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Shahzad Gani 🍉

@shahzadgani.bsky.social
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Assistant Professor, IIT Delhi. Aerosols, Air Pollution, Science Communication He/Him

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Lisa Dupuy @lisadupuy.bsky.social · 29/10/2025
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/...
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Delhi tuurt door de smog naar het vliegtuigje dat regen moet maken
India: Het smogseizoen is weer begonnen in New Delhi. Met een vliegtuigje vol ‘regenopwekkende stoffen’ probeert het stadsbestuur de lucht schoon te spoelen.
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Krishna AchutaRao @makrishna.bsky.social · 24/10/2025
To seed or not to seed? Here’s a piece Shahzad Gani @shahzadgani.bsky.social and I wrote for The Hindu newspaper.
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Shahzad Gani 🍉 @shahzadgani.bsky.social · 23/03/2025
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...
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PG Admissions 2025-2026 : IIT Delhi
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Shahzad Gani 🍉 @shahzadgani.bsky.social · 06/02/2025
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
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Shahzad Gani 🍉 @shahzadgani.bsky.social · 03/01/2025
The Noise, Aerosols, and Air Quality (NAAQ) research group wishes you a very Happy New Year!!
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Shahzad Gani 🍉 @shahzadgani.bsky.social · 16/12/2024
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...
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AR - Aims & scope
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Shahzad Gani 🍉 @shahzadgani.bsky.social · 13/12/2024
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.
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Sai Krishna @thechaoticneuron.bsky.social · 07/12/2024
Freshly published: Assessing Air Quality during India’s National Clean Air Programme (NCAP) www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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Assessing Air Quality During India’s National Clean Air Programme (NCAP): 2019-2023
Did air quality improve during India’s National Clean Air Programme (NCAP)? Since its inception in 2019, 131 cities were designated as non-attainment …
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Shahzad Gani 🍉 @shahzadgani.bsky.social · 06/12/2024
"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...
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India’s One Nation One Subscription deal enriches publishers and benefits few
Contrary to its intended goals of reducing subscription costs and improving access to scientific literature in India, Muthu Madhan argues the much-hyped One Nation One Subscription policy risks sig…
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James Allan @jamesallanatmos.bsky.social · 04/12/2024
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
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Abundant plant gas forms aerosol particles at high altitude — and could affect the climate | Nature
Aerial observations and experiments with a simulated atmosphere show that isoprene, a gas emitted by trees, is a precursor of particles in the upper atmosphere. The findings could help to improve climate predictions. Isoprene added to the select list of precursors of atmospheric aerosols.
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Shahzad Gani 🍉 @shahzadgani.bsky.social · 02/12/2024
Looks like @eurogeosciences.bsky.social journals are getting an APC revamp. www.atmospheric-chemistry-and-physics.net/about/articl...
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elia ayoub @ayoub.bsky.social · 01/12/2024
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.
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Sai Krishna @thechaoticneuron.bsky.social · 30/11/2024
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 🤖📈
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Jesse Kroll @jessekroll.bsky.social · 29/11/2024
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...
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Let the data talk: embrace exploratory research
Open-ended research is essential to building solid hypotheses in the social sciences — without it, even the best-planned analyses can fail.
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Pallavi Pant, PhD @pallavipnt.bsky.social · 26/11/2024
Here’s a starter pack with the fantastic women in #AirQuality! go.bsky.app/NQ6j7BU Who is missing?
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OpenAQ @openaq.org · 25/11/2024
✍🏽 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
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Shahzad Gani 🍉 @shahzadgani.bsky.social · 26/11/2024
🚨 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
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Shahzad Gani 🍉 @shahzadgani.bsky.social · 25/11/2024
"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.
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Paolo Crosetto @paolocrosetto.bsky.social · 23/11/2024
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-...
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Scientific publishers are producing more papers than ever
Concerns about some of their business models are building
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Katharine Hayhoe @katharinehayhoe.com · 25/11/2024
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.
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Shahzad Gani 🍉 @shahzadgani.bsky.social · 24/11/2024
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? 👇
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Shahzad Gani 🍉 @shahzadgani.bsky.social · 24/11/2024
"How does the intellectual address authority: as a professional supplicant or as its unrewarded, amateurish conscience?" - Edward Said
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Shahzad Gani 🍉 @shahzadgani.bsky.social · 24/11/2024
Twitter vs Bluesky 🤣🤣🤣 Both places for hard facts it seems!
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Shahzad Gani 🍉 @shahzadgani.bsky.social · 24/11/2024
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? 👇
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Shahzad Gani 🍉 @shahzadgani.bsky.social · 23/11/2024
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.
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Shahzad Gani 🍉 @shahzadgani.bsky.social · 23/11/2024
My piece in the Indian Express from a few days ago on air pollution exposure and equity. epaper.indianexpress.com/c/76269885
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Shahzad Gani 🍉 @shahzadgani.bsky.social · 23/11/2024
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
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Krishna AchutaRao @makrishna.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
An important piece by my colleague Shahzad Gani.
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Shahzad Gani 🍉 @shahzadgani.bsky.social · 23/11/2024
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.
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