Jonas Suni
@jonassuni.bsky.social
Space Physics | Postdoctoral Researcher at the University of Helsinki | Magnetosheath jets etc. | Enjoys photography, cycling, and cooking 🏳️🌈
Eva Krämer, PhD student at @umeauniversitet.bsky.social, nailed her thesis to the wall at the university library today. It is a tradition that each PhD student must do that 3 weeks before their thesis defence. The thesis is also found here: urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=...
Long time no update — I wrote a paper in my postdoc! Turbulence saves you money (through space weather forecasting)! doi.org/10.1029/2026...
Beyond Mean Solar Wind Conditions: Turbulence‐Aware Forecasting of the AE Index
Including solar wind turbulence parameters improves short-term forecasts of auroral electrojet index compared to models using average conditions alone Improved forecasts reduce false alarms and b...
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NASA’s Juno observations show relativistic electron acceleration at the bow shock of Jupiter and establish a universal scaling law linking shock size to maximum cosmic ray energy, according to a paper in Nature. go.nature.com/49ArfuL 🔭🧪
New in @nature.com : Using #NASA 's Juno and JEDI instrument from @jhuapl.bsky.social we show Jupiter's foreshock accelerates electrons to near light speed. Using our solar system observations, we built a scaling law from planetary shocks to supernova remnants. www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Relativistic electron acceleration at the bow shock of Jupiter and beyond - Nature
NASA’s Juno observations show relativistic electron acceleration at the bow shock of Jupiter and establish a universal scaling law linking shock size to maximum cosmic ray energy.
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🚀 Smile has launched! This joint mission between ESA and the Chinese Academy of Sciences is on a quest to reveal how Earth’s magnetic shield protects us from the Sun’s relentless solar wind. A major milestone in understanding space weather! #SmileMission #SpaceScience #ESA 1/4
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Mark your calendars 🗓️ The Smile mission is due to launch on Tuesday 19 May 2026, at 04:52 BST / 05:52 CEST on a European Vega-C rocket. That's going to require a lot of coffee ☕🥱 Stay tuned 👉 www.esa.int/Science_Expl... 🔭🧪☀️
🚢 Inspector Smile has begun a two-week voyage across the Atlantic, heading for Europe’s Spaceport in French Guiana. In the early hours of 11 February, Smile left ESA’s technical heart by truck for the Port of Amsterdam, where it was loaded onto the cargo ship MN Colibri. 🔭 🧪
After the holidays 🎄🎅🎆 its time to submit abstracts to the @egu.eu General Assembly 3-8 May 2026 in Vienna! 👇Our team at the Austrian Space Weather Office convenes 4 sessions - from solar storm ☀️💨 evolution and forecasting, to research to operations (R2O) efforts and machine learning 🤖techniques.
Ends still need to be woven in, but that's the 2025 daily maximum Kp-index blanket done
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-... 🧵
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Look at how round this bird is!!! Bird of the year!!
To my beautiful followers: the amazing @hgeorgespace.bsky.social requests that we all please vote for the takahe in New Zealand’s Bird of the Year contest! Other acceptable second choices include kereru, piwakawaka, tui, kakapo, and kea 😊
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
It’s Bird of the Year time, and the official railfan option is the MIGHTY TAKAHĒ, the largest living member of the rail family of birds So when you vote, don’t forget to include the takahē in your top five: birdoftheyear.org.nz
Come join us @utu.fi for a Postdoc to investigate solar energetic particles using AI! ☀️ #heliophysics #spaceweather ats.talentadore.com/apply/avaruu...
Postdoctoral Researcher of Data Analytics in Space Physics
The Department of Computing and the Department of Physics and Astronomy at the University of Turku are looking for a postdoctoral researcher of data analytics in space physics. The selected person wil...
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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
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TIL (on mastodon) that the US National Park Service has crochet patterns! www.nps.gov/articles/000...
Halibut Crochet Pattern (U.S. National Park Service)
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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,
Lithium in Merkurs Exosphäre nachgewiesen
Der innerste Planet Merkur hat zwar keine echte Atmosphäre, aber eine extrem dünne Gashülle in Form einer Exosphäre. In dieser haben Planetenforscher nun mi
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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...
NASA begins push to slash workforce with more staff buyouts, early retirements as budget cuts loom
NASA employees have until July 25 to decide if they'll stay or go.
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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
Citizen Science in Space and Atmospheric Sciences: Opportunities and Challenges - Surveys in Geophysics
Citizen science (also referred to as participatory science or community science), in which members of the general public contribute to scientific research, is not a new concept, as early examples of s...
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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...