Mia Murphy 🏳️⚧️
@miamurphy.com
Chief Policy Officer, Michigan Association of State Universities. Trustee, Library of Michigan. MSU 06 / UChicago CIR 07 / MSU HALE PhD 24. She/her, but I grew up with pockets. Former husband & current wife of a wife. Personal account, skeets are my own.
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Mia Murphy 🏳️⚧️
@miamurphy.com
· Jun 25
if we want to talk about youth vs experience, by the time I was 33, I had already been in charge of a combined $2.1 billion set of budgets for all postsecondary education in Michigan, and then the deputy executive of the public university coordinating board in Michigan
33 year olds aren't children
33 year olds aren't children
Watching Apollo 13 and Arthur (the guy working with Mattingly on powering up the command module) looks like several of my friends' pre-transition pictures
January 2, 2026 at 4:54 AM
Watching Apollo 13 and Arthur (the guy working with Mattingly on powering up the command module) looks like several of my friends' pre-transition pictures
I'm finally doing it.
I have many feelings about getting rid of my suits. I've kept them for a while in hopes of finding a local transmasc my size but that has not panned out, so I'm giving them to the MSU Career Closet. As a Pell Grant kid, I know many students could use a borrowed suit.
I have many feelings about getting rid of my suits. I've kept them for a while in hopes of finding a local transmasc my size but that has not panned out, so I'm giving them to the MSU Career Closet. As a Pell Grant kid, I know many students could use a borrowed suit.
January 2, 2026 at 1:06 AM
I'm finally doing it.
I have many feelings about getting rid of my suits. I've kept them for a while in hopes of finding a local transmasc my size but that has not panned out, so I'm giving them to the MSU Career Closet. As a Pell Grant kid, I know many students could use a borrowed suit.
I have many feelings about getting rid of my suits. I've kept them for a while in hopes of finding a local transmasc my size but that has not panned out, so I'm giving them to the MSU Career Closet. As a Pell Grant kid, I know many students could use a borrowed suit.
Yeah, I can work with that
January 1, 2026 at 9:55 PM
Yeah, I can work with that
It's hard to extrapolate given only three Govs and all that MI has gone through in 25 years. That said, working in or adjacent to the administrations, there was a real difference between ineligible Granholm and eligible Snyder and Whitmer, even though Granholm clearly wanted an Obama cabinet job.
One underrated thing Mamdani has going for him is that he has always known he is ineligible for the presidency
The profession of elected official attracts a lot of people with delusions of grandeur and an agenda built around getting to the job they want rather than doing the job they actually have
The profession of elected official attracts a lot of people with delusions of grandeur and an agenda built around getting to the job they want rather than doing the job they actually have
January 1, 2026 at 9:42 PM
It's hard to extrapolate given only three Govs and all that MI has gone through in 25 years. That said, working in or adjacent to the administrations, there was a real difference between ineligible Granholm and eligible Snyder and Whitmer, even though Granholm clearly wanted an Obama cabinet job.
I got to be the most annoying b last night by reminding her I've seen her favorite painting in person in Zurich, as one does
It's my favorite day of the year: happy public domain day!
web.law.duke.edu/cspd/publicd...
Including an Agatha Christie, King of Jazz, an assortment of sound recordings, AND one of my all time favorite paintings. ♥️💙💛
web.law.duke.edu/cspd/publicd...
Including an Agatha Christie, King of Jazz, an assortment of sound recordings, AND one of my all time favorite paintings. ♥️💙💛
Public Domain Day 2026 | Duke University School of Law
January 1, 2026 is Public Domain Day: Works from 1930 are open to all, as are sound recordings from 1925! By Jennifer Jenkins and James Boyle[1] CC BY 4.0 Please note that this site is only about US l...
web.law.duke.edu
January 1, 2026 at 4:56 PM
I got to be the most annoying b last night by reminding her I've seen her favorite painting in person in Zurich, as one does
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It's my favorite day of the year: happy public domain day!
web.law.duke.edu/cspd/publicd...
Including an Agatha Christie, King of Jazz, an assortment of sound recordings, AND one of my all time favorite paintings. ♥️💙💛
web.law.duke.edu/cspd/publicd...
Including an Agatha Christie, King of Jazz, an assortment of sound recordings, AND one of my all time favorite paintings. ♥️💙💛
Public Domain Day 2026 | Duke University School of Law
January 1, 2026 is Public Domain Day: Works from 1930 are open to all, as are sound recordings from 1925! By Jennifer Jenkins and James Boyle[1] CC BY 4.0 Please note that this site is only about US l...
web.law.duke.edu
January 1, 2026 at 5:47 AM
It's my favorite day of the year: happy public domain day!
web.law.duke.edu/cspd/publicd...
Including an Agatha Christie, King of Jazz, an assortment of sound recordings, AND one of my all time favorite paintings. ♥️💙💛
web.law.duke.edu/cspd/publicd...
Including an Agatha Christie, King of Jazz, an assortment of sound recordings, AND one of my all time favorite paintings. ♥️💙💛
I'm told you all like it when I wear a bold red lip
January 1, 2026 at 2:11 AM
I'm told you all like it when I wear a bold red lip
Oh no, this must be just a shadow, a mere specter of Juniper's threat to come
Making this a
Phantom Menace
😎 YEEEAAAAHHHHHHHHHH
Making this a
Phantom Menace
😎 YEEEAAAAHHHHHHHHHH
and I have not yet begun to menace
December 30, 2025 at 5:21 PM
Oh no, this must be just a shadow, a mere specter of Juniper's threat to come
Making this a
Phantom Menace
😎 YEEEAAAAHHHHHHHHHH
Making this a
Phantom Menace
😎 YEEEAAAAHHHHHHHHHH
I shouted/asked Al Gore if he wanted to go get cheeseburgers after a political rally for Jennifer Granholm in 2002
He looked at me like he heard me, but didn't seem to consider it very long
He looked at me like he heard me, but didn't seem to consider it very long
Quote this with your most minor celebrity interaction
In undergrad, I volunteered to work a film festival and ended up as serving staff for Ian McKellen one night. I brought him crab cakes, he asked to get them warmed up.
Somewhere there's a very awkward picture of us together about 9 years pre-E
In undergrad, I volunteered to work a film festival and ended up as serving staff for Ian McKellen one night. I brought him crab cakes, he asked to get them warmed up.
Somewhere there's a very awkward picture of us together about 9 years pre-E
Please Quote this with your most minor celebrity interaction
Ran face-to-face into Frankie Munoz boarding the plane home from my FFS. I saw a minor celeb. He saw a woman who looked like she'd lost a fight with a lawnmower. Neither of us knew what to do. We just stared at each other for a bit.
Ran face-to-face into Frankie Munoz boarding the plane home from my FFS. I saw a minor celeb. He saw a woman who looked like she'd lost a fight with a lawnmower. Neither of us knew what to do. We just stared at each other for a bit.
December 30, 2025 at 3:39 PM
I shouted/asked Al Gore if he wanted to go get cheeseburgers after a political rally for Jennifer Granholm in 2002
He looked at me like he heard me, but didn't seem to consider it very long
He looked at me like he heard me, but didn't seem to consider it very long
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Started my day with electocuting my face and then went almost immediately to a wlw tamale making party
Gender is off the chart today, folks
Gender is off the chart today, folks
December 29, 2025 at 9:18 PM
Started my day with electocuting my face and then went almost immediately to a wlw tamale making party
Gender is off the chart today, folks
Gender is off the chart today, folks
More dispatches from the front lines of college access and affordability
A few times a year I host a paying for college information program, and it's almost always crickets, maybe one or two people. There's free money on the table, and we just can't reach them.
December 29, 2025 at 2:34 PM
More dispatches from the front lines of college access and affordability
Family all gone, getting baked, eating a pizza, and watching the LOTR films for the first time in a quarter century
December 29, 2025 at 1:53 AM
Family all gone, getting baked, eating a pizza, and watching the LOTR films for the first time in a quarter century
Ahahahahaha, my ridiculous maiden name continues to pay off
December 28, 2025 at 9:44 PM
Ahahahahaha, my ridiculous maiden name continues to pay off
Woke 2: this time with pride colored guns
i’m already shorting Fox and CBS in anticipation of Woke 2
December 28, 2025 at 6:56 PM
Woke 2: this time with pride colored guns
Ladies, gentlemen, and distinguished others:
We are 40 days away from the Winter Olympics
We are 40 days away from the Winter Olympics
December 28, 2025 at 6:14 PM
Ladies, gentlemen, and distinguished others:
We are 40 days away from the Winter Olympics
We are 40 days away from the Winter Olympics
The Detroit Chamber polled MI in 2024. 58% of voters believe avg student debt is about $50K. Consequently, only 8% of voters thought that a BA/BS was the "minimum to be successful in MI" and only 27% said *any college* was important to getting a good job (1/X)
www.detroitchamber.com/survey-paren...
www.detroitchamber.com/survey-paren...
December 28, 2025 at 4:18 PM
The Detroit Chamber polled MI in 2024. 58% of voters believe avg student debt is about $50K. Consequently, only 8% of voters thought that a BA/BS was the "minimum to be successful in MI" and only 27% said *any college* was important to getting a good job (1/X)
www.detroitchamber.com/survey-paren...
www.detroitchamber.com/survey-paren...
Finally have a picture of myself hung up in our house to go with all the pictures of old me (with a bonus cameo from @cantb.bsky.social)
December 28, 2025 at 12:01 AM
Finally have a picture of myself hung up in our house to go with all the pictures of old me (with a bonus cameo from @cantb.bsky.social)
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if when you hear me refer to "rural areas" you are picturing an English town with a downtown and then a bunch of single-family homes built around it in a sensible grid or whatever, you are not picturing what I'm talking about
"rural" where I'm from is not transit-soluble.nothing is next to anything
"rural" where I'm from is not transit-soluble.nothing is next to anything
December 27, 2025 at 9:52 PM
if when you hear me refer to "rural areas" you are picturing an English town with a downtown and then a bunch of single-family homes built around it in a sensible grid or whatever, you are not picturing what I'm talking about
"rural" where I'm from is not transit-soluble.nothing is next to anything
"rural" where I'm from is not transit-soluble.nothing is next to anything
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American rural areas are just abandoned farmhouses\active meth labs with a haunted general store only staffed on Halloween nights by an old man whose simply says he’s been running the place since “the war”
European rural areas have a train station stop and regular service
European rural areas have a train station stop and regular service
December 27, 2025 at 9:58 PM
American rural areas are just abandoned farmhouses\active meth labs with a haunted general store only staffed on Halloween nights by an old man whose simply says he’s been running the place since “the war”
European rural areas have a train station stop and regular service
European rural areas have a train station stop and regular service
Hell yes, I figured out both the intro /outro riff and the galloping triplets on my bass for The Trooper
December 27, 2025 at 6:42 AM
Hell yes, I figured out both the intro /outro riff and the galloping triplets on my bass for The Trooper
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Bond: chucks a bar of gold
Me: "🎶Gold flinger! 🎵"
Wife: wants a divorce
Me: "🎶Gold flinger! 🎵"
Wife: wants a divorce
December 26, 2025 at 11:49 PM
Bond: chucks a bar of gold
Me: "🎶Gold flinger! 🎵"
Wife: wants a divorce
Me: "🎶Gold flinger! 🎵"
Wife: wants a divorce
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This photo of Mittens made me laugh so I decided to use it to make a mockup book cover for his memoir.
I will be representing him and expecting quite a competitive bidding war for publishing rights.
I will be representing him and expecting quite a competitive bidding war for publishing rights.
December 26, 2025 at 3:37 PM
This photo of Mittens made me laugh so I decided to use it to make a mockup book cover for his memoir.
I will be representing him and expecting quite a competitive bidding war for publishing rights.
I will be representing him and expecting quite a competitive bidding war for publishing rights.