Anna Murphy
@annabuzzmurphy.bsky.social
Flora ecologist specialising in threatened species.
Lack of diagnosis of #MECFS meant that I wasn’t informed that exertion was dangerous. This year I pushed myself beyond my limits and ‘crashed’. Now every thing I do is planned: standing up #POTS, walking, working at my desk. My world is very small now but my memories of wild places keeps me going.
September 17, 2026 at 11:55 PM
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Australian pioneering modernist photographer Olive Cotton, Tea Cup Ballet, c.1935 #WomensArt
September 5, 2026 at 10:55 PM
Australian pioneering modernist photographer Olive Cotton, Tea Cup Ballet, c.1935 #WomensArt
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..and then I noticed it was spider web morning..and I totally forgot about breakfast and I was walking entranced by magic. ✨
August 27, 2026 at 11:02 AM
..and then I noticed it was spider web morning..and I totally forgot about breakfast and I was walking entranced by magic. ✨
After a severe #MECFS crash six months ago I became bed bound and housebound for months. I’m only slowly managing to recover with the hope that life will go back to some semblance of ‘normal’. On Saturday, I walked up a mountain track in northern Victoria.
August 24, 2026 at 11:09 AM
After a severe #MECFS crash six months ago I became bed bound and housebound for months. I’m only slowly managing to recover with the hope that life will go back to some semblance of ‘normal’. On Saturday, I walked up a mountain track in northern Victoria.
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In the future, there will be people who look at how hard life has become and wish they could go back to do things differently. But we're lucky. We live now. We still _can_ do things differently. We are like time travellers in a position to save much of what would otherwise have been lost.
August 11, 2026 at 3:41 PM
In the future, there will be people who look at how hard life has become and wish they could go back to do things differently. But we're lucky. We live now. We still _can_ do things differently. We are like time travellers in a position to save much of what would otherwise have been lost.
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Today, #SevereMEDay recognises people living with severe and very severe #MECFS.
Help ensure their experiences are seen, heard & counted. Complete our anonymous national survey.
A carer can assist or respond on your behalf.
👉 zurl.co/mBKTD
🖼️ Lea Aring & German Association for ME/CFS
Help ensure their experiences are seen, heard & counted. Complete our anonymous national survey.
A carer can assist or respond on your behalf.
👉 zurl.co/mBKTD
🖼️ Lea Aring & German Association for ME/CFS
August 7, 2026 at 10:00 PM
Today, #SevereMEDay recognises people living with severe and very severe #MECFS.
Help ensure their experiences are seen, heard & counted. Complete our anonymous national survey.
A carer can assist or respond on your behalf.
👉 zurl.co/mBKTD
🖼️ Lea Aring & German Association for ME/CFS
Help ensure their experiences are seen, heard & counted. Complete our anonymous national survey.
A carer can assist or respond on your behalf.
👉 zurl.co/mBKTD
🖼️ Lea Aring & German Association for ME/CFS
Brilliant oration in Beechworth by Deborah Cheetham Fraillon, proud Yorta Yorta & Yuin woman, renowned soprano & founder of #shortblackopera. In the aftermath of the brutal colonisation of this country & our refusal to elect a #VoicetoParliament, she asks us who we really are & who we want to be.
THE KERFERD ORATION
Promoting Community Discussion
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July 26, 2026 at 4:17 AM
Brilliant oration in Beechworth by Deborah Cheetham Fraillon, proud Yorta Yorta & Yuin woman, renowned soprano & founder of #shortblackopera. In the aftermath of the brutal colonisation of this country & our refusal to elect a #VoicetoParliament, she asks us who we really are & who we want to be.
Emerge Australia is one of Australia’s leading ME CFS (myalgic encephalomyelitis) support and advocacy organisations. They use peer reviewed science to provide practical advice to patients. They are an outstanding organisation. Those of us in Australia rely heavily on their support.
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#EmergeAustralia needs your help to power our services. Funding for our Health and Patient Support Services ends 30 Nov!
Until 30 June, your donation will be doubled, up to a total of $20k, thanks to an anon donor.
Double your impact today zurl.co/b3LBF
June 20, 2026 at 12:31 AM
Emerge Australia is one of Australia’s leading ME CFS (myalgic encephalomyelitis) support and advocacy organisations. They use peer reviewed science to provide practical advice to patients. They are an outstanding organisation. Those of us in Australia rely heavily on their support.
Possibly the most adorable dragon. Australia, we need to lift our game in the conservation and recovery of threatened flora and fauna. #threatenedspecies #nature #biodiversity #australianfauna
How to conserve your dragon – and avoid losing Australia’s most imperilled reptile for a second time
Melbourne zoo’s new breeding centre hopes to safeguard the future of the critically endangered Victorian grassland earless dragon
www.theguardian.com
May 3, 2026 at 10:50 PM
Possibly the most adorable dragon. Australia, we need to lift our game in the conservation and recovery of threatened flora and fauna. #threatenedspecies #nature #biodiversity #australianfauna
From the days before social media, Rodger Deakin savoured the simplicity of random ideas…
“Jottings, in their spontaneity and complete absence of any craft, are often so much truer to what I actually feel or think at a given moment.”
#RodgerDeakin #naturewriting #eastcoastkin #writing #natureheals
“Jottings, in their spontaneity and complete absence of any craft, are often so much truer to what I actually feel or think at a given moment.”
#RodgerDeakin #naturewriting #eastcoastkin #writing #natureheals
April 12, 2026 at 12:16 AM
From the days before social media, Rodger Deakin savoured the simplicity of random ideas…
“Jottings, in their spontaneity and complete absence of any craft, are often so much truer to what I actually feel or think at a given moment.”
#RodgerDeakin #naturewriting #eastcoastkin #writing #natureheals
“Jottings, in their spontaneity and complete absence of any craft, are often so much truer to what I actually feel or think at a given moment.”
#RodgerDeakin #naturewriting #eastcoastkin #writing #natureheals
March 28, 2026 at 3:45 AM
Recovery has made my world very small of late. To keep my mind from being consumed by my situation I am focussing on the beauty of the small things around me. #cureME #fibromyalgia #cancerschmancer #natureheals #MECFS
March 27, 2026 at 9:59 AM
Recovery has made my world very small of late. To keep my mind from being consumed by my situation I am focussing on the beauty of the small things around me. #cureME #fibromyalgia #cancerschmancer #natureheals #MECFS
Reading poetry out loud tonight by Gerard Manley Hopkins. What a wild tongue twisting challenge it is but so vibrant and alive. #poetry #natureheals
March 20, 2026 at 10:17 AM
Reading poetry out loud tonight by Gerard Manley Hopkins. What a wild tongue twisting challenge it is but so vibrant and alive. #poetry #natureheals
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On this International Women’s Day, I cannot stop thinking about all the girls in Iran, in Sudan, in Gaza, and so may places — girls whose lives were snuffed out in conflicts they played no part in, before they could ever become women.
And I am thinking about their mothers.
And I am thinking about their mothers.
March 8, 2026 at 9:31 PM
On this International Women’s Day, I cannot stop thinking about all the girls in Iran, in Sudan, in Gaza, and so may places — girls whose lives were snuffed out in conflicts they played no part in, before they could ever become women.
And I am thinking about their mothers.
And I am thinking about their mothers.
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Landscape ecological restoration. It can be done but we need to get a move on. This is Carrifran where the sheep were removed to allow this native woodland to take over.
March 4, 2026 at 7:49 AM
Landscape ecological restoration. It can be done but we need to get a move on. This is Carrifran where the sheep were removed to allow this native woodland to take over.
Thinking about the beautiful lotus flowers that I saw in full bloom at the Royal Botanic Gardens Melbourne a couple of years ago. It’s been one of those days. #biophilia #natureheals #fibromyalgia #MECFS #planttherapy
March 4, 2026 at 6:55 AM
Thinking about the beautiful lotus flowers that I saw in full bloom at the Royal Botanic Gardens Melbourne a couple of years ago. It’s been one of those days. #biophilia #natureheals #fibromyalgia #MECFS #planttherapy
Stillness. Magpies carolling in the street outside and the cat snoozing in a ray of morning sunshine.
February 25, 2026 at 11:03 PM
Stillness. Magpies carolling in the street outside and the cat snoozing in a ray of morning sunshine.
Seasonal harvest in challenging times. Although cancer treatment has well and truly ended now, #fibromyalgia still has its grip on me leaving me confined to bed. #natureheals #eatyourveg. Some days are tough but it’s essential for me to hold on to happiness.
February 25, 2026 at 8:30 AM
Seasonal harvest in challenging times. Although cancer treatment has well and truly ended now, #fibromyalgia still has its grip on me leaving me confined to bed. #natureheals #eatyourveg. Some days are tough but it’s essential for me to hold on to happiness.
December 8, 2025 at 9:36 AM
Something was brewing at my coastal campsite retreat last night #girlsownadventure #cancerrecovery #fibromyalgia #natureheals
December 7, 2025 at 5:39 AM
Something was brewing at my coastal campsite retreat last night #girlsownadventure #cancerrecovery #fibromyalgia #natureheals
Each year I take myself camping to recover from #fibromyalgia. This year, I’m also recovering from cancer. Being here reminds me to pay attention to daily moments; respond with compassion to my chatter of self recrimination and observe the beauty and diversity of life in this remarkable landscape.
December 5, 2025 at 12:00 AM
Each year I take myself camping to recover from #fibromyalgia. This year, I’m also recovering from cancer. Being here reminds me to pay attention to daily moments; respond with compassion to my chatter of self recrimination and observe the beauty and diversity of life in this remarkable landscape.
It’s such a great season for roses in Central Victoria. This is a heritage rose from my front garden. Two years ago, I picked some flowers for a friend who had just finished chemotherapy. Little did I know that two years later it would mark the end of mine. #cancer #natureheals
November 8, 2025 at 9:08 PM
It’s such a great season for roses in Central Victoria. This is a heritage rose from my front garden. Two years ago, I picked some flowers for a friend who had just finished chemotherapy. Little did I know that two years later it would mark the end of mine. #cancer #natureheals
Yesterday, I sat in the garden to take in spring. My post chemo / fibromyalgia fatigue was so intense that I couldn’t stand. So, I sat there for an hour, flowers in full bloom all around me watching honeybees up close, sipping nectar from one flower, gathering pollen from the next and felt lucky.
October 26, 2025 at 12:28 AM
Yesterday, I sat in the garden to take in spring. My post chemo / fibromyalgia fatigue was so intense that I couldn’t stand. So, I sat there for an hour, flowers in full bloom all around me watching honeybees up close, sipping nectar from one flower, gathering pollen from the next and felt lucky.