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Dr Matt Lloyd Jones (he/him)

@befriendabacterium.bsky.social
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Researcher interested in evidence synthesis and other evidence-based things, most often to do with microbes (e.g. veterinary microbiology in livestock, pollution in bathing waters). Associate Research Fellow at University of Exeter Dw i'n dysgu Cymraeg 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿

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Nahel Belgherze @wxnb.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
Paris, the capital of France, has recorded more days above 40°C this week than during the 147-year period spanning from 1872 to 2019. Historic is an understatement.
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Community for Rigor @comm4rigor.bsky.social · 09/06/2026
📢 FREE webinar - Doing Good Science When Resources are Limited Thursday, June 11, 2026 12:00 pm ET Zoom Meeting There's still time to register! 🔗 RSVP at bit.ly/4vj8tAB
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Dr Matt Lloyd Jones (he/him) @befriendabacterium.bsky.social · 04/06/2026
A great loss www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Marjane Satrapi: Oscar-nominated Persepolis author and director dies aged 56
The French-Iranian author and illustrator was known for her graphic novel series and Oscar-nominated film.
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Julianna 💎 @batariangal.eurosky.social · 02/06/2026
Red Wall discourse has so clouded Labour’s mind that they’re sleepwalking into doing to university towns what Thatcher did to mining towns
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Dr Matt Lloyd Jones (he/him) @befriendabacterium.bsky.social · 02/06/2026
🚨 PREPRINT 🚨 In our systematic review and meta-analysis, we tackle a challenging evidence base to show that administering antibiotics to beef cattle increases the abundance of antibiotic resistance determinants (bacteria and resistance genes) during and after antibiotic administration 💊🐂 (1/n).
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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 21/05/2026
AOC: This is what drinking water in Georgia looks like after Meta began data center construction in the community.
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Dr Matt Lloyd Jones (he/him) @befriendabacterium.bsky.social · 30/04/2026
Getting increasingly fucked off by scientist's willingness to use AI to make project logos, scicomm illustrations etc. Although our budgets are being slashed, they are still so humungous compared to the arts that we can afford to cost in and pay real artists for this in our grants, and should.
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Dr Matt Lloyd Jones (he/him) @befriendabacterium.bsky.social · 30/04/2026
less sandpits and networks more jobs plz
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Pookleblinky @pookleblinky.bsky.social · 27/04/2026
The series finale of Dinosaurs was an emotionally brutal reflection on corporate greed and climate change, the entire family accepting the grim inevitability of death due to a handful of rich assholes making life for everyone else literally impossible. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Changin...
en.wikipedia.org
Changing Nature - Wikipedia
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Dr Matt Lloyd Jones (he/him) @befriendabacterium.bsky.social · 27/04/2026
There are some people you can consistently rely on to provide reassurance when you need them. Yesterday it was my parents when I was doubting myself about scaling a ladder*, today it was @asanchez-tojar.bsky.social when I was doubting myself about meta-analysis. Keep them close, whoever they are 👍
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Dr Matt Lloyd Jones (he/him) @befriendabacterium.bsky.social · 23/04/2026
sure glad i didnt apply for that job at uk biobank now www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
bbc.co.uk
UK Biobank health data listed for sale in China, government confirms
The government said medical data of 500,000 people was affected but no personally identifiable information had been made available.
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Amy @amylibrarian.bsky.social · 10/04/2026
Is there a polymarket for predicting status changes (expression of concern, erratum, correction, retraction)? At the least there will be PubPeer posts #QRPVibes
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Dr Matt Lloyd Jones (he/him) @befriendabacterium.bsky.social · 01/04/2026
Increasingly convinced people like to use AI to review their papers and grant applications to avoid getting offended by comments left by an actual person
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Dr Matt Lloyd Jones (he/him) @befriendabacterium.bsky.social · 24/03/2026
distributed peer review
Version of the 'Yo Dawg' meme reading "Yo dawg, I heard you like grant applications...so I put several grant applications in your grant application so you can review them for me as part of your grant application"
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Dr Matt Lloyd Jones (he/him) @befriendabacterium.bsky.social · 13/03/2026
It is kind of galling that running citation() in R doesn't give you a citation/bibliography entry with the R version you're currently using
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Dr Matt Lloyd Jones (he/him) @befriendabacterium.bsky.social · 12/03/2026
He must be massive
Screenshot of BBC News headline reading “LIVE:
Iran's new supreme leader vows to keep blocking Strait of Hormuz in first statement released by regime.”. Picture is of new Supreme Leader Mojtaba Khamenei on the right with a burned out oil tanker on the left.
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Jonathan Tonkin @jdtonkin.bsky.social · 11/03/2026
😱🤯 -- Just looked up the cost to go gold open access at Nature Eco Evo: US$12850! That's $21,600 NZD. That's the same cost as a Royal Society Master's Scholarship! This has gone too far. Absolutely bonkers.
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Brian Bilston @brianbilston.bsky.social · 11/03/2026
Principles of Boogie Management.
Principles of Boogie Management
 
 
Don't blame it on the sunshine
Don't blame it on the moonlight
Don't blame it on the good times 
 
Establish a collaborative working environment
coupled with individual accountability
to prevent a blame culture
from developing in the first place




Brian Bilston
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Dr Matt Lloyd Jones (he/him) @befriendabacterium.bsky.social · 11/03/2026
Keir Starmer would've banned this sooner, but he thought this was a pro AI rally when he first glanced at his briefing documents.
Screenshot of BBC News headline “Al Quds Day march to be banned after government approves Met request”. Image is of police in what looks like Westminster moving on a man with shades on wearing a keffiyeh as a balaclava to cover rest of his face.
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Berna Devezer @devezer.bsky.social · 09/03/2026
meta-meta-metascience study meta-analyzing comparisons between multiverse analyses on full specifications retrieved from many analyst datasets to many-analyst results when
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Margot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 09/03/2026
'The systems now being woven into education are shaped by a remarkably small group of people. Not “the internet” as the source of training material. Not “society” influencing the way we use these tools.' Fascinating that this comes from within Jisc. 1/3
wonkhe.com
The choices universities and colleges make about AI are political
Ahead of this week's Digifest, Michael Webb and Rebecca Flook confront the complex values systems behind general purpose AI technology
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Dr Matt Lloyd Jones (he/him) @befriendabacterium.bsky.social · 04/03/2026
Imagine getting peer reviewed by Mr Perfect
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“Mr H. G. Perfect (Babtie Shaw & Morton) asked if those who participated in the epidemiological study had also swum in swimming pools, and hence might have contracted symptoms from that source rather than from swimming in the sea. He also asked if the bathing water pollution was…”
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Ailo @airavn.eurosky.social · 27/02/2026
We just published a new report on enshittification. Pretty proud of this one! www.forbrukerradet.no/news-in-engl...
forbrukerradet.no
Digital products and services are getting worse – but the trend can be reversed
A new report from the Norwegian Consumer Council shows how enshittification affects both consumers and society at large. Luckily, it‘s possible to turn the tide.
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FLAVOR FLAV ⏰ @flavorflav.bsky.social · 25/02/2026
Letz go even bigger and better,,, ALL Female US Olympians and Paralympian medalists are invited out to celebrate in Viva Las Vegas for the SHE GOT GAME Weekend ,,, Hit a guy up and LETZ GOOO
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Laura Dee @lauradee.bsky.social · 24/02/2026
Excited to share our new paper in @natcomms.nature.com We synthesize causal discovery & inference approaches across traditions (regression adjustment, quasi-expts, SEMs, Granger causality, convergent cross-mapping, and more) into a unified workflow for ecologists. www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Best practices for moving from correlation to causation in ecological research - Nature Communications
Different scientific traditions offer seemingly disparate approaches to inferring causal relationships in ecological systems. This Perspective unifies the causal assumptions and methods from...
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Nick Brown @steamtraen.eu · 13/02/2026
"While it is very interesting, I feel that your article might be better suited to a specialist journal", rock'n'roll edition.
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Citizen.Coping @propcazhpm.bsky.social · 12/02/2026
"Black Southern food is seasonal, healthy, nuanced, and rich with culture and meaning. Systemic racism in the form of food deserts, stress induced by racial terror, and medical negligence is killing us, not the food made by our people’s experienced and loving hands." #BlackSky #FoodSky 🌱
andscape.com
Black Southern food isn't killing us - Andscape
Is Black Southern cuisine — often reduced to the simple term “soul food” — unhealthy or “low-vibration“? Or is it not high blood pressure that runs in your family, but the “plate,” as actress and vega...
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Dr Matt Lloyd Jones (he/him) @befriendabacterium.bsky.social · 07/02/2026
Whenever the load seems too hard to bear, I drop into computer mouse reddit and it really puts my troubles into perspective
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r/MouseReview 9h

"big" hands
Whats the general consensus for "big" hands. I have a bit of experience in the mouse community but I stil don't know what the general community...Screenshot of Reddit post: 

18.5 by 11.1 cm hands
(straightened with all fingers touching). I used to main a deathadder v2 x hyperspeed until it died:/
So a lot of people tell me I am mad for maining a DAV 2X hyperspeed as it is a massive mouse?
However I loved the fact that it filled my palmScreenshot of Reddit post: 

r/MouseReview 1h

Which addicts are worse
mousepad addicts vs mouse addicts. I remember seeing a guy on the tekkusai discord say he took out a loan to buy more glasspads, i could not beli...

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r/MouseReview 2d
Is 50-60g the sweet spot? Image:
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depths of wikipedia @depthsofwikipedia.bsky.social · 06/02/2026
On this day in 1992, George H.W. Bush sent a memo to all White House staff about how fat his dog was
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Dr Matt Lloyd Jones (he/him) @befriendabacterium.bsky.social · 06/02/2026
Deep down in Louisiana close to New Orleans Way back up in the woods among the evergreens There stood a log cabin made of earth and wood
Screenshot of email from Google Scholar Citations titled 'Follow articles by Benjamin H Good'
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Martin Paul Eve @eve.gd · 06/02/2026
There's a joke going round software engineering circles that, soon, with AI, all that will be needed is for people to accurately describe precisely what they want in a piece of software. So: software engineering jobs are safe. It's amusing, but the state of AI coding is both alarming AND overhyped.
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Dr Matt Lloyd Jones (he/him) @befriendabacterium.bsky.social · 06/02/2026
Being an evidence synthesist often feels like you’re a dog owner who doesn’t have time to walk their own dogs, because you’re too busy picking up all the shit that other dog owners let their dogs leave all over the park
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Dr Matt Lloyd Jones (he/him) @befriendabacterium.bsky.social · 31/01/2026
Quite foreboding for a headline for an article with gardening tips
Picture of a headline with a picture of a hand holding garden pruners with headline “6 Plants To Prune In February Before
It's Too Late” from Country Living Magazine.
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Thomas [DARK MODE], DO @tom.medsky.social · 27/01/2026
Downfall Bovino Edition. You're welcome.
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Dr Matt Lloyd Jones (he/him) @befriendabacterium.bsky.social · 27/01/2026
Sly Dunbar. Absolute legend. Rest in peace. youtu.be/xu97vf_QeO8?...
youtu.be
Inner City Blues
YouTube video by Sly Dunbar - Topic
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Dr Matt Lloyd Jones (he/him) @befriendabacterium.bsky.social · 22/01/2026
Just realised Star Wars Day (May 4th) is a public holiday this year in the UK. Start of a trend?
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Dr Matt Lloyd Jones (he/him) @befriendabacterium.bsky.social · 22/01/2026
incidentally “three hares (holy trinity)” is the pet name I have for my chest hair
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Maria Bustillos @mariabustillos.com · 18/01/2026
This is the fucking limit. I had no idea that Amazon drivers AREN'T ALLOWED TO SING wat CRUSH this monopoly wtf my levels were already redlining www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...
For example, an Amazon delivery driver, who sits in a cabin surrounded by AI cameras that monitor the driver’s eyes and take points off if the driver looks in a proscribed direction, and monitors the driver’s mouth because singing is not allowed on the job, and rats the driver out to the boss if they do not make quota.
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Dr Matt Lloyd Jones (he/him) @befriendabacterium.bsky.social · 18/01/2026
thought i’d got rain in my new headphones and broken them but was relieved to find out it was an arthur russell song i’d never heard
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Darren Dahly @statsepi.bsky.social · 17/01/2026
I think that the mass enthusiasm we see around gen AI is manufactured, and I think this because it doesn't exist for renewable energy, despite it being more measurably impactful (and also technologically wonderous)
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Jerry Chen @jcsalterego.bsky.social · 17/01/2026
(carly rae jepsen voice)
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Dr Matt Lloyd Jones (he/him) @befriendabacterium.bsky.social · 17/01/2026
Protein is protein fibre is fibre neither are new and fibre has been a wellness trend since the settlement of the fucking Fertile Crescent
Screenshot of BBC News notification reading “Is fibre the new protein? The surprising health benefits of the latest wellness trend”
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Alan Stedman @alanjstedman.bsky.social · 17/01/2026
This photo was taken in 1911 using glass plate technology by Herbert Ponting who was part of Scott's Antarctic expedition, The composition and detail are exquisite with the band of white snow/ice creating a perfect frame around the two people and the ship in the distance Iconic imo
Photograph from 1911 taken by Herbert Ponting whilst with Scott's Antarctic Expedition

The monochrome photo is taken from within a cave. The walls of the cave are made of ice. The cave entrance is in the mid distance with two figures standing looking out towards a distant ship. Between them and the ship there is first a 'beach' of ice before the sea itself. The ship could be up to 800 metres away

What makes the photo so special is that where the figures are at the cave entrance there is a band of very white snow and ice (contrasting with the comparatively dark inside of the cave) that creates a stark framework in which the men and the ship are captured. It is made even more dramatic by the fact that the cave entrance is at least 30 metres high and is in the shape of a distorted elipse with the tail sloping off to the right at the top of the elipse

The photo being in monochrome in a largely white environment makes the photographers skill all the more laudable
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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 16/01/2026
The best videos of ICE agents eating shit in the brutal Minneapolis winter
gizmodo.com
The Best Videos of ICE Busting Their Asses in the Brutal Minneapolis Winter
Watch out for that ice, you fascist clowns.
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Vintage Obscura Radio @vintageobscura.net · 16/01/2026
Stephen Cheng - Always Together [China, Rocksteady] (~1967) redd.it/27dfl7 youtu.be/QgPTgq-rN3U
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Stephen Cheng - Always Together [China, Rocksteady] (~1967)
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Lorenzo Fabbri @epilorenzo.bsky.social · 15/01/2026
🚨Finally on #CRAN!! 🔗 cran.r-project.org/web/packages... #rstats
Screenshot of the CRAN webpage for my R package orcidtr.
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Matt Massarella-Gill @3788mg.bsky.social · 15/01/2026
Heard a lad earlier talking about ‘Belgian whistles’ “A basic website costs 10k or 25k upwards if you want all the Belgian whistles” BELGIAN WHISTLES
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Dr Matt Lloyd Jones (he/him) @befriendabacterium.bsky.social · 15/01/2026
In an academia where scientists’ willingness to get in front of a camera is increasingly valued over their actual science skills, can I just say how refreshing it is to receive a departmental email titled “Media request” that is just someone asking for some MacConkey agar
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Dan Kaszeta FRHistS @dankaszeta.bsky.social · 14/01/2026
Since the dumbasses in Washington think Greenland is bigger than it really is, it seems appropriate to re-post this: xkcd.com/977/
xkcd.com
Map Projections
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Robin Ince @robinince.bsky.social · 14/01/2026
When I was a freelance BBC science presenter, I wrote in support of Professor Dorothy Bishop and was then told I should not be critical of the Royal Society. Now I’ve resigned, so I can say I think @profrachelgan.bsky.social is making an important point here.
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