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Matthew Weait

@wetpaint63.bsky.social

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Chair, National AIDS Trust, Professor of Law & Society, Fellow Harris Manchester College, Uni. of Oxford. Bencher Middle Temple #law #pandemics #HIV #publichealth #education. Personal views 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️

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Matthew Weait @wetpaint63.bsky.social · 5d

Thank you so much :-)

Matthew Weait @wetpaint63.bsky.social · 5d

I’m having fun writing this!

#AcademicSky
#Pandemics
#RightsofNature
#Law
#Zoonoses

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Matthew Weait @wetpaint63.bsky.social · 23d

Good morning from #Brussels

Matthew Weait @wetpaint63.bsky.social · 26d

Colm Tóibín - Long Island
Amitav Ghosh - The Nutmeg’s Curse
Robin Wall Kimmerer - Braiding Sweetgrass
Bruno Latour - We Have Never Modern

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Matthew Weait @wetpaint63.bsky.social · 26d

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

www.lse.ac.uk

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Matthew Weait @wetpaint63.bsky.social · 27d

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

#Brighton
#Photography

Matthew Weait @wetpaint63.bsky.social · 27d

The moon in the morning

#photography

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Matthew Weait @wetpaint63.bsky.social · 28d

Happy place :-)

#writing

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Matthew Weait @wetpaint63.bsky.social · 28d

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

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Matthew Weait @wetpaint63.bsky.social · Sep 9

Give it up for the huge people, I say

Matthew Weait @wetpaint63.bsky.social · Sep 9

My pleasure. Really benefited from it (and agree with it 100%).
Have you read this? gh.bmj.com/content/10/6...

Epistemic preparedness

Preparedness strategies for emergent infectious diseases have focused on microbial surveillance, medical stockpiling and healthcare infrastructure resilience. But what does it mean to be epistemically...

gh.bmj.com

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Matthew Weait @wetpaint63.bsky.social · Sep 9

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

#London
#photography

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Matthew Weait @wetpaint63.bsky.social · Sep 9

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

Matthew Weait @wetpaint63.bsky.social · Sep 8

Sometimes proofing failures are very funny

#academicsky

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Matthew Weait @wetpaint63.bsky.social · Sep 7

Good morning :-)

Matthew Weait @wetpaint63.bsky.social · Sep 5

The City looking amazing this afternoon ❤️

#London

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Matthew Weait @wetpaint63.bsky.social · Sep 1

The trouble is that in London, south of the river is sometimes east of the river!

Matthew Weait @wetpaint63.bsky.social · Aug 31

I live south of the river, was born in Camberwell, went to school in Kennington!

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Matthew Weait @wetpaint63.bsky.social · Aug 31

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

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Matthew Weait @wetpaint63.bsky.social · Aug 27

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

Matthew Weait @wetpaint63.bsky.social · Aug 27

Good #clouds

#meteorology

Matthew Weait @wetpaint63.bsky.social · Aug 26

Sometimes things line up perfectly …

#photography

Matthew Weait @wetpaint63.bsky.social · Aug 26

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

#electricity
#pylons
#photography

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Matthew Weait @wetpaint63.bsky.social · Aug 24

1968 / 2025

#siblings

Matthew Weait @wetpaint63.bsky.social · Aug 24

I’ve been corrected - it’s a house martin :-)