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Matthew Buckley

@physicsmatt.bsky.social
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Theoretical physicist, Rutgers professor.

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Matthew Buckley @physicsmatt.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
So this suggests how to see neutrinos: build a giant-ass room, fill it with water (or... ice) and put photodetectors around the edge to pick up the Cherenkov light. And that's what people have done. Super-Kamiokande in Japan is a giant water tank with photodetectors around the edge.
Super-Kamiokande detector volume
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Matthew Buckley @physicsmatt.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
The eerie blue glow from nuclear reactors is Cherenkov light, passing through the water shielding.
The OSU medical reactor that one time they let me drive it. Blue glow from Cherenkov light.
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Matthew Buckley @physicsmatt.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Yelling women/cat meme. Women are yelling "You can't just add "Bl" to the front of random state's names" and the smug cat says "Blidaho"
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Matthew Buckley @physicsmatt.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
And yes, there is of course the Kzinti Lesson.
The Kzinti Lesson: the efficiency of a reaction drive as a weapon is in direct proportion to its efficiency as a stardrive. 

Pictured, the Angel's Pencil slicing a kzinti warship in half with its photon drive/signaling laser. And the kzinti telepaths said the ship was unarmed...
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Matthew Buckley @physicsmatt.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Squirrel Girl defeating Thanos and the Watcher confirming that it is in fact the real Thanos and not some bullshit clone or bot.
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Matthew Buckley @physicsmatt.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Screaming women saying "You can't just add "BL" to the front of random state names." with the smug cat saying "Blouisiana"
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Matthew Buckley @physicsmatt.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Stringer Bell's note taker saying "Robert's Rules says we got to have minutes of the meeting, right? These the minutes."
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Matthew Buckley @physicsmatt.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
At long last, he's created the "fascist American president-dictator installs sniper's nests in previously-peaceful public spaces" from the classic movie "fascist American president-dictator results in sniper's nests in previously-peaceful public spaces."
Garland's Civil War movie poster, showing a sniper's nest in the torch of the Statue of Liberty.
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Matthew Buckley @physicsmatt.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Epic handshake meme: "Data Centers in Space Scammers" and "Weird Harry Potter Fanfic AI Doomers" are shaking hands as "Foundering on the rocks of the 2nd Law of Thermodynamics"
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Matthew Buckley @physicsmatt.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Tom Kean?
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Matthew Buckley @physicsmatt.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Mr Burns talking to Smithers, saying:
"Smithers, I'm beginning to think that the Harry Potter fanfic writer was not the brilliant visionary his weird sex cult thought he was."
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Matthew Buckley @physicsmatt.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia open card font saying “The Gang Causes Some Problems.”
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Matthew Buckley @physicsmatt.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Mr Burns and Smithers. Mr Burns says "Smithers, I'm beginning to think that Mohammed bin Salman was not the brilliant tactician I thought he was."
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Matthew Buckley @physicsmatt.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Kirk and Spock in Star Trek IV with Kirk saying "Is that a lot?"
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Matthew Buckley @physicsmatt.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
We now go live to the Anthropic offices.
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Matthew Buckley @physicsmatt.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
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Matthew Buckley @physicsmatt.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Spiderman talking to Sauron in the "I don't want cure cancer" meme, with Spideman saying "Why would you ruin your career" and Sauron saying "I'm an academic."
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Matthew Buckley @physicsmatt.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Maybe the take-away is that tour was so bad they're off their game?
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Matthew Buckley @physicsmatt.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
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Matthew Buckley @physicsmatt.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
*Krauss. Whatever.
Fed from Oceans 12 saying “for a moment there, I was already forgetting your name.”
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Matthew Buckley @physicsmatt.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
Cat in a suit with newspaper and cup of tea.
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Matthew Buckley @physicsmatt.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
Epic handshake meme, with “bluesky” and “ A very confused Carthaginian elephant in the vanguard of Hannibal’s army” handshaking over “fighting over mountains.”
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Matthew Buckley @physicsmatt.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
Martian Marine Bobbie Draper from the Expanse with a speech bubble above her head.
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Matthew Buckley @physicsmatt.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
It's so cute when Terrans talk about mountains.
Topographic map of Mars.
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Matthew Buckley @physicsmatt.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
Ok, now what.
Mt Washington, NH
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Matthew Buckley @physicsmatt.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
The Isaac Newton these idiots are imagining versus the Isaac Newton that actually existed.
Kenneth Parcell from 30 Rock. Looking like an idiot.Jack and Liz from 30 Rock talking about Kenneth Parcell. Jack says "In five years we'll either be working for him... or dead by his hand."
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Matthew Buckley @physicsmatt.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
James T Kirk from Star Trek IV saying 'Is that a lot?"
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Matthew Buckley @physicsmatt.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
Andy Daly 555-Come-on-now
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Matthew Buckley @physicsmatt.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
Furiosa from Mad Max with a speech bubble
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Matthew Buckley @physicsmatt.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
There’s a new British PM?
Dr Jones Sr saying “now who are all these people?” in Last Crusade
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Matthew Buckley @physicsmatt.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
how your email finds me.
golden retriever being a derp
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Matthew Buckley @physicsmatt.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
Bobby Whale-Head on hearing this news:
Michael Jordan saying "...and I took that personally"
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Matthew Buckley @physicsmatt.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
We should keep Daylight Savings Time and make time zones narrower.
Norman Rockwell Man Standing Up.
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Matthew Buckley @physicsmatt.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
Me, watching all the fascist techbros name everything after Tolkien:
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Matthew Buckley @physicsmatt.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
Anakin/Padme meme: upper left Anakin "I was the only person on my dorm floor with a 2400 baud modem." upper right Padme "And everyone felt bad for you because it was so slow, right?" and then lower right "And everyone felt bad for you because it was so slow, right?"
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Matthew Buckley @physicsmatt.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
Bart saying "Now Martin's scoring off me. Oh, that is it!"
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Matthew Buckley @physicsmatt.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
Every bluesky professor reading this graph.
Rosa Diaz from Brooklyn Nine-Nine hold a dog saying "I've only had S22 for a day and a half, but if anything happened to him I would fail everyone in this room and then myself."
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Matthew Buckley @physicsmatt.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
Thor in Thor: Ragnarok, seeing the Hulk and saying "We know each other! He's a friend from the retirement home for elder millennials"
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Matthew Buckley @physicsmatt.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
We all know where this is ending up.
Kaiju smashing through the anti-kaiju wall in Pacific Rim
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Matthew Buckley @physicsmatt.bsky.social · 22/06/2026
Marge from the Simpsons saying "New Jersey, No!" Bart (New Jersey in this joke) says "what". Marge says "Sorry, force of habit." Then "Ohio, no!"
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Matthew Buckley @physicsmatt.bsky.social · 21/06/2026
Epic handshake meme: “great oxidation event” shaking hands with “psychotically pro-fossil fuel Trump administration” with the hands labeled “losing a war with algae and visible in the geological record”
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Matthew Buckley @physicsmatt.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
Garth Marenghi saying "I know writers who use subtext and they're all cowards"
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Matthew Buckley @physicsmatt.bsky.social · 13/06/2026
Captain Kirk from Star Trek V asking “What does literally anyone need with a datacenter in space?”
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Matthew Buckley @physicsmatt.bsky.social · 08/05/2026
Old School Professors today
Tweet from Prany Pathole April 12, 2019:

Tech enthusiasts: My entire house is smart.

Tech workers: the only piece of technology in my house is a printer and I keep a gun next to it so I can shoot it if it makes a noise I don't recognize.
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Matthew Buckley @physicsmatt.bsky.social · 08/05/2026
When I first started teaching, I could still get students to hand in physical homework. Like, actual sheets of actual paper. I was considering trying to move back to that because of <gestures vaguely towards linear algebra>, I wonder if the Great Canvas Disaster might be the push.
Admiral Adama, looking Adama-y.
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Matthew Buckley @physicsmatt.bsky.social · 07/05/2026
Every university right now.
Simpsons "technical difficulties, please stand by" with a puppy holding a cord in its mouth.
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Matthew Buckley @physicsmatt.bsky.social · 07/05/2026
I don't believe you.
A screenshot of Canvas, saying it is currently undergoing *scheduled* maintenance.
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Matthew Buckley @physicsmatt.bsky.social · 02/05/2026
Epic handshake meme: Ed Baldwin and Vernon Byrd shaking hands captioned “one dude playing a central role across the Solar System for an implausibly long time”
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Matthew Buckley @physicsmatt.bsky.social · 02/05/2026
The Babadook "be normal" meme: mother labeled "OpenAI engineers" asking "why can't you just be normal." Kid in back seat labeled "ChatGPT mentioning goblins at every opportunity" responding with "*Screams*"
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Matthew Buckley @physicsmatt.bsky.social · 27/04/2026
How your email finds me.
A golden retriever belly up on a couch
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