gully
@gully.bsky.social
interpretable machine learning for atmospheric and astronomical data analysis, near-IR spectra, climate tech, stars & planets; bikes, Austin, diving off bridges into the ocean.
Sans serif math in LaTeX is so satisfying. \mathsf{}
February 10, 2026 at 4:44 PM
Sans serif math in LaTeX is so satisfying. \mathsf{}
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!
Very happy to advertise a Postdoctoral Research Associate in Exoplanet Science position with me and Christian Schwab at Macquarie University in Sydney.
We'll be working on applying machine learning & differentiable physics models to extremely precise radial velocity surveys.
We'll be working on applying machine learning & differentiable physics models to extremely precise radial velocity surveys.
Postdoctoral Research Associate in Exoplanet Science
PRIMARY DETAIL - Salary Package: $109,272 - $117,108 (HEW Level A.6-A.8) - plus 17% employer's superannuation contribution and annual leave loading. - Full time, 3 year fixed-term role - Macquarie Uni...
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February 10, 2026 at 11:55 AM
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!
Still want a JAX for science conference, where all my JAX scientists at
February 6, 2026 at 6:05 PM
Still want a JAX for science conference, where all my JAX scientists at
The sheer joy I felt just now discovering that there is a new Dan Foreman Mackey video about JAX.
February 6, 2026 at 6:03 PM
The sheer joy I felt just now discovering that there is a new Dan Foreman Mackey video about JAX.
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standing room only for physics?
faith in humanity restored ✨👏
faith in humanity restored ✨👏
February 5, 2026 at 3:05 AM
standing room only for physics?
faith in humanity restored ✨👏
faith in humanity restored ✨👏
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.
February 4, 2026 at 2:25 PM
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.
Everything becomes so much easier when you can forward model your data
February 4, 2026 at 2:16 PM
Everything becomes so much easier when you can forward model your data
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!
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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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February 4, 2026 at 2:15 PM
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!
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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. 🧪🔭
This role is very similar to mine. If you have questions, I'm happy to answer them. 🧪🔭
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January 27, 2026 at 9:27 PM
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. 🧪🔭
This role is very similar to mine. If you have questions, I'm happy to answer them. 🧪🔭
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.
☀️💨⚛️🌎
- 40% wind
- 33% solar
- 10% nuclear
Wholesale prices are negative, and 3.5 GW of batteries are charging.
☀️💨⚛️🌎
January 14, 2026 at 6:52 PM
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.
☀️💨⚛️🌎
- 40% wind
- 33% solar
- 10% nuclear
Wholesale prices are negative, and 3.5 GW of batteries are charging.
☀️💨⚛️🌎
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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/... 🔌💡 🔌🚗
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.
insideevs.com
January 4, 2026 at 2:42 PM
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/... 🔌💡 🔌🚗
It’s wild that stellar limb effects start to matter at non-negligible fractions of a resolution element on the ELTs!
Challenge… or opportunity!?
Challenge… or opportunity!?
Andrea Lin presenting on issue predicted to affect accuracy of precise radial velocities on single-mode fiber-fed spectrographs on large telescopes - differential limb coupling. Nearby target stars are typically ~1 milliarcsec, but diffrctn limits in large telescopes ~tens of milliarcsec #ExSoCal
December 16, 2025 at 2:53 AM
It’s wild that stellar limb effects start to matter at non-negligible fractions of a resolution element on the ELTs!
Challenge… or opportunity!?
Challenge… or opportunity!?
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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... 🔌💡 🔌🚗
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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November 25, 2025 at 4:11 PM
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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Get outside into a dark place if you can tonight - no guarantees, but a possible brilliant display of the northern lights.
We have upgraded our geomagnetic forecast today (12 November 2025) to the highest intensity level amid an ongoing solar storm.
Current predictions suggest that the activity will result in potentially the largest solar storm to hit our planet in over two decades.
Current predictions suggest that the activity will result in potentially the largest solar storm to hit our planet in over two decades.
November 12, 2025 at 3:30 PM
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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Hat tip @wilsonar.bsky.social for this! 🤣
November 6, 2025 at 12:49 AM
Hat tip @wilsonar.bsky.social for this! 🤣
"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
Energy, Rhodes
November 6, 2025 at 2:03 AM
"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
Energy, Rhodes
Bookmarking to read later. Several great-looking papers already on the back log! Bravo to folks doing the hard work
Big congrats to Jennifer Burt, Xavier Dumusque, and Sam Halverson on finishing their epic (instant classic) Annual Reviews of Astronomy & Astrophysics article "Precise Radial Velocities"!
arxiv.org/abs/2511.01954
contains some great new graphics for talks on
#exoplanets #EPRV #DopplerSpectroscopy
arxiv.org/abs/2511.01954
contains some great new graphics for talks on
#exoplanets #EPRV #DopplerSpectroscopy
November 5, 2025 at 3:19 PM
Bookmarking to read later. Several great-looking papers already on the back log! Bravo to folks doing the hard work
you cannot do inference without making assumptions
💜 David MacKay inference book still free PDF
www.inference.org.uk/mackay/itila...
💜 David MacKay inference book still free PDF
www.inference.org.uk/mackay/itila...
David MacKay: Information Theory, Inference, and Learning Algorithms: The Book
www.inference.org.uk
November 4, 2025 at 6:20 PM
you cannot do inference without making assumptions
💜 David MacKay inference book still free PDF
www.inference.org.uk/mackay/itila...
💜 David MacKay inference book still free PDF
www.inference.org.uk/mackay/itila...
Just made some sick animations, very jazzed so share these more widely someday
October 31, 2025 at 5:24 PM
Just made some sick animations, very jazzed so share these more widely someday
Howdy yall, how’s it going? Good here 👋
October 31, 2025 at 5:23 PM
Howdy yall, how’s it going? Good here 👋
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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!
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!
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.
theconversation.com
October 14, 2025 at 3:35 AM
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!
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!
The figures in this paper are so satisfying!
Amazing work solving a tricky calibration problem with JWST aperture masking data! Any hope to improve ground-based systematics with this general approach?
@benjaminpope.bsky.social
arxiv.org/abs/2510.09806
@benjaminpope.bsky.social
arxiv.org/abs/2510.09806
AMIGO: a Data-Driven Calibration of the JWST Interferometer
The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) hosts a non-redundant Aperture Masking Interferometer (AMI) in its Near Infrared Imager and Slitless Spectrograph (NIRISS) instrument, providing the only dedicate...
arxiv.org
October 14, 2025 at 1:44 PM
The figures in this paper are so satisfying!
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.
October 10, 2025 at 4:20 PM
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.
Academic tautology
beginning to worry I have signed up to too many things
October 10, 2025 at 1:17 PM
Academic tautology
Brown dwarf research (!) was used as the example of how AI slop pollutes internet references
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AI Slop Is Killing Our Channel
YouTube video by Kurzgesagt – In a Nutshell
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October 8, 2025 at 8:20 PM
Brown dwarf research (!) was used as the example of how AI slop pollutes internet references
youtu.be/_zfN9wnPvU0?...
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