Friday, September 7, 2018

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:


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From: Michelle Zellner via womeninastronomy.blogspot.com

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.

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From: Cristina Thomas [Cristina.Thomas_at_nau.edu]

Professor Dame Jocelyn Bell Burnell “has been awarded a Breakthrough Prize for the discovery of radio pulsars” and will give most of it away to support “women, underrepresented ethnic minority and refugee students…”

Read more at


Read more about Bell’s successes at


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From: Nodella Jordan [jnodella_at_stsci.edu]

On behalf of the NASA Astrophysics Division, the Space Telescope Science Institute (STScI) announces the second annual call for applications for postdoctoral fellowships under the NASA Hubble Fellowship Program (NHFP), to begin in the Fall of 2019. The application submission page will be open until November 1, 2018.

The NHFP supports promising postdoctoral scientists performing independent research that contributes to NASA Astrophysics https://science.nasa.gov/astrophysics for more information. The research may be theoretical, observational, and/or instrumental. If your application is successful you will become an Einstein, Hubble or Sagan fellow depending on the area of your research. We are continuing the legacy of those three earlier programs in this way, and through joint management of the program by STScI, in collaboration with The Chandra X-ray Center and the NASA Exoplanet Science Institute.

Find the detailed program policies and application instructions at 


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4. Aspen Winter Conference Feb 2019: Gravitational-Wave Astrophysics with Populations 
From: Samaya Nissanke [samaya.nissanke_uva.nl]

Please mark your calendars for an Aspen Winter Conference on Gravitational-Wave Astrophysics with Populations (GWPop), to take place in Aspen, CO from February 9-15, 2019. Applications will open in early September 2018.

GWPop will explore new challenges in accommodating the (possible) oncoming deluge of transient detections, with implications across a diverse array of astrophysics including general relativity and fundamental physics, stellar populations and their history, cosmic nucleosynthesis, post-merger jets and kilonovae, and the neutron-star equation of state. 

Learn more at the conference website at 


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5. Software Engineer Hacks a Knitting Machine to Create Massive Stellar Map
 From: Nicolle Zellner [nzellner_at_albion.edu]

“"As a woman in tech, I wanted to create something which would engage young minds in an area of STEM … ," [said software engineer Sarah] Spencer … in a statement emailed to Space.com. So, with her souped-up knitting machine, Spencer set her sights on Electromagnetic Field Camp (also known as EMF Camp), a geeky festival in the United Kingdom focused on tech and creativity. She aimed to create an astronomy-based piece to showcase at the event.”

Read more at

https://www.space.com/41683-hacked-knitting-machine-builds-stellar-map.html

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6. Documentary about women in science puts gender issues under the microscope 
From: Nicolle Zellner [nzellner_at_albion.edu]

Edmonton documentary filmmaker Brandy Yanchyk has made a film entitled “Ms. Scientist”. “The film goes to Alberta, Ontario, Quebec, Greenland and Nunavut, talking to female scientists who are passionate about the work they do but frustrated by the challenges they face.”

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From: Nicolle Zellner [nzellner_at_albion.edu]

“There’s … no data to suggest that greater spending results in more positive outcomes. … Ditto for measuring the impact of any number of other variables, including the camp’s subject matter, curriculum, duration, and student population. … The data don’t exist because researchers have conducted no high-quality evaluations of such programs. Most camps settle for a simple precamp and postcamp attitudinal survey. Any follow up is strictly anecdotal.”

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From: Cristina Thomas [Cristina.Thomas_at_nau.edu]

Gary Tigges, a physician at Plano Internal Medicine Associates, said that there is no gender pay gap in the medical field because female physicians do not work as hard as male physicians. In comments published in the Dallas Medical Journal, he said that “[n]othing needs to be ‘done’ about this unless female physicians actually want to work harder and put in the hours”.

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