Flossie Brown
@flossie-brown.bsky.social
Atmospheric chemist @ETHzurich
My Genossenschaft is in the Guardian! www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Could Zurich’s housing cooperatives be the solution to the rest of Europe’s housing crisis? | Peter Apps
One in every five citizens in the city has bought a share in the company that built and owns their apartment block, says Inside Housing’s Peter Apps
www.theguardian.com
October 24, 2025 at 11:36 AM
My Genossenschaft is in the Guardian! www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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Huge congratulations to the six Best Poster Prize winners of the #ECRConference2025! 🥳
Hannah Kessenich
Vasu Singh
Biplob Dey
Mishka Rawatlal
Stephanie Elkins
Pablo Lichtig
Your research was outstanding. See you at the iCACGP-IGAC 2026 Science Conference!
#ECR #AtmosphericScience #PhD #SciComm
Hannah Kessenich
Vasu Singh
Biplob Dey
Mishka Rawatlal
Stephanie Elkins
Pablo Lichtig
Your research was outstanding. See you at the iCACGP-IGAC 2026 Science Conference!
#ECR #AtmosphericScience #PhD #SciComm
October 22, 2025 at 12:27 AM
Huge congratulations to the six Best Poster Prize winners of the #ECRConference2025! 🥳
Hannah Kessenich
Vasu Singh
Biplob Dey
Mishka Rawatlal
Stephanie Elkins
Pablo Lichtig
Your research was outstanding. See you at the iCACGP-IGAC 2026 Science Conference!
#ECR #AtmosphericScience #PhD #SciComm
Hannah Kessenich
Vasu Singh
Biplob Dey
Mishka Rawatlal
Stephanie Elkins
Pablo Lichtig
Your research was outstanding. See you at the iCACGP-IGAC 2026 Science Conference!
#ECR #AtmosphericScience #PhD #SciComm
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JUST PUBLISHED – Analysis: Just 28% of countries have released nature pledges a year after UN deadline
✍️ By @daisydunne.carbonbrief.org
➡️ Read here: buff.ly/sD9gxZK
✍️ By @daisydunne.carbonbrief.org
➡️ Read here: buff.ly/sD9gxZK
October 22, 2025 at 8:27 AM
JUST PUBLISHED – Analysis: Just 28% of countries have released nature pledges a year after UN deadline
✍️ By @daisydunne.carbonbrief.org
➡️ Read here: buff.ly/sD9gxZK
✍️ By @daisydunne.carbonbrief.org
➡️ Read here: buff.ly/sD9gxZK
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If we’re going to have Chinese style autocracy in the US, I’d also like the renewable energy infrastructure, high speed rail, electric vehicles, investment in science, and good food.
Jimmy Kimmel Live! suspended indefinitely after host’s Charlie Kirk comments
ABC says late-night show will not air for foreseeable future after Kimmel accused Republicans of ‘doing everything they can to score political points’ from Kirk’s killing
www.theguardian.com
September 18, 2025 at 7:07 AM
If we’re going to have Chinese style autocracy in the US, I’d also like the renewable energy infrastructure, high speed rail, electric vehicles, investment in science, and good food.
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Deforestation kills
Forest clearance has killed more than half a million people in the tropics over the past two decades as a result of heat-related illness, a study has found.
This is a local effect in addition to global heating.
Article by me.
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Forest clearance has killed more than half a million people in the tropics over the past two decades as a result of heat-related illness, a study has found.
This is a local effect in addition to global heating.
Article by me.
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Deforestation has killed half a million people in past 20 years, study finds
Localised rises in temperature caused by land clearance cause 28,330 heat-related deaths a year, researchers find
www.theguardian.com
August 27, 2025 at 4:32 PM
Deforestation kills
Forest clearance has killed more than half a million people in the tropics over the past two decades as a result of heat-related illness, a study has found.
This is a local effect in addition to global heating.
Article by me.
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Forest clearance has killed more than half a million people in the tropics over the past two decades as a result of heat-related illness, a study has found.
This is a local effect in addition to global heating.
Article by me.
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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Are you interested in biosphere-atmosphere interactions, global modeling, and living in Zurich? If so, this postdoc position might be for you! Please share with any interested colleagues: jobs.ethz.ch/job/view/JOP...
Postdoctoral Researcher in Atmospheric Chemistry
jobs.ethz.ch
August 25, 2025 at 1:57 PM
Are you interested in biosphere-atmosphere interactions, global modeling, and living in Zurich? If so, this postdoc position might be for you! Please share with any interested colleagues: jobs.ethz.ch/job/view/JOP...
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📰The #CIJ_ICJ has spoken—fossil fuel production is no longer just bad policy, it’s a violation of international law.
Read our NYT op-ed on why this ruling is a legal game-changer for climate justice.
nyti.ms/3IKYNvs
Read our NYT op-ed on why this ruling is a legal game-changer for climate justice.
nyti.ms/3IKYNvs
Opinion | Climate Science Is Now the Law
A landmark legal ruling leaves no doubt that continuing fossil fuel production and use, let alone expanding it, violates the law.
nyti.ms
July 24, 2025 at 1:19 PM
📰The #CIJ_ICJ has spoken—fossil fuel production is no longer just bad policy, it’s a violation of international law.
Read our NYT op-ed on why this ruling is a legal game-changer for climate justice.
nyti.ms/3IKYNvs
Read our NYT op-ed on why this ruling is a legal game-changer for climate justice.
nyti.ms/3IKYNvs
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1. Researching this week’s column, I felt that I understood at last just why, on so many issues – benefits, Gaza, environmental and planning laws, anti-protest laws, bank deregulation, fiscal rules etc - Labour is out-Torying the Tories. Why it has become so cruel, so destructive and so spineless. 🧵
July 23, 2025 at 7:52 AM
1. Researching this week’s column, I felt that I understood at last just why, on so many issues – benefits, Gaza, environmental and planning laws, anti-protest laws, bank deregulation, fiscal rules etc - Labour is out-Torying the Tories. Why it has become so cruel, so destructive and so spineless. 🧵
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One of the astonishing aspects of our times is that once-progressive parties are rushing us towards dystopia almost as fast as the far right is. This week's column is about what we might now face and how to contest it.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Palestine Action isn’t a danger to British democracy – but this repressive government is | George Monbiot
With their illiberal attitudes and ever more draconian use of technology to crack down on protest, it is ministers who now imperil our rights, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot
www.theguardian.com
July 4, 2025 at 10:40 AM
One of the astonishing aspects of our times is that once-progressive parties are rushing us towards dystopia almost as fast as the far right is. This week's column is about what we might now face and how to contest it.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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Only 14h left to be considered in the early registration/abract submission raffle - 15 IGAC eco bags to be shipped to lucky winners tomorrow!!
Raffle for the 2025 ECR Online Conference! 📢
Register or submit an abstract by July 1 for a chance to win an exclusive tote bag.
➡️ 10 bags for registrations
➡️ 5 bags for abstract submissions
Already signed up? You're automatically entered!
Register/Submit here: shorturl.at/WLLNs
#AtmosChem #ECR
Register or submit an abstract by July 1 for a chance to win an exclusive tote bag.
➡️ 10 bags for registrations
➡️ 5 bags for abstract submissions
Already signed up? You're automatically entered!
Register/Submit here: shorturl.at/WLLNs
#AtmosChem #ECR
June 30, 2025 at 9:41 AM
Only 14h left to be considered in the early registration/abract submission raffle - 15 IGAC eco bags to be shipped to lucky winners tomorrow!!
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NEW – Guest post: Investigating how volcanic eruptions can affect climate projections | Dr May Chim, Dr Thomas J Aubry @cjsmith.be Prof Anja Schmidt
Read here: buff.ly/P4ZH3OE
Read here: buff.ly/P4ZH3OE
June 23, 2025 at 12:59 PM
NEW – Guest post: Investigating how volcanic eruptions can affect climate projections | Dr May Chim, Dr Thomas J Aubry @cjsmith.be Prof Anja Schmidt
Read here: buff.ly/P4ZH3OE
Read here: buff.ly/P4ZH3OE
I am co-convening the very broad topic of
🌏 "Persistent Biases in Climate Model Performance: Insights from CMIP5 to CMIP6" 🌍
with Sabine Bischof, Robert Fajber, Sifan Koriche and Ankur Srivastava.
Please share and consider submitting an abstract by the deadline 13th August.
🌏 "Persistent Biases in Climate Model Performance: Insights from CMIP5 to CMIP6" 🌍
with Sabine Bischof, Robert Fajber, Sifan Koriche and Ankur Srivastava.
Please share and consider submitting an abstract by the deadline 13th August.
The CMIP Community Workshop 2026 will be held in Kyoto, Japan from 9-13th March 2026. The call for abstracts for CMIP26 is now open! Find out more at wcrp-cmip.org/cmip26-call-...
May 28, 2025 at 11:39 AM
I am co-convening the very broad topic of
🌏 "Persistent Biases in Climate Model Performance: Insights from CMIP5 to CMIP6" 🌍
with Sabine Bischof, Robert Fajber, Sifan Koriche and Ankur Srivastava.
Please share and consider submitting an abstract by the deadline 13th August.
🌏 "Persistent Biases in Climate Model Performance: Insights from CMIP5 to CMIP6" 🌍
with Sabine Bischof, Robert Fajber, Sifan Koriche and Ankur Srivastava.
Please share and consider submitting an abstract by the deadline 13th August.
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Please consider submitting an abstract to the session on 'Understanding reactive gases, aerosols, and land use for air quality and climate change' convened by Fiona O'Connor, @dwatsonparris.bsky.social, Stephanie Fiedler, @flossie-brown.bsky.social and me! Deadline August 13th.
The CMIP Community Workshop 2026 will be held in Kyoto, Japan from 9-13th March 2026. The call for abstracts for CMIP26 is now open! Find out more at wcrp-cmip.org/cmip26-call-...
May 27, 2025 at 9:31 PM
Please consider submitting an abstract to the session on 'Understanding reactive gases, aerosols, and land use for air quality and climate change' convened by Fiona O'Connor, @dwatsonparris.bsky.social, Stephanie Fiedler, @flossie-brown.bsky.social and me! Deadline August 13th.
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Great article about GISS being homeless 😢
Great article about my former workplace, its history and its uncertain (maybe I’m being naive) future. www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Godfather of climate science decries Trump plan to shut Nasa lab above Seinfeld diner: ‘It’s crazy’
Over breakfast at Tom’s Restaurant, right below the historic Giss lab, James Hansen calls Doge’s decision a ‘big mistake’
www.theguardian.com
May 21, 2025 at 11:37 PM
Great article about GISS being homeless 😢
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Here are two examples they discuss in the article, Bolivia and Brazil.
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May 22, 2025 at 6:20 AM
Here are two examples they discuss in the article, Bolivia and Brazil.
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New Nature Climate Change paper on the risks of irreversible impacts on forest ecosystems under emissions pathways designed to meet the Paris Agreement temperature goals 🌳
➡️ www.nature.com/articles/s41558-025-02327-9
➡️ www.nature.com/articles/s41558-025-02327-9
Risks of unavoidable impacts on forests at 1.5 °C with and without overshoot - Nature Climate Change
The authors assess the risk of overshoot beyond 1.5 °C warming, using three scenarios with minimal overshoot, brief overshoot and sustained overshoot. They show a risk of long-term Amazon dieback, whi...
www.nature.com
May 14, 2025 at 7:59 AM
New Nature Climate Change paper on the risks of irreversible impacts on forest ecosystems under emissions pathways designed to meet the Paris Agreement temperature goals 🌳
➡️ www.nature.com/articles/s41558-025-02327-9
➡️ www.nature.com/articles/s41558-025-02327-9
Atmospheric Chemistry ECRs attending #EGU25 :
Join the #IGAC #ECR Networking event on Monday!
Connect with the IGAC group, network and explore some exciting science together
SIGN UP HERE:
bit.ly/42sv0hq
@igac-ecr.bsky.social @egu.eu @igacproject.bsky.social
Join the #IGAC #ECR Networking event on Monday!
Connect with the IGAC group, network and explore some exciting science together
SIGN UP HERE:
bit.ly/42sv0hq
@igac-ecr.bsky.social @egu.eu @igacproject.bsky.social
April 17, 2025 at 11:45 AM
Atmospheric Chemistry ECRs attending #EGU25 :
Join the #IGAC #ECR Networking event on Monday!
Connect with the IGAC group, network and explore some exciting science together
SIGN UP HERE:
bit.ly/42sv0hq
@igac-ecr.bsky.social @egu.eu @igacproject.bsky.social
Join the #IGAC #ECR Networking event on Monday!
Connect with the IGAC group, network and explore some exciting science together
SIGN UP HERE:
bit.ly/42sv0hq
@igac-ecr.bsky.social @egu.eu @igacproject.bsky.social
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Today, my @fightingdirty.bsky.social co-director, George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social writes about how flawed regulation & water company greed puts industrial waste on our plates. Please help us change the law by supporting our work 🙏🌍❤️ fightingdirty.org
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
What’s in the millions of tonnes of sludge spread on to UK farmland? Toxic waste – and ministers don’t care | George Monbiot
Water companies let waste disposers, for cash, dump their loads into sewage farms. When it is recklessly used as fertiliser, we are all at risk, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot
www.theguardian.com
March 21, 2025 at 12:00 PM
Today, my @fightingdirty.bsky.social co-director, George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social writes about how flawed regulation & water company greed puts industrial waste on our plates. Please help us change the law by supporting our work 🙏🌍❤️ fightingdirty.org
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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Over 2 billion people rely on glacier and snowmelt for fresh water.🚰 Today's World Day for Glaciers highlights their crucial roles. 🌍 From mass loss data to the European Alps' shrinkage, explore key insights in our article. 🔗 climate.copernicus.eu/inaugural-wo...
#C3S #WorldGlacierDay
#C3S #WorldGlacierDay
March 21, 2025 at 11:46 AM
Over 2 billion people rely on glacier and snowmelt for fresh water.🚰 Today's World Day for Glaciers highlights their crucial roles. 🌍 From mass loss data to the European Alps' shrinkage, explore key insights in our article. 🔗 climate.copernicus.eu/inaugural-wo...
#C3S #WorldGlacierDay
#C3S #WorldGlacierDay
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📢 Join the next IGAC-iCACGP Early Career Seminar!
🗓️ March 25th, 3-4 PM (UTC)
🎤 Speakers:
🔸 Mahendar Chand Rajwar (ARIES, India)
🔸 Connor Barker (UCL, UK)
🔗 Register now: bit.ly/ECR-Seminar3
#AtmosChem #ECR #ScienceSeminar
🗓️ March 25th, 3-4 PM (UTC)
🎤 Speakers:
🔸 Mahendar Chand Rajwar (ARIES, India)
🔸 Connor Barker (UCL, UK)
🔗 Register now: bit.ly/ECR-Seminar3
#AtmosChem #ECR #ScienceSeminar
March 17, 2025 at 1:52 PM
📢 Join the next IGAC-iCACGP Early Career Seminar!
🗓️ March 25th, 3-4 PM (UTC)
🎤 Speakers:
🔸 Mahendar Chand Rajwar (ARIES, India)
🔸 Connor Barker (UCL, UK)
🔗 Register now: bit.ly/ECR-Seminar3
#AtmosChem #ECR #ScienceSeminar
🗓️ March 25th, 3-4 PM (UTC)
🎤 Speakers:
🔸 Mahendar Chand Rajwar (ARIES, India)
🔸 Connor Barker (UCL, UK)
🔗 Register now: bit.ly/ECR-Seminar3
#AtmosChem #ECR #ScienceSeminar
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📣 Join our slack community! 📣
The IGAC-iCACGP ECR SSC has created a slack workspace for all ECRs in atmospheric chemistry, where you can discuss your recent field campaign, publications, upcoming conferences and many other things with the rest of the community!
🔗 bit.ly/IGACECRSLACK
The IGAC-iCACGP ECR SSC has created a slack workspace for all ECRs in atmospheric chemistry, where you can discuss your recent field campaign, publications, upcoming conferences and many other things with the rest of the community!
🔗 bit.ly/IGACECRSLACK
March 12, 2025 at 11:41 AM
📣 Join our slack community! 📣
The IGAC-iCACGP ECR SSC has created a slack workspace for all ECRs in atmospheric chemistry, where you can discuss your recent field campaign, publications, upcoming conferences and many other things with the rest of the community!
🔗 bit.ly/IGACECRSLACK
The IGAC-iCACGP ECR SSC has created a slack workspace for all ECRs in atmospheric chemistry, where you can discuss your recent field campaign, publications, upcoming conferences and many other things with the rest of the community!
🔗 bit.ly/IGACECRSLACK
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With @ethzurich.bsky.social colleagues & friends, we decided to #StandUpForScience this afternoon to express our support for our US colleagues. Science is a common good. Thanks to all those who joined so spontaneously!
@usyseth.bsky.social @eth-eaps.bsky.social @standupforscience.bsky.social
@usyseth.bsky.social @eth-eaps.bsky.social @standupforscience.bsky.social
March 7, 2025 at 4:01 PM
With @ethzurich.bsky.social colleagues & friends, we decided to #StandUpForScience this afternoon to express our support for our US colleagues. Science is a common good. Thanks to all those who joined so spontaneously!
@usyseth.bsky.social @eth-eaps.bsky.social @standupforscience.bsky.social
@usyseth.bsky.social @eth-eaps.bsky.social @standupforscience.bsky.social
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March 1, 2025 at 7:41 PM
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‘If not fire, we’ll be killed by hunger’: villagers continue to feel fallout from Bolivia’s worst wildfires, Benjamin Swift @theguardian.com www.theguardian.com/global-devel...
‘If not fire, we’ll be killed by hunger’: villagers continue to feel fallout from Bolivia’s worst wildfires
Food shortages and health issues continue after vast areas of forest and farmland burned last year
www.theguardian.com
February 26, 2025 at 7:50 AM
‘If not fire, we’ll be killed by hunger’: villagers continue to feel fallout from Bolivia’s worst wildfires, Benjamin Swift @theguardian.com www.theguardian.com/global-devel...
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This is a big deal. AI forecasts look to be up to 20% better, and take ONE THOUSAND TIMES LESS ENERGY at time of forecast.
The @ecmwf.int AI forecast model is now operational 🙌
🌐 AIFS outperforms physics-based models for many events, including tropical cyclone tracks, with gains of <20%
🆓 AIFS is open and has 24/7 support for our community
Congratulations to @fpappenberger.bsky.social and all involved
🌏🛰️🧪⚒️
🌐 AIFS outperforms physics-based models for many events, including tropical cyclone tracks, with gains of <20%
🆓 AIFS is open and has 24/7 support for our community
Congratulations to @fpappenberger.bsky.social and all involved
🌏🛰️🧪⚒️
ECMWF’s AI forecasts become operational
ECMWF has taken the Artificial Intelligence Forecasting System (AIFS) into operations today, 25 February 2025, to run side by side with its traditional physics-based Integrated Forecasting System (IFS...
www.ecmwf.int
February 25, 2025 at 11:39 AM
This is a big deal. AI forecasts look to be up to 20% better, and take ONE THOUSAND TIMES LESS ENERGY at time of forecast.