From item 5.Issue of August 05, 2022
eds: Jeremy Bailin, Nicolle Zellner, Alessandra Aloisi, and Sethanne Howard
[We hope you all are taking care of yourselves and each other. Be well! --eds.]
This week's issues:
2. The many versions of a female scientist
3. Women are better at statistics than they think
4. Florence Bell, an unsung hero of science
5. A guide to applying to astro postdocs. Part 1: Finding postdocs & Part 2: The application process
6. How to Submit to the AASWOMEN newsletter
7. How to Subscribe or Unsubscribe to 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. Physics … is for girls?
From: Nicolle Zellner [nzellner_at_albion.edu]
By Joanna Behrman
“Sometimes history can be quite unexpected. A look to the past can quickly overturn an idea we might think of as having always been true. For instance, although the physics community now struggles with the perception that physics is a discipline for boys, not girls, that stereotype is only about a hundred years old. Once upon a time, physics - or natural philosophy, as it was called until the second half of the 19th century - was a girls’ subject.”
Read more at
https://physicstoday.scitation.org/doi/10.1063/PT.3.5061
Back to top.2. The many versions of a female scientist
From: Alessandra Aloisi [aloisi_at_stsci.edu]
By University of California – Santa Barbara
“Depictions of women in science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) are powerful sources of inspiration for young women who aspire to a career in those fields. But stereotypes of female scientists persist, and we have some way to go to vanquish them, say the authors of a new paper.”
Read more at
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2022/08/220801133148.htm
Read more about the original study at
https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/20563051221113068
Back to top.3. Women are better at statistics than they think
From: Alessandra Aloisi [aloisi_at_stsci.edu]
By Jonathan B. Santo and Kelly Rhea MacArthur
“Women in statistics classes do better academically than men over a semester despite having more negative attitudes regarding their own abilities, according to our recent study in the Journal of Statistics and Data Science Education.”
Read more at
https://phys.org/news/2022-07-women-statistics.html
Read more about the original study at
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/26939169.2022.2093805
Back to top.4. Florence Bell, an unsung hero of science
From: Alessandra Aloisi [aloisi_at_stsci.edu]
By Drs. Norbert Herzog and David Niesel
“A newspaper headline in 1939 declared `Woman Scientist Explains’ when reporting on an address by the physicist Florence Bell at an Institute of Physics conference in Leeds, a city in the northern part of Yorkshire, England. The reporters were more interested in reporting on the 25-year-old woman’s career choice than her scientific discoveries. Thankfully, times have changed.”
Read more at
https://www.galvnews.com/health/free/article_44ab36e5-2a27-5813-a523-9c676da070c1.html
Back to top.5. A guide to applying to astro postdocs. Part 1: Finding postdocs &
Part 2: The application process
From: Sethanne Howard [sethanneh_at_msn.com]
By Astrobites
This is a two-part guide for applying to astro postdocs! The first part of the series focuses on finding astro/physics postdoctoral research positions, while the second part focuses on applying for such opportunities.
Read more about Part 1 at:
https://astrobites.org/2022/08/02/guide-to-postdoc-apps-part1
Read more about Part 2 at:
https://astrobites.org/2022/08/03/guide-to-postdoc-apps-part2
Back to top.6. How to Submit to the AASWOMEN newsletter
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