Adam Bruns
@gadambruns.bsky.social
Journalism, yoga, poetry, curiosity, tennis, dogs (OK, maybe a cat), guitar, bagels, cycling, latte, husband, father, son, brother, higher education media fellow, skeptic not cynic.
Great message here from @stevegrove.bsky.social link.email.startribune.com/view/6842d96...
As a loyal reader, I wanted to be sure you know what we’re doing in this moment to make sure the facts are clear for all the world to see.
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January 16, 2026 at 3:52 PM
Great message here from @stevegrove.bsky.social link.email.startribune.com/view/6842d96...
10-Minute Challenge: An Artist in Greenland www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
10-Minute Challenge: An Artist in Greenland
We’d like you to look at one piece of art for 10 minutes, uninterrupted.
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January 5, 2026 at 2:28 PM
10-Minute Challenge: An Artist in Greenland www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
Skilled tradespeople are the climate workforce rural areas need most www.marketplace.org/story/2025/1... good story here by @raedear1.bsky.social
Skilled tradespeople are the climate workforce rural areas need most
In Colorado, industry and higher ed are teaming up to grow the rural climate workforce of tomorrow.
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October 16, 2025 at 2:38 AM
Skilled tradespeople are the climate workforce rural areas need most www.marketplace.org/story/2025/1... good story here by @raedear1.bsky.social
News subscriptions should be subsidized.! 🦋
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News Subscriptions Should Be Subsidized
Eighty-three percent of the country doesn’t have a single media subscription. Readership assistance programs can help them.
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September 5, 2025 at 2:03 PM
News subscriptions should be subsidized.! 🦋
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Your annual reminder that you need to read "Squeeze Me" by @carlhiaasen.com myfwc.com/news/all-new...
FWC announces results and winners of the 2025 Florida Python Challenge™
10-day competition, 934 participants from 30 states and Canada Everglades conservation by removing a record 294 invasive Burmese pythons from south Florida.
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August 15, 2025 at 6:47 PM
Your annual reminder that you need to read "Squeeze Me" by @carlhiaasen.com myfwc.com/news/all-new...
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@marcmaron.bsky.social listeners: As we pre-mourn the podcast's end, one way to fill the gaping hole is w/ past episodes that connect to our lives. Reading Warren Zanes' books now drove me to the two great Zanes bros episodes, starting w/ @danzanes.bsky.social in '15: www.wtfpod.com/podcast/tag/...
Dan Zanes — Episodes — WTF with Marc Maron Podcast
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August 11, 2025 at 2:24 PM
@marcmaron.bsky.social listeners: As we pre-mourn the podcast's end, one way to fill the gaping hole is w/ past episodes that connect to our lives. Reading Warren Zanes' books now drove me to the two great Zanes bros episodes, starting w/ @danzanes.bsky.social in '15: www.wtfpod.com/podcast/tag/...
See this exclusive commentary for Site Selection magazine from Cornerstone Government Affairs Principal Ben Sheidler. #NIMBY #MadeInAmerica #economicdevelopment siteselection.com/made-in-amer...
Made In America, But Not In My Backyard - Site Selection Magazine
I’ve been in the room when a company’s leaders met with a state’s economic developers to plan a flashy, scripted news conference announcing the latest and greatest manufacturing project.
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August 8, 2025 at 12:44 PM
See this exclusive commentary for Site Selection magazine from Cornerstone Government Affairs Principal Ben Sheidler. #NIMBY #MadeInAmerica #economicdevelopment siteselection.com/made-in-amer...
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In a Landmark PFAS Payout, 3M to Pay New Jersey $450 Million insideclimatenews.org/news/1305202...
In a Landmark PFAS Payout, 3M to Pay New Jersey $450 Million - Inside Climate News
The deal will send hundreds of millions toward cleaning up water polluted by “forever chemicals,” checking on people’s health and fixing damage to land and rivers.
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May 13, 2025 at 8:07 PM
In a Landmark PFAS Payout, 3M to Pay New Jersey $450 Million insideclimatenews.org/news/1305202...
Trump’s New Executive Order Promotes Deep Sea Mining in US and International Waters While Bypassing International Law insideclimatenews.org/news/1805202...
Trump’s New Executive Order Promotes Deep Sea Mining in US and International Waters While Bypassing International Law - Inside Climate News
Critics call for an industry moratorium until more scientific data can be obtained about fragile deep sea ecosystems.
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June 8, 2025 at 9:58 AM
Trump’s New Executive Order Promotes Deep Sea Mining in US and International Waters While Bypassing International Law insideclimatenews.org/news/1805202...
Alan Garber fan here. www.harvard.edu/president/ne...
The Promise of American Higher Education
No government—regardless of which party is in power—should dictate what private universities can teach, whom they can admit and hire, and which areas of study and inquiry they can pursue
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April 14, 2025 at 9:37 PM
Alan Garber fan here. www.harvard.edu/president/ne...
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For nearly 160 years, the National Center for Education Statistics has collected and reported data about educational progress. The center was essentially decommissioned overnight when all but three of its staff members were fired. Here's a look inside the chaos. chroni.cl/4j3CoGG
‘Breathtakingly Irresponsible’: Former Workers Decry Decimation of Education Dept.’s Data Warehouse
Fired NCES and IES employees describe a mad dash to save data that has informed higher-education policy and practice since the days of Abraham Lincoln.
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March 26, 2025 at 10:12 PM
For nearly 160 years, the National Center for Education Statistics has collected and reported data about educational progress. The center was essentially decommissioned overnight when all but three of its staff members were fired. Here's a look inside the chaos. chroni.cl/4j3CoGG
If you haven't yet listened to Dr. Marvel's conversation with @pablo.show , do so and then get in line for this book. I feel like she and Elizabeth Kolbert are twin bookends made of equal parts hope and grief on my teetering planetary bookshelf.
I wrote a book! It's coming out in June! It's about science! It's about feelings! It's the best thing I've ever written, and I can't wait to share it with you.
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Human Nature: Nine Ways to Feel about Our Changing Planet a book by Kate Marvel
A captivating exploration of climate change, through the lens of nine different emotions, to better understand the science, history, and future of our changing planetDr. Kate Marvel is a renowned clim...
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March 26, 2025 at 4:45 PM
If you haven't yet listened to Dr. Marvel's conversation with @pablo.show , do so and then get in line for this book. I feel like she and Elizabeth Kolbert are twin bookends made of equal parts hope and grief on my teetering planetary bookshelf.
Compelling data journalism from @karanewhouse.bsky.social and colleagues at the new Suncoast Searchlight news org. suncoastsearchlight.org/sarasota-bra...
Sarasota, Bradenton developers score big tax breaks with “Rent-A-Cow” loophole - Suncoast Searchlight
A state loophole is costing Sarasota and Manatee counties millions in lost revenue by allowing developers to tap a decades-old law meant to preserve agriculture and shrink the taxes on pastures they i...
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March 14, 2025 at 8:09 PM
Compelling data journalism from @karanewhouse.bsky.social and colleagues at the new Suncoast Searchlight news org. suncoastsearchlight.org/sarasota-bra...
@mental-floss.bsky.social so far this year you are flossing my mental faculties very well on a daily basis.
February 13, 2025 at 1:47 PM
@mental-floss.bsky.social so far this year you are flossing my mental faculties very well on a daily basis.
“Plaintiffs represent millions of Americans across dozens of denominations rooted in the Jewish and Christian faiths,” said Kelsi Corkran. “They file this suit together because their scripture, teaching, and traditions offer irrefutable unanimity on their religious obligation” to welcome immigrants.
Today, on behalf of 27 Jewish and Christian denominations and associations, ICAP challenged DHS’s rescission of the “sensitive locations” policy, which had limited federal immigration enforcement action in places of worship for over 30 years.
Press release: www.law.georgetown.edu/icap/wp-cont...
Press release: www.law.georgetown.edu/icap/wp-cont...
February 11, 2025 at 7:10 PM
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John Warner has a warning about AI: "We have to think of this technology as potentially dangerous to our well-being.... If it de-skills us or alienates us from the things that we think are important about our labor, we're sort of signing our own death warrant." chroni.cl/3CHOqWC
Writing in the Age of AI
The author John Warner discusses why “writing is thinking.”
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February 9, 2025 at 12:40 PM
John Warner has a warning about AI: "We have to think of this technology as potentially dangerous to our well-being.... If it de-skills us or alienates us from the things that we think are important about our labor, we're sort of signing our own death warrant." chroni.cl/3CHOqWC
From Pardons to Purges: Pressing Questions that Bondi and Patel Must Answer Now www.justsecurity.org/107278/bondi...
From Pardons to Purges: Pressing Questions that Bondi and Patel Must Answer Now
Nominees Bondi's and Patel's confirmation must be delayed until they explain how they will redress the damage done against government prosecutors and law enforcement.
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February 8, 2025 at 5:58 PM
From Pardons to Purges: Pressing Questions that Bondi and Patel Must Answer Now www.justsecurity.org/107278/bondi...
A kickass cover if ever there was one. #sizzler
1,058,482 acres. 138 houses and businesses destroyed. An estimated 15,000 head of cattle killed. $1 billion economic loss.
Our February cover story chronicles the heartbreak and uncertainty of the Panhandle’s post-Smokehouse Creek fire future. www.texasmonthly.com/news-politic...
Our February cover story chronicles the heartbreak and uncertainty of the Panhandle’s post-Smokehouse Creek fire future. www.texasmonthly.com/news-politic...
February 6, 2025 at 3:01 PM
A kickass cover if ever there was one. #sizzler
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NEW: Documents and interviews reveal how the now-disgraced political firm Cambridge Analytica targeted potential voters by combining its cache of confidential consumer data with information secretly collected from millions of gun buyers, sporting goods shoppers and others.
Gun Lobbyists and Cambridge Analytica Weaponized Gun Owners’ Private Details for Political Gain
Documents and interviews reveal how the now-disgraced political firm targeted potential voters by combining its cache of confidential consumer data with information secretly collected from millions of...
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February 5, 2025 at 1:01 PM
NEW: Documents and interviews reveal how the now-disgraced political firm Cambridge Analytica targeted potential voters by combining its cache of confidential consumer data with information secretly collected from millions of gun buyers, sporting goods shoppers and others.
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“The Gulf of America” sounds petty and insecure.
We raise you: “The Sea of Storms.” www.texasmonthly.com/being-texan/...
We raise you: “The Sea of Storms.” www.texasmonthly.com/being-texan/...
If We’re Renaming the Gulf of Mexico, Texas Would Like a Word
“The Gulf of America” sounds petty and insecure. “The Sea of Storms” sounds epic.
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January 28, 2025 at 8:20 PM
“The Gulf of America” sounds petty and insecure.
We raise you: “The Sea of Storms.” www.texasmonthly.com/being-texan/...
We raise you: “The Sea of Storms.” www.texasmonthly.com/being-texan/...
Thx, Denise-Marie Ordway of @journoresource.bsky.social at @shorensteinctr.bsky.social for providing comprehensive guidance, incl. resources to examine whether Carter's original vision for the dept. has been fulfilled & what state depts. can handle or not. journalistsresource.org/home/us-depa...
The future of the US Education Department: 8 tips for journalists
We offer eight tips to help you interrogate and contextualize President Trump's plan to close the U.S. Department of Education.
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January 29, 2025 at 12:50 PM
Thx, Denise-Marie Ordway of @journoresource.bsky.social at @shorensteinctr.bsky.social for providing comprehensive guidance, incl. resources to examine whether Carter's original vision for the dept. has been fulfilled & what state depts. can handle or not. journalistsresource.org/home/us-depa...
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Want to better report on higher education issues?
In this piece from Denise-Marie Ordway of journoresource.bsky.social, check out 19 free databases journalists can use.
ewa.org/data-researc...
#highered #education
In this piece from Denise-Marie Ordway of journoresource.bsky.social, check out 19 free databases journalists can use.
ewa.org/data-researc...
#highered #education
19 Higher Education Databases to Understand College Issues
Use these free higher education databases to understand college issues, such as student demographics, graduation rates and campus crime.
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January 8, 2025 at 3:00 PM
Want to better report on higher education issues?
In this piece from Denise-Marie Ordway of journoresource.bsky.social, check out 19 free databases journalists can use.
ewa.org/data-researc...
#highered #education
In this piece from Denise-Marie Ordway of journoresource.bsky.social, check out 19 free databases journalists can use.
ewa.org/data-researc...
#highered #education
Um, @penguinrandomhouse.bsky.social has slated this one for March release but might want to put a rush on it. @wkamaubell.bsky.social www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/788713...
Who Is Government? by Michael Lewis: 9798217047802 | PenguinRandomHouse.com: Books
Who works for the government and why does their work matter? An urgent and absorbing civics lesson from an all-star team of writers and storytellers. The government is a vast, complex system that Ame...
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January 28, 2025 at 7:20 PM
Um, @penguinrandomhouse.bsky.social has slated this one for March release but might want to put a rush on it. @wkamaubell.bsky.social www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/788713...
podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/f... @ravenben.bsky.social you are my hero. If anyone reading this is a human creative, listen to this and you may wish to support Ben’s work.
619. How to Poison the A.I. Machine
Podcast Episode · Freakonomics Radio · 01/24/2025 · 52m
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January 25, 2025 at 9:44 PM
podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/f... @ravenben.bsky.social you are my hero. If anyone reading this is a human creative, listen to this and you may wish to support Ben’s work.