Glenn Shepard
@tweettropiques.bsky.social
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
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Glenn Shepard
@tweettropiques.bsky.social
· Jul 25
Infinite Jest IV
Infinite Jest IV (Digital video, color w/sound; 8 minutes) ©2011 by Glenn H. Shepard Jr. and Lee Matney Infinite Jest, inspired by the novel by David Foster…
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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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Despite important affirmative action policies in Brazil, Indigenous university students feel their knowledge and values aren't respected in the academic setting.
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November 17, 2025 at 12:58 PM
Despite important affirmative action policies in Brazil, Indigenous university students feel their knowledge and values aren't respected in the academic setting.
ruf.folha.uol.com.br/2025/noticia...
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Found this Joaquin Phoenix film based on the novel by my friend @jonathanames.bsky.social on the Wall of Fame at Libero Luxardo art cinema in Belém, where our prize-winning collaborative Kayapó language film Nkahpoti is showing tonight as part of an Amazonian film festival for #COP30
November 16, 2025 at 9:57 PM
Found this Joaquin Phoenix film based on the novel by my friend @jonathanames.bsky.social on the Wall of Fame at Libero Luxardo art cinema in Belém, where our prize-winning collaborative Kayapó language film Nkahpoti is showing tonight as part of an Amazonian film festival for #COP30
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My new book, KARMA DOLL, third in my DOLL detective series, will be out January 14, 2025, six days before...well, on we go!
November 28, 2024 at 5:34 PM
My new book, KARMA DOLL, third in my DOLL detective series, will be out January 14, 2025, six days before...well, on we go!
Today! 7 PM in Belem. NHAKPOTI: Award-winning short film in the Kayapo language will be shown at the Pan-Amazonian Film Festival, Nov. 16th at 7 PM, Av. Gentil Bittencourt, 650 - Nazaré, followed by discussion with me and indigenous filmmaker Pat-I
More @sapiens_org
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More @sapiens_org
www.sapiens.org/culture/indi...
November 16, 2025 at 2:45 PM
Today! 7 PM in Belem. NHAKPOTI: Award-winning short film in the Kayapo language will be shown at the Pan-Amazonian Film Festival, Nov. 16th at 7 PM, Av. Gentil Bittencourt, 650 - Nazaré, followed by discussion with me and indigenous filmmaker Pat-I
More @sapiens_org
www.sapiens.org/culture/indi...
More @sapiens_org
www.sapiens.org/culture/indi...
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NHAKPOTI: Award-winning Kayapo film will be shown Sunday, November 16th at 6:30 PM at the Pan-Amazonian Film Festival, Av. Gentil Bittencourt, 650 - Nazaré, Belém, followed by discussion session with me and Indigenous filmmaker Pat-I
See article @sapiens_org
www.sapiens.org/culture/indi...
See article @sapiens_org
www.sapiens.org/culture/indi...
November 14, 2025 at 4:35 PM
NHAKPOTI: Award-winning Kayapo film will be shown Sunday, November 16th at 6:30 PM at the Pan-Amazonian Film Festival, Av. Gentil Bittencourt, 650 - Nazaré, Belém, followed by discussion session with me and Indigenous filmmaker Pat-I
See article @sapiens_org
www.sapiens.org/culture/indi...
See article @sapiens_org
www.sapiens.org/culture/indi...
NHAKPOTI: Award-winning Kayapo film will be shown Sunday, November 16th at 6:30 PM at the Pan-Amazonian Film Festival, Av. Gentil Bittencourt, 650 - Nazaré, Belém, followed by discussion session with me and Indigenous filmmaker Pat-I
See article @sapiens_org
www.sapiens.org/culture/indi...
See article @sapiens_org
www.sapiens.org/culture/indi...
November 14, 2025 at 4:35 PM
NHAKPOTI: Award-winning Kayapo film will be shown Sunday, November 16th at 6:30 PM at the Pan-Amazonian Film Festival, Av. Gentil Bittencourt, 650 - Nazaré, Belém, followed by discussion session with me and Indigenous filmmaker Pat-I
See article @sapiens_org
www.sapiens.org/culture/indi...
See article @sapiens_org
www.sapiens.org/culture/indi...
ETHNOBOTANY REIMAGINED! Discover the living intelligence of the plant world:
The McKenna Academy, led by pioneering ethnopharmacologist Dennis McKenna, is offering Master-level courses in ethnobotany, plant chemistry and shamanism. Discounts through November 30!
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The McKenna Academy, led by pioneering ethnopharmacologist Dennis McKenna, is offering Master-level courses in ethnobotany, plant chemistry and shamanism. Discounts through November 30!
mckenna.academy/mka-programs...
Online Ethnobotany, Plant Medicine & Shamanism Courses
Explore ethnobotany, plant medicine, and shamanism with world-renowned instructors like Dennis McKenna & Wade Davis. Deepen your human-plant understanding.
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November 14, 2025 at 1:07 PM
ETHNOBOTANY REIMAGINED! Discover the living intelligence of the plant world:
The McKenna Academy, led by pioneering ethnopharmacologist Dennis McKenna, is offering Master-level courses in ethnobotany, plant chemistry and shamanism. Discounts through November 30!
mckenna.academy/mka-programs...
The McKenna Academy, led by pioneering ethnopharmacologist Dennis McKenna, is offering Master-level courses in ethnobotany, plant chemistry and shamanism. Discounts through November 30!
mckenna.academy/mka-programs...
"I am a child of the forest, a child of Omama who planted the forest. I defend the forest. The nape [non-indigenous enemies] are multiplying and destroying the forest. All of you need to help us Yanomami defend the forest. Enough destruction!"
-- Davi Kopenawa at COP30 in Belem.
-- Davi Kopenawa at COP30 in Belem.
November 13, 2025 at 2:19 PM
"I am a child of the forest, a child of Omama who planted the forest. I defend the forest. The nape [non-indigenous enemies] are multiplying and destroying the forest. All of you need to help us Yanomami defend the forest. Enough destruction!"
-- Davi Kopenawa at COP30 in Belem.
-- Davi Kopenawa at COP30 in Belem.
"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
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November 9, 2025 at 8:36 PM
"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?...
youtu.be/w3nh5SDk7JA?...
A movie you've seen more than 7 times in a GIF (and this one is exponential...)
November 3, 2025 at 12:22 PM
A movie you've seen more than 7 times in a GIF (and this one is exponential...)
Reposted by Glenn Shepard
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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November 3, 2025 at 12:17 PM
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.
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someone invited people magazine to the kitchen and they brought their own knives
November 2, 2025 at 6:00 PM
someone invited people magazine to the kitchen and they brought their own knives
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Happy All Souls day from Paul Celan (trans. by Michael Hamburger)
November 2, 2025 at 8:20 AM
Happy All Souls day from Paul Celan (trans. by Michael Hamburger)
"If spying is mostly writing, a good deal of the remainder is waiting."
-- David McCloskey
@spybrary.bsky.social
-- David McCloskey
@spybrary.bsky.social
November 2, 2025 at 3:43 PM
"If spying is mostly writing, a good deal of the remainder is waiting."
-- David McCloskey
@spybrary.bsky.social
-- David McCloskey
@spybrary.bsky.social
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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
October 31, 2025 at 12:38 PM
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.
"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?...
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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October 28, 2025 at 9:24 PM
"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?...
Part 2 airs Sunday at 8 PM, Peru time on TVPerú
youtu.be/dVnMsVNrLj8?...
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...
The segment begins at 23:00 www.youtube.com/watch?v=kHh0...
October 27, 2025 at 8:11 PM
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...
The segment begins at 23:00 www.youtube.com/watch?v=kHh0...
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...
The segment begins at 23:00 www.youtube.com/watch?v=kHh0...
October 27, 2025 at 8:08 PM
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...
The segment begins at 23:00 www.youtube.com/watch?v=kHh0...
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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
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
October 26, 2025 at 10:05 AM
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
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
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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?
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?
October 25, 2025 at 7:00 PM
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?
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?
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
Photos: Neil Giardino
rainforestflow.org
October 25, 2025 at 10:03 PM
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
Photos: Neil Giardino
rainforestflow.org
Because of course
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.
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Read more: bit.ly/4oa2tXA
October 25, 2025 at 1:51 PM
Because of course
Cut off your nose to spite your economy, your scientific output and your health.
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."
"...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
October 25, 2025 at 1:49 PM
Cut off your nose to spite your economy, your scientific output and your health.