Dear colleagues, I hope this message finds you well. Some of you may remember the webinar series on “Effects of Coronal Heating/Cooling on MHD Waves” that we ran from 2021 to 2023. It brought together researchers across institutions and career stages and proved to be a very effective platform for open and informal scientific discussions: and a smaller-scale webinar, "Open Warwick-Weihai Webinar on MHD Seismology” which was also a popular activity during covid and post-covid times:

European Space Weather Week (ESWW) 2026 will be held in Florence, Italy from 2nd - 6th November in a hybrid format. The overarching theme for ESWW2026 is ‘Data-driven and physics-based cross-scale space weather and space climate’. The ESWW conference is an excellent opportunity for people from all over the world to gather and discuss the most recent insights in space weather and space climate, and to address the emerging challenges and impacts.

The Rosseland Centre for Solar Physics (RoCS) at the Institute of Theoretical Astrophysics, University of Oslo (Norway), invites applications for a 3-year Postdoctoral Research Fellow position in solar physics. The postdoc will work on the Research Council of Norway (FRIPRO Early Career Scientists) project ReCon², aimed at addressing the “solar convective conundrum” by combining next-generation fully compressible (M)HD solar convection simulations with strict quantitative validation against helioseismic/observational constraints.

Signatures of Confined and Eruptive Solar Flares in Microwave Spectra by E. W. Cliver et al. Tracing Ion-Scale Turbulence and Energy Cascade Rate from the Solar Corona to 1 au by E. P. Kontar et al.

A 4-year funded postdoctoral research position is available in the Astrophysics Research Centre at Queen's University Belfast, under the supervision of Dr Ryan Campbell. We are excited to be on the lookout for someone with experience in spectropolarimetry in solar physics who is interested in working on some of the high quality data we now have from DKIST, Sunrise, and Solar Orbiter.

The School of Aerospace at Harbin Institute of Technology, Shenzhen (HIT Shenzhen), is seeking highly motivated PhD students to join our cutting-edge research team. This is an exciting opportunity to work on projects that aim to revolutionize our understanding of solar and stellar activity and its impact on space weather through advanced observations, numerical modeling and innovative machine learning approaches.

Dear UKSP members, The UKSP Council have been in contact with STFC since July on behalf of foreign nationals in the UKSP community who are residing in the UK and are due to participate in STFC grants. Specifically regarding potential actions STFC could take to help mitigate the impacts of delayed grant start dates on these members of our community.

There will be a joint Japan Geoscience Union (JpGU) — American Geophysical Union (AGU) hybrid meeting over May 24 – 29, 2026 (Japan time). This meeting will be in-person at Makuhari Messe in Chiba (near Tokyo), Japan, and will also be online. For full details, visit the meeting website at: Abstract submission: early-submission deadline of February 5, 2026 and a…

Dear colleagues, It is our pleasure to share new Solar Orbiter science nuggets (January 2026 releases):  SO Nugget #80: Accessing the fine temporal scale of euv brightenings and their quasi periodic pulsations: 1-second cadence observations by Solar Orbiter/EUI (D. Lim, T. Van Doorsselaere, N. Narang et al.) SO Nugget #81: The first out-of-ecliptic observations of the polar magnetic field of the Sun  (D.

Dear Particle Physics, Astronomy and Nuclear Physics (PPAN) community, Context In October, UKRI received its four-year budget from DSIT of £38.6 billion, rising to nearly £10 billion per annum by the end of the period, with details published in December. Set against a challenging fiscal backdrop, it is more important than ever to ensure that this level of public investment in R&D maximises economic and societal benefits to the UK public.

Dear PPAN Community - please find enclosed a letter from Michele Dougherty covering the recent Spending Review outcomes and implications for the PPAN programme. The letter is here: We will keep you updated including meeting with many of you at the various townhall and key community meetings later in the Spring. In the meantime, please feel free to reach out to your relevant STFC contact(s).

136. Quasi-periodic spicule-like cool jets driven by Alfvén pulses UKSP Nuggets are published on a monthly basis highlighting solar physics research led from the UK. Regards, Sargam Mulay ([email protected]) and Alexander Russell ([email protected])

136. Quasi-periodic spicule-like cool jets driven by Alfvén pulses UKSP Nuggets are published on a monthly basis highlighting solar physics research led from the UK. Sargam Mulay and Alexander Russell

Authors: Balveer Singh, A. K. Srivastava, K. Sharma, S. K. Mishra, B. N. Dwivedi Affiliation(s): IIT (BHU) Varanasi; Indian Institute of Astrophysics; Rajiv Gandhi Institute of Petroleum Technology << previous nugget -- next nugget >> Introduction Spicules are thin, cool jets originating in the chromosphere and are among the most ubiquitous yet enigmatic features of the solar atmosphere. They are a prime conduit for mass and energy exchange between the lower solar atmosphere and the corona.

Dear colleagues, The first of the Solar Orbiter community building webinars (season 2, hosted by Dr Jack Jenkins) will take place on **Wednesday 4 February 2026 (14:00 - 14:30 CET).** This webinar, titled “The high latitude phase of the Solar Orbiter mission.”, will be presented by Dr David Williams (ESA/ESAC, Spain). As a reminder, the aim of these webinars is to provide news and insights on Solar Orbiter science and science operations to the wider solar and space physics communities.

A fully funded 4-year PhD studentship is available under the supervision of Dr. David Long in the School of Physical Sciences at Dublin City University to examine spectroscopic observations of the low solar atmosphere using machine learning techniques. The project will exploit the archive of spatially resolved spectroscopic observations of the solar atmosphere provided by the IRIS, Hinode, and more recently Solar Orbiter spacecraft to identify signatures of plasma fractionation.

Dear Colleagues, As you know, the STFC Introductory Summer School is hosted by a different UK institution each year. In previous years, the UKSP and MIST councils have maintained a forward-looking list of potential hosts and bids, typically covering a five- to ten-year period. The current list of hosts extends up to 2029 and can be found here: As this list is now approaching its end, we invite members of the UKSP and MIST communities to inform us if they are planning to bid to host the STFC Introductory Summer School in the years 2030–2034.

A 4-year postdoctoral position in solar astrophysics is available in the School of Physical Sciences at Dublin City University in the solar physics group led by Dr David Long. This position is funded as part of the Research Ireland Frontiers for the Future Project “SEP Origins” and will focus on modelling the expected spectroscopic signatures of plasma fractionation processes at different heights in the solar atmosphere.

Dear UKSP community, We're starting an informal online coffee morning/journal club for PhD students and PDRAs within UKSP – think relaxed chats over (virtual) coffee rather than formal presentations! What's it about? This is a friendly space exclusively for Early Career Researchers to connect and chat about whatever's on your mind: Interesting papers you've come across - or your recent paper you’d love to promote!

Abstract submission for COSPAR 2026 is now open, including Session D1.2 which we are organizing. Abstract: NASA’s new Interstellar Mapping and Acceleration Probe (IMAP) mission, launched on September 24th 2025 to the Earth-Sun L1 point, employs a payload of 10 instruments to study the interstellar medium, size and shape of the outer heliosphere, particle acceleration throughout the heliosphere, and how variability of the Sun and solar wind in the inner heliosphere projects outwards and ultimately affects the conditions in the outer heliosphere and beyond into the very local interstellar medium.

Dear UKSP Community To mark her retirement and celebrate her incredible career, we will be holding an event on the afternoon of Friday 30 January 2026 at the University of Manchester, with a series of short talks on different areas of Professor Philippa Browning's research from people who have worked with her over the years. Everyone is invited to come and join the event.

Dear colleagues, submission of abstracts for the 46th Scientific Assembly of the Committee on Space Research (COSPAR) is underway. We encourage contributions to Event D2.6/E3.6: The multifaceted solar wind: From its origins on the Sun to Earth. The focus of the event is on the most recent advances in our knowledge of the solar wind, from its origin on the Sun to its effects on Earth's surrounding space.

Dear Colleagues. We would like to draw your attention to the upcoming COSPAR Panel on Space Weather Session entitled: COSPAR-26-PSW.8: Ground-Based Observations/Measurements and Networks/Infrastructures for Space-Weather Purposes. Please see below for the full description of the session. COSPAR will take place 01-09 August 2026 in Florence, Italy. The abstract deadline for this and all other COSPAR sessions is 13 February 2026 – so please don’t delay too long in your submissions.

This is the first announcement of the INDUS Symposium on Heliospheric Advancements (ISHA), an online-only conference dedicated to early-career researchers in space physics. ISHA is designed as a focused and accessible forum for PhD, Postdoctoral, and early-career researchers to present their work and engage in in-depth scientific discussion. By being fully online, ISHA aims to reduce barriers to participation and facilitate broad international involvement, particularly from researchers with limited access to travel funding.

Dear colleagues, We would like to invite you to submit an abstract to this COSPAR session, to be held in Florence, Italy, 1-9 August 2026. This session offers an opportunity to review advances in solar and stellar prominences as laboratories for investigating cool, partially ionized plasmas. Leveraging multi-viewpoint data from Solar Orbiter and ground-based facilities, we will address prominence formation, stabilization, and the loading and drainage of plasma in partially ionized fibrils.