An air-breathing fish that can live inside a lair. A tongue-eating louse that uses a fish AS a lair. tinyurl.com/sc268jfu #SciArt 🐡

Between Two Birds: The Antipodean Albatross & the King Penguin 🐡 #BirdArt tinyurl.com/36pceeyn

RIP Wendell Berry 💜

Skipjack Tuna: Has the highest percentage of skeletal muscle devoted to movement in the animal kingdom 🐡 Available here: tinyurl.com/472sa7ys #AnimalArt

Four Fantastic Fishes from the Minimal Animal Archive 🐡 Available here: tinyurl.com/bdcunbkj #SundayFishSketch #AnimalArt

Pacific Flying Squid: Lights from industrial fishing boats can be seen from space. 🐡 www.redbubble.com/shop/ap/1668...

"The northern bottlenose is only moderately mysterious. Its blow is a little small and bushy and hard to see. It does not care to show off its fluke while resting at the surface. Yet it can be courteous enough, courageous enough, to approach boats, to say hello..." At @orionmagazine.bsky.social

A Statistically Average Whale - Orion Magazine

Consider the northern bottlenose

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"AN AESTHETIC IS BUILT BY YEARS. Schools. Streets. Asides. Friends. Ethics. Science. The land. Family. Big Dreams. Drive. Privilege, or the absence of. Repeated suggestion over a period of time, masquerading as Personal Choice."

Blue Balloon in White Pine - Orion Magazine

A meditation on Mylar, maggots, and the compulsion to pay attention

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Honoured to be a reader for this year's Short Prose Competition. Congrats to Kelly Pedro and all the other finalists!

"Looking to grow, transform, or simply hide away from the reality, SAND 29 cocoons itself into various liminal spaces — communities, homes, languages, bodies..." sandjournal.com/product/sand...

Phases, SAND Literature and Art

Delighted to have a new short story featured in SAND: Literature and Art, a Berlin-based literary journal featuring work by writers, translators, and artists from around the world: “Looking t…

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Canadian authors. The PLR program is open. Don’t forget to register your new titles. publiclendingright.ca

The Public Lending Right (PLR) Program

It pays to have your books in Canada’s libraries! Learn more about the Public Lending Right Program

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'Trees' - by Japanese artist Soichiro Tomioka (1922–1994) who loved to paint snowy landscapes #trees #art

"The authors’ collective voice⎯a marvel of craft, this one cohesive voice from two writers⎯blends David Attenborough’s pathos with Carl Sagan’s awe and a dash of Werner Herzog’s bleakness." A book review of The Sound Atlas by @michaelavieser.bsky.social and I over at @hippocampusmag.bsky.social

REVIEW: The Sound Atlas - Michaela Viser, Isaac Yuen | Hippocampus Magazine

A review of The Sound Atlas: A Guide to Strange Sounds Across Landscapes & Imagination by Michaela Viser and Isaac Yuen, from Lindsay Pharr in our Nov-Dec 2025 issue.

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"Michaela Vieser and Isaac Yuen have produced an informative and romantic gazetteer of the sounds that resonate in our souls...The Sound Atlas makes a too rarely considered case for a quieter kind of ecology, within which essential sounds can have broadcasting bandwidth." #bookreview #soundatlas

Musica universalis

The eye did not always have primacy over the ear. Humanity once valued spiritual hearing over spiritual seeing.

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Thanks to Chris Berdik, author of Clamor: How Noise Took Over the World―and How We Can Take It Back, for this lovely review of The Sound Atlas: #bookreview #soundatlas #soundstories

Space Jams and Other Sonic Wonders

Plus some acoustic odds and ends for your enjoyment

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Delighted to have The Sound Atlas by @michaelavieser.bsky.social and I be reviewed in @nature.com's latest Books in Brief: www.nature.com/articles/d41...

These are a few of my favourite sounds: Books in brief

Andrew Robinson reviews five of the best science picks.

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Some of the best selling designs from The Minimal Animal Project over the past year, available in apparel! www.redbubble.com/people/iyuen... #animalart #minimaldesigns #sciart

A few of my favourite books this year, from writers I very much admire: ✨ Skin by Catherine Bush ✨ Endling by Maria Reva ✨ The Way Around by Nicholas Triolo ✨ Islands of Abandonment by Cal Flyn #books2025 #shortstories #travelwriting #naturewriting #metafiction

@michaelavieser.bsky.social and I had such a lovely chat with Sam Hankin, owner of the Wellington Square Bookshop and host of The Avid Reader. You can watch and listen to our conversation about The Sound Atlas below!

Michaela Vieser and Isaac Yuen - The Sound Atlas

YouTube video by Wellington Square Bookshop

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www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i... "What would it mean to build, farm and move across the planet with kinship, not conquest, as our organizing principle? What would a different world – one that works with nature, and not against it – look like?"

The last frontier of empathy: why we still struggle to see ourselves as animals | Megan Mayhew Bergman

Champions of exceptionalism say humans hold a unique moral status. Yet there’s only one species recklessly destroying the planet it needs to survive

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"Virginia Woolf believed that style in writing all comes down to rhythm, that once you find it, there are no wrong words." #shortreads #creativenonfiction #flashprose #onwriting

Rhythm

by Isaac Yuen | Beyond thought.

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Your monthly reminder: Keep writing. When no one cares, persist. When things appear to be crumbling, keep at it. When it's difficult, push through. When you feel alone, listen to the stories in your blood. Just write. The world needs your stories.

The writer's ritual: @michaelavieser.bsky.social unboxes our author copies of The Sound Atlas, in full hardcover glory! Out now in the UK via @reaktionbooks.bsky.social and in Nov via @uchicagopress.bsky.social #soundstories #deeplistening #armchairtraveler

lithub.com/how-one-snai... "What do you do when you’re about to publish your debut novel and you discover another book—released eighteen months earlier—with the same title and a strikingly similar cover? And that its plot, too, features a last-of-its-kind snail?"

How One Snail Inspired Two Novels on Two Different Continents

What do you do when you’re about to publish your debut novel and you discover another book—released eighteen months earlier—with the same title and a strikingly similar cover? And that its plot, to…

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Thanks to Dr. Miranda Melcher for chatting with us about The Sound Atlas! Listen here: newbooksnetwork.com/the-sound-at... or wherever you get your podcast!

Thanks to @seventydys.bsky.social for picking up our odd little book that took us on such unexpected adventures! 🙏🔊👂

David Hayden@seventydys.bsky.social · last yr.

‘The Sound Atlas: A Guide to Strange Sounds across Landscapes and Imagination’ by @michaelavieser.bsky.social & @ekostories.bsky.social, a wonderful book of 36 short essays on sound in place & imagination I commissioned for @reaktionbooks.bsky.social. Published this week.

Happy for the honourable mention for my Italo Calvino inspired short story titled "Tales from Coral Country"! 🪸🪸🪸

Rachel Carson Center for Environment & Society@carsoncenter.bsky.social · last yr.

The jury and organizers of the #writingcompetition “Tell the Untold!” would like to thank all of the participants and are especially thrilled to announce the #winners. Congrats to Felix (short fiction), Vieser (creative nonfiction), and Fraillon (reflective essay) for their remarkable submissions.

Next stop in The Sound Atlas: San Francisco, with detours in Baden-Baden, Germany, the Aeolian Islands, Sicily, and Walden Pond in Concord, Massachusetts—all in an attempt to trace the history of the Aeolian harp, an ancient instrument that is played solely by the wind...

The first chapter & stop of The Sound Atlas is, believe it or not, New Jersey. There, in 1964, at the Holmdel Horn Antennae, began the saga of two radio astronomers accidentally tuning into a background radiation that originated from the Big Bang, changing the science of cosmology forever...

Thanks to Kyoichi Tsuzuki, renowned photojournalist and author of TOYKO STYLE & ROADSIDE JAPAN, for this heartfelt blurb for THE SOUND ATLAS, coming out next week! Preorder your copy here: shorturl.at/kKNn3 #soundscape #soundstories #newbook @michaelavieser.bsky.social @reaktionbooks.bsky.social