Mariana Madruga de Brito
Group Leader at the Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research - UFZ | Droughts, floods, vulnerability, compound & cascading impacts, NLP 🇧🇷 🇩🇪
- Reposted by Mariana Madruga de BritoPretty 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.
- Reposted by Mariana Madruga de BritoHosted 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!
- 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! 🏙️💧🚜
- @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!!!
- Reposted by Mariana Madruga de Brito🏆 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
- Reposted by Mariana Madruga de BritoOUT 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
- Reposted by Mariana Madruga de BritoInterested 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
- 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
- Even with a photoshopped team member :P
- @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!
- 🌍💧 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
- Reposted by Mariana Madruga de BritoWas der Klimawissenschaftler Emanuele Bevacqua sagt. Wäre doch mal schön, wenn wir dazu eine Talkshow hätten, oder @zdfde.bsky.social ?
- Reposted by Mariana Madruga de BritoIn 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....
- Great to finally see this one published, in which Marieke, Mansi, @jsodoge.bsky.social, @mdebrito.bsky.social and I look at topics discussed in relation to sustainable agriculture in 🇩🇪 newspapers vs. ag magazines (and scientific literature as contrast). onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1...
- 🚨 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
- 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.
- 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
- Reposted by Mariana Madruga de BritoThe 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!
- 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.
- 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/...
- 2/ Traditional assessments focus on direct, measurable impacts (e.g. damaged infrastructure, economic loss). But floods cascade across society in ways that conventional methods often miss —indirect and intangible effects like #mentalhealth, tourism losses, or water contamination
- 3/ Using #NLP, we analyzed thousands of newspaper articles to estimate cascading impacts. This approach lets us capture a broader picture of flood consequences over large areas 📰+🤖
- 4/ We found that smaller-scale impacts were felt across Germany, often ignored in standard databases. Using diverse data sources, like text, is a step toward capturing the full picture of disaster impacts
- 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...
- @jsodoge.bsky.social analyzed >70,000 EGU abstracts and found that researchers focusing only on one division miss 44% of the most relevant insights in their field. Our solution? #NLP to bridge silos Check our preprint: egusphere.copernicus.org/preprints/20...
- Writing this paper was probably the most exciting one yet. Probably because of that we went from idea to paper in 4 weeks including this amazing figure from @taiscarvalho.bsky.social
- and here for the visualization by @taiscarvalho.bsky.social: taiscarvalho.github.io/egu-umap-viz/
- 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
- Here are the other positions: recruitingapp-5128.de.umantis.com/Vacancies/31... supervised by Daniel Doktor recruitingapp-5128.de.umantis.com/Vacancies/31... supervised by @lytarasova.bsky.social
- Great news! Should I share all my old papers here ? 😅😅
- Altmetric is now tracking @bsky.app bsky.social/about/blog/1...
- 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...
- Today @jsodoge.bsky.social defended his thesis with Summa cum Laude! It has been a pleasure working with you. Your curiosity is contagious ;)
- Really excited!! Join in if you are interested in learning how #NLP can be used in extreme events research
- 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...
- Reposted by Mariana Madruga de BritoWho should you nominate as reviewers for your manuscript? After a long chat with a post-grad it appears that there's a lot of misguided advice out there. Thread 👇
