Dr Matt Lloyd Jones (he/him)

@befriendabacterium.bsky.social

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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 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿

Picture of a lecture theatre in which Matt Grainger introduces ESH-Norge (the screen is a black screen with ESH-Norge written on it).
Version of the 'Yo Dawg' meme reading "Yo dawg, I heard you like grant applications...so I put several grant applications in your grant application so you can review them for me as part of your grant application"
Screenshot of BBC News headline reading “LIVE: Iran's new supreme leader vows to keep blocking Strait of Hormuz in first statement released by regime.”. Picture is of new Supreme Leader Mojtaba Khamenei on the right with a burned out oil tanker on the left.
Screenshot of BBC News headline “Al Quds Day march to be banned after government approves Met request”. Image is of police in what looks like Westminster moving on a man with shades on wearing a keffiyeh as a balaclava to cover rest of his face.
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…”
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...
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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.
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Screenshot of USS pension scheme marketing material reading “The older you get, the quicker time flies” with a picture of a calendar with drawing pins on it in the background. The bottom right reads “Pension power”.
Except of the article reading: "Kinross tells me that my gut biome is roughly equivalent to an Italian man five years older than me. He's worked this out by comparing my results to a study of 62 people in northern Italy. In that study - the only one of its kind - researchers analysed stool samples from people of different ages, ranging from 22 to 109, allowing them to paint a profile for what a person's gut looks like at different Inna that study - de only wan of itsa kind - researchers analyseda stool samples fromma people of alla de ages, rangin from 22 to 109, allowin them to apaint a profil forra whatta person’s gut looksa like at different stages ofa life." (The second paragraph has been edited by me) Below is the article's image of an old Italian couple walking down the strett with their backs facing us on the left, and the Italian countryside on the right with a villa on a hill in an agricultural landscape.
Screenshot of a BBC In Depth article title reading “I spent months investigating whether gut health affects ageing - and if I could hack my gut to age better 8 hours ago Hugh Pym Health editor”
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Screenshot of TV Guide for Channel 4 for Monday 5th January, showing 8pm programme: "Protein: Everything You Need to Know From protein pitfalls to considered choices, Gemma Atkinson, Dr Jack Mosley and Lucy Watson cut through the hype to discover the truth about the consumer health obsession."
Screenshot of a link to a GQ article titled: "When a Guy Calls His Girlfriend ‘Partner’ “'Partner' is an ambiguous term. For example: On my first day of 10th grade, when the new twenty-something-year-old drama teacher introduced..."
Screenshot from tracking page showing information for a package, with the last update reading: “02/01/2026 18:51 Ready to Ship FML label requested”
Video of a Brita filter jug insert with a frozen block of ice attached to the bottom of the filter. As the person filming rotates you can see elongated air bubbles protruding out like hedgehog spines in an exploding pattern
Picture in a cafe with wall art reading “GOOD VIBES ONLY”
Screenshot of a BBC News article titled “UK company sends factory with 1,000C furnace into space”. The image shows what looks like a big box covered in orange tin foil with random things stuck to it in no apparent order, sitting on a big cylinder poorly wrapped in translucent gift wrap, barely secured on with a big yellow metal cable tie.
Photo of an excerpt from The Mabinogion reading: “Well,' she said, 'how can you be killed?" 'I will tell you,' he said. 'By making a bath for me on a riverbank, and constructing an arched roof above the tub, and then thatching that well and watertight. And bringing a billy-goat,' he said, 'and standing it beside the tub; and I place one foot on the back of the billy-goat and the other on the edge of the tub. Whoever should strike me in that position would bring about my death.’ ‘Well’, she said, 'I thank God for that. That can be avoided easily?’
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Screenshot of the FCC homepage from October 1st describing the FCC as "An independent U.S. government agency overseen by Congress" (I've highlighted "independent".
Video of attempted search in REDIB Database. User entera “Bacteria” as the search term, clicks Search and then is directed to a sports site with a list of sports betting sites.
Picture of a poster with a man in a blue shirt and waistcoat with a beard appearing to mentor someone in the foreground. The text reads: “Handshake Placements Support Book 1:1 appointments on Handshake University of Exeter Career Zone [Picture of a QR code] bit.ly/PlacementsHandshake”
Screenshot of TIDAL Remix reel with a circle-cropped picture of a sharp dressed smiling Black man with a 70s moustache in a shiny jacket on a red background. Text below reads “You are Maxwell Udoh's 95th biggest fan”
Screenshot of a thumbnail for a news article in The Independent titled "The Common Snack That Helped Enhance Memory and Brain Function in a 16-Week Trial". There is a man in a baseball shirt in a baseball stadium holding up does hard-to-identify snacks which he is selling at a baseball game in a stadium.
Screenshot of first four rows of a column in a meta-analytical dataset. The column name is 'METHOD' (cell highlighted in yellow), and the first four rows, working downwards read 'MUSEUM', 'REGURGITATION' 'MUSEUM' and 'REGURGITATION'.
Infographic from nothanks_app on Instagram. Black and green spotify branding with a pic of Gerard Way reading: “NO! THANKS BOYCOTT Spotity Pennies for Artists, Billions for Spotify Spotify pays artists fractions of a cent per play (around SO.003-$0.005 per stream), which is barely $3k-$5k for a million streams before labels take their cut. On top of that, Spotify is raising the subscription price and pushing Al-generated music, cutting into real artists' livelihoods even more. Artists like My Chemical Romance, Run the Jewels, Bikini Kill, and King Gizzard have already quit Spotily, refusing to let their art fuel exploitation and injustice.”
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The two cops from Superbad checking McLovin's clearly fake ID (SPOILER ALERT: they decide it is fine and end up hanging out with him the whole night).
Screenshot of Shark website with their Shark FacialPro Glow Glow-Boosting At Home Facial System advertised priced at £249.99 (reduced from £299.99). Picture is a woman running a handheld device over her face - it is a plastic rectangular machine with a spongey nozzle that appears to suck dirt off your face...
Screenshot of tweet from account ‘Acyn’. Image is of Zohran Mamdani responding to a reporter in his meeting with Trump in the Oval Office yesterday. Tweet text is a transcript of his and Trump’s responses to a question about the FDR portrait they had a picture in front of: “Mamdani: I appreciated in our meeting the opportunity to appreciate a portrait of F.D.R. And the incredible work that was done with the new deal and thinking about what it could look like for the federal government and New York City government to deliver on affordability, which can be transformative. President Trump: I found the picture in the vaults. I put it up”
Screenshot of Supplementary PDF file from paper in which Data availability statement is contained. It reads: “Data Sharing Statement Wong. Caffeinated Coffee Consumption or Abstinence to Reduce Atrial Fibrillation. JAMA. Published November 09, 2025. doi:10.1001/jama.2025.21056 Data Additional Information: ClinicalTrials.gov, https://linicaltrials.gov/study/NCT05121519, NCT05121519 Data available: No”
Advert captioned “I WILL DRAW THE PERSON YOU'LL MARRY” with a button saying ‘Try now’ below and an AI-generated sketch of a man with a short back and sides, glasses and stubble in a suit, on a tan background.
Screenshot of Whatsapp chat with one person saying "Tonight going to be off the scale" (white speech bubble) and me replying "i'm pretty sure it will still be on the scale but i get what you're saying" (green speech bubble).
Screenshot of search engine search result from poison.org web page titled “I Swallowed Liquid From a COVID-19 Test Kit”
Tired (but handsome) looking (young) man drinking from a mug with the words “LIVE LOVE RESEARCH” printed on it.
Video clip from BBC News of a reporter meeting Paddington Bear from the new Paddington The Musical. A man interacts with the weird animatronic costumed actor playing Paddington, about 1 meter tall.
Picture of a portly little husky/corgi-type dog tied to a bike rack outside a building, waiting eagerly for his owner to return
Screenshot of R console with warning 'There were 29 warnings (use warnings() to see them). In the prompt is the word 'ew'
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Screenshot of BBC News headline: “UK draws up list of US products it could hit with tariffs”
Screenshot of Mac menu bar with three versions of the RStudio icon (an 'R' in a blue circle on a white square background) spelling out 'RRR'.
Screenshot of erroneously displayed email reading “This message cannot be displayed because a problem repeatedly occurred.”
Screenshot of junk email folder with two emails titled Research Awards from apparently different organisations, one email titled Cognitive Awards from another apparently different organisation, and one email from the National Egg & Poultry Awards.
Screenshot of the 'Neville Shulman challenge award' from the Royal Geographical Society, in a funding database.
Screenshot of the help documentation for a ggplot2 function that has arguments 't,r,b,l' on the left side and explanation "Dimensions of each margin. (To remember order, think trouble)."
Screenshot of Breaking Bad Wiki article for character 'Badger', with his description of being 'a low-level meth distributor' and 'Portrayed by: Matt Jones' highlighted.
Screenshot of the Methods section beginning 'Basically, I used a nonsystematic review process'.
Screenshot of Guardian article titled “Opinion There are many ways Trump could trigger a global collapse. Here's how to survive if that happens George Monbiot Subtitle: It could be wildfires, a pandemic or a financial crisis. The super-rich will flee to their bunkers - the rest of us will have to fend for ourselves”
Screenshot of an email preview titled 'Roses are red, Violets are blue, there's a refurbished instrument waiting for you...' from Agilent lab supplies company.
Version of the Anakin-Padme, “For the Better, Right?” meme. Anakin (serious face); The United States is in a Constitutional crisis Padme (smiling face): And you think that’s a bad thing, right? Anakin (smug face): Padme (concerned face): And you think that’s a bad thing, right?