diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index 6ca802d..a5af2e0 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -10,6 +10,15 @@ CalVer image tags (`stable-YYYY.MM.N`, `dev-YYYY.MM.N`) are produced for every C
 
 ## [Unreleased]
 
+### Fixed
+- `/me/activity` hero subtitle showed literal `<strong>…</strong>` tags
+  around the user's email instead of rendering them bold. The subtitle
+  was built by `~`-concatenating a `Markup` operand (`user.email | e`)
+  with HTML string literals, which made Jinja2's `markup_join` escape
+  the literal tags too. Switched to `{% set %}…{% endset %}` block
+  capture so the literal `<strong>` stays HTML while the email is still
+  autoescaped.
+
 ### Internal
 - CI test suite sharded for speed. The `test` job in `.github/workflows/ci.yml` is now a `test-shard` matrix — 4 parallel jobs via `pytest-split`, balanced by a committed `.test_durations` file — aggregated into a single `test` status check so branch protection needs no change. The duplicate full-suite `test` job in `release.yml` is removed (it re-ran the same ~10 min suite a second time on every push to main/feature branches); `release.yml` is now image-build only, with the advisory ruff/mypy steps moved to a lean `lint` job in `ci.yml`. Net: ~10 min → ~3 min wall-clock per push, and the suite runs once instead of twice. Adds `pytest-split` to the `dev` extra.
 
diff --git a/app/web/templates/me_activity.html b/app/web/templates/me_activity.html
index 757a736..cef7eb5 100644
--- a/app/web/templates/me_activity.html
+++ b/app/web/templates/me_activity.html
@@ -81,7 +81,10 @@
 <div class="activity-page">
     {% set page_hero_eyebrow = "Profile" %}
     {% set page_hero_title = "My activity" %}
-    {% set page_hero_subtitle = "Sessions, token usage, data access, and sync activity for <strong>" ~ (user.email | e) ~ "</strong>." %}
+    {# Block-capture so the literal <strong> stays HTML while {{ user.email }}
+       is still autoescaped. `~`-concatenating a Markup operand (user.email | e)
+       made Jinja2's markup_join escape the literal tags too. #}
+    {% set page_hero_subtitle %}Sessions, token usage, data access, and sync activity for <strong>{{ user.email }}</strong>.{% endset %}
     {% include "_page_hero.html" %}
 
     <nav class="tab-strip" role="tablist" aria-label="Activity sections">
diff --git a/tests/test_web_ui.py b/tests/test_web_ui.py
index 94a077f..86824cb 100644
--- a/tests/test_web_ui.py
+++ b/tests/test_web_ui.py
@@ -422,6 +422,19 @@ class TestAdminRoleGuards:
         assert r.status_code == 200
         assert b"My activity" in r.content
 
+    def test_me_activity_hero_renders_strong_email_unescaped(self, web_client, analyst_cookie):
+        """Regression: the /me/activity hero subtitle embeds the user's email
+        in <strong> tags. Building it via `~` concatenation with a Markup
+        operand (`user.email | e`) made Jinja2's markup_join escape the
+        literal tags too, so the page showed literal "<strong>...</strong>"
+        text. The subtitle must render real <strong> HTML while still
+        escaping the email itself."""
+        r = web_client.get("/me/activity", cookies=analyst_cookie, follow_redirects=False)
+        assert r.status_code == 200
+        body = r.text
+        assert "activity for <strong>analyst@test.com</strong>." in body
+        assert "activity for &lt;strong&gt;" not in body
+
     def test_profile_session_download_returns_file_for_owner(self, web_client, analyst_cookie, tmp_path, monkeypatch):
         """Authenticated owner can fetch their own jsonl with proper Content-Disposition."""
         # The seeded analyst is "analyst1" (per conftest.seeded_app).