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Christopher Brown @christopherbrown.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

We were there today as well for the bday, and similarly did our part to keep the lights on. Austin’s Alienated Majesty is one of the best-curated bookstores I have ever had the good fortune to get my brain food from, and run & staffed by really exceptional people alienatedmajestybooks.comp

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Christopher Brown @christopherbrown.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Good mail day. Thanks @lifewinning.com! What a beautiful new edition of a very special book ⚡️🩶🛜 www.seeingnetworks.in/product/netw...

Cover of NETWORKS OF NEW YORK by Ingrid Burrington, 2026 edition

Interior pages from NETWORKS OF NEW YORK by Ingrid Burrington, 2026 edition

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Christopher Brown @christopherbrown.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Roll over, Erysichthon—nice to wake up and find the NYT featuring this smart (and beautifully written) @robertmoor.com reconsideration of the animist powers of nature through a 21st century prism: www.nytimes.com/2026/09/23/o...

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Opinion | Our Forests Are Demanding a Sacrifice

Wildfire converted me from a tree-hugger to a tree-worshiper.

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Christopher Brown @christopherbrown.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Amazing stuff—we have a somewhat similar site near us, and I have been thinking of making a trip up to that region soon. Thanks!

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Christopher Brown @christopherbrown.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Thanks, Dave! I will do so—and check out the film in the meantime 🙏

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Dave Pentecost @davepentecost.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Wonderful account (as all of Christopher Brown’s tales are) of a packraft visit to the former Freshkills landfill in Staten Island, NYC, now rewilded. fieldnotes.christopherbrown.com/p/in-the-bur...

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In the Burial Mounds of Eghquhous

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Christopher Brown @christopherbrown.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

It’s in there—but all new to me. Guess I’m late to the virtual party 🎊🤖

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Christopher Brown @christopherbrown.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Got my first “can I send you my work?” pitch from a bot

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Richard Butner @richardbutner.com · 20/09/2026

An especially enjoyable Field Notes this week; I really liked trying to follow along on a satellite map as I read.

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Christopher Brown @christopherbrown.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

It's insane how much of a project it is to get to the wild edges of NYC. I only made it to Jamaica Bay b/c I had a plane to catch in the morning and decided to stay at an airport hotel. Got a ride out to an island on the road to Rockaway that parallels the A Train and put in there. A few pics:

A Train causeway over Jamaica Bay, NYC, en route to Rockaway

Dead horseshoe crab and trash on Broad Channel beach, Jamaica Bay, opposite JFK airport

Snowy egrets in trees behind coastal marsh, Gateway National Wildlife Refuge, Broad Channel, Jamaica Bay, NYC

View of downtown Manhattan from Jamaica Bay

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BOO Bolander @bbolander.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

i saw some footage of a school of cownosed rays in newtown the other day though; life as always keeps on keepin' on

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Christopher Brown @christopherbrown.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

*But I will confess I was happy to get close to Newtown Creek without getting in it 😬

Metal salvage piles on the banks of Newtown Creek, Brooklyn

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Mike Westphal @mfwestphal.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Great piece. Spent a pleasant half hour locating the landmarks and tracing the route on my phone’s map app. Staten Island is now a (cool) place where before it was just a name. And the ending sneaks up on you.

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Christopher Brown @christopherbrown.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

I found this foldable kayak on Newtown Creek at the end of Manhattan Ave, seemingly seaworthy, unlocked and ready to go. I bet it’s still there and all you would need is a paddle…

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Christopher Brown @christopherbrown.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

I did not even know about that! But it looks like I was very near it when I paddled around Jamaica Bay on Labor Day. There’s so much cool territory to explore up there, and I am keen to get back soon. We’ll have to get out for a ramble and trade notes

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Steve Katz @stevenkatz.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

A lovely read about an unexpectedly lovely place (Freshkills, aka Robert Moses' Staten Island solution to NYC's 20th century garbage problem. Now a new kind of nature. And a buried memorial. (h/t @jwomack.bsky.social) fieldnotes.christopherbrown.com/p/in-the-bur...

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Christopher Brown @christopherbrown.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Field Notes from a trip to NYC’s rewilded landfill, with urban prairies, industrial estuaries, harriers & herons, abandoned shopping centers, 9/11 memories, and packrafting for the psychogeographer: fieldnotes.christopherbrown.com/p/in-the-bur...

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In the Burial Mounds of Eghquhous

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Christine D. Baker @klaxoncomms.com · 19/09/2026

@christopherbrown.bsky.social I’d guess that Our Wild Familiars by Dan Werb is on your radar, but if it’s not, it seems like something you’d like.

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Our Wild Familiars: How Animals Are Adapting to Cities …

Synanthropes have always been an immutable part of the …

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Joanna Pocock @joannapocock.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

There are still some places left on my Online Nature & Environmental course at @unioftheartslondon.bsky.social - we will read work by a variety of authors, workshop pieces of writing, discuss technical issues as well as approaches to writing about place. Open to all! www.arts.ac.uk/subjects/jou...

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Introduction to Nature and Environmental Writing Online Short Course

Learn how writing connects us to nature. Develop nature writing skills through practical exercises and discussions. Explore the genre and refine your process.

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Christopher Brown @christopherbrown.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Thank you! I had not seen this and look forward to checking it out.

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Endless Bookshelf @endlessbookshelf.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

operated by machine minds Chris Brown (aka @christopherbrown.bsky.social ) reading "Wild Cats and Predatory Robots” / at Armadillocon

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Christopher Brown @christopherbrown.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Reading today's newspaper while grabbing a late lunch and reckoning with the 21st century we got, versus the ones we imagined back in the 20th

Movie title: "NEW YORK CITY 2012 A.D" over an apocalyptic background vignette of wrecked railcars, tall grass, and the intact World Trade Center + other abandoned & ruined Manhattan skyscrapers in the background

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vivekgani.bsky.social @vivekgani.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

Whether you're an Austin urbanist and/or environmentalist, there's been a lot about Dog's Head over the past month at city council meetings and in the news. Some folks I know are organizing a paddling event next Sunday to help folks learn about the Lower Colorado, alluvial floodplains, and more...

Flyer image for Dog Paddle 101 happening Sunday August 30th at 8am - The First in a series of paddle trips aimed at educating people about the riparian landscape surrounding the wide, river bend that shapes and protects the natural beauty of dog's head.

RSVP by August 28th by emailing dogpaddle101@mail.com with your name and whether you're bringing a kayak/canoe or need to rent/borrow one, and you'll get more info in a reply on the event, entrance fees, liability waivers, etc.

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Reactor Magazine @reactorsff.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

Christopher Brown's Tropic of Kansas was published in 2017, but its vision of American history is filled with disturbing parallels to our current political moment–what can we learn from the novel and its prequels, when it comes to our future?

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Christopher Brown's Tropic of Kansas Was Eerily Prescient — And Is More Important Than Ever - Reactor

A 2017 novel predicted so much about the present moment — what can we learn from it?

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Anya Johanna DeNiro @adeniro.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

all right, this is now live at @reactorsff.bsky.social , 2,200 words on Christopher Brown's Tropic of Kansas and alternate history colliding with our current history. reactormag.com/christopher-...

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Christopher Brown's Tropic of Kansas Was Eerily Prescient — And Is More Important Than Ever - Reactor

A 2017 novel predicted so much about the present moment — what can we learn from it?

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🦉 Owl 🌲 @owlinamerica.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

It’s the 200th issue of one of my favorite publications. I save each one up to read at just the right time, maybe a reward after a tough week, a salve for the environmental writer’s battered soul. Field Notes has got that magic.

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Jessica Reisman @jesswynne.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

Nice one from @christopherbrown.bsky.social this morning. No. 200 in the Field Notes wanders. fieldnotes.christopherbrown.com/p/how-to-pad...

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How to paddle the Metaverse

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Dominic 🇪🇺 🏳️‍🌈 🇺🇦 @theriotnrrd.eurosky.social · 23/08/2026

This piece by @christopherbrown.bsky.social is wonderful. I have long fantasised about exploring the Bay like this (and its East Coast cousin, the NJ Meadowlands), but there’s also the delicious fact that Mark Zuckerberg didn’t even invent the *name* for Facebook! www.newsblur.com/newsletters/...

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Michael Frasca @frasca.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

Take me to the river. Drop me in the water - this week's Field Notes: How to paddle the Metaverse by Christopher Brown. @christopherbrown.bsky.social

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Mike Westphal @mfwestphal.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

South Bay is ringed by many thousands of acres of public open space. The southern boundary is hills and valleys swarming with mountain bikers and hikers, the north side is vast and flat and wet and empty of people. Kudos for a cool report from the reach of Silicon Valley edgeland that nobody visits.

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Christopher Brown @christopherbrown.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

Looking for signs of life in Silicon Valley, in this dispatch from a packrafting trip around its edges, with playful cryptids, a curious sea lion, and dreams of a less dystopian cyberspace (& the 200th issue of Field Notes, to its author’s surprise) fieldnotes.christopherbrown.com/p/how-to-pad...

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How to paddle the Metaverse

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Steve Clarke 🇺🇦 🇺🇸 @citizen-steve.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

There's an excellent and haunting long read about Starbase here:

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Christopher Brown @christopherbrown.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

The company that made the Bat Boat was based here, and evidently said they would customize it for the studio at no coast if they had the premiere here. I wonder if any of the heads from Shiva’s Headband or 13th Floor Elevators went to the show 😵‍💫 www.glastron.com/uploads/2017...

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Christopher Brown @christopherbrown.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

Best illustration (and quote!) so far in the vintage Lassie book my daughter and I picked up at the used bookstore the other day:

Children’s book illustration of man in Western hat telling older man also in Western hat and holding a young boy “That Wasn’t a Sasquatch!”

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Mike Westphal @mfwestphal.bsky.social · 26/07/2026

Truly awesome reporting. Would like see it get picked up by a major outlet, *everybody* should read it. People well-read in speculative fiction, as well as people versed in ecological nonfiction, will get how Brown’s expertise in both of those genres allows him to perfectly capture this landscape.

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Christopher Brown @christopherbrown.bsky.social · 26/07/2026

Thanks so much, Mike! I’m delighted to hear it resonated with you. More like this to come—this is basically research and warm-up for the new book I am working on, trying to figure out how to weave together threads of nature writing, technology criticism, and memoir.

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Jeff VanderMeer @jeffvandermeer.bsky.social · 26/07/2026

an essential long read

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Joel Pinckney @jpinckney.bsky.social · 26/07/2026

A beautiful, bleak piece of writing.

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“Driving back, we traded notes on how likely it felt that the entire zone down there will soon be inaccessible to the public, completely overtaken by the company and its people, or both. The power and capital on display, concentrated in one young company and its stakeholders, boggled the mind. Reading the IPO prospectus later, I saw how they had just given the founder-CEO a huge new equity award that would only vest “upon the Company’s establishment of a permanent human colony on Mars with at least one million inhabitants,” indicating how serious they take themselves on that idea, and how secondary must be any concern about the life on Earth they will disrupt on their way there.”

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Nick Holdstock @nickholdstock.bsky.social · 26/07/2026

Great dispatch from one of the oddest Zones on the planet

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