Mariana Madruga de Brito
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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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April 17, 2025 at 12:31 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
April 15, 2025 at 12:36 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
April 7, 2025 at 12:35 PM
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
🌍💧 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...
February 27, 2025 at 1:47 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
February 19, 2025 at 12:22 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....
February 10, 2025 at 2:06 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
February 10, 2025 at 1:23 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/...
January 3, 2025 at 5:05 PM
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...
December 20, 2024 at 5:49 AM
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
December 11, 2024 at 9:45 AM
Next year, we are organizing the second edition of the #textasdata workshop in hydrology, natural hazards, and climate change research. Looking forward to discussing ways to collaborate with others!

📅 28.03.2025
📍 Leipzig, Germany
Apply by 01.02.2025 here: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
December 2, 2024 at 10:35 AM
Today @jsodoge.bsky.social defended his thesis with Summa cum Laude! It has been a pleasure working with you. Your curiosity is contagious ;)
November 29, 2024 at 6:56 PM
Rethink drought risks at hashtag#EGU25!🌎
Our session (NH9.4) includes concepts such as non-linearities, systemic drought risks, drought management, and so on...

🚨 Financial support deadline: 2 Dec
☀️ Submit your abstract now: meetingorganizer.copernicus.org/EGU25/sessio...
November 27, 2024 at 7:35 AM
Coming soon: I’ll be hiring a PhD candidate to explore regions in Germany disproportionately affected by floods & droughts, focusing on cross-sector impacts and using NLP-driven datasets #academicjobs
November 22, 2024 at 11:38 AM
You can apply for financial support to attend #EGU25! 📝 Deadline: 13:00 CET, 02.12.24
Early in my PhD, this support was a game-changer for my career since my scholarship didn’t cover travel costs. More info here: www.egu25.eu/guidelines/s...
November 22, 2024 at 11:32 AM