Creating the Digital Academy Perspectives & Reflections on Digital Research

📣What's waiting you at 𝘊𝘳𝘦𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘋𝘪𝘨𝘪𝘵𝘢𝘭 𝘈𝘤𝘢𝘥𝘦𝘮𝘺?
10:55 – 11:15: Outlook and Next Steps: @birgittaries.bsky.social (@uni-jena.de), Volker Gast (@uni-jena.de)
11:15 – 12:30: Get-together & Networking with Information Booths - 𝘴𝘵𝘰𝘱 𝘣𝘺 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘌𝘓𝘓𝘐𝘚 𝘜𝘯𝘪𝘵 𝘑𝘦𝘯𝘢 𝘣𝘰𝘰𝘵𝘩!
www.uni-jena.de/en/394735/cr...

📣 𝘋𝘰𝘯’𝘵 𝘮𝘪𝘴𝘴 𝘺𝘰𝘶𝘳 𝘤𝘩𝘢𝘯𝘤𝘦

Creating the Digital Academy on 20th April✨at @uni-jena.de 💻🔍
Make sure to stop by the ELLIS Unit Jena information booth!
👉An inspiring keynote talk and exciting project presentations are 𝘢𝘭𝘴𝘰 𝘸𝘢𝘪𝘵𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘧𝘰𝘳 𝘺𝘰𝘶!
Check out the details,program: www.uni-jena.de/en/394735/cr...

ELLIS Unit Jena Members will be actively contributing to the European Geosciences Union #EGU26 with their posters as first and last authors at Vienna, 3–8 May 2026🌐✨

👉Explore ELLIS contributions: www.ellis-jena.ai/egu-2026/
👉Latest updates: egu26.eu, @egu.eu

We are excited to connect & learn!

🌿🌍𝗘𝗟𝗟𝗜𝗦 𝗨𝗻𝗶𝘁 𝗝𝗲𝗻𝗮 𝗥𝗲𝘀𝗲𝗮𝗿𝗰𝗵 𝗛𝗶𝗴𝗵𝗹𝗶𝗴𝗵𝘁𝘀 #𝗠𝗮𝗿𝗰𝗵𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟲

🔬Each month, we present an overview of publications by 𝗘𝗟𝗟𝗜𝗦 𝗨𝗻𝗶𝘁 𝗝𝗲𝗻𝗮 𝗺𝗲𝗺𝗯𝗲𝗿𝘀. I𝗻 𝗠𝗮𝗿𝗰𝗵, 𝟮𝟬 𝗽𝘂𝗯𝗹𝗶𝗰𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻𝘀 𝘄𝗲𝗿𝗲 𝗺𝗮𝗱𝗲 𝗯𝘆 𝗼𝘂𝗿 𝗺𝗲𝗺𝗯𝗲𝗿𝘀 as first or last authorship.📚

👇The updated list at the link below.
ellis-jena.ai/publications/

Creating the Digital Academy happening next week at @uni-jena.de! 💻🔍

👉𝘞𝘩𝘺 𝘢𝘵𝘵𝘦𝘯𝘥? 🧐
Key Takeaways from the Working Sessions:
👩‍🏫 @birgittaries.bsky.social (𝘋𝘪𝘴𝘵𝘳𝘪𝘣𝘶𝘵𝘦𝘥 𝘐𝘯𝘧𝘰𝘳𝘮𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯 𝘚𝘺𝘴𝘵𝘦𝘮𝘴,@uni-jena.de)
👨‍🏫Volker Gast (𝘌𝘯𝘨𝘭𝘪𝘴𝘩 𝘓𝘪𝘯𝘨𝘶𝘪𝘴𝘵𝘪𝘤𝘴, @uni-jena.de)

Details: www.uni-jena.de/en/394735/cr...

𝘊𝘳𝘦𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘋𝘪𝘨𝘪𝘵𝘢𝘭 𝘈𝘤𝘢𝘥𝘦𝘮𝘺 is just around the corner⚛️
🗓️ 20 April 2026📍 FSU

Welcome addresses:
Thomas Pertsch – Vice President for Research – @uni-jena.de

Thoralf Held – Chancellor – @uni-jena.de

Johannes Schleußner, Head of Department for Education, Youth, Culture and Sports – City of Jena

@egu.eu post

Are you ready for #EGU26 ? 🌐
Europe’s biggest gathering for Earth, planetary, and space science is just 3 weeks away! 🌍✨ Where ELLIS members will be actively contributing.

📍Vienna & Online I 3–8 May 2026

👉ELLIS Members' contributions: www.ellis-jena.ai/egu-2026/
👉Latest updates: egu26.eu, @egu.eu

🚀Don't miss this event!
Hackathon on Machine Learning for Earth System Modelling
(for PhD students and early-career researchers)

🗓️19-21 August 2026
📍Bonn, Germany (Computer Science Department, University of Bonn)

👉Learn more and Apply: cesoc.net/mlesm-hackat...

🚀 Excited to launch new Summer Lecture Series by @ellis.eu & @uni-jena.de:

“Explainability & Understanding of Models”

Save the date for the first session:
📅Jun 2,2026 @hila-chefer.bsky.social l

3 talks, 5 weeks—Stay tuned for the updates!🌍⚡
#WomenInScience #ExplainableAI #MachineLearning

Dr. Thomas Nitzsche, Lord Mayor of Jena

Prof. Dr. Thomas Pertsch Vice-President for Research and Innovation, Friedrich Schiller University Jena

Anna Müller-Trimbusch, Head of Funding at the Carl-Zeiss-Stiftung

Jena Innovation Team Group Picture

⚛️The Kick-off of JENAINNOVATION took place yesterday with a large audience. Dr. Thomas Nitzsche, Lord Mayor of Jena, Prof. Dr. Thomas Pertsch Vice-President for Research and Innovation, @uni-jena.de and Anna Müller-Trimbusch, Head of Funding of @carlzeissstiftung.bsky.social gave their speeches.

🚀𝗦𝗮𝘃𝗲 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗲𝘃𝗲𝗻𝘁! "Creating the Digital Academy"

🗓️20 April 2026, 8:30-12:30
📍University Jena

The Digital Academy at @uni-jena.de aims to promote and accelerate the advances of digital research methods in all research areas of our university.
Details and register: indico.rz.uni-jena.de/event/326/

Butterflies analysed automatically Innovative software measures, sorts and analyses photos of butterflies in no time at all

LEPY: A Python pipeline for automated trait extraction from standardised Lepidoptera images🪰💻

ELLIS Unit Jena member Paul Bodesheim, (Computer Vision Group, @uni-jena.de) is among the researchers.

👉Learn more: www.uni-jena.de/en/397595/bu...
👉Original source: doi.org/10.1016/j.ec...

Kick-off: JENAINNOVATION stellt sich vor Mit JENAINNOVATION entsteht ein gemeinsames Transfer- und Innovationszentrum der Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena, der Ernst-Abbe-Hochschule Jena und des Universitätsklinikums Jena – gefördert durc...

📢 Save the Date! Kick-off: JENAINNOVATION
🗓️ April 8, 2026 16:30 PM - 20:30 PM
📍 JenTower

JENAINNOVATION is a joint transfer and innovation center for @uni-jena.de, EAH Jena and Uniklinikum Jena–funded by the @carlzeissstiftung.bsky.social

👉 register: indico.rz.uni-jena.de/event/319/ov...

🌿☀️𝗠𝗮𝗿𝗰𝗵 𝗶𝗻 #𝗝𝗲𝗻𝗮, was a warm start to the year, averaging +𝟭.𝟯 °𝗖 𝗮𝗯𝗼𝘃𝗲 the long-term norm, and the first quarter overall was about 𝟬.𝟱 °𝗖 𝘄𝗮𝗿𝗺𝗲𝗿 than usual. Sunshine was abundant, making it the second sunniest #𝗠𝗮𝗿𝗰𝗵 𝗶𝗻 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗽𝗮𝘀𝘁 𝟯𝟬 𝘆𝗲𝗮𝗿𝘀.

source: @dwdderwetterdienst.bsky.social

Welcome to our new partner, MeDiTwin!🌍🤝

MeDiTwin is an EU‑supported project developing a Mediterranean Digital Twin to better model and forecast climate extremes like droughts, floods, and wildfires using AI, Earth observation data, and advanced modeling.

Learn more about 👉 meditwin-project.eu

Welcome to @ai4pex.bsky.social as our new partner!🤝
Using AI & machine learning to improve how processes & extremes are represented in climate & Earth system models. Integrates observations + models to reduce uncertainty and better predict climate impacts #ClimateScience #ML
More AI4PEX: ai4pex.org

𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗚𝗘𝗡𝗔𝗜-𝗫 𝗽𝗿𝗼𝗷𝗲𝗰𝘁 — AI Generalizability in Non-stationary Environmental Regimes: The Case of Hydro-climatic Extremes 𝗵𝗮𝘀 𝗼𝗳𝗳𝗶𝗰𝗶𝗮𝗹𝗹𝘆 𝘀𝘁𝗮𝗿𝘁𝗲𝗱 𝘁𝗼𝗱𝗮𝘆!🚀

🔗 Stay updated! : www.genai-x.uni-jena.de

@carlzeissstiftung.bsky.social
@uni-jena.de, @bgc-jena.mpg.de, Universitätsklinikum Jena,
@sgn.one

🍽️🥙 Monthly Team Lunch, March

It was a pleasure sharing the table with Alexander Brenning, Bing Xu, Conrad Philipp, George Blougouras, Jonathan Frank, Lu Tian, Markus Reichstein, Mohamed Bourriz, Shijie Jiang, Thomas Wolfers, and Yucong Hu.

Looking forward to the next one! ✨

PhD Candidate (m/f/d) | Hybrid Modelling for Ecosystem-Atmosphere Carbon & Water Fluxes PhD Candidate (m/f/d) Hybrid Modelling for Ecosystem-Atmosphere Carbon & Water Fluxes

⚪𝗢𝗽𝗲𝗻 𝗣𝗵𝗗 𝗣𝗼𝘀𝗶𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝗮𝘁 𝗠𝗣𝗜-𝗕𝗚𝗖 - 𝗛𝘆𝗯𝗿𝗶𝗱 𝗠𝗼𝗱𝗲𝗹𝗹𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝗘𝗰𝗼𝘀𝘆𝘀𝘁𝗲𝗺-𝗔𝘁𝗺𝗼𝘀𝗽𝗵𝗲𝗿𝗲 𝗖𝗮𝗿𝗯𝗼𝗻 & 𝗪𝗮𝘁𝗲𝗿 𝗙𝗹𝘂𝘅𝗲𝘀

3-year PhD at the @bgc-jena.mpg.de within the GENAI-X project as part of the ELLIS Unit Jena.

‼️Apply until April 9: www.bgc-jena.mpg.de/en/career/02...

🌍🌱 At ELLIS Unit Jena, environmental protection is one of our core priorities. On March 28, 2026, Jena will go dark for one hour as part of the #GlobalEarthHour organized by @wwf.de, to send a strong, collective signal for climate and environmental protection along with @uni-jena.de.

Fight fire with fire The Fire Weather Index is a semi-empirical, process-based model that integrates temperature, humidity, wind speed, and precipitation to estimate potential

📢Next Week at 𝗔𝗜 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝗚𝗼𝗼𝗱 𝗪𝗲𝗯𝗶𝗻𝗮𝗿 𝗦𝗲𝗿𝗶𝗲𝘀!
“𝘍𝘪𝘨𝘩𝘵 𝘧𝘪𝘳𝘦 𝘸𝘪𝘵𝘩 𝘧𝘪𝘳𝘦”

📅 02 April 2026
⏰ 17:00 - 18:00 CET

🧑‍🏫 Speaker: Ioannis Papoutsis (National Technical University of Athens)
👨🏻‍💻 Moderator: Gustau Camps Valls (@uv.es)
aiforgood.itu.int/event/fight-...

👨‍🔬Welcome to ELLIS Unit Jena, Prof. Dr. Alexander Binder !
Professor for Multimodal Machine Learning and Principal Investigator at @scadsai.bsky.social and @unileipzig.bsky.social focuses on one of the most critical challenges in modern AI: making multimodal models more explainable and trustworthy.

🚀 Excited to launch new Summer Lecture Series by @ellis.eu & @uni-jena.de:“Explainability & Understanding of Models”
•Jun 2 @hila-chefer.bsky.social
•Jun 24 @margretkeuper.bsky.social
•Jul 8 @simoneschaub.bsky.social
3 talks, 5 weeks—stay tuned! ✨
#WomenInScience #ExplainableAI #MachineLearning

🚀 About the 𝗘𝗟𝗟𝗜𝗦 𝗨𝗻𝗶𝘁 𝗔𝘁𝗵𝗲𝗻𝘀 𝗪𝗶𝗻𝘁𝗲𝗿 𝗦𝗰𝗵𝗼𝗼𝗹:

🤖 Part of the @ellis.eu 𝗦𝘂𝗺𝗺𝗲𝗿 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗪𝗶𝗻𝘁𝗲𝗿 𝗦𝗰𝗵𝗼𝗼𝗹𝘀 𝘀𝗲𝗿𝗶𝗲𝘀 across Europe, it brings together top AI researchers, hand-on learning, and a vibrant European network.

👉 Learn more about upcoming schools! : ellis.eu/news/travel-...

🚀 #ELLISWinterSchool2026 is over — a week to remember, full of learning, and new connections. The Winter School not only showcased state-of-the-art research but also reinforced connections within the AI and Earth Science community.

Stay tuned for the 3rd edition in 2027!
Photos: Nicole Börner, NTUA

🚀Last day of #ELLISWinterSchool2026
The programme concluded with inspiring keynote reflections and awards celebrating outstanding contributions.
🏆Presentation Award
Progress Award
Innovation Award
Thank you all for making this experience happen together.
Photos: Nicole Börner, NTUA

🚀 Day 5 at the #ELLISWinterSchool2026

Enlightening keynote by @alexanderbrenning.bsky.social (@uni-jena.de), “Uncertainty Quantification in Geospatial Machine Learning Applications”🌍 offered us in-depth perspectives on challenges & advances in handling uncertainty in spatial ML models. @ellis.eu

Explainable AI in cases when you cannot spot the dogs or cats This talk explores the use of explainable AI (XAI) in settings where ground truth is not known a priori and therefore cannot be directly validated. In

📢 Save the Date!
AI for Good Webinar Series: “𝗘𝘅𝗽𝗹𝗮𝗶𝗻𝗮𝗯𝗹𝗲 𝗔𝗜 𝗶𝗻 𝗰𝗮𝘀𝗲𝘀 𝘄𝗵𝗲𝗻 𝘆𝗼𝘂 𝗰𝗮𝗻𝗻𝗼𝘁 𝘀𝗽𝗼𝘁 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗱𝗼𝗴𝘀 𝗼𝗿 𝗰𝗮𝘁𝘀”

📅 23 March 2026
⏰ 17:00 - 18:00 CET
🧑‍🏫 Speaker: Alexander Binder (@unileipzig.bsky.social)
👨🏻‍💻 Moderator: Randi Goertz (ELLIS Unit Graz, @tugraz.bsky.social )
aiforgood.itu.int/event/explai...

🚀 Day 4 at the #ELLISWinterSchool2026

An inspiring lecture delivered by Dr. Christian Reimers (@bgc-jena.mpg.de) titled “Machine learning for earth system science from the beginning or on a special aspect". And we celebrated the recipients of the @esa.int academy @ellis.eu Mobility Grant🎉

🚀 Day 3 at #ELLISWinterSchool2026

Through keynotes, major AI-for-climate challenges were explored: #uncertainty, #ethics, #extremeevents. A guided visit to the National Observatory of Athens took place, followed by continued team discussions into the evening. @ellis.eu
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