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 (e.g. veterinary microbiology in livestock, pollution in bathing waters).
Associate Research Fellow at University of Exeter
Dw i'n dysgu Cymraeg 🏴
Associate Research Fellow at University of Exeter
Dw i'n dysgu Cymraeg 🏴
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The main, recognized genres of Christmas song are:
1. Seasons greetings to all
2. I want him/her as my present
3. I want to be home at Christmas mas
4. I want to fuck Santa
5. I am the eternal soldier, begging Churchill to stop the cavalry so we might avoid eventual nuclear Armageddon
1. Seasons greetings to all
2. I want him/her as my present
3. I want to be home at Christmas mas
4. I want to fuck Santa
5. I am the eternal soldier, begging Churchill to stop the cavalry so we might avoid eventual nuclear Armageddon
November 24, 2024 at 8:40 PM
The main, recognized genres of Christmas song are:
1. Seasons greetings to all
2. I want him/her as my present
3. I want to be home at Christmas mas
4. I want to fuck Santa
5. I am the eternal soldier, begging Churchill to stop the cavalry so we might avoid eventual nuclear Armageddon
1. Seasons greetings to all
2. I want him/her as my present
3. I want to be home at Christmas mas
4. I want to fuck Santa
5. I am the eternal soldier, begging Churchill to stop the cavalry so we might avoid eventual nuclear Armageddon
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i heard the previous team were al-fayed
November 29, 2025 at 11:00 AM
i heard the previous team were al-fayed
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Art Stinchombe has entered the chat.
November 28, 2025 at 6:05 PM
Art Stinchombe has entered the chat.
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now shifting into Jólakötturinn (child-eating Icelandic Yule cat ) season
November 28, 2025 at 3:43 AM
now shifting into Jólakötturinn (child-eating Icelandic Yule cat ) season
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Uhh,,, Figure 1 shows you... what exactly? Trying to understand Medical fryrmbial, runctitional features and mum's legs going through concrete.
This whole article is a bit of a disaster. And it's very difficult to find other published work for the author. Strange! 🧪
(via @smutclyde.bsky.social)
This whole article is a bit of a disaster. And it's very difficult to find other published work for the author. Strange! 🧪
(via @smutclyde.bsky.social)
November 27, 2025 at 3:09 AM
Uhh,,, Figure 1 shows you... what exactly? Trying to understand Medical fryrmbial, runctitional features and mum's legs going through concrete.
This whole article is a bit of a disaster. And it's very difficult to find other published work for the author. Strange! 🧪
(via @smutclyde.bsky.social)
This whole article is a bit of a disaster. And it's very difficult to find other published work for the author. Strange! 🧪
(via @smutclyde.bsky.social)
I see Shark are making vacuum cleaners for your face now ok
November 26, 2025 at 8:08 PM
I see Shark are making vacuum cleaners for your face now ok
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I wish I didn’t have to share this. But the BBC has decided to censor my first Reith Lecture.
They deleted the line in which I describe Donald Trump as “the most openly corrupt president in American history.” /1
They deleted the line in which I describe Donald Trump as “the most openly corrupt president in American history.” /1
November 25, 2025 at 9:26 AM
I wish I didn’t have to share this. But the BBC has decided to censor my first Reith Lecture.
They deleted the line in which I describe Donald Trump as “the most openly corrupt president in American history.” /1
They deleted the line in which I describe Donald Trump as “the most openly corrupt president in American history.” /1
You know the end is nigh for cask ale when they’re having to market it like Jesus 😭
November 25, 2025 at 1:05 PM
You know the end is nigh for cask ale when they’re having to market it like Jesus 😭
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Newsletter! A new paper shows just how easy, how cheap, it is to fake survey responses - jeapodising whole fields of academic and public opinion research. I write about taking the resulting threat to our self-image as a society seriously […]
Original post on mastodon.online
mastodon.online
November 22, 2025 at 8:16 AM
Newsletter! A new paper shows just how easy, how cheap, it is to fake survey responses - jeapodising whole fields of academic and public opinion research. I write about taking the resulting threat to our self-image as a society seriously […]
Good to see Kenny McClean has been signed to the Ministry of Defence
November 22, 2025 at 11:55 AM
Good to see Kenny McClean has been signed to the Ministry of Defence
Instagram is like “HEY COME TO THIS EVENT THE INFORMATION IS ELSEWHERE OR FLASHED UP FOR A NANOSECOND IN THIS REEL FOR YOU TO SCREENSHOT XXX @a @b @c @d @e @f @g”
November 22, 2025 at 11:30 AM
Instagram is like “HEY COME TO THIS EVENT THE INFORMATION IS ELSEWHERE OR FLASHED UP FOR A NANOSECOND IN THIS REEL FOR YOU TO SCREENSHOT XXX @a @b @c @d @e @f @g”
Author contribution statements be like
November 22, 2025 at 10:15 AM
Author contribution statements be like
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If you compute an effect size (say a Cohen's d type standardized mean difference) several different ways and then selectively report the largest one, what would you call that?
p-hacking
research misconduct
fraud
something else?
p-hacking
research misconduct
fraud
something else?
November 20, 2025 at 2:48 PM
If you compute an effect size (say a Cohen's d type standardized mean difference) several different ways and then selectively report the largest one, what would you call that?
p-hacking
research misconduct
fraud
something else?
p-hacking
research misconduct
fraud
something else?
Not sure if this is an advert or a threat
November 20, 2025 at 11:27 PM
Not sure if this is an advert or a threat
sir you do know trying to bribe an ebay customer with haribo starmix is an offence, right?
November 19, 2025 at 3:29 PM
sir you do know trying to bribe an ebay customer with haribo starmix is an offence, right?
receive email from the uni that doesn't mention AI challenge
November 19, 2025 at 10:21 AM
receive email from the uni that doesn't mention AI challenge
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My #rstats cheat code for today is the binom.confint function in the binom package that will spit out *12* different ways of calculating a CI for a proportion.
Also, this is why you use R for statistics...
(and of course the correct CI method is bayes 😎)
Also, this is why you use R for statistics...
(and of course the correct CI method is bayes 😎)
November 16, 2025 at 2:52 AM
My #rstats cheat code for today is the binom.confint function in the binom package that will spit out *12* different ways of calculating a CI for a proportion.
Also, this is why you use R for statistics...
(and of course the correct CI method is bayes 😎)
Also, this is why you use R for statistics...
(and of course the correct CI method is bayes 😎)
All this chin stroking from the BMJ on how to resolve the crisis in peer review, and not once do they appear to consider paying people for this highly skilled labour as an option www.bmj.com/content/391/...
November 14, 2025 at 7:02 PM
All this chin stroking from the BMJ on how to resolve the crisis in peer review, and not once do they appear to consider paying people for this highly skilled labour as an option www.bmj.com/content/391/...
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Fed up with the John Lewis's website talking to me as if I'm a naughty dog.
November 14, 2025 at 3:46 PM
Fed up with the John Lewis's website talking to me as if I'm a naughty dog.
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Confusing stats language:
The "linear" is linear regression means "linear in the parameters".
It does not mean "can only fit straight lines", and things like polynomials and splines can be included in linear models.
online.stat.psu.edu/stat501/less...
1/2
The "linear" is linear regression means "linear in the parameters".
It does not mean "can only fit straight lines", and things like polynomials and splines can be included in linear models.
online.stat.psu.edu/stat501/less...
1/2
November 14, 2025 at 9:08 AM
Confusing stats language:
The "linear" is linear regression means "linear in the parameters".
It does not mean "can only fit straight lines", and things like polynomials and splines can be included in linear models.
online.stat.psu.edu/stat501/less...
1/2
The "linear" is linear regression means "linear in the parameters".
It does not mean "can only fit straight lines", and things like polynomials and splines can be included in linear models.
online.stat.psu.edu/stat501/less...
1/2
If my myneddiad-level Welsh serves me well, BBC Radio Cymru appear to have two presenters doing 24 hour danceathon for Children In Need, like some bizarre Welsh version of They Shoot Horses, Don't They? ("Maen nhw'n saethu ceffylau, onid ydyn nhw?"?).
November 14, 2025 at 10:59 AM
If my myneddiad-level Welsh serves me well, BBC Radio Cymru appear to have two presenters doing 24 hour danceathon for Children In Need, like some bizarre Welsh version of They Shoot Horses, Don't They? ("Maen nhw'n saethu ceffylau, onid ydyn nhw?"?).
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E.O. Fucking Wilson
November 13, 2025 at 5:56 AM
E.O. Fucking Wilson
science has ruined me
November 13, 2025 at 10:19 AM
science has ruined me
From “Will the Prime Minister grow a tash for Movember?” straight to “Will the Prime Minister reintroduce the Death Penalty?”. #PMQs really is a wild ride for a lunch break
November 12, 2025 at 12:31 PM
From “Will the Prime Minister grow a tash for Movember?” straight to “Will the Prime Minister reintroduce the Death Penalty?”. #PMQs really is a wild ride for a lunch break