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Michael Aye
@michaelaye.bsky.social
570 followers 180 following 450 posts
Planetary data cruncher, wannabe musician, dad to human and dogs (all of them.)

ORCID: https://orcid.org/my-orcid?orcid=0000-0002-4088-1928

Profile image credits: Artistic vision of CO2 jets on Mars. Published by NASA; artist: Ron Miller.
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drkeithsmith.bsky.social
Mars Sample Return - a planned mission to retrieve the rocks collected by the Perseverance rover and bring them to Earth for lab analysis - has been effectively cancelled by US Congress.

The budget does provide some funding for technology development of a future replacement mission. #planetsci 🔭🧪
voosen.me Paul Voosen @voosen.me · 20h
My latest: The compromise spending bill is mostly full of good news for NASA science. But there is one off note: Mars Sample Return, as it's been currently devised, has no way forward.
NASA’s Mars Sample Return mission is dead
Congress backs Trump administration’s efforts to kill project that would ferry martian rocks to Earth
www.science.org
January 7, 2026 at 3:51 PM
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pikarl.bsky.social
Zum Wattenmeer läuft auf @riffreporter.bsky.social gerade ein großes Rechercheprojekt: warum Seegras wichtig ist, Wattwanderungen toll sind oder wie Sylt sich verändern wird. Und süße Robbenbabys haben wir auch. 🦭

Lest mal rein, alle Texte sind frei abrufbar:

www.riffreporter.de/de/wattenmee...
Wattenmeer unter Druck – zwischen Naturschutz und Wirtschaft
Wattenmeer: Neue Gasprojekte, Offshore-Windparks, Klimawandel und politische Zeitenwende: Unsere Reportagen zeigen, was jetzt im Watt auf dem Spiel steht.
www.riffreporter.de
January 7, 2026 at 3:17 PM
michaelaye.bsky.social
Texas is such a lost cause, it’s almost funny.
January 7, 2026 at 3:50 PM
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scottwiener.bsky.social
It’s never been about helping Venezuelans. It’s always been about the oil, about the money, about the control, specifically his personal control — “that money will be controlled by me.” He’s a crime boss & should be treated as such. He should be removed from office ASAP.
January 7, 2026 at 3:20 PM
michaelaye.bsky.social
It’s getting clearer everyday that both EU and ESA should now increase their partnerships and alliances with Australia! So, if there’s any Australian planetary science folks that want to collaborate, you know where to find me.
January 7, 2026 at 3:46 PM
michaelaye.bsky.social
Side question: are rubber bands in the gym sponsored by YouTube for creation of content?? ;)
January 5, 2026 at 11:39 PM
michaelaye.bsky.social
Freedom of speech my ass. It can’t be any more peaceful than this… arrested for what??
brandonfriedman.bsky.social Brandon Friedman @brandonfriedman.bsky.social · 2d
What in the Gestapo is going on in Grand Rapids?

Watch this activist get arrested *mid-interview* for speaking out against U.S. action in Venezuela.
January 5, 2026 at 8:36 PM
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brandonfriedman.bsky.social
What in the Gestapo is going on in Grand Rapids?

Watch this activist get arrested *mid-interview* for speaking out against U.S. action in Venezuela.
January 5, 2026 at 4:12 PM
michaelaye.bsky.social
I keep reading that if US annexes Greenland that NATO is done. What a gross understatement. Not only would this mean an immediate expulsion of US, but technically the rest of NATO would be required to act in defense of NATO area. In other words this means a total and absolute end of any
January 5, 2026 at 8:34 PM
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claudiobe.bsky.social
Man sollte lieber darüber nachdenken, Homöopathie nicht mehr als freiwillige Kassenleistung für Behandlung und Mittel (Globuli), zu bezahlen, bevor man unsinnige Gebühren einführt, die die Bürokratie wieder auffrisst. Die Streichung homöopathischer Leistungen wäre ein reines, sofort verfügbares Plus
December 29, 2025 at 7:03 AM
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janoschdahmenmdb.de
Kontaktgebühren sind ein durchschaubares Ablenkungsmanöver. Wer ernsthaft entlasten will, muss Über- & Fehlversorgung drastisch reduzieren, Arzneimittelpreise regulieren und Primärversorgung stärken – statt Patient:innen für politisches Versagen auch noch zahlen zu lassen.
SPIEGEL: „Drei oder vier Euro“ Kassenärzte-Chef fordert Gebühr bei jedem Arztbesuch Die Kassenärztliche Bundesvereinigung plädiert für eine Eigenbeteiligung der Patienten bei Arztbesuchen. KBV-Chef Andreas Gassen will so die Zahl der Mehrfachbehandlungen reduzieren und die Krankenkassen entlasten.
December 28, 2025 at 8:49 PM
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gaelvaroquaux.bsky.social
That's OK, it's just a list somewhere, and it's useful to be on that list because it gives visibility to the project 😀.

@scikit-learn.org has a deficit of visibility; those not in machine learning do not realize how much it is used
December 29, 2025 at 6:27 AM
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carlyhowett.bsky.social
Bucket list item unlocked: I'm so proud to be included as a guest in this year's Royal Institution Christmas Lectures! I'm in Lecture 2 which (in the UK) is aired at 7pm on 29th Dec on BBC4, or on iPlayer now. Tune in to find out why moons might be the best places to find non-Earth life!

EEEEEEEEP!
December 28, 2025 at 5:31 PM
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parkermolloy.com
I feel like I'm going to get a lot of use out of this Pluribus screencap
Carol in Pluribus: All the brains in the world, and you can't navigate a fuckin' pronoun?
December 21, 2025 at 12:59 AM
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hellyeahcorks.bsky.social
@schiff.senate.gov @padilla.senate.gov @usrepjimmypanetta.bsky.social COULD Y'ALL GET ON THIS BEFORE EVERY SINGLE SCIENCE GRANT HAS BEEN (ILLEGALLY) TERMINATED.

It would be super cool to actually stop the admin from doing illegal shit, but IDK man what do I know. I'm just a scientist. 💀
December 21, 2025 at 7:13 AM
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c0nc0rdance.bsky.social
So reindeer (Rangifer tarandus) can't fly, but they are VERY MAGICAL.

For example, their EYES CHANGE COLOR during the year & they're one of the few large mammals that can see UV. Golden brown in summer, deep blue in winter.

Let's talk about the unique visual adaptations of Rudolph and company.
Paddy Kalish OD shared this photo of reindeer eyes, showing a dramatic difference in eye color, probably dramatized, because the real effect is a eye-shine color, which is hard to represent.
December 20, 2025 at 11:36 PM
michaelaye.bsky.social
Every day I’m amazed by the #gridfinity community. Just looked up if there were any solutions for Dymo labelers and its tape cassettes. Found an all in one box for the standard six tapes and machine holder in an 8x3 gridfinity bin. So happy i don’t need to design it!
December 20, 2025 at 11:07 PM
michaelaye.bsky.social
If there’s one thing that consistently all students (and some older folks too) do wrong , is to not fix the y-axis range when comparing two data plots with the same dimensions.
December 15, 2025 at 9:51 AM
michaelaye.bsky.social
In Bambu Studio on Mac, did you notice that you cannot copy text from online models, so that you could open linked models to elsewhere or otherwise process infos mentioned in the description? Vote here to have this bug/feature fixed: github.com/bambulab/Bam...
Copy Paste of Text from within Bambu Studio maker world not working · Issue #6877 · bambulab/BambuStudio
Bambu Studio Version 2.0.3.54 Where is the application from? Bambu Lab Official website OS version Mac OS 10.15 Additional system information No response Printer P1S, H2D - issue is with Bambu Stud...
github.com
December 12, 2025 at 5:40 PM
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biancanogrady.bsky.social
The US social media vetting for visas will be devastating for scientific and journalistic conferences, fellowships etc. No global organisation can seriously consider holding an international conference in the US while this policy exists.
December 11, 2025 at 5:35 AM
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brenttoderian.bsky.social
“Air pollution fell substantially as Paris restricted car traffic and made way for parks, people-streets and bike-lanes.”

Better for the climate, better for health, better for livability and quality of life.

Common sense.

Such a no-brainer, it’s remarkable that more cities HAVEN’T done the same.
Paris said au revoir to cars. Air pollution maps reveal a dramatic change.
Air pollution fell substantially as the city restricted car traffic and made way for parks and bike lanes.
www.washingtonpost.com
December 11, 2025 at 1:22 AM
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thetnholler.bsky.social
MINNEAPOLIS: “All I did was step outside as a Somali American citizen, and I got chased by a masked person, assaulted, kidnapped. It was inhumane. If this is what’s happening to a 🇺🇸 citizen on camera, imagine what could happen to your loved ones.”
December 11, 2025 at 4:00 AM
michaelaye.bsky.social
Let's share it wide: these rocks need a home! #geologists #geology
geology.bsky.social Andrew Alden @geology.bsky.social · 27d
Here's a long shot: a big orphan pebble collection from the USGS, yours if you can take and treasure it. See alt text
California Conglomerate Clast Collection Seeks New Home Conglomerate clasts were collected from 279 sites by Vic Seiders and Brett Cox for their report, "Place of Origin of the Salinian Block, California, as Based on Clast Compositions of Upper Cretaceous and Lower Tertiary Conglomerates," USGS Professional Paper 1526 (https://pubs.usgs.gov/pp/1526/report.pdf). This is an extremely important comprehensive collection. Localities are principally in or near the Salinian Block in western California, but cover from Anchor Bay (Stewarts Point quad, 4,281,400N, 462.390E) to Cabo Vizcaino in Baja California, including a bit of western Arizona. At least one locality, on Highway 92 near Pilarcitos Creek (site WO-268, Woodside quad, 4,149,080N, 555.710E), is now inaccessible, having been encased in Caltrans concrete. In the mid 1990s, when the USGS closed their rock storage depository in Menlo Park, throwing irreplaceable collections in the trash, the Seiders and Cox collection was given by Brett Cox to Kathleen Burnham for safe keeping. However, she used only one of these clasts in her own work, has no further need of them, and has run out of room to store them. The collection is entirely pebbles, size range 0.4-6.0 cm, mainly 0.4-3.0 cm, and samples were etched overnight in 5% hydrofluoric acid solution, to aid in identification. The rocks are neatly stored in boxes measuring 12" x 9.5" x 5". At present the stack is 6 by 3 by 6 boxes, which comes to 108 boxes, and the stack measures 69" x 39" x 30", roughly 47 cubic feet. The boxes are marked and numbered. One box was partially damaged, however, no clasts or markings on the box were lost. Kathleen used the Seiders and Cox locations for some of her own collection, and reports that despite their work pre-dating GPS, their sample locations are extremely accurately specified in their publication. If this collection would be useful to you, and/or you can give these rocks a home, DM me and I’ll pass on your name. clean etched pebbles from the collection Boxes of the collection, each one clearly marked and annotated
December 11, 2025 at 11:26 AM
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geology.bsky.social
Here's a long shot: a big orphan pebble collection from the USGS, yours if you can take and treasure it. See alt text
California Conglomerate Clast Collection Seeks New Home Conglomerate clasts were collected from 279 sites by Vic Seiders and Brett Cox for their report, "Place of Origin of the Salinian Block, California, as Based on Clast Compositions of Upper Cretaceous and Lower Tertiary Conglomerates," USGS Professional Paper 1526 (https://pubs.usgs.gov/pp/1526/report.pdf). This is an extremely important comprehensive collection. Localities are principally in or near the Salinian Block in western California, but cover from Anchor Bay (Stewarts Point quad, 4,281,400N, 462.390E) to Cabo Vizcaino in Baja California, including a bit of western Arizona. At least one locality, on Highway 92 near Pilarcitos Creek (site WO-268, Woodside quad, 4,149,080N, 555.710E), is now inaccessible, having been encased in Caltrans concrete. In the mid 1990s, when the USGS closed their rock storage depository in Menlo Park, throwing irreplaceable collections in the trash, the Seiders and Cox collection was given by Brett Cox to Kathleen Burnham for safe keeping. However, she used only one of these clasts in her own work, has no further need of them, and has run out of room to store them. The collection is entirely pebbles, size range 0.4-6.0 cm, mainly 0.4-3.0 cm, and samples were etched overnight in 5% hydrofluoric acid solution, to aid in identification. The rocks are neatly stored in boxes measuring 12" x 9.5" x 5". At present the stack is 6 by 3 by 6 boxes, which comes to 108 boxes, and the stack measures 69" x 39" x 30", roughly 47 cubic feet. The boxes are marked and numbered. One box was partially damaged, however, no clasts or markings on the box were lost. Kathleen used the Seiders and Cox locations for some of her own collection, and reports that despite their work pre-dating GPS, their sample locations are extremely accurately specified in their publication. If this collection would be useful to you, and/or you can give these rocks a home, DM me and I’ll pass on your name. clean etched pebbles from the collection Boxes of the collection, each one clearly marked and annotated
December 11, 2025 at 4:10 AM
michaelaye.bsky.social
i swear, one of these days i will clean up my 5 contacts addressbooks from 7 email accounts.... one of these days, be warned... :/
December 11, 2025 at 11:19 AM