Sarah-Jane (SJ) Murray ✓

@SJ_Murray · Austin, TX · joined 29 Jul 2009

Ancient Wisdom, Modern Science. Founder @greatsstorylab, Prof @Baylor/ PhD @Princeton. EMMY-nominee & Digital Humanist. Words in @nytimes @ctmagazine @curamag

62 938Followers

8 123Following

46 640Posts total

335.4KViews on collected posts

Latest posts

Sarah-Jane (SJ) Murray ✓@SJ_Murray15 Sep

Every week, Celebrate Tuesday is a cause of great joy and excitement to me. This week, I’m celebrating @lukeburgis across all of my socials! Have you read Luke’s latest book — The One and the Ninety-Nine? If not, you’re in for a treat! You may also know him through his first http

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Sarah-Jane (SJ) Murray ✓@SJ_Murray14 Sep

Highly recommend checking out @daviddesteno and his podcast! New season begins next week. 1.2K views · 11 likes · 0 reposts · 3 replies Open on X →

Sarah-Jane (SJ) Murray ✓@SJ_Murray13 Sep

Take a deep breath in today. Life isn’t short. We just let a lot of it pass us by. 🐝 https://t.co/hsWX1ZO9VZ

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Sarah-Jane (SJ) Murray ✓@SJ_Murray13 Sep

How God Works is back with an all new season starting next week! We'll be tackling some big issues - from faith & economic inequality, to what the founding fathers really thought religion's role should be in public life, to what many get wrong about finding purpose in life @prx h

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Sarah-Jane (SJ) Murray ✓@SJ_Murray12 Sep

This is so true! 1.8K views · 7 likes · 1 reposts · 1 replies Open on X →

Sarah-Jane (SJ) Murray ✓@SJ_Murray10 Aug

I want to reiterate my thanks to my editor at @nytopinion, James Ryerson, for giving this piece a place in the lineup and encouraging me to focus on my personal “one idea a day” practice! 6.2K views · 10 likes · 0 reposts · 0 replies Open on X →

Sarah-Jane (SJ) Murray ✓@SJ_Murray9 Aug

@SJ_Murray Such a great piece. As a former monk once told me: “We train the mind in distractedness or non-distractedness.” I fear that what social media/scrolling has done to our attention spans, AI will do to our critical thinking. We need to look after our mind more than ever. 8.8K views · 27 likes · 3 reposts · 1 replies Open on X →

Sarah-Jane (SJ) Murray ✓@SJ_Murray9 Aug

One month ago today, this little article came out. I had no idea just how much it would upend my daily life. I’m deeply grateful to simple practices like ten minutes of daily reading when the world spins too fast to help us find our way back to center. With gratitude to everyone 313.5K views · 1.2K likes · 100 reposts · 23 replies Open on X →

Against accounts of the same size

8 posts from the last 90 days, next to the 10K–100K follower range. ordinary reach for its size, weaker reaction than most.

Median views1 672this account937median for 10K–100K

Reach, %2.66%this account3.44%median for 10K–100K

Engagement, %0.61%this account1.55%median for 10K–100K

Metric	This account	Median for 10K–100K	Ratio
Median views per post	1 672	937	1.78×
Reach (views ÷ followers)	2.66%	3.44%	0.77×
Engagement rate	0.61%	1.55%	0.39×

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Growth & engagement

How the posts we collected actually performed: views and reaction rate post by post, what the audience did with them, and where the follower count goes.

Views per post

313.5K9 Aug

8.8K

6.2K10 Aug

1.8K12 Sep

1.5K13 Sep

884

1.2K14 Sep

1.4K15 Sep

Last 8 collected posts, oldest on the left. The scale is logarithmic: one post can outrun the rest a hundred times over.

Engagement rate per post

0.41%9 Aug

0.35%

0.16%10 Aug

0.49%12 Sep

0.72%13 Sep

2.04%

1.19%14 Sep

1.67%15 Sep

Reactions — likes, reposts, replies and quotes — divided by views. Median for 10K–100K accounts is 1.55%.

What the audience does

Likes39.6%1 238 in total

Reposts3.5%111 in total

Replies1.3%40 in total

Quotes0.5%17 in total

Bookmarks55.0%1 721 in total

Share of every reaction we collected for this account. Replies mean argument, reposts mean endorsement, bookmarks mean the post was worth keeping.

The follower curve appears once this account has two daily snapshots — we take one a day, and this one is on its first.