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Chris Emmerson

@cpemmerson.bsky.social
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Consultant in Public Health, tobacco, vapes, health inequalities, Wales Posting personally

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Chris Emmerson @cpemmerson.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Just such wonderful "next on Mid-morning matters with me Alan Partridge" vibes from this Impossible to read the question without mentally adding in "but first this chart-topping classic from T'Pau'
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Chris Emmerson @cpemmerson.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
I once did an interview on BBC Wales the marketing of Vapes to children Was followed by the marketing director of Wicked Vapes who argued their name proved they were targeting middle-aged adult smokers as it was '90s slang'
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Chris Emmerson @cpemmerson.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
Simon Fisher: What's your favourite album? Alan Partridge: The Best of the Beatles
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Chris Emmerson @cpemmerson.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
Cymru am byth🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿⛪🏳️‍🌈♥️
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Chris Emmerson @cpemmerson.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
The founding fathers called America a friend first, a boss second and probably an entertainer third
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Chris Emmerson @cpemmerson.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
Welsh Labour backstory: speak a bit of Welsh, respect the legislation PC backstory: sent my kids to Welsh school Welsh Tory : learning more Welsh is not a priority Welsh greens: I value Welsh, but worry climate breakdown is more urgent Welsh Reform: I speak Russian
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Jude Rogers @juderogers.bsky.social · 05/06/2026
Hello! I'm on the lookout for Welsh arts journalists. Yes, I know a few well, and a few not so well, but who am I missing? People interested in classical music are a plus. Thanks!
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Miranda Davies/Emmerson @mirandaemmerson.bsky.social · 18/05/2026
Reposting again to say: this is absolute insanity. I wrote a lot of my PhD in there and it’s great but it’s not the world’s biggest library to begin with. It’s crammed at exam time. It’s housing the texts for a huge number of disciplines. They can’t take away a whole floor of it!
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Chris Emmerson @cpemmerson.bsky.social · 16/05/2026
Guardian's '100 Best Novels' list offering an unexpected way to interest teens in the works of Tolstoy
Screenshot of the Guardian's 100 best novels list, showing Anna Karenina at 6 and War and Peace at 7
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Kevin Morris @kevintmorris.bsky.social · 06/05/2026
VERY IMPORTANT NON-VRA RELATED NEWS: Bob Caro says "I have written 983 pages" of the final LBJ book. www.c-span.org/program/qa/a...
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Chris Emmerson @cpemmerson.bsky.social · 25/04/2026
So pleased What Just Happened is back. Nation building through comedy, diolch am galon @robinjmorgan.bsky.social a @bbcwales.bsky.social #Wales #bbcwales www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...
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What Just Happened? - Series 4 - Esyllt Sears, Tadiwa Mahlunge, Anna Thomas and Kiri Pritchard-McLean - BBC Sounds
Comedy panel show hosted by Robin Morgan.
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Luke Tryl @luketryl.bsky.social · 13/04/2026
🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿“I want to wake up & not have to worry & go to sleep without having to worry” Spent the weekend in focus groups across south Wales from Cardiff to Merthyr, to Port Talbot & Pembroke Dock, above all else we heard deep pessimism about the state of Wales, the UK & the wider world
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Local Health and Global Profits (LHGP) @lhgp.bsky.social · 09/04/2026
We are offering a unique opportunity for #PublicHealth registrars to contribute to the @lhgp.bsky.social research consortium. Full details here: www.phiuk.org/news/lhgp-na... Deadline for applications: 9 am, Tuesday 28 April.
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LHGP placement opportunity for public health speciality registrars
LHGP placement opportunity for public health speciality registrars
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Robin Morgan @robinjmorgan.bsky.social · 09/04/2026
We’re back! What Just Happened? is LIVE on BBC Radio Wales right this second - and you can listen again on BBC Sounds.
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Will Hayward - Wales Journo @willhaycardiff.bsky.social · 31/03/2026
Another Reform candidate for the Senedd has stepped down. The 3rd in a week since the lists were announced. Candidate Owain Clatworthy said: "As a Christian, my faith guides my principles: honesty, accountability... I cannot continue to support a party that has moved away from those standards."
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Louise Haigh @louisehaighmp.bsky.social · 08/01/2026
I call on my party and my government to remove themselves entirely from X and communicate with the public where they actually participate online and can be protected from such illegality.
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Chris Emmerson @cpemmerson.bsky.social · 26/12/2025
Die hard is actually inspired by the Roman film 'Saturalia Hard'
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Mark O’Neill 🐻 @radiobeartime.com · 25/12/2025
For sale. Tiny Tim. Never died.
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Louvain Rees ⚰️ @hellohistoria.bsky.social · 24/12/2025
This is thought to be the earliest photograph of a snowman in the world ⛄ ❄ It was taken at Penllergare by Mary Dillwyn in c.1853 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 Mary is thought to be one of the earliest female photographers in the world 📷 museum.wales/articles/972... #Wales #History
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Louvain Rees ⚰️ @hellohistoria.bsky.social · 20/12/2025
Hello 🌞 I seem to have a few new followers! 👋 I am a social historian specialising in death and working-class histories in Wales 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 I hope you'll enjoy my ramblings ✨️ • linktr.ee/louvainrees • hellohistoria.substack.com • instagram.com/louvainrees #Wales #History
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Chris Emmerson @cpemmerson.bsky.social · 17/12/2025
Key addition to our understanding of dynamics of nicotine product use in UK here - really helps to define policies and services that will support and protect our citizens - and as always, great to see #Wales specific figures reported as well! 👏 👏 👏 👏
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Will Hayward - Wales Journo @willhaycardiff.bsky.social · 30/11/2025
We have written a special report looking at the people behind Reform in Wales. This was a bizarre piece to write. willhaywardwales.substack.com/p/special-re...
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Special report: Who are Reform in Wales?
We dived into the wild world of Reform UK in Cymru
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Chris Emmerson @cpemmerson.bsky.social · 08/11/2025
"Timeo techbros et dona ferentes"
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Craig @craig.nikolic.co.uk · 28/10/2025
One of the government's plans for the NHS is "left shift", taking services from hospitals and placing them in the community. Closer to the residents, more responsive to their needs, cheaper, and faster services. What's not to like? This is not as easy as some think. A short thread: 1/
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Dan Lewer @danlewer.bsky.social · 27/10/2025
We wrote an article explaining why you shouldn't put several variables into a regression model and report which are statistically significant - even as exploratory research. bmjmedicine.bmj.com/content/4/1/.... How did we do?
A "methods primer" article in the journal "BMJ Medicine", titled "Factors associated with: problems of using exploratory multivariable regression to identify causal risk factors"
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Chris Emmerson @cpemmerson.bsky.social · 25/10/2025
Wales has such a tradition of great writing
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Jenny Chase @solarchase.bsky.social · 20/10/2025
Time for 2025 updates to my annual “opinions about solar” thread. If you like these, you might like the second edition of my book, Solar Power Finance Without The Jargon. A 30% discount code WSQ0437 is valid on publisher website until end of November 2025. www.worldscientific.com/worldscibook...
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Solar Power Finance Without the Jargon
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Action on Smoking Health (UK) @ashorguk.bsky.social · 08/10/2025
We are appalled that public service broadcaster the BBC continues to provide a platform for tobacco industry giant, British American Tobacco, to lobby against the Tobacco & Vapes Bill. So we fixed the headline for them...
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Hazel Cheeseman @hazelcheeseman.bsky.social · 09/10/2025
PMI paid the Spectator for this on 'cancel culture' in science. Big Tobacco has spent 50+ years funding 'science' that downplays health impact of smoking purely for commercial interests. That kind of track record should get you cancelled www.spectator.co.uk/podcast/defe...
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Defending science from ‘cancel culture’
Freedom of speech is one of the fundamental tenets of a liberal democracy, and yet threats to freedom of speech today don’t so much come from authoritarians abroad as they do from within. The idea of ...
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Chris Emmerson @cpemmerson.bsky.social · 07/10/2025
Public health: the structural causes and salience challenge
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Chris Emmerson @cpemmerson.bsky.social · 27/09/2025
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
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Ellie Harwood @ellieharwood.bsky.social · 08/09/2025
New briefing taking a deeper look behind the free school meal data in Wales. The number of e-FSM children in Wales has fallen since Welsh Govt began to phase out transitional protection. We estimate 25,000 secondary learners in poverty can't get a free school dinner due to the £7,400 means test.
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Free school meals in Wales: secondary learners in poverty overlooked
Latest Welsh government free school meal (FSM) statistics show a fall of 6,000 in the number of children registered for means-tested FSMs in Wales. The fall in the number of children registered means ...
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Chris Emmerson @cpemmerson.bsky.social · 10/08/2025
The attack on the CDC was a terrorist action inspired by the current US Secretary of Health's lies about vaccines Public health professionals have a duty to each other, to the publics they serve and to the truth www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
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CDC union says vaccine misinformation put staff at risk after Atlanta shooting
Deadly violence not random as staff have endured ‘months of mistreatment, neglect and vilification’, says union
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Britta KM @brittakm.bsky.social · 23/07/2025
🦷New article: Tobacco industry targeting dental professionals in 🇩🇪 With colleagues from @dkfz.bsky.social, we document how PMI pushes its 'harm reduction' messaging via dental magazines, events, education platforms, KOLs&more. 📜: tobaccocontrol.bmj.com/content/earl... @tcrgbath.bsky.social
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“Let us all work together for the larger public health good.” Philip Morris targeting German dental professionals
As tobacco companies expand marketing of their newer nicotine and tobacco products—particularly heated tobacco products (HTPs) and electronic cigarettes (e-cigarettes)—Philip Morris GmbH (PM, GmbH is ...
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Chris Emmerson @cpemmerson.bsky.social · 19/07/2025
Terrific paper ➡️Improves understanding of smoking patterns within + between populations ➡️New ways to frame smoking as urgent policy issue ➡️Great to see data for Wales and Scot reported, so link to devolved policymaking Already using the fig of 1.34bn cigs smoked in Wales/year!
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Chris Emmerson @cpemmerson.bsky.social · 04/07/2025
"Blue steel!" "Magnum!"
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Eliot Higgins @eliothiggins.bsky.social · 27/06/2025
🧵 THREAD: Why the Cato Institute’s new paper on “misinformation panic” is dangerously wrong, and why it completely misunderstands the real crisis we face. www.cato.org/policy-analy...
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The Misleading Panic over Misinformation
People can’t agree on how to define misinformation and its related terms, making regulation nearly impossible. Instead, free expression serves as a better tool for discovering truth.
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WWN @waterfordwhispers.bsky.social · 24/06/2025
Migrant With Disturbingly Violent ‘The Edge’ Nickname Went Undetected By Authorities In Ireland For 62 Years
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Migrant With Disturbingly Violent ‘The Edge’ Nickname Went Undetected By Authorities In Ireland For 62 Years
UNSETTLING reports coming into WWN suggest Irish authorities had no idea a migrant with a disturbing gang name 'The Edge' had been operating in Ireland for almost 62 years. Experts have suggested the...
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ETSC - European Transport Safety Council @etsc.eu · 03/06/2025
Study on London 20 mph limits shows: - collisions ⬇️ 35% - casualties ⬇️ 36% - fatal/serious injuries ⬇️ 34% - child casualties ⬇️ 46% - child deaths ⬇️ 75% - walkers, cyclists, motorcyclists killed/seriously injured ⬇️ 28% etsc.eu/20mph-limits...
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20mph limits in London linked to sharp fall in road injuries and deaths, new report finds
A new study published by Transport for London (TfL) has shown that the introduction of 20mph speed limits and zones on local authority-managed roads in London between 1989 and 2013 led to significant…
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Chris Emmerson @cpemmerson.bsky.social · 06/06/2025
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
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Chris Emmerson @cpemmerson.bsky.social · 09/05/2025
So, a few things I've learned over the last few days, in case they're useful to anyone: - popes aren't informed of their new job on WhatsApp - there's no such thing as a '£200 one-off pope registration fee' Thanks
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Chris Emmerson @cpemmerson.bsky.social · 27/04/2025
#LFC #Champions #Perch
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Dr Lucy Foulkes @lucyfoulkes.bsky.social · 25/04/2025
This is a *key* new paper in the world of school mental health interventions A very large trial (N=6388) testing a universal CBT-based app for adolescent depression (13-14y) No effects found (on depression, anxiety, distress or insomnia) (🧵) mentalhealth.bmj.com/content/28/1...
Future Proofing Study: a cluster randomised
controlled trial evaluating the effectiveness of a
universal school-based cognitive–behavioural
programme for adolescent depression
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Paul Cairney @paulcairney.bsky.social · 16/04/2025
A 7000 word rollercoaster ride through the village of governance. Not one of the exciting rollercoasters. More like the old wooden ones that hurt your back. link.springer.com/article/10.1...
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Governance and the Westminster model: what exactly is the dominant story of UK policymaking? - British Politics
In the first article of British Politics, Kerr and Kettell (2006) describe the ‘governance thesis’, not the ‘Westminster model’ (WM), as the dominant way to study or understand UK policymaking. Howeve...
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Michael Daly @michaeldaly64.bsky.social · 01/04/2025
2/12/1957, Cardiff. Sister Rosetta Tharpe & a group of kids from Tiger Bay📸Chris Ware
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Friends of Friendless Churches @friendlesschurches.bsky.social · 27/03/2025
Well these are apotropaic marks, perhaps most commonly known as witch marks. They are a form of graffiti found in many historic places, from medieval churches to gentry houses, that were intended to ward off evil. 2/7
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Chris Emmerson @cpemmerson.bsky.social · 24/03/2025
Really feel this - supermarket cafes are a real part of a lot of communities, esp if you have young kids and v few other options Still remember a lot of the staff in Barry Morrison's cafe, still remember the eldest waving the shop goodnight when we lived close enough to see it from our house
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Martin McKee @martinmckee.bsky.social · 24/03/2025
5/14 Top Quick Buys for NCD Prevention: 📌 Tobacco Control: 🚭 • Higher tobacco taxes (impact in 4 months) • Graphic health warnings (14 months) • Smoke-free indoor laws (immediate) • Nicotine replacement therapy (as part of structured intervention) (6 months)
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Nason Maani @spidermaani.bsky.social · 14/03/2025
A huge thanks to everyone who has engaged with the Money Power Health podcast this past few weeks, it is hugely appreciated, and a real conformation that communicating our research beyond our own academic worlds is a worthwhile endeavour. 🧵 #CDoH
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