Issue of May 14, 2021
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. Crosspost: Black women’s experiences in STEM inspire an annual workshop
2. Open Letter from Astronomers for Planet Earth
3. Six lessons from a pandemic PhD student
4. How to blow the whistle on an academic bully
5. Feeling invisible? 4 ways YOU can be seen as a remote worker
6. Upcoming Wiki Edit-a-thon & Wiki Scientist Course
7. Astronomer Annie Maunder and old battles against ‘he’ and ‘him’
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
An online version of this newsletter will be available at http://womeninastronomy.blogspot.com/ at 3:00 PM ET every Friday.
1.Crosspost: Black women’s experiences in STEM inspire an annual workshop
From: Bryne Hadnott via womeninastronomy.blogspot.com and Jeremy Bailin [jbailin_at_ua.edu]
When LaNell Williams arrived at Harvard University in 2017 to begin a graduate program in physics, several of her peers told her she had been admitted only because she was a Black woman—her 3.9 GPA, NSF Graduate Research Fellowship, and two coauthored scientific papers notwithstanding. During an open house for the incoming class, she asked her fellow students why they thought no other underrepresented racial minority woman had been admitted to the physics department that year. “We [women of color] hear many different things in those conversations, one of them being that we’re not interested in physics, which isn’t true,” Williams says. “Or that some of us don’t have the pedigree, which is also not true. And then the last thing is that we don’t apply—and in some cases that is true.”
Read more at
http://womeninastronomy.blogspot.com/2021/05/crosspost-black-womens-experiences-in.html
https://physicstoday.scitation.org/do/10.1063/PT.6.5.20210510a/full
Back to top.2. Open Letter from Astronomers for Planet Earth
From: Katrina Miller via womeninastronomy.blogspot.com
Astronomers for Planet Earth is a volunteer network that invites scientists, educators, and astronomy students to join in the effort against climate change and for climate justice. With more than 1000 members, this international organization of astronomers recently penned an open letter, published on Earth Day, in hopes of mobilizing support and building community around the common goal of sustainability. Below is an excerpt of the open letter.
An Open Letter to Astronomy Departments, Institutions and Societies: Adopt Sustainability as a Primary Goal
We, astronomers, astrophysicists, and global citizens, recognize the urgency of the climate crisis and our impact on it. We also recognize that we have the power to change our current practices. We call on astronomical institutions worldwide to set an example for the field in mitigating our contribution to climate change: naming sustainability as a primary goal, putting in place specific sustainable practices to lower carbon emissions, and clearly communicating these changes both to their own members and the general public.
Read more at
http://womeninastronomy.blogspot.com/2021/05/open-letter-from-astronomers-for-planet.html
Back to top.3. Six lessons from a pandemic PhD student
From: Nicolle Zellner [nzellner_at_albion.edu]
Ciara O’Brien, a PhD candidate in plant science at Cranfield University in the United Kingdom, offers advice for starting a doctoral program: manage your expectations; take ownership of your project; don't necessarily follow in your advisor's footsteps; and enjoy the small achievements.
Read more (and the two others!) at
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-021-01233-2
Back to top.4. How to blow the whistle on an academic bully
From: Nicolle Zellner [nzellner_at_albion.edu]
"... in any 12-month period, on average, 25% of faculty members self-identify as being bullied, while 40–50% say they have witnessed others being bullied, according to a synthesis of studies published in 2019."
Author Virginia Gewin provides a step-by-step approach to confronting an academic bully.
Read more (and find links to numerous studies) at
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-021-01252-z
Back to top.5. Feeling invisible? 4 ways YOU can be seen as a remote worker
From: Nicolle Zellner [nzellner_at_albion.edu]
Kim Churches, the CEO of the American Association of University Women, has written about four things that we can do to remain "visible" to co-workers and supervisors. They are: don't hide your life; create collaborative opportunities; get a word in; and hold firm to your boundaries.
Read more at
Back to top.6. Upcoming Wiki Edit-a-thon & Wiki Scientist Course
From: APS Physics [outreach_at_aps.org]
As part of the American Physical Society's continued efforts to elevate the visibility of minority and women physicists on Wikipedia, we will be holding two Wiki events. A free Juneteenth Freedom Day Edit-a-thon focused on creating and editing biographies of Black physicists will be held on Sunday, June 20, 12:00 - 3:00 p.m. ET. Additionally, a third Wiki Scientist Course focused on creating biographies of minority and women physicists will be held on Mondays at 2:00 p.m. ET between August 2 and September 6. Membership is required for the editing course and there is a fee for the course.
Sign up for the Juneteenth event at
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScbbeOHB8y71q2ZeA6pFMJz-sY9FEix_0o5BXOlprPsN4aTpA/viewform
Learn more about the editing course and sign up at
Back to top.7. Astronomer Annie Maunder and old battles against ‘he’ and ‘him’
From: Jeremy Bailin [jbailin_at_ua.edu]
By Stuart Mathieson
Trinity College Dublin has elected Linda Doyle as its new provost; after almost 430 years, Ireland’s oldest educational establishment will have its first female chief executive. Following her appointment, Doyle posed for a photograph with a statue of George Salmon, provost of Trinity 1888 to 1904, who reputedly said that “over my dead body will women enter this college”. Ironically, the day that Salmon died, January 22nd, 1904, was the day that Isabel Marion Weir arrived in Dublin to enrol as the university’s first female student.
Read more at
Back to top.8. 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
-Opto-Mechanical Engineer - Lowell Observatory/NPOI https://lowell.edu/about/employment
-Associate Electrical Engineer - Lowell Observatory/NPOI https://lowell.edu/about/employment
Back to top.9. How to Submit to the AASWOMEN newsletter
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Back to top.10. How to Subscribe or Unsubscribe to the AASWOMEN newsletter
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Back to top.11. Access to Past Issues
https://aas.org/comms/cswa/AASWOMEN
Each annual summary includes an index of topics covered.
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