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@gully.bsky.social
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interpretable machine learning for atmospheric and astronomical data analysis, near-IR spectra, climate tech, stars & planets; bikes, Austin, diving off bridges into the ocean.

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gully @gully.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
oddly satisfying to see the defocused PSF
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gully @gully.bsky.social · 03/07/2026
Well deserved, one of the coolest things I’ve seen in the last few years, without a qualifier
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gully @gully.bsky.social · 19/06/2026
Must go to this!
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gully @gully.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
Very cool paper! Maps out the starspots in exquisite detail, among the best constraints on spot physical properties anywhere. Exoplanets make great scanning reticles for stellar surface features, in addition to their other virtues.
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gully @gully.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
FOMO on Cool Stars in Japan right now! What are the cool new talks? Best splinter sessions? Need to know!
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gully @gully.bsky.social · 05/06/2026
Exoplanet atmospheres 🤝 starspots, nice, curious to see the tomographic analysis of the spots
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gully @gully.bsky.social · 25/05/2026
CCA! 🤩
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gully @gully.bsky.social · 05/05/2026
Would adore talking physics-based models in Sydney at NeurIPS! How to make the stars align…
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gully @gully.bsky.social · 28/04/2026
I pitched Kepler/K2 advertising swag that simply said “THERE ARE SO MANY PLANETS” in all caps. There are!
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gully @gully.bsky.social · 15/04/2026
Just did a double take looking at the size of that echelle grating, whoa
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gully @gully.bsky.social · 27/03/2026
I think astronomers are particularly effective at the use (and acceptance) of pathological scenarios for the purpose of illustration and education. We don’t mind conjuring impossibly weird planets as what-if scenarios. I sense that other fields can view pathological examples as distracting.
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Matthew Kenworthy @mattkenworthy.bsky.social · 26/03/2026
If you haven’t seen 3Blue1Brown videos yet, you are missing out! His latest one is on M.C. Escher’s picture frame distortion is absolutely breathtaking, using visuals to introduce complex analysis in what feels a very intuitive way. All his videos are excellent and well worth a browse.
M.C. Escher's The Picture Gallery shows a highly distorted image of a continuously zoomed image, and the conformal mapping to a plane with infinitely tiled copied of this distorted image.
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gully @gully.bsky.social · 25/03/2026
A free, cool idea I was excited about at Kepler/K2: There exists a transformation to make nonstationary stellar variability into stationary. Deep Kernel Learning was the fad at the time, but I’m not sure anyone ever pulled this off successfully. The hope was to make a physics based transformation
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gully @gully.bsky.social · 25/03/2026
Bayesian priors = “priced in”
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gully @gully.bsky.social · 25/03/2026
I just stopped by UT Austin to return some long lost inventory, and was delighted to see so many familiar faces and hear about the great work going on! 🔭 🪐 my grad school instrumentation memos are actively being used—surreal!
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gully @gully.bsky.social · 10/03/2026
I was about to propose a feature then did YAGNI and stopped, where do I collect my software engineering award.
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gully @gully.bsky.social · 10/03/2026
China 5 year plan includes “Aim to double non-fossil energy in 10 years”, already plateauing emissions ☀️💨⚡️🔋⚛️🌋
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gully @gully.bsky.social · 26/02/2026
New planet detection technique: Look for stars that disappear entirely (black holes in interior, cf Bellinger) then look for light echo plateaus from the reflected light of planets. Apparently ~100 M dwarfs have disappeared consistent with this mechanism. You’d have a few light minutes of signal.
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gully @gully.bsky.social · 25/02/2026
Currently reading the Project Hail Mary book and there’s a ton of astrophysics in it—no spoilers but early on there’s infrared spectroscopy, ALMA, and more. Curious to hear what other astronomers think!
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gully @gully.bsky.social · 25/02/2026
Well said
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gully @gully.bsky.social · 25/02/2026
Neat work on precision PSF modeling of Gaia! Little known fact: we captured Kepler driftscan PSFs during downtime in the K2 mission. PSF modeling is great boon for low SNR science, extended objects, etc.
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gully @gully.bsky.social · 20/02/2026
Good band name, or maybe a softball team composed in part by punk rock astronomers with a fastball
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gully @gully.bsky.social · 12/02/2026
It’s me
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gully @gully.bsky.social · 10/02/2026
Sans serif math in LaTeX is so satisfying. \mathsf{}
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gully @gully.bsky.social · 10/02/2026
Very cool opportunity to make differentiable physics models for EPRV, work with Ben and co, and live in a cool place. Pretty much a dream job, apply!
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gully @gully.bsky.social · 06/02/2026
Still want a JAX for science conference, where all my JAX scientists at
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gully @gully.bsky.social · 06/02/2026
The sheer joy I felt just now discovering that there is a new Dan Foreman Mackey video about JAX.
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Paige Bailey (webpaige.dev) @dynamicwebpaige.bsky.social · 05/02/2026
standing room only for physics? faith in humanity restored ✨👏
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gully @gully.bsky.social · 04/02/2026
I still feel like differentiable models are under appreciated, it’s like a magic super power for interpretability and extensibility. Maybe LLM-assisted coding can bring autodiff to more science teams? Still a mental leap to adoption.
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gully @gully.bsky.social · 04/02/2026
Everything becomes so much easier when you can forward model your data
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gully @gully.bsky.social · 04/02/2026
Looking back on this talk about autodiffable spectral models, there is still so much promise, I’d love to see what folks have been up to in this space! speakerdeck.com/gully/blase-...
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blasé: An interpretable transfer learning approach to cool star échelle spectroscopy
Comparison of échelle spectra to synthetic models has become a computational statistics challenge, with over ten thousand individual spectral lines affe…
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Brett Morris @brettmorr.is · 27/01/2026
New job opportunity at @stsci.edu: Senior Astronomical Data Scientist for data analysis tools, working closely with my team and me. This role is very similar to mine. If you have questions, I'm happy to answer them. 🧪🔭
recruiting2.ultipro.com
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gully @gully.bsky.social · 14/01/2026
Currently 83% carbon-free energy in Texas right now: - 40% wind - 33% solar - 10% nuclear Wholesale prices are negative, and 3.5 GW of batteries are charging. ☀️💨⚛️🌎
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Jesse D. Jenkins @jessedjenkins.com · 04/01/2026
Despite headwinds, over 20 new EVs are coming to the US market in 2026, including several more affordable vehicles. Can any thrive without federal tax credits? insideevs.com/news/782572/... 🔌💡 🔌🚗
insideevs.com
Over 20 New EVs Are Coming In 2026. These Are The Seven I'm Most Excited About
We’ve been waiting for the next generation of EVs to arrive—cheaper, faster, better. Next year, they’ll finally be here.
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gully @gully.bsky.social · 16/12/2025
It’s wild that stellar limb effects start to matter at non-negligible fractions of a resolution element on the ELTs! Challenge… or opportunity!?
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Jesse D. Jenkins @jessedjenkins.com · 25/11/2025
The first batteries rolled off the production line at Toyota’s new $14 billion battery plant in Liberty, North Carolina. The plant will produce batteries for hybrid, plug-in hybrid & electric models, which Toyota plans to make up 70% of its sales by 2030 electrek.co/2025/11/17/t... 🔌💡 🔌🚗
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Toyota's 1,850-acre EV battery plant is live, but the company says this is just the start
Toyota’s $14 billion US battery plant is now up and running. The mega site spans 1,850 acres, or about 121...
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Chris Lintott @chrislintott.bsky.social · 12/11/2025
Get outside into a dark place if you can tonight - no guarantees, but a possible brilliant display of the northern lights.
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Jesse D. Jenkins @jessedjenkins.com · 06/11/2025
Hat tip @wilsonar.bsky.social for this! 🤣
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gully @gully.bsky.social · 06/11/2025
"Nearly all important discoveries pass through a stage of neglect or obscurity,” Professor W. Grylls Adams went on to explain. “Either the public attention is already preoccupied, or the discoveries come at a time when the public are not prepared to receive them". Energy, Rhodes
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gully @gully.bsky.social · 05/11/2025
Bookmarking to read later. Several great-looking papers already on the back log! Bravo to folks doing the hard work
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gully @gully.bsky.social · 04/11/2025
you cannot do inference without making assumptions 💜 David MacKay inference book still free PDF www.inference.org.uk/mackay/itila...
inference.org.uk
David MacKay: Information Theory, Inference, and Learning Algorithms: The Book
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gully @gully.bsky.social · 31/10/2025
Just made some sick animations, very jazzed so share these more widely someday
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gully @gully.bsky.social · 31/10/2025
Howdy yall, how’s it going? Good here 👋
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Benjamin Pope @benjaminpope.bsky.social · 14/10/2025
Thrilled to have two years' of work out, in a pair of papers led by @gradientrider.bsky.social and @maxecharles.bsky.social. We've built a data-driven calibration of the James Webb Interferometer to near its fundamental limits for high-res imaging - explainer at @aunz.theconversation.com!
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How we sharpened the James Webb telescope’s vision from a million kilometres away
The only Australian hardware on board the legendary telescope is starting to fulfil its duties.
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gully @gully.bsky.social · 14/10/2025
The figures in this paper are so satisfying!
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gully @gully.bsky.social · 10/10/2025
Gotta say I am enjoying GitHub copilot PRs and code reviews. It really feels like a healthy balance of human in the loop guardrails and leveraging LLMs strengths.
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gully @gully.bsky.social · 10/10/2025
Academic tautology
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gully @gully.bsky.social · 08/10/2025
Brown dwarf research (!) was used as the example of how AI slop pollutes internet references youtu.be/_zfN9wnPvU0?...
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AI Slop Is Killing Our Channel
YouTube video by Kurzgesagt – In a Nutshell
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gully @gully.bsky.social · 08/10/2025
Pre-LLM human-authored content is like pre-WWII steel, a precious and now scarce resource en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Low-bac...
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Shashank Dholakia @astroshashank.bsky.social · 06/10/2025
And as a bonus, here's a false-color composite of the same. Blue is mapped to all of visible, green is infrared beyond 850nm, and red is the methane band at 889nm. 🔭 #astrophotography #saturn
An azure planet on a stark black background with neon orange-pink rings seen nearly edge-on.
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