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Emilio M Bruna @brunalab.bsky.social · 1d

Yes, when i first ran the analyses in april the 2025 numbers for universities were similar to last previous years. By june there it was 5%. It you look at the curves its going to get worse

Emilio M Bruna @brunalab.bsky.social · 1d

Hello Jeremy, i really appreciate all your posts.

As it happens I’ve just submitted this manuscript for review. I used Scopus, and there is definitely a drop in papers to date in 2025 relative to prior years. Feedback welcome! osf.io/preprints/me...

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Emilio M Bruna @brunalab.bsky.social · 3d

And in case you needed a better example:

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.”

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Emilio M Bruna @brunalab.bsky.social · 3d

So is this: bsky.app/profile/lawr...

Another power granted by AI-5 was the dismissal of any public servant, including judges, considered subversive or otherwise anti-government.

Lawrence Hurley @lawrencehurley.bsky.social · 3d

Stephen Miller again lashes out at the judiciary, suggesting federal judges are aiding and abetting domestic terrorism:

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Emilio M Bruna @brunalab.bsky.social · 3d

Miller’s language is an almost verbatim copy of one of the powers granted Brazil’s military dictatorship by Institutional Act No. 5.

(Authorization for the federal government to supersede or remove local and state authorities for reasons of “national security”)

en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Institu...

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Peter Sagal @petersagal.bsky.social · 4d

I can’t think right now of another foreign leader writing honestly about what it’s like to deal with Trump. It’s both unsurprising (the man is consistent) and utterly nuts.

But this is the key photo:

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Emilio M Bruna @brunalab.bsky.social · 8d

omg I’m dying at the image of some admiral with 5 rows of ribbons on his dress blues trolling him by jumping up and charging out while bellowing LEEEERRROOY JENKIIINS!” so he could leave the lecture early

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Emilio M Bruna @brunalab.bsky.social · 8d

omg this whole speech is so embarrassing. It sounds like my kid and his friends playing fortnight…when they were 12.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 8d

Hegseth: "Should our enemies choose foolishly to challenge us, they will be crushed by the violence, precision, and ferocity of the War Department. To our enemies, FAFO."

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Emilio M Bruna @brunalab.bsky.social · 8d

WTAF. They are going for the Debarment of Harvard. As in “the entire institution”.

www.wsj.com/us-news/educ...

Trump Administration Opens New Front to Strip Harvard of Federal Funding

The government is starting a process that could make the university ineligible for future funding.

www.wsj.com

Emilio M Bruna @brunalab.bsky.social · 9d

Written in 1972. Assigned to me 20 years later when I was an undergrad. Rocked my world. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

The Tropical Rain Forest: A Nonrenewable Resource

www.science.org

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Emilio M Bruna @brunalab.bsky.social · 9d

An absolute GIANT in the study and conservation of tropical forests and one of the pillars of México’s ecological and ethnobotanical communities has passed on. Padrino to so many: Arturo Gómez Pompa news.mongabay.com/short-articl...

Arturo Gómez-Pompa, biologist who revealed the human history in “virgin” forests, has died, aged 90

In the steaming lowlands of Veracruz and the Yucatán, where strangler figs knot the canopy and howler monkeys bellow at dawn, a man with a field notebook kept noticing what others overlooked. Arturo G...

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