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https://ellis-jena.eu is developing+applying #AI #ML in #earth system, #climate & #environmental research.
Partner: @uni-jena.de, https://bgc-jena.mpg.de/en, @dlr-spaceagency.bsky.social, @carlzeissstiftung.bsky.social, https://aiforgood.itu.int
Insightful Day 2 of @ellisinstitute.fi launch at Aalto University 🇫🇮
Scientific seminars featured keynote talks, a fireside chat and panel discussions (@serge.belongie.com) on AI research and its impact in Europe ending with a cocktail reception🍸
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November 19, 2025 at 11:58 AM
Kicking off Day 2 @ellisinstitute.fi 🇫🇮 celebratory scientific seminar alongside first AI summit
Opening remarks: Samuel Kaski (Director, ELLIS Institute Finland) set the tone for a day of focused scientific exchange on the future of AI
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www.ellisinstitute.fi/launch-seminar
November 18, 2025 at 12:15 PM
5th talk of 4th session AI for Good Webinar series
AI for Earth & Sustainability Science
📅24 Nov 2025
⏰5-6 pm CET
📚Do AI models know what they know? How explainable AI can help us trust what machines learn
🧑‍🏫Speaker: Antonios Mamalakis
👨🏻‍💻Moderator: Gustau Camps-Valls
🔗 loom.ly/ge_DADE
November 18, 2025 at 10:31 AM
The opening of @ellisinstitute.fi and AI Summit in Turku 🇫🇮 also featured Panel Discussions on – State of AI Research and Technology in Europe 🇪🇺
👩‍⚖️Moderator: Larissa Holzki
Panelists: Neil Lawrence, Max Welling, Laurent Sifre, Laura Ruotsalainen
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🔗 aisummit.fi
November 17, 2025 at 4:07 PM
@ellisinstitute.fi opening featured Panel Discussions
Panel I —Frontiers of AI Research Serge Belongie, Bernhard Schölkopf, Jaakko Lehtinen, Kyunghyun Cho, Negar Kiyavash, Amy Loutfi
Panel II —Connecting Science & Society
Alexandra Gylfe, Nina Laaksonen, Kristo Ovaska, Ilkka Paananen
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November 17, 2025 at 4:04 PM
The official opening of the @ellisinstitute.fi in Turku 🇫🇮 alongside the first AI Summit
Opening remarks: @serge.belongie.com (President, @ellis.eu), Samuel Kaski (Director, ELLIS Institute), Bernhard Schölkopf (Co-founder, ELLIS), and Petteri Orpo (Prime Minister of Finland)
🔗 aisummit.fi
November 17, 2025 at 3:17 PM
ELLIS Unit Jena Vernissage-Nov 6 “When Machines Learn for Nature: AI Research on Climate & Biodiversity”
Speaker: Dr. Thomas Nitzsche (Mayor of Jena) Prof. Andreas Marx (President, @uni-jena.de) Prof. Markus Reichstein, Prof. Joachim Denzler & Prof. @alexanderbrenning.bsky.social
November 14, 2025 at 9:28 PM
🚀🥳Welcome to ELLIS Unit Jena — Dr. Andreas Gerhardus
Andreas is Group Head+Postdoc at @DLR_SpaceAgency on causal inference for temporal systems.
Andreas also has been a guest lecturer at the @UniJena and has done PhD in Physics from @unibonn.bsky.social + @ucberkeleyofficial.bsky.social
November 11, 2025 at 4:44 PM
🧬🤖Join us tomorrow for @ellis.eu featured Webinar Series From Molecules to Models
📚Topic: Convolutional networks beyond the Euclidean space
🗓️12 Nov 2025
⏰17:00–18:00 CET
👩🏼‍🏫Speaker: Daniel Cremers
📍Host: AI for Good
🔗 loom.ly/59wBduk
November 11, 2025 at 10:38 AM
Project Spotlight #9 : ELLIS Unit Jena
CAUSALANOMALIES 🚀
Using causal inference + anomaly detection to detect & explain malfunctions in complex systems (satellites, UAVs, aviation).
👨🏻‍💻: Dr. Andreas Gerhardus
🔗 www.dlr.de/en/research-...
@ellis.eu @dlr-spaceagency.bsky.social
November 10, 2025 at 7:09 PM
Markus Reichstein (@bgc-jena.mpg.de ) has been elected AGU Fellow 🔬🌍
Honored for work on ecosystem–climate feedbacks and resilience 🌱 (<0.1% of members/year).
He will be formally recognized at AGU25 in New Orleans, December 2025.
@ellis.eu @uni-jena.de
🔗 www.bgc-jena.mpg.de/en-news-mark...
November 7, 2025 at 2:52 PM
Watch the latest talk of AI for Earth and Sustainability Science Webinar Series

📚AI for humanity: Using earth observation for solving global challenges

👨🏻‍🏫 Speaker: Kelsey Doerksen
🎤Moderator: Shijie Jiang (@bgc-jena.mpg.de)
📍Host: AI for Good
🌐 loom.ly/6p0JcaI
November 6, 2025 at 4:41 PM
Our team at @ellis.eu booth during AIS25 fostered collaborative exchanges on #AI and #ML applications
@arnoutdevos.bsky.social , Tine Aage ( #UnitCopenhagen) Artur Kołodziejczyk-Skowron ( #UnitWarsaw) Lena Schadock (PR Manager, ELLIS) Conrad Philipp ( #UnitJena)
🔗 ais25.eu
November 5, 2025 at 7:50 PM
‼️Join us tomorrow
🎓ELLIS Unit Jena Vernissage
“When Machines Learn for Nature: AI Research on Climate and Biodiversity” 🤖🌿
📅 6 Nov 2025
⏰ 5:15–7:00 PM
📍 University Main Building, Jena (@uni-jena.de)
🖼️ Exhibition runs until Dec 12
🔗 www.ellis-jena.eu/ellis-exhibi...
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November 5, 2025 at 7:30 PM
🧬🤖Join us for @ellis.eu featured Webinar Series From Molecules to Models
📚Topic: Convolutional networks beyond the Euclidean space
🗓️12 Nov 2025
⏰17:00–18:00 CET
👩🏼‍🏫Speaker: Daniel Cremers
📍Host: AI for Good
🔗 loom.ly/59wBduk
November 5, 2025 at 3:33 PM
October in Jena was warmer than reference period for the fifth consecutive time
This year October has been 0.5°C above the long-term average
During the first 10 months alone, temperatures in Jena were 0.6°C above the 1991–2020 baseline—another sign of climate change
@dwdderwetterdienst.bsky.social
November 5, 2025 at 3:26 PM
GENAI-X 🌍, 👨🏻‍🏫Coordinated by @alexanderbrenning.bsky.social (@uni-jena.de) develops AI🤖 for robust prediction in non-stationary environmental systems — tackling floods 🌊, droughts 🌵 & landslides ⛰️
💡Funded by @carlzeissstiftung.bsky.social
🤝 @ellis.eu @bgc-jena.mpg.de
🔗 www.genai-x.uni-jena.de
November 4, 2025 at 9:04 PM
Dr. @alexanderbrenning.bsky.social + the GIScience Group (@uni-jena.de) invite you to GIS Day 2025 — focus: GeoAI for Environment.

📅 17 Nov 2025
🕐 13:00–17:30 CET
📍 Rosensäle Jena + Zoom (hybrid)

🖼️ Poster registration until 10 Nov

🔗 www.chemgeo.uni-jena.de/48059/gis-da...
November 4, 2025 at 12:36 PM
AIS25 in Copenhagen 🇩🇰
Day 1 of the Planet & Climate Workshop wrapped up with a panel discussion led by Markus Reichstein with Florence Rabier, Christian Igel, Jonas Peters, Kimmo Koski, Salvatore Pinto
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🔗 www.ais25.eu/thematic-wor...
November 3, 2025 at 2:36 PM
AIS25 in Copenhagen 🇩🇰
📝 Day 1 Keynote
@yoshuabengio.bsky.social (Professor of Computer Science @umontreal.ca) delivered a keynote on ensuring the powerful and safe application of AI in science, inspiring discussions on responsible AI in research.
🔗 www.ais25.eu/thematic-wor...
November 3, 2025 at 2:34 PM
AIS25 in Copenhagen 🇩🇰
@serge.belongie.com (President, @ellis.eu + AIS25 Steering Committee Chair) opened AIS25.

Markus Reichstein (Director, @bgc-jena.mpg.de) gave the Welcome and introduction to Day 1 of the Planet & Climate Workshop.

🔗 www.ais25.eu/thematic-wor...
November 3, 2025 at 11:00 AM
🥳On 1 Nov we’ll be celebrating 4 years of the ELLIS Unit Jena! 🎉
Here’s to more years of #AI and #ML helping us understand Earth’s dynamic systems and inspiring new scientific discoveries.🌍🚀
@ellis.eu @bgc-jena.mpg.de @uni-jena.de
@dlr-spaceagency.bsky.social
November 1, 2025 at 12:07 AM
🧠 Minds, Machines, and Meaning: An Interactive Inference Workshop
📅 5 Nov 2025
📍 Rosensäle of the Friedrich Schiller University Jena (@uni-jena.de) Fürstengraben 27, 07743 Jena
Organized by our ELLIS Unit Jena Core-Team Member Joachim Giesen (inference.uni-jena.de)
🔗 indico.rz.uni-jena.de/event/285/
October 28, 2025 at 12:40 PM
🧬🤖Join us tomorrow for @ellis.eu featured Webinar Series From Molecules to Models
📚Topic: Learn how to do from what you see: Causal effect estimation
🗓️29 Oct 2025
⏰17:00–18:00 CEST
👩🏼‍🏫Speaker: @ArthurGretton
📍Host: AI for Good
🔗 aiforgood.itu.int/event/learn-...
October 28, 2025 at 12:15 PM
🎓ELLIS Unit Jena Vernissage
“When Machines Learn for Nature: AI Research on Climate and Biodiversity” 🤖🌿
📅 6 Nov 2025
⏰ 5:15–7:00 PM
📍 University Main Building, Jena (@uni-jena.de)
🖼️ Exhibition runs until Dec 12
🔗 Register: survey.academiccloud.de/index.php/38...
@ellis.eu
October 25, 2025 at 12:58 PM