Mariana Madruga de Brito
@mdebrito.bsky.social
Group Leader at the Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research - UFZ | Droughts, floods, vulnerability, compound & cascading impacts, NLP 🇧🇷 🇩🇪
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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...
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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!
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!
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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.
@ntoniomeiraneto.bsky.social
@mdebrito.bsky.social
@acarneiromar.bsky.social
@alinemeyeroliveira.bsky.social
Please help me spread the word to the Brazilian community.
October 30, 2025 at 5:41 PM
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.
@ntoniomeiraneto.bsky.social
@mdebrito.bsky.social
@acarneiromar.bsky.social
@alinemeyeroliveira.bsky.social
Please help me spread the word to the Brazilian community.
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Hosted by @meteoleipzig.bsky.social @unileipzig.bsky.social @tropos-de.bsky.social , ECO-N research training group funded by @dfg.de
Great lectures by @sebastian-sippel.bsky.social @frediotto.bsky.social @mdebrito.bsky.social @zscheischlerjak.bsky.social and more!
Great lectures by @sebastian-sippel.bsky.social @frediotto.bsky.social @mdebrito.bsky.social @zscheischlerjak.bsky.social and more!
September 4, 2025 at 9:06 AM
Hosted by @meteoleipzig.bsky.social @unileipzig.bsky.social @tropos-de.bsky.social , ECO-N research training group funded by @dfg.de
Great lectures by @sebastian-sippel.bsky.social @frediotto.bsky.social @mdebrito.bsky.social @zscheischlerjak.bsky.social and more!
Great lectures by @sebastian-sippel.bsky.social @frediotto.bsky.social @mdebrito.bsky.social @zscheischlerjak.bsky.social and more!
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! :)
@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! 🏙️💧🚜
June 2, 2025 at 3:02 PM
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! :)
@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! :)
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🏆 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
🏅 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
May 6, 2025 at 2:30 PM
🏆 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
🏅 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...
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...
April 17, 2025 at 12:31 PM
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...
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
April 15, 2025 at 12:36 PM
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
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
April 7, 2025 at 12:35 PM
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
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
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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...
www.tandfonline.com
April 4, 2025 at 12:33 PM
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. 👇
This is genius! so creative and also important for how we communicate our science
April 4, 2025 at 6:35 PM
This is genius! so creative and also important for how we communicate our science
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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
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
March 31, 2025 at 8:28 AM
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 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
March 20, 2025 at 3:31 PM
I'm quite excited about this project! Apply until 15.04 to be part of the team :)
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
March 11, 2025 at 11:29 AM
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
@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!
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
February 28, 2025 at 8:22 AM
@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!
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!
🌍💧 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...
📅 March 17, 2025
⏰ 16:00 CET
You can register here: events.teams.microsoft.com/event/380b31...
Research topic: www.frontiersin.org/research-top...
February 27, 2025 at 1:47 PM
🌍💧 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...
📅 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
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
February 19, 2025 at 12:22 PM
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
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
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Was der Klimawissenschaftler Emanuele Bevacqua sagt.
Wäre doch mal schön, wenn wir dazu eine Talkshow hätten, oder @zdfde.bsky.social ?
Wäre doch mal schön, wenn wir dazu eine Talkshow hätten, oder @zdfde.bsky.social ?
February 10, 2025 at 8:00 PM
Was der Klimawissenschaftler Emanuele Bevacqua sagt.
Wäre doch mal schön, wenn wir dazu eine Talkshow hätten, oder @zdfde.bsky.social ?
Wäre doch mal schön, wenn wir dazu eine Talkshow hätten, oder @zdfde.bsky.social ?
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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...
www.nature.com
February 10, 2025 at 4:55 PM
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
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....
February 10, 2025 at 2:06 PM
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....
🚨 We’ll soon be hiring a 3-year postdoc to join our Leipzig lab on climate discourses 🌍🔍
Our Working group bridges #NLP, social science, and environmental research to explore how climate change, public discourse & political action interact. Stay tuned! @marckeuschnigg.bsky.social
Our Working group bridges #NLP, social science, and environmental research to explore how climate change, public discourse & political action interact. Stay tuned! @marckeuschnigg.bsky.social
February 10, 2025 at 1:23 PM
🚨 We’ll soon be hiring a 3-year postdoc to join our Leipzig lab on climate discourses 🌍🔍
Our Working group bridges #NLP, social science, and environmental research to explore how climate change, public discourse & political action interact. Stay tuned! @marckeuschnigg.bsky.social
Our Working group bridges #NLP, social science, and environmental research to explore how climate change, public discourse & political action interact. Stay tuned! @marckeuschnigg.bsky.social
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.
I always felt I was a "weird" scientist, too interdisciplinary.... Until I arrived at the UFZ where that's the norm.
February 3, 2025 at 2:09 PM
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.
I always felt I was a "weird" scientist, too interdisciplinary.... Until I arrived at the UFZ where that's the norm.
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
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
January 21, 2025 at 10:45 AM
Some days left to apply!
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The German Research Foundation has left X and joined Bluesky. Good to see how Bluesky is increasingly becoming the new standard for science communication.
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!
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!
January 14, 2025 at 4:38 PM
The German Research Foundation has left X and joined Bluesky. Good to see how Bluesky is increasingly becoming the new standard for science communication.
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 :)
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
January 9, 2025 at 8:51 PM
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 :)
Just paste your abstract and get suggestions :)
1/ In 2021, Germany faced its costliest riverine floods ever: 189 lives lost & €33B in damages. Beyond these direct consequences, what about the hidden impacts? In a paper with @jsodoge.bsky.social, we used 26,000 newspaper articles to uncover them 👇 agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/...
January 3, 2025 at 5:05 PM
1/ In 2021, Germany faced its costliest riverine floods ever: 189 lives lost & €33B in damages. Beyond these direct consequences, what about the hidden impacts? In a paper with @jsodoge.bsky.social, we used 26,000 newspaper articles to uncover them 👇 agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/...
I’m honored to be featured as a Researcher Highlight by the @multisector.bsky.social community
Thanks for recognizing my efforts to explore the socioeconomic impacts of extreme events and the innovative use of text data in climate research
More details here: multisectordynamics.org/2024/11/23/r...
Thanks for recognizing my efforts to explore the socioeconomic impacts of extreme events and the innovative use of text data in climate research
More details here: multisectordynamics.org/2024/11/23/r...
December 20, 2024 at 5:49 AM
I’m honored to be featured as a Researcher Highlight by the @multisector.bsky.social community
Thanks for recognizing my efforts to explore the socioeconomic impacts of extreme events and the innovative use of text data in climate research
More details here: multisectordynamics.org/2024/11/23/r...
Thanks for recognizing my efforts to explore the socioeconomic impacts of extreme events and the innovative use of text data in climate research
More details here: multisectordynamics.org/2024/11/23/r...