Many forms of gender bias affect women throughout their careers (from item #4, credit: UC Berkeley)Issue of July 09, 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: An Observatory Spied on LA’s Carbon Emissions – From Space
2. 10 Tips to Transform Your Career and Science Culture
3. Three Latinas from Dallas stand out in STEM fields
4. For neuroscientists, a checklist for eliminating gender bias
5. Medical Journal Articles Written by Women Are Cited Less Than Those Written by Men
6. Vera Rubin’s birthday social media campaign
7. Caroline Herschel Medal to honour women astronomers in UK and Germany
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: An Observatory Spied on LA’s Carbon Emissions – From Space
From: Katrina Miller via womeninastronomy.blogspot.com
“Urban areas release over 70 percent of human-made carbon dioxide emissions that wind up in the atmosphere, and LA is no exception. With over 13 million residents in its larger metropolitan area, a sophisticated network of freeways, and an international transportation hub, LA produces the fifth-most CO2 of all the cities in the world. That makes it a sweet spot for studying the role humans play in climate change.”
Read more at
http://womeninastronomy.blogspot.com/2021/07/crosspost-observatory-spied-on-las.html
Back to top.2. 10 Tips to Transform Your Career and Science Culture
From: Alessandra Aloisi [aloisi_at_stsci.edu]
By Christina Agapakis
“Careers are the cumulative effect of many decisions, of what to try and what to avoid, chance meetings, doors opening and doors closing. Meeting Pamela Silver was one of those moments that in retrospect set in motion so many of the things I’ve done in the 15 years since. Not only because she was the first person I heard say the phrase “synthetic biology,” and not only because she provides one template for a successful woman in science… among many others—Pam has forged new ground and made space for her students and postdocs to explore and define the science they want to do and the careers they want to have.”
Read more at
https://neo.life/2021/07/10-tips-to-transform-your-career-and-science-culture
Back to top.3. Three Latinas from Dallas stand out in STEM fields
From: Alessandra Aloisi [aloisi_at_stsci.edu]
By Adriana Perez
“After Minerva Cordero and her three sisters finished dinner every evening, they would stay at the dinner table to do their homework and talk about their science classes. Pamela Padilla said she got her interest in nature from her naturalist father, and from her artistic mother, her creativity and work ethic. Manuela Murillo Sánchez grew up drawing inspiration from her engineer parents to solve real-world problems through engineering. Now, Cordero is a professor of mathematics and senior associate dean of the College of Science at the University of Texas at Arlington. Padilla is the new dean of the College of Science at the University of North Texas. And Murillo Sánchez recently graduated from Southern Methodist University with degrees in mathematics and mechanical engineering. The three women are part of two underrepresented groups in their respective fields in science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM).” Read more at
Back to top.4. For neuroscientists, a checklist for eliminating gender bias
From: Alessandra Aloisi [aloisi_at_stsci.edu]
By Robert Sanders
“In 2019, Anais Llorens and Athina Tzovara - one a current, the other a former University of California, Berkeley, postdoctoral scholar at the Helen Wills Neuroscience Institute (HWNI) - were attending a scientific meeting and pleased that one session, on gender bias in academia, attracted nearly a full house. The problem: The audience of some 300 was almost all women. Where were the men, they wondered? … That was only one of the incidents that led the two women to round up 45 men and women from 40 institutions across 10 countries and 18 nationalities, divide them into small groups and task them with scouring the literature for practical tips - proven and unproven - on how best to counteract all aspects of gender bias in academia.” The study, with Llorens and Tzovara as first authors, appears today in the journal Neuron, and provides a comprehensive summary of the many forms that gender bias takes, along with a checklist that individuals, lab leaders, university administrators, journal editors and grant reviewers at funding agencies can use to remedy them.”
Read more at
https://news.berkeley.edu/2021/07/07/for-neuroscientists-a-checklist-for-eliminating-gender-bias
Back to top.5. Medical Journal Articles Written by Women Are Cited Less Than Those Written by Men
From: Alessandra Aloisi [aloisi_at_stsci.edu]
By Penn Medicine News
“While more women are entering the field of academic medicine than ever before, they are less likely to be recognized as experts and leaders; they are less likely to receive prestigious awards, be promoted to full professorships, hold leadership roles, or author original research or commentaries in major journals. What’s more, articles published by women in high-impact medical journals also have fewer citations than those written by men, especially when women are primary and senior authors, according to new research from the Perelman School of Medicine and the Leonard Davis Institute of Health Economics at the University of Pennsylvania, published today in JAMA Open Network.”
Read more at
Back to top.6. Vera Rubin’s birthday social media campaign
From: JoEllen McBride [joellen.mcbride_at_gmail.com] and Ardis Herrold [AHerrold_at_lsst.org]
Vera Rubin’s birthday is coming up on July 23rd. To celebrate, Rubin Observatory will run a week-long campaign on social media starting Monday, July 19, with the goal of sharing stories from those who knew her or were inspired by her. We’d love for you to participate! If you have any stories about Vera to share -- whether that’s a time you met her at a conference, a time you interacted with her, or even if you’ve never met her but she inspired you in some way -- we want you to share them. Starting on Monday, July 19, please share your stories using the hashtag #BirthdayVeraRubin. We’ll be amplifying your stories all week long!
Back to top.7. Caroline Herschel Medal to honour women astronomers in UK and Germany
From: Rick Fienberg [rick.fienberg_at_aas.org]
By Royal Astronomical Society
“A new prize will celebrate outstanding research by women astrophysicists in the UK and Germany. The Caroline Herschel Medal, announced today by the UK government to mark the visit of German Chancellor Angela Merkel, celebrates the longstanding scientific cooperation between the two countries. Administered by the Royal Astronomical Society (RAS) in collaboration with the German Astronomical Society (Astronomische Gesellschaft, AG), the medal will be given in alternate years to researchers based in the UK and Germany, with an accompanying prize fund of £10,000.”
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
- Mohrmann Professor (Associate/Full) in Astronomy and Astrophysics at Radboud University, Nijmegen, the Netherlands https://jobregister.aas.org/ad/a7bafa70
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