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GCRF-funded research project building understanding of the physical, socio-economic and cultural drivers of risk in the Guatemala cordillera. Interdisciplinary research, decolonial theory, and embedding disaster risk reduction in human rights frameworks.

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Ixchel Project @gcrf-ixchel.bsky.social · Nov 28

Hello @bsky.app ! We are the Ixchel project funded by the Global Challenges Research Fund @ukri.org Expect posts on research activities, including but not limited to volcanology, disaster risk reduction, critical decolonial theory, human rights, and arts-based participative methodologies 🌋

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Ana J. Cabrera Pacheco @ana-j.bsky.social · Jul 29

Our recipe book is finally published! Have a look at some of the recipes from Tz'utujil Maya women from our "Recipes for Recovery" project.
This work was part of my contribution to the @gcrf-ixchel.bsky.social based at the @edinburgh-uni.bsky.social as a postdoc.
Thank you all who contributed! 🌱

Edinburgh Diamond @edinburghdiamond.bsky.social · Jul 29

We are pleased to share our latest #OA book, 'Mujeres Tz’utujiles: Recetas para la Recuperación en Chuk Muk'.

This recipe book is part of a transformative feminist & decolonial project that documents the agri-food traditions within the work of Tz'utujil Maya women.

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An image of a lake with trees and mountains wafts up from a cooking pot being stirred by a spoon.

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Amelia Bain @amelia-bain.bsky.social · Mar 3

📢Anunciamos el primer artículo de nuestra edición especial sobre Voces de la Comunidad: 'Ilustrando el #volcán de Fuego' de Ailsa Naismith que documenta la producción de un zine ilustrando las experiencias de las personas sobre las #erupciones 👇🌋🏘️🎨

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Figura 7 de Naismith et al. 2025 en Journal of Applied Volcanology, que ilustra el proceso de producción de una página de revista sobre las experiencias de la gente local de las erupciones de Fuego.

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Amelia Bain @amelia-bain.bsky.social · Mar 3

Check out the 1st article in our special issue on Community Voices in #JournalofAppliedVolcanology by Ailsa Naismith: 'Illustrating Fuego' #volcano which documents local people's experiences of Fuego's #eruptions. Read it now👇🌋🏘️🎨

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Figure 7 from Naismith et al. 2025 in Journal of Applied Volcanology, illustrating the process of producing a zine page on local people's experiences of Fuego's eruptions.

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Amelia Bain @amelia-bain.bsky.social · Feb 3

📢 Check out the new collection in Journal of Applied Volcanology on 'Data Visualisation and Effective Communication in #Volcanology' JAV is affiliated with the @iavcei.bsky.social Commission on Cities and #Volcanoes 🌋🏘️ Read more: www.biomedcentral.com/collections/...

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Ixchel Project @gcrf-ixchel.bsky.social · Dec 7

Join us tonight in #Edinburgh for the last event in our #volcano film series in collaboration with @cinemaattic.bsky.social - this evening will feature 5 short films, with Colombian food by Sabor Al Toque. See you there!

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Ana J. Cabrera Pacheco @ana-j.bsky.social · Dec 4

Now that there's a bit more people around, here it goes again!
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Ana J. Cabrera Pacheco @ana-j.bsky.social · Oct 11

A bit late in the game, but hi! I'm Ana - architect, environmental social scientist & human geographer. I'm currently a postdoc, working with Maya communities in post-disaster contexts as part of the Ixchel project at Edinburgh uni. I love working with Indigenous women around home-gardens and food.

Drawings from fieldwork with Tz'ututjil women in Guatemala about their home-gardens.

Corn from a milpa from the home-garden of a Tz'utujil woman.

Details from the "güisquil" plant in one home-garden.

Mural at the local school from my fieldwork, showing volcanoes and rural life in the background, and an Indigenous woman holding corn in the front.

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Ixchel Project @gcrf-ixchel.bsky.social · Dec 4

Two of our Ixchel researchers, Prof Eliza Calder and Dr Teresa Armijos, are guest editors for this issue, along with Prof Jenni Barclay and Dr Natalia Pardo. Check it out:

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Community voices and volcanic risk reduction: co-production, participatory research, and community-led approaches to risk

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Ixchel Project @gcrf-ixchel.bsky.social · Dec 4

𝗙𝗶𝗻𝗮𝗹 𝗰𝗮𝗹𝗹 for submissions to the special collection in Journal of Applied Volcanology: 'Community voices and #volcanic risk reduction', closing end of the month! Get in touch with @ehd.bsky.social if you'd like to discuss. #DRR #NoNaturalDisasters

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Community voices and volcanic risk reduction: co-production, participatory research, and community-led approaches to risk

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Ixchel Project @gcrf-ixchel.bsky.social · Nov 28

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Beth Bartel @eatthecrust.bsky.social · Nov 16

Hi Bluesky! I research communication, relationships, and decision-making for risk reduction with a focus on volcanic hazards 🌋 and an eye on equity. Background in geology, Spanish, geophysics, journalism, and social science (broadly). Here for science and cats and new ideas about everything.

Fuego volcano, Guatemala, in silhouette at sunset, with ash drifting up from its summit crater.

Floofy black and white cat sleeping on my lap at my desk. Very cute. He has tufts of fur pointing out between his toe, also known as bean sprouts.

Me and a group of awesome grad students and our awesome cook in El Salvador on an NSF-funded International Research Experience for Students interdisciplinary research project on water scarcity.

Collaboration is the best. Pic of me and friend/research collaborator Dr Ailsa Naismith drinking coffee in front of Fuego Volcano, Guatemala, both with big smiles. Her mug reads “broken crayons still color.” Mine reads “love yourself.” We bought them during our grocery run because it made us laugh to think of them living at the volcano observatory, where we’re pictured.

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Julie Cupples @juliecupples79.bsky.social · Nov 17

Join us for Volcano Cinema: Of Eruptions and Other Stories in Edinburgh, Glasgow and Dundee. A collaboration between Cinemaattic and Ixchel
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Volcano Cinema: Of Eruptions and Other Stories - 2024 -

Volcano Cinema: Of Eruptions and Other Stories - 2024 Education

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Julie Cupples @juliecupples79.bsky.social · Nov 26

I’m so pleased to announce that our book Transmedia Geographies: Decoloniality, Democratization, Cultural Citizenship, and Media Convergence is now published by Rutgers University Press www.rutgersuniversitypress.org/9781978830066/

Transmedia Geographies - Rutgers University Press

Looking at the US, New Zealand, and Central America, this book considers how cultural politics has been deeply reworked in our contemporary media environment...

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Amelia Bain @amelia-bain.bsky.social · Nov 22

🌋Introducing 'Volcano Cinema: of Eruptions and Other Stories', organised as part of the GCRF-funded 'Ixchel' project.

For more information and tickets: cinemaattic.com/volcano-cine...

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Julie Cupples @juliecupples79.bsky.social · Nov 27

Ahora hay traducción en tz'utujil de nuestra sistematización de las consecuencias del deslave de Panabaj (Guatemala) de 2005
Ruk’iyiwaal, Nuk’uujneem, K’amoj B’eey: Rucholajiil K’asleemaal ja Xb’anataja rumaal Ujl rixin Panab’aj, 2005
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Desastre, reconstrucción, liderazgo: Sistematización de las experiencias tras el deslave de Panabaj de 2005 | Edinburgh Diamond | Books

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