Ah well …

Clouds reflecting in the Lac de Bruyères yesterday #manche #normandy #photography

Wishing you all a healthy, peaceful and gentle new year.

“The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid.” - Northanger Abbey Happy 250th birthday, #JaneAusten

Nnena Kalu’s triumph for neurodivergent art has rattled a few cages. So let me put those carping critics right | Rhiannon Lucy Cosslett

Good morning!

On #WorldAIDSDay and as chair of the National AIDS Trust.

Sometimes all you need is acknowledgment and a little bit of love :-) #catsofbluesky

This was fun :-)

Happy Sunday :-) 🏳️‍🌈 #refraction #prism #sunlight

Good morning from #London

I’m having fun writing this! #AcademicSky #Pandemics #RightsofNature #Law #Zoonoses

Good morning from #Brussels

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...

The West Pier, Brighton. Roiling seas and a great sky. #Brighton #Photography

The moon in the morning #photography

Happy place :-) #writing

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

Another great sky above London today (west, from Blackfriars Bridge) #London #photography

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...

Sometimes proofing failures are very funny #academicsky

Good morning :-)

The City looking amazing this afternoon ❤️ #London

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

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

Good #clouds #meteorology

Sometimes things line up perfectly … #photography

For all you pylonophiles out there … (Just north of Tours, France, on the A28) #electricity #pylons #photography

1968 / 2025 #siblings

A lovely birthday present - a white-lined sphinx / hummingbird moth - on local honeysuckle ❤️ #nature #moths #Aquitaine

A fledgling barn swallow - you’re welcome :-) #nature #ornithology

I came to pay respects at the grave of Michel Foucault, buried here in Vendeuvre du Poitou #Foucault

Ta da! Blackberries from the hedgerows transformed into these :-) #baking #foraging #cooking

Someone’s been hungry - leaf into lace on the beaked hazelnut :-) #flora #fauna #nature

Dawn on the Cotentin. Have a restful Sunday.

A project to log all the plants in the garden here. 💚 #biodiversity #nature

Dawn over La Sève and the marais #nature #photography

If you’ve ever imagined what the combination of a degree ceremony and a vegetable festival might look like, look no further … #fêtedecarottes #cotentin #créances #🥕

The pine, the willow, the beech, the walnut and the ash ❤️ #trees

Bonjour! #Channel #Manche #Dawn

I’ve booked onto a course at the fantastic @citylit.bsky.social in September. Keeping the lifelong learning flame burning :-)

Day 1 #retirement #lots_to_do #grateful

🎶 Two green bottle flies, standing on a leaf, and if one green bottle fly … 🎶

The words of George P. Marsh, published in 1864 … #climatechange #planetaryhealth #nature

Overnight, the International Court of Justice will release an advisory opinion on whether nations have a duty to protect Earth's climate and what the legal consequences are for those that cause climate harm theconversation.com/do-countries...

The #WorldAidsDay RED RUN returns to Victoria Park, East London for its 15th year on 22/11/25. Sign up today to support National AIDS Trust running or walking 10K or 5K to strengthen the UK's response to HIV. #redrunuk #takeactionlaceup http://redrun.org.uk

It really is the most beautiful piece of engineering #ElizabethLine #London

Eight years ago today I had the privilege of hosting Dr Neville Lawrence, father of Stephen, at the University of Portsmouth when we awarded him an Honorary Doctorate. A gentle, courageous and determined man. #StephenLawrence #NeverForget

Sunset in #Oxford this evening. I hope the week ahead is good for you.

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