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Shahzad Gani 🍉 @shahzadgani.bsky.social · Mar 23

Applications for PG Admissions (1st Semester 2025-26) to IIT Delhi are now open.

Did you know that in addition to our MTech and PhD programs, we also have a relatively new MS(R) program at the Centre for Atmospheric Sciences, IIT Delhi?

home.iitd.ac.in/pg-admission...

PG Admissions 2025-2026 : IIT Delhi

IIT DELHI

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Shahzad Gani 🍉 @shahzadgani.bsky.social · Feb 6

Excited to share that Prof Katrianne Lehtipalo will be delivering the IIT Delhi Institute Lecture on 12 February (Wed) 3pm.

Let me know if you are interested in attending (in-person).

@katriannelehtipalo.bsky.social

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Shahzad Gani 🍉 @shahzadgani.bsky.social · Jan 3

The Noise, Aerosols, and Air Quality (NAAQ) research group wishes you a very Happy New Year!!

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Shahzad Gani 🍉 @shahzadgani.bsky.social · Dec 16

AR charges no article processing charges or in fact any other fee to authors and readers. This mode of publication is commonly referred to as Diamond Open Access.

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Shahzad Gani 🍉 @shahzadgani.bsky.social · Dec 16

AR covers all aspects of aerosol-related research. The main subject areas comprise aerosol technology, atmospheric aerosols, aerosol measurements and instrumentation, aerosols and health, and fundamental aerosol research.

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Shahzad Gani 🍉 @shahzadgani.bsky.social · Dec 16

Excited to join the editorial board of Aerosol Research (AR), a Diamond Open Access journal publishing high-quality aerosol research—free for authors and readers!

www.aerosol-research.net/about/aims_a...

AR - Aims & scope

www.aerosol-research.net

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Shahzad Gani 🍉 @shahzadgani.bsky.social · Dec 13

NAAQ research group PhD students (L to R): Gaurav, Aasif, and Kajal!

Learning something new every day with them—today, we discussed the recent Nature papers on New Particle Formation from Isoprene.

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Sai Krishna @thechaoticneuron.bsky.social · Dec 7

Freshly published: Assessing Air Quality during India’s National Clean Air Programme (NCAP)

www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Assessing Air Quality During India’s National Clean Air Programme (NCAP): 2019-2023

Did air quality improve during India’s National Clean Air Programme (NCAP)? Since its inception in 2019, 131 cities were designated as non-attainment …

www.sciencedirect.com

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Shahzad Gani 🍉 @shahzadgani.bsky.social · Dec 6

"the ONOS scheme reflects a failure of informed science policymaking in India. Yielding to for-profit foreign publishers and calling it a game-changer and ‘atmanirbahar’ (self-reliant) is a major irony."

blogs.lse.ac.uk/impactofsoci...

India’s One Nation One Subscription deal enriches publishers and benefits few

Contrary to its intended goals of reducing subscription costs and improving access to scientific literature in India, Muthu Madhan argues the much-hyped One Nation One Subscription policy risks sig…

blogs.lse.ac.uk

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James Allan @jamesallanatmos.bsky.social · Dec 4

You wait ages for a @natureportfolio.bsky.social paper on new particle formation and two come along at once... (courtesy of HALO and CLOUD)

Big news here is isoprene is involved. I was asked to do a News & Views, which you can get here without a paywall.

rdcu.be/d2piI

Abundant plant gas forms aerosol particles at high altitude — and could affect the climate | Nature

Aerial observations and experiments with a simulated atmosphere show that isoprene, a gas emitted by trees, is a precursor of particles in the upper atmosphere. The findings could help to improve climate predictions. Isoprene added to the select list of precursors of atmospheric aerosols.

rdcu.be

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Shahzad Gani 🍉 @shahzadgani.bsky.social · Dec 2

Important note: #BRICS countries don't even get a discount.

Shahzad Gani 🍉 @shahzadgani.bsky.social · Dec 2

Looks like @eurogeosciences.bsky.social journals are getting an APC revamp.

www.atmospheric-chemistry-and-physics.net/about/articl...

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elia ayoub @ayoub.bsky.social · Dec 1

We're coming close to 14 months of this happening over and over again: Israel assassinates aid workers, so aid operations are paused or stopped, making the people they were helping even more vulnerable than they already are.

This is genocide.

Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · Nov 30

"World Central Kitchen is pausing operations in Gaza at this time."

World Central Kitchen statement: We are heartbroken to share that a vehicle carrying World Central Kitchen colleagues was hit by an Israeli airstrike in Gaza. At this time, we are working with incomplete information and are urgently seeking more details.
World Central Kitchen had no knowledge that any individual in the vehicle had alleged ties to the October 7th
Hamas attack.
World Central Kitchen is pausing operations in Gaza at this time.
Our hearts are with our colleagues and their families in this unimaginable moment.

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Sai Krishna @thechaoticneuron.bsky.social · Nov 30

Work with air quality or climate data? Here are a few ways to visualize them.

Python codes: github.com/urbanemissio...

What other interesting visualisations can be made?

#stats 🤖📈

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Jesse Kroll @jessekroll.bsky.social · Nov 29

Great article on the importance of exploratory (hypothesis-generating) research. Written about the social sciences, but totally applicable to the physical sciences as well.
www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Let the data talk: embrace exploratory research

Open-ended research is essential to building solid hypotheses in the social sciences — without it, even the best-planned analyses can fail.

www.nature.com

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Pallavi Pant, PhD @pallavipnt.bsky.social · Nov 26

Here’s a starter pack with the fantastic women in #AirQuality!

go.bsky.app/NQ6j7BU

Who is missing?

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OpenAQ @openaq.org · Nov 25

✍🏽 We are now accepting applications for the 2025 OpenAQ Community Ambassador program!

Lead your community in clean air advocacy using open data. Apply now (closes Jan 13): link.openaq.org/2025AmbassadorAppInfo

#CleanAir #AirQuality #CommunityLeaders #CommunityAmbassadors

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Shahzad Gani 🍉 @shahzadgani.bsky.social · Nov 26

🚨 Advanced Aerosol Science Intensive Course 🚨
📍 IIT Delhi Sonipat Campus
📅 3–13 Feb 2025

A joint course by CAS, IIT Delhi and INAR, University of Helsinki.

🧪For Indian PhD students (2nd year & above)
⏳Apply by: 31 Dec 2024

🌐https://forms.office.com/r/DjA74Hm8RZ

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Shahzad Gani 🍉 @shahzadgani.bsky.social · Nov 25

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Shahzad Gani 🍉 @shahzadgani.bsky.social · Nov 25

"Fortunately, science is not confined to institutions. It lives in my mind and heart, and I can enjoy it fully—even from the solitude of my imagination; even if I were to become homeless. Home, however, is precisely what I am fighting for." - Afif Aqrabawi

Yesterday during a lab meeting, my mentor informed me that I may no longer progress in my career due to my so-called 'infamy.' I was told that I was to blame for the challenges I've been facing in publishing my work—that my 'negative' political activism might be provoking the particularly unusual hostility of peer reviewers. Apparently, several 'respectable' figures in the scientific community have contacted him to voice their disapproval and even urged him to terminate my employment. This also highlights how the cowardly silence of my 'allies' perpetuates bigotry and exclusion.

To my 'colleagues' who feel entitled to pass judgment on my existence as a Palestinian scientist—one who cannot turn away from the human instinct to preserve life while witnessing the daily murder of my people—I regret to inform you that I will continue to exist, unapologetically, with no regard for your comfort or supremacist ideals.

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Paolo Crosetto @paolocrosetto.bsky.social · Nov 23

The Economist covered our "Strain on scientific publishing" paper.

What is this all about?

We collectively churn out more & more papers *per scientist*, an increasing pace, in a rapidly changing publication landscape.

Why? How? Want to make sense of this? 🧵

www.economist.com/science-and-...

Scientific publishers are producing more papers than ever

Concerns about some of their business models are building

www.economist.com

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Katharine Hayhoe @katharinehayhoe.com · Nov 25

For a number of years now, I’ve had a policy that I don’t submit to nor will I review for MPDI and Frontiers. This analysis supports that decision.

It’s no reflection on the many excellent papers and studies that have been published in them, but rather on their editorial and business practices.

Mark A. Hanson @hansonmark.bsky.social · Nov 19

The strain on scientific publishing: we set out to characterise the remarkable growth of the scientific literature in the last few years, in spite of declining growth in total scientists. What is going on?

direct.mit.edu/qss/article/...

A 🧵 1/n
#AcademicSky #PhDchat #ScientificPublishing #SciPub

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Shahzad Gani 🍉 @shahzadgani.bsky.social · Nov 24

I’m excited to announce that I will be teaching an undergraduate course on "Fundamentals of Air Pollution Science" at IIT Delhi, starting in Jan 2025.

What topics do you consider essential for such a course? 👇

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Shahzad Gani 🍉 @shahzadgani.bsky.social · Nov 24

"How does the intellectual address authority: as a professional supplicant or as its unrewarded, amateurish conscience?"

- Edward Said

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Shahzad Gani 🍉 @shahzadgani.bsky.social · Nov 24

Twitter vs Bluesky 🤣🤣🤣

Both places for hard facts it seems!

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