Happy to be at #CMIP26 with my Bristol colleagues. Always amazing to come to the Kokukaisaikan in Kyoto.

The UK atmospheric research aircraft (the FAAM) will cease operations in one month's time due to a research 'pivot' by UKRI... www.ukri.org/news/nerc-pi...

👏 Heroic effort to extract a H₂ record from ice cores 👏 The samples had to measured in the field immediately after drilling (i.e. fresh out the oven 🥮) to prevent the tiny H₂ molecules from leaking out. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Having a great day at JAMSTEC, visiting the Earth Surface System division. Their lobby has former versions of the Earth Simulator computer (currently at version 4) and, nerd that I am, here is a photo. JAMSTEC also lead work on LLM for climate adaption planning - essopenarchive.org/users/555101...

Fascinating new paper in PNAS on tropical cyclones from researchers in 🇹🇼 based on "a typhoon series for 1368–1911 reconstructed from Chinese historical documents digitized in the REACHES database". The use of records in archival texts is new to me and, again, 🤯. www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

Read the new blog post by @paultgriffiths.github.io and @soa-mazing.bsky.social on using machine learning in tropospheric ozone science. #egublog #machinelearning #atmosphericscience

Bit late with this one, and paywalled. Fascinating to see AI tool concluding >20% of peer-reviews for ICLR are wholly AI-generated. Wait to see if there was a strong difference between the conclusions of the reviews, although it does flag some egregiously bad cases. www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Super pollutants are trendy, but we should be careful how we use them • Substituting short lived climate pollutants like methane for CO2 as carbon offsets risks breaking the math of net zero

🚨🧪The ML4O3 Perspective on 'Applications of Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence in Tropospheric Ozone Research' is published (as a Highlight) today in @egu-as.bsky.social GMD. Great team effort from our many co-authors. doi.org/10.5194/gmd-...

🛰🧪GOSAT-GW (aka Ibuki GW) in the news! Nice story from the Yomiuri Shinbun on the plans for data. Director the Earth System Division at Japan National Institute for Environmental Science, and all-round good guy, Hiroshi Tanimoto presents at COP30. www.yomiuri.co.jp/science/2025...

Congratulations to my former colleague, Jayaprakash Murulitharan, on the award of his PhD. Free Malaysia Today wrote a nice story on his journey. www.freemalaysiatoday.com/category/lei...

My good friend Prof Stuart Maudsley interviewed in @hellobio.bsky.social on the intersection of work and travel (for work). hellobio.com/blog/the-tra...

Glass fragments in firn cores. Fascinating read and also 🤯 "Analysis of glass shards in the firn core from Antarctic Vostok station" by Ro et al., doi.org/10.1038/s432...

NEW EPISODE! @tungohan.bsky.social and Carrianne Leung talk about the energy we bring into the classroom, with students who are coping with realities of fascism, genocide, climate catastrophe, and the uncertainties of AI. Listen on your favourite podcast app: academicaunties.captivate.fm

It's 40 years since Farman, Gardiner and Shanklin's paper analysing springtime ozone depletion over Halley Bay - www.nature.com/articles/d41.... On World Ozone Day 2025, the IO3C reminds us that this is a story of the Earth system's capacity to surprise. www.io3c.org/public-state...

Happy World Ozone day !! youtu.be/Se5shgSACyo?...

By phasing out nearly all ozone-depleting substances, the Montreal Protocol is expected to help prevent up to 1°C of global warming by the end of the century. September 16 is #WorldOzoneDay: ozone.unep.org/ozone-day/fr... @unepozone.bsky.social

"I don't think it was fully realized how much pollution removal would affect the regional climate" says CICERO researcher @bjornsamset.bsky.social Bjørn Samset in a recent story in @newscientist.com www.newscientist.com/article/2494...

I wrote something up for AI people who want to get into bluesky and either couldn't assemble an exciting feed or gave up doomscrolling when their Following feed switched to talking politics 24/7.

Who was the first king of England? 👑 Robinson Fellow, Professor David Woodman, thinks more people should know that Æthelstan created England in 927AD – should his story be on the school curriculum? David makes the case in his groundbreaking new biography 👇 shorturl.at/t07ej

On the 80th anniversary of the bombing of Hiroshima, our Head of Witness and Worship Oliver Robertson traces the history of opposition to nuclear weapons, and how Quakers continue that tradition today. Our faith calls us to work for a peaceful world, free of nuclear weapons 🕊️☮️

On Hiroshima Day, let us draw strength from the tireless campaigning of the last Japanese survivors. Tadayoshi Ogawa: 'We live on something akin to a spaceship...we can fight over borders, over resources, and the spaceship and the life on it will suffer.' www.quaker.org.uk/news-and-eve...

🧪🌳☁️ Short-lived climate forcers affect climate change, air quality, ecosystem health & agriculture productivity. Our new ACP (highlight) paper reviews the research in this area enabled by the CMIP6 AerChemMIP project. Led by @ljwilcox.bsky.social, Bob Allen & me acp.copernicus.org/articles/25/...

Come and join us for our prestigious Annual Lecture and Research Showcase on 8 October where we will be rethinking food and nutrition for the planet. We've got a fantastic panel and keynote lined up and interactive research exhibits to explore. Get your ticket! www.tickettailor.com/events/cabot...

From the back of the room - a great turnout for the UKCA science meeting. Heading towards our community town hall.

Very glad to have Bjorn and Laura’s leadership on this project! And they have written an Explainer - theconversation.com/cleaner-air-...

Spending last autumn at Japan's National Centre for Environmental Sciences showed me the immense effort behind GOSAT-GW, a new Earth observation satellite for greenhouse gases CO2 and CH4. Incredible work by JAXA and NIES. JAXA’s live-stream of its (so far-🤞) launch! www.youtube.com/watch?v=MZop...

From the back of the room - this was a fantastic day. Thanks. Particularly enjoyed the overview of lab education from @mkseery.bsky.social

Alas IWGGMS is over but it’s been a great workshop. Can’t wait for the next trip to Shikoku!

Nice trip from Hiroshima to Takamatsu for IWGGMS. TIL that the cat that rides with Kumanaku the JR mascot is called Tabinyan.

Just published in @uk.theconversation.com w/ @ljwilcox.bsky.social! Our article explains why Delhi can't break free from its Air Pollution Crisis and explores how meteorology is just as important as emissions in the fight for cleaner air! Read more: theconversation.com/delhi-how-we...

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.

Stunning www.discoverwildlife.com/animal-facts...

Excited to join the Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society as an Associate Editor. Looking forward to supporting groundbreaking research in atmospheric chemistry and climate science, and contributing to our understanding of a changing planet. 🌍☁️🧪

We're pleased to announce the launch of our Ozonerates website (www.ozonerates.space). The platform is now live and fully equipped with an interactive map browser and data links, allowing users to explore satellite-constrained products such as PO3, sensitivity maps, NO2 and HCHO mixing ratios.

Getting #UKESM evaluation going at the @terrafirmaclimate.bsky.social General Assembly in Exeter hosted by the @metoffice.bsky.social. Composition avengers assemble!

New study published in ACS Environmental Science & Technology! Our findings suggest that marine bacteria-derived organic matter has the potential to generate acetaldehyde upon solar exposure. Link: pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/...

"The warming was always there [...] in removing the pollution we are now seeing the full effect of the greenhouse-gas driven warming." Great to see the work led by Bjørn Samset, Laura Wilcox and the RAMIP team featured in the New Scientist this week - www.newscientist.com/article/2474...

Enjoyed, if that is the word, watching 'On the 8th Day' a BBC documentary about the initial research into the nuclear winter. Lots of interviews with the scientists - TTAPS, Starley Thompson and others. youtu.be/WCTKcd2Ko98

AGU stands with federal scientists. Read more on fromtheprow.agu.org/standing-tog...

Hey, look who I just spotted on Bluesky! Be sure to follow @climate.noaa.gov.

📣 Our draft #TOAR2 community assessment of the use of ML/AI in tropospheric ozone research is now available as a pre-print (GMD Perspective) at doi.org/10.5194/egus....

Save the date! The next meeting of the @rmets.org Atmospheric Chemistry Special Interest Group will be on the environmental impacts of hydrogen energy. Meeting to be held in person in Cambridge on March 11th 2025. Registration link and program below. www.rmets.org/event/enviro...

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Just to say, if you are 30, more than half of all human fossil fuel emissions have occurred in your lifetime #dataviz

Happy Isotope Day everyone! 🥳On this day in 1913 Nature published Federick Soddy's paper "Intra-atomic Charge" www.nature.com/articles/092... in which he introduced the term "isotope" (coined after a dinner conversation in Glasgow with Margaret Todd the classics scholar). how will you celebrate?🧪⚒️🌊

13 days left to apply for this PhD position in my group. Please forward to talented Masters students in atmospheric chemistry!

Ten minutes late arriving at the @ncas-uk.bsky.social meeting on AI/ML and horrified to have missed the first half of @atmbnl.bsky.social’s think piece on future directions. Great day of talks followed.

TIL that the dog in the amazing keshō-mawashi worn by Takanoshō was drawn by the artist as a likeness of the redoubtable wrestler.

We have a new preprint led by student Lin Guo! It is about uncertainty quantification in atmospheric chemistry modeling: arxiv.org/abs/2407.09757