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.
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 🏴
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Red Wall discourse has so clouded Labour’s mind that they’re sleepwalking into doing to university towns what Thatcher did to mining towns
Research Professional News@resprofnews.bsky.social · 2mo agoBreaking: Government set to cut strategic priorities grant. The government is on the cusp of cutting public funding for higher education teaching, the head of Universities UK has told MPs, placing institutions under even more financial pressure. www.researchprofessionalnews.com/rr-news-uk-u...
🚨 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).
bioRxivpreprint@biorxivpreprint.bsky.social · 2mo agoEffects of antibiotics on the abundance of antibiotic resistance determinants during and after antibiotic administration to beef cattle: A systematic review and meta-analysis of longitudinal studies https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.05.31.729110v1
AOC: This is what drinking water in Georgia looks like after Meta began data center construction in the community.
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.
less sandpits and networks more jobs plz
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...
Changing Nature - Wikipedia
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Matinee Mode@matineemode.bsky.social · 3mo ago35 years ago today DINOSAURS premiered as a new addition to ABC’s TGIF lineup.
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 👍
Is there a polymarket for predicting status changes (expression of concern, erratum, correction, retraction)? At the least there will be PubPeer posts #QRPVibes
The New York Times@nytimes.com · 4mo agoOver the past several years, traffic fatalities in the U.S. increased by nearly 15% on the same days as the biggest album releases from artists like Taylor Swift and Bad Bunny, researchers from Harvard Medical School found.
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
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
😱🤯 -- 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.
Keir Starmer would've banned this sooner, but he thought this was a pro AI rally when he first glanced at his briefing documents.
meta-meta-metascience study meta-analyzing comparisons between multiverse analyses on full specifications retrieved from many analyst datasets to many-analyst results when
'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
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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Imagine getting peer reviewed by Mr Perfect
We just published a new report on enshittification. Pretty proud of this one! www.forbrukerradet.no/news-in-engl...
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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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
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...
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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"While it is very interesting, I feel that your article might be better suited to a specialist journal", rock'n'roll edition.
"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 🌱
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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Mikki Kendall@karnythia.blacksky.app · 6mo agoHonestly a good plate of Mexican food, soul food, or Indian food and a smoothie or two will get you to the goal. Have some hummus, eat apples, eat the skin on your potatoes and win. Red beans and rice, chili with beans, hell add white beans or cooked lentils to your pasta sauce and blend.
Whenever the load seems too hard to bear, I drop into computer mouse reddit and it really puts my troubles into perspective
On this day in 1992, George H.W. Bush sent a memo to all White House staff about how fat his dog was
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
