Ryleigh Davis
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Ryleigh Davis
@import-astrory.bsky.social
Planetary Science PhD student at Caltech studying icy satellites with telescope spectroscopy & mom to a very active 1 year old
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M. Ryleigh Davis, Samantha K. Trumbo, Michael E. Brown, Matthew Belyakov: Spectroscopic Mapping of Callisto with HST/STIS and Implications for its Surface Composition https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.00151 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2506.00151 https://arxiv.org/html/2506.00151
June 3, 2025 at 6:06 AM
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"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...
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
www.scientificamerican.com
June 5, 2025 at 4:12 PM
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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.
June 1, 2025 at 1:38 AM
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The NASA planetary science fleet chart if the president’s budget is enacted.
May 30, 2025 at 9:57 PM