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
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If you work on sources and impacts of VOCs (biogenic or anthropogenic) from measurement to modeling perspectives please submit an abstract to our atmospheric organics session at #EGU26! Our invited speakers are @dbm.bsky.social and @jacquirickard.bsky.social See you in Vienna! tinyurl.com/55vda8u7
Session AS3.2
meetingorganizer.copernicus.org
November 19, 2025 at 8:11 AM
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Postdoc opening: airborne NH3 measurements

Join our team! The UMN atmospheric chemistry group is recruiting a postdoc to collect and analyze airborne NH3 measurements as part of NASA FarmFlux.

See z.umn.edu/aw67 for details, & contact Julieta (junco004@umn.edu) and I (dbm@umn.edu) with questions!
PostdocAd-FarmFlux
Postdoctoral Associate: aircraft-based measurements of atmospheric ammonia Join our team! The atmospheric chemistry group at the University of Minnesota (UMN) seeks applications for a Postdoctoral A...
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November 20, 2025 at 2:59 AM
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An early sunset behind Bear Peak in Boulder.
November 17, 2025 at 2:03 AM
In my experience of serving on national and international science steering committees the best , balanced, well thought and above all most helpful inputs have come from women colleagues 😀, if only more glass ceilings for leadership positions could be smashed for them, we would all do better!
November 14, 2025 at 2:31 AM
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Beautiful autumn day on the campus of @fz-juelich.de today.
November 4, 2025 at 6:53 PM
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!
November 11, 2025 at 2:51 PM
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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November 7, 2025 at 11:16 AM
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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
November 3, 2025 at 11:08 AM
Half known half unknown , much unknown unknown from the unknown pie 😉.....
November 3, 2025 at 2:52 PM
This week.....maybe...
November 2, 2025 at 12:58 PM
No news is good news !
October 31, 2025 at 1:44 PM
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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
timesofindia.indiatimes.com
October 30, 2025 at 4:58 PM
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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
September 30, 2025 at 8:08 AM
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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
October 20, 2025 at 8:17 PM
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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
October 24, 2025 at 9:36 AM
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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
October 22, 2025 at 12:27 AM
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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 🧪
October 20, 2025 at 1:22 PM
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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
October 15, 2025 at 3:44 PM
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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
October 13, 2025 at 6:49 AM
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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
October 6, 2025 at 7:18 AM
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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
October 3, 2025 at 8:05 AM
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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!
September 8, 2025 at 1:30 PM
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...
October 2, 2025 at 7:39 AM
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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
October 1, 2025 at 8:57 PM
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744 people registered!
20 hours of continuous events!
We look forward to seeing you there!
September 22, 2025 at 1:44 AM