@agbuckley

Particle physics prof at @UofGPhysAstro, child owner, mountain stuff when poss, drummer, busy. Recovering Norn Irish. Still trying to be a Really Useful Engine.

 Glasgow, Scotland
Joined June 2009
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Makes me super-happy that The Book has been welcomed so enthusiastically by students and new HEP researchers, so here's an updated pinned-tweet with photo! Nb. ALT text. Buy at iopscience.iop.org/book/mono… #HEP #LHC #particlephysics
Trial and updates at https://www.ppe.gla.ac.uk/~abuckley/pcp.pdf

ALT Trial and updates at https://www.ppe.gla.ac.uk/~abuckley/pcp.pdf

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Astonishing evidence at the @covidinquiryuk. The Government repeatedly ignored offers from the Crick Institute to provide mass testing on a national scale. Instead, the Government paid Deloitte consultants to project manage, not yet established, privately run labs. 1/2
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And the third half for research and the remaining 3 halves to sit in meetings and committees.
John Attridge@John_Attridge13 Feb 2024
They should invent a profession where half the time you study texts in monastic solitude and half the time you talk animatedly to a room full of young people
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Wanting Labour to evict the Tories does not mean accepting every stupid, cowardly or self-destructive decision it makes. It is entirely legitimate to criticise Labour and press it to be bolder while also wanting a change of government. This should not be hard to understand.
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I feel there are more important things to talk about than this use of language. But it frustrates me to constantly be corrected. I, an autistic person, prefer identity-first language (‘autistic person’). So please stop telling me I’m wrong about how I choose to describe myself.
Two stick figures. One is holding a rainbow bag with the caption ‘person with autism’. The other’s head is rainbow with the caption ‘autistic person’.

ALT Two stick figures. One is holding a rainbow bag with the caption ‘person with autism’. The other’s head is rainbow with the caption ‘autistic person’.

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More superb reporting from @BBCNewsnight tonight on the catastrophic impact of Brexit
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Tory voters… Tell me What goes through your minds when you see this?
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YODA2 is out! Culmination of a _long_ vision for better histogramming in #HEP, as a paper explaining the stats and design arxiv.org/abs/2312.15070 and for immediate download gitlab.com/hepcedar/yoda/

Consistent, multidimensional differential histogramming and...

Histogramming is often taken for granted, but the power and compactness of partially aggregated, multidimensional summary statistics, and their fundamental connection to differential and integral...

arxiv.org
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Histos are simple, right? Less than you think! Y2 has fully multidimensional histos, profiles, counters, on continuous and discrete spaces, with template d axis composition, arbitrary bin content, and full dimensional and type reduction preserving statistical moments. Epic!
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Nice to sneak this out just before Christmas: solid and actionable advice on designing and implementing LHC — and beyond — ML analysis strategies that can be re-used and combined, to deliver more impact (and citations...) arxiv.org/abs/2312.14575
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Quick thread on inheritance tax: Something that is massively under-discussed in this debate is how the “it’s unfair” argument is completely flipped on its head when you consider it from the perspective of the next generation instead of the person passing on the inheritance.
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Replying to @RichardJMurphy @SteveRo11327591
I think Atkins is hoping to persuade a significant fraction of the public that junior doctors don’t deserve decent remuneration, by spreading the lie that they are not yet fully trained. She should be made to apologise or resign. Preferably both.
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Research Assistant/Associate position at @UofGParticlePhy working on #OpenData (@HEPData) and @ATLASexperiment with @agbuckley: jobs.ac.uk/job/DET437/resear…
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The very stable genius who scuttled this site in the last year seems to have locked me out of the @UofGParticlePhy account, too, so you'll just have to trust me that we really do have a new research associate post in ATLAS + open data available! Details: jobs.ac.uk/job/DET437/resear…
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In reality: - Just 0.1% of Don Valley residents can't speak English - Only 0.8% have lived in the UK less than five years - Less than 6% are non-white This is about blaming the government's failures on a tiny fraction of his own constituents. It is the politics of the far right
Haggis_UK 🇬🇧 🇪🇺@Haggis_UK12 Dec 2023
Nick Fletcher(Tory MP): "We are turning parts of our community into a ghetto... you have a 12 hour waiting list at A&E, & the reason why the waiting list is so long, is because people don't speak English in these places anymore..." #RwandaPlan
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Starts pontificating about being warm to people "in genuine need". Absolute bollocks. The govt has closed down the legal routes. Now it intends to discard those who manage to get here anyway.
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And with that, he's done. Cleverly isn't a bad man. He is neither mad nor vindictive. But the statement he just made will shame him forever. And it should do.
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Increasingly Scottish Scotsmen! europesays.com/926154/
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This should be toilet graffiti in every physics dept
Will Kinney
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