Hanu Marna

@DalrympleWill Thank you, Mr. Dalrymple, for all the work that you do. I've learned so much just by reading your posts on Twitter.

Like many Arab-speaking peoples, the Palestinians are a rich mixture of all the peoples whose genes have passed through the Levant over the centuries: Caananites, Philistines, Samaritans, Egyptians, Persians, Greeks, Romans, Arabs, Crusaders, Turks-- and Jews. They didn't arrive in a single job lot in the sixth century, as many imagine: the Arab invasions consisted of only a small warrior elite, leaving the population unchanged. As recently as the 1922 Census, about 10% of Palestinians were Christian, 10% Jewish and 80% different varieties of Muslims. New studies of archaeological DNA show a closer match to Bronze Age DNA samples from the region among the modern Palestinian Christians that any other modern group along with the Samaritans, followed by Palestinian Muslims & Sephardic Israelis. They are therefore almost completely indigenous and, in many cases, surprisingly close cousins of Israelis of Middle Eastern backgrounds. For a rich description of Palestinian life during the Ottoman period, I recommend the travels of Evliya Celebi, who paints a picture of a prosperous holy land full of busy ports and bustling sacred shrines.

@KatyOB934 @emilynussbaum @MostlyMurderPod The Nice Guys was so good and flew under a lot of people's radar. Wish there were more like it.

What's a good mystery/thriller movie for us to watch tonight? Anything from '70s til now, fun & energetic but doesn't have to be a comedy (We've seen the Glass Onions, Clue, The Last of Sheila, Game Night, Confess Fletch, Memento & Charade & want a movie along that general line.)

@lingerie_addict Yes! So fascinating.

Do y’all ever think about how wild it is that there used to be multiple species of humans wandering the earth at the same time?

@thisishannahkim Just wanted to say that I used to teach engineering and experienced this once or twice. Much sympathies. Go get him! 😠

@bradleyrsimpson That's incredible!

Thirty years ago I very earnestly sent Noam Chomsky my senior thesis (on the mass media and covert ops in Guatemala), and he not only sent me back 5 pages of comments but a year later wrote me this note, by which time I was in a history PhD program. What a mensch.

@clhubes "First it is done to us, then we do it to others," next he will order it done. 😅🤣

@R_Denhollander 🙏🙏 praying for your little boy and your family.

Dear friends- signs of life are very faintly growing, hope remains - we absolutely covet your prayers for this precious baby and his family.

@rox_the_riot I learned the phrase "artificial urgency" recently and it's changed how I view some of my former managers.

I don't have time to pull this article apart, but remember--when you see a big shift like this in a Google Ngram chart it almost always indicates a change in the books libraries collect, NOT some deep shift in human society that happens to fit a narrative you're attached to (1/3)

To those of you that have a million google chrome tabs open: STOP WHAT YOU'RE DOING. Did you know you can group, color code, and collapse tabs into categories?! Yeah, me neither. Right click > add tab to group > new group. You can thank me later.

Asking your collaborator to send you the data:

Congratulations! And that is the most apt way of referring to academic papers I've seen in ap while.

Happy birthday Margaret Hamilton! 🎂 She led the flight software design for the Apollo 11 mission to the Moon. Read more on Hamilton and why she is known as “The Rope Mother”: s.si.edu/2H8oZOX #BecauseOfHerStory

Flawed Data xkcd.com/2494/ m.xkcd.com/2494/

Can you tell why this definition is “wrong”? Read this thread to find out more. 👇

As far as I know there are no scholarships,funding to support #LGBTQ2 students at risk from developing world facing homophobia, transphobia, including Afghanistan. Do other universities offer assistance? #HigherEd should be refuge for those fleeing persecution to continue studies

I really like the creativity of this! Unfortunately, it’s doing PCA not linear regression. In PCA, the distances are perpendicular to the line. In regression, we’re actually minimizing the vertical distances to the line. 🙂

tired of this one-way relationship. when was the last time your data validated you?

lord grant me the strength to take a real vacation