Lauren Snyder, PhD

“Papers with Code” went offline, the knowledge doesn’t have to - TIB-Blog Launched in 2018, Papers with Code was a community-driven platform for exploring and discovering state-of-the-art research in artificial intelligence and machine learning. Within one year, it became a...

The Papers with Code platform for ML research unexpectedly shut down earlier this year, leaving users to wonder about the fate of this resource. Our recent blog explains how this situation highlights the key role public institutions play in safeguarding scientific knowledge: bit.ly/4q8WAuW

Meet Ana María! As a returning #ORKGreborn curation grantee, she explains why she’s motivated to contribute to our open-source digital library 🤓 Check out the library here: reborn.orkg.org

Meet the 2025 #ORKGreborn curation grantees who are helping us grow our #openscience digital library! Over the next few weeks, they’ll share why they’re invested in a future where all scientific knowledge is represented in open digital libraries like ORKG reborn: reborn.orkg.org/pages/submit

⚡Take a 90 second tour through #ORKGreborn, an open-source digital library linking scientific statements with the data, code, & analyses used to produce them. So many potential benefits for science & society—I'll let the video speak for itself. @fair2adapt-eosc-eu.bsky.social @stockerm.bsky.social

📢 #SEMANTiCS2025 Authors - join the ORKG Comparison Challenge! Show your work and win the Best Comparison Prize! 🏅 More info here: shorturl.at/idK5m

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Thank you for thinking of me, Johnbosco!

ORKG reborn ORKG reborn is a digital library of machine-readable scientific knowledge.

🦋 New #rebornArticle by Thiessen et al. evaluates how well #LLMs can detect scientific synonyms.

Explore & reuse on #ORKGreborn: doi.org/10.48366/q7g...
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Information retrieval systems are everywhere. From scrolling through #bluesky to browsing Netflix, they help us find content. Read my latest blog to learn how we're working to make scientific information retrieval as easy as planning a movie marathon...or at least one step closer! shorturl.at/Ssk7Z

Fantastic work led by my colleague @hghi.bsky.social! Hadi's paper introduces an open-source digital library for #machine-readable scientific knowledge. The goal: enhance the reusability & reproducibility of #science. Want to see your work there? Email us at reborn@orkg.org
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📢 Meet our @fair2adapt-eosc-eu.bsky.social Partners!

This week: Alejandro Feged from SEI Oxford @sei.org 🔥!

ℹ️ Read the full #interview on our #EOSC and #HorizonEurope project website here ➡️ shorturl.at/30NlA

A big thank you to my colleagues Inês Marques & Tiago Capela for coordinating & moderating our session at #ECCA, and giving us the opportunity to connect in person in #Rimini! 🙏 It was an honor to be part of the panel & to capture some of the session highlights in our latest blog! shorturl.at/CdIRv

📢Calling all researchers, climate change experts, & those curious about #FAIR data! If you're at the 2025 ECCA conference, join our session on how #FAIR data support #ClimateChangeAdaptation research & decision-making.

📅 Wed, 18 June|09:00–10:30 (CEST)|Ponte Room

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📣 PRESS RELEASE: Researchers introduce simple approach that could transform the way we produce and communicate #science 🔬.

🗞️ Make sure to read the latest #PressRelease on our @fair2adapt-eosc-eu.bsky.social website here 👉 shorturl.at/zQZ5F

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Very excited to share our #openaccess article that rethinks longstanding scientific production & publication practices. Read it in Scientific Data or watch it in dance form on YouTube 💃 😅

📃 bit.ly/4iKb6Vj
📹 bit.ly/3Y27S8f

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Interested in #openscience? As an #ORKG grantee you can support this movement & earn a little 💰 It's also a great chance to learn about the new #rebornArticle approach to producing machine-readable science.

📰 Application (due May 11): bit.ly/4lKVGTe
💻 Webinar April 28 @ 3pm CEST: bit.ly/4jpm57R

🆕 We are delighted to share our 1st @fair2adapt-eosc-eu.bsky.social #PressRelease on our freshly launched #HorizonEurope #EOSC project website 🚀

We envision a future where #ScientificKnowledge and #EnvironmentalData are accessible to everyone.

ℹ️ Read the full press release here 👉🏻 shorturl.at/NPjDk

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.

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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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.

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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Thrilled to work alongside inspiring colleagues from all across Europe to strengthen #climatechange adaptation research and decision-making 🌍

Body size variation in a tropical seabird along a latitude-productivity gradient - Journal of Ornithology Body size can vary across geographical gradients, and these clines have been mainly attributed to temperature (i.e., the heat conservation hypothesis). However, in tropical areas, this pattern is not ...

🦋New #rebornArticle by Piña et al. explores body size variation in the Red-billed Tropicbird 🦆

🔎Explore & reuse on the #ORKG @ doi.org/10.48366/jdc...

💻Watch our recent #rebornArticle webinar featuring the lead author! youtu.be/iCDZh61h388?...

📖Check out the article: doi.org/10.1007/s103...

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...

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....

Symbiodiniaceae diversity in Pocillopora corals in different environments of the Colombian Eastern Pacific: symbiont specificity in spite of coral-host flexibility - Coral Reefs Reef-building corals live in close mutualism with dinoflagellate algae (family Symbiodiniaceae), which play key roles in coral physiological performance and survival. Association patterns between host...

🦋New #rebornArticle by Millán-Márquez et al. explores coral symbiont diversity in the Colombian Eastern Pacific 🌊

👀Explore & reuse on the #ORKG @ doi.org/10.48366/w6h...

📅Join our webinar Feb 13 @ 3pm CET & meet the author! orkg.org/page/reborn-...

📖Read full article: doi.org/10.1007/s003...

A flyer showing the images of two marine scientists who will speak in a webinar on February 13, 2025 at 3 pm CET.

For Love Data Week, we're talking about reborn articles because we believe sharing is caring. Join our free webinar & hear from two #marinescientists who used #rebornarticles to make their scientific results open & reusable.
#lovedata25 #FDMPower
📅 Feb. 13 @ 3pm CET
Webinar link: bit.ly/3WwvVLG

The European Open Science Cloud (EOSC) is a well-established association working to advance #openscience in Europe. Very rewarding to see them showcase the #ORKG as a platform that advances efforts to create, curate, publish, and reuse #FAIR scientific knowledge.

This ‘hidden figure’ of entomology fought for civil rights Margaret S. Collins, the first Black American female entomologist to earn a Ph.D., overcame sexism and racism to become a termite expert.

What an amazing woman and researcher! www.sciencenews.org/article/mara...

Our grantee Alberto holding a sea bird

Alberto Piña’s commitment to pursue seabird conservation research in Mexico, his home country, required perseverance. His advice for the next generation of conservationists, “Don’t give up.”
Read his story: blog.tib.eu/2025/01/17/m...

A man with glasses and a red hat holds a white baby bird.

In the midst of doom & gloom news headlines, my recent interview with Alberto Piña left me feeling hopeful & inspired. Language & funding barriers were no match for his determination to advance #seabird #conservation #research.

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