Annie Jump Cannon as shown in the YouTube video from Item 6Issue of January 14, 2022
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: Advancing equity, diversity, and inclusion: a how-to guide
2. Crosspost: Physicists turn to TikTok for science communication
3. Women and young academics suffered most during pandemic
4. Intersectional inequalities in science
5. How a part-time fellowship enticed a scientist back to academia
6. Deaf History: Annie Jump Cannon
10. How to Submit to the AASWomen Newsletter
11. How to Subscribe or Unsubscribe to the AASWomen Newsletter
12. Access to Past Issues of the AASWomen Newsletter
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1. Crosspost: Advancing equity, diversity, and inclusion: a how-to guide
From: Bryne Hadnott via http://womeninastronomy.blogspot.com
By Rowan M. Thomson
“Looking around the lunchroom on my first day at my first job in physics—as a summer student in a Canadian national laboratory—I was shocked to see that almost all the scientists present were white men! I loved that job and was thrilled to be paid to do physics, but I was disappointed in the lack of diversity at the lab. I expected that things would get better as I continued in my career. Surely, I thought, the diversity of the general population would begin to be reflected in physics. But 20 years later, my optimistic expectation has proven naive. The lack of diversity in physics is still striking. Moreover, the issues in the field go beyond representation. Insidious inequities, pernicious discrimination, and systemic barriers continue to prevent the inclusion of everyone in physics.”
Read more at
http://womeninastronomy.blogspot.com/2022/01/crosspost-advancing-equity-diversity.html
See Physics Today article at
https://physicstoday.scitation.org/doi/10.1063/PT.3.4921
Back to top.2. Crosspost: Physicists turn to TikTok for science communication
From: Bryne Hadnott via http://womeninastronomy.blogspot.com
By Madison Brewer
“When the pandemic hit, Kirsten Banks missed speaking to audiences. A physics PhD student at the University of New South Wales in Australia, she was used to giving educational astronomy talks regularly at elementary and secondary schools and at public events. When those engagements were canceled, she turned to social media to continue her science outreach. “I started doing science communication on social media by joining Twitter and making a Facebook page and an Instagram page,” Banks says. Then her partner introduced her to TikTok.”
Read more at
http://womeninastronomy.blogspot.com/2022/01/crosspost-physicists-turn-to-tiktok-for.html
See Physics Today article at
https://physicstoday.scitation.org/do/10.1063/PT.6.4.20220105a/full
Back to top.3. Women and young academics suffered most during pandemic
From: Alessandra Aloisi [aloisi_at_stsci.edu]
By Lesley Michalegko, Eric Welch, Mary K. Feeney and Timothy P. Johnson “On March 6, 2020, universities across the U.S. announced systematic laboratory closures, social distancing policies and travel bans to cope with the growing coronavirus epidemic. These actions, while prudent and necessary, had immediate negative impacts on the academic enterprise of science in the U.S. and around the world. We are a team of researchers who study the role of science and technology in society. We are also part of a collaborative, multi-university project, called SciOPS, that seeks to improve how scientists communicate with the public. As the pandemic wore on, researchers began telling us about the work stoppages, data losses and other hardships they were experiencing. We felt this was important information, so we conducted two surveys to understand how the pandemic was affecting researchers.” Read more at
https://www.asbmb.org/asbmb-today/careers/010922/women-and-young-academics-suffered-most-during-pan
See Nature article at
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41599-021-00823-9
Back to top.4. Intersectional inequalities in science
From: Nicolle Zellner [nzellner_at_albion.edu]
Utilizing information in millions of scientific papers, Diego Kozlowski (University of Luxembourg) and colleagues studied how published science reflects the scientists who produced it. They found "a strong relationship between the characteristics of scientists and their research topics, suggesting that diversity changes the scientific portfolio with consequences for career advancement for minoritized individuals." The authors suggest that "[s]cience policies should consider this relationship to increase equitable participation in the scientific workforce and thereby improve the robustness of science."
Read the peer-reviewed paper at
https://www.pnas.org/content/119/2/e2113067119
Back to top.5. How a part-time fellowship enticed a scientist back to academia
From: Alessandra Aloisi [aloisi_at_stsci.edu]
By Rachel James
A researcher who left academia when her children were young back in 2010, tells us how she was able to return back to academia at Edinburgh University, UK, thanks to the help of a part-time postdoctoral fellowship from the Daphne Jackson Trust.
Read more at
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-022-00042-5
Back to top.6. Deaf History: Annie Jump Cannon
From: Jeremy Bailin [jbailin_at_ua.edu]
By Renca Dunn
This video highlights an aspect of astronomer Annie Jump Cannon that is sometimes overlooked: Annie was born hearing, but became deaf around 30 years old due to scarlet fever. In this video, the extraordinary story of this Deaf female astronomer is told by Renca Dunn in American Sign Language (see transcript below the video). Renca Dunn was born deaf and has spent all her life working to advocate, educate and create acceptance for Death people.
See video at
https://www.dailymoth.com/blog/deaf-history-annie-jump-cannon
Back to top.7. Fósiles del cosmos. Descifrando la historia de la Vía Láctea - Cosmic Fossils. Revealing the history of the Milky Way
From: Paula Jofre [paula.jofre_at_mail.udp.cl]
Paula Jofre is pleased to announce the release of a public outreach book about the stars of the Milky Way in the Gaia era in Chile. The book is in Spanish and was published by Penguin Random House Editorials on Jan 3rd 2022. The book is entitled “Cosmic Fossils, revealing the history of the Milky Way” and explains the stars, the Milky Way, and the impact Gaia has on all disciplines in astrophysics. Despite being Chile a country with many of the largest telescopes worldwide and wide interest in Astronomy in general, this book helps the public to become more aware of the importance of Gaia in Astronomy.
The author wrote the book during the pandemic. Aware of the struggles of female scientists during these times, she reached out and interviewed other 36 contemporary women working on Gaia. These women are now all highlighted in her book.
The author invites you to follow her on @fosilesdelcosmos (instagram and Facebook) and visit her Spanish website which also includes videos of the interviews that are now integral part of the book
For more information about this book, please feel free to contact the author!
Back to top.8. Call for Nominations to the Executive Committee of the Exoplanet Exploration Program Analysis Group (ExoPAG)
From: Michael Meyer [mrmeyer_at_umich.edu], Hannah Jang-Condell [hannah.jang-condell_at_nasa.gov], and Eric Mamajek [Eric.Mamajek_at_jpl.nasa.gov]
The Astrophysics Division of NASA’s Science Mission Directorate has issued a call for nominations to serve on the Executive Committee of NASA’s Exoplanet Exploration Program Analysis Group (ExoPAG). NASA anticipates making four new 3-year appointments to this committee starting from Spring 2022. The Call for Nominations can be found at
https://exoplanets.nasa.gov/internal_resources/2064
Specific programmatic questions about this call can be addressed to Hannah Jang-Condell, Deputy Exoplanet Exploration Program Scientist.
Specific questions about serving on the EC can be addressed to Michael Meyer, or any member of the Executive Committee:
https://exoplanets.nasa.gov/exep/exopag/executive-committee-membership
Please notice that self-nominations are accepted.
The deadline has now been extended to January 31.
Back to top.9. 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
- Assistant Teaching Professor, Astronomy Department, University of Washington, Seattle, WA https://apply.interfolio.com/99922
- Assistant Teaching Professor, Astrophysical and Planetary Sciences (APS) Department, University of Colorado, Boulder, CU https://jobs.colorado.edu/jobs/JobDetail/?jobId=35910
- Citizen Science Researcher, SETI Institute, Mountain View, CA https://jobregister.aas.org/ad/e88204f6
- Postdoctoral Fellow - SIGNALS Survey, CFHT, Waimea, HI https://cfht.applicantpro.com/jobs/2158175.html
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