@merrynthomas.bsky.social
Postdoctoral Research Fellow, University of Exeter. Public engagement, environment, intergenerational, people-nature, arts-based research. Born@342ppm. Views my own.
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💷 £25 Love2Shop #voucher for taking part
🗣️ Share your views & shape community engagement
📍18+ near #Chacewater, #Redruth, #Lanner, #StDay #Threemilestone #Perranarworthal #Cornwall #events
📅 Mon 3 Nov (eve) or Tue 4 Nov (am)
👉 forms.office.com/e/iakutXY0GZ
Golden silky galls
Donuts on Clyne Gardens floor
Wasps, you say?! Who knew?!
#swansea #clyne #nature #haiku
Absoflippinglutely!
16.09.2025 20:25 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
New kid on the block. Jimmy the small cat 😺
08.09.2025 20:46 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Project Impact Update: We engaged over 100 participants in Wales—bridging generations through workshops, public events, and international knowledge exchange: www.climatecomic.co.uk/post/climate...
#ClimateAction #PublicEngagement #OPTICProject #ClimateComic #IntergenerationalLearning #participatory
Great to be at the #ExeterClimateConference, lots of super presentations and discussions, great to catch up with everyone and talk #UTES #engagement www.push-it-thermalstorage.eu
03.07.2025 18:31 — 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Visualising Energy Supply Futures first workshop @cu-cardiffbusiness.bsky.social @merrynthomas.bsky.social
💡 Learning about hydro-electric energy Gilgit-Baltistan, northern Pakistan. Many issues of supply not meeting demand.
🔗 Book for workshops July 2 & July 30 www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/visualisin...
Clearing the mantelpiece for the @oystermouthpta school summer fayre on Saturday 7th June - selling paintings in upcycled frames, books, some jewellery for the @themumblesrnli and some tomato plants.. 10am - 12pm followed by the fabulous #mumblesfest at the castle #mumbles #swansea
02.06.2025 20:15 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Looking forward to helping @aledsingleton.bsky.social out with his workshops - sign up here
28.05.2025 05:54 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Enormous thank you to the team and our collaborators including @lonelydeb.bsky.social @charliemuss.bsky.social @youandco2.bsky.social @laurasorvala.bsky.social
21.05.2025 10:03 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
🌍 Cyflwynwn Lyfr Gweithgareddau Comic yr Hinsawdd – Lawrlwythiad Am Ddim! 🎉
🖍️ Llawn gweithgareddau creadigol + templedi am ddim (gan gynnwys fformat mawr)
🎨 Darluniwyd gan @laurasorvala.bsky.social
👉 lawrlwythiad am ddim: www.climatecomic.co.uk
🌍 The bilingual #Intergenerational #ClimateComic Activity Book is here! Co-created with and for schools, care homes & communities in South Wales
🖍️ Packed with creative activities + free templates (incl. large format)
🎨 Illustrated by @laurasorvala.bsky.social
👉 free download www.climatecomic.co.uk
Good morning #Swansea ❤️
18.05.2025 07:43 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Not much time for science engagement today? Try the ONE MINUTE MELON! A quick and easy hook to get children interested in the concept of underground thermal energy storage 🍈🌡️🌍 (or the wonders of Planet Earth in general)
16.05.2025 13:42 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Looking forward to presenting about public engagement with underground thermal energy storage (the #PUSH-IT project) at the #ExeterClimateForum 2nd-4th July. Register at exeterclimateforum.com. With @exeter.ac.uk @metoffice.bsky.social @isoutar.bsky.social
14.05.2025 08:43 — 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Our paper just published: value of #intergenerational tabletop game design for student engagement with climate change. Based on an #undergraduate #geography field trip assignment on #Scilly with @cailadd.bsky.social and Emilia Urbanek. #education #pedagogy free👇
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Great to see this on #HCRW news - our work centring intergenerational perspectives of climate change during #globalintergenerationalweek2025 - healthandcareresearchwales.org/about/news/i...
25.04.2025 15:59 — 👍 3 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
A spread from an online flip book about climate change related activities. This page has two games on it: climate bingo and a climate themed snakes and ladders. The bingo sheets have illustrated icons for things like plastic, grow your own, co-housing, mending, recycling and so on. The snakes and ladders has orange and yellow squares with things like "you cut down a forest!" or "you invested in clean energy! Advance 4 squares"
Want something positive to look at and learn with on this Earth Day?
Go have a look at our Climate Comic Activity Pack, a free resource with printouts for all sorts of climate and sustainability related things to do: www.climatecomic.co.uk
#EarthDay #ClimateChange @merrynthomas.bsky.social
We have LIFT-OFF!! After many months of prep with #JLPartners, we're launching our underground thermal energy storage public perceptions #survey today! I am inordinately excited (see left). Watch this space! www.push-it-thermalstorage.eu @isoutar.bsky.social
11.04.2025 09:04 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
A slightly overdue random assortment including a lesson from the lovely book Pastel Painting Step by Step by Evans et al., and a fabulous weekend learning from Mark Warner at #ChapelCottageStudio
08.04.2025 20:19 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Cry when the baby cries, book by Becky Barnicoat
Just finished this👇.. It's SO GOOD @beckybarnicoat.bsky.social
08.04.2025 20:09 — 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0
Springtime is here! That means it's time to launch the Climate Comic Activity Book at Senedd Cymru Welsh Parliament next week with the wonderful @laurasorvala.bsky.social, @lonelydeb.bsky.social, and @delythjewell.bsky.social. Can't wait!!
26.03.2025 15:12 — 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 1
An OPTIC project update from Carol - we're very excited to launch the Climate Comic Activity Pack at Senedd Cymru | Welsh Parliament on 2nd April with @delythjewell.bsky.social www.climatecomic.co.uk/post/optic-u...
21.03.2025 09:05 — 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 2
Hitting my 3-year backlog of photo editing - starting with these two from October '24 #visitswansea #SouthWales #aurora #Northernlights
19.03.2025 21:00 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
How great are these #energy #detournements of #Swansea Bay? Coal, wind, yellow dogs, biophillia, solar trees, underground thermal energy storage... and sunshine! #undergraduate #psychogeography #geography
05.03.2025 14:49 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Perfect day for an #energy #futures lecture on #Swansea Beach
05.03.2025 08:09 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
biocubes.net - man-made structures now outweigh the mass of the living world - useful (scary) visualisation for teaching and learning
17.02.2025 10:14 — 👍 0 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
This week, I have been mostly playing with pastels (#23)
14.02.2025 18:59 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Week #22: rest of the week's offerings are not much to write home about but I did enjoy The #Landscape #Psychogeographer course with artist #GregHumphries - my attempt at a detournement of St. Ives 🎨
07.02.2025 21:32 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Fantastic opportunity for a fully funded social science PhD studentship at ARU: “Social acceptance of energy storage: investigating how people engage with and respond to mine water energy storage” with Dr Mel Rohse and Dr Ami Crowther. Please share!
www.aru.ac.uk/research/pos...
