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Megan Eaves-Egenes
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Travel & nature writer. New book: NIGHTFARING coming Jan 2026. Editor of Nightscape @darkskyintl.bsky.social. ✨🌌 New Mexican-Brit. China, Central Asia, Southwest US. Desert witch on a rainy island.
Agent: Jack Fogg
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Something exciting happening today: I got my first real bookstore-ready copy of NIGHTFARING, my forthcoming memoir of my travels around the world to experience darkness. Out 29 Jan 2026, PRE-ORDER now: linktr.ee/megoizzy
So exciting to receive my author copy of the DK Beijing & Shanghai guidebook. It's exciting to see this in print, because I freelance edited the update in 2019 which got quietly shelved due to the pandemic. So it's extra special to finally hold this book. The full China guide is coming in April!
January 14, 2026 at 3:58 PM
I have a magazine to put to bed, commercial client content deadlines, book tour logistics overdue and travel plans that need booking but when a newspaper editor drops an astrotourism commission into my inbox and needs it by Friday, I will always find a way. 🔭🌅🇪🇸
January 13, 2026 at 8:33 PM
I have been writing and editing between U.S. and U.K. English for like 20 years, and I've now accepted that I will simply never remember which side of the pond puts an 's' on the end of toward.
January 13, 2026 at 2:25 PM
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🔭 Do you share our love of the stars? ✨ Come and join us for a new exhibition launching in just under two weeks' time at the Royal West of England Academy in Bristol.

Cosmos: the Art of Observing Space.has been curated by Ione Parkin RWA and is being delivered in partnership with us.

⤵️
January 12, 2026 at 10:40 AM
I'm really grateful to National Geographic for including NIGHTFARING on their list of the best books about the wonders of winter in the Jan/Feb issue. Thank you! 🌌❄️☃️✨
January 10, 2026 at 5:09 PM
For the second day this week, I left the house and walked halfway to the overground before realising I forgot my glasses. Apparently, my head is kind of in a swirl this year.
January 10, 2026 at 10:42 AM
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A host of new science books are due to hit shelves in January, by authors including Claudia Hammond, Deborah Cohen and Daisy Fancourt
The best new popular science books of January 2026
A host of new science books are due to hit shelves in January, by authors including Claudia Hammond, Deborah Cohen and Daisy Fancourt
www.newscientist.com
January 10, 2026 at 9:01 AM
The cognitive dissonance of having to choose whether to attend this vigil for Nicole Good at the US Embassy or a Visit USA travel media/PR networking event at the exact same time on Monday night is actually making me short circuit.
January 9, 2026 at 4:05 PM
Thank you @newscientist.com for including NIGHTFARING (out 29 Jan) in your list of the best new science books for 2026! www.newscientist.com/article/2509...
The best new popular science books of January 2026
A host of new science books are due to hit shelves in January, by authors including Claudia Hammond, Deborah Cohen and Daisy Fancourt
www.newscientist.com
January 8, 2026 at 4:58 PM
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Do you share our love of constellations? 🌃 Why not join us for our first Public Talk of 2026.

Speaker Ian Ridpath will trace the origin of the constellations back to Greek times, explain who filled in the gaps between the ancient Greek figures and much more.

🎟️ Scan the QR code for a FREE ticket.
January 8, 2026 at 11:50 AM
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A reminder that US citizens abroad can vote & we have the crucial mid-term elections this year. You MUST re-request a ballot every year. Request your overseas ballots online via this website – it takes about 5 min. Democracy requires participation! www.votefromabroad.org @demsabroad.bsky.social
Vote from Abroad: Request Absentee Ballots for US Citizens
Vote from Abroad: Helping US Citizens Request Their Absentee Ballot to Vote from Outside the US
www.votefromabroad.org
January 7, 2026 at 9:16 AM
A reminder that US citizens abroad can vote & we have the crucial mid-term elections this year. You MUST re-request a ballot every year. Request your overseas ballots online via this website – it takes about 5 min. Democracy requires participation! www.votefromabroad.org @demsabroad.bsky.social
Vote from Abroad: Request Absentee Ballots for US Citizens
Vote from Abroad: Helping US Citizens Request Their Absentee Ballot to Vote from Outside the US
www.votefromabroad.org
January 7, 2026 at 9:16 AM
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Happy birthday, New Mexico—114 years of being the coolest state in the union! We've got chile that'll make you cry, sunsets that'll make you stay and culture older than your country. What's YOUR favorite flex about living here? #NewMexicoStatehood #LandOfEnchantment #NewMexicoTrue
January 6, 2026 at 4:58 PM
Making Tax Digital is going to ruin a LOT of freelancers' mental health.
January 6, 2026 at 3:20 PM
Adventure.com has release its 2026 travel list and I was pleased to contribute a section on Beijing, which this year will see the opening of the new branch of the Palace Museum in Haidian. This & more here: adventure.com/travel-inspi...
Greece to Gabon: These are the travel experiences launching in 2026 that our team is most excited to explore
Greece to Gabon: These are the travel experiences launching in 2026 that our team is most excited to explore
adventure.com
January 6, 2026 at 11:09 AM
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Coming up this year on the @peculiarbookclub.bsky.social live on YouTube!

@laminda.bsky.social (Jan 8!), Matthew Gavin Frank, @hallierubenhold.bsky.social, @janeborden.bsky.social, @biologycarly.bsky.social, @damonyoung.com.au, @meganeaves.com, Eliot Stein, @sadieding.bsky.social,
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We're so excited for our 2026 line-up! Great books, authors, & events - & all for FREE! Everyone is welcome to join our monthly live, virtual author chats! 💙📚

Want more (like movie night, an online murder mystery game, & SWAG?)? Become a VIP member for as little as $5/month!
peculiarbookclub.com
January 5, 2026 at 4:27 PM
Reports today say that the UK intends to abstain in any vote at the UN Security Council over the US’s illegal action in Venezuela. Sign the open letter to Starmer that the UK must not abstain on a UN Venezuela vote: stoptrump.org.uk/sign-venezue...
Open letter: UK must not abstain on UN Venezuela vote
Stop Trump Coalition
stoptrump.org.uk
January 5, 2026 at 12:15 PM
UK amateur astronomers!🪐🔭Are you concerned about light pollution? I'm on the Commission for Dark Skies (British Astronomical Association) – we're inviting amateur astronomers in the UK to join our 2026 campaign against light pollution! Sign up here & please share: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
Campaign For Dark Skies (CFDS) Network
By completing this form you are consenting to your information being stored in our database. Your data will not be shared with anyone else. A link will be sent to you regarding zoom meetings as well a...
docs.google.com
January 5, 2026 at 10:50 AM
I don't celebrate a new year on January 1st. Some writing about that. meganeaves.com/2025/12/31/u...
Until Spring calls
On New Year’s Eve – this one – I have a sadness in my throat. Not acute, it is one that has been somewhere a long time…down in, tucked away. A sadness I have carried, sometimes unknowin…
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December 31, 2025 at 4:35 PM
FaceTiming with Boomer relatives is literally just 6 min of you giving them huge life updates (the longest attention span they have) and then 54 minutes of them regaling of with the gory details of their colonoscopies.
December 30, 2025 at 6:20 PM
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With the Moon high in the sky and Orion rising in the east I was able to get a well-lit foreground and nice stars above Wukoki Pueblo and Sunset Crater Volcano.

•Wupatki National Monument
•Sunset Crater Volcano National Monument

#landscape 📷 #astrophotography
December 29, 2025 at 11:30 PM
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British citizens and UK-based folks: please consider signing and sharing this petition:

petition.parliament.uk/petitions/75...

#RefugeesWelcome
Petition: Keep the 5-Year ILR route for refugees. Do not extend it to 10 or 20 years
We call on the UK Government to preserve the current 5-year route (ILR) for refugees and people with humanitarian protection.
petition.parliament.uk
December 29, 2025 at 11:02 PM
Excited to be headed up to Yorkshire in Feb, where I'll be giving an author talk and book signing at the North York Moors Dark Skies Festival. Free event, registration here: www.eventbrite.com/e/nightfarin...
December 28, 2025 at 6:43 PM
Every time I think LinkedIn couldn't be more of a fuckin toady
December 26, 2025 at 12:24 PM