Mark Thornton

@Cmdr_Hadfield ...It will be slower, less entertaining, more incremental, led by innovation and technology and that's the way it has to work." Hopefully the work starts now!

@Cmdr_Hadfield I wrote down something you said on 'Stargazers Live' back in 2014: "If you want to incrementally expand our understanding of the universe both robotically and eventually as a place for us to go live it can't be a race where it has a finish line where everything stops after...

4 people are in there with hopes, dreams, risk and the unknown. It makes me breathless, knowing how they're feeling and what they're facing. So exciting to see what we're capable of when we work together in common purpose, deciding to push back the edges of our collective ignorance. Have a great voyage, crew of @NASAArtemis!

@EdwardJDavey He just pisses over everything doesn't he?

Then vs now. Such a shame.

And if you can't visit today, support them with a purchase on bookshop.org

Out visiting some bookshops today. For #SmallBusinessSaturday it feels like this is the item to wear...

Avoid Amazon. Shop Small! Tomorrow is Small Business Saturday. We hope you can get down to a brilliant local indie bookshop. If not, snap up a book and support indie booksellers with us - and you're in with the chance of winning a £250 Bookshop.org gift card.

@Bookwells @bookshop_org_UK Love this!

Just for fun (as we noticed how popular this Crime Fiction section was in the shop just now!) a new list on our @bookshop_org_UK site uk.bookshop.org/lists/christma…

FREE Shipping is GO! Get your paws on some excellent books with free delivery 28 Nov-1 Dec. Support independent bookshops, indie booksellers (and their cats.) Bookshop.org [Site-wide | UK only | Standard shipping]

Eager to add more women’s history, science, medicine and religion to your reading list? Explore acclaimed historian and #WolfsonHistoryPrize 2025 judge Helen King’s #BookloverSpotlight shortlist with @Bookshop_org_UK below. All sales from Bookshop.org support independent bookshops and literary culture. uk.bookshop.org/lists/helen-ki…

"Volunteers cleaning up the pellets at Camber Sands have described it as "the worst single incident" they have encountered." I'm going to be down on the south coast this weekend. Perhaps the minister responsible Emma Hardy might like to join me at Camber Sands on Saturday morning to help with the clean up, we can discuss how best to reprimand Southern Water instead of patting them on the head like some naughty little school boy? bbc.co.uk/news/articles/…

@christianbok Self-annihilation seems our most likely destiny (statistically). Luke Kemp reached similar conclusion in Goliath's Curse, from analysing data from 800+ polities in the Seshat Global History Databank: uk.bookshop.org/p/books/goliat… We have one job as a species: don't go extinct!

They argue that we probably live in a galaxy full of disintegrated civilizations (PDF): arxiv.org/pdf/2012.07902

Happy Birthday to Carl Sagan. Here he explains global warming in simple words (1985 video):

I have been watching hurricanes, reading about them, for decades and this is about as historic and horrific as it gets. Many, many people are about the have their lives turned upside down and some will not survive. Jamaica will need our help over the coming weeks and months.

From a crewmember on yesterday's Teal 74 mission into now-Category 5 Hurricane #Melissa. As clear of an eye as you will see in the Atlantic basin.

ESA’s Jupiter Icy Moons Explorer (Juice) spacecraft is ready to aim its instruments at interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS! 🪐☄️ Here’s what’s happening and why it’s such a rare opportunity 🧵

@iCyclone Best wishes Josh from the UK. I feel the single word that sums you up is 'respect'. Respect for the people, culture, landscape but above all respect for the storm: it's destructive potential and the need to bear witness. This looks generational and devastating. Good hunting.

3:30 am. Couldn't sleep. Full-on obsessed. #Hurricane #MELISSA is bombing out in the Caribbean Sea, a beast closing in on #Jamaica. Feeling concerned for the island & its people. Also feeling great personal pressure to properly record & measure what may be a generational event—to collect the data that tell the story. Trying to keep emotions out of it & just stay focused. One task at a time, I tell myself. Right now poring over maps, plotting every town near the coast, figuring out my strategy.

Never heard about @bookbanksuk? I really recommend discovering the amazing work this charity is doing bringing books into food banks. It's a simple idea that has a profound impact. And today is the last day of our fundraiser 'Books That Give': uk.bookshop.org/lists/books-th…

Happy #BookshopDay - to those quietly profound inclusive spaces full to the brim with ideas contained within that most enduring of information technologies: books. Go visit, discover new authors, try an event, buy a book. And if you can't visit, there is bookshop.org

@Ofmooseandmen @LinBodhran @hethajd @thebookseller Wow - had not seen this news at all. A big few weeks ahead. And a great reason to read the book (again) before it screens.

Good morning. A massive couple of weeks ahead for everyone at Bluemoose. Many thanks to our brilliant editors. @LinBodhran @hethajd Leonora Rustamova and Flora Rustamova. _Leonard and Hungry_ Paul By Rónán Hession 6 part BBC Drama series on your screens. @thebookseller

Kudos to the US and UK Bookshop teams who worked together to launch at midnight. Nearly a quarter of UK readers are digital readers. Indie bookshops can now be part of that community, and those readers can support bookshops 😊