Prof Jim Wild
@jim-wild.bsky.social
Professor of Space Physics at Lancaster University, President Elect of the Royal Astronomical Society, and lover of all things spacey. Fell-runner, EV enthusiast, film/soundtrack geek and curry fan. My own views etc.
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Prof Jim Wild
@jim-wild.bsky.social
· Nov 23
Hello 🦋 👋 I mainly post about space weather, aurora, higher education, running and other things that interest me. I’m also using ❌ jim_wild and 🧵jim_wild if you’d like to follow me there.
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Scientists Confirm Aurora Borealis Will Be Visible On Google Images Tonight https://theonion.com/scientists-confirm-aurora-borealis-will-be-visible-on-google-images-tonight/
November 13, 2025 at 9:00 PM
Scientists Confirm Aurora Borealis Will Be Visible On Google Images Tonight https://theonion.com/scientists-confirm-aurora-borealis-will-be-visible-on-google-images-tonight/
NASA have delayed the launch of the ESCAPADE spacecraft on their mission to Mars due to the ongoing space weather disturbances #spaceweather #mars
www.space.com/space-explor...
www.space.com/space-explor...
Ongoing solar storm delays Blue Origin launch of NASA Mars probes
There's definitely some irony in ESCAPADE's Mars space weather probes being delayed by space weather.
www.space.com
November 12, 2025 at 7:27 PM
NASA have delayed the launch of the ESCAPADE spacecraft on their mission to Mars due to the ongoing space weather disturbances #spaceweather #mars
www.space.com/space-explor...
www.space.com/space-explor...
UK aurora chasers: if you have cloud free skies after dark it would be worth taking a look! #aurora #northernlights #SpaceWeather
UK Met Office have issued geomagnetic storm watch for G5 storm from 12-Nov 12:00 UTC to 13-Nov 23:59 UTC
UK Met Office have issued geomagnetic storm watch for G5 storm from 12-Nov 12:00 UTC to 13-Nov 23:59 UTC
www.metoffice.gov.uk
November 12, 2025 at 3:08 PM
UK aurora chasers: if you have cloud free skies after dark it would be worth taking a look! #aurora #northernlights #SpaceWeather
UK Met Office have issued geomagnetic storm watch for G5 storm from 12-Nov 12:00 UTC to 13-Nov 23:59 UTC
UK Met Office have issued geomagnetic storm watch for G5 storm from 12-Nov 12:00 UTC to 13-Nov 23:59 UTC
Fantastic to hear my Lancaster University colleague Prof Brooke Simmons discussing the northern lights and today's space weather disturbances on the BBC Today Programme this morning! Listen in from 1:23:20
@vrooje.net @lancasteruni.bsky.social #spaceweather #aurora
www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...
@vrooje.net @lancasteruni.bsky.social #spaceweather #aurora
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Today - 12/11/2025 - BBC Sounds
News and current affairs, including Sports Desk, Weather and Thought for the Day.
www.bbc.co.uk
November 12, 2025 at 9:14 AM
Fantastic to hear my Lancaster University colleague Prof Brooke Simmons discussing the northern lights and today's space weather disturbances on the BBC Today Programme this morning! Listen in from 1:23:20
@vrooje.net @lancasteruni.bsky.social #spaceweather #aurora
www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...
@vrooje.net @lancasteruni.bsky.social #spaceweather #aurora
www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...
Racing through the Belgian countryside as the end of an epic Umeå 🇸🇪 to Lancaster 🇬🇧 train journey draws closer 🚅
A great trip to European Space Weather Week #ESWW2025. Brilliant to catch up with friends and colleagues from around the world. See you in Florence for #ESWW2026!
A great trip to European Space Weather Week #ESWW2025. Brilliant to catch up with friends and colleagues from around the world. See you in Florence for #ESWW2026!
November 2, 2025 at 4:41 PM
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📣 Shout all about it! 📣
We've got a new award that may be of interest to student scientists.
One of our journals, RAS Techniques and Instruments (RASTI), has launched an annual student prize for the 'best' paper published in the journal by a student scientist. 🧑🔬 🔭
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We've got a new award that may be of interest to student scientists.
One of our journals, RAS Techniques and Instruments (RASTI), has launched an annual student prize for the 'best' paper published in the journal by a student scientist. 🧑🔬 🔭
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October 30, 2025 at 9:45 AM
📣 Shout all about it! 📣
We've got a new award that may be of interest to student scientists.
One of our journals, RAS Techniques and Instruments (RASTI), has launched an annual student prize for the 'best' paper published in the journal by a student scientist. 🧑🔬 🔭
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We've got a new award that may be of interest to student scientists.
One of our journals, RAS Techniques and Instruments (RASTI), has launched an annual student prize for the 'best' paper published in the journal by a student scientist. 🧑🔬 🔭
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This is a great story of flight-free travel: train all the way from Lancaster to Umeå in Sweden. It can be done!
It begins! Starting the journey from Lancaster (UK) to Umeå (Sweden) for the European Space Weather Week conference. Taking the train all the way #flyingless #ESWW2025
October 28, 2025 at 8:46 AM
This is a great story of flight-free travel: train all the way from Lancaster to Umeå in Sweden. It can be done!
It begins! Starting the journey from Lancaster (UK) to Umeå (Sweden) for the European Space Weather Week conference. Taking the train all the way #flyingless #ESWW2025
October 24, 2025 at 9:08 AM
It begins! Starting the journey from Lancaster (UK) to Umeå (Sweden) for the European Space Weather Week conference. Taking the train all the way #flyingless #ESWW2025
Congratulations to @lancasteruni.bsky.social colleague Oleg Kolosov on winning the IOP David Tabor Medal and Prize 🏅👏
www.lancaster.ac.uk/news/oleg-ko...
www.lancaster.ac.uk/news/oleg-ko...
Oleg Kolosov awarded 2025 Institute of Physics David Tabor Medal and Prize - Lancaster University
Professor of Nanoscience Oleg Kolosov has been awarded the 2025 Institute of Physics David Tabor Medal and Prize that marks distinguished contributions to surface or nanoscale physics.
www.lancaster.ac.uk
October 14, 2025 at 6:19 PM
Congratulations to @lancasteruni.bsky.social colleague Oleg Kolosov on winning the IOP David Tabor Medal and Prize 🏅👏
www.lancaster.ac.uk/news/oleg-ko...
www.lancaster.ac.uk/news/oleg-ko...
Had the good fortune of bumping into Max Alexander while at the @royalastrosoc.bsky.social last week. Really thrilled to get a copy of the beautiful catalogue from Max's recent "Life in the Sun's atmosphere" exhibition. It was a pleasure to discuss #spaceweather impacts during its creation!
October 14, 2025 at 7:45 AM
Had the good fortune of bumping into Max Alexander while at the @royalastrosoc.bsky.social last week. Really thrilled to get a copy of the beautiful catalogue from Max's recent "Life in the Sun's atmosphere" exhibition. It was a pleasure to discuss #spaceweather impacts during its creation!
In Kendal for the biennial Bob Graham Club dinner. Chuffed to get my certificate for completing the round in 2024, becoming club member 2899. As the saying goes “it doesn’t cost anything to join the club, you just have to run around a few Lake District fells within 24 hours”.
October 12, 2025 at 10:22 AM
In Kendal for the biennial Bob Graham Club dinner. Chuffed to get my certificate for completing the round in 2024, becoming club member 2899. As the saying goes “it doesn’t cost anything to join the club, you just have to run around a few Lake District fells within 24 hours”.
In London today for my first @royalastrosoc.bsky.social Council meeting at Burlington House as President Elect 🔭
October 10, 2025 at 4:34 PM
In London today for my first @royalastrosoc.bsky.social Council meeting at Burlington House as President Elect 🔭
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What does last May's stunning Aurora Borealis in the UK have to do with where agribusiness' vehicles should be? The answer is #SpaceWeather. If you missed this week's podcast, featuring @jim-wild.bsky.social, why not listen now? #TransformingTomorrow. @thepaulturner.bsky.social
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October 9, 2025 at 7:42 AM
What does last May's stunning Aurora Borealis in the UK have to do with where agribusiness' vehicles should be? The answer is #SpaceWeather. If you missed this week's podcast, featuring @jim-wild.bsky.social, why not listen now? #TransformingTomorrow. @thepaulturner.bsky.social
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Moonrise during the evening run (Nicky Nook, Lancashire) 😍
October 8, 2025 at 8:23 PM
Moonrise during the evening run (Nicky Nook, Lancashire) 😍
Why not start the week by listening to my conversation with the #TransformingTomorrow podcast folks about #spaceweather and its impacts on society and business? ☀️🛰️💡🌍
And we're back! Season 3 of #TransformingTomorrow kicks off today with a new episode on #SpaceWeather with Professor @jim-wild.bsky.social telling @thepaulturner.bsky.social & Jan about how solar activity affects us on earth, and how it affects business #resilience.
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October 6, 2025 at 9:43 AM
Why not start the week by listening to my conversation with the #TransformingTomorrow podcast folks about #spaceweather and its impacts on society and business? ☀️🛰️💡🌍
A grand day out running the Tower to Castle Ultra yesterday: Blackpool Tower to Lancaster Castle.
September 28, 2025 at 8:24 AM
A grand day out running the Tower to Castle Ultra yesterday: Blackpool Tower to Lancaster Castle.
A helpful summary from Nature on some of the challenges facing the U.K. higher education sector (and their background).
#highereducation #universities #research #education
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
#highereducation #universities #research #education
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
UK university departments on the brink as higher-education funding crisis deepens
As a new academic year dawns, international competition, government policies and inflationary pressures could be pushing some universities to the brink of bankruptcy.
www.nature.com
September 25, 2025 at 5:36 PM
A helpful summary from Nature on some of the challenges facing the U.K. higher education sector (and their background).
#highereducation #universities #research #education
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
#highereducation #universities #research #education
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
Great to see a solar and space weather mission hitching a ride on the IMAP launch 🚀
AND... WE HAVE LIFTOFF of NOAA’s #SWFOL1 satellite, riding along with
NASA.gov's Interstellar Mapping and Acceleration Probe (#IMAP) and Carruthers Geocorona Observatory!
More about SWFO-L1:
noaa.gov/SWFOL1
#LetsGoSWFO!
NASA.gov's Interstellar Mapping and Acceleration Probe (#IMAP) and Carruthers Geocorona Observatory!
More about SWFO-L1:
noaa.gov/SWFOL1
#LetsGoSWFO!
SWFO-L1 Launch
SWFO-L1 will keep a watchful eye on the sun and near-Earth environment for space weather activity, using a solar telescope to monitor the Sun's activity and a suite of instruments to make real-time me...
noaa.gov
September 24, 2025 at 12:40 PM
Great to see a solar and space weather mission hitching a ride on the IMAP launch 🚀
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Happy 100th anniversary to Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin’s extraordinary thesis!
Happy birthday to astrophysicist Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin (1900-1979), a trailblazer for women in #astronomy who discovered that hydrogen & helium are the most common elements in the universe. 🐡🧪👩🏼🔬🎢🔭
Born England, she won a scholarship to Newnham College at Cambridge in 1919 where she heard 🧵1/n
Born England, she won a scholarship to Newnham College at Cambridge in 1919 where she heard 🧵1/n
September 24, 2025 at 12:23 PM
Happy 100th anniversary to Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin’s extraordinary thesis!
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Phew! It's been a busy day here at the RAS today 😅
We've been having a great time welcoming the public to our HQ for guided tours, scientific fun and comet making as part of this year's Open House Festival. Bygone astronomers Caroline Herschel and her nephew John have also made an appearance! 🔭💫🪐
We've been having a great time welcoming the public to our HQ for guided tours, scientific fun and comet making as part of this year's Open House Festival. Bygone astronomers Caroline Herschel and her nephew John have also made an appearance! 🔭💫🪐
September 20, 2025 at 2:48 PM
Phew! It's been a busy day here at the RAS today 😅
We've been having a great time welcoming the public to our HQ for guided tours, scientific fun and comet making as part of this year's Open House Festival. Bygone astronomers Caroline Herschel and her nephew John have also made an appearance! 🔭💫🪐
We've been having a great time welcoming the public to our HQ for guided tours, scientific fun and comet making as part of this year's Open House Festival. Bygone astronomers Caroline Herschel and her nephew John have also made an appearance! 🔭💫🪐
Some insightful commentary by Lancaster University colleague Prof Paul Ashwin on recent (re)discussions about linking university tuition fees to teaching quality.
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Back to the future for the TEF? Back to school for OfS?
OfS is again flirting with the idea of linking tuition fees to TEF outcomes – a proposal that, as Paul Ashwin argues, is as unworkable now as it was a decade ago. OfS is again flirting with the idea o...
wonkhe.com
September 15, 2025 at 7:56 AM
Some insightful commentary by Lancaster University colleague Prof Paul Ashwin on recent (re)discussions about linking university tuition fees to teaching quality.
wonkhe.com/blogs/back-t...
wonkhe.com/blogs/back-t...
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The Royal Astronomical Society is pleased to congratulate Professor Michele Dougherty on her appointment as the first female Astronomer Royal. 🔭💫🪐
Read more at: ras.ac.uk/news-and-pre...
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July 30, 2025 at 9:04 AM
The Royal Astronomical Society is pleased to congratulate Professor Michele Dougherty on her appointment as the first female Astronomer Royal. 🔭💫🪐
Read more at: ras.ac.uk/news-and-pre...
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Read more at: ras.ac.uk/news-and-pre...
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Congratulations to the new Astronomer Royal, Prof Michele Dougherty. 👏 Looking forward to working with you Michele!
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
UK gets first female Astronomer Royal in 350 years
Prof Michele Dougherty is the first woman to be appointed to the influential post.
www.bbc.co.uk
July 30, 2025 at 12:04 PM
Congratulations to the new Astronomer Royal, Prof Michele Dougherty. 👏 Looking forward to working with you Michele!
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...