Mariana Madruga de Brito
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mdebrito.bsky.social
Mariana Madruga de Brito
@mdebrito.bsky.social

Group Leader at the Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research - UFZ | Droughts, floods, vulnerability, compound & cascading impacts, NLP 🇧🇷 🇩🇪

Environmental science 48%
Geography 12%
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@taiscarvalho.bsky.social is mapping national & subnational drought plans 🌍💧—and we need your help!

If you know of official drought plans (especially in non-English-speaking countries), please share them here docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

Your expertise can help ensure no region is overlooked!
Help us map drought plans! 🌍
We are gathering national and subnational drought plans and need your assistance! So far, we’ve identified drought plans for 75 countries, but we want to ensure we haven’t missed any important documen...
docs.google.com
Pretty happy to see two Brazilian catchments in the final.
@ntoniomeiraneto.bsky.social
@mdebrito.bsky.social
@acarneiromar.bsky.social
@alinemeyeroliveira.bsky.social
Please help me spread the word to the Brazilian community.

From time to time @mdebrito.bsky.social will share stories from “back in the days” with the early career researchers in her group

@christianklassert.bsky.social is a valued colleague, and I’m lucky to have the opportunity to collaborate with him as well. I wish you both lots of success in the new group!!!

Wow—what a fantastic group!
@taiscarvalho.bsky.social joined @ufz.de as a visiting PhD student in 2022 and quickly became an essential part of the team. She has now secured a prestigious grant to launch her own research group. A rising star to watch closely! :)
Wonderful meeting all the fantastic teams at the FONA SOEF junior research group conference 2025 in Kassel! Thanks so much for the invitation. @taiscarvalho.bsky.social and I look forward to embarking on our own research group journey with "navigate" at @ufz.de soon! 🏙️💧🚜
Wonderful meeting all the fantastic teams at the FONA SOEF junior research group conference 2025 in Kassel! Thanks so much for the invitation. @taiscarvalho.bsky.social and I look forward to embarking on our own research group journey with "navigate" at @ufz.de soon! 🏙️💧🚜
🏆 Celebrating outstanding science at #EGU25

🏅 Annegret Thieken – for shaping flood risk management pratices
🏅 Mariana Madruga de Brito – for her innovative use of NLP for climate impacts
🏅 Sergio M. Vicente Serrano – for advancing drought assessment tools

Really inspiring work! 🙌
#NHDivision #ECS

Feeling overwhelmed by the 20,000+ presentations at EGU 2025? You're not alone — and we've got just the thing to help.

Jan Sodoge developed a tool to help you navigate the sea of abstracts:
🔗 web.app.ufz.de/egu_session_...

Tried it? We'd love your feedback!
docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

Yesterday, we had the kick-off of our Leipzig Lab project "Climate Discourse": a cool team😉, with a timely topic for the current political "climate".! 🌍💬 @eisioriginal.bsky.social @marckeuschnigg.bsky.social

Last week to apply to our 3-year postdoc position on climate discourses 🌍🔍

We use #NLP to explore how public discourse, extreme events & political action interact. uni-leipzig.b-ite.careers/jobposting/1...

Together with: @marckeuschnigg.bsky.social @eisioriginal.bsky.social

This is genius! so creative and also important for how we communicate our science
Let me very warmly recommend putting our Up-Goer Five session into your EGU25 calendar! I mean, just have a look at these amazing abstract titles (using only the 1000 most used English words).
I can guarantee that this will be an extremely informative and fun session!
🤓🧑‍🎓
#EGU25 @egu.eu
OUT NOW: A fantastic new read for hydrologists 📚: a wrap-up of the Panta Rhei scientific decade of @iahs-aish.bsky.social. Between 2013 and 2022, it explored links between changes in hydrology and society. 🌍 In this paper, Heidi Kreibich and her colleagues present ten years of progress. 👇
Panta Rhei: a decade of progress in research on change in hydrology and society
To better understand the increasing human impact on the water cycle and the feedbacks between hydrology and society, the International Association of Hydrological Sciences (IAHS) organized the scie...
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Let me very warmly recommend putting our Up-Goer Five session into your EGU25 calendar! I mean, just have a look at these amazing abstract titles (using only the 1000 most used English words).
I can guarantee that this will be an extremely informative and fun session!
🤓🧑‍🎓
#EGU25 @egu.eu
Interested in exchanging ideas, gaining insights, and exploring best practices for engaging and empowering Early Career Researchers?

Join us for our short course, "Best Practices for ECR Engagement and Empowerment in Research Projects," on Wednesday, April 30, at 16:15 (CEST) at #EGU25.

@egu.eu

I'm quite excited about this project! Apply until 15.04 to be part of the team :)
We offer a 3-year postdoc to join our LeipzigLab on climate discourses 🌍🔍

We bridge #NLP, social science, and environmental research to explore how climate change, public discourse & political action interact. t1p.de/wfzrv Together with: @marckeuschnigg.bsky.social @mdebrito.bsky.social
We offer a 3-year postdoc to join our LeipzigLab on climate discourses 🌍🔍

We bridge #NLP, social science, and environmental research to explore how climate change, public discourse & political action interact. t1p.de/wfzrv Together with: @marckeuschnigg.bsky.social @mdebrito.bsky.social

Even with a photoshopped team member :P

Enjoying the beautiful Leipzig weather with an amazing group! ☀️ Grateful to collaborate with so many talented people! @taiscarvalho.bsky.social @jsodoge.bsky.social @sruti.bsky.social @alessiamatano.bsky.social

🌍💧 We are organizing a panel discussion on water inequalities with experts on Water Security.

📅 March 17, 2025
⏰ 16:00 CET

You can register here: events.teams.microsoft.com/event/380b31...

Research topic: www.frontiersin.org/research-top...

Last days to submit your abstract to the 2nd International Sociohydrology Conference in Tokyo by the @iahs-aish.bsky.social

Link: ishc2025.t.u-tokyo.ac.jp

I will be there with @jsodoge.bsky.social and @taiscarvalho.bsky.social presenting our work on NLP for monitoring impacts & water conflicts
Was der Klimawissenschaftler Emanuele Bevacqua sagt.

Wäre doch mal schön, wenn wir dazu eine Talkshow hätten, oder @zdfde.bsky.social ?
In Nature Climate Change, we show that a year above 1.5 °C signals that Earth is most probably within the 20-year period that will reach the Paris Agreement limit. @natclimchange.bsky.social
A year above 1.5 °C signals that Earth is most probably within the 20-year period that will reach the Paris Agreement limit - Nature Climate Change
What a first year with temperature 1.5 °C above the pre-industrial baseline implies for long-term temperature goals is unclear. Here the authors show that such a first year above the baseline is highl...
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By comparing different text corpora on sustainable agriculture in Germany we found that farmers and the broader society in have very different perceptions of what sustainable agriculture is about. Check our paper here: besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

Quite proud of being part of such a team :)

I always felt I was a "weird" scientist, too interdisciplinary.... Until I arrived at the UFZ where that's the norm.
ufz.de UFZ @ufz.de · Feb 3
#UFZ is dealing with exciting and socially relevant topics... performed by excellent scientists... with a lot of enthusiasm we will show this to the reviewers who are visiting UFZ this week for Scientific Evaluation. Hello everyone from #UFZ - let's get started and have a great festival of science!
UFZ @ufz.de · Feb 3
#UFZ is dealing with exciting and socially relevant topics... performed by excellent scientists... with a lot of enthusiasm we will show this to the reviewers who are visiting UFZ this week for Scientific Evaluation. Hello everyone from #UFZ - let's get started and have a great festival of science!

Reposted by Johannes Quaas

Some days left to apply!
We are hiring 3 PhDs at the UFZ PhD Cohort SEESAW - Societal and environmental impacts of complex extremes in a changing world

I'll be supervising a project looking at the interactions of flood and drought impacts 💧🔆

Apply here: recruitingapp-5128.de.umantis.com/Vacancies/31...

#academicjobs
Hallo Bluesky!
Wir sind die Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft. #DFG Als Selbstverwaltungsorganisation der #Wissenschaft in Deutschland fördern wir erkenntnisgeleitete #Forschung. Hier erhaltet Ihr Infos u.a. zu Förderangeboten, Ausschreibungen und Anträgen. Wir freuen uns auf den Austausch!

If you don't know which session to submit your work at #EGU25, check the tool developed by @jsodoge.bsky.social

Just paste your abstract and get suggestions :)
@danklotz.bsky.social showed me huggingface.co/spaces/jsodo... a fun little tool that lets you paste your abstract text and recommends the most fitting #EGU25 session out of the full conference program, using NLP.
Egu Session Recommender - a Hugging Face Space by jsodoge
Recommending sessions for EGU abstracts
huggingface.co

Great to see it is being used!!! Once the abstracts are submitted, we will have new functionalities that will make attending #EGU25 easier