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Dr Matt Lloyd Jones (he/him) @befriendabacterium.bsky.social · 02/06/2026

I promised myself I would actually have a first author systematic review out by my fourth (!) @eshackathon.bsky.social - so it is fitting that on today, the first day of #ESH-Norge (hosted by @drmattg.bsky.social) our preprint it published. 🎉💻 (8/n).

Picture of a lecture theatre in which Matt Grainger introduces ESH-Norge (the screen is a black screen with ESH-Norge written on it).

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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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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

Screenshot of Reddit post:

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 palm

Screenshot 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...

Screenshot of Reddit post:

r/MouseReview 2d
Is 50-60g the sweet spot? Image:
VXE R1 S

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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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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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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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Dr Matt Lloyd Jones (he/him) @befriendabacterium.bsky.social · 14/01/2026

in a flash of overconfidence in my welsh language progress, i turned my phone language to welsh and well fuck

Picture of a CAPTCHA reading “Dewiswch bob creadur a allai lochesu yn yr eitem a ddangosir yn yr enghraifft” with a picture panel variously featuring several cats and dogs lined up together, as well as a few blurry garden birds on their own.

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Dr Matt Lloyd Jones (he/him) @befriendabacterium.bsky.social · 13/01/2026

That’s why we’re helping you slow time down by ensuring that you have to work well into your 120s

Screenshot of USS pension scheme marketing material reading “The older you get, the quicker time flies” with a picture of a calendar with drawing pins on it in the background. The bottom right reads “Pension power”.

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Dr Matt Lloyd Jones (he/him) @befriendabacterium.bsky.social · 13/01/2026

DEFINE YOUR OUTCOME VARIABLE HUGH DEFINE YOUR OUTCOME VARIABLE

Screenshot of a BBC In Depth article title reading

“I spent months investigating whether gut health affects ageing - and if I could hack my gut to age better

8 hours ago
Hugh Pym
Health editor”

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Dr Matt Lloyd Jones (he/him) @befriendabacterium.bsky.social · 09/01/2026

Severely doubt the ability of sycophantic AI to passively aggressively tell me my question lacks a reproducible example, answer my question whilst implying that it wasn’t worth asking, or perform minor grammatical edits to it with the same instancy of that creepy guy with 100k rep

Screenshot of Stack Overflow notification:

“Al Assist
Dec 4, 2025 at 18:01

New: Al Assist is now on Stack Overflow!

Start a chat to get instant answers grounded in Stack Overflow and Stack Exchange expertise.”

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Dr Matt Lloyd Jones (he/him) @befriendabacterium.bsky.social · 08/01/2026

Channel 4 taking it upon themselves to solve all your health problems in the first week of January, one quack at a time

Screenshot of TV Guide for Channel 4 for Monday 5th January, showing 8pm programme: "Protein: Everything You Need to Know
From protein pitfalls to considered choices, Gemma Atkinson, Dr Jack Mosley and Lucy Watson cut through the hype to discover the truth about the consumer health obsession."

Screenshot of TV Guide for Channel 4 for Tuesday 6th January, showing 8pm programme: "What Not to Eat: Professor Tim Spector and Dr Kandi Ejiofor help us navigate the world of ultra-processed foods and understand what effect they have on our bodies."

Screenshot of TV Guide for Channel 4 for Thursday 8th January, showing 8pm programme: "Live Well With The Drug-Free Doctor: Can you overcome a chronic condition without medication? Dr Rangan Chatterjee investigates the UK’s dependency on medication and explores how lifestyle changes can help to promote wellbeing.
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Dr Matt Lloyd Jones (he/him) @befriendabacterium.bsky.social · 07/01/2026

Whoever works for this shipper really hates requesting labels

Screenshot from tracking page showing information for a package, with the last update reading:

“02/01/2026 18:51
Ready to Ship
FML label requested”

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Dr Matt Lloyd Jones (he/him) @befriendabacterium.bsky.social · 31/12/2025

Always enjoy that even the most cutting edge space technology often looks like some shit they made on Blue Peter in the 80s

Screenshot of a BBC News article titled “UK company sends factory with 1,000C furnace into
space”. The image shows what looks like a big box covered in orange tin foil with random things stuck to it in no apparent order, sitting on a big cylinder poorly wrapped in translucent gift wrap, barely secured on with a big yellow metal cable tie.

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Dr Matt Lloyd Jones (he/him) @befriendabacterium.bsky.social · 17/12/2025

I know it’s nice to be transparent and all but

Screenshot from bottom of article reading: “For this story, Fortune used generative Al to help with an initial draft. An editor verified the accuracy of the information before publishing.”

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Dr Matt Lloyd Jones (he/him) @befriendabacterium.bsky.social · 17/12/2025

They actually changed it web.archive.org/web/20251001... web.archive.org/web/20251217...

Screenshot of the FCC homepage from October 1st describing the FCC as "An independent U.S. government agency overseen by Congress" (I've highlighted "independent".

Screenshot of the FCC homepage from 17 December describing the FCC as "An U.S. government agency overseen by Congress".

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Dr Matt Lloyd Jones (he/him) @befriendabacterium.bsky.social · 09/12/2025

would you like to learn handshake including perfect hand placement yes then book appointment on handshake

Picture of a poster with a man in a blue shirt and waistcoat with a beard appearing to mentor someone in the foreground. The text reads:

“Handshake

Placements Support
Book 1:1 appointments on Handshake

University of Exeter
Career Zone

[Picture of a QR code]
bit.ly/PlacementsHandshake”

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Dr Matt Lloyd Jones (he/him) @befriendabacterium.bsky.social · 08/12/2025

Don’t get jealous just because you are Maxwell Udoh’s 96th biggest fan.

Screenshot of TIDAL Remix reel with a circle-cropped picture of a sharp dressed smiling Black man with a 70s moustache in a shiny jacket on a red background. Text below reads “You are Maxwell Udoh's 95th biggest fan”

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Dr Matt Lloyd Jones (he/him) @befriendabacterium.bsky.social · 03/12/2025

My Spotify Wrapped sure is weird this year #SpotifyWrapped

$Infographic from nothanks_app on Instagram. Black and green spotify branding with a pic of Gerard Way reading: “NO! THANKS BOYCOTT Spotity Pennies for Artists, Billions for Spotify Spotify pays artists fractions of a cent per play (around SO.003-$0.005 per stream), which is barely $3k-$5k for a million streams before labels take their cut. On top of that, Spotify is raising the subscription price and pushing Al-generated music, cutting into real artists' livelihoods even more. Artists like My Chemical Romance, Run the Jewels, Bikini Kill, and King Gizzard have already quit Spotily, refusing to let their art fuel exploitation and injustice.”$

Infographic from Statista showing entitled “Music-Streaming: Who Pays Best? Gross payout to labels per stream by selected streaming services”. It is a bar graph showing that of ten streaming platforms Spotify is third from the bottom in terms of pays per stream, payjng $0.00134. TIDAL is third paying $0.01284 per stream. Rhapsody second at $0.01682. Xbox Music is top playing $0.02730 per stream. Also shows market share on a pie chart showing Spotify has 47.8% of the market whilst Tidal has 0.5% for example!

Post from Indivisible. Green and black Spotify colours infographic reading: “GET ICE OUT OF Spotify ICE DOESN'T NEED A PLAYLIST. IT NEEDS ACCOUNTABILITY. • Cancel your Spotify Premium subscription until Spotify removes all ICE ads • Demand Spotify immediately terminate all ICE and DHS advertising contracts. • Urge artists and podcasters to speak out.”

Post from hughfuchsen on Insta. White text on black background reading: “Spotify's founder, Daniel Ek, is investing in weapons technology. He recently led a €600 million ($1.075 billion AUD) investment in a company called Helsing, which builds artificial intelligence for military use - including drones, fighter jets, and submarines.”

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Dr Matt Lloyd Jones (he/him) @befriendabacterium.bsky.social · 26/11/2025

I see Shark are making vacuum cleaners for your face now ok

Screenshot of Shark website with their Shark FacialPro Glow Glow-Boosting At Home Facial System advertised priced at £249.99 (reduced from £299.99). Picture is a woman running a handheld device over her face - it is a plastic rectangular machine with a spongey nozzle that appears to suck dirt off your face...

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Dr Matt Lloyd Jones (he/him) @befriendabacterium.bsky.social · 22/11/2025

Good to see Kenny McClean has been signed to the Ministry of Defence

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Dr Matt Lloyd Jones (he/him) @befriendabacterium.bsky.social · 22/11/2025

I had to see it to believe it. They make you chase it down in a supplementary PDF file too, like a disappointing treasure hunt. Peak.

Screenshot of Supplementary PDF file from paper in which Data availability statement is contained. It reads:

“Data Sharing Statement
Wong. Caffeinated Coffee Consumption or Abstinence to Reduce Atrial Fibrillation. JAMA.
Published November 09, 2025. doi:10.1001/jama.2025.21056

Data
Additional Information: ClinicalTrials.gov, https://linicaltrials.gov/study/NCT05121519,
NCT05121519

Data available: No”

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Dr Matt Lloyd Jones (he/him) @befriendabacterium.bsky.social · 19/11/2025

sir you do know trying to bribe an ebay customer with haribo starmix is an offence, right?

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Dr Matt Lloyd Jones (he/him) @befriendabacterium.bsky.social · 11/11/2025

Love these Buzzfeed investigative journalism pieces

Screenshot of search engine search result from poison.org web page titled “I Swallowed Liquid From a COVID-19
Test Kit”

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Dr Matt Lloyd Jones (he/him) @befriendabacterium.bsky.social · 03/11/2025

One of my favourite things to do to entertain myself on days when doing research seems like an absolute drag is to ironically drink from this mug I found in a charity shop.

Tired (but handsome) looking (young) man drinking from a mug with the words “LIVE LOVE
RESEARCH” printed on it.

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Dr Matt Lloyd Jones (he/him) @befriendabacterium.bsky.social · 29/10/2025

IS THAT WHAT THIS LOCAL GUY I TOOK A SNEAKY PIC OF ONCE IS

Picture of a portly little husky/corgi-type dog tied to a bike rack outside a building, waiting eagerly for his owner to return

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Dr Matt Lloyd Jones (he/him) @befriendabacterium.bsky.social · 23/07/2025

Stack Overflow's new beginner-friendly chat room is going well I see

Screenshot of Stack Overflow alert saying 'New: A beginner-friendly chat room for Stack Overflow. Instant conversations, no matter your reputation score."

Screenshot of conversation in the 'beginner-friendly forum'. One user asks 'hi can anyone [sic] here worked on graphql fusion?'. Another sarcastically responds 'And if they have, does that answer your question? Don't ask to ask, just ask.'

The same sarcastic user responds to another user 'Your code is difficult to read; it will make it easier for others if you submit it as fixed font.'. Another joins in 'this is difficult to understand'.

The same sarcy user responds again 'We didn't need the non-code in the code too, but better, yes'.

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Dr Matt Lloyd Jones (he/him) @befriendabacterium.bsky.social · 03/04/2025

Canada: We’re retaliating. EU: We’re retaliating UK: WE’RE MAKING A LIST

Screenshot of BBC News headline: “UK draws up list of
US products it could hit with tariffs”

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Dr Matt Lloyd Jones (he/him) @befriendabacterium.bsky.social · 21/03/2025

Great to take part in the Taff Tidy/Taf Taclus today! Lot of junk cleared from our dirty ole riverside which is looking a lot better now. Stay tuned to see if we beat the world record attempt for largest river clean but who cares really (ok maybe a bit) #TAFFTIDY #TAFTACLUS

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Dr Matt Lloyd Jones (he/him) @befriendabacterium.bsky.social · 14/03/2025

Early version of my accepted article was made available online last night and I already have been nominated for 'Best Researcher Award' by three organisations. Unfortunately the National Egg & Poultry Awards have not been so forthcoming and are only asking whether I could win Innovation of the Year.

Screenshot of junk email folder with two emails titled Research Awards from apparently different organisations, one email titled Cognitive Awards from another apparently different organisation, and one email from the National Egg & Poultry Awards.

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