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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Good morning! Have a restful Sunday :-)

Booked to go to Spain to see the total solar eclipse on 12/8/26. I went to France to see one on 11/8/99 and it was the most spectacular thing. So excited! #eclipse

The house is for sale … #Oxford

I think I may just have done my last ever lecture as a Prof - to the great students of @ohiostatelaw.bsky.social, who are here at @oxlifelonglearning.bsky.social on their annual summer school. I talked about law and climate change, and they are on to it … 🙂 #optimistic

A view of the beautiful gardens behind @oxlifelonglearning.bsky.social You can’t easily see, but we’re growing beans, tomatoes, squash and our efforts were one of the reasons for our Gold Impact award for sustainability recently :-) #OxfordLifelongLearning #Sustainability #Biodiversity

I always wave :-) #InternationalSpaceStation #ISS

At my beloved @middletemple.bsky.social for the second day in a row - what a special place this is ❤️ #London

Good morning! #Oxford #ClarendonBuilding #OxfordUniversityPress

I always stop to read plaques. This one, on Knightsbridge barracks, remembers a soldier who, having received the VC for actions in which he lost his arm, died in Hyde Park falling from a horse when avoiding a woman pushing a baby in a pram.

Brilliant turn out for the @nat.org.uk #DragRaise event! Thank you to the sponsors and supporters 🙏 #HIV

This will cheer you up :-) #Bach youtu.be/rUylY9md0xM?...