IMBRACE
@imbrace-erc.bsky.social
A research project funded by the European Research Council that analyzes the nexus between climate change, health, and immigration. Led by Panagiota Kotsila at @icta-uab.bsky.social
https://imbrace-erc.org/
https://imbrace-erc.org/
🗣️ Shout-out to our team members Susana Neves Alves, Melissa Fernández Arrigoitia and @pkotsila.bsky.social who participated in @icta-uab.bsky.social s campaign for #internationaldayofwomenandgirlsinscience! #11F
Sounds normal. But it isn’t.
On #WomenInScienceDay these are the voices of women researchers at ICTA-UAB, imagining what science would feel like if gender equality were fully achieved. This is what should be ordinary. #IfThisWereNormal
#GenderEquality #11F #ICTAUAB #WomenInSTEM
On #WomenInScienceDay these are the voices of women researchers at ICTA-UAB, imagining what science would feel like if gender equality were fully achieved. This is what should be ordinary. #IfThisWereNormal
#GenderEquality #11F #ICTAUAB #WomenInSTEM
February 12, 2026 at 12:05 PM
🗣️ Shout-out to our team members Susana Neves Alves, Melissa Fernández Arrigoitia and @pkotsila.bsky.social who participated in @icta-uab.bsky.social s campaign for #internationaldayofwomenandgirlsinscience! #11F
👉 JOB ALERT! 📣 We’re looking for a Field Assistant in #Marseille 🇫🇷 to support workshops, participant recruitment & data collection for the @erc.europa.eu IMBRACE project. Apply by 5 Feb! imbrace-erc.org/call-for-fie... #recherche #JusticeClimatique @icta-uab.bsky.social
January 19, 2026 at 1:22 PM
👉 JOB ALERT! 📣 We’re looking for a Field Assistant in #Marseille 🇫🇷 to support workshops, participant recruitment & data collection for the @erc.europa.eu IMBRACE project. Apply by 5 Feb! imbrace-erc.org/call-for-fie... #recherche #JusticeClimatique @icta-uab.bsky.social
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🚨"Living on the streets is also a climate issue" Our researcher @andreamcintosh.bsky.social @icta-uab.bsky.social explains how climate change deepens vulnerability among homeless people in Barcelona, based on her research and the recent street count w/ Arrels Fundació #Homelessness #ClimateJustice
January 15, 2026 at 2:09 PM
🚨"Living on the streets is also a climate issue" Our researcher @andreamcintosh.bsky.social @icta-uab.bsky.social explains how climate change deepens vulnerability among homeless people in Barcelona, based on her research and the recent street count w/ Arrels Fundació #Homelessness #ClimateJustice
This event was hosted by Fundación La Caixa and coorganized by @isglobal.bsky.social
January 8, 2026 at 2:57 PM
This event was hosted by Fundación La Caixa and coorganized by @isglobal.bsky.social
🌡️Heatwaves are one of the most invisible, yet deadly, climate risks in cities. In this clip, @pkotsila.bsky.social talks about climate vulnerabilities in El Raval, Barcelona, 1 of our key case studies ▶️https://palaumacaya.fundacionlacaixa.org/es/p/comunidad-reconstruccion-y-resiliencia_a172936012
January 8, 2026 at 2:57 PM
🌡️Heatwaves are one of the most invisible, yet deadly, climate risks in cities. In this clip, @pkotsila.bsky.social talks about climate vulnerabilities in El Raval, Barcelona, 1 of our key case studies ▶️https://palaumacaya.fundacionlacaixa.org/es/p/comunidad-reconstruccion-y-resiliencia_a172936012
✨🎄Wishing everyone a warm holiday season ❄️
December 19, 2025 at 2:46 PM
✨🎄Wishing everyone a warm holiday season ❄️
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📢 Hey! Submission for this call is extended until March 10! 👇https://www.nature.com/collections/bjddhegddh #climatejustice #environmentaljustice
Radical Civic Practices: The Future of Urban Environmental Justice Studies in a Highly Unequal World
This collection invites research on environmental justice challenges in cities and urban areas and their governance.
www.nature.com
December 17, 2025 at 6:12 PM
📢 Hey! Submission for this call is extended until March 10! 👇https://www.nature.com/collections/bjddhegddh #climatejustice #environmentaljustice
⬇️You can download the full descriptions of each #methodology as a PDF with detailed information, step-by-step guidance, and examples! imbrace-erc.org/methodologies/
Methodologies - IMBRACE
imbrace-erc.org
December 9, 2025 at 11:28 AM
⬇️You can download the full descriptions of each #methodology as a PDF with detailed information, step-by-step guidance, and examples! imbrace-erc.org/methodologies/
5️⃣ Walk-alongs 🚶♀️🚶♂️
We walk with participants through their everyday routes to
observe, discuss & reflect on how urban spaces & climate hazards shape wellbeing. imbrace-erc.org/walk-alongs/
We walk with participants through their everyday routes to
observe, discuss & reflect on how urban spaces & climate hazards shape wellbeing. imbrace-erc.org/walk-alongs/
December 9, 2025 at 11:28 AM
5️⃣ Walk-alongs 🚶♀️🚶♂️
We walk with participants through their everyday routes to
observe, discuss & reflect on how urban spaces & climate hazards shape wellbeing. imbrace-erc.org/walk-alongs/
We walk with participants through their everyday routes to
observe, discuss & reflect on how urban spaces & climate hazards shape wellbeing. imbrace-erc.org/walk-alongs/
4️⃣ Postcards from the Future ✉️
Imagine your neighborhood in 2040. Draw, collage, or write your climate-resilient, wellbeing-focused future.
Foresight meets lived experience. imbrace-erc.org/postcards-fr...
Imagine your neighborhood in 2040. Draw, collage, or write your climate-resilient, wellbeing-focused future.
Foresight meets lived experience. imbrace-erc.org/postcards-fr...
December 9, 2025 at 11:28 AM
4️⃣ Postcards from the Future ✉️
Imagine your neighborhood in 2040. Draw, collage, or write your climate-resilient, wellbeing-focused future.
Foresight meets lived experience. imbrace-erc.org/postcards-fr...
Imagine your neighborhood in 2040. Draw, collage, or write your climate-resilient, wellbeing-focused future.
Foresight meets lived experience. imbrace-erc.org/postcards-fr...
3️⃣ Photovoice 📸
Photos capture daily realities of vulnerability, resilience & adaptation priorities — personal stories become collective insight. imbrace-erc.org/photovoice/
Photos capture daily realities of vulnerability, resilience & adaptation priorities — personal stories become collective insight. imbrace-erc.org/photovoice/
December 9, 2025 at 11:28 AM
3️⃣ Photovoice 📸
Photos capture daily realities of vulnerability, resilience & adaptation priorities — personal stories become collective insight. imbrace-erc.org/photovoice/
Photos capture daily realities of vulnerability, resilience & adaptation priorities — personal stories become collective insight. imbrace-erc.org/photovoice/
2️⃣ Urban Climate Relief Maps 🗺️
Map your city: where you feel safe, uncomfortable, stressed, or cared for. Shows how identity & environment intersect: gender, race, class, heatwaves, floods...all together. imbrace-erc.org/urban-climat...
Map your city: where you feel safe, uncomfortable, stressed, or cared for. Shows how identity & environment intersect: gender, race, class, heatwaves, floods...all together. imbrace-erc.org/urban-climat...
December 9, 2025 at 11:28 AM
2️⃣ Urban Climate Relief Maps 🗺️
Map your city: where you feel safe, uncomfortable, stressed, or cared for. Shows how identity & environment intersect: gender, race, class, heatwaves, floods...all together. imbrace-erc.org/urban-climat...
Map your city: where you feel safe, uncomfortable, stressed, or cared for. Shows how identity & environment intersect: gender, race, class, heatwaves, floods...all together. imbrace-erc.org/urban-climat...
1️⃣ Body Mapping 🖌️
Participants draw & annotate life-sized body outlines.
Emotions, memories, climate & #migration experiences become visible — literally in the body. imbrace-erc.org/body-maps
Participants draw & annotate life-sized body outlines.
Emotions, memories, climate & #migration experiences become visible — literally in the body. imbrace-erc.org/body-maps
December 9, 2025 at 11:28 AM
1️⃣ Body Mapping 🖌️
Participants draw & annotate life-sized body outlines.
Emotions, memories, climate & #migration experiences become visible — literally in the body. imbrace-erc.org/body-maps
Participants draw & annotate life-sized body outlines.
Emotions, memories, climate & #migration experiences become visible — literally in the body. imbrace-erc.org/body-maps
🌍 How do climate & environmental changes affect health in migrant communities? In IMBRACE, we explore this through participatory, feminist and transdisciplinary methods: #bodymaps #photovoice #walkalong... click through to learn about each one 🧵 👇 imbrace-erc.org/methodologies/ #climatejustice
December 9, 2025 at 11:28 AM
🌍 How do climate & environmental changes affect health in migrant communities? In IMBRACE, we explore this through participatory, feminist and transdisciplinary methods: #bodymaps #photovoice #walkalong... click through to learn about each one 🧵 👇 imbrace-erc.org/methodologies/ #climatejustice
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Bringing @imbrace-erc.bsky.social to this conference, inserting issues of social justice to discussions of #OneHealth and #PlanetaryHealth
📢 Save the date: ERC annual conference will take place on 28 January 2026! Its theme will be ‘One Health’.
Discover the programme and register now 👉 t.co/SBat1iYccr
#OneHealth
@scienceinnovation.ec.europa.eu @ecdc.europa.eu @efsa.europa.eu
Discover the programme and register now 👉 t.co/SBat1iYccr
#OneHealth
@scienceinnovation.ec.europa.eu @ecdc.europa.eu @efsa.europa.eu
November 27, 2025 at 10:21 AM
Bringing @imbrace-erc.bsky.social to this conference, inserting issues of social justice to discussions of #OneHealth and #PlanetaryHealth
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🎓💥What happens when you try to do #militantresearch from within #academia? In a new paper our researcher Sergio Ruiz Cayuela explores the everyday tensions, contradictions, and negotiations that shape politically engaged research for professional scholars👇
November 14, 2025 at 12:45 PM
🎓💥What happens when you try to do #militantresearch from within #academia? In a new paper our researcher Sergio Ruiz Cayuela explores the everyday tensions, contradictions, and negotiations that shape politically engaged research for professional scholars👇
🧡 Busquem persones migrants que visquin al Raval (Barcelona) i que s’hagin vist afectades per les onades de calor per participar en un taller de recerca remunerat sobre justícia climàtica. Ajuda’ns a fer-ne difusió!
#JustíciaClimàtica #Barcelona #ElRaval
#JustíciaClimàtica #Barcelona #ElRaval
November 7, 2025 at 10:37 AM
🧡 Busquem persones migrants que visquin al Raval (Barcelona) i que s’hagin vist afectades per les onades de calor per participar en un taller de recerca remunerat sobre justícia climàtica. Ajuda’ns a fer-ne difusió!
#JustíciaClimàtica #Barcelona #ElRaval
#JustíciaClimàtica #Barcelona #ElRaval
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In light of the new Lancet report on climate and health:
"one heat-related death every minute throughout the year"
while
"every heat-related death is preventable".
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
"one heat-related death every minute throughout the year"
while
"every heat-related death is preventable".
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
Rising heat kills one person a minute worldwide, major report reveals
Biggest analysis of its kind finds millions are dying each year from combined effects of failure to tackle climate crisis
www.theguardian.com
October 30, 2025 at 9:12 AM
In light of the new Lancet report on climate and health:
"one heat-related death every minute throughout the year"
while
"every heat-related death is preventable".
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
"one heat-related death every minute throughout the year"
while
"every heat-related death is preventable".
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
💧 Our Floods report reviews how flooding intersects w/ migration, health + inequality, revealing how racism, and marginalization deepen climate vulnerability. Floods are becoming more frequent and destructive across EU, but their health impacts aren’t felt equally👇 🔗 imbrace-erc.org/wp-content/u...
imbrace-erc.org
October 24, 2025 at 3:19 PM
💧 Our Floods report reviews how flooding intersects w/ migration, health + inequality, revealing how racism, and marginalization deepen climate vulnerability. Floods are becoming more frequent and destructive across EU, but their health impacts aren’t felt equally👇 🔗 imbrace-erc.org/wp-content/u...
☀️ Our Heat report maps how extreme heat interacts with inequality, housing, and discrimination, identifying 8 key drivers of vulnerability. Europe’s deadly heatwaves are a growing health crisis, with over 61K heat-related deaths in 2022 alone 👇 🔗 imbrace-erc.org/wp-content/u...
imbrace-erc.org
October 24, 2025 at 3:19 PM
☀️ Our Heat report maps how extreme heat interacts with inequality, housing, and discrimination, identifying 8 key drivers of vulnerability. Europe’s deadly heatwaves are a growing health crisis, with over 61K heat-related deaths in 2022 alone 👇 🔗 imbrace-erc.org/wp-content/u...
✍️ @pkotsila.bsky.social @susananevesalves.bsky.social Fizza Fatima, Kim West, Sergio Ruiz Cayuela
October 24, 2025 at 3:19 PM
✍️ @pkotsila.bsky.social @susananevesalves.bsky.social Fizza Fatima, Kim West, Sergio Ruiz Cayuela
As the planet heats and floods intensify, who is most at risk? We're taking advantage of #DayOfClimateAction to share our 2 reports on how #climatechange deepens health inequalities for migrants in Europe how justice should lead adaptation 👇
#ClimateJustice #ClimateActionDay
#ClimateJustice #ClimateActionDay
October 24, 2025 at 3:19 PM
As the planet heats and floods intensify, who is most at risk? We're taking advantage of #DayOfClimateAction to share our 2 reports on how #climatechange deepens health inequalities for migrants in Europe how justice should lead adaptation 👇
#ClimateJustice #ClimateActionDay
#ClimateJustice #ClimateActionDay
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Here is our panel with colleagues from @bcnuej.bsky.social, consider sending your presentation proposal by DEC 5th via the link below, for the @pollenetwork.bsky.social conference to be held in Barcelona end of June 2026!
nomadit.co.uk/conference/p...
nomadit.co.uk/conference/p...
P017: Living with the Weather: Everyday Adaptations, Urban Inequalities, and Justice-Centered Climate Responses
The format intended is a panel of short presentations and a common discussion. We will invite up to 5 panel participants.
nomadit.co.uk
October 9, 2025 at 10:45 AM
Here is our panel with colleagues from @bcnuej.bsky.social, consider sending your presentation proposal by DEC 5th via the link below, for the @pollenetwork.bsky.social conference to be held in Barcelona end of June 2026!
nomadit.co.uk/conference/p...
nomadit.co.uk/conference/p...
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#POLLEN"2026 panels are now live.
What happens now is a vital part of the preparation
Hundreds of potential participants will be sending in their ideas to the hundreds of different convenors. It is a rich moment of exchange and interaction.
Please spread the word.
shorturl.at/fCGhB
What happens now is a vital part of the preparation
Hundreds of potential participants will be sending in their ideas to the hundreds of different convenors. It is a rich moment of exchange and interaction.
Please spread the word.
shorturl.at/fCGhB
Call for presentations & posters - POLLEN
The call for presentations and posters is now open until 23:59 CET on Friday 5th December. Before proposing anything, please read the conference rationale & purpose, the rules below, and then browse t...
shorturl.at
October 9, 2025 at 2:10 AM
#POLLEN"2026 panels are now live.
What happens now is a vital part of the preparation
Hundreds of potential participants will be sending in their ideas to the hundreds of different convenors. It is a rich moment of exchange and interaction.
Please spread the word.
shorturl.at/fCGhB
What happens now is a vital part of the preparation
Hundreds of potential participants will be sending in their ideas to the hundreds of different convenors. It is a rich moment of exchange and interaction.
Please spread the word.
shorturl.at/fCGhB