Bruce Hoffman
@de-vine-man.bsky.social
I’m an ethnobotanist because I love plants and diverse cultures. I am on a mission to study, teach and protect forests, biocultural landscapes, and ancient wisdom to build community and choose a brighter future than the current apocalyptic trajectory.
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Last week I traveled across southern Mexico, visiting several Maya archaeological sites. Just when you think the pyramids rising from the jungle are the most impressive sight, archaeologists uncover something even as extraordinary underground
My story for @sciam.bsky.social 🧪
My story for @sciam.bsky.social 🧪
There’s a Monumental Cosmic Map Hidden beneath Mexico’s Oldest Maya Site
Archaeologists have uncovered evidence of a ritual-based site that may have been built long before the rise of Maya rulers
www.scientificamerican.com
November 6, 2025 at 3:37 PM
Last week I traveled across southern Mexico, visiting several Maya archaeological sites. Just when you think the pyramids rising from the jungle are the most impressive sight, archaeologists uncover something even as extraordinary underground
My story for @sciam.bsky.social 🧪
My story for @sciam.bsky.social 🧪
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Brian Eno on creativity, confidence, and what gives value to a work of art www.themarginalian.org/2013/05/15/b...
Brian Eno on Creativity, Confidence, and What Gives Value to a Work of Art
“Stop thinking about art works as objects, and start thinking about them as triggers for experiences.”
www.themarginalian.org
May 17, 2025 at 11:12 PM
Brian Eno on creativity, confidence, and what gives value to a work of art www.themarginalian.org/2013/05/15/b...
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Thrilled to have won @nature.com 2025 #ScientistAtWork photo competition! 🧪🐳📷 www.nature.com/immersive/d4...
Six striking images showcase scientific fieldwork
The winners of Nature’s 2025 photo competition braved crashing waves and misty mountains to capture their science.
www.nature.com
May 13, 2025 at 3:50 PM
Thrilled to have won @nature.com 2025 #ScientistAtWork photo competition! 🧪🐳📷 www.nature.com/immersive/d4...
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A travesty. Vast expanses of our big, beautiful public lands and biota in the US are going to be sold off to the highest (or most sycophantic) bidder, fenced off and trashed if we don’t stop this.
May 14, 2025 at 1:27 PM
A travesty. Vast expanses of our big, beautiful public lands and biota in the US are going to be sold off to the highest (or most sycophantic) bidder, fenced off and trashed if we don’t stop this.
Science starts with seeing. Although I never met him, Al Gentry had an outsized influence on my life’s work as a tropical botanist and ethnobotanist. He is still my invisible mentor (died in 1993)
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Alwyn Gentry died young, but left a forest’s worth of ideas behind
Founder’s Briefs: An occasional series where Mongabay founder Rhett Ayers Butler shares analysis, perspectives and story summaries. Long before “biodiversity hotspot” became a conservation cliché, Alw...
news.mongabay.com
May 10, 2025 at 7:04 PM
Science starts with seeing. Although I never met him, Al Gentry had an outsized influence on my life’s work as a tropical botanist and ethnobotanist. He is still my invisible mentor (died in 1993)
news.mongabay.com/short-articl...
news.mongabay.com/short-articl...
Happy May ~ try looking up!
May 2, 2025 at 12:09 PM
Happy May ~ try looking up!
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We were able to get a clip of the video to upload from the "turtle dance" research paper. 🧪
February 13, 2025 at 2:53 PM
We were able to get a clip of the video to upload from the "turtle dance" research paper. 🧪
Step aside honey bees, loggerhead turtles have a sign a language dance too!
February 13, 2025 at 3:37 PM
Step aside honey bees, loggerhead turtles have a sign a language dance too!
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Pre-Columbian Amazonians farmed fields of maize: Lombardo, et al. Maize monoculture supported pre-Columbian urbanism in southwestern Amazonia. Nature (2025). doi.org/10.1038/s415...
Maize monoculture supported pre-Columbian urbanism in southwestern Amazonia - Nature
Remote sensing, field survey and microbotanical analyses show that the pre-Columbian Casarabe culture in the Bolivian Amazon invested heavily in landscape engineering, constructing a complex system of...
doi.org
January 29, 2025 at 5:30 PM
Pre-Columbian Amazonians farmed fields of maize: Lombardo, et al. Maize monoculture supported pre-Columbian urbanism in southwestern Amazonia. Nature (2025). doi.org/10.1038/s415...
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Declaration of the Independence of the Mind – the superb manifesto Romain Rolland, born on this day in 1866, composed a century ago, signed by various visionaries (Albert Einstein, Bertrand Russell, Jane Addams) and profoundly needed today https://www.themarginalian.org/2015/07/07/declaration-of-th…
Declaration of the Independence of the Mind: An Extraordinary 1919 Manifesto Signed by Albert Einstein, Bertrand Russell, Jane Addams, and Other Luminaries
“We commit ourselves never to serve anything but the free Truth that has no frontiers and no limits and is without prejudice against races or castes.”
www.themarginalian.org
January 29, 2025 at 11:28 PM
Declaration of the Independence of the Mind – the superb manifesto Romain Rolland, born on this day in 1866, composed a century ago, signed by various visionaries (Albert Einstein, Bertrand Russell, Jane Addams) and profoundly needed today https://www.themarginalian.org/2015/07/07/declaration-of-th…
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With the terrible tragedy over the skies of D.C., it’s time to prioritize safety. Trump must end the hiring freeze on air traffic controllers and restore the aviation safety advisory committee he dismantled on Jan 22.
January 30, 2025 at 9:38 AM
With the terrible tragedy over the skies of D.C., it’s time to prioritize safety. Trump must end the hiring freeze on air traffic controllers and restore the aviation safety advisory committee he dismantled on Jan 22.
Out biking today before a timely Arctic blast arrives in DC tomorrow!
January 19, 2025 at 5:33 PM
Out biking today before a timely Arctic blast arrives in DC tomorrow!
November 27, 2024 at 6:46 AM
November 27, 2024 at 6:44 AM