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Glenn Shepard

@tweettropiques.bsky.social

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Ethnobotanist, anthropologist, polyglot & filmmaker living and working in Brazilian Amazon; traditional medicine, sensory ecology, Indigenous media; New York Review contributor; Blog: Notes from the Ethnoground https://ethnoground.blogspot.com .. more

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Glenn Shepard @tweettropiques.bsky.social · Jul 25

Infinite Jest: an homage to #DavidFosterWallace I made many years ago for an #InfiniteJest film festival. This short film imagines J.O. Incandenza on set with Mme. Psychosis as they make the fatal samizdat from the eponymous novel. Enjoy, but not too much…

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@mariabustillos.com

Infinite Jest IV

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Glenn Shepard @tweettropiques.bsky.social · 1d

"Indigenous Water Guardians": Part 2 of a 3 part series on TV Peru about Rainforest Flow's water projectsthat have reduced childhood deaths from diarrhea by 73% in the last 15 years in Matsigenka Indigenous communities of Manu National Park

youtu.be/w3nh5SDk7JA?...

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Glenn Shepard @tweettropiques.bsky.social · 3d

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Glenn Shepard @tweettropiques.bsky.social · 7d

A movie you've seen more than 7 times in a GIF (and this one is exponential...)

Glenn Shepard @tweettropiques.bsky.social · 7d

a woman is doing push ups on the ground

ALT: a woman is doing push ups on the ground

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Reposted by Glenn H. Shepard

Mongabay @mongabay.com · 7d

Brazil’s official data show deforestation in the Amazon fell 11% in the 12 months to July 2025, with independent monitoring by Imazon confirming a similar trend—evidence that policies under President Lula da Silva are reversing the sharp rise seen during Jair Bolsonaro’s administration.

Heading into COP, Brazil’s Amazon deforestation rate is falling. What about fires?

As the world’s attention turns toward COP30 in Belém next month, the story of Brazil’s Amazon is shifting—though not quite in a straightforward way. According to the government’s satellite-based...

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Reposted by Anna O. Law, Alan Richardson, Glenn H. Shepard , and 6 more Anna O. Law, Alan Richardson, Glenn H. Shepard, Elizabeth Stevenson, Anne Norton, Ann Bartow, Claire L. Adida, Manisha Sinha, Nathan P. Kalmoe

shauna @goldengateblond.bsky.social · 8d

someone invited people magazine to the kitchen and they brought their own knives

from people magazine

Donald Trump Confuses Dementia Screening for
'Very Hard' IQ Test as He Brags About Results
The president predicted that Democratic Reps.
Jasmine Crockett and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez could not perform as well as he did in a cognitive exam
By Greta Bjornson |
Updated on October 28, 2025 10:24AM EDT

from people magazine

Donald Trump Hosts Great Gatsby-Themed Halloween Party as 42
Million Americans Brace for SNAP Benefits to Expire
The president hosted the Roaring '20s bash at Mar-a-Lago on Oct. 31 amid the ongoing government shutdown
By Bailey Richards
Published on November 1, 2025 06:19PM EDT

Glenn Shepard @tweettropiques.bsky.social · 8d

"If spying is mostly writing, a good deal of the remainder is waiting."

-- David McCloskey

@spybrary.bsky.social

Reposted by Glenn H. Shepard

Alex Jenkins @alexjenkinspoet.bsky.social · 8d

Happy All Souls day from Paul Celan (trans. by Michael Hamburger)

ALL SOULS

What did I
do?

Seminated the night, as though
there could be others, more nocturnal than
this one.

Bird flight, stone flight, a thousand
described routes. Glances,
purloined and plucked. The sea,
tasted, drunk away, dreamed away. An hour soul-eclipsed. The next, an autumn light,
offered up to a blind
feeling which came that way. Others, many,
with no place but their own heavy centres: glimpsed and avoided.

Foundlings, stars,
black, full of language: named
after an oath which silence annulled.

And once (when? that too is forgotten):
felt the barb
where my pulse dared the counter-beat.

Reposted by Glenn H. Shepard

Pestilence @pestilence4all.bsky.social · 10d

By combining 8 different nanobodies isolated from alpacas and llamas following immunization with snake venom - this research team has produced an antivenom that not only protects against 17 different snake venoms but also protects from tissue local damage, a major problem associated with bites.

Single antivenom protects against 17 different snakebites

Researchers immunized an alpaca and a llama with snake venoms, and combined some of the antibodies produced into a potent cocktail.

www.nature.com

Glenn Shepard @tweettropiques.bsky.social · 13d

"Journey to the Heart of Manu", 1st in a 2 part series on TV Peru about Matsigenka indigenous communities of Manu National Park and the life-saving water and sanitation projects implemented there by Rainforest Flow

Part 2 airs Sunday at 8 PM, Peru time on TVPerú

youtu.be/dVnMsVNrLj8?...

🌿 Expedición al corazón del Manu: una travesía hacia la comunidad más aislada del Perú 🌎

YouTube video by TVPerú Noticias

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Glenn Shepard @tweettropiques.bsky.social · 14d

Always have to work in a little ethnobotany into the TV Peru special on the Matsigenka people of Manu National Park!

The segment begins at 23:00 www.youtube.com/watch?v=kHh0...

Glenn Shepard @tweettropiques.bsky.social · 14d

Last night, TV Peru debuted the first in a two part series on the Matsigenka people of Manu. Part 2 which airs next Sunday will focus on the life-saving water & sanitation systems developed by Rainforest Flow for these remote communities.

The segment begins at 23:00 www.youtube.com/watch?v=kHh0...

Reposted by Glenn H. Shepard

Eli K.P. William @elikpwilliam.com · 15d

To select stories for the anthology of classic Japanese sci-fi I'm editing for MIT Press, I started reading this 1971 collection of pre-WWII short stories

Today I read the 1925 short story The Man Traveling With the Brocade Portrait (押絵と旅する男) by Edogawa Ranpo

#japanese #classic #scifi #anthology

Glenn Shepard @tweettropiques.bsky.social · 16d

With the Rainforest Flow team at FLARE 2025 conference in Lima presenting 20 years of sustainable, life-saving water & sanitation technologies in Indigenous communities of the Peruvian Amazon

Photos: Neil Giardino

rainforestflow.org

Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 16d

The richest man on earth owns X.

The second richest man on earth is about to acquire TikTok and his family could soon own both Paramount and Warner Bros.

The third richest man owns Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp.

The fourth richest man owns The Washington Post.

See the problem here?

Glenn Shepard @tweettropiques.bsky.social · 16d

Because of course

USA TODAY @usatoday.com · 17d

The White House's East Wing construction rubble was taken to East Potomac Golf Course. It was reported that the rubble will be used to create mounds on the golf course.

Read more: bit.ly/4oa2tXA

Glenn Shepard @tweettropiques.bsky.social · 16d

Cut off your nose to spite your economy, your scientific output and your health.

Nick Covington @covingtonedu.bsky.social · 16d

In fact, good luck with any university research:

"...Cuts to NIH and NSF funding alone will cost the U.S. economy between $10B-$16B annually in decreased economic output. Additionally, researchers estimate that proposed cuts to NIH funding would result in nearly 70,000 jobs lost nationwide."

Mapping Federal Funding Cuts to U.S. Colleges and Universities

American science and innovation should not be subject to the political winds of the day. Find out how the Trump administration’s grant terminations are affecting your school, your community, and your ...

www.americanprogress.org

Reposted by Glenn H. Shepard

Nick Covington @covingtonedu.bsky.social · 16d

Mapping Federal Funding Cuts to U.S. Colleges and Universities

www.americanprogress.org

Reposted by Glenn H. Shepard

Erin Kane @dianamonkey.bsky.social · 17d

Hey, it turns out if you have binoculars and can find the constellation Boötes you can see the Comet Lemmon right now! We spotted it in Cambridge, so you don't even have to be somewhere particularly dark!

Reposted by Alex Callinicos, Glenn H. Shepard

USA TODAY @usatoday.com · 17d

The White House's East Wing construction rubble was taken to East Potomac Golf Course. It was reported that the rubble will be used to create mounds on the golf course.

Read more: bit.ly/4oa2tXA

Reposted by Brian J. Enquist, Glenn H. Shepard, Orlando Schwery

Mike Barker @barkerms.bsky.social · 18d

I'm recruiting PhD students for the Barker Lab @uofa-eeb.bsky.social We study plant evolutionary genomics - polyploidy, hybridization & machine learning for genome evolution. Work with Selaginella, Xanthisma, Brassica & more. Funding available via CAMBIUM Fellowships. Reach out if interested! 🧬🌵🤖

The allotetraploid lycophyte Selaginella rupincola growing among the boulders at Cochise Stronghold in the Dragoon Mountains southeast of Tucson, Arizona.

Xanthisma spinulosum growing outside a gym in Tucson, Arizona.

Selaginella arizonica X eremophila hybrid zone at Alamo Canyon in Organ Pipe National Monument.

A Dieteria sp. being visited by a skipper in the White Mountains of Arizona.

Reposted by Anna O. Law, Mirya R. Holman, Julia Lynch , and 1 more Anna O. Law, Mirya R. Holman, Julia Lynch, Glenn H. Shepard

Ada Palmer @adapalmer.bsky.social · 18d

Alright, team Bluesky: US foodbanks are about to have staggering demand when SNAP ends Nov 1st. We need to help them prepare.

I'll match donations: DM or reply with a receipt showing your own donation to a food bank of your choice, and I'll donate to match, up to a total of $500. 💪🥗🍲🥚🥧🥪🥣🥛
#NoHunger

Glenn Shepard @tweettropiques.bsky.social · 18d

Will do!

Glenn Shepard @tweettropiques.bsky.social · 19d

Would love to!

Glenn Shepard @tweettropiques.bsky.social · 19d

"Materials carry history. How we handle them—whether in the studio or the lab—is a form of care."

-- an interview with my talented daughter, Thais Shepard -- artist and aspiring conservator -- with photographer and art consultant John Lee Matney.

www.lindamatneygallery.com/news/2025/10...

Thais Shepard with restored Marajó funerary urn

Artwork by Thais Shepard: botanical illustration of cashew fruit

Botanical drawing by Thais Shepard: lavender

selfie of Glenn and Thais Shepard by waterfall on Xingu river

Glenn Shepard @tweettropiques.bsky.social · 19d

He already did that...

Glenn Shepard @tweettropiques.bsky.social · 19d

Indeed! And I'm part of it!

Reposted by Emili García‐Berthou, Paul Caplat

Glenn Shepard @tweettropiques.bsky.social · 19d

University College London seeks candidates for a FUNDED Ph.D. in #geoarcheology and #archeobotany examining the antiquity of slash and burn agriculture in the northwest Amazon of Brazil

Deadline 17 December!

www.trees-dla.ac.uk/projects/how...

How old is slash-and-burn in Amazonia? | TREES DLA

Slash-and-burn is the dominant strategy for plant cultivation in rural Amazonia yet its antiquity in pre-Colonial times is unclear. Ascertaining both its antiquity and differences compared to modern s...

www.trees-dla.ac.uk

Glenn Shepard @tweettropiques.bsky.social · 19d

University College of London seeking applicants for a field intensive post-doc in environmental #archeology in the Brazilian northwest Amazon region. Deadline November 10!

www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/...

UCL – University College London

UCL is consistently ranked as one of the top ten universities in the world (QS World University Rankings 2010-2022) and is No.2 in the UK for research power (Research Excellence Framework 2021).

www.ucl.ac.uk

Glenn Shepard @tweettropiques.bsky.social · 19d

Will put that on my calendar! Until then, 5th floor circulation only?

Glenn Shepard @tweettropiques.bsky.social · 19d

When hope is suspect then what is being peddled exactly? Despair? Or mere crushing conformity?

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