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Bene
@mxbenedix.bsky.social
Scientist in training, learning what higher sea levels do to coastlines.
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It’s that time of year when we celebrate the celebrated, reward the rewarded, and cite the cited in a game everyone knows is meaningless and rigged.

diagrammonkey.wordpress.com/2021/11/17/t...
The 7590 most puissant researchers of the year
Our biannual list recognises the most influential researchers, the true pioneers of science, the giants on whose shoulders the rest of us stand like so many flakes of dandruff, the ones who made th…
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November 17, 2025 at 2:26 PM
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🔊 We have contact! Communication has been established with Copernicus Sentinel-6B. 👋

The satellite launched successfully at 06:21 CET, and is ready to continue the world’s most accurate sea-level record - a crucial tool for understanding our changing planet: bit.ly/43rJxvg

📸 SpaceX / NASA
November 17, 2025 at 7:17 AM
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What does a geodesist look like, and what happens if you don’t “look the part”? @franckghomsi.bsky.social, a Black African scientist, takes us on his journey across South Africa, Canada & Cameroon, researching coastal climate change while battling racism and visa struggles. #Geodesy
Expanding the picture: Franck Ghomsi
What does a geodesist look like? And what happens if you don’t “look the part”? Today, Franck Ghomsi, a Black African scientist, takes us along on his journey between South Africa, Canada and…
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November 3, 2025 at 8:59 AM
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🧠 How are you, really?

Today is World Mental Health Day - a reminder that caring for your mind is important.

Kristin Vielberg and Hanna Sänger from PhDpositive reflect on the mental health challenges of doing a PhD and share ways to make the journey more sustainable, fulfilling, and balanced. 🌱
Climbing Through a PhD – Mental Health on the Way to the Summit
Imagine you are going on a long mountain tour. Your backpack is heavy, the path is steep, and although you have been walking for hours, all you can see ahead of you is the next climb. Doing a PhD is l...
blogs.egu.eu
October 10, 2025 at 9:22 AM
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Terrible headline on a good article. It’s the world’s taste for MEAT that’s fuelling Amazon destruction. The soya is cattle feed.
How the world’s taste for soya is eating Brazil’s Amazon
Cultivation of the crop has made a few wealthy but at a huge cost to untouched forest as it spreads across vast areas of former wilderness
www.theguardian.com
September 29, 2025 at 12:34 PM
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The #MaxPlanckPostdocProgram offers a guaranteed contract of at least 3 years, targeted mentoring, and career workshops. The call for applications is open now! 🚀 Take advantage of this opportunity and browse the job vacancies. www.mpg.de/en/max-planc...
September 1, 2025 at 8:46 AM
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Motherfucking wind farms…
July 30, 2025 at 5:02 PM
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“The lesson of 1933 is you get out sooner rather than later.”
Opinion | We Study Fascism. And We’re Leaving the U.S.
www.nytimes.com
May 14, 2025 at 11:00 AM
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Last month was the 2nd hottest April on record globally...

It was also separately the *warmest* April for global land areas and the 2nd warmest for global ocean areas.

Data provided by @noaa.gov NOAAGlobalTemp v6.0.0 (www.ncei.noaa.gov/products/lan...).
May 12, 2025 at 5:35 PM
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🌊 Just how much of the deep seafloor have we seen?

A new study estimates that only 0.001% of Earth's deep ocean floor has been visually explored – an area smaller than Rhode Island.

🔗 doi.org/10.1126/scia...

🧪 #DeepSea #SciComm 🐙
How little we’ve seen: A visual coverage estimate of the deep seafloor
In decades of deep-sea exploration, humans have observed only 0.001% of the deep seafloor, leaving 66% of planet Earth unseen.
doi.org
May 12, 2025 at 3:01 PM
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Aa the ice sheets melt, it slightly impacts the Earth's rotation:

More ice at the poles? The Earth spins faster

More water near the equator? The Earth spins slower

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May 12, 2025 at 5:46 PM
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Ice sheets are so large their gravity raises nearby sea levels, causing a slight bulge as water is drawn to the sheet
May 12, 2025 at 5:22 PM
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Jaap Nienhuis' talk is now online, learn all about delta morphodynamics!

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youtu.be/qpmlqcnkMrs
Jaap Nienhuis: LL 08.05.2025
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May 8, 2025 at 3:33 PM
Highly recommended read (and watch)! "True inclusivity requires vulnerability. It means being open to correction. It means welcoming the possibility of being wrong, with grace."
May 9, 2025 at 2:49 PM
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Final review paper of the GROCE team on the atmosphere-land-ice-ocean system around the 79°N glacier by Torsten Kanzow et al. in tc.copernicus.org/articles/19/...
May 9, 2025 at 12:11 PM
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A woman who thinks “everyone’s a little bit autistic” has no idea she’s the most autistic woman to ever autism, it has been rumoured.
“We’re all a bit autistic” says woman who doesn’t realise she’s a lot autistic
A woman who thinks “everyone’s a little bit autistic” has no idea she’s the most autistic woman to ever autism, it has been rumoured.  Beth Hapworth, 45, made the claim after suggesting her autistic f...
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May 6, 2025 at 1:47 PM
The kid of a friend of a friend just came out as trans. So friend 2 is asking friend 1 if friend 1 could ask me if the kid and I could have a call because they don't know any trans people yet 🥹
May 6, 2025 at 6:12 PM
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Hi #SciComm community - I've have week of leave to work on my FloodSkinner work. I want to learn Canva to improve my design work - any tips on where to start or good tutorials? Is it worth subscribing to the paid tier?
May 6, 2025 at 1:15 PM
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A new David Attenborough documentary is always an event, but I think that Ocean really is something innovative and different. I've seen some clips, and it tells a critical & unseen story (plus spectacular photography, of course). It'll be in cinemas from May 8th. Do go!

www.oceanfilm.net/
May 5, 2025 at 12:24 PM
#EGU25 Today it's finally time for the scientific presentation! How can we use satellites to measure beach elevation changes over time? It's at 10:55 in room -2.92. I'm trying my best not to talk of "flying space boxes", promised.
May 2, 2025 at 6:28 AM
#EGU25 Looking forward to the up-goer 5 session (10:45 Pico spot 3) where we explain science using the 1000 most common English words! My story is about how we can see how high the ground is near the edge between huge water bodies and dry land :D
May 1, 2025 at 7:18 AM
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Interested in signatures of floods and droughts in #GRACE data and derived fluxes? Come check out our @g.egu.eu poster(and its alignment) at 10:45 at X1.78. or check out the work at the git repository: github.com/SedighehKari...
May 1, 2025 at 7:00 AM
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🌍 #Geodesy meets #Cartoons 🎨
Join me this morning at #EGU25 at poster 📍 X1.90

📌 EGU25-1164: Geodesy Cartoons – Engaging the Public through Visual Storytelling

📄 Abstract: lnkd.in/dsHzkic2
🗣️ Give feedback: ggos.org/cartoon/

#EGU25_G @g.egu.eu @iag-ggos.bsky.social @lsanchez.bsky.social
April 30, 2025 at 7:20 AM