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Jess Pendley @jesspendley.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Future me watching temporary -productivity-burst me commit to meetings and calls.

A small machine, the front resembles a smiling face, and its back reflected in the mirror behind it resembles a horrified face.

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Ryleigh Davis @import-astrory.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Happening in a little over an hour if anyone wants to tune in live! youtube.com/live/gHhjz7C...

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What Happened to Neptune’s Moons? | #SETILive

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SETI Institute @setiinstitute.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Neptune’s tiny inner moons may be remnants of much larger icy worlds destroyed billions of years ago. 🔵💥 Could Triton’s arrival be responsible? Join @goastromo.bsky.social + lead author @import-astrory.bsky.social on #SETILive. 📅 Sept. 3 | 2:30 pm PDT 🧪 🔭 👩‍🔬

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Jacquelyn Gill @jacquelyngill.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

Hey folks, this hasn’t gotten much attention, but remember those proposed OMB rule changes we all commented on recently? There’s a new attempt to sneak them just for NSF. We have three days to comment. Please don’t sleep on this!

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The Planetary Society @planetarysociety.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

IT WORKED! Thousands of you wrote your senators, and the Senate passed a funding bill pausing the OMB rule that would hand political appointees control over science grants. But it's not over: the House's bill doesn't include the pause. Tell your Rep to back the Senate's language: planet.ly/cPbNu

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Caltech @caltech.edu · 30/07/2026

Using NASA's James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), a team of Caltech researchers has observed Neptune's rings and three of those moons—Larissa, Galatea, and Proteus—and found that their composition is unique among outer solar system bodies. www.caltech.edu/about/news/n...

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Neptune's Inner Moons May Be Shattered Remains of Ancient Icy Worlds

New findings from Caltech researchers suggest Neptune's smallest satellites formed from the shattered remains of an original moon system that was destroyed when Triton was captured by Neptune's…

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Astronomer Royal for Scotland | Catherine Heymans @astroroyalscot.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

I'm absolutely devastated for colleagues at Jodrell Bank who found out this morning that funding for the UK's e-MERLIN radio telescope array will be terminated. This is a short-sighted move, to save a tiny fraction of the overall UK science budget. #SaveJodrellBank 🔭🧪 www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

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Jodrell Bank's Lovell telescope faces axe in science cuts, BBC understands

Astronomers warn it would tear the heart out of UK science, and leave a generation untrained.

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Dr Alfredo Carpineti @drcarpineti.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

Neptune’s inner moons are unlike anything in the outer solar system. We might know why and we can blame a captured dwarf planet! 🔭 www.iflscience.com/neptunes-inn...

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Neptune’s Inner Moons And Rings Might Be Left Over From A Cosmic Game Of Marbles Caused By The Capture Of Triton

Evidence suggests the giant planet captured its largest moon, then things went sideways.

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Ryleigh Davis @import-astrory.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

My new paper is out in Science Advances! Neptune's inner moons preserve clay minerals from the deep interiors of ancient icy worlds, exposed by Triton's catastrophic arrival. Here's the story and what it tells us about the violent history of the Neptunian system. 🧵 www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

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Neptune’s inner moons and rings are exposed icy body interiors

Triton’s destructive wake exposed clay-like minerals from within ancient icy worlds, now reaccreted as Neptune’s inner moons.

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Paul Byrne @theplanetaryguy.com · 21/07/2026

Sources: apnews.com/live/trump-i... www.planetary.org/space-policy...

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Paul Byrne @theplanetaryguy.com · 09/07/2026

This is a real image. Taken by Voyager 1 in 1979, the icy moon Europa floats above Jupiter's swirling Red Spot maelstrom. The shadow is from Io, another of Jupiter's large inner moons, which is out of frame. Oh to see this view with my own eyes (safely shielded from the lethal radiation fields)

The swirling face of Jupiter, with the Great Red Spot at lower right. At lower left, difficult to discern from the cloudy backdrop, is Europa, lit from the right. At upper right is a dark circle—the shadow of Io.

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The Planetary Society @planetarysociety.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

❗This rule would end peer review as we know it at NASA. For 80 years, experts decided which federal research gets funded based on merit. A new OMB rule would give politicians final say instead. But this isn’t over yet. Comment by July 13: www.planetary.org/ombgrantrules

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Advocacy Action Center

The Planetary Society is organizing a new space constituency that is educated, empowered, and loud.

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Mike Brown @plutokiller.com · 23/06/2026

Excited at our paper just out in PNAS. We used JWST to detect frozen deuterated water ("heavy water") on the moons of Uranus. There is **much more** on the moons than on Uranus itself, showing that Uranus and the moons formed from separate reservoirs of water. Fun lab work in the supplement, too.🔭🪐

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Deuterated water and the formation of the satellites of Uranus | PNAS

The satellites of Uranus orbit in a low-eccentricity, equatorial plane that is tilted by 98° relative to the solar system—a geometry that mirrors U...

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Paul Byrne @theplanetaryguy.com · 25/06/2026

1) Open this image up 2) Find the small, blue feature in the very middle Congratulations, you've spotted the Perseverance rover on Mars, photographed from orbit! 3) Trace the rover tracks as they wend their way across the surface

A complex landscape of buttes, hills, hummocks, and sand dunes, in tones of gold and teal. In the middle, a small, beetle-blue feature. Around it, faint parallel tracks.

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Angela Marusiak @planetaryquakes.bsky.social · 05/06/2026

There’s a new proposed rule that can cancel a grant at any time and all new grants have to be approved by political appointees. Submit a comment here and let them know how catastrophic this would be for US Science. www.regulations.gov/document/OMB...

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Ryleigh Davis @import-astrory.bsky.social · 20/05/2026

So thrilled to see this out today and proud to be part of it! 🎉JWST spectroscopy + N-body sims pointing to Nereid as the last survivor of Neptune's original moon system. Huge congrats to @matt-belyakov.bsky.social who led this work! MOONPOCALYPSE WAS REAL 🪐🔱💥🔭

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Ryleigh Davis @import-astrory.bsky.social · 13/05/2026

Just before finishing my PhD and leaving Caltech in April, I had the opportunity to give this year’s Everhart Lecture. The recording is now online! If you’re interested, you can watch it here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=61bu...

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A Planetary Cold Case: Using JWST to Uncover the Catastrophic History of Neptune’s Moons

YouTube video by caltech

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Kevin T. Trinh @icymoonskevin.bsky.social · 02/02/2026

Do you know of an undergrad who would be a good fit for icy moons or geophysics research? If so, encourage them to apply here: stemgateway.nasa.gov/s/course-off...

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This link will take you to a page that’s not on LinkedIn

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arXiv astro-ph.EP Earth and Planetary Astrophysics @astrophep-bot.bsky.social · 03/06/2025

M. Ryleigh Davis, Samantha K. Trumbo, Michael E. Brown, Matthew Belyakov: Spectroscopic Mapping of Callisto with HST/STIS and Implications for its Surface Composition arxiv.org/abs/2506.00151 arxiv.org/pdf/2506.00151 arxiv.org/html/2506.00151

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Nadia Drake @nadiadrake.bsky.social · 05/06/2025

"You’re punching a generation-size hole, maybe a multigenerational hole, in the scientific and technical workforce. You don’t just Cryovac these people and pull them out when the money comes back. People are going to move on.” www.scientificamerican.com/article/prop...

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This Budget Plan Would Devastate U.S. Space Science

Scientists are rallying to reverse ruinous proposed cuts to both NASA and the National Science Foundation

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Dr. Jessie Christiansen @aussiastronomer.bsky.social · 01/06/2025

Briefly wandered over to The Other Place to gauge the response to the NASA budget devastation to encounter a bunch of gleeful 'we spend too much money, so this is great.' TO BE, ONCE AGAIN, PERFECTLY CLEAR, THE BUDGET REQUEST MOVES ALL THIS MONEY TO DEFENSE. IT SPENDS IT. NO MONEY IS SAVED.

A screenshot of p.43 of https://www.whitehouse.gov/wp-content/uploads/2025/05/Fiscal-Year-2026-Discretionary-Budget-Request.pdf showing $119.3B moved from Defense to Non-Defense.

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James Tuttle Keane @jtuttlekeane.bsky.social · 30/05/2025

The NASA planetary science fleet chart if the president’s budget is enacted.

The NASA planetary science fleet chart. It shows two spirals with missions to Moon/Mars and the Solar System. I’ve crossed off all of the missions that will be cancelled in the president’s budget… and there are a lot of them.

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