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Paul Wennberg @paulowennberg.bsky.social · 1d

Amazing

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Paul Wennberg @paulowennberg.bsky.social · 1d

Wow

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Science Magazine @science.org · 3d

A 2024 study found that ants best humans at tests of collective intelligence.

Learn more on #WorldAnimalDay: https://scim.ag/42nMvQJ

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Paul Wennberg @paulowennberg.bsky.social · 8d

Don’t gnocchit until you’ve tried it.

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Paul Wennberg @paulowennberg.bsky.social · 8d

Actually very good.

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Paul Wennberg @paulowennberg.bsky.social · 8d

Can confirm that this is excellent

The New York Times @nytimes.com · 8d

This no-fuss, one-pot recipe is inspired by avgolemono soup, a traditional Greek rice soup that is prized for its silky texture and bright flavor, thanks to egg yolks and an invigorating dose of lemon.

Avgolemono Chicken Soup With Gnocchi Recipe

This no-fuss, one-pot recipe is inspired by avgolemono soup, a traditional Greek rice soup that is prized for its silky texture and bright flavor, thanks to egg yolks and an invigorating dose of lemon This soup achieves similar results while replacing the rice with store-bought gnocchi for a heartier take and a texture boost The approach is simple: Simmer rotisserie chicken with stock, lemon zest and gnocchi, then thicken the soup with egg yolks and lemon juice

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Paul Wennberg @paulowennberg.bsky.social · 9d

Pretty good but …. Why with approximately the same amount of co2 is Mars so cold? Because Mars has little N2 or O2. Although N2 and O2 only weakly interact with IR radiation, their collisions with H2O, CO2, CH4, and N2O are essential for making these small molecules good greenhouse gases.

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Emily Barnes Franklin, PhD @emfranklin.bsky.social · 14d

So in fresh smoke the ozone gets titrated out by all the VOCs but its more complicated as the smoke moves and ages- this paper is a great look into the chemistry! www.science.org/doi/full/10....

Ozone chemistry in western U.S. wildfire plumes

While ozone increases rapidly in wildfire plumes, downwind its production rate slows dramatically as nitrogen oxide levels decline.

www.science.org

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Paul Wennberg @paulowennberg.bsky.social · 11d

How much does the DC power influence the battery design (not including wires and inverters)? Eg, what’s the difference between a 100MW / 2 hour BESS and a 25MW / 8 hour battery?

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Paul Wennberg @paulowennberg.bsky.social · 12d

Congratulations to @NASA’s Jim Crawford for the @AGU Yoram J. Kaufman Outstanding And Unselfish Cooperation In Research Award. So well deserved!

www.agu.org/user-profile...

AGU - American Geophysical Union

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Paul Wennberg @paulowennberg.bsky.social · 12d

Congratulations @chriskenseth.bsky.social !

UW Department of Atmospheric and Climate Science @uwatmossci.bsky.social · 12d

🥇🥇TWO @agu.org AWARDS
📢@chriskenseth.bsky.social, a NSF AGS Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department, was selected as the recipient of the 2025 James R. Holton Award.
📢Professor Dale Durran received the Jule Gregory Charney Lecture.

Congratulations to both and all the 2025 AGU Honorees!

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Paul Wennberg @paulowennberg.bsky.social · 12d

www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/nasa-is...

NASA-ISRO Satellite Sends First Radar Images of Earth’s Surface

Preliminary images from the most powerful Earth radar satellite ever launched offer a tantalizing glimpse of the science the mission will be able to deliver.

www.jpl.nasa.gov

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Paul Wennberg @paulowennberg.bsky.social · 16d

Lived almost one year in Copenhagen (2016/17) and was never checked. Fine is really high.

Paul Wennberg @paulowennberg.bsky.social · 18d

photo credit: @haroula-baliaka.bsky.social

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Paul Wennberg @paulowennberg.bsky.social · 18d

Celebrating Richard Flagan's 50 years of service to @caltech.edu! Rick arrived in 1975 intending to study combustion chemistry and ended up playing an enormously influential role in developing new instrumentation to quantify atmospheric aerosol and helping to mitigate air pollution in LA and beyond.

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Paul Wennberg @paulowennberg.bsky.social · 18d

Batteries and solar friendly sparing on a stormy September day on CAISO. Gas and imports get to chill.

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Paul Wennberg @paulowennberg.bsky.social · 19d

Maybe let the Italians dig the Burbank to Palmdale section of @cahsra.bsky.social? 55km, $10B.

The Associated Press @apnews.com · 19d

Workers broke open the first tunnel connecting Austria to Italy under the Brenner Pass.

How 4 key infrastructure projects centered in Italy will reshape the European transit map

Workers broke open the first tunnel connecting Austria to Italy under the Brenner Pass. The achievement on Thursday marks a major milestone in the European Union's ambitious projects to boost train travel and shift freight from roads to rails.

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Robbie Andrew @robbieandrew.bsky.social · 19d

India has broken my graph.
30 GW of renewables added so far this year, ahead of 28.6 GW for all of 2024.
robbieandrew.github.io/india

Graph showing: Annual net additions of generation capacity in India

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Polly Fordyce @pollyfordyce.bsky.social · 20d

Please apply to our tenure-track faculty position at
@stanford-chemh.bsky.social! We are searching for a new colleague working at the interface between computation and molecular sciences. See post below and pls forward widely!
chemh.stanford.edu/opportunitie...

Faculty Recruitment

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Adam Sobel @adamsobel.bsky.social · 21d

We're hiring! We have an open search for an Assistant Professor in physics of the ocean and/or atmosphere in Columbia's Dept. of Earth and Environmental Sciences. Please circulate this information to good candidates, and apply yourself if you are one! Ad & link to apply: apply.interfolio.com/173819

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Galen McKinley @oceancarbon.bsky.social · 21d

In the Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences @columbiauniversity.bsky.social, we are hiring an Assistant Professor in Atmosphere and/or Ocean Physics. No deadline stated, but review will begin soon, so please do not delay. apply.interfolio.com/173819

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Paul Wennberg @paulowennberg.bsky.social · 24d

25 GW solar + 200 GWh of batteries and CAISO is basically decarbonized.

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Pierre Herckes @ph15.bsky.social · 25d

Over summer we kept working on GLOR a larger ozone study and an overview paper of the study just got published in AWMA's EM magazine airandwmapa.sharepoint.com/:b:/s/AWMA_W...

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California Transit Nerd @catransitnerd.bsky.social · 26d

LA-SD is absolutely not the right corridor to test these sets on and this seems entirely about trying to show off these new trains for the Olympics in 2028
Germany has tried repeatedly and failed to run hydrogen trains in service and has embarrassingly gone back to old equipment, I expect a repeate

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C&EN (Chemical & Engineering News) @cenmag.bsky.social · 27d

Joseph S. Francisco named 2025 Pauling Medal Award winner

The award will be presented Oct. 18 at Seattle University as part of a poster session and symposium. cen.acs.org/people/award... #chemsky

Joseph S. Francisco named 2025 Pauling Medal Award winner

The award will be presented Oct. 18 at Seattle University as part of a poster session and symposium

cen.acs.org

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