I’m incredibly proud of our students Lancaster University for standing up for themselves and engaging in this issue: Our students union voted for 100% plant-based University catering. The changes would not affect individual food choices.

🚨🚨MIST Nugget Alert🚨🚨 Orbyts (Orbyts) has published their first impact report, which presents the transformational impact on school students, researchers, and teachers.

What does the aurora REALLY look like? (megathread) This is a perennial question that seems to get brought up constantly in forums online, and after the big geomagnetic storms last month, I kept seeing false information about what the aurora "really looks like..."

Do you know the difference between #geomagneticstorms and #solarstorms? Yes? Then submit an abstract to "The drivers, impacts and consequences of geomagnetic storms" at #NAM2024 this year!!✨💫 #geomagnetic #MIST MIST Maria Walach Jasmine Kaur Sandhu nam2024.hull.ac.uk/the-drivers-im…

My A&G article is published ☺️ I share a few stats & my experiences with scientific awards with take home message that we should all be nominating! Crucially nominating in a way that represents diversity in our field. It’s a short article so have a read! academic.oup.com/astrogeo/artic…

Finally and conveniently timed - nominations for the Royal Astronomical Society awards are now open!! The deadline is 31 July and you don’t need to be a RAS fellow to submit an award. Find out info and submit your nomination here: ras.ac.uk/awards-and-gra…

Thank you for the kind words! 🌟 You’re an integral member of the team - and the taskforce would not exist without you Jasmine Kaur Sandhu! 🙌

🚨🚨MIST Nugget Alert🚨🚨 Juliane Huebert from British Geological Survey and team present Differential Magnetometer Method (DMM) data from 12 sites in the UK from which we compute line geomagnetically induced currents (GICs).

I’m not a quantum physicist but… 🎯

🚨NEW PAPER ALERT🚨 "Observation of Quiet-Time Mid-Latitude Joule Heating and Comparisons With the TIEGCM Simulation" by Elliot Day and co-workers published in AGU (American Geophysical Union) Space Physics. agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.10…

Fantastic to be able to welcome Beatriz Sánchez-Cano to Lancaster University for a visit. It’s been too long!

🏅AWARDS ANNOUNCEMENT🏅 This year's Royal Astronomical Society Gold Medal, the Society’s highest honour, has been awarded to Professors James Binney, of University of Oxford, and Jonathan Tennyson, of UCL. Congratulations! 🎉👏 #RASAwards2025

Professor Tennyson said he was "deeply honoured" to be rewarded for a lifetime of ground-breaking research in molecular physics. He receives the RAS Gold Medal in Geophysics. #RASAwards2025

The Fowler Award in Geophysics goes to Dr John Coxon, of Northumbria Uni, for his world leading and novel research on the distribution and dynamics of field-aligned currents in near-Earth space. Congratulations! 🥳 #RASAwards2025

Royal Astronomical Society Northumbria Uni Congratulations John Coxon! Great to see you win this prize during your Science and Technology Facilities Council Ernest Rutherford Fellowship #STFC #RASAwards2025 northumbria.ac.uk/about-us/news-…

The Group Award in Geophysics goes to the Met Office Space Weather Research Team for their outstanding achievements in advancing space weather research. Well done! #RASAwards2025

Well done to all of this year‘s award winners. This has hands down become one of my favourite days in the RAS calendar. I am so proud of all the very deserving MIST winners (including my big PhD-brother John) 🥳😁🥂

And lastly, congratulations to Professor Caitriona Jackman, of DIAS Dunsink Observatory, for being awarded an Honorary Fellowship for her "outstanding service and leadership of planetary magnetospheric physics in Ireland, the UK, and internationally". 🥳 👏