It’s smog season in Delhi, a phrase I’ve drafted in at least 4 articles in 4yrs. This year, city govt turned to cloud seeding - but that quick fix led to no induced rain in Karol Bagh. Earlier on Tuesday I spoke to @shahzadgani.bsky.social about his scepticism for @nrc.nl: www.nrc.nl/nieuws/2025/...

To seed or not to seed? Here’s a piece Shahzad Gani @shahzadgani.bsky.social and I wrote for The Hindu newspaper.

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...

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

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

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...

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.

Freshly published: Assessing Air Quality during India’s National Clean Air Programme (NCAP) www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

"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...

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

Looks like @eurogeosciences.bsky.social journals are getting an APC revamp. www.atmospheric-chemistry-and-physics.net/about/articl...

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.

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 🤖📈

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...

Here’s a starter pack with the fantastic women in #AirQuality! go.bsky.app/NQ6j7BU Who is missing?

✍🏽 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

🚨 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

"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

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-...

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.

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? 👇

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

Twitter vs Bluesky 🤣🤣🤣 Both places for hard facts it seems!

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? 👇

I'm an Atmospheric Scientist at IIT Delhi. I work on Air Pollution, Atmospheric Aerosols, Climate Change, and Science Communication. #AirPollution #SciComm #ClimateScience #ClimateChange Please tag people who work on these themes.

My piece in the Indian Express from a few days ago on air pollution exposure and equity. epaper.indianexpress.com/c/76269885

I work on air pollution science and argue that techo-centricism won't get us out of this mess. #AirPollution epaper.indianexpress.com/c/75937717

An important piece by my colleague Shahzad Gani.

I'm an Atmospheric Scientist at IIT Delhi. I work on Air Pollution, Atmospheric Aerosols, Climate Change, and Science Communication. #AirPollution #SciComm #ClimateScience #ClimateChange Please tag people who work on these themes.