Cover of uncorrected proofs, Transforming Night: The History and Science of Light Pollution from UW Press

Grateful for all the interest in #TransformingNight 🌌🌃 at #ASEH2026
40% discount + free shipping through April from @uwapress.uw.edu

Photo of KansasCity at 615 am Lots of artificial light

#TransformingNight

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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

European colleagues-friends, my book #TransformingNight will easily be available thanks to this UW LUP partnership in July 🌌🎉

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

Much. To. Say. About. This. 🤓
Say a lot in forthcoming #TransformingNight

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

#ALAN #ArtificialLight #Darkness #Lightjustice

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

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

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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

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

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#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