Dear Colleagues, EGU 2026 abstract submission is now open and we welcome any CME-related submissions involving remote sensing/in situ observations, multi-spacecraft studies, modeling efforts, or mission concepts to our session: ST1.6: Observing and modelling coronal mass ejections from the Sun to the heliosphere: Confirmed invited speakers include: Eleanna Asvestari: data driven CME modelling Alessandro Liberatore: CMEs observed with PROBA-3/ASPIICS and Metis…

Application deadline: 16 January 2026 Supervisor: Dr Ryan J. Campbell (QUB) Contact: ryan.campbell@qub.ac.uk Queen’s University Belfast (QUB) invites applications for a PhD project applying modern artificial intelligence methods to solar spectropolarimetry. The aim is to develop transformer-based inversion models capable of inferring atmospheric parameters (temperature, velocity, magnetic field) directly from observed Stokes profiles. The student will: - Build on recent progress demonstrating the feasibility of transformer architectures for spectropolarimetric inversion.

Hi all, We’re Hiring: Assistant/Associate Professor in Space Environment SERENE (Space Environment), School of Engineering, University of Birmingham, UK | Permanent | Full-Time Closing date: 6 January 2026 Come and join us at the University of Birmingham as we invest boldly in people, facilities, and partnerships to grow our world-leading capability in understanding and engineering the near-Earth space environment. This role is ideal for someone passionate about making a significant impact in both academic research and practical applications.

We have multiple fully-funded PhD studentships available for entry in October 2026. These PhD studentships include full UK fees, a living allowance (stipend) and additional funding to cover research costs and international travel such as conferences. The closing date for applications is Friday 23rd January 2026. Full details can be found here: www.northumbria.ac.uk/STFCphd You will join a strong, successful and supportive research team.

The SunPy Project is pleased to announce the latest release of sunpy, version 7.1. In this major release, new features include: SOLARNET Support Added support for new observatories Fido.search will now continue on error Preserving the observation time of a map when reprojecting There are also plenty of bug fixes, documentation improvements, and several removals of deprecated functionality. The full what’s new can be found at What’s New in sunpy 7.1?, and the full changelog at Full Changelog — sunpy 7.1.0 documentation.

Dear Colleagues, The Steering Committee (SC) of the Frontiers 2035 pilot programme was delighted by the response from our community to the call for White Papers (WP) and for membership of the Thematic Panels (TP). We received 113 White Papers – many more than we had anticipated. There were 46 submitted to the Planetary theme, 33 to Astro and 22 to Helio, with the balance cutting across two themes, and in one case, across all three.

We would like to highlight the following four opportunities available for AI-related research and researchers. Isambard-AI and Dawn AIRR supercomputers: Gateway route – UKRI Takes a wide view of AI-related research, including the development of novel algorithms and software tools, exploring AI-assisted workflow, and AI-driven data collection, production, and synthesis. 10,000 GPUh available for three-month awards under this rolling call, assessed on a fortnightly cadence, with a maximum time-to-resource-access of one month after the date of submission.

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: Two sessions of direct interest to solar researchers are:

We invite applications for a PhD position starting in October 2026 in the Astrophysics Research Center at Queen’s University Belfast under the supervision of Dr. Ryan Milligan This project represents fundamentally important research aimed at addressing key open questions concerning the impact of solar variability on the Earth’s ionosphere. The influence of solar flares on the Earth’s upper atmosphere has been studied for decades using both theoretical and experimental approaches.

Dear Colleagues, Please be advised the STFC Astronomy Small Awards 2026 opportunities are now live on the UKRI funding finder: Solar and planetary 2026 - Astronomy solar and planetary small awards 2026 – UKRI Astronomy observation and theory 2026 - Astronomy observation and theory small awards 2026 – UKRI The opportunities open on Tuesday 16th December 2025 and the deadline for submissions is 

Dear Early Career Researchers, Would you like to: Help organise webinar and events for the ECR community? Be part of a scientific organising committee for a session at NAM? Have the chance to be a voice for ECRs in radio astronomy? If you are at an early stage of your career as a PhD student, postdoc or research scientist then apply to join!

Dear all, The European solar physics division board (ESPD) is organising a 2nd Summer School in its series to be held on 27 April - 1 May 2026 in Dubrovnik, Croatia covering diverse topics in solar physics. The applications are now open and the submission deadline is January 31st 2026. The school will be in hybrid form. Due to capacity limits of the classrooms and the dormitory the number of students attending in-person is limited to 30-40 students.

Dear Colleagues, The 17th International Solar Wind Conference will take place 14-19 June 2026 in the historic city of Bath (UK). The triennial Solar Wind Conference covers all aspects of solar wind and heliospheric physics, focusing on current research as well as future directions. Thanks to our sponsors, we are able to support early-career researchers financially for their attendance of the Solar Wind 17 Conference.

Date: 13th March 2026 Time: 10:30-15:30 Location: Royal Astronomical Society, Burlington House, Piccadilly, London W1J 0BD URL: Abstracts: Open now! Closes 31st December 2025. Apply via email to the chairs: m.druett@sheffield.ac.uk, apietrow@aip.de, Angela.Santos@astro.up.pt Decisions/Schedule: 10th January 2026 Since optimal observational and modelling techniques for astronomers in different fields have necessarily been very different, a conscious effort to “bridge the gap” between these communities is essential, so that relevant findings are effectively disseminated.

Date: 1 – 9 August 2026 Location: Florence, Italy Url: Abstracts: Open now! Closes 13st Feb 2026. Decisions/Schedule: March 2026 Progress in understanding stars, planets, and their environments increasingly relies on connecting insights that have emerged separately within the solar, stellar, and exoplanetary communities. Each field has developed its own observational approaches, modelling techniques, and vocabulary, often leading to parallel but disconnected advances.

EPSRC-funded PhD opportunity: Solar and Space Data Analysis for Major Risk Space Weather Forecasting. This project aims to advance the automated detection and analysis of solar features using deep learning and computer vision. By leveraging high-precision space-based solar imagery, the research will focus on detecting and tracking oscillatory phenomena in coronal holes and solar filaments—key drivers of space weather disruptions.

The SolarNuggets are located here: No. 509: "On the Origin of Solar Long-Duration Gamma-Ray Flares‎‎‎‎” by Alessandro BRUNO: Do we really need CMES to cause long-duration solar gamma-ray events? No. 510, "Sun-as-a-star Analysis of a Solar Eruption Source Region Using H-alpha Spectroscopic Observations from CHASE” by Xiaofeng LIU and Yijun HOU: Sun-as-a-star spectroscopy helps to translate between two astrophysical descriptions.

Dear colleagues, It is our pleasure to share new Solar Orbiter science nuggets (November 2025 releases): SO Nugget #75: The Solar Orbiter Merged Magnetic Field Dataset (M. Kretzschmar, J.-Y. Brochot, T. S. Horbury et al.) SO Nugget #76: Near Continuous Tracking of a Super Active Region for Three Solar Rotations (I. Kontogiannis, Y. Zhu, K. Barczynski, M. Z. Stiefel et al.)

Dear colleagues, We are pleased to announce that the second season of our monthly Solar Orbiter Community Building Webinars will begin on 4 February 2026. Please pencil this date already! These webinars aim to provide updates and insights on Solar Orbiter science, data and operations to the wider solar and space physics communities. Sessions will take place from 14:00 to 14:30 Central European Time (CET) on the first Wednesday of each month, starting in February. Information and the registration link for the first webinars are available here: Best regards, The ESA Solar Orbiter Team

Dear UKSP Community, We’re Hiring: Assistant/Associate Professor in Space Environment SERENE (Space Environment), School of Engineering, University of Birmingham | Permanent | Full-Time Closing date: 6 January 2026 Come and join us at the University of Birmingham as we invest boldly in people, facilities, and partnerships to grow our world-leading capability in understanding and engineering the near-Earth space environment. This role is ideal for someone passionate about making a significant impact in both academic research and practical applications.

We are pleased to organise an RAS discussion meeting entitled The Next Generation of Modelling and Observing Techniques for the Lower Solar Atmosphere to be held at Burlington House on 13 February 2026. To submit an abstract please complete this form by 10 December 2025: Both in-person and online abstracts are permitted. We are also delighted to have invited talks from Tony Arber – University of Warwick, and Lisa-Marie Zessner – Max Planck Institute for Solar System Physics.

We are pleased to announce that the Coronal Loop Workshop will be held on 8-11 June 2026 at Northumbria University – Newcastle upon Tyne (UK). Further information on the venue, registration, accommodation etc. will be provided in due course. Note that the number of participants is limited to 75. Those who believe they can make a useful contribution to the workshop should contact the organizing committee. Stephane Regnier (LOC chair) On behalf of the SOC and LOC.

We are seeking for a motivated doctoral researcher (PhD candidate) to work on the modelling of Mercury's space plasma physics in a BepiColombo related project. The position is part of the MErcury in the sOlar Wind (MEOW) ERC project at the Finnish Meteorological Institute. You will use our global particle-based space weather models to study the solar wind influence on Mercury and its environment and interpret observations from the BepiColombo mission.

The UK National Astronomy Meeting 2026 will be held at the University of Birmingham from 20th-24th July 2026. Session proposals are now open at the above URL, with a deadline of 19th December 2025. We hope to announce the session selection in January 2026, to give organisers plenty of time to prepare. NAM depends on the community to propose and run parallel sessions, so please help us to ensure a good coverage of solar interests in 2026! For enquiries, please contact the organisers at nam26@star.sr.bham.ac.uk. Rachel Howe, University of Birmingham (On behalf of the LOC)

Thank you to everyone who completed the UKSP survey. We are especially pleased with the strong participation across all career stages. You can find a summary: Based on the results, the UKSP Council will continue working to represent the needs of the community. Best regards,UKSP Council