnership between state, federal, and county governments to provide scientific knowledge and expertise to t...

My world is rocked. I think Tillandsia recurvata. ask.ifas.ufl.edu/publication/...

05.03.2026 14:05 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 2 📌 0

Are you saying the thing everyone on campus calls Spanish Moss (Tillandsia usneoides) isn’t actually Tillandsia usneoides?

05.03.2026 13:55 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
An office full of planta with a blue demon poster looking on approvingly

An office full of planta with a blue demon poster looking on approvingly

El Blue Demon says “bring me MOAR PLANTS” but in spanish.

05.03.2026 13:42 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Spanish moss hanging on a wall woth infloresences and seeds.

Spanish moss hanging on a wall woth infloresences and seeds.

Spanish moss is all over the UF campus, but it wasn’t until I hung some over the humidifier in my office that I saw one with mature fruits and seeds.

05.03.2026 13:32 👍 23 🔁 2 💬 2 📌 0

Mark Mullin is the Ted Cruz of Tommy Tubervilles.

28.02.2026 22:59 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0

“Standard error of 0.02 seems totally legit” says no one who has ever taken a stats class.

27.02.2026 22:14 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
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?

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?

Sent to team@companion.ai

26.02.2026 01:30 👍 30 🔁 7 💬 0 📌 0

I SAID I WAS SORRY COLIN STOP WHINING

25.02.2026 22:35 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

I said i was sorry colin stop whining already

25.02.2026 21:37 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

I am in a different college at UF and don’t apply for NIH grants so I will gladly act as grievance proxy for colleagues that feel that they can’t speak up

25.02.2026 21:31 👍 5 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

They beat a blind refugee who speaks no English for failing to obey police commands he could not understand. Then instead of apologizing, they charged him with possession of a “weapon”—HIS WALKING STICK. Then they dumped him miles from home without notifying anyone, after which he was found dead.

25.02.2026 20:48 👍 12650 🔁 6097 💬 56 📌 331

BUT HE NEED WAS COMMUTING FROM TALLAHASSEE, NATALIE.

20.02.2026 03:16 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

I also taught a course for UF. The university paid me $4,000.

20.02.2026 02:59 👍 16 🔁 2 💬 2 📌 0
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Florida AG defends $100K UF teaching salary at Miami anti-corruption event Attorney General James Uthmeier defended the importance of his work with the school.

www.miamiherald.com/news/politic...

20.02.2026 02:17 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 1

“Unanimously” means the Student Regent also voted in favor of the rule.

20.02.2026 00:25 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0

My fave has been “try to avoid using images or slides in handouts”

18.02.2026 20:29 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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‘Professor Uthmeier’: Inside Florida attorney general’s $100k teaching job at UF The university was eager to hire the newly minted attorney general, but didn’t announce his teaching job until the Miami Herald and Tampa Bay Times began asking questions.

are you fucking kidding me

www.miamiherald.com/news/politic...

18.02.2026 04:03 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
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A guide on how to produce accessible PDF files? First: I know that this has been asked before: How can tagged PDFs be created that support Universal Accessibility and reflowing? (06/2010) LaTeX accessibility (05/2011) Accessibility issues (10/20...

…and this and this tex.stackexchange.com/questions/26...

16.02.2026 21:24 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Seven accessibility tips for Quarto and R Markdown users | R-bloggers Introduction When teaching, for my practicals/tutorials and for about half of my lectures I find myself preparing them using R Markdown and laterly Quarto. I enjoy preparing the material in R Markdown...

That is excellent news. Closest I’d found to help was this www.r-bloggers.com/2025/08/seve...

16.02.2026 21:24 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0