Introducing '20 SECOND TRAVELS' – my new Youtube channel, launching next week! Subscribe for some beautiful, strange, short videos from different parts of the world. Please share, and tag people who might want to follow 🙏🏼 m.youtube.com/channel/UC5F...

The words you don't want to hear uttered at LHR after the seatbelt sign goes off: "Unfortunately, our stand changed at the last minute to a bus stand." As if you don't already have to walk through the backrooms of eternity to reach baggage claim, let's add a bus to the equation for max liminal time.

Early reviews are starting to filter in for NIGHTFARING, and I am so grateful to Jamie Carter at Forbes for including it on his list of the best books for stargazers. What a lovely review from a fellow night sky lover. 🌌🙏 www.forbes.com/sites/jamiec...

Introduce yourself with five concerts you've seen multiple times Indigo Girls Mary Chapin Carpenter Neko Case Lawrence/Go-Kart Mozart/Mozart Estate Death Cab optional bonus: Lyle Lovett

This morning we're hosting a closed-door workshop about potential opportunities, challenges and the road ahead to ensure the UK one day has a presence on the Moon. 🌙 ⤵️ We'll be sharing more about conclusions from the event in the coming weeks and months. 🎉

I’d love to know how Instagram targeting decided this was the ad for me

🎉 Exciting announcement to kick off the week! 🎉 The @royalastrosoc.bsky.social is pleased to announce that the 2026 National Astronomy Meeting will be held by the University of Birmingham from 20-24 July. 🔭🪐💫 And even better, the call for session-proposal submissions is now OPEN! 🥳⤵️

Today's newsletter is a musical one about the night. 🌌🎼 Night Flight: A choral concert at St Martin-in-the-Fields open.substack.com/pub/nightfal...

Today's newsletter is a musical one about the night. 🌌🎼 Night Flight: A choral concert at St Martin-in-the-Fields open.substack.com/pub/nightfal...

The desperation point of late-stage capitalism, when Black Friday starts the Friday before Black Friday.

This paper finds the same thing I did in my book research. Today's stressors–traffic, work demands, social media, light pollution & noise etc–trigger biological responses for acute stressors but without any recovery. "Our body reacts as though these stressors were lions.” phys.org/news/2025-11...

I’ve written a piece on the curious lack of media and political interest in the issues faced by our national @britishlibrary.bsky.social. This is strange given we live in a world where ideas, knowledge and research are a long-term source of innovation and insight www.cityam.com/the-british-...

The Venn diagram is a circle: deeply sensitive but high masking autistic eldest daughters with severe rejection sensitive dysphoria who chose a career as a writer and constantly have to receive feedback, criticisms and edits to emotionally crash out over. 😂

The Moon with earthshine, this morning at dawn.

Got an writer's proof of my daughter, Megan's book ( @meganeaves.com . It's a great read, about our relationship with the dark, and about her journey through darkness and light. It'll be out soon, so look for it and grab a copy. You won't regret it.

Are you a researcher in the field of history of science, technology and medicine? ⚗️🤖💉 The @royalsocietypublishing.org #NotesAndRecord Essay Award is open for entries until 28 February 2026. To find out more, visit: royalsociety.org/journals/aut...

🎆📯 Northern Lights klaxon 📯🎆 Yes that's right, tonight offers another chance to catch a glimpse of the beautiful aurora borealis. It looks like the strongest aurora will happen before midnight – but it'll depend on where you are in the UK and if you have clear skies. ☁️ Good luck!

I'm please to say that I'll be joining Season 7 of the @peculiarbookclub.bsky.social podcast! 🌌 What a cool lineup of books and authors to be part of. 🙂

I'm please to say that I'll be joining Season 7 of the @peculiarbookclub.bsky.social podcast! 🌌 What a cool lineup of books and authors to be part of. 🙂

Is virtual reality the key to preserving Indigenous stories of Namibia’s night skies? Very proud of this one, new for Adventure Dot Com. adventure.com/namibia-nigh...

The amount of fireworks going off this year has just been horrid. My poor kitty is so stressed out. Hovering under the table every night. It just goes on and on. People setting them off for more than a week in my neighbourhood & probably more to come. It's awful for animals & annoying af for people.

The December 2025 issue of Nightscape magazine has gone to the printer! This very special issue celebrates @darkskyintl.bsky.social's certification of the 250th International Dark Sky Place, with the recent designation of Lapalala Wilderness in #SouthAfrica. 🌌

Here's what I wish more PRs understood. Many journalists/writers are introverts. Some of us are richly neurodiverse and have severe social anxiety. We want to network but we physically cannot. If you made PR events structured amd scheduled, rather than open mingling, we'd function much better.

Try saying 'Biggest and brightest bonfire beaver' five times quickly 😄 Bonfire Night's Beaver supermoon to be biggest and brightest of 2025: www.bbc.co.uk/weather/arti... #Moon #Astronomy

Thanks to a guy called JJ, who dances in his mirror on TikTok, I lost Whamageddon on November 2nd this year. November 2nd!!!! #Whamageddon 😭

Oíche Shamhna shona duit. Happy Halloween from Cong, Co Mayo in the west of Ireland.

"Behold the modern urban night!" –The one and only Nick Dunn using the most epic photo taken of Manchester in recent years (Joel Goodman) to prove a point about lighting, safety and our society's relationship with darkness.

On 19 November, I'll be giving a talk and walk on light pollution and the importance of natural night. London – Bermondsey Street. Details and booking here: bermondseystreet.london/dark-skies-w...

Day two of the Artitifical Light at Night Conference begins with fresh, cold Mayo morning air and a keynote by Elena Maggi on the marine light pollution research being undertaken by @aquaplan.bsky.social. 🌊🐟🐙💡 @darkskyireland.bsky.social @mayodarkskies.bsky.social #ALAN2025

Today, I learned that James Joyce wrote a poem about the night. 🌌✨🇮🇪 @georgiamacmillan.bsky.social @mayodarkskies.bsky.social

Good morning. Don't forget: joy is an act of resistance. Thanks to this fellow traingoer for the reminder today.

Going back to my spiritual home in the west of Ireland next week for the Artificial Light at Night conference. Looking forward to meeting up with friends (@mayodarkskies.bsky.social) but mostly the cold Clew Bay air, seafood chowder, soda bread & music (Mayo plays a big part in my book NIGHTFARING)

National Geographic has released its 2026 Best of the World list & I'm proud to have written the entry for Beijing. It's one of those cities that people don't 'get' at first – kinda ugly, not flashy. You have to spend time digging to find its appeal. www.nationalgeographic.com/travel/best-...

National Geographic has released its 2026 Best of the World list & I'm proud to have written the entry for Beijing. It's one of those cities that people don't 'get' at first – kinda ugly, not flashy. You have to spend time digging to find its appeal. www.nationalgeographic.com/travel/best-...

Want to see a comet tonight? ☄️ Dr Robert Massey, Deputy Executive Director of the Royal Astronomical Society, shares his top tips on where to look and how best to catch a glimpse of Comet Lemmon as it makes its closest approach to Earth. Check out the video 📹⤵️ ras.ac.uk/news-and-pre...

My Facebook feed giving a hopecore algorithm today.

Imagine wanting to commemorate your love forever at the spot where Southeastern Railways empties the shitter at Charing Cross.

Today is the last day to get 25% off on pre-orders of NIGHTFARING at @waterstones.bsky.social. Use the code OCTOBER25 at checkout (website or app only). Pre-orders really help an author out, and I appreciate your support! Coming out 22 Jan! Link to order 👉 www.waterstones.com/book/nightfa...

UK readers – from today through Friday, you can get 25% off if you pre-order NIGHTFARING (and other 2026 releases) from @waterstones.bsky.social. 🔑 Use the code OCTOBER25 at checkout on the Waterstones website or app. Pre-orders really help an author out, and I appreciate your support! Out 22 Jan.

UK readers – from today through Friday, you can get 25% off if you pre-order NIGHTFARING (and other 2026 releases) from @waterstones.bsky.social. 🔑 Use the code OCTOBER25 at checkout on the Waterstones website or app. Pre-orders really help an author out, and I appreciate your support! Out 22 Jan.

We lost a real one today. Diane Keaton was a hero of mine, or at least what she represented to me. She had a huge influence on me in many ways and I have been a great admirer of her work and her life choices. Something I wrote about her a few years back. RIP Diane. meganeaves.com/2017/03/15/u...

We lost a real one today. Diane Keaton was a hero of mine, or at least what she represented to me. She had a huge influence on me in many ways and I have been a great admirer of her work and her life choices. Something I wrote about her a few years back. RIP Diane. meganeaves.com/2017/03/15/u...

Full house this evening at the Book Elephant in South London to heart @shafikmeghji.bsky.social discussing his brilliant new book, Small Earthquakes, on lost British histories in South America. A wonderful travel memoir and rich history.

"The Marfa Blues" has just been released on audiobook. For one of the free limited downloads codes, send me a private message. You'll need an Audible account, but you can sign up for a free one. Sorry, but only have codes for USA and UK Amazon markets.

Sitting in a journalism conference on AI. Was hoping to hear critical evaluation (yknow, journalistic enquiry) of AI. Instead, I'm listening to a 'professor' of journalism justify how he used ChatGPT to write an article in the journal Nature due to English being his second language. We are cooked.

POV: You are an editor who has to do a search-all of ". " because there are still people who double-space after a full stop as if they are living in the typewriter era. Do you hear me? If you are doing double spaces after a full stop, you are living in the 1950s. GET IN THE SEA.

Freelancers: Here is my carefully crafted pitch on a story I've researched well and am excited to write about 🙏 (Plus I really need a paycheck.) Editors:

Hey everyone, please consider signing this petition to keep alive the night trains connecting Paris to Berlin and Vienna. We must stop subsidising air travel and prioritise rail. agir.greenvoice.fr/petitions/sa...

Lots of solar activity today and potential for northern lights in the UK this evening, if you have clear skies!

Age yourself with a film you saw in the cinema as a kid.