I’m watching parliament’s women and equalities committee grill Baroness Falkner and the EHRC so you don’t have to, follow along with this thread for a summary of what’s said

Folks in the US: fight harder than you have ever fought for science - and then some. 🔭☄️ Anything less than that will be the beginning of the end of science in America. See e.g. @planetarysociety.bsky.social's resources for combating NASA cuts:

We have been at the 11th MMS Community Science Meeting in Paris celebrating 10 years of spectacular results from NASA's Magnetospheric Multiscale mission! 🛰️🛰️🛰️🛰️ #heliophysics #astronomy #plasma

Unexpected full page in today's Observer on yesterday's protests and it doesn't interview a single GC for 'balance'

"The rally in central London is estimated by organisers to have attracted 20,000 demonstrators, while thousands more gathered in towns and cities up and down the country for dozens of other protests, with more planned in the coming days." www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home...

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/...

Pride in STEM will be there on Saturday. If you are going by yourself and want to join us, feel free to get in touch with us or @drcarpineti.bsky.social ✊🏳️‍⚧️

The UK supreme court just single-handedly overturned most trans rights in the UK today. Very disturbingly, the ruling also opens a clear pathway for TERFs to completely push trans people out of public life. This one ruling pushes trans rights in the UK back at least 25 years. It's horrible

A postdoc position is available to join my UKRI #UKRIFLF project. Deadline 20 April 2025, start date flexible but available immediately. Enquiries welcome. More info and application: qmul-jobs.tal.net/vx/mobile-0/...

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/...

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

We are alarmed by the Administration’s actions to freeze science funding and eliminate DEI efforts and climate change initiatives, which go against AGU’s mission and harms our members. We must unite to address these changes, beginning by hearing from you. Read more: https://buff.ly/4hm8r4e

☀️Happy to share our manuscript distinguishing the acceleration mechanisms between the conventional slow and Alfvénic slow solar wind has been accepted for publication! 🥳 Arxiv link to follow.

I have been quoted in the Gaurdian about Parker Solar Probe's closest approach to the Sun! 🌞🛰️ #ParkerSolarProbe #PSP #Heliophysics www.theguardian.com/science/2024...

Happening on Xmas Eve: Parker Solar Probe's first-ever closest approach to the Sun, at a distance of only 9.86 solar radii, is scheduled for ~11:45 UT on Dec 24, 2024. This animation shows the trajectory of Parker's Encounter 22 projected onto the solar equatorial plane ☀️🛰️ #heliophysics #parker

My student Harry Lewis published his second lead-author paper in #GRL! He explores how kinetic instabilities excited in localised regions by turbulent dynamics help to regulate the thermodynamics of collisionless dissipation. #Heliophysics #Astrophysics #PlasmaPhysics doi.org/10.1029/2024...

My postdoc Jeffersson Agudelo Rueda presenting his work examining the impacts of small-scale collisionless plasma turbulence on the larger-scale dynamics and how to model them at #AGU24.

Presented the studies that me and my PhD student Harry Lewis have been doing assessing the specific plasma physical processes responsible for dissipating turbulent energy in collisionless plasmas yesterday at #AGU24! Lots of fantastic discussions with everyone afterward!

#PhysicsOfPlasmas at #AGU24!

Kicking off this Bluesky thing with a fresh new paper! We analysed and modelled a CME that impacted four spacecraft spread out between ~0.4 and 1 au from the Sun—we investigated radial evolution and whether measurements at an inner probe improve predictions at an outer one: doi.org/10.1093/mnra...

Interested in the fundemental #plasma processes that accelerate particles in the Universe and helping to shape the next space instrumentation and missions? I'm advertising a fully-funded #PhD on these very topics! #SpacePhysics #Astrophysics #PlasmaPhysics www.findaphd.com/phds/project...

Our new paper on The Interplay Between Collisionless Magnetic Reconnection and Turbulence published in #SpaceScienceReviews! We discuss all manner of interaction between reconnection and turbulence and there is even a primer on the basics of turbulence theory. link.springer.com/article/10.1...