Portrait of Mary Golda Ross (from Item #4)Issue of November 04, 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:
1. Cross-post: ‘It’s a constant hum’: a planetary geologist calls out racism in academia
2. Women in Antarctica Face Assault and Harassment - And a Legacy of Exclusion and Mistreatment
3. Native American Women Aerospace Pioneers
4. Mary Golda Ross: The First Native American Aerospace Engineer and Space Race Pioneer
5. Revealed: The World’s Top Female Scientists In 2022
7. L’Oréal USA Announces 2022 For Women in Science Fellows
8. Outreach Training Webinar for Scientists and Engineers
9. AAS EPD Mini-Grant Offers Free Mentoring Course to AAS Members
11. How to Submit to the AASWOMEN newsletter
12. 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. Cross-post: ‘It’s a constant hum’: a planetary geologist calls out racism in academia
From: Nicolle Zellner via http://womeninastronomy.blogspot.com
As part of its commitment to becoming an agent of change and helping to end discriminatory practices and systemic racism, Nature has published a special issue focused on science as “a shared experience" and published several editorials by scientists in various fields. One of them, by planetary geologist Dr. Martha Gilmore, is cross-posted here.
Read more at
http://womeninastronomy.blogspot.com/2022/11/cross-post-its-constant-hum-planetary.html
Back to top.2. Women in Antarctica Face Assault and Harassment - And a Legacy of Exclusion and Mistreatment
From: Alessandra Aloisi [aloisi_at_stsci.edu]
By Daniella McCahey
“A federal report that, in the words of its key finding, “sexual assault, sexual harassment, and stalking are problems in the U.S. Antarctic Program community” – and that efforts “dedicated to prevention [are] nearly absent” – drew attention around the world. But as a historian of Antarctic science, I did not find it surprising at all.
The report, released in August 2022 by the National Science Foundation, which runs the United States Antarctic Program, found that many scientists and workers believe human resources staff “are dismissing, minimizing, shaming, and blaming victims who report sexual harassment and sexual assault.” A report with similar findings about its national program was released by the Australian Antarctic Division in late September 2022.
The fields of Antarctic science and exploration have long excluded women from the region altogether and still have a strong culture focused on masculinity and chauvinism.”
Read more at
Read the NSF report at
https://www.nsf.gov/geo/opp/documents/USAP%20SAHPR%20Report.pdf#page=7
Back to top.3. Native American Women Aerospace Pioneers
From: Sethanne Howard [sethanneh_at_msn.com]
November is National Native American Heritage Month. Start off the month by reading this blog to discover the stories of four Native American women who helped shape aviation and space history.
Read more at
Back to top.4. Mary Golda Ross: The First Native American Aerospace Engineer and Space Race Pioneer
From: Sethanne Howard [sethanneh_at_msn.com]
By A Mighty Girl Stuff
In celebration of Native American Heritage Month, we're sharing the incredible story of Mary Golda Ross, the first Native American aerospace engineer! During WWII, Ross worked on the P-38 Lightning, one of the fastest airplanes at the time, and later she worked on cutting edge research during the early space race as part of Lockheed's top-secret Skunk Works program.
Read more at
https://www.amightygirl.com/blog?p=26040
Back to top.5. Revealed: The World’s Top Female Scientists In 2022
From: Alessandra Aloisi [aloisi_at_stsci.edu]
By Nick Morrison
“The world’s top female scientists in 2022 have been named in a ranking drawn up by science research portal Research.com. A total of 1,000 researchers around the world appear in the first edition of what is intended to be an annual celebration of the work of female scholars and inspiration for the next generation.”
Read more at
Back to top.6. Gender motivational gap and contribution of different teaching approaches to female students’ motivation to learn physics
From: Alessandra Aloisi [aloisi_at_stsci.edu]
By Branka Radulovic, Vera Zupanec, Maja Stojanovic, and Spomenka Budic
“This research focuses on potential gender differences in motivation to learn Physics with the aim to determine the weakest female motivational components to learn Physics and the contribution of different teaching approaches (using real and virtual experiments) on those components and motivation for learning Physics in general. These two approaches were chosen as the most commonly used approaches in physics but without clear compared indication on females’ motivation. The standardized questionnaire SMTSL (Student’s Motivation towards Science Learning) is used for the measurements. The results show that for female students the weakest motivational components to learn Physics are the importance of Physics as a science and self-efficacy. Virtual experiments contribute more to females’ motivation to learn Physics than applying real experiments. The female students who used real experiments show fear of being laughed at by their male peers and express doubt in their self-knowledge. Although the applied approaches cause some improvements in female students’ self-efficacy, they are not statistically significant. Research results suggest that teachers need to apply such teaching approaches that engage girls and encourage their learning and development in order to improve their self-efficacy and other motivational components.”
Read more at
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-022-23151-7
Back to top.7. L’Oréal USA Announces 2022 For Women in Science Fellows
From: Alessandra Aloisi [aloisi_at_stsci.edu]
By Noor Lobad
“L’Oréal USA has announced the 2022 fellows for its For Women in Science program. This year’s cohort includes Sikoya Ashburn, Sarah Burnett, Marina LaForgia, Sandya Subramanian and Margot Wohl, each of whom will receive funding by the brand to advance research in their respective disciplines.”
Read more at
https://www.yahoo.com/lifestyle/l-al-usa-announces-2022-205954424.html
Back to top.8. Outreach Training Webinar for Scientists and Engineers
From: AAS Education Committee [aaseducationcommittee_at_lists.aas.org]
Are you a scientist or engineer who would like to improve your outreach skills? NASA’s Universe of Learning webinar series is for you! The first webinar will take place Wednesday, November 9, 2022.
Read more and register at
https://aas.org/posts/news/2022/11/outreach-training-webinar-scientists-and-engineers
Back to top.9. AAS EPD Mini-Grant Offers Free Mentoring Course to AAS Members
From: AAS Education Committee [aaseducationcommittee_at_lists.aas.org]
Dra. Nicole Cabrera Salazar and her team at Movement Consulting are offering eight free registrations to their Spring 2023 mentoring course thanks to the AAS EPD Mini-Grant program.
Read more and register at
https://aas.org/posts/news/2022/11/aas-epd-mini-grant-offers-free-mentoring-course-aas-members
Back to top.10. 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 Professor, Long-Wavelength Observational Extragalactic Astrophysics, York University, Toronto, Canada https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://academicjobsonline.org/ajo/jobs/22649__;!!CrWY41Z8OgsX0i-WU-0LuAcUu2o!werntnKuswSQ98sNagMtfgYvc_Fr9VpN5u5qONtDi0rbI6GAkaqmADcYl-lA3GMxnjvkfYrELrxKZLc$
- Assistant Professor, Theoretical Physics (elementary particle physics, astro-particle physics, or cosmology), York University, Toronto, Canada https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://academicjobsonline.org/ajo/jobs/22590__;!!CrWY41Z8OgsX0i-WU-0LuAcUu2o!werntnKuswSQ98sNagMtfgYvc_Fr9VpN5u5qONtDi0rbI6GAkaqmADcYl-lA3GMxnjvkfYrE5tv10LE$
- Visiting Assistant Professor in Physics & Astronomy, Siena College, Loudonville, NY https://siena.interviewexchange.com/jobofferdetails.jsp;jsessionid=34DC778087D479805AB6A183D17A616B?JOBID=154127
- Lecturer in Astronomy, Towson University, Towson, MD https://jobregister.aas.org/ad/b2ecbac3
- Open Rank Professorial Stream, Physics, Biophysics, or Astrophysics (open only to qualified individuals who self-identify as Black persons of African Descent), York University, Toronto, Canada https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://academicjobsonline.org/ajo/jobs/22903__;!!CrWY41Z8OgsX0i-WU-0LuAcUu2o!werntnKuswSQ98sNagMtfgYvc_Fr9VpN5u5qONtDi0rbI6GAkaqmADcYl-lA3GMxnjvkfYrED-Au3Y0$
- Two Postdoctoral Positions is Stellar and Galactic Astronomy, Research School of Astronomy & Astrophysics, Mount Stromlo Observatory, Australian National University, Canberra, Australia https://jobregister.aas.org/ad/ba6faef0
- Postdoctoral Associate in Exoplanet, Stellar, and Solar Research, Lowell Observatory, Flagstaff, AZ https://lowell.edu/about/career-opportunities
- Postdoctoral Associate in Young Binary Stars & Circumstellar Disk Research, Lowell Observatory, Flagstaff, AZ https://lowell.edu/about/career-opportunities
- Postdoctoral Researcher, Solar-Heliospheric Physics Research, University of California Berkeley’s Space Sciences Laboratory, Berkeley, CA https://aprecruit.berkeley.edu/JPF03705
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