Katy Murray

[Akshita Sivakumar, Ph.D @moredustings.bsky.social @moredustings]

I wrote my dissertation with joy + sanity intact because my local cafe held me in life-affirming community. They protected my space where I wrote 6x/wk. So many regulars cheered me on. An older patron once whispered "You're a genius" (I'm not) in my ear, and shared poetry🥹…

[Frankie Adkins @frankie_adkins3]

Recently, I pitched a story about the very weird tradition of competitive worm charming. This was a bit of a tumbleweed pitch — mostly silence from editors and a few bemused rejections. (1/8) 🪱

[Jon Moses @jm0ses]

I traced the footpath - now a track for the keeper’s 4x4 - to the centre of the park. And there I found it: the Jack O’Kent Oak in all its gnarly splendour.

Bees had built a nest in one of its hollows. I could see the charred memento of a lightning strike in its tops.

[Katy Murray @ktrmurray]

Edward Hopper hits different after the lockdowns

TY @whitneymuseum 🙏

[Katy Murray @ktrmurray]

We don't need experts to be unquestionable heroes, nor villains. But like Batman, sometimes the anonymity around experts drives these binaries.

[Katy Murray @ktrmurray]

It's a challenge for policy experts in #thinktanks #academia and #policyresearch.

When it feels frustrating, I think of this a great quote from @oeufling for @openDemocracy

[Katy Murray @ktrmurray]

*too learned

[Katy Murray @ktrmurray]

Seems Freud tried to explain his complex theories more accessibly by imagining he was speaking to an impartial lay person

Delightfully, he wrote them into the text

“You are becoming to learned, I cannot follow you” not-Freud tells Freud before, essentially, “get to the point”

[Katy Murray @ktrmurray]

By working hard to stay close to a non-expert audience Freud gives a handy lesson how to elevate #researchcomms

- Empathise with audience
- Cut the jargon
- Make your point clear
- Nurture trust with transparency
- Work hard to explain and convince, don’t just wish people got it

[Katy Murray @ktrmurray]

Seems Freud tried to explain his complex theories more accessibly by imagining he was speaking to an impartial lay person

Delightfully, he wrote them into the text

“You are becoming to learned, I cannot follow you” not-Freud tells Freud before, essentially, “get to the point”

[Katy Murray @ktrmurray]

Expert Freud: “I don’t really care if you believe me because I know I’m right. …But also please will you keep an open mind about what I’m telling you”

Lay reader Freud: “No hun it’s your job to convince me”

[Greg McKenzie @GregMcX1]

The family of #ChrisKaba invited me as a trusted journalist into there home today after there son was shot dead by the Metropolitan Police on Monday night. They have accused force of racism. Chris Kaba was unarmed. @BBCNews

[Katy Murray @ktrmurray]

Perfection

[Kushaan @kushaanshah]

Found a Linkedin viral post generator and it's already my favorite part of the week lol

https://t.co/4AOHlgZOsC

[ARCHIVED NASA Exoplanets @NASAExoplanets]

The misconception that there is no sound in space originates because most space is a ~vacuum, providing no way for sound waves to travel. A galaxy cluster has so much gas that we've picked up actual sound. Here it's amplified, and mixed with other data, to hear a black hole!

[Rush Kazi @Rushzilla]

Yo, check out this reusable grocery list from the 1920s!

[Katy Murray @ktrmurray]

Pure joy ❤️

[Lucinda @Lucindavs]

The England squad have just gatecrashed Sarina Wiegman’s press conference 🤣 #Lionesses

[Peter Kalmus @ClimateHuman]

I wish everyone on Earth knew how genuinely "off the charts" key planetary trends are right now, and how abnormal and critical it is. Things like atmospheric CO2 fraction, heat extremes on land and ocean, biodiversity loss and extinction rates. All alarms should be going off

[Katy Murray @ktrmurray]

@murrayrachel89 @verafibisan @blue_extinction Actually really cute