Paulo Simões, PhD

Why does cheating matter? A personal anecdote and an appeal to junior colleagues.

got inspired by some questions from phd students the other day — and also really irritated by senior academics who seem to refuse to get the issues and continue to blame students; hope useful for you! 🩷

olivia.science/cheating

yep! like Qualis was 😂

and don't get me started on folks that say that passive voice is the norm (there's *nothing* there about this) 😂 (or 😭?)

parabéns!!

Isso já era uma idiotice com sistemas deterministicos baseados em lógica (mesmo que de software livre, feitos e hospedados no Brasil).
É ainda mais idiota com IA

It's not "can 'AI's create software" but "are we willing to accept worse software running more and more of our lives?"

gostei da ideia, acho que vou adorar algo nessa linha.

okay, Ill bite.
What do you think the point of reading for and writing a literature review is? The process of reading and writing is crucial for THINKING. Your ideas are shaped by all of this, offloading it to gAI, no matter how "good" you think gAI is at it defeats the purpose entirely.

magentic filed for me

new RHESSI nugget by Solomon Perryil (PhD candidate at CRAAM, Mackenzie, Brazil) #heliophysics

heliowiki.smce.nasa.gov/wiki/index.p...

obrigado por compartilhar! peguei o link pra assistir depois

Woah! Stunning prominence lifting off the Sun’s northern limb. Spectacular eruption. No impacts to Earth anticipated.

new RHESSI nugget by Solomon Perryil (PhD candidate at CRAAM, Mackenzie, Brazil) #heliophysics

heliowiki.smce.nasa.gov/wiki/index.p...

"Fundamental science is a long game, and government departments and agencies can sponsor long-term projects, whether the goal is mapping the entire U.S. coastline or the entire human genome." Or building an advanced space telescope 🔭 to find out if humanity is truly alone in the cosmos.

I want to repeat comments I already made on this plot since some news outlets seem to ignore them: Hubble will not reenter until early 2030s. The curve here is alarming, but will flatten out as we hit solar minimum in the coming years. I still think it's time for NASA to take action on a reboost.

👇 not only in the US.

É isso. Mesmo a visibilidade é questionável, porque muitas áreas tem repositórios como arxiv, biorxiv etc de livre acesso (sei que muitas áreas não tem isso!).

cheio de Diamond Open Access mas temos que correr atrás do fator de impacto, jogando dinheiro pra publisher, por causa de avaliação. E faltando bolsas. Difícil, né.

that's great! ☺️ happy to know it was already useful!

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Hubble Space Telescope orbit height versus the solar sunspot number. Periods of higher activity are associated with faster drops in height. (not as up to date as the plot from @planet4589.bsky.social) We're also looking at shorter periods, for effects of flares and geomagnetic storms

cannot access the full text you linked...

there's a correlation, I believe. we're working on the details!

Write accessibly!

It's so much more fun when readers understand what you've written and decide that you're wrong than when they *don't* understand but assume that you're right.

The GSST/CBERS-5 International Symposium on Machine Learning in Heliophysics and Space Weather, August 17-21, Brazil. Abstract submissions open until March 30. #heliophysics

indico.global/event/16921/

Observational Evidence Linking Loop Length and Thermal–Nonthermal Peak Timing in Solar Flares Observational Evidence Linking Loop Length and Thermal–Nonthermal Peak Timing in Solar Flares, Perriyil, Solomon M., Sadangaya, Soumya S., Giménez de Castro, C. Guillermo, Simões, Paulo J. A.

New #heliophysics paper by grad students Solomon Perryil & Soumya Shree! In a statistical study of 96 flares we show that longer magnetic loops produce larger delays between the nonthermal and thermal peaks(R~0.9), especially for flares that follow Neupert effect. iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3...

The GSST/CBERS-5 International Symposium on Machine Learning in Heliophysics and Space Weather, August 17-21, Brazil. Abstract submissions open until March 30. #heliophysics

indico.global/event/16921/

Even if you read and understand all the code generated by the tool (do people still do that, or are they now at the point where they trust it without reading it?), do you understand it as well as if you had written it yourself?

The Sun’s Ultraviolet Mood Swings Are More Extreme Than We Thought - NSO - National Solar Observatory Scientists have reconstructed the Sun’s UV history. See how 1,000 years of solar activity shapes our atmosphere and aids exoplanet research.

Raffaele Reda, Valentina Penza, Serena Criscuoli et al. Modeling Decadal and Centennial Solar UV Irradiance Changes. #SolarPhysics 300, 173 (2025). doi.org/10.1007/s112... #OpenAccess

The Sun was spotless when these tiny flares were observed in 2020. Are they different from X-ray flares when the Sun is active? Really interesting work from @glasgow.ac.uk pals and colleagues elsewhere #heliophysics