Issue of November 11, 2022
eds: Jeremy Bailin, Nicolle Zellner, Alessandra Aloisi, and Sethanne Howard
[We hope you all are taking care of yourselves and each other. --eds.]
This week's issues:
1. Tips to Manage Your Research Projects in Tumultuous Moments of Life
2. Astro Voices features videos of hundreds of female astronomers
3. CERN Invites Female Scientists to Sign Up To Visit Schools for Women and Girls in Science and Techology Week
4. Cecilia Payne’s Astronomical Findings Displayed in Famous Letter
5. When women refuse requests to do unrewarded tasks, another female colleague often gets asked instead
6. Job Opportunities
7. How to Submit to the AASWOMEN newsletter
8. How to Subscribe or Unsubscribe to the AASWOMEN newsletter
9. Access to Past Issues
An online version of this newsletter will be available at http://womeninastronomy.blogspot.com/ at 3:00 PM ET every Friday.
By Maria Stone
Maria Stone is a doctoral student at the University of Turku (Finland) in the astronomy program. She is curious about galaxy evolution, loves spending time with her family, and hopes to see the northern lights someday. She is passionate about science and believes anyone can do it.
I like what I do - being an astronomer is a dream come true! However, I sometimes face situations where I find myself struggling to focus, struggling to concentrate. The deadlines and many demands on my time seem overwhelming. Already in my career, I realize that I am not alone in my struggles. It's a normal part of life - that sometimes there is too much on your plate. But I hope, after taking a good deep breath, you encourage yourself that you can do it. That’s what I do. Below, I share a few practical tips to gently but firmly continue making progress in my research despite chaotic circumstances. These ideas are not all my own, and I gained some of this wisdom during my internship at NASA, and some from reading about other inspiring women pioneers in STEM. I especially rely on these tips after becoming a mom, but they can apply to any situation. If you have other suggestions, please share them.
Read more at
http://womeninastronomy.blogspot.com/2022/11/tips-to-manage-your-research-projects.html
By Francesca Primas and David Meissner
"We are very happy and proud to announce the release of the Astro Voices videos, a project that was launched in March 2019 to celebrate the 100th anniversary of the International Astronomical Union. Your response was overwhelmingly large and required an immense amount of work to check/adjust/combine more than 600 video clips of different styles and quality. Then came the pandemic, which further delayed its completion.
Today, on UNESCO World Science Day for Peace and Development, we are releasing five internationally-mixed videos.
Each video is about 12 minutes long and can be found on a dedicated YouTube Astro Voices channel. Their release will also be advertised via IAU channels and on the Nature Astronomy Community blog. Feel free to further spread the news!""
See the videos at
https://www.youtube.com/@astrovoices
Read more about the UNESCO World Science Day for Peace and Development at
https://www.unesco.org/en/days/science-peace-development
By CERN
"For the seventh year running, CERN, the University of Geneva’s Scienscope, EPFL and the Annecy Particle Physics Laboratory (LAPP) will be joining forces to celebrate the International Day of Women and Girls in Science. From 30 January to 3 February 2023, female science ambassadors will visit local schools to talk to the pupils about their profession.
The Women and Girls in Science and Technology week is a huge sucess every year, with 121 presentations made in 2022. This is why we are always looking for more volunteer female scientists willing to give up a bit of their time to visit schools. So come and join the adventure by signing up: the deadline is 11 December 2022 (11.59 p.m.)."
Read more at
By Claire James
"Of Lost Time, a literary non-profit that publishes collections of historical and famous letters, has shared a missive that reveals the illuminating truth behind the answer to one of astronomy’s biggest questions: What is the universe made of?
Today, it’s an accepted fundamental concept in science that hydrogen, the simplest atom, is the basic building block of the universe. The credit for this discovery is generally given to an American astronomer named Henry Norris Russell, but a famous letter by Russell shows that the idea was first grasped by a young PhD student called Cecilia Payne.
Payne, who found her scientific brilliance stifled in England, discovered hydrogen in the stars in 1925 after moving to the U.S. to pursue her higher education. Of Lost Time shows how Russell, at the time Payne’s external dissertation advisor, wrote to convince her of the impossibility of her findings but later published a paper concluding the same result.
Payne’s story demonstrates the sexism that for so long held women back from pursuing successful careers in the field of science and how, almost 100 years after Russell’s discouragement, letters from the past can shed light on the women who helped shape our understanding of the universe."
Read more at
By Linda Babcock, Brenda Peyser, Lise Vesterlund & Laurie R. Weingart
"In August 2022, a group of female scholars wrote ‘Why four scientists spent a year saying no’: an article about what they had gained by saying no to 100 work-related requests over the course of year. We knew we had found kindred spirits in the authors. We, too, have lost time by saying yes to work that didn’t move our careers forward. That led us, four female professors, to form the No Club.
Over the past decade, we have researched work that doesn’t help to advance careers — an attempt to understand why we, along with many others, were doing so much of it. We gave this work a name: non-promotable tasks (NPTs). Although this work matters to an organization, it brings no external reward or recognition to the individual who does it."
Read more at
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-022-03677-6
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, Northern Arizona University, Flagstaff AZ
https://nau.jobs vacancy 606756
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