Here's Nox, the embodiment of
the night sky's darkness who
constantly fights Light Pollution!

#nox #darkness #dark #hero #heroes #🖤
#AL #ArtificialLight #light #villain #villains
#oc #ocs #originalcharacter #originalcharacters
#art #characterdesign #original
#freetouse #publicdomain #opensource
#hi

What the Dark Skies Protection Act will actually do: save birds' lives! NYC Bird Alliance has documented how #ArtificialLight disorients night-migrating birds, contributing to a QUARTER MILLION BIRD DEATHS from building collisions each year in New York City.

#oxidativestress #telomeres #dietmanipulation #moult #frailty #senescence #forestecology #reproduction #supplementalfeeding #immunefunction #extremewheather #artificiallight #urbanisation #migration #coprophagy #physiology #communication #bioacoustics #song

How and when did astronomers begin to understand access to the #night sky as a human right? And what are the implications of doing so? 🌌
Read chapter 3 of my forthcoming book, #TransformingNight!

#LightPollution #ArtificialLight #ALAN #Darkness #LightJustice

Title page of book proofs, Transforming Night: The History and Science of Light Pollution

#TransformingNight 🌌💡🌃 🤩

#LightPollution #ArtificialLight #ALAN #Night #Darkness #LightJustice

#envhist #envhum #envjustice #histtech #histsci #sts #Anthropocene

a man in a green shirt is blowing his nose with a paper bag while sitting in front of a lamp . ALT: a man in a green shirt is blowing his nose with a paper bag while sitting in front of a lamp .

Book proofs will be here two weeks from yesterday. 💡🌃🌌
#TransformingNight
#LightPollution #ArtificialLight #ALAN #Night #Darkness #LightJustice

Urban Nightscapes and the Anthropocene Pritchard argues that nightscape is both a useful and important analytic category for environmental as well as urban historians.

I wrote a thing, "Urban #Nightscapes and the #Anthropocene" 💡🌃🌌

niche-canada.org/2026/01/26/u...
#ArtificialLight #ALAN #LightPollution #Night #TransformingNight #Darkness #LightJustice

The world is on 🔥🔥🔥

And-not-but copyeditor confirms #TransformingNight files have moved on to typesetting and proofs, and just sent files to @nichecanada.bsky.social for an essay about 🌃 that will come out next week. Woo hoo! 🍾🥂

#LightPollution #ArtificialLight #ALAN #Night #Darkness #LightJustice

One issue is indoor lighting at night, generally called "light exposure," not #LightPollution, in the scholarly communities.
Yet body (also) as env is a central premise of #envhist #envhum #envjustice
#ArtificialLight #ALAN

Notice skyglow in both photos, but also the "cloud amplification effect" on the right 🤓
#TransformingNight #LightPollution #ArtificialLight #ALAN #Night #Darkness

Didn't see the orig ref to Columbus, but YES. 📚

An ex of why scientists need to be aware of history, politics, metaphor, and think and revise before they use. Many exs from my research on #ArtificialLight

CSSP is a relatively rare dark-sky park in the eastern US
#LightPollution #ArtificialLight #ALAN #Night #Darkness

The emergence of space-based #LightPollution altered the arc and argument of my forthcoming book, #TransformingNight

#ALAN #ArtificialLight #Darkness #Lightjustice

I wonder why they picked satellite imagery of nocturnal Earth for this post.
But check it out...
#ArtificialLight #ALAN #LightPollution

Awww, @ellie-andrews.bsky.social, one of my former grad students, is the first preorder for my book, #TransformingNight, that I know of! Thank you, Ellie! 🤩🌌
#LightPollution #ArtificialLight #ALAN #Night #Darkness #LightJustice

@uwapress.uw.edu is still having their winter sale! 40%off! WINTER25 😉

Yet, how have #nightscapes changed since then (1979)? 🌌🌃
#LightPollution #ArtificialLight #ALAN #Night #Darkness #TransformingNight

What do you see in this image?

I see #ArtificialLight #ALAN #LightPollution 🌃
#TransformingNight

This is phenomenal.

(Bookmarks for talks, teaching...)
#LightPollution #ArtificialLight #ALAN #Night #Darkness #LightJustice

TFW you open the copyedited files of the book ms. A combo of 🤩🤢😁😰
#TransformingNight
#LightPollution #ArtificialLight #ALAN #Night #Darkness #LightJustice

Well, you'd have to wait a while for delivery, but you can preorder my book at 40% off with free domestic shipping with promo code WINTER25! #TransformingNight 🌃🌌💡
#LightPollution #ArtificialLight #ALAN #Night #Darkness #LightJustice

uwapress.uw.edu/book/9780295...

Widespread influence of artificial light at night on ecosystem metabolism - Nature Climate Change The authors combine light intensity data with eddy covariance observations from 86 sites to show that artificial light at night increases ecosystem respiration and alters carbon exchange, with impacts...

Artificial light pollution
#light #pollution #ecosystem #metabolism #artificiallight #lightpollution #darksky #nature #research

Easily? Never quite that straightforward, but still.
#LightPollution #ArtificialLight #ALAN #Night ##Darkness

Excited my proposal, "Urban #Nightscapes and the #Anthropocene," was accepted! 🌃🌃🌃

Longtime followers will be shocked, shocked to hear that it's abt #LightPollution #ArtificialLight 🤣

#TransformingNight #Night #Darkness

Lights out: can we stop glow-worms and fireflies fading away? From night walks with children to switching off streetlights and rewilding areas, naturalists are working to save Europe’s dwindling populations

Lights out: can we stop glow-worms and fireflies fading away? www.theguardian.com/environment/...
#LightPollution #ArtificialLight #ALAN #Night #Darkness

This all came together faster than I anticipated...
📣🎆🎉🥳 #CoverReveal !

#TransformingNight uwapress.uw.edu/book/9780295...
#LightPollution #ArtificialLight #ALAN #Night #Darkness

My book #TransformingNight argues that excessive focus on #LightPollution #ArtificialLight during clear-sky conditions until recently is a legacy of astronomy's early attn to issue.
IOW, even recent scientific assumptions and practices have been shaped by the past.
#histsci #ALAN #night #darkness

Sara pre-2015: wut???
Sara now: fascinating 🤓

#TransformingNight <-- new hashing lol
#LightPollution #ArtificialLight #ALAN #Night #Darkness

Building illuminated by bright turquoise lights

Blurry shot, but still 🤦‍♀️
#LightPollution #ALAN #ArtificialLight #Night #Darkness

More citations to add to immediately out of date book biblio.
But further demonstrates an argument I make in Ch 7 of my book, _Transforming #Night_
#LightPollution #ALAN #ArtificialLight #Darkness

Yufeng Gong explored how urban #ArtificialLight affects the spring budburst and its #SpatialVariation within species distribution.

#Urbanization | #SpringPhenology | #Photoperiod

@mapjournals.bsky.social

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