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Scientists for Future 🇩🇪 (S4F) @de.scientists4future.org · 11/09/2026

Die Bilanz des Sommers: Mehr als 14.000 hitzebedingte Todesfälle, laut @greenpeace.de-Studie 36 Mrd. Euro Schaden durch Dürre u.a. in Landwirtschaft und Binnenschifffahrt sowie geringere Arbeitsproduktivität. Doch die Bundesregierung reagiert nicht auf die #Klimakrise.

Bilanz des Sommers: Über 14.000 Hitzetote.

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Bernhard Steinberger @bstein.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

How can you use mantle plumes as a reference frame for plate motions, although they rise from a convecting lower mantle? This is a topic I studied during much of my scientific life and which I discuss with Oliver Strimpel @geologybites.bsky.social: www.geologybites.com/bernhard-ste...

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GFZ Helmholtz-Zentrum für Geoforschung @gfz.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

Deep dive into hot spots deep down within the Earth that form impressive sea mountain chains & volcanic islands like Hawaii. Are the hot spots fixed? How can we measure whether they moved? Listen to our colleague @bstein.bsky.social in this podcast 👇🏻 www.geologybites.com/bernhard-ste...

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Bernhard Steinberger — Geology Bites

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Bernhard Steinberger @bstein.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

Hallo 👋 Kannst Du mir kurz helfen? Gegen die Hitzewelle braucht es konsequenten Klimaschutz. Deshalb fordert Fridays for Future: Lobbyministerin Reiche entlassen. Jetzt unterzeichnen ✍️ weact.campact.de/petitions/hi...

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Die Hitze hat Gründe.

Hallo 👋 Kannst Du mir kurz helfen? Gegen die Hitzewelle braucht es konsequenten Klimaschutz. Deshalb fordert Fridays for Future: Lobbyministerin Reiche entlassen. Jetzt unterzeichnen ✍️

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Bernhard Steinberger @bstein.bsky.social · 09/04/2026

The staggering cost of climate inaction www.nature.com/articles/d41...

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Bernhard Steinberger @bstein.bsky.social · 14/03/2026

... and this played a key role in preconditioning Greenland's glaciation. It is always amazing and a big motivation to see in real life what you've been trying to model on the computer!

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Bernhard Steinberger @bstein.bsky.social · 14/03/2026

En route to the recovery cruise aiming at imaging materials that flowed northward from the Hawaii plume, passing the region with the highest mountains in Greenland. Here doi.org/10.1111/ter.... we proposed that these were uplifted due to materials flowing northward from the Iceland plume ...

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Christian Stöcker @christianstoecker.de · 01/03/2026

Kolumne: Die Welt verändert sich in atemberaubendem Tempo. Sie wird heißer, schneller, fossile Geschäftsmodelle sterben zwangsläufig, neue entstehen. Die Bundesregierung setzt stattdessen auf Retro-Technik. Das ist schlecht für das Land - und schlecht für die Menschheit.

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»Habeck ist doof« ist keine Strategie

Christian Stöcker
Eine Kolumne von Christian Stöcker
Die Union legt die Axt an die deutsche Klimapolitik, die SPD macht mit. Das ist kurzsichtig: ökonomisch, gesundheitlich, geopolitisch und klimatisch. Die Koalitionäre ignorieren etwas Zentrales.

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Bernhard Steinberger @bstein.bsky.social · 12/02/2026

I hope my writeup can convey some of the spirit and excitement of this cruise.

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Bernhard Steinberger @bstein.bsky.social · 12/02/2026

Here is my contribution blogs.egu.eu/divisions/ts... following suggestions by Zoltan Erdös and Pauline Gayrin about our cruise in the Pacific last October. Besides the scientific motivation, it focusses on how we tried to make the most out of it given adverse weather conditions.

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Our epic battle with ever-changing weather forecasts while deploying ocean bottom instruments

The question what drives tectonic plates has been around since plate tectonics was first developed. In principle, the fluid dynamics is well-known but what is not well known are the material propertie...

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Bernhard Steinberger @bstein.bsky.social · 29/01/2026

(3) The choice of tomography model causes the biggest variation of results. Other modelling specifics such as including lateral viscosity variations have comparatively little effect.

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Bernhard Steinberger @bstein.bsky.social · 29/01/2026

(2) There is a tradeoff between fitting geoid and topography, i.e. each of them can be fit individually quite well, but with different models, and it is much harder to fit them simultaneously.

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Bernhard Steinberger @bstein.bsky.social · 29/01/2026

(1) including chemical anomalies to compensate for thermal anomalies or downscaling lithosphere density anomalies in the continents, and cratons in particular, helps to improve the fit.

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Bernhard Steinberger @bstein.bsky.social · 29/01/2026

Ronghua Cui's paper on modeling geoid and dynamic topography from tomography‐based thermo‐chemical mantle convection lnkd.in/dWZFtG3v has been published! Ronghua was here for a one-year visiting postdoc Nov 2023 - Nov 2024. Our main takeaways: (cont.)

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Bernhard Steinberger @bstein.bsky.social · 12/01/2026

instead of writing reviews or proposals, answering mails, contribute to to other researcher's work, filling out forms etc. I think we actually got some nice results addressing continental lithosphere density and buoyancy -essentially what makes continents stick out to their elevation above sea level

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Bernhard Steinberger @bstein.bsky.social · 12/01/2026

I can only recommend to offer such internship, because in an effort to give the intern an impression of what a scientist ideally does in his working time, I managed to set some time aside to actually pursue, together with him, an independent own little research project which I thought of (continued)

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Bernhard Steinberger @bstein.bsky.social · 12/01/2026

I am very glad to share that I first-authored the very first paper published in the new diamond-open access (meaning it is free to publish AND free to read) journal Geodynamica. This paper lnkd.in/eyPAdx2X actually grew out of a high school student internship. (continued)

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Bernhard Steinberger @bstein.bsky.social · 08/01/2026

That's interesting! It would be in the right location at the edge of the slab in the transition zone (see our Figure 1a) like Eifel and Massif Central, but I haven't looked into whether other observations there would also be in agreement with our proposed mechanism.

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Bernhard Steinberger @bstein.bsky.social · 08/01/2026

What happens if subducted slabs interact with hot material at the base of the upper mantle? In Yingying Li's first paper doi.org/10.1029/2025... we show how this can lead to (secondary) upper mantle plumes. With @sasbrune.bsky.social, Eline Le Breton, Anne Glerum and @michapons.bsky.social.

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Peter Gleick @petergleick.bsky.social · 05/01/2026

As the calendar year begins, a reminder of the rapid acceleration of carbon dioxide concentration in the atmosphere, driving increasingly severe #climate changes. Shown are the past 2000 years of CO2 concentrations. Stop burning fossil fuels.

Graph showing 2000 years of CO2 concentrations in the atmosphere. The levels are almost constant at around 280 parts per million until the beginning of the industrial revolution and the burning of fossil fuels and then the curve shoots up to 428 ppm now.

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Peter Jelinek @peterjelinek.eurosky.social · 16/12/2025

Kann man nicht oft genug teilen.

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Bernhard Steinberger @bstein.bsky.social · 12/12/2025

Even after 10 years, it is still important (and necessary) to demonstrate for compliance with the Paris Agreement on climate change.

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Bernhard Steinberger @bstein.bsky.social · 14/11/2025

Um das meiste aus dem CO2 footprint für die Forschungsfahrt im Pazifik zu machen, mache ich viele Zwischenhalte und vermeide Flüge wo möglich. climatewednesday.org/von-taipei-n... Sicher mehr Organisationsaufwand als fliegen, aber man sieht viel mehr und es ist ein großartiges Erlebnis.

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Von Taipei nach Hanoi mit Schiff und Zug – climatewednesday

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Bernhard Steinberger @bstein.bsky.social · 22/10/2025

Koko Seamount (Emperor Chain) on 5-6 km deep ocean floor supposedly reaches up to -26 m! Last night Hakuhomaru passed there. In 2001 on Joides Resolution we drilled basalts to document Hawaii hotspot motion www.science.org/doi/10.1126/.... Amazing I would come to this remote place twice in my life!

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Eos @eos.org · 21/10/2025

How do BLOBs in Earth’s mantle affect seismic waves? Research by @poulamiroy.bsky.social & @bstein.bsky.social of @gfz.bsky.social and colleagues offers new insights. eos.org/research-spo...

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Seismic Anisotropy Reveals Deep-Mantle Dynamics - Eos

A new study offers insight into the viscous BLOBs at the base of Earth’s mantle.

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Poulami Roy @poulamiroy.bsky.social · 21/10/2025

Happy to share that our recent paper on global-scale geodynamic + seismic anisotropy simulation is on Eos spotlight. With @bstein.bsky.social , Manuele Faccenda , @michapons.bsky.social Enjoy reading! :) eos.org/research-spo...

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Seismic Anisotropy Reveals Deep-Mantle Dynamics - Eos

A new study offers insight into the viscous BLOBs at the base of Earth’s mantle.

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Bernhard Steinberger @bstein.bsky.social · 08/10/2025

A cloudy day on Hess Rise. In 2019 we wrote doi.org/10.1029/2019... on the origin of Hess Rise, I can't believe now I'm actually here, on board of Hakuhomaru. But we actually want to look in the mantle beneath, for vestiges of material emplaced by the Hawaiian Plume during Emperor Chain formation

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Bernhard Steinberger @bstein.bsky.social · 07/10/2025

3rd paper from @poulamiroy.bsky.social's Ph.D. just out at doi.org/10.1029/2025.... Combined global models of mantle flow and anisotropy constrain deformation mechanisms and viscosity, density and hence compositional structure of lowermost mantle. With Manuele Faccenda, @michapons.bsky.social & me.

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Bernhard Steinberger @bstein.bsky.social · 01/10/2025

The loading has begun. For some scientific background, see my presentation docs.google.com/presentation...

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Bernhard Steinberger @bstein.bsky.social · 09/09/2025

... all road signs and traffic lights ...

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Bernhard Steinberger @bstein.bsky.social · 04/09/2025

This only considers sediments and there is probably a lot more storage capacity in basalts (e.g. Oelkers et al., 2023; doi:10.1016/j.ccst.2023.100098). Regardless, emission reduction need to be first priority, and CDR only for unavoidable emissions and removing what is already too much in the air.

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Redirecting

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Miriam Vollmer @miriamvollmer.bsky.social · 07/08/2025

Im Susan hungern über 24 Mio. Menschen wegen Dürre und eines Bürgerkriegs seit 2023, der wenig wahrgenommen wird. Jedes dritte Kind ist akut unterernährt. Ich weiß, es gibt viele Krisen und Afrika ist weit weg. Aber gerade deswegen sind Spenden wichtig. www.welthungerhilfe.de/spenden-sudan

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Mit Ihrer Spende für den Sudan leisten Sie Hilfe zur Selbsthilfe

15,8 Millionen Sudanesen sind auf humanitäre Hilfe angewiesen. Helfen Sie jetzt mit Ihrer Spende!

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Bernhard Steinberger @bstein.bsky.social · 05/08/2025

Ein sehr gutes (wie ich meine) und detailliertes interview über einige meiner Forschungsarbeiten youtu.be/YP9ceVYoOTY

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Was ist unter dem Yellowstone Supervulkan? Alles zum Mantel Plume! - Dr. Bernhard Steinberger

YouTube video by Astro-Tim

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Bernhard Steinberger @bstein.bsky.social · 02/08/2025

My first boat trip this year - to Pfaueninsel. The next one will probably be slightly longer - a research cruise from Honolulu to Tokyo. Stay tuned for more details!

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Bernhard Steinberger @bstein.bsky.social · 26/06/2025

Mark the date: On July 15, it will be possible to submit articles to geodynamica.univ-lyon1.fr - it will be completely free for both authors and readers! I'm glad to be on the editorial team. Don't let some money-grubbing publishing company get between you and your research results; publish with us!

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About Geodynamica - Geodynamica

Geodynamica is a Diamond Open Access Journal covering all aspects of Earth’s and (exo-)Planets internal structure, dynamics and evolution

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Bernhard Steinberger @bstein.bsky.social · 02/06/2025

... and it even greeted us with a heart.

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Bernhard Steinberger @bstein.bsky.social · 27/05/2025

Wondering what is the anisotropic signature of slab-induced plumes from thermochemical piles in the lowermost mantle? Then find out from Poulami Roy's paper agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/... co-authored by Manuele Faccenda, @michapons.bsky.social and myself

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Prof. Stefan Rahmstorf @rahmstorf.bsky.social · 23/05/2025

The US does not stand for freedom and democracy any more, but is sliding fast into tyranny. Harvard is punished for standing up to this. If you’re in the US and not doing something now, soon you will be unable to do anything. We know this from experience here in Germany.

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Bernhard Steinberger @bstein.bsky.social · 22/05/2025

Doing a Ph.D. at Harvard meant working really hard having a real good time. I immensely enjoyed living and research in this inspiring and motivating environment, with the best people from around the world. Luckily, Trump wasn't president at that time. I stand with Harvard. www.br.de/nachrichten/...

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US-Elite-Uni Harvard muss ausländische Studierende abweisen

Schon seit Längerem stehen die US-Eliteuniversität Harvard und die Trump-Regierung auf Kriegsfuß – nun hat das Weiße Haus der Privathochschule die Berechtigung entzogen, ausländische Studierende aufzu...

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Bernhard Steinberger @bstein.bsky.social · 13/05/2025

Seit heute ist die Liste der teilnehmenden Abgeordneten bekanntgegeben und es ist möglich, ein Gespräch zu reservieren!

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Bernhard Steinberger @bstein.bsky.social · 11/05/2025

In the episode "Buddeln" from 10.5.

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Bernhard Steinberger @bstein.bsky.social · 10/05/2025

Wie weit ist es eigentlich zum Erdmittelpunkt? Das habe ich mit Jana Magdanz beim Maus Podcast besprochen www.wdrmaus.de/hoeren/podca...

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Die Seite mit der Maus - Podcast 60 Min

Hier kannst du alle Sendungen noch einmal anhören.

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