Matt Hodgkinson @mattjhodgkinson.scicomm.xyz.ap.brid.gy · 24/03/2026[Antisemitism, conspiracy theories] "False flag attack now a significant possibility. Just like the drone that hit Cyprus, just like the missile attack on Diego Garcia." That is how train travel expert The Man in Seat 61 responded to the arson attack on the […] [Original post on scicomm.xyz] 000 0
Matt Hodgkinson @mattjhodgkinson.scicomm.xyz.ap.brid.gy · 20/02/2026[UKpol, fact check] Fact check: Suella Braveman didn't say "The working class has had it too good for too long". I have no time for her politics or Reform, but the fake quote stems from a tweet that puts those words into her mouth while sharing an interview she […] [Original post on scicomm.xyz] 000 0
Matt Hodgkinson @mattjhodgkinson.scicomm.xyz.ap.brid.gy · 20/01/2026[Festivals] From their Facebook page: Strawberry Fair 2026 is back and out of this world Celebrating our 51st year as a volunteer-run celebration of music, arts and community in Cambridge. In 2026, we’re marking this milestone with an “Area 51” theme. Join us […] [Original post on scicomm.xyz] 020 2
Matt Hodgkinson @mattjhodgkinson.scicomm.xyz.ap.brid.gy · 11/01/2026An #OldTweet by @paulcoxon from 9 years ago. #SciComm #ScienceJokes #NatureJournal 011 1
Matt Hodgkinson @mattjhodgkinson.scicomm.xyz.ap.brid.gy · 06/01/2026Right-wing anti-environmental propaganda has many politicians fooled into thinking the public don't support climate action. www.theguardian.com/environment/202… #ClimateChange #ClimateAction […] [Original post on scicomm.xyz] 079 9
Matt Hodgkinson @mattjhodgkinson.scicomm.xyz.ap.brid.gy · 06/01/2026I found a fake Facebook page created in early December using my name and face when I was looking for some past posts I'd written. I've reported it. They're using a Colombian phone number. They used AI on my COPE photo to create the image of me posing with a pen […] [Original post on scicomm.xyz] 002 2
Matt Hodgkinson @mattjhodgkinson.scicomm.xyz.ap.brid.gy · 31/12/2025[Moon photo] The moon over Norfolk Street. #MoonHalo #NorfolkStCambridge #CambridgePhotography 010 1
Matt Hodgkinson @mattjhodgkinson.scicomm.xyz.ap.brid.gy · 29/12/2025[Cat] This cat loves: laps, bags, ... and boiling kettles?! #CatsOfMastodon #CatOnALap #CatInABag #CatBehindAKettle 000 0
Matt Hodgkinson @mattjhodgkinson.scicomm.xyz.ap.brid.gy · 22/12/2025@mrundkvist @stfn The WHGs themselves replaced Cro-Magnon descendants, and WHG had already been largely replaced by Anatolian farmers before the Steppe-derived Indo-Europeans arrived in Europe. "Western hunter-gatherer (WHG)-related ancestries are highest in […] [Original post on scicomm.xyz] 002 2
Matt Hodgkinson @mattjhodgkinson.scicomm.xyz.ap.brid.gy · 17/12/2025[UKpol] "Former Labour mayor Jamie Driscoll has joined the Green Party. Driscoll, who served five years as the elected North of Tyne mayor, described politics in Britain as "a mess" and said the party he has joined, led by Zack Polanski, was "serious about […] [Original post on scicomm.xyz] 212 2
Matt Hodgkinson @mattjhodgkinson.scicomm.xyz.ap.brid.gy · 15/12/2025@BigJackBrass Archive.org has it. archive.org/details/fakebook_the-fi… (p. 623) 010 1
Matt Hodgkinson @mattjhodgkinson.scicomm.xyz.ap.brid.gy · 13/12/2025I'd not heard of Fengkai Group before I saw their LinkedIn advert. They're offering paid positions to be a guest editor for special issues in SCI- and Ei Compendex-indexed journals (the latter is Elsevier's engineering index). That's weird, I thought. Csaba […] [Original post on scicomm.xyz] 011 1
Matt Hodgkinson @mattjhodgkinson.scicomm.xyz.ap.brid.gy · 04/12/2025Here's a blog post by @serhii & @Maryna_Nazarovets that I commissioned, lightly edited, and made a figure for, on how university journals can avoid having too narrow networks […] [Original post on scicomm.xyz] 020 2
Matt Hodgkinson @mattjhodgkinson.scicomm.xyz.ap.brid.gy · 03/12/2025[Ukraine-Russia war] The long-anticipated fall of Ukraine’s Pokrovsk is a symbolic victory for Russia, but the town is shattered and only gained at the cost of hundreds of thousands of Russian casualties. How much longer can they keep cranking the meat grinder? […] [Original post on scicomm.xyz] 000 0
Matt Hodgkinson @mattjhodgkinson.scicomm.xyz.ap.brid.gy · 01/12/2025[Class, politics] On a post about Thatcher resigning after the Poll Tax protests. #ClassPolitics #WorkingClass #MiddleClass #LabourEconomics 010 1
Matt Hodgkinson @mattjhodgkinson.scicomm.xyz.ap.brid.gy · 07/11/2025@briannosek.bsky.social Ahem. It has over 3000 citations. 150 5
Matt Hodgkinson @mattjhodgkinson.scicomm.xyz.ap.brid.gy · 28/09/2025[Running, selfie] The best time to find out you've got the beginnings of a cold is certainly not a few hundred metres into a 10K run, when you suddenly find it difficult to breath. I struggled to my finish in 53:47 in Grantchester this morning, stopping after […] [Original post on scicomm.xyz] 000 0
Matt Hodgkinson @mattjhodgkinson.scicomm.xyz.ap.brid.gy · 27/09/2025[Running] My finish in the Cheltenham Half Marathon last weekend, raising money for Sue Ryder. www.justgiving.com/page/matt-hodgki… #HalfMarathon #CharityRun #SueRyder #RunningUK #Cheltenham 001 1
Matt Hodgkinson @mattjhodgkinson.scicomm.xyz.ap.brid.gy · 22/09/2025[Running] I ran the Run Cheltenham Half Marathon yesterday to raise money for Sue Ryder and, in perfect conditions, I got my second fastest time at 1:45:47. Copious jelly babies from spectators helped! It's not too late to donate […] [Original post on scicomm.xyz] 000 0
Matt Hodgkinson @mattjhodgkinson.scicomm.xyz.ap.brid.gy · 04/09/2025Wake up, babe, new COPE guidelines just dropped! Version 3 of the Retraction guidelines and brand new Expression of Concern guidelines are out now. I co-authored the long-awaited EoC guidelines and v.2 of the Retraction guidelines […] [Original post on scicomm.xyz] 020 2
Matt Hodgkinson @mattjhodgkinson.scicomm.xyz.ap.brid.gy · 22/08/2025[Running] One month until I run my next half marathon, raising money for Sue Ryder, the end-of-life and grief support charity. I got a new running watch as the one I sent back was irreparable. I managed a quick short run today, hitting 4:19 min/km over the […] [Original post on scicomm.xyz] 001 1
Matt Hodgkinson @mattjhodgkinson.scicomm.xyz.ap.brid.gy · 19/07/2025[Caturday appeal] This is my cat's brother, a lovely 12-year-old chonk who is now very poorly. My neighbours are raising money for his treatment. "Our beautiful cat Çiya has become very ill and we are all heartbroken. After initial scans, blood tests and X-rays […] [Original post on scicomm.xyz] 020 2
Matt Hodgkinson @mattjhodgkinson.scicomm.xyz.ap.brid.gy · 18/07/2025[Left-wing politics] Got myself banned from r/GreenAndPleasant after a few months for explaining why someone on the left might not celebrate the Russian invasion of Ukraine. It turns out that their version of UK left unity only applies to tankies. #UKpol #Reddit #Tankies #RussianInvasion 031 3
Matt Hodgkinson @mattjhodgkinson.scicomm.xyz.ap.brid.gy · 15/07/2025Damian Pattinson of @eLife (and my former boss at PLOS ONE) at The Royal Society's Future of Scientific Publishing conference describes the devastating effect on their submissions of Clarivate removing their Impact Factor due to their change in peer review model […] [Original post on scicomm.xyz] 100 1
Matt Hodgkinson @mattjhodgkinson.scicomm.xyz.ap.brid.gy · 05/07/2025A decade later, this drivel is unretracted by Elsevier. #Elsevier #PublicationEthics #ProgressInBiophysicsAndMolecularBiology #OttoRossler #Autism #CrackpotTheories #Elephants #Pseudoscience 010 1
Matt Hodgkinson @mattjhodgkinson.scicomm.xyz.ap.brid.gy · 05/07/2025[Running for charity] I've been a runner for 7 years! My next challenge is running the Cheltenham Half Marathon in September for Sue Ryder - the first time I've run a race in my home town since school sports day! Sponsor me at […] [Original post on scicomm.xyz] 000 0
Matt Hodgkinson @mattjhodgkinson.scicomm.xyz.ap.brid.gy · 05/06/2025[Israel-Gaza war] “The individuals were moving towards forces in a way that posed a threat to them.” www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2… #UncleJimbo […] [Original post on scicomm.xyz] 000 0
Matt Hodgkinson @mattjhodgkinson.scicomm.xyz.ap.brid.gy · 03/06/2025My Mastodon timeline is divided over AI. #AItools #LLMs #ChatBots 010 1
Matt Hodgkinson @mattjhodgkinson.scicomm.xyz.ap.brid.gy · 01/06/2025Publishing shouldn't be a Kafka novel! Editorial offices need to sort themselves out. One problem is outsourcing to companies that use undertrained staff working from inflexible scripts. #JournalPublishing #JournalEditing #EditorialOffices #EditorialScreening #AcademicPublishing #Kafkaesque 050 5
Matt Hodgkinson @mattjhodgkinson.scicomm.xyz.ap.brid.gy · 30/05/2025[Liverpool crash, misinformation] There's an image circulating that's supposed to be the driver of the car driven into the Liverpool parade. While the left panel seems to be a screencap of a video still, the right panel is AI generated. Don't fall for […] [Original post on scicomm.xyz] 000 0
Matt Hodgkinson @mattjhodgkinson.scicomm.xyz.ap.brid.gy · 09/05/2025[UKpol, Greens] #GreenParty #GPEW #UKlocalGov #LocalElectionsUK #LocalElections2025 #LocalElections25 #LocalCouncils #LocalCouncillors #UKpol #UKpolitics #GreenPolitics 003 3
Matt Hodgkinson @mattjhodgkinson.scicomm.xyz.ap.brid.gy · 03/05/2025[Caturday] My cat followed me halfway to the allotment this afternoon. She won't go much further than this, only a couple of hundred metres from our house. #caturday 000 0
Matt Hodgkinson @mattjhodgkinson.scicomm.xyz.ap.brid.gy · 02/05/2025[UKpol] We now have 859 Green councillors on 181 councils - our growth is as sustainable as our policies. #GreenParty #GPEW #UKlocalGov #UKlocalElections2025 001 1
Matt Hodgkinson @mattjhodgkinson.scicomm.xyz.ap.brid.gy · 18/04/2025[USpol, immigration] ICE is holding US citizens now. Juan Carlos Lopez-Gomez was held despite presenting a birth certificate, but eventually released after protests. www.wtxl.com/news/local-news/lcso-c… […] [Original post on scicomm.xyz] 111 1
Matt Hodgkinson @mattjhodgkinson.scicomm.xyz.ap.brid.gy · 01/04/2025Engaging panel on neurodiversity in academic libraries, chaired by Josh Sendall, w/ Caroline Ball, Andrew Walsh, & Jo Fitzpatrick. Personal accounts of how tiring masking is (i.e. presenting yourself to different audiences), thinking you were depressed when you […] [Original post on scicomm.xyz] 195 9
Matt Hodgkinson @mattjhodgkinson.scicomm.xyz.ap.brid.gy · 01/04/2025For Immediate Release, April 1, 2025: University of Michigan Press will publish all of the content on Meta platforms as a series of printed books […] [Original post on scicomm.xyz] 000 0
Matt Hodgkinson @mattjhodgkinson.scicomm.xyz.ap.brid.gy · 01/04/2025My UKSG 2025 starts with Beth Bayley from Karger on their journey since deciding fo head for OA in 2018. They've "tried it all": flipping, hybrid, transformative agreements, Subscribe To Open (S20), Diamond. There's barriers to adopting each OA business model […] [Original post on scicomm.xyz] 0102 10
Matt Hodgkinson @mattjhodgkinson.scicomm.xyz.ap.brid.gy · 17/03/2025In a speech at the High Court of King Diarmaid in 6th Century Ireland, St. Columba aka Colmcille advocated for the right to copy books ~1500 years before the Budapest Open Access Initiative (Ray Corrigan, 2007 […] [Original post on scicomm.xyz] 014 4
Matt Hodgkinson @mattjhodgkinson.scicomm.xyz.ap.brid.gy · 09/03/2025Did I mention that I was running the Cambridge Half Marathon for Centre 33? And that we've raised nearly 400 quid?? And that you can still sponsor me, and your donation will be DOUBLED??? www.justgiving.com/page/matt-h-camb… Not the PB […] [Original post on scicomm.xyz] 020 2
Matt Hodgkinson @mattjhodgkinson.scicomm.xyz.ap.brid.gy · 01/03/2025From a discussion of the etymology of the word "druid" on the Indo-European Linguistics Facebook group. It's the truth, by my balls! #Linguistics #Etymology 002 2
Matt Hodgkinson @mattjhodgkinson.scicomm.xyz.ap.brid.gy · 09/02/2025One month until I run the Cambridge Half Marathon for Centre 33! Sponsor me now to help them support & counsel young people in Cambridgeshire: www.justgiving.com/page/matt-h-camb… I like to do close to the race distance during training […] [Original post on scicomm.xyz] 001 1
Matt Hodgkinson @mattjhodgkinson.scicomm.xyz.ap.brid.gy · 08/02/2025[Cats] A tale of two kitties. Left: Reşa, a black cat with a white throat dot. He hangs out in bushes and shops. Here he is at Asda's entrance. Right: Saffy, a ginger and white cat. She hangs out on shed roofs and beds. Here she is curled up on a duvet after […] [Original post on scicomm.xyz] 000 0
Matt Hodgkinson @mattjhodgkinson.scicomm.xyz.ap.brid.gy · 25/01/2025[Caturday] Wink, wink. #Caturday #GingerAndWhiteCat #Wink 000 0
Matt Hodgkinson @mattjhodgkinson.scicomm.xyz.ap.brid.gy · 21/01/2025[Running] If you would like to get into running, starting Tuesday 4 February, join the REC Beginners Series for a FREE 8-week Couch-to-5K programme - and make some new Running Events Cambridgeshire buddies! Join the Whatsapp group here […] [Original post on scicomm.xyz] 000 0
Matt Hodgkinson @mattjhodgkinson.scicomm.xyz.ap.brid.gy · 21/01/2025🐘⛽🤦 via www.facebook.com/groups/reviewer2/p… #Mistranslations #PublicationEthics #Retractions #PeerReview #ChineseTranslation #SpringerNature 001 1
Matt Hodgkinson @mattjhodgkinson.scicomm.xyz.ap.brid.gy · 18/01/2025[Word games and a cat] My birthday is off to a good start. Wordle 1,309 2/6 🟩🟨🟨⬛⬛ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 Worgle 1103 2/6 🟡🟡🟡⚫⚫🟢 🟢🟢🟢🟢🟢🟢 #Caturday #Wordle #Worgle 021 2
Matt Hodgkinson @mattjhodgkinson.scicomm.xyz.ap.brid.gy · 06/01/2025[Films] "When was Christian Bale in this?" - @SimoneChalkley, discussing the film Safety Not Guaranteed. #Mishearings #KristenBell #ChristianBale 000 0
Matt Hodgkinson @mattjhodgkinson.scicomm.xyz.ap.brid.gy · 01/01/2025[Squirrel] This windswept squirrel would like to wish you a happy New Year. #Squirrel #HappyNewYear 000 0
Matt Hodgkinson @mattjhodgkinson.scicomm.xyz.ap.brid.gy · 31/12/2024[Running] I did the Cogwheel Canter this morning in Girton; 10K in just under 50 mins. My Running Events Cambridgeshire t-shirt got its first outing. I'm a little under the weather so my throat and lungs didn't thank me, but I need to keep getting the runs in […] [Original post on scicomm.xyz] 000 0
Matt Hodgkinson @mattjhodgkinson.scicomm.xyz.ap.brid.gy · 28/12/2024[Charity running] In 2020, I ran my first half marathon for Centre 33, who provide counselling and support for young people in Cambridgeshire and Peterborough. In 2025, I'm doing it again! In 10 weeks I'm aiming to beat my PB of 1:38:00 at the Cambridge Half […] [Original post on scicomm.xyz] 000 0