Andy Buckley

@agbuckley
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Particle-physics prof at Glasgow Physics & Astronomy. Author of those physics codes you like, and that one you don't. Enthusiast for dirty QCD physics, data re-use, model-independent searches, and computational statistics.

Also: child owner, mountain climber/biker/skier/etc. when poss, drummer, busy. Recovering Norn Irish. Still trying to be a Really Useful Engine.

Web (work)http://www.ppe.gla.ac.uk/~abuckley/
Web (personal)https://www.insectnation.org/
LocationGlasgow / Geneva
‘The UK is saying the same thing as the Taliban’: the women banned from studying in Britain https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026/mar/23/women-banned-from-studying-britain-taliban-afghanistan-sudan
‘The UK is saying the same thing as the Taliban’: the women banned from studying in Britain

The Home Office has blocked new study visas for applicants from Afghanistan, Sudan, Myanmar and Cameroon. It means many women will miss out on life-changing opportunities – as five female academics explain

The Guardian
It wasn't exactly a fair comparison, but we are all Pot Noodle
@HGourlayUCL Funny, sausages were not on my British shit-list. Maybe I've been frog-boiled...
@DrEdBridges Right track!
@freyablekman I got excited and thought this was going to be using the "energy mover" Wasserstein distance on the jets themselves, which is something we're studying, but I think it's rather the metric used for similarity of the autoencoder pdfs (before I drowned in ML technicalities). Nice, though 🙃
My god, yes. Excellent article from The Reg. If I were in business, these are the sort of people I'd want advising me, not the fanboys. https://www.theregister.com/2026/03/17/ai_businesses_faking_it_reckoning_coming_codestrap/
RT: @Heccles94 I wonder why Farage hasn't condemned Tice? 🤔
Nation-scale 🔥, but what do you think the product is?
Reminded tonight that I was named after Prince Andrew. I was happily in denial before. FFS, thanks world