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Merryn Thomas

@merrynthomas.bsky.social
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Postdoctoral Research Fellow, University of Exeter. Public engagement, environment, intergenerational, people-nature, arts-based research. Born@342ppm. Views my own.

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Merryn Thomas @merrynthomas.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
Devastating news - bad for academia, bad for the University's reputation and bad for Cornwall. Not to mention my fantastic colleagues based here. Please consider signing the petition in the comments.
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Briony Latter @brionylatter.bsky.social · 25/02/2026
Great to see this book chapter out from our Healthy Ageing in a Changing Climate project @heriotwattuni.bsky.social @sei.org with Ryan Woolrych & Gary Haq, in collab with @merrynthomas.bsky.social & team about the methods used in our two @ukri.org projects. www.degruyterbrill.com/document/doi...
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6 Global environments of ageing: towards co-designing climate resilient environments and communities for ageing well
6 Global environments of ageing: towards co-designing climate resilient environments and communities for ageing well was published in Healthy Ageing on page 79.
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Merryn Thomas @merrynthomas.bsky.social · 23/11/2025
Getting ready for Oystermouth primary school Christmas Fayre with some original paintings in upcycled frames. Saturday 29th Nov 2-4pm #Swansea #gower #affordableart
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Merryn Thomas @merrynthomas.bsky.social · 15/11/2025
Found this on a #Gower #Swansea beach, very heavy. Any ideas anyone? Iron ore? Ballast? Slag from #PortTalbot #Steelworks? #geology #wales @tatasteeluk.bsky.social thanks #oystermouthlibrary for the research effort this avo!
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Merryn Thomas @merrynthomas.bsky.social · 27/10/2025
Final spots left! 💷 £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
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Merryn Thomas @merrynthomas.bsky.social · 12/10/2025
Golden silky galls Donuts on Clyne Gardens floor Wasps, you say?! Who knew?! #swansea #clyne #nature #haiku
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Merryn Thomas @merrynthomas.bsky.social · 08/09/2025
New kid on the block. Jimmy the small cat 😺
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Merryn Thomas @merrynthomas.bsky.social · 24/07/2025
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
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Climate Comic & Activity Book impact summary: Building Bridges for Climate Action
By Merryn Thomas, University of Exeter and Swansea University; Tom Basher, Education Adviser, Partneriaeth; and Jennifer Twelvetrees, founder, Women4Resources.  The Climate Comic and Activity Book are...
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Merryn Thomas @merrynthomas.bsky.social · 03/07/2025
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
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PUSH-IT – Piloting Underground Storage of Heat In geoThermal reservoirsPUSH-IT – Piloting Underground Storage of Heat In geoThermal reservoirs
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Aled Singleton @aledsingleton.bsky.social · 21/06/2025
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...
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Merryn Thomas @merrynthomas.bsky.social · 02/06/2025
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
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Merryn Thomas @merrynthomas.bsky.social · 28/05/2025
Looking forward to helping @aledsingleton.bsky.social out with his workshops - sign up here
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Merryn Thomas @merrynthomas.bsky.social · 21/05/2025
🌍 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
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Home | Climate Comic
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Merryn Thomas @merrynthomas.bsky.social · 21/05/2025
🌍 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
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Home | Climate Comic
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Merryn Thomas @merrynthomas.bsky.social · 18/05/2025
Good morning #Swansea ❤️
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Merryn Thomas @merrynthomas.bsky.social · 16/05/2025
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)
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Merryn Thomas @merrynthomas.bsky.social · 14/05/2025
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
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Merryn Thomas @merrynthomas.bsky.social · 06/05/2025
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....
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Intergenerational tabletop game design for exploring the climate emergency: insights from an undergraduate field course
While studies show the value of playing games for exploring complex geographical concepts, much less research considers the value of game construction. Here we present the rationale, methodology an...
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Merryn Thomas @merrynthomas.bsky.social · 25/04/2025
Great to see this on #HCRW news - our work centring intergenerational perspectives of climate change during #globalintergenerationalweek2025 - healthandcareresearchwales.org/about/news/i...
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Intergenerational climate conversations take centre stage for Global Intergenerational Week 2025
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Laura Sorvala ✏️ @laurasorvala.bsky.social · 22/04/2025
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
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"
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Merryn Thomas @merrynthomas.bsky.social · 11/04/2025
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
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PUSH-IT – Piloting Underground Storage of Heat In geoThermal reservoirsPUSH-IT – Piloting Underground Storage of Heat In geoThermal reservoirs
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Merryn Thomas @merrynthomas.bsky.social · 08/04/2025
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
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Merryn Thomas @merrynthomas.bsky.social · 08/04/2025
Just finished this👇.. It's SO GOOD @beckybarnicoat.bsky.social
Cry when the baby cries, book by Becky Barnicoat
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Merryn Thomas @merrynthomas.bsky.social · 26/03/2025
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!!
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Merryn Thomas @merrynthomas.bsky.social · 21/03/2025
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...
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OPTIC update: Embracing Intergenerational Collaboration for Climate Action
By Dr. Carol Maddock for the March CADR newsletter. Climate change represents a significant challenge to both human and planetary health. The OPTIC project has demonstrated that intergenerational col...
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Merryn Thomas @merrynthomas.bsky.social · 19/03/2025
Hitting my 3-year backlog of photo editing - starting with these two from October '24 #visitswansea #SouthWales #aurora #Northernlights
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Merryn Thomas @merrynthomas.bsky.social · 05/03/2025
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
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Merryn Thomas @merrynthomas.bsky.social · 05/03/2025
Perfect day for an #energy #futures lecture on #Swansea Beach
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Merryn Thomas @merrynthomas.bsky.social · 17/02/2025
biocubes.net - man-made structures now outweigh the mass of the living world - useful (scary) visualisation for teaching and learning
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Biocubes
visualization of everything on earth
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Merryn Thomas @merrynthomas.bsky.social · 14/02/2025
This week, I have been mostly playing with pastels (#23)
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Merryn Thomas @merrynthomas.bsky.social · 07/02/2025
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 🎨
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Merryn Thomas @merrynthomas.bsky.social · 07/02/2025
Fantastic 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...
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Social acceptance of energy storage - ARU
Find out about and apply for ARU's PhD scholarship 'Social acceptance of energy storage: investigating how people engage with and respond to mine water energy storage'.
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Merryn Thomas @merrynthomas.bsky.social · 29/01/2025
#kitchenscience: which one's going to be warmest when we get back from the shops?
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Merryn Thomas @merrynthomas.bsky.social · 29/01/2025
Week #21, a wonderful short course with #BethMarsden painting without brushes
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Merryn Thomas @merrynthomas.bsky.social · 29/01/2025
Week #20, half way through a #psychogeography short course so lots of drawing while walking, and a blustery after-school on #Rotherslade
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Merryn Thomas @merrynthomas.bsky.social · 10/01/2025
Week #19: four lunchtime cliff walks, two memories of the Old Quay path and an Old Grimsby #Tresco #Scilly #Gower #St.Martin's
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Merryn Thomas @merrynthomas.bsky.social · 10/01/2025
A bit behind - weeks #17 and #18 were Christmas on Scilly in the sketchbook
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Merryn Thomas @merrynthomas.bsky.social · 20/12/2024
Our blog just published - #creativity for engaging publics with #underground thermal energy storage #UTES. Salt dough, colouring and puzzles can make make 'invisible' underground technologies more tangible - they're fun, too 👌
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Iain Soutar @isoutar.bsky.social · 18/12/2024
One blessing of digitalisation is that it is so much easier to share research. Great to hear Udo Pesch from TU Delft talk about this work on the phenomenon of controversy spillover, e.g. from fracking to geothermal.
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Jim's Wheels @jimswheels.bsky.social · 18/12/2024
bmjpublichealth.bmj.com/content/2/1/... full study here, abstract is good explanation
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Health benefits of pedestrian and cyclist commuting: evidence from the Scottish Longitudinal Study
Background Despite active travel investment increasing, evidence of benefit is often limited to selected health outcomes and a short follow-up period, and cyclists and pedestrians are often analysed t...
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Prof Charles Musselwhite @charliemuss.bsky.social · 16/12/2024
🚚What is the impact of home deliveries on accessibility and wellbeing for people with impairments? 👥We are hosting a 90min online workshop and you are invited to take part in this online workshop on 28 Jan '25 at 12:30-14:00. ✍️Register: uwe.eu.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...
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Qualtrics Survey | Qualtrics Experience Management
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Merryn Thomas @merrynthomas.bsky.social · 16/12/2024
The fabulous @laurasorvala.bsky.social has been collaborating with us, along with care homes and schools, on the www.climatecomic.co.uk Activity Book ✏️. Here's a sneak peek of this #intergenerational, #co-creative, #bilingual #climatechange project. We can’t wait to launch it in 2025! 🌍📚
Draft of the Climate Comic Activity Book front cover and page featuring an empathy spinner
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Merryn Thomas @merrynthomas.bsky.social · 15/12/2024
Week #16 not much arty time this week so painting the wrapping paper instead
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Dave Goulson @davegoulson.bsky.social · 14/12/2024
What a fabulous beetle!
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Merryn Thomas @merrynthomas.bsky.social · 14/12/2024
Bore da, Bluesky! Good morning Bluesky! From #Swansea #Gower
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Merryn Thomas @merrynthomas.bsky.social · 08/12/2024
Week #15: Christmas tree bling, wintry walks, Devils Kitchen, littlies on #Scilly
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Merryn Thomas @merrynthomas.bsky.social · 04/12/2024
'You don't have to like the way your liver looks for it to be able to function' (Barry 2019) and a 'daily scribble' can make space for #extremenoticing and #flow. Would love to connect with others interested in #art #senseofplace #wellbeing #geography - August-November scribbles in the thread...
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Iain Soutar @isoutar.bsky.social · 03/12/2024
The UK public supports a shift to increasingly decentralised energy systems (within reason). However, scaling up/out local energy systems will require careful public engagement to ensure that they are designed in ways that work for people. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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Clear support for an unclear concept? Public attitudes towards local energy systems in the United Kingdom
Decentralisation offers one route to energy system decarbonisation, and local energy systems (LES) provide focal points for decentralisation. LES invo…
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Iain Soutar @isoutar.bsky.social · 02/12/2024
Are you working on this Horizon call on community-integrated PV systems? We at Exeter have expertise in smart grid research, social science and business model innovation, and a potential demonstration site. We’re keen to make links with others working on the call, so please reach out if this is you
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EU Funding & Tenders Portal
The Funding and Tenders Portal is the single entry point (the Single Electronic Data Interchange Area) for applicants, contractors and experts in funding programmes and procurements managed by the Eur...
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Merryn Thomas @merrynthomas.bsky.social · 01/12/2024
Week #13 and if it stays still long enough it's getting the gold paint treatment. #Rotherslade #Gower
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