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Benjamin Hennig

@geoviews.wsocial.eu
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Geographer + accidental cartographer. 🇪🇺🇬🇧🇩🇪🇮🇸 Posting about geography, maps & more. geoviews.net

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Benjamin Hennig @geoviews.wsocial.eu · 15/09/2026
Hätte sie fast noch mit reingenommen, passte dann aber em Ende thematisch nicht 😀
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Benjamin Hennig @geoviews.wsocial.eu · 14/09/2026
Mercator muss weg? Warum es keine gerechte Weltkarte geben kann - jetzt auf @riffreporter.bsky.social: www.riffreporter.de/de/wissen/me...
riffreporter.de
Mercator muss weg? Warum es keine gerechte Weltkarte geben kann
Die UN-Generalversammlung stimmte für flächentreue Weltkarten. Doch Kartografïnnen wissen: Keine Projektion ist neutral. Ein Überblick über Verzerrungen, Macht und die richtige Karte für jeden Zweck.
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Peter Spork @sporkpeter.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
Noch kurz was für die Demokratie tun bevor sie bröckelt? Wie wäre es mit einem Abo der @riffreporter.bsky.social Journalismus von freien Autor*innen, die wissen, was sie tun. Ihr entscheidet selbst, was euch ein Abo wert ist, bzw. was ihr dafür zahlen könnt. www.riffreporter.de/de/gesellsch...
riffreporter.de
RiffReporter: Was ist dir unabhängiger Journalismus wert?
Ein Experiment in Sachen Solidarität: Neue Lesende entscheiden sechs Wochen lang selbst, was sie für unabhängigen Journalismus bezahlen können und möchten.
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Benjamin Hennig @geoviews.wsocial.eu · 07/09/2026
Nei-sland: Jein zu Europa, oder warum das Nein die Europafrage in Island nicht beendet. Jetzt auf @riffreporter.bsky.social lesen: www.riffreporter.de/de/internati...
riffreporter.de
Island lehnt Wiederaufnahme von EU-Verhandlungen ab
Bei der Volksabstimmung am 29. August 2026 lehnte Island mit 52,8 Prozent die Wiederaufnahme von EU-Beitrittsverhandlungen ab. Die Wahlbeteiligung lag bei 82,6 Prozent. Nur die Hauptstadt stimmte mehr...
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Benjamin Hennig @geoviews.wsocial.eu · 03/09/2026
The @wsocial.eu team helped with the migration.
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Benjamin Hennig @geoviews.wsocial.eu · 03/09/2026
Re-Hello World. Just moved from @bsky.app to @wsocial.eu
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The Map Room @maproomblog.com · 03/08/2026
It makes sense that a mapping app for the Apple Vision Pro would evoke Boston’s Mapparium. Using that virtual space to display cartograms, which is what Worldmapper VR does, is not something I would have… More
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Worldmapper VR
It makes sense that a mapping app for the Apple Vision Pro would evoke Boston’s Mapparium. Using that virtual space to display cartograms, which is what Worldmapper VR does, is not something I would have… More
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Benjamin Hennig @geoviews.wsocial.eu · 25/03/2026
War and (no) Peace? journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....
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Benjamin Hennig @geoviews.wsocial.eu · 25/09/2025
Demographic Change: Europe's Population Trends Visualised www.theguardian.com/world/ng-int... (nice data visualisation, but an unnecessary over-use of the word crisis, dear @theguardian.com)
theguardian.com
Europe’s population crisis: see how your country compares – visualised
How anti-immigration politics across the EU clashes with demographic reality
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GeoVis Lab Iceland @geovislab.bsky.social · 24/09/2025
Who Feeds the World? Find out at BragaGarour, the Icelandic Slow Food Festival this weekend at Grasagaröinum. Among the displays will be our FoodMapper Quiz, checking your knowledge of the world of food with over 200 maps! slowfood.is/bragdagardur...
Who Feeds The World?
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Benjamin Hennig @geoviews.wsocial.eu · 10/09/2025
Broken News: The Global State of Press Freedom journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....
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Benjamin Hennig @geoviews.wsocial.eu · 10/09/2025
Stateless and Scattered: Mapping the Palestinian Diaspora journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....
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Benjamin Hennig @geoviews.wsocial.eu · 01/09/2025
Protect Antarctica — or risk accelerating planetary meltdown www.nature.com/articles/d41...
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Protect Antarctica — or risk accelerating planetary meltdown
To keep Earth habitable, humanity must recognize the value of Antarctica and seek to save it from irreversible damage.
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Benjamin Hennig @geoviews.wsocial.eu · 30/08/2025
Collapse of critical Atlantic current is no longer low-likelihood, study finds www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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Benjamin Hennig @geoviews.wsocial.eu · 30/08/2025
Shutdown of northern Atlantic overturning after 2100 following deep mixing collapse in CMIP6 projections iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1...
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Benjamin Hennig @geoviews.wsocial.eu · 19/08/2025
Generative AI is not a ‘calculator for words’ theconversation.com/generative-a...
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Generative AI is not a ‘calculator for words’. 5 reasons why this idea is misleading
Big tech wants generative AI systems to seem like neutral, reliable tools – but the reality is far more complicated.
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Benjamin Hennig @geoviews.wsocial.eu · 18/07/2025
Global Science Equity Survey: Participate if you are in science and academia! docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
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Global Science Equity Survey
Why this research? This is a survey about the participation of researchers, especially female researchers, from the whole world in the international academic system. It aims to explore problems in "G...
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Benjamin Hennig @geoviews.wsocial.eu · 16/07/2025
Basemap World: a sleek, vector-based web map service with global and German data - interactive, customisable, and quite up-to-date basemap.de/produkte-und...
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Benjamin Hennig @geoviews.wsocial.eu · 16/07/2025
Lunchtime update by the MetOffice: 'Latest observations show that the eruption is no longer confined to a single fissure. The larger fissure at the Sundhnúka crater row is estimated to be about 2.4 km long. A smaller fissure has also opened west of Fagradalsfjall [estimated] about 500 meters long.'
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Benjamin Hennig @geoviews.wsocial.eu · 16/07/2025
The RUV webcams also provide live views of the eruption for all those who can’t be here youtu.be/kXD4A9uFHcg
youtu.be
Grindavik - Mosaic
YouTube video by RÚV
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Benjamin Hennig @geoviews.wsocial.eu · 16/07/2025
National broadcaster RUV has an english blog with live updates www.ruv.is/english/2025...
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Eruption in Reykjanes peninsula — Awful air quality in Reykjanesbær - RÚV.is
Eruption started shortly before 04:00 am.Wave of seismic activity started around midnight, caused by magma intrusion.Grindavík is not in danger.Awful air quality in Reykjanesbær.
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Benjamin Hennig @geoviews.wsocial.eu · 16/07/2025
Gas pollution cam be expected locally although the capital region is currently not in the path of gas dispersion from the eruption en.vedur.is/volcanoes/fa...
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Benjamin Hennig @geoviews.wsocial.eu · 16/07/2025
The road to Grindavík has been closed by the authorities, but visitors should be able to get a glimpse of the eruption from Reykjanesbraut, the main road connecting the international airport of Keflavík with the capital Reykjavík umferdin.is/en
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Benjamin Hennig @geoviews.wsocial.eu · 16/07/2025
The eruption was preceded by a series of earthquake tremors since midnight that indicated an increased activity close to the surface en.vedur.is/earthquakes-...
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Benjamin Hennig @geoviews.wsocial.eu · 16/07/2025
Tourist eruption? The Reykjanes Peninsula has finally decided again to continue its eruption series at the height of the tourist season, The latest eruption in Iceland started at 3.57am last night en.vedur.is/about-imo/ne...
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Benjamin Hennig @geoviews.wsocial.eu · 15/07/2025
Draw your own chart game: oil prices www.ft.com/content/c618...
ft.com
Draw your own chart game: oil prices
Test your knowledge of how oil prices have been affected by previous crises in the Middle East
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Benjamin Hennig @geoviews.wsocial.eu · 12/07/2025
Big thanks to an incredible global crew 🌍🌎🌏 (🇦🇼 🇨🇦 🇩🇰 🇩🇪 🇪🇨 🇪🇸 🇪🇺 🇮🇪 🇬🇧 🇮🇹 🇳🇱 🇷🇸 🇸🇪 🇹🇼 🇺🇸), local experts, guest speakers and partners who made this such a memorable experience 🙌
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Benjamin Hennig @geoviews.wsocial.eu · 12/07/2025
ISLAS 2025 🏝️ Westfjords Edition 🏔️ Our Islands as Laboratories for Sustainability summer school finally made it to Iceland! 🇮🇸 It was an inspiring week exploring Remote Communities in Transition @haskoliislands.bsky.social / @islandsmaster.bsky.social #ISLAS2025
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Benjamin Hennig @geoviews.wsocial.eu · 11/07/2025
The Illusion of Causality in Charts: How charts can mislead us by depicting causes that may not exist filwd.substack.com/p/the-illusi...
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The Illusion of Causality in Charts
How charts can mislead us by depicting causes that may not exist.
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Benjamin Hennig @geoviews.wsocial.eu · 11/07/2025
How much energy are you using on AI? www.datawrapper.de/blog/ai-ener...
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Benjamin Hennig @geoviews.wsocial.eu · 11/06/2025
Cross Stitch Land Cover Map of Iceland www.linkedin.com/posts/jjmcf_...
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Benjamin Hennig @geoviews.wsocial.eu · 11/06/2025
Climate change drives record-breaking heat in Iceland and Greenland challenging cold adapted ecosystems and societies www.worldweatherattribution.org/climate-chan...
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Benjamin Hennig @geoviews.wsocial.eu · 29/05/2025
UK Travel Visualiser - a neat little mapping project smstone0.github.io#/uk-map
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Benjamin Hennig @geoviews.wsocial.eu · 16/04/2025
Very interesting indeed, not least within the context of our @islandsmaster.bsky.social Master programme!
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Benjamin Hennig @geoviews.wsocial.eu · 16/04/2025
A whole new volcanic hazard map for the Reykjanes peninsula in Iceland has been published by the Icelandic Met Office (Veðurstofa Íslands). Find out more about the redesign at en.vedur.is/about-imo/ne...
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Benjamin Hennig @geoviews.wsocial.eu · 01/04/2025
The RUV livestreams should give a good view when (if) the eruption reaches the surface: www.youtube.com/live/kXD4A9u...
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Benjamin Hennig @geoviews.wsocial.eu · 01/04/2025
Is it there yet? It looks as if the next volcanic eruption on the Reykjanes peninsula in Iceland is just about to begin. www.vedur.is/um-vi/fretti...
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Benjamin Hennig @geoviews.wsocial.eu · 22/03/2025
Hawaii observatory to be evicted amid federal cuts www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
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Hawaii observatory to be evicted amid federal cuts as volcano shoots 700ft lava
Hilo office, with scientists and their volcano-monitoring equipment, may have lease cancelled from Doge cuts
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Benjamin Hennig @geoviews.wsocial.eu · 18/03/2025
The UK’s academic recession is in full swing www.ft.com/content/0ec7...
ft.com
The UK’s academic recession is in full swing
This university crisis is a grim scrabble for numbers
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Benjamin Hennig @geoviews.wsocial.eu · 28/02/2025
Biocubes: a visual story of the living and the built biocubes.net
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Benjamin Hennig @geoviews.wsocial.eu · 28/02/2025
Defense Against Dishonest Charts flowingdata.com/projects/dis...
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Defense Against Dishonest Charts
This is a guide to protect ourselves and to preserve what is good about turning data into visual things.
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Benjamin Hennig @geoviews.wsocial.eu · 28/02/2025
Deutschland 25
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Benjamin Hennig @geoviews.wsocial.eu · 27/02/2025
RIP Peter Haggett I vividly remember the first geography book I purchased as a first-year undergraduate in 1998. It made me realise how much more geography really is beyond what I had learnt at school.
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Benjamin Hennig @geoviews.wsocial.eu · 27/02/2025
Mapping Favourite Colours - An Interactive ArcGIS Story Map storymaps.arcgis.com/stories/d51f...
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Benjamin Hennig @geoviews.wsocial.eu · 27/02/2025
GIS for Kids www.geographyrealm.com/gis-for-kids/
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Teaching GIS to Kids to Help Them Learn Spatial Skills
Listed here are a few resources both online and on the ground to point you in the right direction to teaching your kids about GIS and mapping.
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Benjamin Hennig @geoviews.wsocial.eu · 25/02/2025
Nusantara Atlas - From Rice Fields to Beach Clubs, and Sprawling Cities: 60 years of Change in Southern Bali map.nusantara-atlas.org
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Benjamin Hennig @geoviews.wsocial.eu · 21/02/2025
Community estimate of global glacier mass changes from 2000 to 2023 www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Benjamin Hennig @geoviews.wsocial.eu · 14/02/2025
Heart-shaped maps www.geographyrealm.com/heart-shaped...
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Benjamin Hennig @geoviews.wsocial.eu · 12/02/2025
Gulf of ______? Google (first map) quickly falling in line with the US administration's guidance that was adopted by the US Geographic Names Information System (GNIS), while Apple (second map) still being reluctant. blog.google/products/map...
Google MapsApple Maps
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Benjamin Hennig @geoviews.wsocial.eu · 11/02/2025
Well done - not even a week in Iceland and already leading the way :-)
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