Paulo Simões, PhD

MANO! that's awesome!

four.

that's a "solar-flare-hot take" 🔥🌞😂

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playing some FTL. it's been a while

ui.adsabs.harvard.edu

rather niche but NASA ADS (+arxiv) has been the standard for about 30 years in Astronomy. An example to follow and yet no field does.

this bit is important to keep in mind and has much wider applications (unfortunately)

Precipitation from the Radiation Belts A look at a one of my co-authored papers on microbursts and why you might care... at least in a round about way.

Took a look back at a recent (by some definition) paper, translated the title from science -ees to English and talked about why the work is important: both to a space physicist and to the general public.

open.substack.com/pub/plasmane...

🌞🛰️Sun-watcher SOHO turns 30! 🎂
"SOHO has overcome nail-biting challenges to become one of the longest-operating space missions of all time" – Prof. @cmundell.esa.int , ESA Director of Science
👉 www.esa.int/Science_Expl...
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Photo of a fragment of a clay tablet covered in cuneiform script. The tablet is a beige colour and broken at the top

Photo of a fragment of a clay tablet covered in cuneiform script. The tablet is a beige colour and broken at the top

In ancient Mesopotamia, astronomers needed to know the moon’s position, even on a cloudy night.

So they made records and calculations of the moon’s positions and velocity measured in degrees. This record from Uruk or Babylon from the Seleucid period covers 248 days.

📸 by Dr K. Wagensonner

PhD position available at QUB/ARC on investigating how solar flares with different spectral profiles impact the Earth’s ionosphere. More details here: www.qub.ac.uk/courses/post... Information session at noon on 8th December. Fill out this form to attend forms.office.com/e/DSk4A9K3dB

totally! also curious to see what they have in mind for a longer, multi-level adventure, in terms of Directing it and how it'll be structured in the book

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the cover art by @damienmammoliti.bsky.social for @hellomcdm.bsky.social's Crack the Sun is gorgeous! is this a #heliophysics post too? 😉

3,842 airborne A320 family aircraft.

“Analysis... has revealed that intense solar radiation may corrupt data critical to the functioning of flight controls.

A significant number of A320 Family aircraft currently in-service which may be impacted.”

Currently ~3,000 airborne A320 family aircraft.

www.airbus.com/en/newsroom/...

great cover! (full disclaimer: I'm biased for being a solar physicist 😂)

a good and short thread on the recent flight issues with solar energetic particles 👇

In light of record submission rates and a large volume of AI-generated slop, SocArXiv recently implemented a policy requiring ORCIDs linked in the OSF profile of submitting authors, and narrowing our focus to social science subjects. Today we are taking two more steps:
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A page from a 1970s punk zine showing an A chord with the text “this is a chord”, an E chord with the test “this is another”, a G chord with the text “this is a third” and the text “now go form a band.”

I cited this image in my capstone for my Master’s degree.

I'm old.

If you're not, listen to this.

Get a guitar or some drums, or a trumpet. Pick up a brush, a pencil, some clay or a welder.

Just make shit. It doesn't have to be good (eventually it will be) just make music, art or write or whatever.

It's literally never been more important.

cover of the book version reprinting the journal collection

#ThrowBackThursday Special Issue "Solar and Stellar Flares: Observations, Simulations, and Synergies" / Edited by Lyndsay Fletcher and Petr Heinzel: link.springer.com/journal/1120...
Published 2015 in #SolarPhysics, with highly-cited contributions to a conference in honor of Zdeněk Švestka.

foto de uma mesa de tamancobol

tamancobol??? como nunca ouvi falar nisso???

Journalist challenge: Use “Machine Learning” when you mean machine learning and “LLM” when you mean LLM. Ditch “AI” as a catch-all term, it’s not useful for readers and it helps companies trying to confuse the public by obscuring the roles played by different technologies. 🧪

Space weather isn’t just about lovely displays of the aurora. There is a very real impact on our technology too.

evidence of that is that Outlook and Teams are excellent pieces of software

what a beauty!

Type II radio burst from a stellar CME! #heliophysics might be interested in this too

that's amazing! a clear signature of a stellar CME! congratulations!