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Liane G Benning

@lianegbenning.bsky.social
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🧪geek who ❤️ 3 big science M’s = minerals, microbes, microscopes I work in 🇩🇪🇮🇸🇳🇴🇬🇱 and study 🌎💎🧊❄️🦠🧬🔬⚗️ I ❤️all📚and am a speed reader Life is too short to do things later … www.gfz-potsdam.de/en/section/inter…

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GFZ Helmholtz-Zentrum für Geoforschung @gfz.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
(2/2) Etwas später in dieser Woche wird ein größerer Artikel von @timkalvelage.bsky.social auf @spektrum.de erscheinen. Tim hat Liane begleitet und Fotos vom Zelt-Camp auf dem Eis mitgebracht. Stay tuned... hier geht's erstmal zum Podcast. Wer gleich reinhören will 👇 detektor.fm/wissen/spekt...
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Wie Eis-Algen Grönlands Gletscher bedrohen
Dunkle Algen überziehen Grönlands Gletscher. Die Folge: Das Eis schmilzt schneller. Forschende warnen vor den Folgen für Klima und Meere.
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GFZ Helmholtz-Zentrum für Geoforschung @gfz.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
Ein neuer Podcast gibt einen Einblick in die Arbeit unserer Forscherin @lianegbenning.bsky.social auf Grönland. Dort unter sucht sie Eisalgen, die purpurrot gefärbt sind und die Gletscherschmelze beschleunigen. Die Ankündigung zum Podcast ist hier (1/2) www.spektrum.de/podcast/wie-...
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Spektrum-Podcast: Wie Eisalgen Grönlands Gletscher bedrohen
Ein Teppich aus Algen färbt die Gletscher in Grönland dunkel ein und sorgt so dafür, dass sie schneller abschmelzen. Das wurde lange unterschätzt.
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EAG @eageo.bsky.social · 08/06/2026
Next EAG Distinguished Lecturer date: 📅 Tues 9 June 📍 HUN-REN Institute for Earth Physics & Space Science, Sopron, Hungary Liane Benning "The big melt: how microbes, minerals & ions change our planet today & in future warmer climates" buff.ly/y2DmTnT @gfz.bsky.social @lianegbenning.bsky.social
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Distinguished Lecture Program | European Association of Geochemistry
The EAG Distinguished Lecture Program focuses on Central and Eastern Europe and aims to introduce and motivate scientists and students located in under-represented regions of the world to emerging…
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excitenetwork.bsky.social @excitenetwork.bsky.social · 12/05/2026
🔬❄️ What’s going on inside Greenland ice? Join our experts for a webinar exploring how cryo-SEM and multi-modal imaging reveal hidden interactions between microbes, minerals, and ice in glaciers. ⏰ Thu 21 May, 12:00 CEST 🔬 From field sampling to cryo-SEM imaging 🔗 Register here: bit.ly/3R5UQpp
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excitenetwork.bsky.social @excitenetwork.bsky.social · 20/05/2026
🚨 Tomorrow: don’t miss our webinar on hidden interactions inside Greenland ice! ❄️🔬 Join Chaturanga D. Bandara and Prof. Liane G. Benning to explore how cryo-SEM and multi-modal imaging reveal interactions in ice. ⏰ Thu 21 May | 12:00–12:30 CEST 🔗 Register: bit.ly/3PvxFVa #Microscopy #GeoImaging
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Eos @eos.org · 27/02/2026
⬆️ New research led by Jenine McCutcheon @uwaterloo.ca and @lianegbenning.bsky.social @gfz.bsky.social; story by @tmitchellbrown.bsky.social.
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Eos @eos.org · 27/02/2026
Aerosols carry significant amounts of phosphorus that can fuel massive algal blooms on the Greenland Ice Sheet, according to new research, underscoring the importance of tracking dust emissions to understand how the ice sheet will change in the future. 🧪🧊 eos.org/articles/gre...
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Greenland Dust Delivers Nutrients to Ice-Melting Algae - Eos
Researchers scrutinized aerosols above and within the ice sheet, finding phosphorus and other mineral particles.
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Liane G Benning @lianegbenning.bsky.social · 07/01/2026
Love ❄️
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Liane G Benning @lianegbenning.bsky.social · 02/01/2026
Truth
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Liane G Benning @lianegbenning.bsky.social · 02/01/2026
Winter flower house
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Liane G Benning @lianegbenning.bsky.social · 01/01/2026
Good start of 2026
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Liane G Benning @lianegbenning.bsky.social · 31/12/2025
An end of year beach day
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Liane G Benning @lianegbenning.bsky.social · 30/12/2025
A beautiful day
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Liane G Benning @lianegbenning.bsky.social · 28/12/2025
Wonderful day
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Liane G Benning @lianegbenning.bsky.social · 11/11/2025
Marvellous place, healthy food, healthy mind, healthy body! Life is good ! 😊
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Liane G Benning @lianegbenning.bsky.social · 02/11/2025
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Magda(lena) Wutkowska @wutkowska.bsky.social · 07/10/2025
So great to see new research on microbial adaptations to the extreme light regimes in the Arctic! 'Linking extreme light availability to cellular function in algae-dominated communities on the Greenland Ice Sheet' academic.oup.com/femsec/artic... @lianegbenning.bsky.social
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Linking extreme light availability to cellular function in algae-dominated communities on the Greenland Ice Sheet
Transcriptomic and proteomic responses of glacier ice algae to extreme changes in light availability on the Greenland Ice Sheet, linked, for example, to ox
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Liane G Benning @lianegbenning.bsky.social · 04/08/2025
The perfect rainbow 🌈 hill seen from Langjokull #fieldwork joys
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Liane G Benning @lianegbenning.bsky.social · 04/08/2025
Hitchhiking Iceland style
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Liane G Benning @lianegbenning.bsky.social · 03/08/2025
Rainy and windy Iceland is not great for sampling - but that is fieldwork joy 🥹
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Liane G Benning @lianegbenning.bsky.social · 03/08/2025
Bye bye Greenland 🇬🇱 Hello Iceland 🇮🇸
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Liane G Benning @lianegbenning.bsky.social · 02/08/2025
Bye bye Greenland 🇬🇱 Hello Iceland 🇮🇸
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Liane G Benning @lianegbenning.bsky.social · 27/07/2025
A marvellous day sampling on the Greenland ice sheet wt a top rate all female science team and on top of that flown by the sole female helicopter pilot in Greenland 🇬🇱- thanks Tina from Sermeq for the fantastic day
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Martin Stendel @martinstendel.bsky.social · 25/07/2025
Melting over 80.6% of the area of the Greenland Ice Sheet. This is the highest value in our data set, which starts in 1981. @polarportal.bsky.social
Screenshot from polarportal.dk, a website that makes research on the Arctic research conducted by Danish institutions available to the public and researchers. The image shows Greenland in tan and the Greenland Ice Sheet in red and white. The red part indicates melting and covers all except about 20% in the northeast, which is roughly the area higher than 2500 m above Se level.

Below the map is a chart that compares 2025 melting to the 1981-2010 average. The average melting peaks in mid-July at about 35%. For the last few days, melting has occurred over roughly 80% of the area of Greenland, with a maximum melt area of 80.6% on 24 July 2025. This is the highest value in our dataset, which starts in 1981.
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Liane G Benning @lianegbenning.bsky.social · 25/07/2025
Scientist at work 😃 #fieldwork
These floaty algae are really cool 
Mirjam im her element 
Greenland 2025Emily and Mirjam ready for PAM and DinoLight measurements 
#algae galore on the Greenland ice sheet 
💪Scientist in Greenland 🇬🇱 
Cool
But happy after a long day at work
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Liane G Benning @lianegbenning.bsky.social · 24/07/2025
Start of 2025 summer polar fieldwork travel - stage 1 ✅
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Liane G Benning @lianegbenning.bsky.social · 16/05/2025
Great @eos.org piece by @profmoldwin.bsky.social
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Liane G Benning @lianegbenning.bsky.social · 16/05/2025
Senior Scientists Must Stand Up Against Attacks on Research and Education eos.org/opinions/sen...
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Senior Scientists Must Stand Up Against Attacks on Research and Education - Eos
They can use their position and collective power to influence institutional actions and mobilize to support more vulnerable colleagues.
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The Company of Biologists @biologists.bsky.social · 13/05/2025
If you would like to attend a #microscopy or #bioimageanalysis training course in the next 6 months but don’t have funding, check out our Microscopy Training Grant from @jcellsci.bsky.social and @focalplane.bsky.social. Next deadline: 6 June 2025 www.biologists.com/grants/jcs-f... #Training
Microscopy Training Grants

Supporting microscopy training for early-career researchers in cell biology

Apply for a grant of up to £1,000

Application dates:
6 June 2025
5 September 2025
7 November 2025
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Neil Renic @ncrenic.bsky.social · 14/05/2025
This is bleak reading
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Prof Chris Jackson @seismatters.bsky.social · 06/05/2025
IAVCEI cancel one of their meetings due to the ongoing situation in the US 🌋
AVCEI
In agreement with the Cities and Volcanoes Commission and the
IAVCEI Executive Committee, the Local Organizing Committee for the 13th Cities on Volcanoes (COV13) conference, originally planned for July 2026 in Bend, Oregon (U.S.A.), has made the difficult decision to postpone the event to a future date.
Recent developments have created uncertainty around our ability to confidently and effectively host the conference in 2026 and to welcome attendees without concern.
This decision follows many months of collaboration with more than 70 local, regional, and international partners to shape an engaging and meaningful program. We recognize this news will be disappointing, but we believe it is the most responsible choice under the current circumstances, grounded in care for our colleagues and partners.
With continued support from the Cities and Volcanoes Commission and IAVCEl, we are already exploring the possibility of hosting COV in Bend in 2030 or 2032, and we remain hopeful for opportunities to gather in the future.
The COV13 Local Organizing Committee
The Cities and Volcanoes Commission
The International Association for Volcanology and Chemistry of the Earth's Interior
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Jon Brudvig @jonbrudvig.bsky.social · 01/05/2025
A tardigrade just got the world's tiniest tattoo. This, and so much more, in Nature's roundup of the best #science images from April. 🧪 And yes, you should take 20 seconds to play the aurora video. 😍 www.nature.com/immersive/d4... #SciencePhotography #Microscopy
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Liane G Benning @lianegbenning.bsky.social · 29/04/2025
Christoph Keuschnig gave her @MSCA project on fungal highways and their role in soil development @egubg.bsky.social @gfz.bsky.social @egu.eu
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Liane G Benning @lianegbenning.bsky.social · 28/04/2025
What is @egu.eu without a classical concert in the Musikverein - not an option but a sin.
Musikverein Vienna for a classical concert - a must @egu
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Liane G Benning @lianegbenning.bsky.social · 28/04/2025
Very happy about this science art collaboration wt Michael Najjar - have. Look also at his Arctic Stream installation www.michaelnajjar.com/news/new-art... that is based on our work funded by the @ERC synergy grant DeepPurple
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Michael Najjar
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GFZ Helmholtz-Zentrum für Geoforschung @gfz.bsky.social · 28/04/2025
One of the leading publications in the art world, @theartnewspaper.bsky.social, is running a feature on the work of Michael Najjar, an artist who accompanied our @lianegbenning.bsky.social & her team to Greenland. His work is so impressive! See for yourself 👇 www.theartnewspaper.com/2025/04/25/c...
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Can graphic imagination wake audiences up to the climate emergency? This multimedia artist believes so
Berlin-based Michael Najjar has been working with scientists in Greenland to tell stories with images designed to replace familiar memes of environmental journalism
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Liane G Benning @lianegbenning.bsky.social · 28/04/2025
And now #IceBio PhD student Kara Sampsell taking about the microbes and glacier flower link in terms of nutrient delivery mechanisms - @egu.eu
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Liane G Benning @lianegbenning.bsky.social · 28/04/2025
Alex Anesio now presenting in the ECO- OMICS session the Metatranscriptomic workflow from our DeepPurple work - a study led by Thanassis Zervas and Laura Perini from @au.dk @gfz.bsky.social @egu.eu
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Liane G Benning @lianegbenning.bsky.social · 28/04/2025
Pamela Rossel giving the intro talk about how the DOM/ POM of red snow and glacier ice algae change over 21 days during melting @prossel.bsky.social @gfz.bsky.social @egu.eu
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Pamela E. Rossel @prossel.bsky.social · 28/04/2025
EGU here we go with @ICEBIO - MSCA and Interface Geochemistry @lianegbenning.bsky.social G. Benning and Anirban Majumder
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Liane G Benning @lianegbenning.bsky.social · 28/04/2025
Christoph Keuschnig introducing the EVO-OMICS session starting us of on Monday morning in room 2.33 level -2 @egu.eu
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EAG @eageo.bsky.social · 23/04/2025
New in #GPLetters: Pseudomorphism, one of the most prominent features of mineral replacement phenomena, can survive several successive mineral transformations, as experimentally demonstrated for the 1st time by Forjanes et al ➡️ buff.ly/FbNFwXw @forjanes.bsky.social @jeffperez.bsky.social
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Liane G Benning @lianegbenning.bsky.social · 23/04/2025
So very proud of @forjanes.bsky.social and his 1st @gfz.bsky.social paper Exquisite data and images of a fabulous geochemical and mineralogical double pseudomorphic reaction
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Pablo Forjanes @forjanes.bsky.social · 23/04/2025
Very excited to share my first 100% @gfz.bsky.social paper on mineral pseudomorphism with my Interface Geochemistry fantastic team! @lianegbenning.bsky.social @jeffperez.bsky.social
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Liane G Benning @lianegbenning.bsky.social · 12/04/2025
Iceland never disappoints- day one and miracle after miracle
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Liane G Benning @lianegbenning.bsky.social · 11/04/2025
Going from spring 💐 to winter ❄️ #fielwork
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Alexandra Witze @alexwitze.bsky.social · 11/04/2025
💰 Near-final drafts from Trump's budget office suggest he'll propose major cuts to: 🌤️ Climate research at NOAA - story by @voosen.me www.science.org/content/arti... 🔭 Earth, planetary & astrophysical science at NASA - story by @joelachenbach.bsky.social www.washingtonpost.com/science/2025... 🧪
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Randall Munroe @xkcd.com · 08/04/2025
Tariffs xkcd.com/3073
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David Blanchflower BSc @davidbflower.bsky.social · 29/03/2025
Here's a link to watch coverage of today's Partial Solar Eclipse. Provided by the Royal Observatory, Greenwich. 🔭 🧪 www.rmg.co.uk/whats-on/onl...
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Partial solar eclipse LIVE
Watch the Moon hide a portion of the Sun live online with Royal Observatory Greenwich astronomers
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Alexandra Witze @alexwitze.bsky.social · 27/03/2025
We polled Nature readers to ask if they were thinking of leaving the US for jobs abroad. Three-quarters of them (who said they were US-based scientists) said yes. 🧪 www.nature.com/articles/d41...
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75% of US scientists who answered Nature poll consider leaving
More than 1,600 readers answered our poll; many said they were looking for jobs in Europe and Canada.
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