Fellow #academics: can anyone vouch for the journal "Environment and Social Psychology?" Is it legit/not predatory? I have never heard of it (slightly out of field). I checked beal's List (https://beallslist.net/ of course not updated since 2017) and did not find it there.
"We can now say that (some) Mesolithic Europeans (likely) had the currently rare combination of blue eyes and dark skin, although variation existed (Brace et al. 2018; Günther et al. 2018). While Neolithic individuals of ultimately Near Eastern descent had dark hair and eyes, but fairer skin (Krause and Haak 2017, 30) [...etc...] What remains unaddressed, to date, is why we would wish to know this in the first place."
@bibliolater@histodon@histodons@archaeodons I am collecting all the archaeological, linguistic, genetic, and cultural information at https://www.druidwisdom.org/. This large and literate European Neolithic farmer civilization has been hiding in plain site. These are the monolith builders and rune writers. They were the Minoans who invented the alphabet and rune writing. Even after the Indo-European invasion led to the mixed cultures we call Celts, Germanic/Nordic, Slavic, and Hellenistic, a rune writing, Akkadian speaking priestly class continued to exist up to 1300 CE!!! These are the druids of the classical period. Native Akkadian speakers continued to exist on the fringes of Europe until conquered by either Greeks or Romans. Minoans, Etruscans, Phoenicians, Levantines, all wrote in Akkadian. Use the menu of the right to read all the Druid rune texts translated so far. I think you will be as surprised as I was at the reach of this civilization in time and space.
@bibliolater@philosophy That's because it's "a meditative practice developed over the last two millennia or so by Buddhist monks and nuns in south and southeast Asia. In its native habitat, it forms one part of a well-polished toolkit". Stripped of those other parts its dangerous.
Has anyone else (re)turned to #RSS since the #enshittification of social media began? The level of control over my feeds and the absence of algorithms (mostly speaking...) has been a breath of fresh air.
I'm using Feedly purely because I had a very old account gathering dust but I'm not super keen on its slant towards business users and its AI push. As for feeds, I've got two groups - one for general #academia blogs and sites (e.g. @thesiswhisperer) and one for #history and #sts journals.
@jacobward@histodons@academicchatter@thesiswhisperer I use an #FreshRSS instance hosted by hostux.net to organise/read my feeds. Some groups in there: general blogs (by far my favourite category due to personal commentaries, experiences, and insights), science blogs (second favourite), journals (important for everyday #academia work), and general news (least favourite because it has so much noise in it even though I curated/pruned the feeds myself). On Android I use Fluent Reader for reading.