Turns out once you get into ring attractors it's quite hard to give them up... Who knew?!

And thanks so much for all the first-hand linguistic info, super interesting 🤩

This one! L. Llewellyn-Jones is a top Welsh historian and a big proponent of what he calls the 'Persian version' (😉) of classical history... Basically relying more on Persian sources (like the inscriptions in Persepolis) than the super-biased Hellenic accounts. Highly recommended!

Oh Wow! I just read somewhere that the word originates from classical Persian, could it be true?

I actually just finished reading an awesome history book about the Achaemenid dynasty... coincidences abound🙂

Thank you 🙂

Thanks Kadjita!

Thanks Elnaz, fingers crossed 🤞🏻

Thanks Dan, and congrats on your position at Yale! Looks like a good year for Peyrache lab alumini 🧭

You've never seen a Polish word before? 😅

Thanks Flor, hope all is well!!

Thank you Cristina!

Thanks Andrea:) And congrats on your postdoc with Dan, that's so cool!

Thank you, will do!