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Emma Creasey
@escreasey.bsky.social
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Writing, books, cats, music, flowers. Oh, and tea. Lots of tea.

REF Impact Evidencing Officer at the University of Bristol.
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organiccarbon.bsky.social
The production of organic matter and its consumption by heterotrophs, including microbes and animals, is a defining feature of almost all life on Earth.

But these two processes also govern our climate and environment, controlling CO2 levels and the oxygenation of the atmosphere.
August 8, 2025 at 4:08 PM
escreasey.bsky.social
Bumper and Peanut, two very good bois from Medical Detection Dogs, have been trained to sniff out Parkinson's disease in a study from the Uni of Bristol Vet School and @manchester.ac.uk.

Hey @rorycj.bsky.social do you think #SophieFromRomania wants to sign up?

www.bristol.ac.uk/news/2025/ju...
Bio Detection dogs successfully detect Parkinson’s disease by odour, study finds
People with Parkinson’s disease (PD) have an odour that can be reliably detected from skin swabs by trained dogs, a new study shows. The research, in collaboration with Medical Detection Dogs and the ...
www.bristol.ac.uk
July 16, 2025 at 1:28 PM
Reposted by Emma Creasey
dralisongregory.bsky.social
My thanks to @capcbristol.bsky.social for publicising (www.bristol.ac.uk/primaryhealt...) the Friends and Family Handbook (www.womensaid.org.uk/information-...) recently launched by Women's Aid Federation of England.

The handbook is for informal supporters of someone experiencing domestic abuse.
New Friends and Family Handbook gives advice on how to support someone experiencing domestic abuse
A new Friends and Family Handbook, written by Dr Alison Gregory, an Independent Academic and Honorary Senior Research Fellow at the Centre for Academic Primary Care, University of Bristol, has been la...
www.bristol.ac.uk
June 3, 2025 at 9:20 AM
escreasey.bsky.social
Every day she dreads watching that final swirl of soapy water disappear. It means facing whatever is on the other side of the shower door. Soon, it will carry blood.

#30Words30Days #Swirl
June 3, 2025 at 5:03 AM
escreasey.bsky.social
Taking a few deep breaths, I gather up all my courage. Other people find this so easy.

Finally, I click ‘Share screen’.

‘Thank you everyone for coming to this webinar…’

#30Words30Days #gather
April 30, 2025 at 9:26 AM
escreasey.bsky.social
My bow lands on the strings. Three triumphant chords, then a lilting melody which lowers and fades, awaiting the… non-existent orchestra.

I’m no Jacqueline du Pré, but I can dream.
April 29, 2025 at 11:57 AM
escreasey.bsky.social
Engine rumbling, metal clanging, the skip truck rolled away, taking with it the jettisoned trappings of their life together. She wished she could chuck out her unwanted memories as easily.

#30Words30Days #Skip
April 27, 2025 at 5:18 AM
escreasey.bsky.social
After scrolling through Facebook, browsing Instagram, watching a couple of cute cat videos, checking the headlines and eventually contemplating a blank document, I finally admit defeat on yesterday’s #30Words30Days #challenge.
April 26, 2025 at 9:15 PM
escreasey.bsky.social
He rummaged through his desk drawers, his coat pockets and his shopping bag, to no avail.

Eventually a seven-year-old came to the rescue.

‘Your glasses are on your head, Grandad.'

#30Words30Days #rummage
April 26, 2025 at 8:44 PM
escreasey.bsky.social
As the girls approached, he flexed his biceps in the traditional strongman pose, muscles rippling under his tanned, oiled skin.

Eyes locked on the ice-cream van, they walked straight past.

#30Words30Days #ripple
April 24, 2025 at 8:48 PM
escreasey.bsky.social
Pigeon pecks at spilt seed
Overconfident, not seeing how the
Undergrowth trembles with feline excitement
Now at last, her chance -
Cat pounces, claws spring out
Explosion of feathers and blood

#30Words30Days #POUNCE

p.s. It got away, but there are still feathers all over my garden!
April 23, 2025 at 3:01 PM
escreasey.bsky.social
‘I’ve lost the thread,’ my mother cries in distress.

Alas, she’s right. Her thoughts and memories are springing apart, unweaving like Penelope’s tapestries, collecting torn and raw-edged around her feet.

#30Words30Days #weave
April 22, 2025 at 8:56 AM
escreasey.bsky.social
We attached all kinds of things to our instruments; a knotted handkerchief, a cloth tote bag, even an old sock. COVID precautions certainly made wind band rehearsals a bit different.

#30Words30Days #wind
April 21, 2025 at 9:03 AM
escreasey.bsky.social
I prepare the family feast; chopping, dicing, sprinkling herbs, adding seasoning, basting and stirring.

‘Eww what’s these twigs?’

‘Bit spicy for me.’

‘Is there ketchup?’

Next year they’re getting pizza.

#30Words30Days #feast
April 20, 2025 at 4:24 PM
escreasey.bsky.social
Hannah swooped down on the mouse, plonking an ice-cream tub over it.

‘I’m taking this outside.’

Felix, who’d been planning hours of fun with the squeaky toy, lashed his tail.

#30Words30Days #swoop
April 19, 2025 at 9:12 PM
escreasey.bsky.social
Calum launched himself down the waterslide with a joyous yell, which changed tone on his parting company with the mat, and again on his crotch’s encounter with a loose rivet.

#30Words30Days #Slide
April 18, 2025 at 8:46 PM
escreasey.bsky.social
‘This session will stretch your mind as well as your body,’ intoned the yoga instructor on the screen.

‘Good for you luv,’ said Louise, stretching for her glass of wine.

#30Words30Days #Stretch

(This was genuinely on the yoga video I chose to do this morning. I did actually do the yoga though!)
April 17, 2025 at 7:49 PM
escreasey.bsky.social
She paused to collect herself, looking round at her once beloved home, the photos, the trinkets. Then she walked out for the last time.

No-one found the body for days.

#30words30days #Collect
April 16, 2025 at 8:39 PM
Reposted by Emma Creasey
kizzia.bsky.social
a blue white and pink flag with the words human rights written on it
Alt: a blue white and pink striped flag with the words trans rights are human rights flashing up in the white centre stripe
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April 16, 2025 at 6:41 PM
escreasey.bsky.social
She wiggles her hips, slowly at first, then faster, before performing a series of graceful springs, each one higher than the last.

No use. Still can’t do up her jeans.
April 15, 2025 at 7:41 PM
escreasey.bsky.social
‘Just pop your clothes off, pop up on the bed and I’ll pop along in a moment with the speculum.’

Cervical smears sound a lot more fun than they are.

#30Words30Days #Pop
#WhyAllThePopping
April 14, 2025 at 4:01 PM
escreasey.bsky.social
That glugglug-fizz from the first champagne of the night was one of her favourite sounds. She was less enamoured of the tinkle-fizz of the morning Alka-Seltzers.

#30Words30Days #fizz
April 13, 2025 at 8:13 PM
escreasey.bsky.social
The Spanish called him a vicious pirate, who attacked ships and plundered their treasure. The English knew him as the hero explorer Francis Drake. Always check who's telling the story.

#30Words30Days #plunder
April 12, 2025 at 5:25 AM
escreasey.bsky.social
Elsie wandered down to the beach, and disappeared. The tide took her, folks said. Only gulls get close enough to Joe’s houseboat to hear her laughter, and they’re not telling.

#30Words30Days #wander
April 11, 2025 at 7:08 PM
Reposted by Emma Creasey
russincheshire.bsky.social
This week's bit for @bylinetimes.bsky.social commemorates that time I was ceremonially cut in two and disemboweled by the NHS. Caution: contains Andrew Lansley

(No paywall)

www.bylinesupplement.com/p/russell-jo...
Russell Jones's Week Moment: My Cancerversary
15 years after the removal from his kidney of the biggest tumour in Stockport, Russell Jones commemorates the agony and reflects on the heroism of the NHS doctors and nurses who saw him through
www.bylinesupplement.com
April 11, 2025 at 4:03 PM