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Shahzad Gani 🍉
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Assistant Professor, IIT Delhi.

Aerosols, Air Pollution, Science Communication

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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
February 6, 2025 at 1:44 PM
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The Noise, Aerosols, and Air Quality (NAAQ) research group wishes you a very Happy New Year!!
January 3, 2025 at 10:07 AM
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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.
December 13, 2024 at 7:29 PM
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Looks like @eurogeosciences.bsky.social journals are getting an APC revamp.

www.atmospheric-chemistry-and-physics.net/about/articl...
December 2, 2024 at 3:10 PM
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"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
Yesterday during a lab meeting, my mentor informed me that I may no longer progress in my career due to my so-called 'infamy.' I was told that I was to blame for the challenges I've been facing in publishing my work—that my 'negative' political activism might be provoking the particularly unusual hostility of peer reviewers. Apparently, several 'respectable' figures in the scientific community have contacted him to voice their disapproval and even urged him to terminate my employment. This also highlights how the cowardly silence of my 'allies' perpetuates bigotry and exclusion. To my 'colleagues' who feel entitled to pass judgment on my existence as a Palestinian scientist—one who cannot turn away from the human instinct to preserve life while witnessing the daily murder of my people—I regret to inform you that I will continue to exist, unapologetically, with no regard for your comfort or supremacist ideals. 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. I only wish I had the privilege to contemplate nature, without the existential threat of Zionism. From my perspective at the margins here at MIT, I have come to see academia for what it truly is: a stronghold of racism, classism, and spiritual rot masquerading as enlightenment. Apologies in advance if I don’t respond to comments on this post—this is a deeply personal reflection, shared primarily for myself.
November 25, 2024 at 3:40 PM
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"How does the intellectual address authority: as a professional supplicant or as its unrewarded, amateurish conscience?"

- Edward Said
November 24, 2024 at 3:55 PM
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Twitter vs Bluesky 🤣🤣🤣

Both places for hard facts it seems!
November 24, 2024 at 6:58 AM
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My piece in the Indian Express from a few days ago on air pollution exposure and equity.

epaper.indianexpress.com/c/76269885
November 23, 2024 at 2:34 PM
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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
November 23, 2024 at 9:16 AM