Daniel
@thisispsychedelico.com
Anthropologist curious about #psychedelics, #phenomenology, #art & #arthistory, #archaeology, #aesthetics, and #philosophy. Em dash, semicolon, and Oxford comma enthusiast. MA in #anthropology.
October 29, 2025 at 8:41 PM
"If you’ve ever been personally victimized by the need to publish or perish, you can blame one man, and his name was Gerlach Adolph von Münchhausen." 🤨
#academia
asteriskmag.com/issues/10/th...
#academia
asteriskmag.com/issues/10/th...
The Origin of the Research University—Asterisk
Universities have existed for more than a thousand years — and for almost all of that time, they weren’t centers of research. What changed in 19th century Germany?
asteriskmag.com
October 29, 2025 at 4:50 PM
"If you’ve ever been personally victimized by the need to publish or perish, you can blame one man, and his name was Gerlach Adolph von Münchhausen." 🤨
#academia
asteriskmag.com/issues/10/th...
#academia
asteriskmag.com/issues/10/th...
I'm nearly blind from all the eye rolling I did reading this "essay," and I'm not even sorry for saying so. 🙄
#selfpity #humanities #givemeabreak
archive.today/BIR5M
#selfpity #humanities #givemeabreak
archive.today/BIR5M
Writing for 'the Public' Won't Save Us | The Chronicle of Higher Education
Humanists created new venues to affirm our value. Now they're at risk of collapsing too.
archive.today
October 24, 2025 at 10:38 PM
I'm nearly blind from all the eye rolling I did reading this "essay," and I'm not even sorry for saying so. 🙄
#selfpity #humanities #givemeabreak
archive.today/BIR5M
#selfpity #humanities #givemeabreak
archive.today/BIR5M
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The German company that makes the mechanical ladder used in the Louvre heist has used the image to advertise, with the text 'When you need to move fast'
10/10 response, no notes
10/10 response, no notes
October 24, 2025 at 8:27 AM
The German company that makes the mechanical ladder used in the Louvre heist has used the image to advertise, with the text 'When you need to move fast'
10/10 response, no notes
10/10 response, no notes
How's this Daryl Dixon #WalkingDead series? I gave up on The Walking Dead around season six, bc zombie stories are the same thing over and over, and I never finished Fear the Walking Dead for the same reason. But zombies in France might be an interesting twist.
October 24, 2025 at 2:06 PM
How's this Daryl Dixon #WalkingDead series? I gave up on The Walking Dead around season six, bc zombie stories are the same thing over and over, and I never finished Fear the Walking Dead for the same reason. But zombies in France might be an interesting twist.
"Such a task will impress most readers as abstruse."
Well, OK, but here I am. Lol
Well, OK, but here I am. Lol
October 23, 2025 at 8:50 PM
"Such a task will impress most readers as abstruse."
Well, OK, but here I am. Lol
Well, OK, but here I am. Lol
Now I wish I was a time traveler, so I could make Socrates my best frenemy. 😥 Alas!
My friend: Did you just call Plato a ding dong?
Me: Nooo, I called Socrates a ding dong, bc he is.
😹😹😹
Me: Nooo, I called Socrates a ding dong, bc he is.
😹😹😹
October 23, 2025 at 1:56 PM
Now I wish I was a time traveler, so I could make Socrates my best frenemy. 😥 Alas!
In France, we pride ourselves on enjoying life’s simple pleasures: food, drink, and the occasional grand larceny. To rush through these things would not just disrupt our leisurely schedule; it would be a sin. One must savor the moment, not run from robbery to robbery like a buffoon.
I, a French Jewel Thief, Refuse to Rob the Louvre Before Mid-Morning
“Thieves in balaclavas broke into Paris’ Louvre museum on Sunday morning, using a crane to smash an upstairs window, then stealing priceless object...
buff.ly
October 23, 2025 at 1:52 PM
My friend: Did you just call Plato a ding dong?
Me: Nooo, I called Socrates a ding dong, bc he is.
😹😹😹
Me: Nooo, I called Socrates a ding dong, bc he is.
😹😹😹
October 23, 2025 at 1:30 AM
My friend: Did you just call Plato a ding dong?
Me: Nooo, I called Socrates a ding dong, bc he is.
😹😹😹
Me: Nooo, I called Socrates a ding dong, bc he is.
😹😹😹
And if I recall correctly, it’s the only known ice age cave with images of sea creatures.
#archaeology #UpperPaleolothic
#archaeology #UpperPaleolothic
🦣 Cosquer Cave in France is the only cave with prehistoric decorations that has an entrance under the sea. Discovered by accident in 1985, it contains numerous cave drawings dating back as far as 27,000 years.
More about the amazing Cosquer cave and its discovery👇
earthlymission.com/cosquer-cave...
More about the amazing Cosquer cave and its discovery👇
earthlymission.com/cosquer-cave...
October 22, 2025 at 12:59 PM
And if I recall correctly, it’s the only known ice age cave with images of sea creatures.
#archaeology #UpperPaleolothic
#archaeology #UpperPaleolothic
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Portrait of Baroness Elisabeth Bachofen-Echt
https://botfrens.com/collections/109/contents/28576
https://botfrens.com/collections/109/contents/28576
October 21, 2025 at 6:38 PM
Portrait of Baroness Elisabeth Bachofen-Echt
https://botfrens.com/collections/109/contents/28576
https://botfrens.com/collections/109/contents/28576
Sometimes I think about legally changing my name to Luc Lapin, which is a little joke—lapin is French for rabbit, I was born in Year of the Rabbit, and I could sign my name with two lowercase cursive l's, which would look like bunny ears. I hadn't considered a new accent and backstory, as well. 🤔
How my fake accent became a full-blown identity experiment | Psyche Turning Points
When I spoke like someone I wasn’t, people listened more closely. What did that say about them – and me?
psyche.co
October 21, 2025 at 5:08 PM
Sometimes I think about legally changing my name to Luc Lapin, which is a little joke—lapin is French for rabbit, I was born in Year of the Rabbit, and I could sign my name with two lowercase cursive l's, which would look like bunny ears. I hadn't considered a new accent and backstory, as well. 🤔
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How do you know what it's like to be you?
October 20, 2025 at 8:38 PM
How do you know what it's like to be you?
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Heard about the Louvre jewel heist and my first thought was “finally, some good old fashioned normal crime”
October 19, 2025 at 7:54 PM
Heard about the Louvre jewel heist and my first thought was “finally, some good old fashioned normal crime”
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In a grim world, some good things continue, such as the annual @princetonupress.bsky.social 70% off sale. press.princeton.edu/sale/70-off
70% Off Sale
press.princeton.edu
October 19, 2025 at 4:10 PM
In a grim world, some good things continue, such as the annual @princetonupress.bsky.social 70% off sale. press.princeton.edu/sale/70-off
*This* is Salvador Dalí?! 🫨
(It is. I looked it up.)
(It is. I looked it up.)
Cybernetic Odalisuqe-Homage to Bela Julesz
https://botfrens.com/collections/63/contents/21314
https://botfrens.com/collections/63/contents/21314
October 20, 2025 at 12:12 PM
*This* is Salvador Dalí?! 🫨
(It is. I looked it up.)
(It is. I looked it up.)
And speaking of #cannabis, Carl Sagan, writing as Mr. X, shared his perspective on it in this essay included in Grinspoon's book Marihuana Reconsidered (1971). I'd read it before, but it was interesting to revisit with new questions about how cannabis experiences overlap with psychedelic ones.
Mr. X (Carl Sagan) on Marijuana
This account was written in 1969 for publication in Marihuana Reconsidered (1971). Sagan was in his mid-thirties at that time. He continued to use cannabis for the rest of his life.
marijuana-uses.com
October 19, 2025 at 6:44 PM
And speaking of #cannabis, Carl Sagan, writing as Mr. X, shared his perspective on it in this essay included in Grinspoon's book Marihuana Reconsidered (1971). I'd read it before, but it was interesting to revisit with new questions about how cannabis experiences overlap with psychedelic ones.
I'm so fascinated by this, because what was actually happening to her? Surely she wasn't *really* levitating. 🤔
publicdomainreview.org/essay/the-re...
publicdomainreview.org/essay/the-re...
October 19, 2025 at 5:06 PM
I'm so fascinated by this, because what was actually happening to her? Surely she wasn't *really* levitating. 🤔
publicdomainreview.org/essay/the-re...
publicdomainreview.org/essay/the-re...
I've been learning a lot about cannabis for the last week or two, since I didn't really know anything about it, and now I finally understand why my grad school buddy had a gigantic butane torch in his apartment. 😹😹😹
October 19, 2025 at 4:49 PM
I've been learning a lot about cannabis for the last week or two, since I didn't really know anything about it, and now I finally understand why my grad school buddy had a gigantic butane torch in his apartment. 😹😹😹
Aesthetic experiences enhances creativity by dynamically reconfiguring five major brain networks; creativity emerges from network-level coordination—I think this has a lot of relevance to #psychedelic research, too. Abstract ⬇️
#aesthetics #creativity #neuroscience
doi.org/10.1186/s400...
#aesthetics #creativity #neuroscience
doi.org/10.1186/s400...
Mapping the brain networks underlying creativity enhancement via aesthetic experience - European Journal of Medical Research
Aesthetic experience is widely believed to foster creativity, yet the neural mechanisms mediating this link remain poorly defined. Here, we propose five key brain networks that may support this…
doi.org
October 19, 2025 at 2:01 PM
Aesthetic experiences enhances creativity by dynamically reconfiguring five major brain networks; creativity emerges from network-level coordination—I think this has a lot of relevance to #psychedelic research, too. Abstract ⬇️
#aesthetics #creativity #neuroscience
doi.org/10.1186/s400...
#aesthetics #creativity #neuroscience
doi.org/10.1186/s400...
Well, the Instagram algorithm has decided I'm a gay zillionaire daddy and has been showing me ads for the gay zillionaire daddy demographic—which is not quite the manifestation I was hoping for, but I'll take the win. 😹
October 18, 2025 at 10:09 PM
Well, the Instagram algorithm has decided I'm a gay zillionaire daddy and has been showing me ads for the gay zillionaire daddy demographic—which is not quite the manifestation I was hoping for, but I'll take the win. 😹
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The idea of #philosophy as politically neutral is a pretty silly one. But I do think more people are interested in engaging with philosophy than may appear to be the case, but are often bogged down by arcane language and proofs—then they give up. The issue is accessibility. ⬇️
Philosophy seems to address incomprehensible q only of interest to other academic philosophers&inaccessible to the ordinary inquirer. It seems to miss the point of the original philosophical urge&thus seems even more pointless than other arcane academic studies www.theideasletter.org/essay/bloodl...
“Bloodless Pedantry” - The Ideas Letter
The academic study of philosophy tends to inspire contempt, from within and from without. Stephen Hawking’s pompous pronouncement in 2010 that “philosophy is dead” is just one version of a…
www.theideasletter.org
October 17, 2025 at 6:42 PM
The idea of #philosophy as politically neutral is a pretty silly one. But I do think more people are interested in engaging with philosophy than may appear to be the case, but are often bogged down by arcane language and proofs—then they give up. The issue is accessibility. ⬇️
Somewhat adjacent to my last post—this little book is what initially sparked my interest in #psychedelics as an #archaeology undergrad who wanted to study ice age cave paintings in Europe. Their descriptions of altered states are a little, ah, naïve, but I didn't know that at the time. ⬇️
October 17, 2025 at 6:17 PM
Somewhat adjacent to my last post—this little book is what initially sparked my interest in #psychedelics as an #archaeology undergrad who wanted to study ice age cave paintings in Europe. Their descriptions of altered states are a little, ah, naïve, but I didn't know that at the time. ⬇️
Really interesting—especially "Liam's" comparison of his dark therapy experience to the DMT flash (pp. 11–12). Abstract ⬇️
(As an aside, I've always been really curious about what a strong psilocybin experience would be like in a cave.)
#darktherapy #darkness #spirituality
doi.org/10.1177/0084...
(As an aside, I've always been really curious about what a strong psilocybin experience would be like in a cave.)
#darktherapy #darkness #spirituality
doi.org/10.1177/0084...
Sensing the darkness: Dark therapy, authority, and spiritual experience - Jana Nenadalová, 2025
Religious experiences are important for many human traditions. A predictive processing-based approach to religious experiences previously identified sensory dep...
doi.org
October 17, 2025 at 5:59 PM
Really interesting—especially "Liam's" comparison of his dark therapy experience to the DMT flash (pp. 11–12). Abstract ⬇️
(As an aside, I've always been really curious about what a strong psilocybin experience would be like in a cave.)
#darktherapy #darkness #spirituality
doi.org/10.1177/0084...
(As an aside, I've always been really curious about what a strong psilocybin experience would be like in a cave.)
#darktherapy #darkness #spirituality
doi.org/10.1177/0084...