Rima Brusi

Y creo que al final, cuando recita la lista de países de las Américas, y termina diciendo “estamos aquí”, es un homenaje a Residente. “Desde tierra del fuego hasta Canadá… aquí estamos, siempre estamos, no nos fuimos, no nos vamos…” #benitobowl

YouTube video by Apple Music Bad Bunny Takes the World’s Biggest Stage | Apple Music Super Bowl Halftime Show (Official Trailer)

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Enjoy Benito’s concert everyone!! Also I hear there’s a pretty awesome football game opening and closing the concert. 🥰 Gracias #badbunny, te amamos ❤️❤️🇵🇷, and go #Seahawks!!!!! 🏈

Haters: “Bad Bunny is divisive!!!”

Bad Bunny: “Acho, bájale dos y baila conmigo.” ❤️❤️❤️

kermit the frog from sesame street is dancing and saying yay !!! ALT: kermit the frog from sesame street is dancing and saying yay !!!

Nueva Yoooool!!!! ❤️🗽

I just tried to delete my #academia dot edu, but it looks like in the process,I inadvertently accepted the new terms?Does that mean that even after I leave they can still use my face/content/voice etc?Also,how do we share our work with/find each other without becoming free content for AI training?

PSA: The only thing worse than today’s headlines is letting the newspaper’s AI demonic bot read them to you. I tried. I regret. Still recovering. Consider yourselves warned. You’re welcome.

New from #PracticingAnthropology: “We Want to Do It All”: A Place-Based Model for Access to Higher Education by Brusi, Yace, Tossas, González-Barreto & Dika
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@rimabrusi.bsky.social
@practicinganthro1.bsky.social
#SfAA #socialscience #anthropology #appliedanthropology

Finally published the model guiding our work in PR:place-based+maps #highered access at 2 levels: external (eg neighborhoods excluded) + internal (institutional landscapes students navigate). Model integrates research, outreach & inquiry—adaptable to other institutions, including my current NAU! 🇵🇷 🏔️

Hoy se cumplen 8 años del paso del Huracán María. Hoy se conmemoran los más de 4,645 boricuas que perdieron la vida, que fueron asesinados por la negligencia calculada de un gobierno colonial corrupto y un imperio racista.

#Academia rant: went looking for a gorgeous old paper I wanted to cite, only to find a newer one that basically plagiarized it. Guess which one people cite? 🙄
Publish-or-perish is no excuse. Cite your colleagues. Rescue invisible knowledge. Create with joy, not theft.

Why ban books about cats and dogs? t’s not exactly clear what put these petcare tomes on the removal list, except that they were part of a sweep that pulled more than 574 books off its library shelves, ostensibly to comply with recent ...

What’s next?Guinea pigs and rabbits? 🐇 🐝🌺Birds, bees, flowers? Or,for that matter, cells,chromosomes,or even atoms?

“[In] some districts[..]a keyword search-such as “sexual reproduction”-may be all that’s needed to get a book pulled from the shelves.” #BannedBooks #DontStopReading #DontStopWriting

Supreme Court Lets Trump Administration Cut N.I.H. Grants for Disfavored Research

www.nytimes.com/2025/08/21/u...

Grateful to the editors, readers, and communities who have accompanied me on this journey. 💜
More soon… #Fantasmas #Phantoms #Memoir #LatinaWriters #translationJourney

Fantasmas was born in Puerto Rico and matured with me in the United States. With Phantoms, I’ll be sharing stories of memory, migration, and motherhood — stories past and present, from Puerto Rico to the United States.

✨ Buenas noticias ✨ (🧵
My memoir Fantasmas, published in Puerto Rico by Editora Emergente (2019), is growing into a new life. Born on the island, matured with me in the diaspora, it will soon reach new readers in a new language as Phantoms (Arte Público Press, 2026). 🌙

Grateful to the editors, readers, and communities who have accompanied me on this journey. 💜
More soon… #Fantasmas #Phantoms #Memoir #LatinxWriting

Fantasmas was born in Puerto Rico and matured with me in the United States. With Phantoms, I’ll be sharing stories of memory, migration, and motherhood — stories past and present, from Puerto Rico to the United States.

Texas Won’t Study How Its Abortion Ban Impacts Women, So We Did Since Texas banned abortion, no one has studied the statewide effects on pregnant women experiencing complications. Here’s how we sifted through data on millions of pregnancy hospitalizations and…

Earlier this year, ProPublica found that the sepsis rate in second-trimester pregnancy loss hospitalizations increased by more than 50% under Texas’ abortion ban.

Here’s how we did our analysis.
(Published Feb.)

New images could change cancer diagnostics, but ICE detained the Harvard scientist who analyzes them Without scientist Kseniia Petrova’s expertise, no one can fully unlock the data’s potential, putting crucial advancements in early cancer detection at risk.

Almost every line of this story would have been simply unbelievable a few months ago:

—Pioneering cancer researcher;
—*Arrested* at airport in Boston;
—Now indefinite ICE detention in Louisiana;
—"Crime": not declaring some frog-embryo samples for research.

Read it.
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Who’s In and Who’s Out at the Naval Academy’s Library? (Gift Article) An order by Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth’s office resulted in a purge of books critical of racism but preserved volumes defending white power.

Link to (free) full article: www.nytimes.com/2025/04/11/u...

And in the latest news from the land of “free speech”, Maya Angelou is “out” because any reference to racism is “DEI” and “bad”, but Hitler stays because apparently nazism and white supremacy are “history” and “good.”

(Added a link to the NYT gift full article in the first comment.)

“School is not important. Work is not important. Nothing is more important than stopping fascism, because fascism will stop us all.” —Fred Hampton

Inside ICE Air: Flight Attendants on Deportation Planes Say Disaster Is “Only a Matter of Time” Current and former flight attendants for GlobalX, the private charter airline at the center of Trump’s immigration crackdown, expressed concern about their inability to treat passengers humanely and…

One flight attendant recalled being told: “‘If a fire occurs in the cabin, if we land on water, don’t check on the immigrants. Just make sure that you and the guards and the people that work for the government get off.’”

By @mckenziefunk.com

A few tips for NEH grantees:
1) if you've spent money on an awarded grant but have not yet drawn down the funds, make sure to submit the paperwork to drawn down funds ASAP.

2) the NYTimes article suggests that "DOGE" might cancel awards. If you receive an email from DOGE cancelling your NEH award,

Armed mob attacking the capitol? Pardoned! #FreeSpeech!!

Students protesting peacefully on college campuses?? Deport them! Dox them!! #Treason!!

The cognitive dissonance must have required the mysterious and important #severance procedure…

"They are abducting people off the streets because Marco Rubio or Donald Trump disagree with their speech. That's unAmerican, unconstitutional, and outrageous."

– AAUP President Todd Wolfson

NIH Ends Future Funding to Study the Health Effects of Climate Change It’s unclear whether the guidance will impact active grants, but it appears to halt opportunities for future studies. One climate health expert said the directive would have a “devastating” impact on ...

And goes hand in hand with science denialism, of course. www.propublica.org/article/nih-...

Historical revisionism includes things like book banning ✔️forbidding topics of study K-16 ✔️, attacking academic freedom ✔️harassing teachers AND silencing the past ✔️👇🏽.

NIH Ends Future Funding to Study the Health Effects of Climate Change It’s unclear whether the guidance will impact active grants, but it appears to halt opportunities for future studies. One climate health expert said the directive would have a “devastating” impact on ...

The National Institutes of Health will no longer be funding work on the health effects of climate change, according to internal records reviewed by ProPublica.

By @anniewaldman.bsky.social and @fastlerner.bsky.social

“Voting with our wallets” is a dangerous oxymoron. A system where the $$ you have dictates the amount of power you wield and the rights you deserve is the opposite of democracy. We are not worthy because we consume-we are worthy because we are human.

(That said, #DontBuyATesla and #ShopLocal)