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Our lab is interested in all things mitochondrial.

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Mike Murphy @mitoredox.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
Congrats to Evanna Mills on the first paper from her lab! Many more to come... www.nature.com/articles/s42...
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Macrophage-derived itaconate is a negative regulator of adipose tissue thermogenesis - Nature Metabolism
Tang et al. reveal that macrophage-derived itaconate acts as a paracrine inhibitor of adipose tissue thermogenesis by blocking succinate uptake into brown adipose tissue.
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Mike Murphy @mitoredox.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
I have two post doctoral positions available in my lab funded by the Wellcome Trust to develop new chemical biology approaches to studying mitochondria. Would suit those with interest in both mitochondria and chemical biology. Advert below-please forward and repost! www.cam.ac.uk/jobs/researc...
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Research Associate x 2 (Fixed Term)
The Medical Research Council Mitochondrial Biology Unit (MRC MBU), University of Cambridge, wishes to appoint two post-doctoral Research Associates to join the research group of Prof. Mike Murphy at t...
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Mike Murphy @mitoredox.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
Very pleased to have presented the Keith Reimer Distinguished Lecture at the ISHR meeting in Birmingham this week. Recognition of the work we have done with Thomas Krieg over the past 15 years
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Mike Murphy @mitoredox.bsky.social · 01/05/2026
Congrats to Laura Pala and Hiran Prag on their new paper in Cardiovascular Research. doi.org/10.1093/cvr/...
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Mitochondrial succinate transport is required for cardiac ischaemia/reperfusion injury
AbstractAims. Succinate accumulates significantly during myocardial ischaemia, and its rapid oxidation upon reperfusion is a critical driver of ischaemia/r
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Mike Murphy @mitoredox.bsky.social · 26/02/2026
Congrats to Patrick Cardwell on his paper that covers his PhD work - another great collaboration with the Richard Hartley lab. doi.org/10.1016/j.ej...
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Redirecting
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Mike Murphy @mitoredox.bsky.social · 23/02/2026
Congrats to Dunja on her latest paper just out in Nature Cardiovascular Research! doi.org/10.1038/s441...
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Targeting immunometabolic pathways with AZD1656 alleviates inflammation and metabolic dysfunction in type 2 diabetic cardiomyopathy - Nature Cardiovascular Research
Anderson et al. demonstrate that the glucokinase activator AZD1656 reduces inflammation and reverses cardiac dysfunction and metabolic remodeling in mice with diabetic cardiomyopathy.
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Mike Murphy @mitoredox.bsky.social · 10/02/2026
At Keystone enjoying some mitochondrial science and catching up with friends www.keystonesymposia.org/conferences/...
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Mitochondria Signaling in Physiology and Disease | Keystone Symposia
Join us at the Keystone Symposia on Mitochondria Signaling in Physiology and Disease, February 2026, in Keystone, with field leaders!
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Mike Murphy @mitoredox.bsky.social · 30/01/2026
Funding? I'm a simple academic, so I'll have to await someone smart to explain to me how "pausing" MRC and BBSRC funding is the action of a biomedical science superpower...?
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Mike Murphy @mitoredox.bsky.social · 06/01/2026
Congrats to Jan whose new paper on persulfide measurement is is out now in Nature Comms
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Mike Murphy @mitoredox.bsky.social · 16/12/2025
Christmas in the lab....
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Mike Murphy @mitoredox.bsky.social · 15/12/2025
Huge congratulations to Abigail Giles whose paper has just come out in Nature Cardiovascular Research - from a great collaboration with Bob Balaban, along with Thomas Krieg and Tish Murphy. doi.org/10.1038/s441...
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Rapid mitochondrial repolarization upon reperfusion after cardiac ischemia - Nature Cardiovascular Research
Giles et al. developed a method for noninvasive absorbance measurement of mitochondrial hemes to monitor the mitochondrial membrane potential in the perfused heart. They then applied this approach to ...
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Mike Murphy @mitoredox.bsky.social · 05/12/2025
Congrats to Emma Yu on her new paper on Tafazzin! doi.org/10.1038/s414...
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Defective vascular smooth muscle cell tafazzin impairs mitochondrial function and promotes atherosclerosis in preclinical models - Nature Communications
Atherosclerosis is the leading cause of death worldwide. Here, the authors show that defective vascular smooth muscle cell tafazzin promotes mitochondrial dysfunction and atherosclerosis, highlighting...
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Mike Murphy @mitoredox.bsky.social · 04/12/2025
Pleased to be a small part of a recent paper led by Thiru Kanneganti at St Judes www.cell.com/cell/fulltex...
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Innate immune and metabolic signals induce mitochondria-dependent membrane lysis via mitoxyperiosis
Wang et al. identify a new lytic cell death pathway, mitoxyperilysis, triggered by the synergy of innate immune activation and metabolic stress. This process is regulated by mTORC2 and involves persis...
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Mike Murphy @mitoredox.bsky.social · 17/11/2025
Congrats to Kath Hammond who was awarded a short talk prize at the recent WT "Mitochondrial medicine: therapeutic development" meeting at Hinxton.
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Joyce Valadares @joycevaladares.bsky.social · 20/10/2025
Excited to share that at the annual MRC MBU symposium I was awarded best poster prize for my PhD project on Succinate Metabolism in Cardiac Ischemia/ Reperfusion Injury! Thanks to my lab, collaborators, and my PI Mike Murphy. @mitoredox.bsky.social
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Mike Murphy @mitoredox.bsky.social · 18/10/2025
Drs Cherrie Kong and Stephen Harmer (University of Bristol) are offering a fully funded PhD project, " For information and to apply: www.findaphd.com/phds/project.... For information including application preparation: cherrie.kong@bristol.ac.uk Application deadline: 15 December 2025
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Understanding and slowing transverse tubule loss in heart failure at University of Bristol on FindAPhD.com
PhD Project - Understanding and slowing transverse tubule loss in heart failure at University of Bristol, listed on FindAPhD.com
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Mike Murphy @mitoredox.bsky.social · 13/10/2025
Congrats to Nils Burger who is just starting his lab at UTSW in Texas! Any prospective PhD students or post-docs should get in touch with Nils. www.nils-burger-lab.com
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Burger Lab @ UTSW
The Burger Lab Defining the metabolite protein regulome
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Mike Murphy @mitoredox.bsky.social · 29/09/2025
In Toronto today giving a seminar at the Sick Kids Research Institute on "Mitochondria in Ischemia-Reperfusion Injury: From Basic Science to Potential Therapies" Great to catch up with previous lab member now in Toronto - Thomas Hurd, Ellen Robb and Anna Dare.
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Mike Murphy @mitoredox.bsky.social · 14/08/2025
Great to see this paper out - another Krieg/Murphy collaboration - and congratulations to Jordan Lee who did most of the work! academic.oup.com/cardiovascre...
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Local arterial administration of acidified malonate as an adjunct therapy to mechanical thrombectomy in ischemic stroke
AbstractAims. Ischemic stroke is increasingly treated by mechanical thrombectomy (MT) with the more rapid and complete reperfusion of the ischemic tissue,
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Mike Murphy @mitoredox.bsky.social · 13/08/2025
Great to see Hiran Prag setting up his lab at the University of Manchester - I'm expecting great things! personalpages.manchester.ac.uk/staff/hiran....
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Prag Lab - Coming Soon
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Mike Murphy @mitoredox.bsky.social · 17/07/2025
It was wonderful to see the NEJM paper today about healthy babies born free of mtDNA disease following mitochondrial donation. Built on decades of work led by Doug Turnbull and his team in Newcastle. www.nejm.org/doi/full/10....
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Mitochondrial Donation and Preimplantation Genetic Testing for mtDNA Disease | NEJM
Children born to women who carry pathogenic variants in mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) are at risk for a range of clinical syndromes collectively known as mtDNA disease. Mitochondrial donation by pronuc...
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Mike Murphy @mitoredox.bsky.social · 17/07/2025
It was a great pleasure to attend last week Professor Dunja Aksentijevic's inaugural Professorial Lecture at Queen Mary, University of London. Dunja, it's just the start!
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Mike Murphy @mitoredox.bsky.social · 27/06/2025
Congrats to Helena Cocheme @cochemelab.bsky.social on her paper on redox regulation of autophagy in Drosophila. doi.org/10.1038/s414...
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Enhancing autophagy by redox regulation extends lifespan in Drosophila - Nature Communications
Redox signalling is emerging as an important regulator of metabolism and physiology, which is dysregulated in ageing and disease. Here, the authors show that redox regulation of a key redox sensitive ...
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Mike Murphy @mitoredox.bsky.social · 26/06/2025
Good day yesterday at the William Harvey Research Institute Research Day where I was honoured to receive the Derek Willoughby Medal and give a lecture. Great hospitality from Dunja Aksentijevic and Sir Mark Caulfield.
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Mike Murphy @mitoredox.bsky.social · 14/06/2025
Series of interesting papers showing that haematopoietic stem cells can undergo damaging clonal haematopoiesis when they acquire mutations that enhance mitochondrial respiration - opening the way to using metformin - and my beloved MitoQ - to prevent this transition. doi.org/10.1038/s415...
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Mitochondrial metabolism sustains DNMT3A-R882-mutant clonal haematopoiesis - Nature
Metformin may serve as a non-toxic intervention to inhibit mitochondrial metabolism and slow DNMT3A-R882 clonal haematopoiesis expansion, thus delaying or averting progression to acute myeloid le...
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Mike Murphy @mitoredox.bsky.social · 09/06/2025
Congrats to Dunja Aksienijevic on her latest paper!
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Mike Murphy @mitoredox.bsky.social · 04/06/2025
By the Atlantic in Galway at the SFRRI meeting - catching up with old friends and new. www.sfrrgalway2025.com
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22nd SFRRI Biennial Meeting I Galway I June 3-6, 2025
Information, Program, Registration, Abstract Submission for the 22nd SFRRI Biennial Meeting
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Mike Murphy @mitoredox.bsky.social · 29/05/2025
Congrats to Renata Goncalves who led a study in Gokhan Hotamisligil's lab that has just come out in Nature - ably assisted by Jillian Riveros! www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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CoQ imbalance drives reverse electron transport to disrupt liver metabolism - Nature
Reverse electron transport is the mechanism behind excess mitochondrial reactive oxygen species in the livers of obese mice, which has implications for developing therapeutics for fatty liver dis...
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Mike Murphy @mitoredox.bsky.social · 24/05/2025
Congratulations to Abigail Giles who was awarded the "The Richard J. Bing Award for Young Investigators" at the recent World Congress of the International Society For Heart Research in Japan. Well done Abigail!
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Mike Murphy @mitoredox.bsky.social · 22/05/2025
Congratulations to @clarebryant.bsky.social on her election to the Academy of Medical Sciences!
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Mike Murphy @mitoredox.bsky.social · 22/05/2025
Congrats to Ana Vujic on her latest paper! journals.physiology.org/doi/abs/10.1...
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Loss of RET-ROS at complex I induces diastolic dysfunction in mice that is reversed by aerobic exercise | American Journal of Physiology-Heart and Circulatory Physiology | American Physiological Socie...
Central to the development of heart failure with preserved ejection fraction (HFpEF) is the redox disruption of metabolic processes, however, the underlying mechanisms are not fully understood. This s...
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Mike Murphy @mitoredox.bsky.social · 20/05/2025
Delighted to be a small part of this paper led by Alicia, Brian and Simon. doi.org/10.1038/s414...
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CREBBP inactivation sensitizes B cell acute lymphoblastic leukemia to ferroptotic cell death upon BCL2 inhibition - Nature Communications
CREBBP mutations in B-cell acute lymphoblastic leukemia (B-ALL) are linked to poor prognosis and chemoresistance. Here, the authors show that genetic or pharmacological inactivation of CREBBP sensitiz...
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Simon Richardson @simonrichardson.bsky.social · 20/05/2025
Delighted that our work describing a potential novel treatment approach for B-cell Acute Lymphoblastic Leukaemia is published today in @natcomms.nature.com‬. 🧵 www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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CREBBP inactivation sensitizes B cell acute lymphoblastic leukemia to ferroptotic cell death upon BCL2 inhibition - Nature Communications
CREBBP mutations in B-cell acute lymphoblastic leukemia (B-ALL) are linked to poor prognosis and chemoresistance. Here, the authors show that genetic or pharmacological inactivation of CREBBP sensitiz...
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Mike Murphy @mitoredox.bsky.social · 18/05/2025
Pleased to have been elected a Member of Academia Europaea. Thanks to Mike Davies of Copenhagen for nominating me. www.ae-info.org/ae/Member/Mu...
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Academy of Europe: Murphy Michael
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Mike Murphy @mitoredox.bsky.social · 29/04/2025
IMS-MRL External Seminar (Cambridge) Tuesday 6 May 2025 at 13.15 Professor Mike Murphy, Understanding how mitochondria contribute to ischaemia-reperfusion injury HOST: Professor Steve O’Rahilly Hybrid Seminar in the IMS-MRL Seminar Rooms (for IMS staff), Online for others
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Mike Murphy @mitoredox.bsky.social · 25/04/2025
At the University of Cordoba today giving a seminar in the department of Prof Raquel Requejo. She used to be post-doc in my lab in Cambridge and is now running her own lab. www.uco.es/dptos/bioqui...
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Departamento de Bioquímica y Biología Molecular - Universidad de Córdoba
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Mike Murphy @mitoredox.bsky.social · 24/04/2025
Visiting IBIS in beautiful Sevilla www.ibis-sevilla.es/en/ Hosted by José López-Barneo - giving a seminar there today.
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Mike Murphy @mitoredox.bsky.social · 09/04/2025
Important new paper in Nature from Gero Miesenböck's lab showing that the accumulation of lipid peroxidation products from mitochondrial ROS production leads in sleep. doi.org/10.1038/s415...
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Sleep pressure accumulates in a voltage-gated lipid peroxidation memory - Nature
Sleep-inducing neurons in Drosophila rely on Hyperkinetic, the β-subunit of the KV1 channel Shaker, to monitor sleep need by translating lipid peroxidation events into changes in the oxidation state o...
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Mike Murphy @mitoredox.bsky.social · 04/04/2025
Congrats to Michal Minczuk @mitogene.bsky.social and all at Pretzel Therapeutics on initiation of their first Phase I trial! www.pretzeltx.com/pretzel-ther...
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Pretzel Therapeutics Initiates Phase 1 Clinical Study Evaluating PX578, Lead Therapeutic in its Bioenergetics Restoration Franchise » Pretzel Therapeutics
First-in-class approach to targeting mitochondrial DNA polymerase (POLG) with disease modifying potential across mitochondrial DNA depletion syndromes
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Mike Murphy @mitoredox.bsky.social · 22/02/2025
Well done to María Torres-López and José López-Barneo on this paper in FEBS Letts - seems that RET at complex I is not involved in carotid body oxygen sensing... doi.org/10.1002/1873...
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O2 sensing by carotid body chemoreceptor cells depends on mitochondrial complex I (MCI) function. In mice with a mutated ND6 subunit, which retains normal forward MCI activity but cannot catalyze rev...
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Mike Murphy @mitoredox.bsky.social · 21/02/2025
Congrats to Kasparas Petkevicius on his paper just out in Science Advances - Andrew James in my lab played a key role - important implications for Battens Disease doi.org/10.1126/scia...
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TRAM-LAG1-CLN8 family proteins are acyltransferases regulating phospholipid composition
TRAM–LAG1–CLN8 family proteins function as enzymes that remodel cellular phospholipids and expand the membrane lipid diversity.
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Mike Murphy @mitoredox.bsky.social · 19/02/2025
Great to see paper from Alva Casey out today in Nature Metabolism - from her PhD. Well done Alva! doi.org/10.1038/s422...
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Pro-inflammatory macrophages produce mitochondria-derived superoxide by reverse electron transport at complex I that regulates IL-1β release during NLRP3 inflammasome activation - Nature Metabolism
Casey et al. explore the basic mechanisms of mitochondrial superoxide production and its impact on interleukin-1β production in LPS-treated macrophages.
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Mike Murphy @mitoredox.bsky.social · 09/02/2025
Glad to be a small part on this interesting paper from Milos Filipovic with actual work done by Jan Miljkovic and Alva Casey in my lab. Ergothioneine improves healthspan of aged animals by enhancing cGPDH activity through CSE-dependent persulfidation: Cell Metabolism www.cell.com/cell-metabol...
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Ergothioneine improves healthspan of aged animals by enhancing cGPDH activity through CSE-dependent persulfidation
Petrovic et al. demonstrate that ergothioneine acts as an alternative substrate for cystathionine gamma-lyase, an H2S-producing enzyme, leading to an increase of protein persulfidation. The persulfida...
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Mike Murphy @mitoredox.bsky.social · 08/02/2025
Regarding paper in Cell from Jessica Spinelli on rhodoquinone (RQ) in mammalian mitochondria. The implication is that the lower reduction potential will allow SDH to run to fumarate more easily under hypoxic conditions. The introduction of RQ in vivo was elegant and gave pharmacological effects.
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Mike Murphy @mitoredox.bsky.social · 08/02/2025
Very interesting paper in Cell from Jessica Spinelli showing rhodoquinone (RQ) in mammalian mitochondria. www.cell.com/cell/fulltex...
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Rhodoquinone carries electrons in the mammalian electron transport chain
Valeros et al. identify rhodoquinone (RQ), an electron carrier present in mammalian mitochondria, that can deliver electrons to fumarate instead of O2 as the terminal electron acceptor. The authors de...
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Mike Murphy @mitoredox.bsky.social · 01/02/2025
The best lack all conviction, while the worst Are full of passionate intensity.
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Mike Murphy @mitoredox.bsky.social · 16/01/2025
Hi All Moving to BlueSky from X - do I need to explain why? Thought not...
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