June 23: Team & Vision Building for #GENAIX funded by carlzeissstiftung.bsky.social out of @ellis.eu Unit Jena. A big thank you to Bettina Böhm, Prof. @alexanderbrenning.bsky.social, Gyulsen Yordanova Akkaya, and Saskia. See more genai-x.uni-jena.de

June 22: Kick-off GENAI-X project. Including @uni-jena.de, @bgc-jena.mpg.de, Jena University Hospital, and @sgn.one Institute Jena. Funded by @carlzeissstiftung.bsky.social. Photo credit: Gyulsen Yordanova Akkaya and Christin Sehmsdorf. @ellis.eu See more www.genai-x.uni-jena.de 🔗 lnkd.in/ei2CNbQS

The ELLIS Summer Lecture Series by @ellisunitjena.bsky.social continues with session 2, featuring @margretkeuper.bsky.social (University of Mannheim & Max Planck Institute for Informatics 🇩🇪) #WomenInELLIS 📍 Hybrid @uni-jena.de 📅 24 June 🕑 16:00-18:00 CEST 🔗 www.ellis-jena.ai/explainabili...

🎉 Join the ELLIS Sites ICML Fest 2026 in Jena! 🗓️ 25 June, 16:00–18:00 📍 Central Jena (venue TBA) Discover recent ML/AI research from across the ELLIS network, including ICML contributions. Meet fellow researchers. Enjoy drinks, snacks, and scientific exchange. More info: ellis.eu/events/ellis...

📆 Save the Date to join us in #Jena Don't forget to register!

🎓✨ Join us for the next talk on June 24 of the ELLIS Summer Lecture Series: Explainability and Understanding of Models! We are excited to welcome Prof. Dr. Margret Keuper @margretkeuper.bsky.social (University of Mannheim & MPII) on June 24, 2026, 16:00–18:00 CEST @uni-jena.de Lecture Hall E005

🚀 Join us for the public kick-off event of GENAI-X Project-— AI Generalizability in Non-stationary Environmental Regimes: The Case of Hydro-climatic Extremes. 📅 June 22, 2026 🕓 4:00 PM – 8:00 PM 📍 Rosensäle, Fürstengraben 27, 07743 Jena @uni-jena.de @bgc-jena.mpg.de @carlzeissstiftung.bsky.social

ELLIS Unit Jena 𝗥𝗲𝘀𝗲𝗮𝗿𝗰𝗵 𝗙𝗿𝗼𝗻𝘁𝗶𝗲𝗿𝘀 𝘀𝗲𝗿𝗶𝗲𝘀 episode #2 featuring Alexander Brenning! 🎥Alexander Brenning @alexanderbrenning.bsky.social renning.bsky.social explains why he joined ELLIS Unit Jena and how the unit contributes to and advances his research. See full video: www.youtube.com/watch?v=MEWI...

🤖🌍 On June 4, we joined the FORUM Generale “In Dialogue” at @uni-jena.de to discuss the opportunities and societal implications of AI. Talks and panel discussions by @reichstein-bgc.bsky.social , Joachim Denzler, @vitusbenson.bsky.social and Jens Kersten (DLR). www.uni-jena.de/505/forum-ge...

🌍 A look back at an inspiring week in #Athens! Now see the recap video of the ELLIS Winter School 2026! A week of scientific exchange, collaboration, and learning on Earth system science, and climate research. Hosted by NTUA, www.ellis-jena.ai/winter-schoo... 📺 www.youtube.com/watch?v=pXMH...

🌿May in Jena was 0.7°C above the long-term average for 1990–2020. Precipitation at 152.7 mm was quite above the average of 60.2 mm, making it the second-wettest May since records began in 1827. Two-thirds of the rainfall in May occurred within two 24-hour periods. @dwdderwetterdienst.bsky.social

We are pleased to welcome our new team member, Felix Henkel! 🌲Felix is a PhD candidate in the GIScience Group at the Department of Geography, @uni-jena.de,supervised by Prof. Dr. Alexander Brenning. We are excited to have Felix join the team and look forward to his contributions!

🌿🌍 𝗘𝗟𝗟𝗜𝗦 𝗨𝗻𝗶𝘁 𝗝𝗲𝗻𝗮 𝗥𝗲𝘀𝗲𝗮𝗿𝗰𝗵 𝗛𝗶𝗴𝗵𝗹𝗶𝗴𝗵𝘁𝘀 #May2026 🔬𝗜𝗻 𝗠𝗮𝘆, 𝟮𝟰 𝗽𝘂𝗯𝗹𝗶𝗰𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻𝘀 𝘄𝗲𝗿𝗲 𝗺𝗮𝗱𝗲 𝗯𝘆 𝗼𝘂𝗿 𝗺𝗲𝗺𝗯𝗲𝗿𝘀 as first or last authorship 𝗮𝗰𝗿𝗼𝘀𝘀 #𝗔𝗜 #𝗘𝗻𝘃𝗶𝗿𝗼𝗻𝗺𝗲𝗻𝘁𝗮𝗹𝗦𝗰𝗶𝗲𝗻𝗰𝗲, #𝗜𝗻𝘁𝗲𝗿𝗱𝗶𝘀𝗰𝗶𝗽𝗹𝗶𝗻𝗮𝗿𝘆𝗥𝗲𝘀𝗲𝗮𝗿𝗰𝗵.📚 👇Please find the updated list of publications in the link below. ellis-jena.ai/publications/

🌍 World Environment Day 2026 At ELLIS Unit Jena, our research brings together machine learning, 🌱 biodiversity research, 🌦️ climate science, and 🌎 Earth system science to address environmental challenges and advance sustainable solutions to build a more sustainable future. #WorldEnvironmentDay

🚀 Exciting week for ELLIS Unit Jena! June 2, we joined the Forum Digitale @uni-jena.de with our ELLIS booth where digital skills shape learning and research explored under the theme “Digital Competencies for Study, Teaching, Research, and Everyday Work”. Thanks to everyone who visited our booth! ✨

🤖✨Last Monday, @hila-chefer.bsky.social gave a talk at @uni-jena.de on building generative models that better understand the visual world, improving spatial and temporal reasoning in image and video generation. 📅Stay tuned for next talks: Margret Keuper, June 24 Simone Schaub-Meyer, July 8

Visit the ELLIS Unit Jena booth today at the FORUM DIGITALE @uni-jena.de! 📍 We're on site until 1:15 PM and look forward to discussing AI and research with you. 🤖✨

🌱🔬 We are happy to see newly established connection! One of our ELLIS Summer School 2025 participants, @amirpasha.bsky.social, continuing his career at the @bgc-jena.mpg.de as a guest researcher starting April 2026. 📌 A look back at Summer School: lnkd.in/dEAUTqmW 💡 Amirpasha’s work: amirpasha.me

🗺️🔍 Discover the ELLIS Sites: next up Ellis Unit Jena 🇩🇪 — advancing interpretable, causal, and uncertainty-aware AI at the interface of machine learning and Earth system science. Learn more: https://bit.ly/4f8s6Gz @ellisunitjena.bsky.social

🌍The first episode of the ELLIS Unit Jena Research Frontiers series featuring Aishwarya Venkataramana ( @uni-jena.de). 🎥 Discover her research on robust & reliable deep learning models, uncertainty quantification, and multimodal learning 👉Check out the full version: www.youtube.com/watch?v=jQkf...

📌 Save the Date FORUM Generale – Im Dialog fur eine gemeinsame Zukunft 📅 04. Juni 2026 | 📍 Engelplatz 8 jena digital Mit Beiträgen von ELLIS Unit Jena: Prof. Dr. Joachim Denzler, Prof. Dr. Markus Reichstein & Vitus Benson (@vitusbenson.bsky.social) 🔗 www.uni-jena.de/505/forum-ge...

💻✨ 𝗙𝗢𝗥𝗨𝗠 𝗗𝗜𝗚𝗜𝗧𝗔𝗟𝗘 𝗨𝗡𝗜 𝗝𝗘𝗡𝗔 @uni-jena.de 🔍 Entdecken – 💬 Diskutieren – 🛠️ Entwickeln widmet sich das Forum den digitalen Kompetenzen für Studium, Lehre, Forschung & Berufsalltag 🚀 🖥️ Online-Tag: 1. Juni &🏛️ Präsenz-Tag: 2. Juni 👇Mehr Infos: www.uni-jena.de/378191/26060...

🚀 We are excited to launch the new Summer Lecture Series, by the ELLIS Unit Jena and Friedrich Schiller University Jena on “Explainability and Understanding of Models” Save the date for the first session with @hila-chefer.bsky.social (Tel Aviv University) 📅 June 1, 2026 👉: www.ellis-jena.ai

🍽️🥙 Our monthly team lunch in May brought us together for great conversations, delicious food, an exchanges with our team members Mohamed Bourriz, Jonathan Frank, Conrad Phillip, and Bing Xu. We are already looking forward to our next exchanges and next meetings! 🤝

Welcome to our new team member, Umut Can Ekinci to the team as Visual Assistant, Photographer & Videographer ! 📸🎬 Umut is pursuing a Master’s in Digital Technologies in Architecture and Design at Bauhaus University Weimar and supporting the unit with his media skills in photography and videography.

🌍✨ Glad to be part of #EGU26 in Vienna again this year! Explore the ELLIS Unit Jena members contributions in Earth system science, climate research, hydrology, geostatistics & ML: ellis-jena.ai/egu-2026/. Thanks to everyone who attended the sessions and contributed to the inspiring discussions.🙌

The last day of🌍 #EGU26 @egu.eu was highlighted by presentations, poster presentations and PICO sessions. Presentations by Jonathan Frank, Shijie Jiang, Gustau Camps-Valls and Franziska Müller. While Florian Strohmaier presented their research poster and Sophie Biskop gave a PICO presentation.

Day 4 at the 🌍✨ #EGU26 @egu.eu was highlighted by great presentations. @vitusbenson.bsky.social presented “Mechanistic Interpretability for Mapping Ecosystem Functioning” and Bing Xu presented “Uncertainty-aware Spatiotemporal Inference of Landslide Events” presentation in the PICO session.

🚀The Final @elsa-ai.eu brought together researchers, industry, policymakers, and European AI initiatives for 3 days of talks, and discussions on secure & trustworthy AI at Saarbrücke🇪🇺ELSA had received funding from Horizon Europe, and was led by Mario Fritz and coordinated by Miriam Schwartz.

Day 4 at the 🌍✨ #EGU26 @egu.eu started for ELLIS Unit Jena members with poster presentations. @ranitde.bsky.social and Guohua Liu presented their research in the morning sessions. @bgc-jena.mpg.de @uni-jena.de @unileipzig.bsky.social 👉 Check out their great work: www.ellis-jena.ai/egu-2026/

Day 3 at #EGU26 🌍🚀 A powerful start with an inspiring morning session featuring Feini Huang; throughout the day, engaging poster sessions included: Sebastian Sippel’s and Alexander Winkler’s researchs. Closing the day in the evening session,Georgios Blougouras presentantation.

A packed and inspiring day at #EGU26 🌍✨ Posters by Mohamed Bourriz & Alexander Brenning, while presentations from Christian Reimers and Miguel D. Mahecha took place.Shijie Jiang was a session convener, and Lexcube.org will be on display throughout the week.

🌍✨ Today marks the start of Europe’s biggest week for Earth, planetary science #EGU26! with poster sessions, presentations, and talks across diverse topics. Morning session higlights Gustau Camps-Valls poster attendance. Stay tuned for the updates from ELLIS Unit Jena members throughout the week! 🌐

🎉 Celebrating an Outstanding Achievement A study led by 𝗗𝗿. 𝗦𝗵𝗶𝗷𝗶𝗲 𝗝𝗶𝗮𝗻𝗴 on interpretable ML in geoscience has been classified by Clarivate Essential Science Indicators (ESI) as a Top 1% highly cited paper in the field of Environment/Ecology for its publication year. Congratulations! 👏

Save the Date! 📊 Data Science Day Jena 2026 📅 6 May 2026 – Inspiring talks and insights from academia, business, and policy – Exchange across disciplines and sectors Participation is free of charge. 🔗 Details: www.fmi.uni-jena.de/en/12727/dat... Register: indico.rz.uni-jena.de/event/302/

🍽️🥙 Our monthly team lunch in April took place together with our team members Vitus Benson, Mohamed Bourriz, Alexander Brenning, Jonathan Frank, Felix Henkel (a guest PhD candidate, Alex Brennings team), Conrad Phillip, Thomas Wolfers and Bing Xu. Looking forward to our next meeting! ✨

🌿☀️ #April was in #Jena 0.5°C colder than the long-term average (1991-2020). The first third of the year overall was slightly warmer compared to the baseline. Around 60% of the monthly precipitation fell within just 48 hours. source: @dwdderwetterdienst.bsky.social

Save the date! 🌿You’re warmly invited to the upcoming Bio-Geo-Colloquium. Title: "Global greening versus enhanced tree mortality: obvious and not-so-obvious shifts in the terrestrial biosphere" Speaker: ELLIS Unit Jena team member Prof. Dr. @miguelmahecha.bsky.social (@unileipzig.bsky.social)

ELLIS Unit Jena Members will be contributing on-site to the #EGU26 at Vienna, 3–8 May 2026🌐 10 𝘥𝘪𝘧𝘧𝘦𝘳𝘦𝘯𝘵 𝘗𝘳𝘦𝘴𝘦𝘯𝘵𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘐𝘯𝘵𝘦𝘳𝘢𝘤𝘵𝘪𝘷𝘦 𝘊𝘰𝘯𝘵𝘦𝘯𝘵 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘊𝘰𝘯𝘷𝘦𝘯𝘦𝘥 𝘚𝘦𝘴𝘴𝘪𝘰𝘯𝘴 𝘰𝘯 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘴𝘪𝘵𝘦: 👉Explore more about: www.ellis-jena.ai/egu-2026/ 👉Latest updates: egu26.eu, @egu.eu We are excited to be part of it!

ELLIS Unit Jena Members will be contributing on-site to the #EGU26 with oral presentations at Vienna, 3–8 May 2026🌐 10 oral presentations by members of the unit will be held. 👉Explore more about: www.ellis-jena.ai/egu-2026/ 👉Latest updates: egu26.eu, @egu.eu We are excited to connect & learn!

"𝘊𝘳𝘦𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘋𝘪𝘨𝘪𝘵𝘢𝘭 𝘈𝘤𝘢𝘥𝘦𝘮𝘺" at @uni-jena.de brought together an engaged audience aiming to promote and accelerate the advances of digital research methods in all research areas of the university.💻🔍 As ELLIS Unit Jena, we thank you for the great interest in our information booth!⚛️🤝

📣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

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