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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 study biogeochemical cycles, polar processes, climate change

I work in 🇩🇪🇮🇸🇳🇴🇬🇱 on 🌎💎🧊❄️🦠🧬🔬⚗️

I ❤️all📚and am a speed reader

https://www.gfz-potsdam.de/en/section/interface-geochemistry/overview/
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Liane G Benning @lianegbenning.bsky.social · Jul 27
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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Marvellous place, healthy food, healthy mind, healthy body!

Life is good ! 😊
November 11, 2025 at 7:17 AM
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November 2, 2025 at 6:10 PM
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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
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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October 7, 2025 at 9:07 AM
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The perfect rainbow 🌈 hill seen from Langjokull
#fieldwork joys
August 4, 2025 at 9:47 PM
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Hitchhiking Iceland style
August 4, 2025 at 3:44 PM
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Rainy and windy Iceland is not great for sampling - but that is fieldwork joy 🥹
August 3, 2025 at 10:20 AM
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Bye bye Greenland 🇬🇱
Hello Iceland 🇮🇸
August 3, 2025 at 10:18 AM
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Bye bye Greenland 🇬🇱

Hello Iceland 🇮🇸
August 2, 2025 at 4:05 PM
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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
July 27, 2025 at 8:44 PM
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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.

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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.
July 25, 2025 at 7:58 PM
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Scientist at work 😃 #fieldwork
These floaty algae are really cool Mirjam im her element Greenland 2025 Emily 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
July 25, 2025 at 9:43 PM
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Start of 2025 summer polar fieldwork travel - stage 1 ✅
July 24, 2025 at 8:04 AM
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Great @eos.org piece by @profmoldwin.bsky.social
May 16, 2025 at 10:51 AM
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Senior Scientists Must Stand Up Against Attacks on Research and Education

eos.org/opinions/sen...
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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May 16, 2025 at 10:49 AM
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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
May 13, 2025 at 8:46 AM
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This is bleak reading
May 14, 2025 at 8:19 AM
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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
May 6, 2025 at 7:04 PM
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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
May 1, 2025 at 9:10 PM
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Christoph Keuschnig gave her @MSCA project on fungal highways and their role in soil development
@egubg.bsky.social @gfz.bsky.social @egu.eu
April 29, 2025 at 11:11 AM
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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
April 28, 2025 at 6:12 PM
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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
April 28, 2025 at 1:14 PM
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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...
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
www.theartnewspaper.com
April 28, 2025 at 12:31 PM
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And now #IceBio PhD student Kara Sampsell taking about the microbes and glacier flower link in terms of nutrient delivery mechanisms - @egu.eu
April 28, 2025 at 7:58 AM
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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
April 28, 2025 at 7:25 AM
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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
April 28, 2025 at 6:48 AM