Claire Murray
@drclairemurray.com
Irish scientist living in Berlin. Loves tea, travelling and the science. Occasional #Gaeilgeoir. Opinions mine. She/Her
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This sounds like a delightful challenge. There's a lot on at the moment but let's see what I can read in November!
I am trying something in November. National novel-reading month, basically. It is the PERFECT month for reading (at least in the Western hemisphere).
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November is for reading
or: a month of sheer luxurious intellectual pleasure
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November 2, 2025 at 8:49 PM
This sounds like a delightful challenge. There's a lot on at the moment but let's see what I can read in November!
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From finding a "universal language" in science, to comedy, conferences and following her passion, Prof Dame Ijeoma Uchegbu @ucllifesciences.bsky.social tells BBC World Service about her fascinating path to becoming a pioneer of pharmaceutical nanoscience and champion for race equality
Outlook - One suitcase, three kids: a broke scientist pursues a dream - BBC Sounds
Once a homeless single mum, Dame Ijeoma Uchegbu is now a nanomedicine pioneer
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October 2, 2025 at 4:53 PM
From finding a "universal language" in science, to comedy, conferences and following her passion, Prof Dame Ijeoma Uchegbu @ucllifesciences.bsky.social tells BBC World Service about her fascinating path to becoming a pioneer of pharmaceutical nanoscience and champion for race equality
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On National Poetry Day, the greatest poem I have ever read
October 2, 2025 at 8:41 AM
On National Poetry Day, the greatest poem I have ever read
One of my favourite things in the world is sitting down to write a letter. It starts with so much possibility and elements of theatre (selecting the pen/paper, considering the story to tell) and then slowly centres on the person you write to. Given I upgraded to wax seals, the final act is 🔥 too.
Be a handwritten love letter in a world full of Snapchats.
September 25, 2025 at 11:31 AM
One of my favourite things in the world is sitting down to write a letter. It starts with so much possibility and elements of theatre (selecting the pen/paper, considering the story to tell) and then slowly centres on the person you write to. Given I upgraded to wax seals, the final act is 🔥 too.
This prefix caused much entertainment when we did 'Project M'. No, no I did not name a project after myself. It is M FOR THE THOUSAND SAMPLES!!!
Speaking of which, our school and teacher scientists are AWESOME and you can read about our work @crystengcomm.rsc.org 🧪
pubs.rsc.org/en/content/a...
Speaking of which, our school and teacher scientists are AWESOME and you can read about our work @crystengcomm.rsc.org 🧪
pubs.rsc.org/en/content/a...
July 15, 2025 at 7:37 PM
This prefix caused much entertainment when we did 'Project M'. No, no I did not name a project after myself. It is M FOR THE THOUSAND SAMPLES!!!
Speaking of which, our school and teacher scientists are AWESOME and you can read about our work @crystengcomm.rsc.org 🧪
pubs.rsc.org/en/content/a...
Speaking of which, our school and teacher scientists are AWESOME and you can read about our work @crystengcomm.rsc.org 🧪
pubs.rsc.org/en/content/a...
Dodgy/Predatory conferences get a direct delete in my inbox, but they do get a special side eye for being in such exciting places that I have not been to. A beautiful island in Greece! Japan! Singapore!
They know full well the only reason we would even consider going is because of the location 🧪.
They know full well the only reason we would even consider going is because of the location 🧪.
June 16, 2025 at 1:45 PM
Dodgy/Predatory conferences get a direct delete in my inbox, but they do get a special side eye for being in such exciting places that I have not been to. A beautiful island in Greece! Japan! Singapore!
They know full well the only reason we would even consider going is because of the location 🧪.
They know full well the only reason we would even consider going is because of the location 🧪.
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Happy Pride month, all! Way back in 2018 I made these galaxy pride flags. They were shared many thousands of times, featured on Vice, and even made their way onto book covers and into video games.
Here are the original ones I created (in no particular order!) so Bluesky can have them too. 💙
Here are the original ones I created (in no particular order!) so Bluesky can have them too. 💙
June 3, 2025 at 2:08 PM
Happy Pride month, all! Way back in 2018 I made these galaxy pride flags. They were shared many thousands of times, featured on Vice, and even made their way onto book covers and into video games.
Here are the original ones I created (in no particular order!) so Bluesky can have them too. 💙
Here are the original ones I created (in no particular order!) so Bluesky can have them too. 💙
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10 years ago, Ireland voted YES. 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️
A landslide 62% stood for love, dignity, and equality, making us the first country in the world to legalise same-sex marriage by vote 🌈
Marking that moment with #WikiLovesPride
🌈10 days to go til the photo contest that documents queer life
tinyurl.com/msx48sbx
A landslide 62% stood for love, dignity, and equality, making us the first country in the world to legalise same-sex marriage by vote 🌈
Marking that moment with #WikiLovesPride
🌈10 days to go til the photo contest that documents queer life
tinyurl.com/msx48sbx
10 Years Since YES – Is Breá le Vicí Bród 2025 - Wikimedia Community Ireland
10 years ago, Ireland said YES. In May 2015, over 1.2 million people voted to make love equal. With a landslide result, Ireland became the first country in the world to legalise same-sex marriage by p...
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May 22, 2025 at 1:59 PM
10 years ago, Ireland voted YES. 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️
A landslide 62% stood for love, dignity, and equality, making us the first country in the world to legalise same-sex marriage by vote 🌈
Marking that moment with #WikiLovesPride
🌈10 days to go til the photo contest that documents queer life
tinyurl.com/msx48sbx
A landslide 62% stood for love, dignity, and equality, making us the first country in the world to legalise same-sex marriage by vote 🌈
Marking that moment with #WikiLovesPride
🌈10 days to go til the photo contest that documents queer life
tinyurl.com/msx48sbx
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Today is #IDAHOBIT2025. The theme this year is "The Power of Communities". Here it is in Irish:
May 17, 2025 at 10:58 AM
Today is #IDAHOBIT2025. The theme this year is "The Power of Communities". Here it is in Irish:
Today's protest is an important one. Berliners are out on the streets supporting the classification of the right wing party AFD as extremist by the German spy agency BfV. Here's to democracy and to inclusion that unite us rather than divide us 💚 #AFDVerbot
May 11, 2025 at 2:52 PM
Today's protest is an important one. Berliners are out on the streets supporting the classification of the right wing party AFD as extremist by the German spy agency BfV. Here's to democracy and to inclusion that unite us rather than divide us 💚 #AFDVerbot
This was today's absolute highlight from the #DarkRooms. Called 'Tentacle' by @ausgangstudio.bsky.social, it's a reflection on whether the technology that now drives us brings us further away from being human. The combined light and sound installation was incredible, and I spent ages watching it.
May 10, 2025 at 4:33 PM
This was today's absolute highlight from the #DarkRooms. Called 'Tentacle' by @ausgangstudio.bsky.social, it's a reflection on whether the technology that now drives us brings us further away from being human. The combined light and sound installation was incredible, and I spent ages watching it.
I can't buy all the beautiful things I want to, but we have a small rotating gallery with A3 prints/paintings and smaller that I joyfully buy things for. The rotations are one of my favourite things to do and can align with seasons but also with my mood or feelings! Art is wonderful and so important
I had an art budget for a couple of years. Ended up running out of wall space after 2 years.
Even dropped a couple hundred on someone set up outside the Metro station.
I recommend everyone setup an art budget. It allows you to quiet the voice that says "I can't afford it."
Even dropped a couple hundred on someone set up outside the Metro station.
I recommend everyone setup an art budget. It allows you to quiet the voice that says "I can't afford it."
May 4, 2025 at 8:39 PM
I can't buy all the beautiful things I want to, but we have a small rotating gallery with A3 prints/paintings and smaller that I joyfully buy things for. The rotations are one of my favourite things to do and can align with seasons but also with my mood or feelings! Art is wonderful and so important
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I’m glad so many people have found my “capybara method” for how to write alt text and image descriptions helpful! However, I know conflicting access needs exist and not everyone can write their own #AltText, so here’s an ongoing thread of tools that can help. Inclusion in thread ≠ endorsement
November 29, 2024 at 6:25 PM
I’m glad so many people have found my “capybara method” for how to write alt text and image descriptions helpful! However, I know conflicting access needs exist and not everyone can write their own #AltText, so here’s an ongoing thread of tools that can help. Inclusion in thread ≠ endorsement
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We want everyone in the chemical sciences community to feel welcome, supported and valued, so we're sad to see some people seize on yesterday's supreme court ruling with anti-trans messages. Today, we're highlighting our resources on allyship for trans colleagues and friends
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LGBT+ toolkit
This kit provides the tools for everyone to take part in positive change: employers, colleagues, and LGBT+ individuals.
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April 17, 2025 at 9:07 AM
We want everyone in the chemical sciences community to feel welcome, supported and valued, so we're sad to see some people seize on yesterday's supreme court ruling with anti-trans messages. Today, we're highlighting our resources on allyship for trans colleagues and friends
➡ rsc.li/4j6lojs
➡ rsc.li/4j6lojs
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📣 We're teaming up with @nationalgalleryirl.bsky.social for an #ArtAndFeminism Edit-a-thon!
📅 April 30 | 🕙 10am–1pm |📍 Nat. Gallery of Ireland
Help amplify the voices of underrepresented womxn artists on Wikipedia 🎨✨
🔗 Sign up info: wikimedia.ie/2025/04/16/w...
#artandfeminism #wikimedia
📅 April 30 | 🕙 10am–1pm |📍 Nat. Gallery of Ireland
Help amplify the voices of underrepresented womxn artists on Wikipedia 🎨✨
🔗 Sign up info: wikimedia.ie/2025/04/16/w...
#artandfeminism #wikimedia
Wikimedia Community Ireland is Bringing Art+Feminism to the National Gallery of Ireland on April 30th - Wikimedia Community Ireland
We are delighted to collaborate with the National Gallery’s Library & Archive department for an Art + Feminism Edit-a-thon on April 30th from 10 a.m. This collaboration is aimed at creating an increas...
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April 16, 2025 at 12:24 PM
📣 We're teaming up with @nationalgalleryirl.bsky.social for an #ArtAndFeminism Edit-a-thon!
📅 April 30 | 🕙 10am–1pm |📍 Nat. Gallery of Ireland
Help amplify the voices of underrepresented womxn artists on Wikipedia 🎨✨
🔗 Sign up info: wikimedia.ie/2025/04/16/w...
#artandfeminism #wikimedia
📅 April 30 | 🕙 10am–1pm |📍 Nat. Gallery of Ireland
Help amplify the voices of underrepresented womxn artists on Wikipedia 🎨✨
🔗 Sign up info: wikimedia.ie/2025/04/16/w...
#artandfeminism #wikimedia
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fucking hell. so much love and solidarity to my trans friends and community in the UK.
April 16, 2025 at 9:51 AM
fucking hell. so much love and solidarity to my trans friends and community in the UK.
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I am due to do a presentation on AI for parents of secondary school students next week and am curious, what do parents want to know about?
April 4, 2025 at 5:10 PM
I am due to do a presentation on AI for parents of secondary school students next week and am curious, what do parents want to know about?
Today was a great day. I got to listen to Florence Horicks from @ulbruxelles.bsky.social, who shared beautiful work on prioritising and maximising value for cancer patients for the @ecsa.ngo Empowerment, Inclusiveness and Equity working group.
March 26, 2025 at 3:59 PM
Today was a great day. I got to listen to Florence Horicks from @ulbruxelles.bsky.social, who shared beautiful work on prioritising and maximising value for cancer patients for the @ecsa.ngo Empowerment, Inclusiveness and Equity working group.
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I just saw a shampoo commercial that advertised that it contained “more than a trillion molecules” and I’m so mad that not enough people know how big Avogadro’s number is.
March 20, 2025 at 1:48 PM
I just saw a shampoo commercial that advertised that it contained “more than a trillion molecules” and I’m so mad that not enough people know how big Avogadro’s number is.
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Mary Oliver hat immer recht. 🙏
February 27, 2025 at 8:31 AM
Mary Oliver hat immer recht. 🙏
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For #BlackHistoryMonth pharmaceutical #chemist Alice Ball (1892-1916) who developed 1st effective treatment for leprosy. 🧪🐡👩🏾🔬 #histsci Though her life was cut tragically short, her research saved 1000s from exile & painful, ineffective lifelong treatment for leprosy, & she was a trailblazer for 🧵
February 24, 2025 at 12:27 PM
For #BlackHistoryMonth pharmaceutical #chemist Alice Ball (1892-1916) who developed 1st effective treatment for leprosy. 🧪🐡👩🏾🔬 #histsci Though her life was cut tragically short, her research saved 1000s from exile & painful, ineffective lifelong treatment for leprosy, & she was a trailblazer for 🧵
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"...Arts Minister Patrick O’Donovan wants to make sure that all projects funded by his department...represent value for money."
How are they measuring value? Because they did this for Science Gallery, as though the arts were a business that should be cost-neutral, and it closed.
How are they measuring value? Because they did this for Science Gallery, as though the arts were a business that should be cost-neutral, and it closed.
February 24, 2025 at 11:46 AM
"...Arts Minister Patrick O’Donovan wants to make sure that all projects funded by his department...represent value for money."
How are they measuring value? Because they did this for Science Gallery, as though the arts were a business that should be cost-neutral, and it closed.
How are they measuring value? Because they did this for Science Gallery, as though the arts were a business that should be cost-neutral, and it closed.
I feel like Sinéad Gleason and Edna O'Brien are serious omissions from this list, but curious as to what other folks think? I would also add Doireann Ní Ghríofa and Elaine Feeney because they have wooed me with their words!
www.rte.ie/culture/2022...
www.rte.ie/culture/2022...
21 books that define 21st century Irish literature
We're a nation known for its rich literary history; the biggest problem is attempting to narrow the abundant talent in Irish literature down.
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February 22, 2025 at 6:47 PM
I feel like Sinéad Gleason and Edna O'Brien are serious omissions from this list, but curious as to what other folks think? I would also add Doireann Ní Ghríofa and Elaine Feeney because they have wooed me with their words!
www.rte.ie/culture/2022...
www.rte.ie/culture/2022...
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Diversity is our greatest asset, even if the government disagrees… They not like us! POC in STEM are here to stay.
They tried to rig the game but you can’t fake influence!
Mustard on the [Be][At] bro.
Happy Black History Month!
They tried to rig the game but you can’t fake influence!
Mustard on the [Be][At] bro.
Happy Black History Month!
February 21, 2025 at 12:20 AM
Diversity is our greatest asset, even if the government disagrees… They not like us! POC in STEM are here to stay.
They tried to rig the game but you can’t fake influence!
Mustard on the [Be][At] bro.
Happy Black History Month!
They tried to rig the game but you can’t fake influence!
Mustard on the [Be][At] bro.
Happy Black History Month!