Mariana Madruga de Brito

Indeed, they used to print large books. Just found an old one from my first @egu.eu GA full of marks and annotations 😅

@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! :)

🏆 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:
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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

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...

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

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.

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I'm quite excited about this project! Apply until 15.04 to be part of the team :)

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

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...

@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

"Die Klimakrise muss oberste Priorität auf der politischen Agenda haben, sowohl auf nationaler als auch auf internationaler Ebene. Für die anstehende Bundestagswahl ist da allerdings noch deutlich Luft nach oben", sagt der Klimawissenschaftler Emanuele Bevacqua.

Was der Klimawissenschaftler Emanuele Bevacqua sagt.

Wäre doch mal schön, wenn wir dazu eine Talkshow hätten, oder @zdfde.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...

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....

🚨 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!

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 :)

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

I will share it next week :)

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

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 📰+🤖

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

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/...