Elizabeth Pender

The book is out: The New Modernist Novel: Criticism and the Task of Reading, with Edinburgh University Press, edinburghuniversitypress.com/book-the-new-m… It's an academic book, written for academics and students in my field. Here’s what I’ve been doing in it... 1/🧵

It's really nice to read this review of the book from Scottie Streitfeld, whose own work on Nightwood in Modern Fiction Studies came out just before I sent in the book typescript: academic.oup.com/res/advance-ar…

Alright nerds (compliment) applications for summer internships at Deep Vellum / Dalkey Archive / Open Letter begin one week from today. May 1st. Unpaid, which we are sorry about, but open to remote, which we are proud of. This is a heavy hitting season! Get in here!

@Craig_A_Spencer You are absolutely right, but we also need to acknowledge that some people did get injured, and that very small changes could prevent that in future. Eg I need Novavax, but Aus won't stock it. Your post is correct, all the worse for me, bc I can't access a vaccine I can tolerate.

I remember very distinctly when Covid vaccines were rolled out. As an ER doctor, I saw that people who got vaccinated stopped getting super sick. And they were way less likely to die. I also saw that people who didn’t get vaccinated got much much sicker, much quicker. They were much more likely to die. We saw this very very clearly in the data at the time, sure. But I saw it all with my eyes. I saw it with my patients, working in the ER, in the city hit hardest and repeatedly by Covid. This bold-faced lie that RFK is spewing — that Covid vaccines CAUSED more deaths in the vaccinated vs the unvaccinated — is not only completely contrary to my experience. And the experience of every provider who actually took care of sick Covid patients. It’s also fully contrary to all the data we have from the pandemic. This is yet another attempt by a wholly unqualified RFK Jr to undermine the importance of vaccines in this country. It’s disturbing, disgusting, and dangerous. It’s wholly inappropriate for the person overseeing ALL of American health care and public health to not only be SO wrong…but to share these obvious falsehoods with such confidence. His messaging is slick, and his consistency in his narrative — even if riddled with pure fiction and falsehoods — is impressive. We have slipped deeper into a period of dangerous pandemic revisionism, where RFK Jr and his ilk are trying to convince everyone that what me and my colleagues saw with our own eyes, every day in the hospital, was somehow an illusion. It wasn’t, and we won’t forget it.

@danallison Counterpoint: we are less able now to use our metaphorical brain muscles to hold onto previous contexts, bc our brains have been damaged by various anthropogenic toxins. So social media is having a moment, bc these days it suits our biology. But we can train our plastic brains.

Scrolling social media makes it harder to read books because it trains your brain to discard previous context in order to understand the next thing, whereas understanding the next thing in a book requires retaining previous context.

@nicknorwitz Exposure to electromagnetic radiation is missing here. This exposure can cause the voltage-gated calcium ion channels to malfunction, opening the cell walls. Likely to cause a riot, etc, but the WHO still says it doesn't happen, while the research says differently

5/6) What Caused the Break in Endosymbiosis? And this is important because of the two obvious questions that follow: 👉What causes this breakdown of endosymbiosis? 👉What can we do to fix it? As clearly illustrated in a core figure of the paper, the authors hypothesize (and I agree) that environmental factors common to modern living: obesity, processed food, lack of exercise, disrupted circadian rhythm, environmental pollutants, are what trigger the break in endosymbiosis, which triggers downstream inflammation and autoimmune disease: rheumatoid arthritis, inflammatory bowel disease, multiple sclerosis, and so on.

What if all *autoimmune diseases* were stemming from the same source, from a seed planted 2 Billion years ago that’s just beginning to flower? 🔥🤔🧵 1/6) That might sound wild—but it’s actually the central thesis of a perspectives paper published in @Nature, which proposes that many autoimmune diseases may be driven by the failure of a relationship that began 2 billion years ago: the one between your body and your mitochondria. For me, this idea carries personal weight since I suffered from debilitating inflammatory bowel disease, which went into remission on a ketogenic diet. I’ve seen others similarly put IBD, lupus, multiple sclerosis, and rheumatoid arthritis into remission with lifestyle change. And I desperately want to know how it works. But enough chit chat, the paper is entitled: “A break in mitochondrial endosymbiosis as a basis for inflammatory diseases.” (PMID: 38326590). This thread will explain it in simple terms, but with nuance. 🧵👇 (link to more at the end) Potentially of interest to: @ChrisPalmerMD #BrainEnergy @thegarybrecka @joerogan - Discussed Autoimmune Disease on Epi #2304. I agree with Gary, "God [metaphorically or literally speaking, depending on your beliefs], didn't make a mistake." And THIS might be what we are missing @hubermanlab @R_Mohr @bryan_johnson because of relationship to circadian rhythms @MitoPsychoBio because #mitochondria @AdrianSotoMota @drmarkhyman @MatthewNehsMD @drericwestman @JEverettLearned @AKoutnik @lowcarbGP because I know they will And Ht/ @davidludwigmd who passed me the paper that inspired this thread, newsletter & upcoming video #autoimmunity #inflammation #mitochondria #metabolichealth #metabolism

@IPeterHope Constant exposure to environmental toxins such as indoor moulds and electromagnetic radiation

If you have ME/CFS or Long Covid, there are 3 possible outcomes: A. You get worse B. You stay the same C. You get better What do you think plays the biggest role in shaping the outcome? #MECFS #LongCovid

Close reading, via reading readers reading. Looking forward to this!

@becimay Our choices are already made for us, our questions are there waiting for us to step into them, a roomy love

Interesting that the way you create a canon is by making an author permanent and the way you maintain one is by interrogating your choices. First step: love, second step: doubt.

@DavidJoffe64 @VicGovDH @NSWHealth Thank you for replying! I've been writing to the TGA. I'll write to Mark Butler. I'm really keen for this vaccine!

@erpender @VicGovDH @NSWHealth That's not a state issue.... Send Mr Butler and his crew an email... See how you go and report back... Not holding my breath.

COVID is still in our community & can spread easily, especially during gatherings. Because #COVIDIsAirborne, improving ventilation is important. Good ventilation & meeting up outdoors reduce the risk of spreading COVID. Learn more: go.vic.gov.au/3ZDeRo4 More tips below 1/2🧵

@VicGovDH I could update my #COVID vax if I could get #Novavax! But alas, it's not available. Maybe like others who can't tolerate another mRNA booster, I'm at higher risk of developing #LongCovid. I really want to get vaccinated, but the govt won't allow it. @NSWHealth @DavidJoffe64

Protect yourself & others from COVID: 🏠 Stay home if unwell 😷 Wear a mask if visiting someone in a high-risk setting ⏰ Test if you have symptoms before a gathering 💉 Make sure you’re up to date with your #COVID vax 🧵2/2

Sing to me, O Muse, of the man of so much rizz And zero chill, fuckboying around the Aegean, After he lit up the high rises of Troy. Many opps he fought, fr, many rounds popped off, Down bad on the ocean, beefing to save himself and bring his true ones home.

📽 For Public Domain Night, the @InternetArchive⁠ invites you to experience Stanley Kubrick's rarely-seen directorial debut, "FEAR AND DESIRE," introduced by local documentarian Jason Sussberg. 🗓️ Nov. 15⁠ 🕡 7:30 pm ⁠ 🎟️ eventbrite.com/e/fear-and-des… #PublicDomain⁠ #cinema

I may never again see some of my most beloved internet archive sources in reality

@EdinburghUP Discount code: NEW30

And of course thanks to @EdinburghUP, who made the book look so good! 15/14

The book is out: The New Modernist Novel: Criticism and the Task of Reading, with Edinburgh University Press, edinburghuniversitypress.com/book-the-new-m… It's an academic book, written for academics and students in my field. Here’s what I’ve been doing in it... 1/🧵

CFP on gender and sexuality history at Cambridge 👇

and this! x.com/ShahiraHathout…

all these are things I'm yet to read: x.com/ElaBittencourt…

So much new work looks so enticing from people I've just started to follow!