Issue of July 24, 2020
eds: Heather Flewelling, Nicolle Zellner, Maria Patterson, Alessandra
Aloisi, and Jeremy Bailin
[We hope you all are taking care of yourselves and each other. Be well! --eds.]
This week's issues:
1. CSWA Resources for Astronomers
2. Google doodle celebrates Turkish astrophysicist Dilhan Eryurt
3. Recommendations for Planning Inclusive Astronomy Conferences
4. Help needed: Launch of José Flores Velázquez Memorial Cal-Bridge Scholarship
5. Encouraging news - Covid Vaccine Front-Runner Is Months Ahead of Her Competition
6. The career cost of COVID-19 to female researchers, and how science should respond
7. Women In STEM Careers Could Lose During Covid-19 - 4 Steps To Help
8. A Dozen-Plus Ways You Can Foster Educational Equity
9. Why Women Engineers are Uniquely Qualified to Lead
10. Diversity Style Guides for Journalists
12. How to Submit to the AASWomen Newsletter
13. How to Subscribe or Unsubscribe to the AASWomen Newsletter
14. Access to Past Issues of the AASWomen Newsletter
1. CSWA Resources for Astronomers
From: JoEllen McBride via womeninastronomy.blogspot.com
In order to use our time effectively during the CSWA Meet and Greet panel at the 2020 Summer AAS Meeting, we conducted a survey to see what topics we would discuss. There were 14 concerns about being (or knowing) a woman and/or underrepresented minority in astronomy or planetary science (or another STEM field) that our respondents could choose. The top 10 concerns are listed below. The CSWA wanted to make sure that the community is aware of the resources available to them to approach some of these issues and others.
Read more at
http://womeninastronomy.blogspot.com/2020/06/cswa-resources-for-astronomers.html
Back to top.2. Google doodle celebrates Turkish astrophysicist Dilhan Eryurt
From: John Wenzel [jwenzel_at_albion.edu] and Jeremy Bailin [jbailin_at_ua.edu]
On the 51st anniversary of the moon landing, the Google doodle celebrated stellar astrophysicist Dilhan Eryurt, the first Turkish woman to work as a scientist at NASA.
Read more at
https://www.google.com/doodles/celebrating-dilhan-eryurt
Back to top.3. Recommendations for Planning Inclusive Astronomy Conferences
From: Laura Prichard [lprichard_at_stsci.edu]
The Inclusive Astronomy 2 (IA2) Local Organizing Committee (LOC) has put together a comprehensive document of recommendations for planning future Inclusive Astronomy conferences based on feedback received and lessons learned. While these are specific to the IA series, many parts will be applicable to other conferences as well.
Please find the recommendations and accompanying letter to the community here:
https://outerspace.stsci.edu/display/IA2/LOC+Recommendations
Back to top.4. Help needed: Launch of José Flores Velázquez Memorial Cal-Bridge Scholarship
From: Alexander L. Rudolph [alrudolph_at_cpp.edu]
The Cal-Bridge program, together with his family are launching the José Flores Velázquez Memorial Cal-Bridge Scholarship fund on the anniversary of José's tragic shooting death. The fund gives scholarships to DACA Cal-Bridge scholars who cannot receive funds from the NSF grant funding the program. Anyone who wishes to donate may do so at this link:
crowdfund.cpp.edu/jose
To read more about José and his dreams of earning a PhD, visit his picture on the Cal-Bridge Our Scholars page. Hover over his picture and click on the Bio link.
https://www.cpp.edu/calbridge/our-scholars/cohort-pages/3.shtml#south
Back to top.5. Encouraging news - Covid Vaccine Front-Runner Is Months Ahead of
Her Competition
From: Eva Lilly [elilly_at_psi.edu]
Dear fellow AAS women,
I took the liberty to share this very inspirational article with you (per encouragement from Heather Flewelling). This is a stellar example of how a parent, a mother in academia can lead a top notch research and development of the Covid-19 vaccine, diligently advancing step by step, while fighting off criticism from some of her male colleagues. And no doubt being a role model for her triplets, who all now study biochemistry and voluntarily took a part in the vaccine trial.
This has been a much needed mood and confidence booster for me, a researcher with 2 kids under 4 trying to work from home with no childcare and take care of my family in these difficult times.
I am sure we all need to hear more stories like this on the front pages.
Stay safe and take care!
Best regards,
Eva Lilly
Back to top.6. The career cost of COVID-19 to female researchers, and how science
should respond
From: Alessandra Aloisi [aloisi_at_stsci.edu]
"Early data on the effects of the coronavirus pandemic on scientific-publishing output suggest that female researchers, particularly those at early-career stages, are the hardest hit. Submissions to preprint servers, such as arXiv, rose more quickly for male authors than for female authors as nations adopted social-isolation measures. And female authors have accounted for only one-third of all authors on published COVID-19 papers since January 2020.
As a consequence of the pandemic, female researchers' positions might be at risk. For example, a May report found that female scientists in Australia, who are 1.5 times more likely to be in casual or short-term contract jobs, are more likely to lose jobs, paid hours and career opportunities than are their male counterparts.
For female scientists, the pandemic also poses a significant threat to hard-won gender-equity gains achieved over the past few decades. Nature asked journal editors, funders and academic leaders how to mitigate those threats."
Read more at
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-020-02183-x
Back to top.7. Women In STEM Careers Could Lose During Covid-19 - 4 Steps To Help
From: Alessandra Aloisi [aloisi_at_stsci.edu]
"Women are still only 28% of the science, technology, engineering and math workforce broadly and only 13% of engineers, and a fraction of STEM leadership, but experts are warning that even those gains, could be lost due to the work-from-home (WFH) dynamic caused by this pandemic...What to do? Here are four steps to ensure women in your organization are not being inadvertently sidelined."
Read more at
Back to top.8. A Dozen-Plus Ways You Can Foster Educational Equity
From: JoEllen McBride [joellen.mcbride_at_gmail.com]
By Viji Sathy, Kelly A. Hogan and Calvin M. Sims
"Non-Black faculty members have the power to help dismantle educational inequities, argue Viji Sathy, Kelly A. Hogan and Calvin M. Sims, and they suggest some practical ways for how to start."
Read more at
Back to top.9. Why Women Engineers are Uniquely Qualified to Lead
From: Alessandra Aloisi [aloisi_at_stsci.edu]
"What women bring, combined with the experiences in engineering school and work prepares them not only to lead, but to forgo armored leadership for the daring leadership that is so needed today.
Because you are a woman and an engineer, you’ve already beaten the odds. And when it comes to leadership, you already have an advantage. The fact that you completed engineering school and have that degree means that you have what it takes. Bias and inequity notwithstanding, this advantage will carry you head-on into the challenges leaders are facing now and into the future."
Read more at
https://alltogether.swe.org/2020/07/why-women-engineers-are-uniquely-qualified-to-lead
Back to top.10. Diversity Style Guides for Journalists
From: JoEllen McBride [joellen.mcbride_at_gmail.com]
By The Open Notebook
"Should news outlets capitalize the word Black? Is it preferable to refer to someone as a person with autism, or as an autistic person? Should you explain the use of unconventional personal pronouns in stories? When do you use the term Indigenous and when do you use the term Aboriginal? What's wrong with saying that someone 'suffers from' a certain condition? The following diversity style guides and other resources can help journalists critically examine their stories for problematic issues:"
Read more at
https://www.theopennotebook.com/diversity-style-guides-for-journalists
Back to top.11. Job Opportunities
For those interested in increasing excellence and diversity in their organizations, a list of resources and advice is here:
https://aas.org/comms/cswa/resources/Diversity#howtoincrease
- Postdoctoral Scholars - Multi-Disciplinary, Office of Research Affairs, University of California, San Diego https://apol-recruit.ucsd.edu/JPF02509
Back to top.12. How to Submit to the AASWOMEN newsletter
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Back to top.13. How to Subscribe or Unsubscribe to the AASWOMEN newsletter
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Back to top.14. Access to Past Issues
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