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Emilie

@emiliesilverwood.bsky.social
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Parenting column @CambridgeIndy & B2B freelance marketing consultant. Social media & online safety for children. River swimming bore. Views are all mine.

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Mrs Quent @quarkquent.bsky.social · 17/05/2026
Make it illegal to photograph or film children without parental consent in Scotland www.change.org/p/make-it-il... The reason she had to start this petition is so insanely creepy - have a think about signing please!
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Sign the Petition
Make it illegal to photograph or film children without parental consent in Scotland
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Laura Phillips @lauraphillips.bsky.social · 13/04/2026
New series. Teenage girls from all over the country talk to Catherine Carr about being #girls, becoming #women, their #mentalhealth, #relationships and fears.
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BBC Radio 4 - About the Girls, Becoming a Woman
Teenage girls in the UK talk to Catherine Carr about being a girl and becoming a woman.
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Emilie @emiliesilverwood.bsky.social · 20/04/2026
I pop up in this episode and on consent - about how the online influence has changed behaviours and how lessons on consent seem meaningless when we do very little to protect girls online.
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Save Redland Library @saveredlandlibr.bsky.social · 17/04/2026
1:45pm TODAY on @BBCRadio4 About the Girls Ep 5 of 5, Friendship Teenage girls from all over the country talk to Catherine Carr about how tricky friendships can be before, hopefully, ‘finding their tribes’.
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BBC Radio 4 - About the Girls, 5. Friendship
Girls in the UK talk to Catherine Carr about their friendships and friendship groups.
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Cambridge Independent @cambridgeindy.bsky.social · 14/01/2026
Plus: Ekin Road redevelopment plans, Employment tribunal over #Cambridge Shakespeare Festival, primary pupils suspended over drink/drugs, @IanSollom on Trump, United for Cambridge launch, Hindu temple bid, @emiliesilverwood.bsky.social on tracking apps & Mark Walsh on 2026 films
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Elizabeth Jacobs, PhD @elizabethjacobs.bsky.social · 08/07/2025
Thank goodness our current HHS Secretary is focused on seed oils, wearable fitness trackers, and undermining vaccines.
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Elizabeth Jacobs, PhD @elizabethjacobs.bsky.social · 08/07/2025
I worked as a chronic disease epidemiologist for 25 years. This is an area that is absolutely exploited by snake oil merchants. There are a few reasons for this, including that the causes of chronic disease are often unclear. Combined with a lack of cures for many chronic diseases, it is a fertile…
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Glen O'Hara @gsoh31.bsky.social · 16/05/2025
Britain's university system is now in freefall. In the last two weeks, redundancies at: *Aberdeen *Arts Uni Bournemouth *Bangor *Durham *Exeter *Falmouth *Greenwich *Keele *Newcastle *Nottingham *Plymouth *Trinity St Davids
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Cambridge Independent @cambridgeindy.bsky.social · 21/05/2025
Plus: River Cam protest, Vue #Cambridge to close, sewage works legal challenge dropped, pics from Distinguished Gentleman's Ride & Beer Festival, Bridgerton Garden at CUH election analysis from @philrodgers.co.uk, @emiliesilverwood.bsky.social on loneliness among teens & county lottery launch
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Emilie @emiliesilverwood.bsky.social · 08/04/2025
I feel very lucky to work with this organisation @thinkreadhq.bsky.social
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James Murphy @jamespmurphy.bsky.social · 08/04/2025
This is why we do the work;
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Emilie @emiliesilverwood.bsky.social · 20/03/2025
I'm hoping I'll see less of Rory Stewart on here
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Wiener King @wienerking.bsky.social · 20/03/2025
"Are we going to put out any marketing for this? No, of course not. It must be discovered not advertised." The marketing for Severance was so surprising because they usually don't bother.
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Cambridge Independent @cambridgeindy.bsky.social · 12/03/2025
Plus: why there won't be a Reach Ride this year, latest on our recycling going to Northern Ireland, roads in line for repairs, scientists' cancer discovery, Primary Careers Fair & World Book Day pics, Anthony Horowitz interview, @emiliesilverwood.bsky.social on childhood obesity & #21toWatch pics
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Tracy King @tracyking.bsky.social · 06/03/2025
Oh I should add! If you’re a public, school or prison librarian, you get a thank you in the acknowledgements, but you also get a free copy if you’d like one. The very least I can do for the profession that made me a writer. DM for a chat.
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Emilie @emiliesilverwood.bsky.social · 05/03/2025
Everyone looked terrible in boho unless they were Sienna Miller and even she looked better in other outfits.
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Odd This Day @oddthisday.bsky.social · 24/02/2025
Afternoon (Pia Guerra/The New Yorker)
Cartoon by Pia Guerra for The New Yorker: a man sits on a bench/couch in a doctor's consulting room, looking concerned. A doctor stands nearby looking at a folder. The doctor says "Here's your problem. You're paying attention to what's going on"
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lucy @lmasaysno.bsky.social · 15/11/2024
you know what would really liven the place up? some bullying
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Emilie @emiliesilverwood.bsky.social · 13/08/2024
So are you 100% here? Or polysocialamorous (🤢) with other platforms? My muscle memory keeps taking me back to Twitter but I feel like it's in a death spiral & don't see how it'll ever be financially viable.
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Gina @brokenbiros.bsky.social · 08/08/2024
‘Another Banksy artwork appeared in London today’
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Emilie @emiliesilverwood.bsky.social · 06/08/2024
Steeplechase combining all the things I don't like : running, wet socks and jumping.
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Emilie @emiliesilverwood.bsky.social · 07/12/2023
I wonder what these feed things are all about and if that makes Bluesky more interesting Oh.
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Mike @mikebirty.bsky.social · 07/12/2023
Life coaching is just astrology for business leaders.
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Emilie @emiliesilverwood.bsky.social · 28/10/2023
And if no one finds out about it there's always LinkedIn
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Emilie @emiliesilverwood.bsky.social · 28/10/2023
Someone asked me what it's like back on Twitter
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Emilie @emiliesilverwood.bsky.social · 28/10/2023
Insomnia again last night so spent 2 hours on American Twitter trying to work out why they think the latest shooter is an FBI set up.
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Emilie @emiliesilverwood.bsky.social · 27/10/2023
Friday
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Tony Tassell @tonytassell.bsky.social · 27/10/2023
So according to this Richard Waters col, Bluesky has about 2% of X’s audience. So we are early adopters. But Richard points out that signs that journos and other influencers are posting more actively suggest the threat to X could be greater than the current numbers suggest www.ft.com/content/57df...
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Rating X: Twitter’s chaotic year under Elon Musk’s shock treatment
Upheaval has left trophy purchase of social network seriously impaired
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Emilie @emiliesilverwood.bsky.social · 06/10/2023
Enjoying liking your posts on here and on the other place
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Emilie @emiliesilverwood.bsky.social · 05/10/2023
Morning! Especially to the dads getting ready to BRING IT on the school run. We see you.
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Emilie @emiliesilverwood.bsky.social · 30/09/2023
Morning!
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Emilie @emiliesilverwood.bsky.social · 23/09/2023
Why does feeling like you're in a care home and worrying about spilling coffee on the duvet make anyone happy?
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Lucy @lucyd1089.bsky.social · 21/09/2023
And this is why I’m here now and not there.
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Emilie @emiliesilverwood.bsky.social · 21/09/2023
Morning!
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Emilie @emiliesilverwood.bsky.social · 21/09/2023
@soupstoo.bsky.social we get to hang out here too! 🥰
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Michael M 👽 @michaelmisrubbish.bsky.social · 19/09/2023
Bluesky is just twitter for people who used to be on twitter
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Emilie @emiliesilverwood.bsky.social · 03/08/2023
And there was me feeling weird about turning 50
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