Dr Matt Lloyd Jones (he/him)
@befriendabacterium.bsky.social
Researcher interested in evidence synthesis and other evidence-based things, most often to do with microbes. Currently working on projects about recreational exposure to polluted open waters and infection.
Associate Research Fellow at University of Exeter
Associate Research Fellow at University of Exeter
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Love these Buzzfeed investigative journalism pieces
November 11, 2025 at 10:15 AM
Love these Buzzfeed investigative journalism pieces
Whoever you are, Dr Dan Chalk 🫡
PenARC is proud to be part of #RPySoc2025! 🎉
🗓️ Thu 13 Nov: Dr Dan Chalk – “Total Eclipse of the Excel Chart”
🗓️ Fri 14 Nov: Sammi Rosser – “Reusable by Default”
⚡️Plus lightning talks from our brilliant #HSMA programme graduates!
🔗 bit.ly/43ZGpXq
#DataScience
🗓️ Thu 13 Nov: Dr Dan Chalk – “Total Eclipse of the Excel Chart”
🗓️ Fri 14 Nov: Sammi Rosser – “Reusable by Default”
⚡️Plus lightning talks from our brilliant #HSMA programme graduates!
🔗 bit.ly/43ZGpXq
#DataScience
RPySOC 2025: NHS-R/NHS.pycom Open Source Conference
bit.ly
November 10, 2025 at 9:29 PM
Whoever you are, Dr Dan Chalk 🫡
English Language Stack makes programming stack look like a gentlemen’s tea party english.stackexchange.com/questions/12...
What prefix means "during"?
The prefixes "pre-" and "post-" refer to events before and after. For instance, "pre-season" and "post-season" or "pre-study" and "post-study". Is there a prefix fitting this pattern which means "d...
english.stackexchange.com
November 10, 2025 at 8:13 PM
English Language Stack makes programming stack look like a gentlemen’s tea party english.stackexchange.com/questions/12...
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A week before his defence @rug.nl, the publication of @euantheyoung.bsky.social's chapter on the lifespan cost of reproduction in @science.org Advances - with @hannahdugdale.bsky.social, @lummaalab.bsky.social and myself - couldn't have been better timed! 👍 🥳 🥂https://doi.org/10.1126/sciadv.adz6422
November 10, 2025 at 12:39 PM
A week before his defence @rug.nl, the publication of @euantheyoung.bsky.social's chapter on the lifespan cost of reproduction in @science.org Advances - with @hannahdugdale.bsky.social, @lummaalab.bsky.social and myself - couldn't have been better timed! 👍 🥳 🥂https://doi.org/10.1126/sciadv.adz6422
peer review is labour and it should be paid for peer review is labour and it should be paid for peer review is labour and it should be paid for peer review is labour and it should be paid for peer review is labour and it should be paid for peer review is labour and it should be paid for
Post-publication peer review: remedy or risk for publishing?
Scholars split on merits of post hoc reviewing as answer to increasingly “unsustainable” system
www.researchprofessionalnews.com/rr-news-worl...
Scholars split on merits of post hoc reviewing as answer to increasingly “unsustainable” system
www.researchprofessionalnews.com/rr-news-worl...
Post-publication peer review: remedy or risk for publishing? - Research Professional News
Scholars split on merits of post hoc reviewing as answer to increasingly “unsustainable” system
www.researchprofessionalnews.com
November 7, 2025 at 9:59 AM
peer review is labour and it should be paid for peer review is labour and it should be paid for peer review is labour and it should be paid for peer review is labour and it should be paid for peer review is labour and it should be paid for peer review is labour and it should be paid for
Today I tried to argue for the value of a pre-registered study even with deviations, analogising that it’s easier to trust a political party that deviates from its manifesto than one that never had one. Then I realised this isn’t true and that’s why open research practices need to be mandatory.
November 5, 2025 at 7:32 PM
Today I tried to argue for the value of a pre-registered study even with deviations, analogising that it’s easier to trust a political party that deviates from its manifesto than one that never had one. Then I realised this isn’t true and that’s why open research practices need to be mandatory.
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.
November 3, 2025 at 3:26 PM
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.
Reposted by Dr Matt Lloyd Jones (he/him)
'In February, Sheffield Hallam University, home to the Helena Kennedy Centre for International Justice (HKC), a leading research institution focused on human rights, ordered one of its best-known professors, Laura Murphy, to cease research on supply chains and forced labour in China.' 1/3
UK university halted human rights research after pressure from China
Exclusive: Leading professor at Sheffield Hallam was told to cease research on supply chains and forced labour in China after demands from authorities
www.theguardian.com
November 3, 2025 at 7:44 AM
'In February, Sheffield Hallam University, home to the Helena Kennedy Centre for International Justice (HKC), a leading research institution focused on human rights, ordered one of its best-known professors, Laura Murphy, to cease research on supply chains and forced labour in China.' 1/3
stuff of nightmares
November 3, 2025 at 8:41 AM
stuff of nightmares
Reposted by Dr Matt Lloyd Jones (he/him)
reminder... activistchecklist.org/links/
Why we need to remove everything after the
Plain language steps for digital security, because protecting yourself helps keep your whole community safer. Built by activists, for activists with field-tested, community-verified guides.
activistchecklist.org
October 22, 2025 at 6:36 PM
reminder... activistchecklist.org/links/
Reposted by Dr Matt Lloyd Jones (he/him)
i said to someone that talking about AI is a little like you've hired a shitty magician to perform at your kid's birthday party and also he has a gun. like many parts of his act are a fucking farce but also he might kill you and that's not because he's a fucking ✨amazing magician✨
October 6, 2025 at 3:02 PM
i said to someone that talking about AI is a little like you've hired a shitty magician to perform at your kid's birthday party and also he has a gun. like many parts of his act are a fucking farce but also he might kill you and that's not because he's a fucking ✨amazing magician✨
Reposted by Dr Matt Lloyd Jones (he/him)
“[Critical AI literacy] is akin to knowledge of how to properly use inferential statistics and thus avoid accidentally being fooled by the results of our experiments in a flawed search for statistical significance.”
New preprint 🌟 Psychology is core to cognitive science, and so it is vital we preserve it from harmful frames. @irisvanrooij.bsky.social & I use our psych and computer science expertise to analyse and craft:
Critical Artificial Intelligence Literacy for Psychologists. doi.org/10.31234/osf...
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Critical Artificial Intelligence Literacy for Psychologists. doi.org/10.31234/osf...
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October 5, 2025 at 4:30 PM
“[Critical AI literacy] is akin to knowledge of how to properly use inferential statistics and thus avoid accidentally being fooled by the results of our experiments in a flawed search for statistical significance.”
In my gym they put videos of people doing CrossFit and Hyrox on the TV. I wouldn’t go to the pub expecting videos of people drinking pints on the TV. In the pub they put on videos of people playing sport. So it follows that in the gym they should put on videos of people drinking pints, if anything.
October 5, 2025 at 10:22 AM
In my gym they put videos of people doing CrossFit and Hyrox on the TV. I wouldn’t go to the pub expecting videos of people drinking pints on the TV. In the pub they put on videos of people playing sport. So it follows that in the gym they should put on videos of people drinking pints, if anything.
Oh no I’ve just found out @quiztime.bsky.social is on here and am about to revert to my unemployed 2018 self where I moved back in with my parents after a rough patch and obsessively did these geolocation puzzles instead of looking for a job 🙃
October 4, 2025 at 11:07 AM
Oh no I’ve just found out @quiztime.bsky.social is on here and am about to revert to my unemployed 2018 self where I moved back in with my parents after a rough patch and obsessively did these geolocation puzzles instead of looking for a job 🙃
Just wait til they see my record of winning big grants and shelf I put up last week that is now firmly on the floor
October 3, 2025 at 5:56 PM
Just wait til they see my record of winning big grants and shelf I put up last week that is now firmly on the floor
Reposted by Dr Matt Lloyd Jones (he/him)
Reposted by Dr Matt Lloyd Jones (he/him)
Patrick McGovern, an archaeologist who analyzed ancient cauldrons, shards of pottery and broken bottles to discover and then recreate the alcoholic beverages that intoxicated prehistoric civilizations, including booze found in the tomb of King Midas, died last month. He was 80.
Patrick McGovern, the ‘Indiana Jones of Ancient Alcohol,’ Dies at 80
An archaeologist, he discovered and analyzed the residue of beverages imbibed by long-vanished civilizations and then figured out how to recreate them.
nyti.ms
September 14, 2025 at 9:10 PM
Patrick McGovern, an archaeologist who analyzed ancient cauldrons, shards of pottery and broken bottles to discover and then recreate the alcoholic beverages that intoxicated prehistoric civilizations, including booze found in the tomb of King Midas, died last month. He was 80.
Reposted by Dr Matt Lloyd Jones (he/him)
Very glad to see that someone is doing the important work of aligning AI alignment. alignmentalignment.ai
Center for the Alignment of AI Alignment Centers
We align the aligners
alignmentalignment.ai
September 11, 2025 at 1:04 PM
Very glad to see that someone is doing the important work of aligning AI alignment. alignmentalignment.ai
Reposted by Dr Matt Lloyd Jones (he/him)
Universities need to take back the means of production with regards to academic publishing. There is zero reason for this--academics/researchers do the writing,editing and reviewing--why are we a) providing free labor and b) being charged for the privilege?
September 10, 2025 at 11:23 PM
Universities need to take back the means of production with regards to academic publishing. There is zero reason for this--academics/researchers do the writing,editing and reviewing--why are we a) providing free labor and b) being charged for the privilege?
Reposted by Dr Matt Lloyd Jones (he/him)
wild to me that whenever Epstein is in the news, bsky science folk are up in arms about a couple of famous academics who barely knew the guy rather than Martin Nowak, who took millions of Epstein dollars to run his lab, hosted Epstein there often, and somehow is still teaching at Harvard
September 9, 2025 at 4:46 AM
wild to me that whenever Epstein is in the news, bsky science folk are up in arms about a couple of famous academics who barely knew the guy rather than Martin Nowak, who took millions of Epstein dollars to run his lab, hosted Epstein there often, and somehow is still teaching at Harvard
This Be The Systematic Review
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They fuck you up, your included studies.
They may not mean to, but they do.
They fill you with the faults they had
And add some extra, just for the systematic review.
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They fuck you up, your included studies.
They may not mean to, but they do.
They fill you with the faults they had
And add some extra, just for the systematic review.
August 29, 2025 at 4:11 PM
This Be The Systematic Review
--------------------------------
They fuck you up, your included studies.
They may not mean to, but they do.
They fill you with the faults they had
And add some extra, just for the systematic review.
--------------------------------
They fuck you up, your included studies.
They may not mean to, but they do.
They fill you with the faults they had
And add some extra, just for the systematic review.
Between this being part of postdoc appreciation week, the musical itself, and it’s binfire biorender logo which is actually for the wrong musical, it’s like someone created this just to make me self-combust
August 20, 2025 at 4:15 PM
Between this being part of postdoc appreciation week, the musical itself, and it’s binfire biorender logo which is actually for the wrong musical, it’s like someone created this just to make me self-combust
I don't remember typing this but it fits
August 19, 2025 at 4:37 PM
I don't remember typing this but it fits
Stack Overflow's new beginner-friendly chat room is going well I see
![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.'](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:za4cm5in6z4vraktwtlj5xg2/bafkreiawn6ws64daopsot7wfvs7wwrjquzk43alhf3zlftd5nfoilfwoiy@jpeg)
July 23, 2025 at 8:29 AM
Stack Overflow's new beginner-friendly chat room is going well I see
Ahhh first Sly Stone now Brian Wilson - what a week. Rest in peace, legends both. Some comic relief in honour of Brian: youtu.be/xYc4DT18EJg?...
The Beach Boys Shred I Get Around
YouTube video by coozco
youtu.be
June 11, 2025 at 5:03 PM
Ahhh first Sly Stone now Brian Wilson - what a week. Rest in peace, legends both. Some comic relief in honour of Brian: youtu.be/xYc4DT18EJg?...