Jason Murphy
@jasemurphy.bsky.social
Author of one(1) book. Journalist. Economist. #rstats #mecfs #ausecon. May be found walking his dog in Melbourne, Australia.
It always *feels* like tennis players retire hurt too easily . Where's the grit to play on through pain!?
But.
I'm usually comparing it to football where teammates take the load. And where players get paid while recovering from injury. 1/2 #ausopen
But.
I'm usually comparing it to football where teammates take the load. And where players get paid while recovering from injury. 1/2 #ausopen
January 28, 2026 at 7:50 AM
It always *feels* like tennis players retire hurt too easily . Where's the grit to play on through pain!?
But.
I'm usually comparing it to football where teammates take the load. And where players get paid while recovering from injury. 1/2 #ausopen
But.
I'm usually comparing it to football where teammates take the load. And where players get paid while recovering from injury. 1/2 #ausopen
A tennis tournament is a brutal thing. 128 people come to it full of hope, 127 of them go home stewing after a loss.
And for half of the 128, that loss was their *only* match. #ausopen
And for half of the 128, that loss was their *only* match. #ausopen
January 24, 2026 at 9:47 AM
A tennis tournament is a brutal thing. 128 people come to it full of hope, 127 of them go home stewing after a loss.
And for half of the 128, that loss was their *only* match. #ausopen
And for half of the 128, that loss was their *only* match. #ausopen
40 degree day on Melbourne. Set up my beach shelter in the backyard. Not to sit in! Goal: protect some of the lawn from being scorched to death. Three tins of beans in each corner; it holds quite well.
January 24, 2026 at 3:14 AM
40 degree day on Melbourne. Set up my beach shelter in the backyard. Not to sit in! Goal: protect some of the lawn from being scorched to death. Three tins of beans in each corner; it holds quite well.
Just saw a TV ad about an "over 50s community"...
Couldn't help but think that's outdated. Women are turning 50 while their kids are still in primary, men probably even moreso.
Couldn't help but think that's outdated. Women are turning 50 while their kids are still in primary, men probably even moreso.
January 21, 2026 at 2:32 AM
Just saw a TV ad about an "over 50s community"...
Couldn't help but think that's outdated. Women are turning 50 while their kids are still in primary, men probably even moreso.
Couldn't help but think that's outdated. Women are turning 50 while their kids are still in primary, men probably even moreso.
Adam Mastroianni on the merits of reading and writing.
January 20, 2026 at 11:41 PM
Adam Mastroianni on the merits of reading and writing.
Say what you want about tennis, but the tournament structure? Where 64 matches happen simultaneously and 64 players go home, miserable and winless, before you have a chance to notice them and without a single chance at redemption? That is *not* optimised for TV. #ausopen
January 19, 2026 at 8:42 AM
Say what you want about tennis, but the tournament structure? Where 64 matches happen simultaneously and 64 players go home, miserable and winless, before you have a chance to notice them and without a single chance at redemption? That is *not* optimised for TV. #ausopen
you can use bluesky to only follow angry american political accounts. or, you can diversify:
Hakunofuji is now third man since the Showa era began (1926) to get a kinboshi 4 straight basho. Also the first time all ōzeki and yokozuna lost in front of the Emperor (added pressure of a rare visit may have tipped that stat). hochi.news/articles/202...
豊昇龍 大の里の黒星耳にし「負けた？ 全員負けじゃねえか」…天覧相撲で横綱・大関陣が波乱、７１年の歴史で初 - スポーツ報知
令和２度目の天覧相撲で西前頭３枚目・伯乃富士が横綱・大の里を押し出し、昭和以降３人目となる４場所連続の金星を獲得した。横綱・豊昇龍は東前頭４枚目・大栄翔にはたき込まれ、両横綱は２敗目を喫した。新大関
hochi.news
January 18, 2026 at 9:09 PM
you can use bluesky to only follow angry american political accounts. or, you can diversify:
Today I learned for the first time the hypothesis that the end of cigarette smoking is behind the rise in adult ADHD diagnoses.
Nicotine tickles the brain in a way not unlike Ritalin and back in the day, people would've chain-smoked their way to some sort of stability. 🚬
Everything has a reaction!
Nicotine tickles the brain in a way not unlike Ritalin and back in the day, people would've chain-smoked their way to some sort of stability. 🚬
Everything has a reaction!
January 18, 2026 at 9:00 PM
Today I learned for the first time the hypothesis that the end of cigarette smoking is behind the rise in adult ADHD diagnoses.
Nicotine tickles the brain in a way not unlike Ritalin and back in the day, people would've chain-smoked their way to some sort of stability. 🚬
Everything has a reaction!
Nicotine tickles the brain in a way not unlike Ritalin and back in the day, people would've chain-smoked their way to some sort of stability. 🚬
Everything has a reaction!
Reposted by Jason Murphy
The University of Melbourne is getting off X! (Via Faculty of Science Dean's Circular)
January 16, 2026 at 3:00 AM
The University of Melbourne is getting off X! (Via Faculty of Science Dean's Circular)
Reposted by Jason Murphy
This paper is part of a huge surge forward in scientific understanding of disease. We have gone from not knowing EBV causes MS to unlocking **how** EBV causes MS, *like that*. 1/2
Now online! Anoctamin-2-specific T cells link Epstein-Barr virus to multiple sclerosis
Anoctamin-2-specific T cells link Epstein-Barr virus to multiple sclerosis
Researchers identified anoctamin-2 (ANO2) as a frequent autoimmune target in multiple sclerosis, with T cell responses against ANO2 occurring in over half of patients. These ANO2-specific T cells share cross-reactivity and pathogenic features with T cell responses to EBNA1 from Epstein-Barr virus, and their activation worsens MS-like disease in mice.
dlvr.it
January 15, 2026 at 5:57 AM
This paper is part of a huge surge forward in scientific understanding of disease. We have gone from not knowing EBV causes MS to unlocking **how** EBV causes MS, *like that*. 1/2
I would like Australia to send some helicopters, and the SAS, and maybe a boat, to Operation Arctic Endurance.
Europe having to perform military exercises against their primary threat, the United States.
January 15, 2026 at 7:48 AM
I would like Australia to send some helicopters, and the SAS, and maybe a boat, to Operation Arctic Endurance.
This paper is part of a huge surge forward in scientific understanding of disease. We have gone from not knowing EBV causes MS to unlocking **how** EBV causes MS, *like that*. 1/2
Now online! Anoctamin-2-specific T cells link Epstein-Barr virus to multiple sclerosis
Anoctamin-2-specific T cells link Epstein-Barr virus to multiple sclerosis
Researchers identified anoctamin-2 (ANO2) as a frequent autoimmune target in multiple sclerosis, with T cell responses against ANO2 occurring in over half of patients. These ANO2-specific T cells share cross-reactivity and pathogenic features with T cell responses to EBNA1 from Epstein-Barr virus, and their activation worsens MS-like disease in mice.
dlvr.it
January 15, 2026 at 5:57 AM
This paper is part of a huge surge forward in scientific understanding of disease. We have gone from not knowing EBV causes MS to unlocking **how** EBV causes MS, *like that*. 1/2
Tree frog came into the backyard. For a kid from Victoria, coastal NSW is like the jungle!
January 7, 2026 at 9:01 PM
Tree frog came into the backyard. For a kid from Victoria, coastal NSW is like the jungle!
Tree frog came into the backyard. For a kid from Victoria, coastal NSW is like the jungle!
January 7, 2026 at 9:00 PM
Tree frog came into the backyard. For a kid from Victoria, coastal NSW is like the jungle!
Reposted by Jason Murphy
UPDATE: New Bluesky signups in Christmas Day are on pace to exceed 100,000 for the first time since the fallout of "Liberation Day"
Japanese users are not done with their mass exodus yet.
bskycheck.com
Japanese users are not done with their mass exodus yet.
bskycheck.com
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December 25, 2025 at 4:19 PM
UPDATE: New Bluesky signups in Christmas Day are on pace to exceed 100,000 for the first time since the fallout of "Liberation Day"
Japanese users are not done with their mass exodus yet.
bskycheck.com
Japanese users are not done with their mass exodus yet.
bskycheck.com
In the hazy interstice between Christmas and New Year, as the sun baked the earth outside, they played long games of "wheel chair race!" in Officeworks.
(Apologies to the staff there.)
(Apologies to the staff there.)
December 30, 2025 at 6:02 AM
In the hazy interstice between Christmas and New Year, as the sun baked the earth outside, they played long games of "wheel chair race!" in Officeworks.
(Apologies to the staff there.)
(Apologies to the staff there.)
Suzuki Jimmy has a waiting list for this exact reason.
They're making cars too curvy now. Everything looks like a dang oval. Do not explain the reasons to me please. I need cars to look like this
December 30, 2025 at 5:55 AM
Suzuki Jimmy has a waiting list for this exact reason.
Reposted by Jason Murphy
A year in the life of a B787-9: we tracked Qantas's B787-9 VH-ZNA Great Southern Land through 2025. She's had quite a ride:
🔴472 sectors, incl 5 charters & 7 positioning flights, covering 2.6m nm & avg 5568nm/sector
🔴10 day transit in HKG for heavy maintenance, so she averaged 1.3 sectors/day
🔴472 sectors, incl 5 charters & 7 positioning flights, covering 2.6m nm & avg 5568nm/sector
🔴10 day transit in HKG for heavy maintenance, so she averaged 1.3 sectors/day
December 30, 2025 at 3:34 AM
A year in the life of a B787-9: we tracked Qantas's B787-9 VH-ZNA Great Southern Land through 2025. She's had quite a ride:
🔴472 sectors, incl 5 charters & 7 positioning flights, covering 2.6m nm & avg 5568nm/sector
🔴10 day transit in HKG for heavy maintenance, so she averaged 1.3 sectors/day
🔴472 sectors, incl 5 charters & 7 positioning flights, covering 2.6m nm & avg 5568nm/sector
🔴10 day transit in HKG for heavy maintenance, so she averaged 1.3 sectors/day
I'm reading this weird book, and it contains a big word-of-mouth marketing paradox. Not sure how they resolve this. Will report back when I finish the book.
December 29, 2025 at 1:06 AM
I'm reading this weird book, and it contains a big word-of-mouth marketing paradox. Not sure how they resolve this. Will report back when I finish the book.
Reposted by Jason Murphy
I wrote a comedic piece about England's cricket performance destroying our summer economy's mianstay. But it's getting beyond a joke now. 🫣https://www.news.com.au/finance/economy/australian-economy/england-cricket-losses-cost-australian-economy-millions/news-story/7988d317497695b5ad41a60d6bca53a6
www.news.com.au
December 18, 2025 at 4:04 AM
I wrote a comedic piece about England's cricket performance destroying our summer economy's mianstay. But it's getting beyond a joke now. 🫣https://www.news.com.au/finance/economy/australian-economy/england-cricket-losses-cost-australian-economy-millions/news-story/7988d317497695b5ad41a60d6bca53a6
Here's how Questacon's rubber is going, in case you are wondering. They put it in this funnel in the 1980s to prove it is a liquid. When I first saw it as a kid only a little had dripped down. First pic is this week, second pic is 2023.
December 25, 2025 at 11:05 PM
Here's how Questacon's rubber is going, in case you are wondering. They put it in this funnel in the 1980s to prove it is a liquid. When I first saw it as a kid only a little had dripped down. First pic is this week, second pic is 2023.
Just read The Poppy Wars by RF Kuang.
50% amazing;
50% what? No!
Wikipedia tells me she wrote it age 19, which makes perfect sense.
50% amazing;
50% what? No!
Wikipedia tells me she wrote it age 19, which makes perfect sense.
December 25, 2025 at 8:27 PM
Just read The Poppy Wars by RF Kuang.
50% amazing;
50% what? No!
Wikipedia tells me she wrote it age 19, which makes perfect sense.
50% amazing;
50% what? No!
Wikipedia tells me she wrote it age 19, which makes perfect sense.