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Michael Aye @michael.planetarypy.space · 01/10/2026

for creating good matplotlib plots, AI/Claude REALLY shines. the amount of fine-tuning I am able to do without looking up the 20 year old APIs that sometimes (not always) are counter-intuitive or just "aged"... it's cool how good looking products one can achieve in less time!

plot of Ganymede flyby observation planning, including boxes for regions of interest and colored ribbons indicating illumination state and smearing evaluation

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Michael Aye @michael.planetarypy.space · 30/09/2026

vibe coding challenge: press "1: Accept and use auto mode" when the beat drops of the background deep house music. It's fun! ;)

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Michael Aye @michael.planetarypy.space · 30/09/2026

i have a standing rule for claude that helps me a lot to stay cleaner with this. as soon as a script idea is usable by others it will enter the code into a fitting library.

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Michael Aye @michael.planetarypy.space · 30/09/2026

i'll write a blog post, thanks for the interest. a good decider constraint i found is: when a script needs to be imported by another script, the 1st script becomes library code with tests.

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Michael Aye @michael.planetarypy.space · 24/09/2026

LLM asked me to say "Go" to start the simulation. I typed "Engage" and I smiled. ;)

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Michael Aye @michael.planetarypy.space · 20/09/2026

One thing that becomes clear to me trying to do science with an LLM: you absolutely have to force it to produce library code with tests and reuse it from the beginning! When you allow to create quick scripts there’s no guarantee that the physics are implemented the same way in the next script.

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Barred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie @audrelawdamercy.blacksky.app · 18/09/2026

i'm not over Alito saying we shouldn't count ballots that are mailed on or before Election Day but arrive shortly afterwards bc they can “radically flip” the “apparent outcome” cannot stress enough that, until all ballots are counted, there's no outcome to flip! ballsandstrikes.org/scotus/alito...

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A Brief History of Sam Alito’s Delusional Obsession With Voter Fraud

His conduct in several recent cases suggests that Alito is deep in the right-wing conspiracy theory weeds.

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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Huge turnout at the Kennedy Center tonight! 💚✊ Thank you!

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Patrick McGovern @planetpatman.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

As I said to a friend a couple of years ago: “AI isn’t going to kill us with fucking Terminator robots, it’s going to kill us by rendering a modern, computer-based society incapable of functioning!”

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Michael Aye @michael.planetarypy.space · 19/09/2026

One of most annoying things I find since being back in Germany is being pressured to pay for a toilet visit in a shopping mall. The mall wants my money, it can make my visit comfortable by sorting this out themselves.

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Michael Aye @michael.planetarypy.space · 15/09/2026

Music lovers: there are 2 versions of Shirley Bassey’s Goldfinger out there. On the soundtrack she moves more steady to the beat, which I find supports the heavy accompany well. But there’s also another radio or studio version where she keeps slowing down and accelerating, not liking it. What u say?

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Elizabeth Warren @warren.senate.gov · 13/09/2026

Flight attendants have the right to organize a union without intimidation or interference. I've received reports that Delta threatened pay and benefits, and encouraged new workers to report colleagues for even mentioning a union. I'm pushing back against union-busting tactics.

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Michael Aye @michael.planetarypy.space · 13/09/2026

This is one of the best scientific programming resources on the web having its latest release. I learned so much from this free resource over the years!

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Mark Carney @mark-carney.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Canada is worth fighting for. Today. Tomorrow. Forever.

Prime Minister Carney meets with Forever Canadian movement supporters in Banff, Alberta.

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Michael Aye @michael.planetarypy.space · 10/09/2026

I have released 0.12.0 of my isistools that contained a bug fixed version of csm2map, a faster, pure python version of cam2map. Its faster because it tries to do all in RAM, that works up to CTX size with laptop memory, for HiRISE I’m still testing how it can do it partially out of memory.

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DLR-next @dlr-next.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Guten Morgen zusammen - wie gewohnt mit einem aktuellen Bild der Sonne per Satellit SDO.

Die ganze erdzugewandte Seite der Sonne in orangeroter Farbe. An fünf bis sechs Stellen helle gelbe Färbung, als ob es da von innen hervor leuchtet. Um die Sonne das Schwarz des Weltalls.

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Michael Aye @michael.planetarypy.space · 08/09/2026

Oh my word I think yoga instructions that often say don’t shrug possibly created too weak shrug muscles for me creating in turn rotator cuff issues. There I was thinking shrugging is never good and this seems to be wrong!?!

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Michael Aye @michael.planetarypy.space · 07/09/2026

PROJ ships planetary CRS under a versioned authority, IAU_2015. Write one to a GeoTIFF or GeoPackage, read it back, and most of the stack can't tell you what it is any more. Four round-trips, minimal reproducers. One works. michaelaye.github.io/posts/iau-cr...

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Four ways your GIS stack loses a planetary CRS – Home

IAU_2015 is a versioned authority, and most readers drop the version

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Dr. Laci Brock 🪐 @stellerarts.com · 07/09/2026

Happy Monday! Please enjoy my tiny painting of Neptune

Clay disk painted like Neptune in my hand

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Michael Aye @michael.planetarypy.space · 07/09/2026

Tutorial, with plots: overlaying IAU names on real image footprints, in one coordinate frame. Coordinates get looked up, not remembered — the value usually quoted for Jezero sits ~17 km east of the gazetteer's. michaelaye.github.io/planetarypy/...

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Surface features beside image footprints – PlanetaryPy

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Michael Aye @michael.planetarypy.space · 07/09/2026

Released planetarypy 0.83.0 🪐 IAU feature names are now a plottable layer — add_features(ax, "mars") is the coastlines() move for planetary maps. 47 bodies, 2049 Mars features, 9086 lunar. Plus a session-wide target CRS and other goodies. michaelaye.github.io/planetarypy/...

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Release Notes – PlanetaryPy

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Michael Aye @michael.planetarypy.space · 03/09/2026

The remaining spacecraft is also "power-positive", with the solar panels were stored since end of cruise in June and they have now successfully been switched back on.

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Michael Aye @michael.planetarypy.space · 03/09/2026

3 actually. and today the "bus driver spacecraft" ejected. 2 science spacecraft remain connected for now.

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ESA Operations @operations.esa.int · 03/09/2026

📡 Estrack deep space antennas are in position for #BepiColombo. Cebreros ready for separation detection - check! ☑️ Malargüe ready for background tracking - check! ☑️ @esa.int #JAXA #Mercury

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Michael Aye @michael.planetarypy.space · 03/09/2026

An indirect confirmation of the separation has arrived: Using a tiny change of radio communication frequencies caused by the presumed separation event! Now we are waiting for telemetry. (I'm excited specifically b/c I recently became a Co-I for the BeLA instrument, the laser altimeter).

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Michael Aye @michael.planetarypy.space · 03/09/2026

Just learned about Devetashka Cave in Bulgaria. Are you even a geologist if you haven’t been there? ;) absolutely gobsmacking: 70,000 years ago early humans were living there, up to 100 meter high ceilings, with built in flood light holes.

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Thomas Carpentier @thocarp.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

That's the first time that I am happy with my processed image of an observation of Neptune by Hubble, so I am sharing it here too! 🔭 This observation was done yesterday around 6pm UTC. The data come from the 17964 proposal led by Mariarosa Marinelli.

A picture of Neptune as seen by the Hubble Space Telescope. The planet appears in dark blue, with some storms near the poles and the equator looking like white spots and streaks.

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Michael Aye @michael.planetarypy.space · 02/09/2026

everytime i see these detectors I want to shout out some science curse that would expel me from the library... :)

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Michael Aye @michael.planetarypy.space · 02/09/2026

maybe it's going toward the other extrem, but i once set up a rule to always show with data instead of recalling from memory. Now when i just asked: "is gdalinfo reporting rows/cols or cols/rows"?, instead of coming up with an answer from memory, it tested it with a small gdal_create CLI run. :)

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Michael Aye @michael.planetarypy.space · 02/09/2026

You can add that as a coding rule to Claude, even down to your preferred libraries. Like “always check astropy first before creating your own utlilities”.

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SPIE @spie.org · 01/09/2026

The Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope is now in orbit! 🔭☄️ Explore research documenting the mission’s development, from detectors and #instrumentation to coronagraphs and optical systems, through #SPIE_JATIS: bit.ly/3V7UOiH

A cluster of blue and green shaded square sensors.

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💖 Birdhism Jen @birdhism.com · 02/09/2026

Paint them things please. #climate #windpower #birds

Scientists painted one wind turbine blade black, and bird deaths dropped by 70% in a long-term study in Norway.
@explaining.tech
"Imagine the solution being this simple the whole time."

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Meg Schwamb @megschwamb.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

There absolutely is no doubt that the climate crisis has been caused by humans and our pumping of green house gasses and pollutants in to the Earth's atmosphere since the industrial revolution and growing effectively exponentially ever since.

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Michael Aye @michael.planetarypy.space · 02/09/2026

I always make the point to AI to use existing libraries whenever possible. So in this case I’d point it at astropy for this conversion.

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Dr Jan Eldridge @astro-jje.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

So the week after the "Star Trek Strange New Worlds" talked about "Strong Force Neutrinos" this happens.... www.science.org/content/arti...

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World’s biggest dark matter detector spots a single weird particle

It’s far too early to declare a discovery, physicists with the LZ detector say

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DLR-next @dlr-next.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Nochmal zum Thema Merkur (siehe Post von heute Morgen): Da ist ja unter anderem immer noch völlig rätselhaft, warum dieser kleine Planet (hier in einer unserer aufwendigen Visualisierungen dargestellt) einen proportional viel zu großen Kern hat.

Das mit der angeblich aufwendigen Visualisierung ist wie immer ein kleiner Spaß. Das Foto zeigt einen Berliner, in manchen Regionen aus unerfindlichen Gründen auch anders bezeichnet, mit Puderzucker bestreut auf einem Teller.

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Meg Schwamb @megschwamb.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

What angers me the most as a planetary scientist about the world blowing through the 1.5 deg C threshold is that we know how to stop this. The broad strokes physics/processes here are straightforward enough that the runaway greenhouse Earth and snowball Earth was a homework assignment in grad school

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Anonymous Germany @anonymousgermany.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Ausgerechnet die AfD-"Patrioten" stellen sich schützend vor das 'Opfer' Putin+zweifeln daran, dass Russland hinter Leipzig steckt, weil angeblich keine Beweise vorliegen. Das ist wie ein Bankangestellter, der sich schützend vor einen Bankräuber stellt wenn die Polizei anrückt!

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Elizabeth Warren @warren.senate.gov · 31/08/2026

Back-to-school shopping costs more this year thanks to Trump’s chaotic tariffs. Need notebooks and markers? Expect to spend $118 on supplies for each kid. Add clothes, books, and tech? $800+. Trump calls this “America First”? Give me a break.

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Yvette Cendes @whereisyvette.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Went outside tonight to enjoy clear and dark skies with the Milky Way visible. At any given point there were at least two satellites as bright as bright stars also tracking through the sky. It makes me sad and angry that we had to give up a magical dark sky without having a chance to give input.

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Guardian US @us.theguardian.com · 31/08/2026

A graphic novel by Melissa Chan and Badiucao imagines China and the US at war in 2035. They hope to remind young people that ‘authoritarianism everywhere is bad’

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Gen Z ‘Chinamaxxers’ fantasise about life in China. This journalist and this artist can never go back there

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Elizabeth Warren @warren.senate.gov · 31/08/2026

BREAKING: The Supreme Court gave Trump the greenlight to steamroll ahead on his $600M ballroom. Trump's billionaire buddies and corporations gave millions in "gifts" to bankroll it. Many have big stakes in federal contracts and actions. It's a gold-encrusted gateway for corruption.

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Merriam-Webster @merriam-webster.com · 31/08/2026

macabre = “muh-KAHB” Worcestershire = “WOOSS-ter-sheer” omnipotent = “ahm-NI-puh-tunt” reticent = “RET-uh-sunt” epitome = “ih-PIT-uh-mee” myriad = "MEER-ee-ud" Never make fun of someone if they mispronounce a word. It means they learned it by reading.

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Tom Regan @windsorns.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

I would like to recommend another cartoonist. Bruce MacKinnon, of the Halifax Herald. Mike was the cartoonist for the now defunct Halifax Daily News and Bruce was the cartoonist for its main competition. Between the two of them, they regularly knocked it out of the park.

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