AASWomen Newsletter for September 28, 2018

AAS Committee on the Status of Women
Issue of September 28, 2018
eds: Nicolle Zellner, Heather Flewelling, Cristina Thomas, Maria Patterson, and JoEllen McBride

This week's issues:

1. Women in Space Conference

2. A Hologram of the First Woman of Color in Space Debuted on Museum Day

3. Women much less likely to ask questions in academic seminars than men

4. Portrayals of female STEM characters in TV and film haven't improved in 10 years

5. The People Who Could Have Done Science Didn't

6. A lack of digital skills could be hurting young professional women

7. Google's Notable Women app uses AR to put women on any US bill

8. Job Opportunities

9. How to Submit to the AASWomen Newsletter

10. How to Subscribe or Unsubscribe to the AASWomen Newsletter

11. Access to Past Issues of the AASWomen Newsletter

AASWomen Newsletter for September 21, 2018

AAS Committee on the Status of Women
Issue of September 21, 2018
eds: Nicolle Zellner, Heather Flewelling, Cristina Thomas, Maria Patterson, and JoEllen McBride

This week's issues:

1. Career Profile: Executive Director

2. Exploring how gender figures the identity trajectories of two doctoral students in observational astrophysics

3. AAAS establishes policy whereby Fellow status can be revoked

4. In the aftermath of #MeToo, which names in science should be replaced?

5. Science Walks, Money Talks

6. New analysis suggests women's success in STEM Ph.D. programs has much to do with having female peers, especially in their first year in graduate school

7. Isolated female students more likely to drop out of PhD programmes

8. How female scientists can confront gender bias in the workplace

9. Not One More Generation: Women in Science Take On Sexual Harassment

10. A Gender Scholar's Visit to ESOF 2018: She Came, She Saw, She Ranted

11. Men vs. Women speaking time in conference calls and colloquiums

12. Job Opportunities

13. How to Submit to the AASWomen Newsletter

14. How to Subscribe or Unsubscribe to the AASWomen Newsletter

15. Access to Past Issues of the AASWomen Newsletter

Career Profile: Executive Director

The AAS Committee on the Status of Women in Astronomy is compiling interviews highlighting the diversity of career trajectories available to astronomers. The interviews share advice and lessons learned from individuals on those paths. 

Dr. Stella Kafka is the Executive Director of the American Association of Variable Star Observers (AAVSO). She enjoys enabling scientific research and in addition to her academic positions has worked as the CTIO REU/PIA site director and in the American Institute of Physics publishing group.

What field do you currently work in?

Observational astronomy – variable stars (especially semi-detached binaries – CVs)

What is the job title for your current position?

Executive Director – Chief Executive Officer and Chief Science Officer at the AAVSO

AASWomen Newsletter for September 14, 2018

AAS Committee on the Status of Women
Issue of September 14, 2018
eds: Nicolle Zellner, Heather Flewelling, Cristina Thomas, Maria Patterson, and JoEllen McBride

This week's issues:

1. Announcement of DPS Workshop on Proposal Writing: Friday October 26th

2. NASA Administrator Anti-Discrimination Policy Statement

3. Approaches to increasing "gatekeeper" diversity in peer review

4. Women In STEM Did A Study On How To Eliminate Gender Bias & Their Ideas Are Genius

5. Scientist Publishes A List Of Known Harassers in Academia

6. These studies offer a realistic view of postdoc life - and guidance for making career decisions that work for you

7. Job Opportunities

8. How to Submit to the AASWomen Newsletter

9. How to Subscribe or Unsubscribe to the AASWomen Newsletter

10. Access to Past Issues of the AASWomen Newsletter

Announcement of DPS Workshop on Proposal Writing: Friday October 26th

The success of scientists depends upon their ability to obtain funding. Using Research Opportunities in Space and Earth Sciences (ROSES) from NASA as a primary example, this workshop will focus on teaching the audience key points to writing a successful proposal.

Topics to be covered include:
8:00-8:15- General introduction and welcome
8:15-9:15- Proposal lifecycle, guidance on writing for specific audiences, compliance checklist
9:15-9:30- Break
9:30-10:30- Evaluation criteria, the review process, programmatic balance, debriefs and appeals, and making changes to address review concerns
10:30-11:00- General wrap up and group Q&A
11:00-11:30- One-on-One Q&A as needed.

Proposal Writing Workshops help early career scientists, as well as those looking to improve their previous proposal performance. As a result of this session, participants will be able to understand the proposal writing, reviewing, and selection process for federally funded proposals, as well as help those who have previously submitted proposals improve their performance. The workshop will be done in a format that allows for a great deal of audience participation.

AASWOMEN Newsletter for September 7, 2018

AAS Committee on the Status of Women

September 7, 2018

eds: Nicolle Zellner, Heather Flewelling, Cristina Thomas, Maria Patterson, and JoEllen McBride

This week's issues:

1. Balancing Your Act 
2. Bell Burnell: Physics star gives away £2.3m prize
3. NASA Hubble Fellowship Program Now Accepting Applications
4. Aspen Winter Conference Feb 2019: Gravitational-Wave Astrophysics with Populations
5. Software Engineer Hacks a Knitting Machine to Create Massive Stellar Map
6. Documentary about women in science puts gender issues under the microscope 
7. They’re fun. But can STEM camps for girls really make a difference? 
8. Texas Doctor Apologizes After Saying Female Physicians 'Do Not Work As Hard'
9. How to Submit to the AASWomen Newsletter
10. How to Subscribe or Unsubscribe to the AASWomen Newsletter
11. Access to Past Issues of the AASWomen Newsletter

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Balancing Your Act

By Michelle Zellner

Michelle has been a trainer, coach, and facilitator for over 20 years.  Her business, Better Beings, encompasses individual clients, weekend workshops, and a week-long wellness retreat.  She is also an event key-note speaker and is highly sought  to deliver corporate trainings.  Thus far, she has conducted over 2000 trainings, both live and via webinar.  Along with her knowledge, the connection she makes with the audience often results in requests for repeat visits.

Michelle’s background has enabled her to deliver on a wide variety of training topics, including: exercise, nutrition, weight loss, stress management, sleep, preventing and managing chronic disease, work-life balance—and many more. 

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This blog entry is an modified excerpt from her upcoming book.

Stress is part of everyone’s life, but if you don’t learn to find some balance, serious health consequences could be waiting!  We often waste resources (time, money and energy) or are simply not distributing them effectively, and this leads to feeling overwhelmed, undervalued and unappreciated. Burnout---physical, mental, emotional or professional---could be near, but is totally preventable. Follow along and fill out the evaluation tools to help you identify how balanced YOUR act is.