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Then Try This @thentrythis.social.thentrythis.org.ap.brid.gy · 6d

Pre-pre-pre-announcement that around the end of the year/early spring we'll be announcing some new funded residencies, based at our new studio in Cornwall to run around Aug/Sept 2026.

The theme this time is moths and their viruses - as part of a bigger research grant on how viruses and their […]

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Amber Griffiths @amberfirefly.mastodon.green.ap.brid.gy · 8d

Kind of interesting list of 'endangered' crafts categorised by riffing on the conservation redlist of wildlife https://www.heritagecrafts.org.uk/categories-of-risk/

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Then Try This @thentrythis.social.thentrythis.org.ap.brid.gy · 11d

Write up on our first #organisedatoms workshop of 2025:

https://thentrythis.org/notes/2025/09/27/organised-atoms-2025-workshop-1/

Two more (free events) coming up next weekend as part of Fun Palaces - see booking info here if you are near us and want to give it a go […]

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Then Try This @thentrythis.social.thentrythis.org.ap.brid.gy · 21d

New-new studio so close to being up and running ✨ be nice to see an end to the relentless moving and carrying and shelf building and to be back in the world

Photo of some shelves with books, some tangling trailing plants on the top shelf, and our studio sign propped up. There is a lot of ambient light.

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Dave Griffiths @nebogeo.post.lurk.org.ap.brid.gy · 25d

Some extreme hotel debugging going down for #alpaca2025 - come along to our public khipu play session with @Khipumancer tomorrow in the Sheffield Winter Garden 1-3pm

Lots of knots, rope and woven robots on the floor of a hotel room

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Then Try This @thentrythis.social.thentrythis.org.ap.brid.gy · Sep 4

First bits in our new spot, welcome to the 'Propagation Studio', it is the nicest place we've ever been

A long wood table in an otherwise empty room. The space has a sloped ceiling with a large roof window and a tree visible above. There are two simple black and white pendant lights. It is painted white, with a polished concrete floor.

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Then Try This @thentrythis.social.thentrythis.org.ap.brid.gy · Aug 25

We're happy to announce dates for Organised Atoms 2025 - free workshops for kids and their families and friends where we search for crystals, examine them under a microscope and make electronic noises with them!

Location: United Downs Raceway, St Day, Cornwall (situated to the south east of St […]

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Then Try This @thentrythis.social.thentrythis.org.ap.brid.gy · Aug 25

Organised Atoms Workshops 2025, dates announced: see link for details and booking info!

https://thentrythis.org/notes/2025/08/25/organised-atoms-workshops-2025/

Organised Atoms Workshops 2025

We're happy to announce dates for Organised Atoms 2025 - workshops for kids and their families and friends where we search for crystals, examine them under a microscope and make …

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Dave Griffiths @nebogeo.post.lurk.org.ap.brid.gy · Aug 21

Wondering what on earth was up with this, and then I remembered how much it rained on the last workshop #organisedatoms

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Then Try This @thentrythis.social.thentrythis.org.ap.brid.gy · Aug 21

OMG it's #organisedatoms time of year again

10 cardboard boxes all with electronic components, dials, speakers and crystal holders with spring and wires to connect them

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Dave Griffiths @nebogeo.post.lurk.org.ap.brid.gy · Aug 21

Penstruthal is an ancient mine, first recorded output is in 1825 but it was probably worked long before this. The ore (both copper and tin) here is found as veins within the Carnmenellis granite, not the country rock as elsewhere in the Gwennap mines just a few miles to the east. The dumps that […]

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Then Try This @thentrythis.social.thentrythis.org.ap.brid.gy · Aug 19

So our spot in Gray's Wharf will be available from 1 Oct if anyone happens to want a decent size studio with a humane landlord...

Square studio with lovely exposed wood beams and high ceiling. The floor is painted grey, it has lots of our things in it including our prized plants!

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Then Try This @thentrythis.social.thentrythis.org.ap.brid.gy · Aug 19

We only just moved studio, but unexpectedly then got offered one we've had our eye on for a whole decade... so from September we'll be heading out to Potager as our new work-home! It's a beautiful spot, with hammocks, a huge greenhouse to sit in, a fab […]

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A large immaculate polytunnel with 4 rows of tomatoes and chillies

A pink cotton hammock strung between two gnarly lichen covered trees, behind there are more trees and a large table with benches

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Then Try This @thentrythis.social.thentrythis.org.ap.brid.gy · Jul 22

We're having a little studio warming on 16 Aug, 11am-2pm, at Gray's Wharf in Penryn - all welcome!

It'll also be the launch for Drawings About Things (our new illustration and print offerings) so there will be lots of lovely textural print bits and bobs to take a look at.

Etching of a strand of DNA, with a person dragging it out of the etching plate. It also says open studio, 16 Aug, 11am-2pm.

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Then Try This @thentrythis.social.thentrythis.org.ap.brid.gy · Aug 12

We're excited to be hosting Alpaca conference from 12-20th September 2025, with a huge range of talks, workshops and performances exploring algorithmic patterns in the creative arts.

Algorithms aren't just about computers, they're also used to make […]

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Then Try This @thentrythis.social.thentrythis.org.ap.brid.gy · Jul 29

We are doing #organisedatoms again this summer, watch this space for dates!

Family fun smashing rocks, crystal collecting, identification, microscopes, electronics and NOISE at United Downs Raceway, St Day, #cornwall

We are currently building some of […]

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A slice of wood with circuits screwed to the top, connected by wires to two small volca modular synthesisers and a zoom recorder on a wooden workbench

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Then Try This @thentrythis.social.thentrythis.org.ap.brid.gy · Jul 22

We're having a little studio warming on 16 Aug, 11am-2pm, at Gray's Wharf in Penryn - all welcome!

It'll also be the launch for Drawings About Things (our new illustration and print offerings) so there will be lots of lovely textural print bits and bobs to take a look at.

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Then Try This @thentrythis.social.thentrythis.org.ap.brid.gy · Jul 8

The Royal Society used our game Nergal at their Disability & Technology report launch on 23 June 💚

This is to the best of our knowledge the first time a citizen science game has been made so folks with little or no sight can play and contribute data […]

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Photo of two people playing Nergal at a table, one looking over, and two looking at something on a screen behind. There are opulent looking chandeliers in the background and old dark wood door frames.

Someone playing nergal at a laptop with someone smiling at them. We've overlaid a plant pic from the game and some coloured stripes.

A person grinning while playing the game and another also smiling. We've overlaid a ghosty game character wearing a mushroom hat, and a moon and stars.

Three people looking at Nergal on a screen at a table. We've added a ghost character wearing a pink striped party hat and some stars.

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Then Try This @thentrythis.social.thentrythis.org.ap.brid.gy · Jul 6

Spent the first half of the week up in London for the Royal Society Summer Exhibition opening night, where we were showing our game Nergal with the folks we made it with at the University of Edinburgh to their 800 or so visitors. Snuck some nergal hats […]

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People stood around a table playing nergal game on tablets, two are 'wearing' cardboard hats on sticks, in the background is a huge oil painting of a stern old man, with a nergal hat stuck on (there is glass covering the painting don't worry), at the front one of the University of Edinburgh pair stands over a cut out stood up nergal character.

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Then Try This @thentrythis.social.thentrythis.org.ap.brid.gy · Jul 1

Showing Nergal at the Royal Society Summer Exhibition opening night, managed to sneak some hats on the old dudes

A grand building with summer science banners and a progress pride flag

Oil painting with a stuck on bobble hat and a bit of a poster about the game

Oil painting with stuck on pussy hat (from the anti trump protests the first time round) and some tablets and a wooden plant shape on a table

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Then Try This @thentrythis.social.thentrythis.org.ap.brid.gy · Jun 28

Quite a nice surprise article about Nergal in The Scientist https://www.the-scientist.com/nergal-networks-where-friendship-meets-infection-72974

Nergal Networks: Where Friendship Meets Infection

A citizen science game explores how social choices and networks can influence how an illness moves through a population.

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Then Try This @thentrythis.social.thentrythis.org.ap.brid.gy · Jun 27

Just got the keys to our new studio, moving over the next 2 weeks 🌱

Almost empty new studio with grey painted floor, a few shelves on the wall, and big wooden beams with a high ceiling. A few bits have been moved in including a monstera plant and some wood benches.

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Then Try This @thentrythis.social.thentrythis.org.ap.brid.gy · Jun 26

Frantic prop making is DONE for the Royal Society Summer exhibition in London next week, come say hi if you're nearby on the 1st from 6-10pm.

Set of laser cut ply plant shapes painted dark blue and standing up, with stand up game characters tucked between them, in our studio

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Then Try This @thentrythis.social.thentrythis.org.ap.brid.gy · Jun 18

We've been making life size Nergals for the Royal Society Summer Exhibition (Oatly for scale 😆) https://royalsociety.org/science-events-and-lectures/2025/07/lates-nergal/

Four cut out stand up card characters from our nergal game, the shortest is slightly higher than an Oatly carton, the tallest nearly double.

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Then Try This @thentrythis.social.thentrythis.org.ap.brid.gy · Jun 16

More info on our Nergal event at the Royal Society Summer Exhibition on the 1st July - come along and meet the nergals!

https://royalsociety.org/science-events-and-lectures/2025/07/lates-nergal/

#citizenscience

Screenshot of Royal Society website with "Lates: The world of Nergal", and a screenshot of the game.

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