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Matthew Weait
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Chair, National AIDS Trust,
Emeritus Professor of Law & Society, Fellow Harris Manchester College, Uni. of Oxford. Bencher Middle Temple #law #pandemics #HIV #publichealth #education. Personal views 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️
Happy Sunday :-)
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#refraction
#prism
#sunlight
October 26, 2025 at 11:24 AM
Good morning from #London
October 22, 2025 at 7:19 AM
October 4, 2025 at 6:21 AM
Good morning from #Brussels
September 16, 2025 at 6:10 AM
So very sad to learn today of the death of Conor Gearty. My thoughts with his family, friends and colleagues at the LSE and elsewhere. One of the very good people. RIP

www.lse.ac.uk/law/news/202...
Conor Gearty
Conor Gearty
www.lse.ac.uk
September 12, 2025 at 8:37 PM
The West Pier, Brighton. Roiling seas and a great sky.

#Brighton
#Photography
September 12, 2025 at 2:33 PM
The moon in the morning

#photography
September 12, 2025 at 10:35 AM
Happy place :-)

#writing
September 11, 2025 at 2:52 PM
I’ve set up a group on LinkedIn for retired academics (any discipline) who are still research / scholarship active and would like to discuss their work with others in a supportive space. It’s called Retired Academics.
If you’re on LinkedIn, and are retired, and academic, why not join?

#AcademicSky
September 11, 2025 at 4:23 AM
Another great sky above London today (west, from Blackfriars Bridge)

#London
#photography
September 9, 2025 at 11:16 AM
If you want to read something absolutely on point about the challenge of #pandemic prevention, I can’t recommend this article by @doft.bsky.social highly enough: pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC...
Zoonoses, One Health and complexity: wicked problems and constructive conflict
Infectious zoonoses emerge from complex interactions among social and ecological systems. Understanding this complexity requires the accommodation of multiple, often conflicting, perspectives and narr...
pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
September 9, 2025 at 10:45 AM
Sometimes proofing failures are very funny

#academicsky
September 8, 2025 at 12:56 PM
Good morning :-)
September 7, 2025 at 10:34 AM
The City looking amazing this afternoon ❤️

#London
September 5, 2025 at 3:49 PM
Tomorrow starts the first September since 1982 that I haven’t been returning to university to study or to teach or do other academic stuff. 43 years. So I went for a long walk in this wondrous city to think about what’s next :-)

#London
#walking
#headspace
August 31, 2025 at 4:45 PM
The wildflower patch we planted in place of the bracken is now alive with bees and butterflies. Here’s a peacock feasting on some mint ❤️

#nature
#biodiversity
#butterflies
August 27, 2025 at 2:39 PM
August 27, 2025 at 11:23 AM
Sometimes things line up perfectly …

#photography
August 26, 2025 at 4:57 PM
For all you pylonophiles out there …
(Just north of Tours, France, on the A28)

#electricity
#pylons
#photography
August 26, 2025 at 6:58 AM
1968 / 2025

#siblings
August 24, 2025 at 6:10 PM
A lovely birthday present - a white-lined sphinx / hummingbird moth - on local honeysuckle ❤️

#nature
#moths
#Aquitaine
August 24, 2025 at 9:41 AM
A fledgling barn swallow - you’re welcome :-)

#nature
#ornithology
August 22, 2025 at 10:08 AM
I came to pay respects at the grave of Michel Foucault, buried here in Vendeuvre du Poitou

#Foucault
August 20, 2025 at 8:54 AM
Ta da!
Blackberries from the hedgerows transformed into these :-)

#baking
#foraging
#cooking
August 18, 2025 at 5:59 PM
Someone’s been hungry - leaf into lace on the beaked hazelnut :-)

#flora
#fauna
#nature
August 17, 2025 at 7:59 AM