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Stacey Ogden 🦔 @labogden.bsky.social · 2d

New addition to my thoughts on 🧪 mentoring. Give trainees a seat at the table. Are you going to a conference where you will speak about their work? Encourage them to attend. Are you going to a meeting to discuss their project with a collaborator or editor? Invite them and ask for their input.

Stacey Ogden 🦔 @labogden.bsky.social · Nov 18

Mentoring is the most important thing most of us can do. Here is a 🧵about what I've learned as a PI running an academic research lab. I hope some of the advice is helpful to those who are just starting their labs and to folks hitting the academic job market in search of an independent position 🧪 1/n

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Stacey Ogden 🦔 @labogden.bsky.social · Nov 18

Mentoring is the most important thing most of us can do. Here is a 🧵about what I've learned as a PI running an academic research lab. I hope some of the advice is helpful to those who are just starting their labs and to folks hitting the academic job market in search of an independent position 🧪 1/n

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Dr. Sandra Steingraber 🏳️‍🌈 @ssteingraber1.bsky.social · 4d

🧪 NEW STUDY: Air pollution increases risk of Lewy Body Dementia, the 2nd most common dementia after Alzheimer’s*

Your reminder that air pollution is just another name for fossil fuel combustion byproducts.

*linked to air pollution in previous studies

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www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Lewy body dementia promotion by air pollutants

Evidence links air pollution to dementia, yet its role in Lewy body dementia (LBD) remains unclear. In this work, we showed in a cohort of 56.5 million individuals across the United States that fine p...

www.science.org

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Colette Heald @coletteheald.bsky.social · 8d

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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ETH Zurich @ethz.ch · 6d

"If we leave writing to AI chatbots, we won't just lose a craft and the skills. Because writing is more than that. Writing is thinking", argues Giorgio Iemmolo, Director of the Language Centre at ETH and the University of Zurich.
ethz.ch/en/news-and-...

What is your opinion?

Giorgio Iemmolo, is learning possible without writing?

AI chatbots are taking over writing for students and researchers. Linguist Giorgio Iemmolo explains what we are jeopardising in the interest of efficiency gains.

ethz.ch

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Damian Carrington @dpcarrington.bsky.social · 5d

‘Planetary health diet’ could save 40,000 deaths a day, landmark report finds

- Diet allows modest meat consumption and would also slash food-related climate emissions by half, says report by 70 leading experts from 35 countries

Story by me
www.theguardian.com/environment/...

‘Planetary health diet’ could save 40,000 deaths a day, landmark report finds

Diet allows modest meat consumption and would also slash food-related climate emissions by half, says report by 70 leading experts from 35 countries

www.theguardian.com

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Frau Büüsker @uedio.bsky.social · 6d

Diese Gruppe junger Menschen hat mit Beharrlichkeit und viel Herzblut Klimageschichte geschrieben. Lasst euch nicht erzählen, niemand interessiere sich für Klimaschutz. Viele kämpfen dafür.
taz.de/Alternativer...

Alternativer Nobelpreis: Mit dem Recht gegen die Erderwärmung

27 Jura-Studierende aus dem Südpazifik erhalten den alternativen Nobelpreis. Der Grund ist ihre erfolgreiche Kampagne für mehr Klimagerechtigkeit.

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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · 8d

That's quite the chart annotation.

www.nature.com/articles/d41...

A chart of "Major concerns of PhD candidates." The top text says, "Financial pressures top the list of concerns faced by PhD candidates, but concerns differ among the sexes. Those studying in the United States rank the political landscape as their main worry." The chart shows that in the full survey, political landscape is the biggest concern for about 20% of students (a bit higher for women than men) but there's an annotation saying "In US PhD students, this rose to 64%". Overall, the highest-rated concern was financial pressures at around 40%.

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miriam nielsen @zentouro.info · 8d

this can't be good right?

screenshot of a NOAA webpage. the main text says: FACTS has been Discontinued

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solhog @solhog.bsky.social · 9d

”…the overall state of Europe’s environment is NOT GOOD, especially its nature which continues to face degradation, overexploitation and biodiversity loss. The impacts of accelerating climate change are also an urgent challenge…” 🇪🇺

Dr. Raphael Weyland @raphaelweyland.bsky.social · 9d

Hot: The state of our environment is not good. But i.a. #RestoreNature the solution. So please, @vonderleyen.ec.europa.eu, @jessikaroswall.ec.europa.eu et al, stop environmental deregulation with #Omnibusses & put forward dedicated #Money4Nature to rewet peatland etc.! cc @birdlifeeurope.bsky.social

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Matthew Goss @matthewgoss.bsky.social · 14d

Our paper examining the chemical conditions of past chamber studies is out! This work explores assumptions made when creating SOA parametrizations based on laboratory data, and can hopefully point to ways of improving model representation of SOA.
pubs.acs.org/doi/full/10....

Re-Examining Chemical Conditions of Past Chamber Studies of Secondary Organic Aerosol Formation

The simulation of secondary organic aerosol (SOA) in 3D models generally relies on measurements made in laboratory chamber studies. However, many of the laboratory studies that underpin the aerosol pa...

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CharakterZeigen @charakterzeigen.bsky.social · 13d

‼️Physikalisch betrachtet, gibt es kein „Restbudget“ an Kohlenstoffdioxid (CO2) mehr.‼️
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Gemeinsame Erklärung
Deutsche Meteorologische Gesellschaft e. V.
Deutsche Physikalische Gesellschaft e. V.
(mitgliederstärkste physikalische Fachgesellschaft der Welt)

www.dpg-physik.de/veroeffentli...

Klimaforschende wenden sich an die deutsche Politik: Drei-Grad-Grenze könnte schon um 2050 erreicht werden; Klimaanpassung beschleunigen.

Klimaforschende sehen für Deutschland eine Zunahme des Risikos extremer Wetterereignisse und die Notwendigkeit, Maßnahmen in der Klimaanpassung schnell zu verstärken.

www.dpg-physik.de

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Jesse Kroll @jessekroll.bsky.social · 13d

New paper by @matthewgoss.bsky.social (along with @hannahskenagy.bsky.social and @coletteheald.bsky.social)! Matthew reexamined a bunch of old* SOA experiments, to get a better handle on the oxidant and RO2 chemistry involved.

* including some from my postdoc, ~20 years ago 😬

Matthew Goss @matthewgoss.bsky.social · 14d

Our paper examining the chemical conditions of past chamber studies is out! This work explores assumptions made when creating SOA parametrizations based on laboratory data, and can hopefully point to ways of improving model representation of SOA.
pubs.acs.org/doi/full/10....

Re-Examining Chemical Conditions of Past Chamber Studies of Secondary Organic Aerosol Formation

The simulation of secondary organic aerosol (SOA) in 3D models generally relies on measurements made in laboratory chamber studies. However, many of the laboratory studies that underpin the aerosol pa...

pubs.acs.org

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Dr. Eva Pfannerstill @evayp.bsky.social · 14d

Beautiful thread about the function of terpenes for trees!

c0nc0rdance @c0nc0rdance.bsky.social · 14d

Ponderosa pine smells like butterscotch.

Go ahead, sniff one the next time you're in the western US. Some say "vanilla", some say "oh no, my nose is covered in sap."

Let's talk about birds, butterscotch, forest fires, blue wood, & boring beetles.

But mostly this thread is about terpenes.

From a blog called "CreationsDawn", a photo of the author smelling a ponderosa pine. The author wears a green cap, light blue-green shirt and red camel pack. They are sniffing a tree with pine bark, with a sort of red-orange color. More trees in the background.

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EUMETSAT @eumetsat.int · 19d

📣 Calling all atmospheric composition enthusiasts!

Together with @ecmwf.int and @esa.int, we’re providing open-to-all online training webinars on satellite observations and modelling, focusing on aerosols.

🗓️1-2 & 9-10 October

Learn more atmostraining.info
Register eumetsat.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

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Peter Gleick @petergleick.bsky.social · 18d

It now appears the Trump administration is going to require government scientists to allow political apparatchiks to review and vet scientific papers before publication to ensure ideological purity. This is gross abuse of the scientific process.

www.washingtonpost.com/climate-envi...

EPA tells scientists to stop publishing studies, employees say

Staff from the EPA’s Office of Water were summoned to a town hall meeting this week and told to pause the publication of most research, pending a review.

www.washingtonpost.com

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Hart @hart-frentz.bsky.social · 18d

#deutschlandticket 9€ jetzt

Schaubild, Dienstwagen Privileg vs deutschlandticket Förderung des bundes pro Jahr .in Euro

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laecess.bsky.social @laecess.bsky.social · 19d

Hello everybody, LAECESS is now in Bluesky, stay tunned!
Hola a tod@s, LAECESS ahora está en Bluesky, ¡estad atentos!
Olá a tod@s, LAECESS agora está no Bluesky, fiquem ligados!

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Harvard Chan C-CHANGE @harvardcchange.bsky.social · 20d

Fossil fuels don’t just change the climate. They harm us across our lifespan:
👶 before birth
🧒 childhood illness
🧑 adult disease
👵 deadly impacts in older age
Read Cradle to Grave, a new report from @gchalliance.bsky.social: https://loom.ly/iyujTV0

#Cradle2Grave

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RiffReporter @riffreporter.bsky.social · 22d

#Feinstaub schadet nicht nur Lunge & Herz. Eine neue Studie zeigt: Er dringt bis ins #Gehirn ein und erhöht das Risiko für #Demenz. Warum #Klimaschutz nicht nur das Klima, sondern auch unsere #Gesundheit schützt: @elenamatera.bsky.social

Feinstaub im Kopf: Wie Luftverschmutzung dem Denken schadet

Feinstaub belastet nicht nur Herz und Lunge. Eine neue Studie zeigt: Die Partikel dringen bis ins Gehirn vor und können das Risiko für Demenz erhöhen.

www.riffreporter.de

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Frau Büüsker @uedio.bsky.social · 22d

juhu!
www.tagesschau.de/wissen/ozonl...

Ozonloch so klein wie lange nicht mehr

Das Ozonloch schrumpft weiter - laut Experten könnte es Mitte des Jahrhunderts wieder auf dem Stand der 1980er-Jahre sein. Entscheidend seien Maßnahmen, die teils vor mehr als 30 Jahren beschlossen wu...

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Bruno Burger @energy-charts.bsky.social · 24d

Es ist Mitte September und wir haben in Deutschland schon mehr Solarstrom erzeugt als im ganzen Jahr 2024.
energy-charts.info/charts/energ...

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Doug McNeall @dougmcneall.bsky.social · 27d

In tough times you NEED to read examples of hope and overcoming tough, complex, global problems.

Kate Marvel @drkatemarvel.bsky.social · 27d

Humans: sometimes bad, sometimes good, capable of great. Me, in today’s @theguardian.com Long Read
www.theguardian.com/news/2025/se...

‘We’ve done it before’: how not to lose hope in the fight against ecological disaster

Some days it can feel as if climate catastrophe is inevitable. But history is full of cases – such as the banning of whaling and CFCs – that show humanity can come together to avert disaster

www.theguardian.com

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Yann Quilcaille @yannquilcaille.bsky.social · 28d

🚨 Important paper in Nature: "Systematic attribution of heatwaves to the emissions of carbon majors".

www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Systematic attribution of heatwaves to the emissions of carbon majors - Nature

Climate change made 213 historical heatwaves reported over 2000–2023 more likely and more intense, to which each of the 180 carbon majors (fossil fuel and cement producers) substantially contributed.

www.nature.com

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Prof. Sonia I Seneviratne @soniaseneviratne.bsky.social · 28d

Hot off the press: We can provide for the first time a systematic attribution of recent #heatwaves to the emissions of #carbon_majors. Essential new #Nature article coordinated by @yannquilcaille.bsky.social at @ethz.ch, with numerous contributors @usyseth.bsky.social:
www.nature.com/articles/s41...

www.nature.com

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