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Animal Ecology, Institute of Animal Ecology & Systematics, Justus Liebig University of Giessen, Emily Poppenborg Martin Lab
Read more about our experience showcasing the #UPSCALE project at the AU-EU Innovation Fair in this #pressrelease from @jlugiessen.bsky.social! This event was an opportunity to reaffirm JLU's commitment to research & cooperation between the EU and African countries.

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November 4, 2025 at 9:42 AM
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🌍 We’re proud to share that Emily Poppenborg Martin (project coordinator) and Ammanuel Tamiru (leader of the Push-Pull programme from ICIPE) represented UPSCALE at The AU–EU Innovation Fair.

#UPSCALE #InnovationFair #AUEUInnovation #Sustainability #AgriFoodSystems #EUProjects
October 24, 2025 at 11:43 AM
📹 Check out the recent @jlugiessen.bsky.social video of our BeeContour project led by the Organic Farming department! The project investigates how strip cropping systems can promote the biodiversity of wild bees, pollinators, & other beneficial insects in agriculture 🐝

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JLU-Projekt BeeContour – Streifenanbau für mehr Biodiversität und Bodenschutz
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October 24, 2025 at 11:09 AM
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🔴 Live from the AU–EU Innovation Fair in Brussels!

🎉As Prof. Brando Okolo (AUDA-NEPAD) reminded us today:
“The future is not something we wait for. It is something we build together.”

We couldn’t agree more. 💪

Stay tuned for more updates live from the Fair!

#UPSCALE
October 23, 2025 at 8:46 AM
We are honored to showcase #UPSCALE as a top project at the AU-EU Innovation Fair 🙌

📃Find the full agenda here: innovationfair2025.service-facility.eu/en/programme

@upscale-h2020.bsky.social
October 23, 2025 at 7:29 AM
🙌Our team is honored and excited to participate in the Africa-Europe Innovation Fair!
📅Professor Emily Poppenborg Martin will pitch our @upscale-h2020.bsky.social project on Thursday, Oct. 23.
📃Find the full agenda here: innovationfair2025.service-facility.eu/en/programme
🌍✨ We’re proud to share that UPSCALE has been selected as one of the four best-performing FNSSA projects to present a pitch and host an exhibition stand at the AU-EU Innovation Fair!

🔗 You can find more information about the Innovation Fair here: innovationfair2025.service-facility.eu

#UPSCALE
October 13, 2025 at 9:20 AM
We're excited to be part of the KOMBI project that is testing a new conservation approach in Germany. Check out the project website to learn how #farmers & #natureconservation experts are collaborating to support #agriculture & protect #ecosystems.

💻https://kombi-agrar.de/

@jlugiessen.bsky.social
June 12, 2025 at 1:30 PM
Our group has been testing out the #rebornArticles approach to make scientific information machine-readable & #FAIR. Our lab members Kevin, Ricardo, Kate, & @laurendsnyder.bsky.social recently created this cool video to explain the approach-check it out!

More about reborn articles: reborn.orkg.org
As part of the 2025 #DanceYourPhD competition, I got to combine two of my passions - #science and #Zumba🤓💃 Gosh was it fun! Thanks so much to the creative souls who made it possible, especially my #Giessen Zumba friends & video editor extraordinaire Kevin Baumann! Check it out 👇

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Dance Your PhD 2025: Rethinking the Production of Research Findings
This video is a submission for the special AI/quantum category of the 2025 “Dance your PhD” competition run by AAAS and Science: bit.ly/4c8Ricx Despite significant advances in digital technologies, modern scientific results are still communicated using antiquated methods. Since the first scientific article published in 1665, we have managed the switch from physically printed articles to PDFs, but these electronic documents are still text-based and not machine-readable. This means your computer cannot interpret the information they contain without some level of human assistance (e.g., detailed prompts, large amounts of training data). With millions of scientific articles published annually, researchers and other data users stand to benefit greatly from approaches that enable machine-assisted information organization and reuse. In this video, we explore the limitations of text-based PDF articles from a machine’s perspective and demonstrate how using knowledge bases that structure scientific information in a machine-readable format can address some of these challenges. Using color to represent different kinds of scientific information (think figures, tables, and statistical analyses), we look at a machine’s ability to interpret information in a text-based format compared to a machine-readable format. We use Zumba®, which uses structured dance sequences to create easy-to-learn choreographies, to represent the inherently structured nature of much scientific information, which is easily lost in PDFs. This video is inspired by research conducted at the Lab Knowledge Infrastructures led by Dr. Markus Stocker at the TIB – Leibniz Information Centre for Science and Technology in Germany. The video was produced by Lauren Snyder, a postdoctoral researcher in the lab and a licensed Zumba® instructor. We would like to extend a very special thank you to Zumba® for their permission to use and perform their original song, Guadalajara (PPL-/PPCA-free music). We are also very grateful to ZJ™ Rony Gratereaut for the Zumba® choreography that we adapted for this video. Learn more about the researcher and machine-readable scientific information here: Lauren Snyder: @laurendsnyder.bsky.social (Bluesky), @dr.zumba_lauren (Instagram) Machine-readable reborn articles: https://reborn.orkg.org For any questions related to the video, please contact Lauren at lauren.snyder@tib.eu REFERENCE Markus Stocker, Lauren Snyder, Matthew Anfuso, Oliver Ludwig, Freya Thießen, Kheir Eddine Farfar, Muhammad Haris, Allard Oelen, and Mohamad Yaser Jaradeh (in press). Rethinking the production and publication of machine-reusable expressions of research findings. Scientific Data. CREDITS Directed, Written, & Produced by Lauren Snyder with creative inspiration from Ricardo Perez Alvarez Cast (alphabetical order) Vinodh Ilangovan Ida Keller Ekaterina Mogilnaia Alica Oppermann Tobias Oppermann Susen Orth Sonja Rexin Mia Richter Maya Schaefer Lauren Snyder Filmed by Kevin Baumann & Ricardo Perez Alvarez Edited by Kevin Baumann Choreography ZJ™ Rony Gratereaut & ZIN™ Lauren Snyder Music Credits Zumba® Original - Guadalajara (PPL-/PPCA-free music) The research portrayed in this video is led by researchers at the TIB – Leibniz Information Centre for Science and Technology, and is associated with the Leibniz-Lab “Systemic Sustainability” project funded by the Leibniz Association and the FAIR2Adapt Horizon Europe Project. This project has received funding from the European Union’s HorizonEurope programme under the grant agreement number 101188256. Any dissemination of results here presented reflects only the consortium view. The Commission is not responsible for any use that may be made of the information it contains.
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March 31, 2025 at 10:27 AM
Check out this article featuring our very own Dr. Ricardo Perez Alvarez 👏
Ecologist Ricardo Perez Alvarez is working on one of the trickiest puzzles of our time—how to balance food production 🥦🌽 and the protection of our natural resources 🌎. Read his story in our new series featuring researchers who are pioneering machine-readable #rebornArticles.

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Dr Ricardo Perez-Alvarez on harmonizing food production and nature - TIB-Blog
A landscape ecologist at the University of Giessen in Germany channels his curiosity about nature into his research.
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March 27, 2025 at 1:13 PM
New article introduces the EuPPollNet database—a fully open European-level database harmonizing plant-pollinator interactions across space & time 🐝🌼 Congrats to the author team led by @joseblanuza.bsky.social & including our very own @libranembid-f.bsky.social. Check it out! doi.org/10.1111/geb....
EuPPollNet: A European Database of Plant‐Pollinator Networks
Motivation Pollinators play a crucial role in maintaining Earth's terrestrial biodiversity. However, rapid human-induced environmental changes are compromising the long-term persistence of plant-pol...
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February 12, 2025 at 1:00 PM