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Emilio M Bruna

@brunalab.bsky.social

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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Latest posts by brunalab.bsky.social on Bluesky

I am “relate most to the Tíos playing dominos” years old.

09.02.2026 01:41 — 👍 5    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

We don’t negotiate with terrorists.

07.02.2026 01:11 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

You're gonna have to call the f’ing United Nations and get a f’ing binding resolution to keep me from f’ing destroying you. I am talking scorched-earth, motherf’er. I will massacre you. will f’k you up.

07.02.2026 01:10 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 2    📌 0

I don't know what kind of pan-Pacific bullshit power play you're trying to pull here, but Mexico, Jack, is my territory. So whatever you're thinking, you'd better think again. Otherwise I'm gonna have to head up there and I will rain down an ungodly f’ing firestorm upon you.

07.02.2026 01:09 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

What if this is an opportunity to kick someone in the nards

07.02.2026 01:07 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 2    📌 0

wtf. this is a hate crime who did this

07.02.2026 01:01 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Probably not why they used it, but comic sans often used because its more dyslexia-accessible…

06.02.2026 01:04 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

“In addition, the Florida Department of Health in Alachua County is conducting contact tracing in two University of Florida classes in which exposure to measles may have occurred.”

was somehow NOT the opening sentence in an email to UF faculty, staff, and students.

06.02.2026 01:01 — 👍 5    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0
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Assessing the effect of article processing charges on the geographic diversity of authors using Elsevier’s “Mirror Journal” system Abstract. Journals publishing open access (OA) articles often require that authors pay article processing charges (APC). Researchers in the Global South often cite APCs as a major financial obstacle t...

Indeed. And across disciplines. direct.mit.edu/qss/article/...

04.02.2026 19:32 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
Bowie Mariachi Band Preforms at the SunBowl
YouTube video by El Paso ISD Bowie Mariachi Band Preforms at the SunBowl

coda: the first clip of the Osos was important for the moment it represented, but here they are doing an absolutely 🔥 🔥 rendition of La Negra youtu.be/xgQIkR0UX6w?.... Is it my dream to sing it with them in full Charro traje? Yes. Yes it is.

Fin

04.02.2026 14:30 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

BTW their principal was local personality Paul Strelzin (aka “The Mouth”, iykyk) and he *loved* them, which you can see in the clip. He was a huge supporter of their fight and was a thorn in the side if the school board for not taking bold action.

04.02.2026 14:25 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
Bowie HS Mariachi band (Los Osos Urgullosos) on GMA 11/19/92
YouTube video by panchopistolas22 Bowie HS Mariachi band (Los Osos Urgullosos) on GMA 11/19/92

Finally, lets bring it back to who will always save us - the students. La Bowie has always had my love & respect (Con Safos!). They are famous for their Mariachi Band, the Osos Orgullosos. This GMA segment is from 1992, around when lawsuit was filed youtu.be/wpgqXRPFMPo?...

04.02.2026 14:25 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

I’m guessing you hate those green f’ing ford broncos as much as I do. Actual rage. So forgive me if I’m skeptical of “reform”. And also: welcome to the “La Migra Sucks” party! It started 40 years ago; but better late than never.

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04.02.2026 14:10 — 👍 4    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

The settlement agreement included training for Border Patrol agents about constitutional rights.

I grew up on the other side of town but knew Bowie kids from extra-curriculars. They all had run-ins with La Migra. FWIW, so did my family. If you grew up in the 915 in the 1980s…

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04.02.2026 14:10 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

See if Judge Bunton’s injunction sounds familiar:

“immigration enforcement does not override the rights of U.S. citizens and permanent residents. Border Patrol agents must have reasonable suspicion and not rely on race or appearance alone to stop a suspect.”

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04.02.2026 14:02 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

La Bowie is <1 mile from the border and La Migra would
Roll up on kids and detain them. go through their bags…they pulled a gun on the football coach. All US citizens and permanent residents.

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04.02.2026 14:02 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
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Bowie High's Landmark Border Patrol Case offers lessons amid Trump administration crackdown The Trump administration's push for mass deportations and removing protections for "sensitive locations" resonates decades after Bowie High School students sued the Border Patrol over racial profiling...

When you hear politicians use the word “reform”…

La Migra has *always* been like this, & they’ve been ordered to “reform” before.

In 1992 students & teachers from Bowie High in El Paso (TX) were tired of harassment & profiling so they sued the Border Patrol…

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www.tpr.org/news/2025-12...

04.02.2026 13:58 — 👍 8    🔁 6    💬 2    📌 2
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SEC Integration Timeline - Remember Henry Harris The integration of the Southeastern Conference stretched over more than six long years, beginning with Kentucky signing Nate Northington to a football scholarship in December 1965. Below are the initi...

Ole Miss? Not until 1972. The SEC was…yeah. rememberhenryharris.com/sec-integrat...

03.02.2026 04:18 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Leonard George and Willie Jackson Sr. to be Recognized at Season Opener - Florida Gators George and Jackson were the first Black Florida football scholarship players

The first black player to take the field for UF was Willie Jackson…in 1970. floridagators.com/news/2021/8/...

(Signed in 68 along with Leonard George).

03.02.2026 04:15 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Tenho certeza, mas nao igual a minha esposa carioca! 🤣 por isso os destinos sao limitados

02.02.2026 01:55 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Vou pedir asilo politico em Copacabana

01.02.2026 23:09 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
Foreign carmakers ‘drew up list of Brazilian subversives’ A Brazilian commission examining the crimes of the former military dictatorship is investigating whether big foreign car manufacturers such as Volkswagen, Ford, Rolls-Royce, Toyota and Mercedes-Benz

FWIW “repressive governments building databases of ‘subversives’ with the assistance of major corporations” is a thing: www.thetimes.com/best-law-fir...

30.01.2026 14:14 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

This definitely giving off junta vibes. What’s the over/under on “days until protesters are referred to as ‘subversives’?”

30.01.2026 14:09 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 2    📌 0

“You’re in the government database of people legally protesting the actions of the current administration” is a four-alarm fire, peeps.

30.01.2026 13:59 — 👍 6    🔁 4    💬 1    📌 0
28.01.2026 21:27 — 👍 50    🔁 10    💬 1    📌 0
Casino Royale - Embassy Attack
YouTube video by DB Film Scenes Casino Royale - Embassy Attack

When Bond did the same thing in the Casino Royale reboot (ok, he stormed an embassy and killed a guy, but still) M told him that in the old days an agent caught invading a foreign embassy “would have had the good sense to defect". youtu.be/VUt2O7oXna4?...

28.01.2026 00:41 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

JFC this is a ‘Marco Rubio calling the Ambassador to apologize” level screw up by an ignorant undertrained cpb/ice meathead.

28.01.2026 00:29 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Last year I had to get in a DeLorean and travel back to 2007 to find my checkbook because I had to reimburse UF for tolls paid with a UF credit card during a UF trip using a car rented with UF’s Avis contract & the self-styled “AI University” funded by its NVIDIA-cofounding alumnus doesn’t take Visa

28.01.2026 00:16 — 👍 18    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Have UW-gpt do it.

27.01.2026 23:49 — 👍 7    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

They just don’t get it - they’re trying to replace the part of our job we like the *most*.

If they could make an AI tool to vibe-complete travel, reimbursement, and annual reporting paperwork they would make a fucking FORTUNE

27.01.2026 23:46 — 👍 126    🔁 18    💬 2    📌 2

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