Vinayak Sinha
air9-vs.bsky.social
Vinayak Sinha
@air9-vs.bsky.social

Atmospheric Chemist, Professor, believe in human values, hobbies: movies, help ever hurt never, love all serve all

Environmental science 50%
Geography 18%

The eyes that see cannot speak
The mouth that can speak cannot see
Alas! Even if the mouth could speak would the ears hear ? To what avail therfore all such!

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Professor Baerbel and Dr. Savita Datta's work from IISER Mohali on Biogenic VOCs and proposal of a new index for selection.of best suited trees in urban environments in ToI today
@igacproject.bsky.social @igac-ecr.bsky.social
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Why even trees could be your enemy in pollution season - The Times of India
The Times of India brings the Latest & Top Breaking News on Politics and Current Affairs in India & around the World, Cricket, Sports, Business, Bollywood News and Entertainment, Science, Technology, ...
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Half known half unknown , much unknown unknown from the unknown pie 😉.....

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Lidia Morawska, an internationally renowned expert in air quality and its impact on human health, has won Australia's most coveted prize for scientific research.
World expert in air quality and COVID wins Australia's top science prize
Lidia Morawska, an internationally renowned expert in air quality and its impact on human health, has won Australia's most coveted prize for scientific research.
www.abc.net.au

This week.....maybe...

No news is good news !

timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/delhi/w...
The message from the studies is clear -- Delhi’s air-quality strategy must differentiate between visible pollution and chemical toxicity.
What makes Delhi’s air thick isn’t what makes it toxic: Study finds farm fires choke lungs, vehicles poison blood | Delhi News - The Times of India
A new study reveals open fires account for over 50% of Delhi's particulate matter pollution, causing visible smog. However, transport and industry are
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Global action for #cleanair!
G20 ministers adopt the Cape Town Ministerial Declaration on Air Quality, protecting vulnerable populations, sharing best practices, and expanding access to reliable data.
Read the full declaration here: bit.ly/42X2eGO

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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
Could a “smoke alarm” for airborne contaminants monitor and improve the quality of the air indoors? (Where Americans spend 90 percent of their time!)

An interdisciplinary research team led by @linseymarr.bsky.social will create such a system that could cut respiratory illnesses by 25 percent. 👏
Up to $40 million in federal funding fuels research to revolutionize clean indoor air
With the contract from the Advanced Research Projects Agency for Health, an interdisciplinary research team led by Virginia Tech and Linsey Marr will create a “smoke alarm” for airborne contaminants t...
news.vt.edu

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Penguin poop might help cool Antarctica. A study in @commsearth.nature.com suggests ammonia from Adelie penguin guano boosts cloud formation, which could reduce surface temperatures and slow sea ice loss: www.nature.com/articles/s43...

#AnimalBehaviour #ClimateSky 🧪

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Just glad Splatatouille's family can finally have some closure x
Scientists Studied The Infamous "Chicago Rat Hole" And They Have Some Bad News
The "Chicago rat hole" became so famous it is now housed in the City Hall-County Building. Scientists studying it found a few surprises, and some grim news.
www.iflscience.com

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Worsening sand/dust storms, wildfires intensified by record-setting winds, & increasingly severe hurricanes, derechos, short-lived convective storms & other extreme weather events are impacting people’s lives, health & property around the world.

news.mongabay.com/2025/10/clim... via @mongabay.com
Climate change is messing with global wind speeds, impacting planetary health
Climate change is disturbing wind patterns across the globe in dramatic ways. And when combined with land-use change and desertification, these changes are spawning immense sand and dust storms that p...
news.mongabay.com

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Applications are open!
Join the African School on #AirQuality & Pollution Prevention, 23 Nov–3 Dec 2025 at Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology 🇬🇭

Gain skills in:
💡Advanced monitoring methods
📊 Evidence-based policy design
🌍 Pollution prevention

Deadline: Oct 19
🔗 bit.ly/AQSchool2025

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Embracing failure as a necessary part of success is long overdue in science and in life in general.

An economist, Severine Toussaert, shares why she is happy to admit to her research failures, and why others should too

🧪 #AcademicSky

www.nature.com/articles/d41...
Six journal rejections and a major rethink: why I’m happy to admit to my research failures, and you should too
Outlining the trial-and-error processes that are involved in every research project could help others to become more efficient and paint a more honest picture of life as a researcher.
www.nature.com

The words will resonate for many scientists working in the global south/ less privileged insts...tokenism runs high...but to expect science which is also a human driven enterprise to be any different from other sectors is utopian perhaps..hope Science remains better off than other domains...

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The obsession with economic output as a measure of human development puts sustainability on the back burner

Time to end the GDP mania

Our editorial inspired by a @nature.com paper that looks at how the world should really measure prosperity
🧪 #SGDs #doughnuteconomics
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
End GDP mania: how the world should really measure prosperity
The obsession with economic output as a measure of human development puts sustainability on the back burner. Researchers can now help to devise better indicators.
www.nature.com
We have a new PhD project to study ozone formation from fires. If interested in atmospheric chemistry, fires, living in Zurich, and studying at ETH, consider applying here: jobs.ethz.ch/job/view/JOP...
PhD Position in Atmospheric Chemistry
jobs.ethz.ch

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How can African cities design transport systems that protect people & the environment? Our expert pannelists will unpack challenges of megacity mobility & people-first solutions.

📅 Sept 26 | 14:00–15:30 WAT
👉 bit.ly/3Vos8PE
Welcome! You are invited to join a webinar: Driving Change: How Mobility Choices Shape Our Air . After registering, you will receive a confirmation email about joining the webinar.
14:00-15:30 WAT | 15:00-16:30 SAST | 16:00-17:30 EAT This webinar is hosted by the Lagos Metropolitan Area Transport Authority (LAMATA) and the Africa Clean Air Network (AfriCAN). The transportati...
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744 people registered!
20 hours of continuous events!
We look forward to seeing you there!

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You will find us at IGAC early Career Workshop in the Americas time slot on 25th of September!!

@igac-ecr.bsky.social

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In academia, excellence appears to come with a price tag. Stresses often normalise certain behaviours such as workaholism. In this week's blog, Katherine Villavicencio writes about the effects of workaholism in academic life, and suggests us: forget the price tag! blogs.egu.eu/divisions/gd...
The hidden effects of academic excellence: workaholism in Academia
Years have passed since I started my academic career, and I have come to realise that, in a cademia, excellence appears to come with a price tag . Stress and pressure have become commonplace for acade...
blogs.egu.eu

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Today is #WorldOzoneDay

WMO ensures there is high-quality data for policy-makers, fostering the exchange of knowledge between countries, and producing Ozone and UV Bulletins to track the state of the Ozone Layer.

🔗More here: https://bit.ly/42wmM8C

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This week, the WMO and the National Center of Meteorology (NCM) of the United Arab Emirates are convening a global workshop on AI in weather prediction and environmental services.

🔍 Learn more: https://bit.ly/46bDX0i

📺 Watch live starting 9 September: https://bit.ly/46cgkov

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​🔊 Meet our speakers!

​Get a sneak peek of the ECR Online Conference! We've put together a video montage of 5 of our incredible invited ECR speakers introducing their research.

​Hear directly from the experts you'll see on Sep 25th. Watch the video and then register to join the conversation!
The race is on for everyone, everywhere to breathe clean air.

On #CleanAirDay my message is simple: the race against air pollution can - and must - be won.

Get it right and we can stop over 8 million premature deaths each year.

Be part of the solution to #BeatPollution: www.cleanairblueskies.org

Are you interested in perspectives for the transition from ECS to Assistant Professor career stage and on tips to apply for faculty positions? Thank you @igac-ecr.bsky.social @igacproject.bsky.social @dessemax.bsky.social
for organizing the skill workshop!
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Workshop 7: Transitioning from ECS to … – ECR-IGAC-iCACGP
Host: Prof. Vinayak Sinha - IISER Mohali, India The first skills workshop of the year was on transitioning from ECS to an independent group leader/ assistant professor, presented by Prof. Vinayak Sinh...
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Another reason to stop setting all forms of carbon on fire, including fossil fuels and trees.
Air pollution can drive devastating forms of dementia, research suggests
Airborne particles cause toxic clumps of proteins in brain that are hallmarks of Lewy body dementia, study indicates
www.theguardian.com