Spreading the word with Make Listening Safe! Hearing is precious, and we need to protect it. #noise #clamor youtu.be/nEal61rpHzw?...

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In the October edition of Clamor: Jimmy Page, William S. Burroughs, and reflections on killer sound. Plus, inclusive acoustic design, birds that sound like car alarms, and a quiet bit of good news for Southwest Detroit. open.substack.com/pub/clamorin...

Thanks for including Clamor in the recommended reads for this fall, Stanford magazine! stanfordmag.org/contents/bib...

airmail.news/books/2025/1... I reflect on killer noise for @airmail.news

love some loops, blips beats n beeps with sounds of nature

Happy 180th birthday @sciam.bsky.social ! I’m honored to have Clamor be part of the celebration 🎉

Larry Rifkin cuts through the noise with me to talk about the power of sound (both good and bad) for our health and our planet’s health on his America Trends podcast. www.americatrendspodcast.com

It’s hard to overstate how big a deal this is - for the economy (ours and globally), for the rule of law, and for the proper and efficient function of government. www.nytimes.com/live/2025/08...

@nature.com recommends! #clamor #noise #soundscapes www.nature.com/articles/d41...

I enjoyed digging beyond the decibels and talking about my new noise book wwnorton.com/books/clamor with Grant Reeher, host of The Campbell Conversations on @wrvo.org.

@forbes.com calls Clamor “A comprehensive and well-crafted narrative of the history of noise pollution as well as what hope we have in countering this threat.” www.forbes.com/sites/bruced...

By popular demand, this month's Clamor newsletter digs into the nitty gritty of noise fights. Keep Calm and Collect Evidence: Noise Fighting 101 open.substack.com/pub/clamorin...

@americanscientist.org review of Clamor! www.americanscientist.org/article/reco...

Soundscapes reveal hidden details of complex ecosystems.

I’m psyched that Clamor was included among these recommended books by @greenspotlight.bsky.social

“Small children from poor or middle-class families who watch ‘Sesame Street’ do better on cognitive tests and in first grade than children who do not watch it,” Renata Adler wrote, in 1972.

The commissars are literally using government power to attack and suppress political speech. Whatever you think about "cancel culture," this is 100x worse. Deeply authoritarian.

Massachusetts' four regional food banks have faced millions of dollars in federal cuts to food supplies and grant programs this year. At the same time, the federal government recently implemented more stringent requirements to qualify for food stamps.

Thanks for the video recommendation @sciam.bsky.social Happy summer reading to all! www.instagram.com/scientific_a...

The entire point of good reporting or good scholarship is to tell us something we didn’t already know and the idea that they could ever be replaced by AI tools that rely on scraping the internet database of what we *do* know is just ludicrous.

The market is speaking, and it's saying, "shhhh!" Buy Quiet, Sell Quiet open.substack.com/pub/clamorin...

It’s all about the grift. www.propublica.org/article/kris...

Yes! I'm honored to have Clamor on this list of recommended reads. Thanks @breezybrik.bsky.social and @sciam.bsky.social www.scientificamerican.com/article/4-no...

Yep. This is illegal and unconstitutional on its face. The budget and appropriations are laws. The President "shall take Care that the Laws be faithfully executed", according to the express dictate of the federal constitution. His "priorities" are literally irrelevant.

You gotta fight, for your right...to have a conversation with your meal. My latest for the @bostonglobe.com www.bostonglobe.com/2025/06/27/o...

Live from Sweden! I had a great discussion and some laughs with urban planner and place maker Mustafa Sherif on his Urbanistica podcast. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/5...

Boston friends: On July 16, I'll be chatting about noise and soundscapes with acoustics guru, Ben Markham, president of Acentech, at the Parkside Bookshop in the South End. Hope to see you there!

At this week’s CDC vaccine advisory meeting, a presentation claimed that an animal study linked the preservative thimerosal to long-term brain effects, but no such study appears to exist. www.cnn.com/2025/06/24/h...

Amazing: MIT researchers revealed how ChatGPT etc are destroying our brains and booby-trapped the report to expose those who want to use AI to ostensibly summarize the results. t.co/JXeTALBPds

Had a great conversation about how the world got so noisy (what it does to us and what we can do about it) on the "Something Your Should Know" podcast. #noise #quiet #soundscapes megaphone.link/SBP6826571974

From practical noise-fighting tips to hearing voices, June's Clamor newsletter explores intersection of noise and control, both real and perceived. Plus, litigating noisy roosters, a novel approach to quiet in Limerick, and resisting a return to the office (noise). open.substack.com/pub/clamorin...

On The Stuph File Program science journalist, Chris Berdik @cberdik.bsky.social is the author of "Clamor: How Noise Took Over The World – And How We Can Take It Back", a book about urban noise pollution and how society can combat it

Clamor cited in this handy burnout-avoidance guide from @the-revelator.bsky.social therevelator.org/burnout-envi... #soundscapes

Thanks to Jeff Wood @theoverheadwire.com for the great conversation about city #noise and #soundscapes (and for providing the bonus audio ) usa.streetsblog.org/2025/06/13/t...

"In two instances, the HHS memo makes claims about dangers to pregnant women that are actively refuted by the papers it cites to back them up." Another study cited is a preprint and includes an alert that it "should not be used to guide clinical practice." www.npr.org/2025/06/13/n...

RFK Jr., a longtime vaccine skeptic who has trafficked in conspiracy theories, purges all 17 members of an advisory committee on immunization to the CDC as he continues to upend scientific conventions. @apoorvanyt.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/2025/06/09/h...

Sign up for Today in Science to see what I’ve been reading every Friday & find some recently released science books for your summer reading list ✨ first up: Clamor: How Noise Took Over the World - and How We Can Take It Back by Chris Berdik @cberdik.bsky.social 💌 tinyurl.com/Sign-up-for-...

Listen up! Two recent books have been published about how the cacophony of modern life is affecting both our physical and emotional health, as well as degrading the natural world, and how we can reclaim the art of hearing. Titles and authors in alt-text. Links to buy in comment #BookSky

📖 #BookEvent | June 2 @ 4PM ET Join #QuietCommunities for a virtual discussion with Chris Berdik (@cberdik.bsky.social), author of #Clamor. Engage with a leading voice in the movement for a healthier, quieter planet! 🔗 Register now: ow.ly/8TQc50VV9Nt #PublicHealth #NoisePollution

Plagiarism is always bad, but especially when it puts people’s lives at risk.

My latest in @undark.org undark.org/2025/05/27/w...

Many thanks to @lynnelamberg.bsky.social for including Clamor in Advance Copy at NASW. www.nasw.org/member_artic...

What many of us warned, & what is unavoidably clear now, is that there is no privileged sphere of "real life" that is sheltered, separate from the information environment. It's narratives all the way down -- even to the point that they shape *how people experience their own material circumstances*.

It’s publication day for my book! Good luck out there, old friend. wwnorton.com/books/clamor

Your first look at this week's 20% off new release book picks, four fiction, four nonfiction. You don't have to support Jeff Bezos to get discounts on hot new books. Come to us: theliteratelizard.com/front-page-b... Titles/authors in alt-text. Authors and publishers on Bluesky in comments 🧵 #Booksky

This week's genome editing triumph is a big deal. Here's why erictopol.substack.com/p/the-first-...

Soundproof apartments! Thomas Carlyle must be spinning in his grave iykyk. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

the 90s were a wild time. if i told you how many magazines there were you wouldnt even believe me