Best of Twitter week of September 16-22, 2024 (2/2)

I think part of walking’s therapeutic effect comes from the feeling of moving forward. It’s calming, stabilizing to be in motion. You can achieve this effect internally by creating something—it could be anything. A birdhouse, a good conversation, thrifting an outfit, drawing

— Ty Guy (@brainenergy4me)
2:23 AM • Sep 21, 2024

Pretty strong evidence of negative mental health effects of doing a PhD.
Recent working paper by
@EvaRanehill, @annahsandberg, Sanna Bergvall, and  Clara Fernström.
Paper link:  swopec.hhs.se/lunewp/abs/lun…

— Erik Mohlin (@karlerikmohlin)
1:35 PM • Sep 19, 2024

This research demonstrates that the widespread adoption of farming in Europe and the Near East during the Neolithic period led to strong genetic selection for traits associated with intelligence and industriousness.

This can be seen in the graphs for intelligence and household… x.com/i/web/status/1…

— Jonatan Pallesen (@jonatanpallesen)
6:31 AM • Sep 16, 2024

10,000 years seems like a short amount of time for evolution to operate but it's around 370 generations, for a trait that is 80% heritable, like height, all that is required for a S.D. increase in 10k years is for each generation to be 0.2 millimeters taller.
For a 0.79 S.D.… x.com/i/web/status/1…

— LiorLefineder (@lefineder)
5:00 PM • Sep 16, 2024

Sheep dogs don't get enough credit

— Nature is Amazing ☘️ (@AMAZlNGNATURE)
2:52 PM • Sep 15, 2024

Philip II had a servant to remind him «King, you are but a man»
Likewise, I'll be putting on Ludacris' Move, bitch, get out the way\Get out the way, bitch, get out the way on max volume whenever I have some clever-ass idea premised on Sutton being wrong x.com/i/web/status/1…

— Teortaxes▶️ (@teortaxesTex)
7:56 PM • Sep 19, 2024

I think constantly about the time Eric Adams said the best concert he ever attended was the one where Curtis Mayfield was permanently paralyzed by falling light equipment

— Kate (@Shortwoman93)
4:52 PM • Sep 18, 2024

@Mx_Defying Poor Britney was billed nearly $6 million by the Israeli counterterrorism firm that intercepted her every email, text message & social media post, & even launched an operation to infiltrate the #FreeBritney movement.

— moe tkacik (@moetkacik)
7:07 PM • Sep 17, 2024

Just ask the lawyer who tried to help Britney in 2008 when he saw how she was being pubicly destroyed for profit, & ended up getting himself disbarred

— moe tkacik (@moetkacik)
7:25 PM • Sep 17, 2024

The widely-used wordfreq database of English word frequencies will no longer be updated.

— Daniel Feldman (@d_feldman)
12:22 AM • Sep 19, 2024

this is how I manage my mental health

— machine yearning engineer 🍂 (@confusionm8trix)
6:56 PM • Sep 18, 2024