Looking forward to NAM2026 this summer? 🔭🪐 🚀 Reminder that the extended deadline for abstract submissions closes tomorrow at 23:45 BST 🚨📅 To submit one for a session, see the programme here: uobevents-national-astronomy-meeting-2026.eventsair.site/programme

Travel with me next year to experience dark skies in Namibia 🇳🇦🌌 nightfallandelsewhere.substack.com/p/travel-wit...

Travel with me next year to experience dark skies in Namibia 🇳🇦🌌 nightfallandelsewhere.substack.com/p/travel-wit...

I can never really say what I miss more about New Mexico: the food or the sky.

Eating my feelings today. 🌶️🌮

The sky over the Turquoise Trail tonight.

Our Fragile Space, which highlights the deepening issue of space debris, will be in Burlington House courtyard until May 10. Come and visit for free! 🚀 🛰️🔭

Travel with me to see the stars in Namibia! I've partnered with TerraFauna Journeys to lead the first "Dark Sky Conservation" tour to see the night sky in Africa's first International Dark Sky Reserve in Apr 2027. The trip includes stargazing, big cats & the continent's only free-roaming black rhino

People who watched Pluribus will get it

Travel with me to see the stars in Namibia! I've partnered with TerraFauna Journeys to lead the first "Dark Sky Conservation" tour to see the night sky in Africa's first International Dark Sky Reserve in Apr 2027. The trip includes stargazing, big cats & the continent's only free-roaming black rhino

Earth Set! What a photo!!!

"In this extractivist epoch, our society is overstimulated and overactive: doing, producing, buying, and selling. Darkness provides the counterbalancing quiet, nurturing, and, indeed, even mystery, which humanity desperately needs." Great read in tune with my feelings on the ALAN/capitalism nexus.

With the news that Reflect Orbital wants to put space mirrors into orbit to light up Earth at night, I ask…What happens when we stop recognizing the night as a basic condition for life on this planet? nightfallandelsewhere.substack.com/p/the-case-f...

Finally picked up a print copy of the Apr issue of Outside Mag including my feature on the best place for astrotourism this year, plus @smvermillion.bsky.social's piece on dark sky travel and photos by @jayclue.bsky.social 🤩🌌🙏

“The alternation of light and dark is not a trivial background condition. It is one of the oldest organising principles of life on Earth.” It feels like we're on the cusp of crossing, if we haven't already, into uncharted territory for the planet's life systems. www.theguardian.com/science/2026...

Shaping up to be a beautiful morning for flying, ORD > ABQ. No TSA problems at O'Hare (10min thru security in T1) and only saw two 🧊🧊 so far, standing around yapping and being useless and untrained.

Really pleased that NIGHTFARING was reviewed on the Daily Kos this week by @theliteratelizard.bsky.social alongside a fantastic selection of uplifting books about Iran and its people, plus a great selection of new non-fiction. www.dailykos.com/stories/2026...

If anyone's interested in a deep dive into #TravelWriting, I'll be leading a 3-day workshop on Whiddy Island as part of West Cork Literary Festival in July. (I'll also be doing an event at the festival, an early preview of my forthcoming book, #ThePathlessLand.) www.westcorkmusic.ie/events/2026/...

Our weekly post also featured notable new nonfiction of the week, including books by @mkn.bsky.social @serenakutchinsky.bsky.social @korystamper.bsky.social @simonmorrison.bsky.social @meganeaves.com @drsuzannesimard.bsky.social Titles/authors in alt-text. Come buy from us: theliteratelizard.com

I'm constantly on the verge of starting a Butlerian Jihad... but hearing the MS teams ringtone if I were on the way to Moon would definitely send me over the edge!

Hey Chicago! Come out to the Adler Planetarium this afternoon to watch the Artemis II launch and say hello to me in the Space Visualization Lab!

A little wander around Chicago to clear my head before this evening's book event. What a fine town.

Chicago is such a handsome city to land in.

🚨Exciting announcement 🚨 Want to join us for an exclusive event showcasing the brilliant Our Fragile Space exhibition currently outside the RAS? 📸 Experience a private guided tour by photographer Max Alexander, followed by a talk on the urgent space debris issue facing our night skies. 🛰️🚀🌌 ⤵️

I am so excited and amazed that today is publication day for NIGHTFARING in the US & Canada! 📚🙏 It is available anywhere you buy books! I hope you enjoy journeying through the dark with me, and feel inspired to spend more time under the stars. 🌌✨

‘Wear the old coat and buy the new book.’ - Austin Phelps Reading inspiration … 📖 Support our wonderful independent booksellers where you can 🙏📚 @ashalexcooper.bsky.social @tharikhussain.bsky.social @joelucbarnes.bsky.social @jonathanslaght.com @meganeaves.com @adamweymouth.bsky.social

I'm excited to be at Adler Planetarium in Chicago next week presenting about my book and the time I spent with Adler's teen light pollution advocates. Free for IL residents!

Travel ✈️ & Astronomy 🔭, two of my favourite things…. Looking forward to reading this by @meganeaves.com

I will never understand why all airports have to be so damn hot. Like, yes, the way I want to start every long-haul flight is drenched in sweat after walking 3 miles to the gate in an overheated terminal.

Invisible Rainbows is almost out and I’d be overjoyed if you’d like to join me on May 21 at @chatspalace to celebrate the book launch! www.outsavvy.com/event/34459/...

In my latest Substack, I visit the megalithic temples of Malta and explore their connections to the sky. 🪨🌌🌄 open.substack.com/pub/nightfal...

Learning a lot from 'Nightfaring' (Simon & Schuster), in which @meganeaves.com celebrates a world away from the bleaching lights of towns and cities. It’s a book that helps you see more in the dark.

I have a feature in the new issue of Outside Magazine about the best places for astrotourism in 2026. Also available online: www.outsideonline.com/adventure-tr...

It's a good evening when you come home with fingers smelling like al pastor juice.

China passed its new Ecology & Environment Code & signed it into law yesterday. Within is strong national guidance against light pollution. It's great to see China taking a global leadership role in night sky protection. Translation of the light pollution portion here: darksky.cn/law/eco-env-...

Created and led by space photographer Max Alexander, the free exhibition highlights the grave and deepening issue of space junk and has achieved significant international acclaim. 📅 19 March - 10 May 2026 📍 Burlington House, London ℹ️ ras.ac.uk/news-and-pre...

"It is an "uncomfortable truth" that the greatest threat to women is not from strangers in dark alleys, but from those they know, trust and often live with." I will bang on about this forever: darkness is not inherently dangerous and light does not stop violence. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Last week, I joined the Royal Society for Asian Affairs Reading Room for a conversation with Sophie Ibbotson about my new book Nightfaring: In Search of the Disappearing Darkness. If you were unable to make it, the recording is now available on the RSAA's YouTube: www.youtube.com/watch?v=lCLW...

I don't know much, but I know that Sleep the Clock Around is a near perfect song.

Updating a DK Beijing guidebook and came across this wonderful Easter egg of a typo. 🦄

Today I get to see and hug my best friend, whom I haven't seen and hugged for over a year, with the additional exhale of relief that she has just landed in London on a flight from Saudi Arabia. We are going to eat all the dumplings and today is a good day!

Harrison Ford humming the tune to Indiana Jones when Paul goes back to work in Shrinking is so meta 😂 (Getting caught up, which means a couple of evenings of weeping)

📣Hello CHICAGO! I will be in your fine city soon for an exciting event at Adler Planetarium's Space Visualization Lab, talking about my night sky research, my book, NIGHTFARING & my time with Adler's teen program. 📆1 Apr 🕣5-6pm 📍Adler Planetarium, Space Visualization Lab 🎟️Free for IL residents

In the next two weeks, I have to finish: -a Beijing guidebook update -a large batch of commercial copywriting for a client -a new book proposal (?????) -talks and decks for my US book events -Making Tax Digital (FML) Will her brain cooperate? Will she finish it all? Will US airspace be open?

Still time to register for this event today! It's free but register for the Zoom here 👉 rsaa.org.uk/product/3-ma... Tue 6:30pm GMT Tue 11:30am Mountain time Wed 7:30am Kiwi time

If PRs & orgs want to promote astrotourism, they must understand basic planetary geography. I just can't help myself in being snarky in return when these places are obviously just trying to exploit keywords without doing any basic research, let alone actually practicing responsible astrotourism.

I'm sorry but even after 15 years in the UK and a citizenship exam and passport, I refuse to switch from tidbits to...titbits (😭🤮). One must draw the line somewhere.

Join myself and Sophie Ibbotson tomorrow evening online for a discussion of my book and hopefully lots of other tidbits about my life living and travelling in Asia over the last 20 years! 🌏 (Free, register at the link below)

My autism is never more fully on display than when I get paid to fact check and spell check all the labels and street names on some maps. 🗺️

This Tuesday 3 March I'll be joining the Royal Society for Asian Affairs Reading Room for an online discussion of my book NIGHTFARING. I'll be in conversation with my good friend Sophie Ibbotson, who chairs the RSAA. 18:30 GMT. Free, register here: rsaa.org.uk/upcoming-eve...