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Chris Emmerson
@cpemmerson.bsky.social
Consultant in Public Health, tobacco, vapes, health inequalities, Wales
Posting personally
Missed one
November 4, 2025 at 7:01 AM
For several weeks early in training I thought it was this Ivan Ilych, which, as one of the great pieces of literature on dying is also something every public health person would get something out of
October 29, 2025 at 2:41 PM
Wales has such a tradition of great writing
October 25, 2025 at 9:14 PM
11pm train out of Waterloo after a great evening out, conductor congratulated us on being on a train on the 200th anniversary of the first passenger rail service

You love to see it, you love to be it
September 27, 2025 at 10:31 PM
"Blue steel!"

"Magnum!"
July 4, 2025 at 8:37 PM
June 23, 2025 at 8:49 PM
How it started: How it's going:
June 21, 2025 at 8:40 PM
Every time there's a reference to the American obsession with fact-checking, I remember this glorious para from the Guardian's Philip Roth obit
June 17, 2025 at 3:36 PM
Not even the £25 cost of microchipping me, which I would appreciate if you would put up personally
June 7, 2025 at 8:10 AM
Genuinely moved to get this final subscriber gift from @hiraethpod.bsky.social, still remembered, still enjoyed.

Enjoying all the team still does, follow for essential Welsh history, culture and politics

Ymlaen!

@ceritheviking.bsky.social
@hexter101.bsky.social
@mimosacymru.bsky.social
June 6, 2025 at 6:32 PM
May 23, 2025 at 9:55 PM
April 27, 2025 at 5:25 PM
"Slides? Where were going we don't need slides"
April 12, 2025 at 10:42 AM
And apparently we're just ignoring the fact that her partner went on TO BE PRIME MINISTER
#deepstate
March 20, 2025 at 11:54 AM
Happy birthday JS, and thanks for the chance to remember my pre-exam good luck ritual as a registrar

Neither of us had a robust casual hypothesis, but we both got where we needed to be
March 15, 2025 at 11:59 AM
Thinking about Barnes a lot this week and the grace he showed under that pressure for years.

This was four years after that Maracana goal. Greatest sports photo of the 80s.
March 2, 2025 at 10:27 PM
what do I think about AI in healthcare, Clive?

she's a cruel mistress.

she's, she's more than a mistress. She's a wife, she's a mother, she's a daughter, she's an errant child.

she's… she can make you laugh, she make you cry. She can bring tears to me eyes. She can bring blood to me shoulders.
January 13, 2025 at 8:52 PM
Finally - they may take our podcasts.

But they can never take our merch.
January 1, 2025 at 7:32 PM
... and somehow only this year found Keyes and Galea, which also brilliantly takes on the concept of shifting the curve and brings in causal architecture
December 27, 2024 at 11:13 PM
When they shut down the physical library where I worked, I nabbed the Rose's book length version, which still repays reading...
December 27, 2024 at 11:10 PM
Oh my beautiful lovely Grauniad, never change

@theguardian.com
@jonathanliew.bsky.social
December 20, 2024 at 12:07 AM
This concert at the @rwcmd.bsky.social was just an incredible experience

Sidiki Dembélé and musicians are geniuses

Sinfonia Cymru are one of the most exciting things on the scene in #Wales right now - bold, innovative, fun - a creative force on full power

🎼⚡⚡
December 1, 2024 at 8:11 PM
Swansea station
November 30, 2024 at 6:07 PM
My finest work
November 20, 2024 at 10:19 AM
Cybersecurity Aces as quality crisp brands (1/n)
November 13, 2024 at 10:43 PM