Mathew Owens
Space physicist doing a poor impersonation of a meteorologist at the University of Reading.
mathewjowens.github.io
- Missed a delivery, so I'm trying to register for the Royal Mail app. But I can't because the verification email is never delivered. That would have been a better verse than "rain on your wedding day".
- Reposted by Mathew OwensIn the fine British tradition of turning to memes in moments of crisis, I present your summary of today's UKGov committee session discussing the planned cuts, erm I mean cost reductions, at STFC. 🔭🧪⚛️ ℹ️: www.ox.ac.uk/news/2026-02...
- Popcorn at the ready: the UKGov Science, Innovation & Technology Committee is about to quiz Sir Ian Chapman about UKRI’s new strategic objectives. Will they ask him about the devastating cuts planned for UK astronomy? Let's hope so. 🔭🧪 📺 Watch live from 9:30am: parliamentlive.tv/event/index/...
- There's an update to the "Reasonable worst-case scenarios for extreme space weather". No-one's going to sit down and read this with a coffee, but it's hopefully a useful reference! epubs.stfc.ac.uk/work/64076049
- The fast (~1400 km/s) CME that launched yesterday is forecast to arrive sometime Tues. Probably during the day in the UK, so not great for aurora. But there's a fast solar wind stream near Earth, and the precise location/timing of that could really change the CME propagation.
- I've just spent 2 hrs dealing with Mahjong Trip: Relax on an elderly relative's phone. It disguises itself as a launcher, so you can't uninstall it. Then feeds constant ads, even on the home screen. There doesn't seem to be a way to report it on Play Store, other than for inappropriate content?
- Ah, tax return, my old friend. How can using the HMRC app be one of the ways to sign into the HMRC app?
- I'm much happier about this than I appear in the photo. As the Wrexham U13 football league didn't give out medals for participation in the 1980s, I think this is the first medal I've ever won. I'll be wearing it every day for the next year.
- The Chapman Medal has been awarded to Professor Mathew Owens, of the @uniofreading.bsky.social. 👏 The medal recognises investigations of outstanding merit in the science of the Sun, space and planetary environments or solar-terrestrial physics. ⤵️
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- If you need to reconstruct the solar wind -- for example, to understand coronal mass ejection propagation to Earth -- you might be better off ditching coronal models and using real solar wind observations to constrain your model. agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/...
