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.

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...

Getting ready for Oystermouth primary school Christmas Fayre with some original paintings in upcycled frames. Saturday 29th Nov 2-4pm #Swansea #gower #affordableart

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!

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

Golden silky galls Donuts on Clyne Gardens floor Wasps, you say?! Who knew?! #swansea #clyne #nature #haiku

New kid on the block. Jimmy the small cat 😺

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

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

Looking forward to helping @aledsingleton.bsky.social out with his workshops - sign up here

🌍 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 ❤️

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)

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

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...

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

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

Just finished this👇.. It's SO GOOD @beckybarnicoat.bsky.social

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!!

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...

Hitting my 3-year backlog of photo editing - starting with these two from October '24 #visitswansea #SouthWales #aurora #Northernlights

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

Perfect day for an #energy #futures lecture on #Swansea Beach

biocubes.net - man-made structures now outweigh the mass of the living world - useful (scary) visualisation for teaching and learning

This week, I have been mostly playing with pastels (#23)

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 🎨

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...

#kitchenscience: which one's going to be warmest when we get back from the shops?

Week #21, a wonderful short course with #BethMarsden painting without brushes

Week #20, half way through a #psychogeography short course so lots of drawing while walking, and a blustery after-school on #Rotherslade

Week #19: four lunchtime cliff walks, two memories of the Old Quay path and an Old Grimsby #Tresco #Scilly #Gower #St.Martin's

A bit behind - weeks #17 and #18 were Christmas on Scilly in the sketchbook

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 👌

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.

bmjpublichealth.bmj.com/content/2/1/... full study here, abstract is good explanation

🚚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_...

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! 🌍📚

Week #16 not much arty time this week so painting the wrapping paper instead

What a fabulous beetle!

Bore da, Bluesky! Good morning Bluesky! From #Swansea #Gower

Week #15: Christmas tree bling, wintry walks, Devils Kitchen, littlies on #Scilly

'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...

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...

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

Week #13 and if it stays still long enough it's getting the gold paint treatment. #Rotherslade #Gower