📣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...

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There are so few people in this world who truly show up. Make plans, don't flake. Are game. Have follow through. I used to let it upset me when people flaked. Now I focus my energy on the ones who show up. Your true people will make effort & be beside you. (Mentally refiling a few people this week)

A few moments from my London book launch party last night at the wonderful Book Elephant bookshop. I am so grateful for the many friends, colleagues and publishing team who showed up to celebrate with me! 📚🎉🌌

Lovely to celebrate the launch of @meganeaves.com’s brilliant new book #Nightfaring at the Book Elephant. It’s an engaging and illuminating exploration of our relationship with darkness and the night sky. Highly recommended. www.simonandschuster.co.uk/books/Nightf...

Came home from Malta to find my author copy of the brand new DK Spain guide, for which I researched Madrid and Central Spain. Great timing to have just in time for the eclipse in August!

Reading @meganeaves.com's NIGHTFARING at the moment – a lovely mix of travel and the night sky. Check out this talk next week, and order the book...

Nightfaring provides a moving argument for navigating the way back to the majesty and intimacy of the shadows, showing that profound discoveries are often made in the dark. Starred Review: Nightfaring: In Search of the Disappearing Darkness www.shelf-awareness.com/theshelf/202...

Nightfaring: In Search of the Disappearing Darkness - join us for this online Reading Room discussion with award-winning travel writer Megan Eaves-Egenes, hosted by Sophie Ibbotson on 3 March 2026 at 18.30 GMT. Find out more and register for free here - https://loom.ly/nXi7I7Q

Are there any nature, travel or astronomy authors in my network who are based in/near Chicago? Would love to connect!

I'm writing a piece on this, so if any astronomers want to give me a comment, even anonymous, about this SpaceX plan (🧪🔭), please DM me or email me (acarpineti @ iflscience.com)

I have a big feature on the best places in the world for stargazing, dark skies and astrotourism in the current (April) issue of Sky & Telescope Magazine. It's mostly available in the US or you can read it online if you're a subscriber! skyandtelescope.org/sky-and-tele...

Finished and delivered several big articles to deadline. UK book tour is done (barring my launch party next week) and all client writing/comms work is also somehow done for the month. Having no kids and being able to fly away to Malta to reset my brain is elite life. Bring on March...

An Aussie ex-colleague of mine just sent me these screenshots of NIGHTFARING featured in The Age newspaper's literary newsletter, The Booklist, as chosen by Collins Booksellers in Tamworth, NSW! 🇦🇺🦘🌌

I've dreamed of writing for Outside Magazine for most of my life. I grew up in Santa Fe, where Outside was HQ'd – it was always the coolest possible mag to write for. Finally, 30 years later, my first Outside byline. So grateful to live this life in particular. www.outsideonline.com/adventure-tr...

祝你马年快乐! Happy Year of the Horse! The Fire Horse is all about forward movement and taking action toward your heart's desires and the dreams you have been building. 🔥🐎🏮🧧 (If anyone knows the illustrator pls let me know so I can credit them for this beautiful piece of artwork).

We have written to Science Minister Lord Patrick Vallance urging him to step him and help reverse the cuts to astronomy and space science proposed by the Science and Technology Facilities Council last month. Read the letter in full 👉️ ras.ac.uk/news-and-pre...

We're all about dark skies here at the RAS so it's great to see a little hamlet in Suffolk earning special recognition for exactly that. 🔭 🌃 Thorington Street, which has about 40 houses, has become the first community in England to receive international dark sky status from @darkskyintl.bsky.social

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Join me and the RAS in urging your MP to reconsider huge funding cuts to astronomy and space sciences proposed by the UK Government. There's a template letter here: ras.ac.uk/news-and-pre..., and you can use www.writetothem.com to find your MP and send an email quickly.

📣 Are you an RAS Fellow or Friend? 📣 We're calling on our members to help force the Government to reconsider its proposed cuts to astronomy and space science, which would be the most drastic in a generation. Send our template letter to your MP and seek their support 👉️ ras.ac.uk/news-and-pre...

Nothing could have prepared me for the amount of Instagram spam I'd get when my book came out. Hi author, let me help you grow your Amazon audience. Hi author, let me create your book trailer. Hi author, I help authors grow social media. Hi, author I will create bespoke AI illustrations for you 😵‍💫

Just remember, EVERY DAY is "Bandcamp Friday" on my page there. Help yourself to any of my music. Pay whatever you want, or pay nothing. No worries, no pressure. Enjoy johnegenes.bandcamp.com

I'll be at Dark Skies Hertford Castle tomorrow giving an introduction to my book, a short reading + selling & signing copies! 17:30 inside the castle. Lots of stargazing and astronomy events happening all evening! www.hertford.gov.uk/events-listi...

Is the Milky Way powered by dark matter rather than a black hole? 🤔⚫️ That's the suggestion in a new study published in our journal #MNRAS, which challenges the assumption that supermassive black hole Sagittarius A* is at the centre of our galaxy. Read more 👉️ ras.ac.uk/news-and-pre...

The available evidence doesn't justify the bans. www.iflscience.com/review-of-52...

Moved train seats to get away from a phone shouter and a person behind me banging the back of the chair and open-mouth chewing, only to end up next to a man whose colostomy bag keeps making farting noises. 😂

Being a woman in the working world is just...forever managing fragile male egos coming at you from every direction. To the men I know and work with who are confident, secure and have stable self-worth: I adore you and am grateful for you.

🇺🇦🏏 | My book 'GETTING OUT: The Ukrainian Cricket Team's Last Stand on the Front Lines of War' is the story of some tough and eccentric sportspeople – and how they saved many of those around them from Russia's invasion in 2022. Details | Where to buy 💙📚 ⬇️ www.pitchpublishing.co.uk/shop/getting-out

No better Sunday morning than one spent booking a trip. Flights & hotel sorted for Armenia in May – I'll be presenting at the @iauoutreach.bsky.social Communicating Astronomy with the Public Conference. Looking forward to seeing more of the Caucasus (and my 57th country). capconferences.org/2026

‘Wear the old coat and buy the new book.’ - Austin Phelps @tharikhussain.bsky.social @ashalexcooper.bsky.social @meganeaves.com 📚📖

Rollicking Friday night over here. Anyone with no social life can hear me on Times Radio in about 30 min!

My book NIGHTFARING came out yesterday, so today on my Substack, I'm sharing a little behind-the-scenes and a bit about the inspiration for the book and the crazy story of how it came into being. I am so grateful to live this life. 🙏📚🌌 nightfallandelsewhere.substack.com/p/welcome-to...

I'll be talking about NIGHTFARING and my journeys into the dark live on Times Radio tonight on Friday Evening with Geoff Norcott. Air time should be around 19:45. You can listen live online here: www.thetimes.com/radio/schedule

A reminder that I have a number of author events coming up, including at the @northyorkmoors.org.uk Dark Skies Festival on 17 Feb. Would love to see you there! Free event but you need to register, please share! 🎟️ --> www.eventbrite.com/e/nightfarin...

Happy, Happy Publication Day @meganeaves.com 🎉📘🙌 I’ve just picked up my copy and it looks, and sounds, amazing!! ‘Nightfaring in Search Of The Disappearing Darkness’ Looking forward to reading!! 📖 Make sure you get your copy! 🌌🌗✨

Huge travel news: China is going to grant visa-free travel for UK citizens after today's meeting between Xi and Starmer. Yes! www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Happy publication day to @meganeaves.com 🎉 I was lucky enough to read an advance copy of #Nightfaring, an engaging and illuminating exploration of our relationship with darkness and the night sky. Highly recommended.

🎉📘📣Out today: NIGHTFARING: IN SEARCH OF THE DISAPPEARING DARKNESS. Travel memoir, science & history, this book is my years-long deep dive into the night & darkness, journeying around the world, from England to Japan & the Himalaya. 📷: Bettymaya Foott www.simonandschuster.co.uk/books/Nightf...

NIGHTFARING on the shelves at Waterstones in central London! 🌌

Very surreal to see the book on sale on Bookshop and Waterstones. "When will you feel that it's real, Alfredo?" After the last two years and the drama with Unbound... maybe, when I have a physical copy? Or Never? 😅 uk.bookshop.org/p/books/invi...

🌌 Dark skies matter for the UK — for effective regulation, environmental protection, energy efficiency, and the UK’s scientific and astronomical capability 🌌 Picture courtesy of @meganeaves.com.

Last week we held the AGM of the APPG for Dark Skies at Portcullis House in Westminster. Members were asked to agree a Draft Action Plan 2026 setting out the APPG's policy priorities and deliverables for the year ahead. ⤵️