Dr Matt Lloyd Jones (he/him)

The Simpsons - Monorail Town Hall Meeting & Song YouTube video by BBB Q

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meta-meta-metascience study meta-analyzing comparisons between multiverse analyses on full specifications retrieved from many analyst datasets to many-analyst results when

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

'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

Screenshot of text from an old scientific paper reading: “Mr H. G. Perfect (Babtie Shaw & Morton) asked if those who participated in the epidemiological study had also swum in swimming pools, and hence might have contracted symptoms from that source rather than from swimming in the sea. He also asked if the bathing water pollution was…”

Imagine getting peer reviewed by Mr Perfect

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.

We just published a new report on enshittification. Pretty proud of this one!

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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

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...

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...

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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.

*flies

"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 🌱

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

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

Screenshot of email from Google Scholar Citations titled 'Follow articles by Benjamin H Good'

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

There's a joke going round software engineering circles that, soon, with AI, all that will be needed is for people to accurately describe precisely what they want in a piece of software. So: software engineering jobs are safe.

It's amusing, but the state of AI coding is both alarming AND overhyped.

Being an evidence synthesist often feels like you’re a dog owner who doesn’t have time to walk their own dogs, because you’re too busy picking up all the shit that other dog owners let their dogs leave all over the park

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.

Quite foreboding for a headline for an article with gardening tips

Downfall Bovino Edition. You're welcome.

Sly and Robbie discography - Wikipedia

They had to make a separate Wiki for his n Robbie’s discography en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sly_and...

Sly Dunbar - Wikipedia

Look at this legacy en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sly_Dun...

Inner City Blues YouTube video by Sly Dunbar - Topic

Sly Dunbar. Absolute legend. Rest in peace.
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Just realised Star Wars Day (May 4th) is a public holiday this year in the UK. Start of a trend?

incidentally “three hares (holy trinity)” is the pet name I have for my chest hair

For example, an Amazon delivery driver, who sits in a cabin surrounded by AI cameras that monitor the driver’s eyes and take points off if the driver looks in a proscribed direction, and monitors the driver’s mouth because singing is not allowed on the job, and rats the driver out to the boss if they do not make quota.

This is the fucking limit. I had no idea that Amazon drivers AREN'T ALLOWED TO SING

wat

CRUSH this monopoly wtf my levels were already redlining

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thought i’d got rain in my new headphones and broken them but was relieved to find out it was an arthur russell song i’d never heard

I think that the mass enthusiasm we see around gen AI is manufactured, and I think this because it doesn't exist for renewable energy, despite it being more measurably impactful (and also technologically wonderous)

(carly rae jepsen voice)

Screenshot of BBC News notification reading “Is fibre the new protein? The surprising health benefits of the latest wellness trend”

Protein is protein fibre is fibre neither are new and fibre has been a wellness trend since the settlement of the fucking Fertile Crescent

Photograph from 1911 taken by Herbert Ponting whilst with Scott's Antarctic Expedition The monochrome photo is taken from within a cave. The walls of the cave are made of ice. The cave entrance is in the mid distance with two figures standing looking out towards a distant ship. Between them and the ship there is first a 'beach' of ice before the sea itself. The ship could be up to 800 metres away What makes the photo so special is that where the figures are at the cave entrance there is a band of very white snow and ice (contrasting with the comparatively dark inside of the cave) that creates a stark framework in which the men and the ship are captured. It is made even more dramatic by the fact that the cave entrance is at least 30 metres high and is in the shape of a distorted elipse with the tail sloping off to the right at the top of the elipse The photo being in monochrome in a largely white environment makes the photographers skill all the more laudable

This photo was taken in 1911 using glass plate technology by Herbert Ponting who was part of Scott's Antarctic expedition,

The composition and detail are exquisite with the band of white snow/ice creating a perfect frame around the two people and the ship in the distance

Iconic imo

The Best Videos of ICE Busting Their Asses in the Brutal Minneapolis Winter Watch out for that ice, you fascist clowns.

The best videos of ICE agents eating shit in the brutal Minneapolis winter