Pamela Weintraub

Prospect Park Station #Brooklyn NY

In case you missed this exceptionally important piece @aeonmag --one of the most important I have acquired and edited in a long time. Patient stakeholders must have a role in researching their disabilities. aeon.co/essays/we-need…. .

@samhaselby our choice now is her or Trump so... come on say what you will.

@MacBoucher1 @michaelmiraflor the costs online are enormous if you work to quality.

@michaelmiraflor What’s the benefit of physical print media aside from being an art piece on a coffee table? It’s very limited real estate with lots of competition. There are many people doing exceptional work in print but the costs are enormous and require pretty large donors to sustain.

Betting on print media to make a comeback. It won’t be glossy magazines, maybe it will be an evolution of zines at scale, or something else. Not niche like Monocle or trendy fashion magazine fare. Something halfway mass and meaningful. Physical and tangible and analog matters again, partially (mostly?) as a pendulum swing reaction against smartphone dependence and the negative externalities of digital lifestyles. Digital media has become ephemera. Corporations can decide that entire archives can be vaporized (MTV News), and consequential and meaningful revolutions in news media can be mismanaged to the ground (VICE, whose archive is also in jeopardy of being deleted at some point) as if they never existed. Meanwhile Millennials can still fine issues of Sports Illustrated, TIME, National Geographic, Playboy etc etc in the homes of their parents. Vinyl sales are up, film cameras and Y2K era digital camera sales are up, refurbished old iPod sales are up, cassette tape production is being revived…

@michaelmiraflor not only ephemera but so much of it has lost the art, and the punch and the dynamism the online medium was supposed to give, it's opposite.

@judeisabella will see you on the other side of it. I am sure @judeisabella

@pam3001 Thank you, Pam!

What a loss to us in journalism, Hakai was one of the great ones, giving us years of great work.

looking for essays on cosmology, physics and space sciences for Aeon mag @aeon.co +psyche. If you have a great idea, email me at pamela.weintraub@aeon.co #pitchcall at #Aeonmag Expert or journalist-driven okay.

Genetic diversity of Lyme spirochete explains extreme diversity of disease across individuals harvardmagazine.com/2024/01/right-… #lyme

@samhaselby thanks, Sam, hard to watch it.

Begging liberals not to continue to stake out the “plagiarism is fine” position. It’s like watching someone self-harm.

Anti-Trans Myths How a political movement manufactured scientific misinformation and legitimized hate. Supported by a grant from the Pulitzer Center. @ButNotTheCity @simonedsun @coreyspowell @brianscohen @pulitzercenter @saptwit openmindmag.org/articles/anti-…

@RashidaTlaib @POTUS @means_tv you are wrong about the meaning of that and you know it. It is intentionally confrontational and antisemitic. I am disgusted that you are a Democrat. You can support Palestinians without being racist yourself.

.@POTUS, the majority of the American people are not with you on this one. #CeasefireNow

This is good news for Lyme but not the tectonic news some are claiming — going all the way back even the most conservative on the issue agreed to something they called "post-Lyme disease syndrome;" said to be persistent symptoms unrelated to living borrelia; has this changed?

@BevTchangMD @sebastiancatana I wonder if this is true to more or less of a degree --in other words, if it can be calibrated in patients. If, as in other conditions, we can answer this along a spectrum. I am hearing of some people coming down, even way down, but not off totally.

Understood. Perhaps more accurate term would be the dual intervention point: royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/pdf/10.109… Which posits that there is this zone of indifference that encompasses the appetitive signaling you mention, among other regulatory mechanisms. A broader definition than yours, I think.

Very worthwhile questions! We typically say #obesity treatment requires lifelong management just like any other chronic disease — this is true for the majority of people But is there a subset whose #weight “set point” (more accurately: “zone of indifference”) can be permanently changed with temporary #medicine intervention? We need more #research to find out #OW2023 @ObesityWeek #obsm @obsmchat

@Lymenews @yaledailynews what makes you think that?

Yale-affiliated experts have long denied the existence of chronic Lyme disease. Does this new center represent a changed outlook--or what? New infection and immunity center looks into long COVID-19, chronic Lyme disease. via ⁦@yaledailynews⁩ yaledailynews.com/blog/2023/09/1…

So important -Not in Your Head --How psych diagnoses keep infiltrating #medicalrecords of the chronically ill, preventing correct diagnosis and treatment for disease. openmindmag.org/articles/its-n… via @openmind_mag @julierehmeyer @Lymenews

@EllenDatlow really too bad.

Dammit! The Peripheral’ Canceled; Prime Video Not Proceeding With Season 2 Amid Lengthy Strikes

important post that all should read about the nature of #NIH funding.

@edyong209 congrats and contact me if you are interested in doing an Aeonic longform --sometimes, they fit your need. @edyong209. Also, it pays to be brave, so good for you.

Some news: After 8 years & 750 stories, I've decided to leave The Atlantic. Today's my last day. Being a writer means you can’t say things like "I can’t tell you what this means" cos, well, I can. That's kind of the point of me. So here’s an attempt at looking back & forward: 1/

omg, X!! ugh