Well I successfully defended my PhD, and then successfully survived the after-party

Defending my PhD this Friday. Looking forward to it but also greatly looking forward to it being over 😅

TLDR; The PSF has made the decision to put our community and our shared diversity, equity, and inclusion values ahead of seeking $1.5M in new revenue. Please read and share. pyfound.blogspot.com/2025/10/NSF-... 🧵

Look at how round this bird is!!! Bird of the year!!

Bird of the Year voting opens tomorrow, and it is an outrage the takahē is yet to win. I'd like to take this opportunity to urge you to vote for the hide-and-seek legend from Fiordland, the roundest birb, and the one true pick for all you railfans out there

Wavefunction Collapse xkcd.com/3134/

Come join us @utu.fi for a Postdoc to investigate solar energetic particles using AI! ☀️ #heliophysics #spaceweather ats.talentadore.com/apply/avaruu...

My PhD thesis has now been submitted for pre-examination 🎉 Which means that it's time for me to take some time off 🌴

Just heard from @tmelnik.bsky.social that DSCOVR is offline. Recovery attempts have not been successful. It's going to be a significant, if not permanent, outage. forecast.weather.gov/product.php?... #heliophysics

TIL (on mastodon) that the US National Park Service has crochet patterns! www.nps.gov/articles/000...

AGU is deeply disappointed in SCOTUS decision to overrule the order blocking the dismantling of fed agencies until we could make our case about the President’s unlawful actions.  The harm this will cause is shocking. However, we will continue to fight for the rule of law.

Ein sehr schoener Beitrag in BILD DER WISSENSCHAFT ueber die Entdeckung von Litium bei Merkur. www.wissenschaft.de/.../lithium-... Siehe auch: Daniel Schmid (@iwf-oeaw.bsky.social @oeaw.bsky.social) et al., Nature Communications, doi: 10.1038/s41467-025-61516-4,

NASA Goddard is pushing through a 48% staff reduction!!! This could impact the upcoming Roman Space Telescope and many other future Astro missions. News coverage seems not sensational enough. Are we really going to let NASA (as we know it) die quietly? www.space.com/space-explor...

Check out this recent article I was a co-author on: "Citizen Science in Space and Atmospheric Sciences: Opportunities and Challenges" link.springer.com/article/10.1... Here's a thread of the main points outlined in our paper! #heliophysics

Today I gave a seminar on the topic of my doctoral dissertation, and with that, I have now completed all of my doctoral studies. ... Aside from the thesis. Still gotta finish writing that. And then defend it.

Breaking space news: We have made our own solar eclipse in space! 🌘 Today, we release the first images from our Proba-3 mission, which flies two spacecraft in precise formation to create artificial solar eclipses in orbit. Learn more ➡️ www.esa.int/Enabling_Sup...

My latest paper, regarding magnetosheath jet formation associated with a solar wind rotational discontinuity, is now published! agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/...

Inspired by @jtuttlekeane.bsky.social and @ohdearz.bsky.social, here's what the White House proposed budget cuts to NASA would do to the entirety of the agency's Science Mission Directorate. Bloodbath is right.

I'm excited to share that I was awarded the the Marie Skłodowska-Curie Postdoctoral Fellowship! Starting this October, I will work on plasma shocks in the heliosphere at QMUL. Looking forward to new endeavors!

THIS FRIDAY: Can we halt the illegal mass firings of our federal scientific workforce? We will argue in District Court this week for a temporary restraining order on the execution of Trump’s Executive Order.

I want to draw your attention to our Community-Driven session titled 'Refining the Sunspot Number Series: Challenges and Benefits for the Space Climate Community' at this year's hybrid European Space Weather Week meeting.☀️ The abstract deadline is 15th of May. events.spacepole.be/event/222/ab...

The University of Helsinki has put this introductory course on "Sustainable Space" online, covering topics such as #spacedebris, #spaceweather, #solarwind, magnetosphere, and ionosphere, atmosphere, as well as basics of satellites, orbits, and launchers. courses.mooc.fi/org/uh-physi...

At #EGU2025 I talked today about our catalogs for #solastorm observations and how they are used for enhancing #spaceweather forecasting. Plus gave a quick outlook of how data of the new PUNCH @punch-mission.bsky.social mission can be used in connection with many other spacecraft in the heliosphere!

Our collisionless shocks session at #EGU25 drew a great crowd, sparked insightful discussions and set the stage for new #heliophysics collaborations. Thanks to everyone that attended!

My #EGU25 unfortunately started with a headache that made me miss the first day :( But I will try my best to give a good talk about rotational discontinuities and magnetosheath jets tomorrow at 9:10 in room 0.94/95.

Our team at the Austrian Space Weather Office has 5 presentations as lead-author at this weeks #EGU25 in Vienna, and we (co-)convene 3 sessions! We show our work on forecasting #solarstorms and observations with multiple spacecraft, using #AI methods for their detection and #solarwind modeling! ☀️💥

Technical First Light! The #InouyeSolarTelescope ’s Visible Tunable Filtergraph, developed and built at the Institute for Solar Physics (#KIS), looks at the #Sun for the first time. #MPSGoettingen is a partner of the project. Read more here: www.mps.mpg.de/the-heart-of... #NSO #NSF

☀️ You can’t stop the Sun, but you can prepare for its storms 📅 21 May, 17.30-18.30 Join Prof Jonathan Eastwood (@imperialphysics.bsky.social) for his lecture on the science of space weather, why it matters, and how we can get ready for the next big solar flare www.imperial.ac.uk/events/19087...

The fight for the rights and dignities of trans people is a fight against the thin edge of fascism. It's a hill we are willing to fight and die on. If you'd like to support us with a donation dedicated to trans rights, you can do so here. I am donating £1,000. goodlawproject.org/crowdfunder/...

Jets were recently found at Mars, and we made a statistical study, using data from the Maven spacecraft, to find out more about them. You may read the paper here: doi.org/10.1051/0004...

Abstract submission is now open for the sixth International Workshop on Instrumentation for Planetary Missions (IPM-2025)! This workshop will be hosted in Boulder, CO, on Aug 4 - 6 2025. We are soliciting abstracts on instrumentation and enabling technologies for planetary missions.

It is 100 years since Appleton proved the existence of the ionosphere. To celebrate, a colleague & I wrote an article. You can read it here; academic.oup.com/astrogeo/art...

Yesterday I submitted the last paper that will be included in my PhD thesis. Keeping my fingers crossed for favourable reviews.

A correction -- If you publish in an OA journal with CC-BY-NC, you often cede your rights to the publisher. That's right - paying an APC does *not* mean you own your work. The publisher can resell your work to whomever they choose.

New review article about ULF waves from the foreshock to the ground by Lucile Turc et al! rdcu.be/edsKw

Relevant for Los Angeles folk

Making good progress on my 2025 daily maximum Kp-index blanket (photo from yesterday, I made 3 more rows today) Still over 50 days behind real time though...

One of the employees fired from NASA told me how much their career meant to them: "Prior to everything happening today, NASA has been an incredible place to work — to dream big, to innovate, to do things that I never thought I could have done.” Words by me. 🧪 www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Dear US colleagues, In response to the Trump administration, my university @univ-amu.fr is setting up a new program dedicated to welcoming American scientists wishing to pursue their work in France. There are several M$ in the budget. www.univ-amu.fr/en/public/ac...

A friend included this anti-acknowledgement section on her PhD thesis. She also added the proposition: “Systematic bullying and undermining of girls and women in STEM starts early on and is the reason why they do not stay in science and related fields.” Absurd we still need to go through this 🧪👩‍🔬

🌎 From tracking extreme weather to protecting fisheries and coastlines, #NOAA’s work saves lives and supports economies. AGU opposes the dismantling of NOAA and calls on Congress to defend this critical agency. The future of climate science, public safety, and industry depends on it.

We know that many of you have been directly affected by the Administration’s actions. AGU is offering free 2025 membership to those who suffer a job loss. We want to ensure that you have access to important career and community support during this time.

Check our latest research using both #NASA and #ESA space missions on "Multimission Observations of Relativistic Electrons and High-speed Jets Linked to Shock-generated Transients"! doi.org/10.3847/2041... via ApJL of @aas.org #Heliophysics #Astrophysics

Public comment is now open for passport gender marker changes. You can go here to go to each of the three proposed passport rules, and submit comment. My suggestion: be unique, argue for trans-inclusive policies, against the constitutionality of the changes, etc. www.reddit.com/r/Passports/...

The Planetary Society strongly opposes the sudden, indiscriminate dismissal of more than 1,000 scientists, engineers, and explorers at NASA — the largest involuntary workforce reduction since the end of the Apollo program. Read more on our stance. ⬇️

LEXI made it to lunar orbit. 2 weeks to landing and X-ray imaging

Take a look at our blogs and case studies celebrating the invaluable contributions of LGBTQ+ scientists, and raising awareness about the challenges still faced throughout the scientific community: #LGBTQPlusHM #LGBTQHistoryMonth https://buff.ly/413HLiZ

New paper from Pauline Simon, published in Physical Review E, on how pressure anisotropy affects turbulent cascade rates, studied through numerical simulations journals.aps.org/pre/abstract...

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