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Jingqiu Mao @jingqiumao.bsky.social · Jun 16

That is exactly how I was motivated for this work!

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Jingqiu Mao @jingqiumao.bsky.social · Jun 16

This pattern is consistent with HRRR-smoke air quality forecast: experience.arcgis.com/experience/9...

Experience

experience.arcgis.com

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Jingqiu Mao @jingqiumao.bsky.social · Jun 15

We have developed some layer on BLM website for the air quality forecast:
experience.arcgis.com/experience/9...

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Jingqiu Mao @jingqiumao.bsky.social · May 30

Hailstones in my backyard-right here in Interior Alaska. @alaskawx.bsky.social could this be the ‘new normal’ driven by rapid Arctic warming?

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Jingqiu Mao @jingqiumao.bsky.social · May 24

Trying to recruit a PhD student or a postdoc working on aerosol chemistry/physics. Please spread the word.

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Jingqiu Mao @jingqiumao.bsky.social · May 18

Getting ready for a field campaign in Alaska to study new particle formation in the North American boreal forest.
We’re calling it DENALI -Dynamics of Emissions, Nucleation, and Aerosols to predict Land-atmosphere-climate Interactions - a brilliant name suggested by a great colleague from Canada!

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Jingqiu Mao @jingqiumao.bsky.social · May 16

It is amazing how much new research this mysterious "discrepancy" has led to!

Phil Stevens @pssindiana.bsky.social · May 16

OH NO! NOx this again…

Communications Earth & Environment @commsearth.nature.com · Apr 30

💨Measurement interferences may explain some discrepancies between hydroxyl radical measurement and modelling results, as opposed to an unknown chemical mechanism.
@pssindiana.bsky.social

👉Read more here: www.nature.com/articles/s43...

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Jingqiu Mao @jingqiumao.bsky.social · May 11

So sorry to hear this, Jesse and Tim.

Jingqiu Mao @jingqiumao.bsky.social · Apr 5

Do you expect more fires in Yukon Flat this year?

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Jingqiu Mao @jingqiumao.bsky.social · Mar 13

I was not even aware of this till now.

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Jingqiu Mao @jingqiumao.bsky.social · Mar 12

I know they have some excellent atmospheric chemists there!

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Thomas Frölicher @froeltho.bsky.social · Mar 4

This is really sad news. NOAA GFDL is one of the world's leading climate modeling centers, home to exceptional scientists. If anyone directly affected needs support, I’m happy to help. www.science.org/content/arti...

NOAA firings hit the birthplace of weather and climate forecasting

Dismissed researchers were improving severe weather predictions

www.science.org

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Jenny Bratburd @jbratburd.bsky.social · Mar 4

Disappointing and needs to be reversed. The benefits of air monitoring far outweigh the costs.

U.S. State Department Shuts Down Pollution Monitoring Abroad www.nytimes.com/2025/03/04/c...

U.S. Embassies Halt Air Quality Monitoring Abroad (Gift Article)

Since 2008, embassies and other diplomatic posts had been publishing data about local air quality. In many countries, it was the only reliable source of such information.

www.nytimes.com

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Elinne Becket, PhD @bielleogy.bsky.social · Mar 3

Friendly reminder: if you are waiting on something from a US-based scientist/reviewer/editor, please realize that we're barely making it through each day putting out non-stop fires and trying not to collapse into tears. We're trying our best, but things will take longer right now. Give grace.

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Zack Labe @zacklabe.com · Feb 27

Last Tuesday, I was set to give a talk on 'climate change in the Northeast' at a retirement home but had to cancel due to hourly job threats.

After nearly two weeks of overwhelming uncertainty, today it happened. I was fired from my dream of working at NOAA. I'm so sorry to everyone also affected.

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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · Feb 8

1. Today the NIH director issued a new directive slashing overhead rates to 15%.

I want to provide some context on what that means and why it matters.

grants.nih.gov/grants/guide...

NOT-OD-25-068: Supplemental Guidance to the 2024 NIH Grants Policy Statement: Indirect Cost Rates

NIH Funding Opportunities and Notices in the NIH Guide for Grants and Contracts: Supplemental Guidance to the 2024 NIH Grants Policy Statement: Indirect Cost Rates NOT-OD-25-068. OD

grants.nih.gov

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Darby Saxbe @darbysaxbe.bsky.social · Feb 4

🚨BREAKING. From a program officer at the National Science Foundation, a list of keywords that can cause a grant to be pulled. I will be sharing screenshots of these keywords along with a decision tree. Please share widely. This is a crisis for academic freedom & science.

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Jacinta Conrad @jcconrad.bsky.social · Jan 24

Received this email from my chair tonight (🧵, 1/6):

"The DOE has issued new guidance indicating that, until further notice, there will be delays in any funding actions. Here’s what this means for projects pending or already awarded by DOE:
1. Pending Proposals: Awards will be postponed.
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James Allan @jamesallanatmos.bsky.social · Jan 22

I don't know if the ASCENT network has a presence on BlueSky yet, but I got this from Twitter. They're making their data available from the US supersites in light of the LA fires.

ascent.research.gatech.edu/database

Database | ASCENT

ascent.research.gatech.edu

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Jingqiu Mao @jingqiumao.bsky.social · Dec 30

Glad to see our paper was highlighted in The Hindu newspaper. Thanks to @shahzadgani.bsky.social for his insights. The paper can be accessed at www.science.org/doi/10.1126/....

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Jingqiu Mao @jingqiumao.bsky.social · Dec 14

Congratulation!

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Jingqiu Mao @jingqiumao.bsky.social · Dec 7

PMF analysis on VOCs in Fairbanks winter
(agu.confex.com/agu/agu24/me...)
Particle growth
agu.confex.com/agu/agu24/me...)
3. Wednesday
Use Machine Learning to improve air quality forecast during wildfire season
(agu.confex.com/agu/agu24/me...)
(2/2).
Looking forward to seeing everyone!

PMF analysis of VOCs in Wintertime Fairbanks During the ALPACA Campaign

Fairbanks, Alaska is a subarctic city with extremely cold and dark winters, and...

agu.confex.com

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Jingqiu Mao @jingqiumao.bsky.social · Dec 7

Will be in AGU next week with five presentations from my group:
1. Monday
using Pandora to understand model ozone bias under heatwave (agu.confex.com/agu/agu24/me...)
2. Tuesday
Inter-comparison of brown carbon and black carbon measurements:
(agu.confex.com/agu/agu24/me...)
(1/2)

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Jingqiu Mao @jingqiumao.bsky.social · Dec 5

Great to see two Nature papers out today exploring the role of isoprene in new particle formation-and they disagree on important details! Nice write-up by @jamesallanatmos.bsky.social www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Abundant plant gas forms aerosol particles at high altitude — and could affect the climate

Isoprene added to the select list of precursors of atmospheric aerosols.

www.nature.com

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Jingqiu Mao @jingqiumao.bsky.social · Dec 1

And it took me a while to realize that it is Chris in the video!

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