Dr Matt Lloyd Jones (he/him)

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...

YouTube video by Sly Dunbar - Topic Inner City Blues

Sly Dunbar. Absolute legend. Rest in peace.
youtu.be/xu97vf_QeO8?...

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

www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...

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

Stephen Cheng - Always Together [China, Rocksteady] (~1967)

Stephen Cheng - Always Together [China, Rocksteady] (~1967)
https://redd.it/27dfl7
https://youtu.be/QgPTgq-rN3U

Blimey that was fast! Nice one

Screenshot of the CRAN webpage for my R package orcidtr.

🚨Finally on #CRAN!!
🔗 cran.r-project.org/web/packages...
#rstats

Heard a lad earlier talking about ‘Belgian whistles’

“A basic website costs 10k or 25k upwards if you want all the Belgian whistles”

BELGIAN WHISTLES

They are big quail tbf

In an academia where scientists’ willingness to get in front of a camera is increasingly valued over their actual science skills, can I just say how refreshing it is to receive a departmental email titled “Media request” that is just someone asking for some MacConkey agar

Map Projections

Since the dumbasses in Washington think Greenland is bigger than it really is, it seems appropriate to re-post this:
xkcd.com/977/

It’s actually very easy to work out when you just look at the pictures and know the formula of these CAPTCHA tests but as soon as I saw that my Welsh reading skills were required I promptly cacked myself

When I was a freelance BBC science presenter, I wrote in support of Professor Dorothy Bishop and was then told I should not be critical of the Royal Society. Now I’ve resigned, so I can say I think @profrachelgan.bsky.social is making an important point here.

Picture of a CAPTCHA reading “Dewiswch bob creadur a allai lochesu yn yr eitem a ddangosir yn yr enghraifft” with a picture panel variously featuring several cats and dogs lined up together, as well as a few blurry garden birds on their own.

in a flash of overconfidence in my welsh language progress, i turned my phone language to welsh and well fuck

Very happy to say I will be starting a NERC Independent Research Fellowship in April with the University of Exeter 🥳

This 5-year project will be looking at how environmental conditions determine the impact of phage on microbial communities 🧫🦠

Thank you to the lovely ppl who helped along the way!

Screenshot of "Undermind"'s home page reading "Undermind: Condense weeks of research to minutes. An AI assistant that carefully explores the scientific literature for you. Find exactly what you need, no matter how complex"

I tried this but it Undermind my research

Claudette Colvin, who refused to move seats on a bus at start of civil rights movement, dies at 86 Colvin, at age 15, was arrested nine months before Rosa Parks gained international fame for also refusing to give up her seat on a segregated bus.

Claudette Colvin, whose 1955 arrest for refusing to give up her seat on a segregated Montgomery bus helped spark the modern civil rights movement, has died. She was 86.

YouTube video by RobertoLoiali Patty Pravo - Bello

Link is broken but found a working one and wow m.youtube.com/watch?v=tWk9...

Patty Pravo - Bello [Italy, New Wave, Synthpop] (1978), Cover of Talking Heads' "Love → Building on Fire"

Patty Pravo - Bello [Italy, New Wave, Synthpop] (1978), Cover of Talking Heads' "Love → Building on Fire"
https://redd.it/1kviw7a
https://youtu.be/NfQEgMM0S6k

Indie sleaze. Fight me.