Friday, June 23, 2023

AASWomen Newsletter for June 23, 2023

AAS Committee on the Status of Women
Issue of June 23, 2023
eds: Jeremy Bailin, Nicolle Zellner, Sethanne Howard, and Hannah Jang-Condell

[We hope you all are taking care of yourselves and each other. --eds.]

This week's issues:

1. Citation Ethics in Publishing
2. AAS Publishing Introduces #BlackSpaceWeek2023 Video Series
3. Crosspost: Astrophysicist hopes her story resonates with Egyptian women
4. 60 years ago Valentina Tereshkova launched into space
5. Remembering Sally Ride — 40 years after she shattered the glass ceiling on the way to space
6. Study examines women's strategic concealment of LGBTQ+ affinity
7. Astronomical Society of the Pacific CEO, Linda Shore, Announces her Retirement
8. Interviews on unpaid caregiving and academic STEMM
9. How to Submit to the AASWOMEN newsletter
10. How to Subscribe or Unsubscribe to the AASWOMEN newsletter
11. 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.


1. Citation Ethics in Publishing
From: AAS News [https://aas.org/news]

by A. Meredith Hughes, Misty Bentz, and Lisa Prato

Recently, there has been significant discussion in our community regarding the ethics of citations in scientific literature. Accordingly, representatives from the AAS Code of Ethics Committee and the AAS Publications Committee have worked together to draft this post to summarize the issues and illuminate the complexity of the topic. As a longer-term task, we have begun working to develop guidance for authors, editors, and referees that takes into account this complexity while leaving space for new solutions in unprecedented situations.

Read more at

https://aas.org/posts/news/2023/06/citation-ethics-publishing

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2. AAS Publishing Introduces #BlackSpaceWeek2023 Video Series
From: AAS News [https://aas.org/news]

by KeShawn Ivory

Black in Astro has partnered with AAS Publishing for BlackSpaceWeek to feature astronomical papers from six Black scholars in the field through the AAS Journal Authors YouTube Series. These video chats will be released during #BlackSpaceWeek2023 (18-24 June) at 9:00 am ET each day; you can visit the AAS Journal Youtube page for the videos each day, or follow the hyperlinks below to view their published papers.

Read more at

https://aas.org/posts/news/2023/06/aas-publishing-introduces-blackspaceweek2023-video-series

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3. Crosspost: Astrophysicist hopes her story resonates with Egyptian women
From: Nicolle Zellner via womeninastronomy.blogspot.com

By Ashraf Amin for ahramonline

In her new book, Starstruck: A Memoir of Finding Light in the Dark, astrophysicist Sarafina El-Badry Nance links her knowledge of the universe to her journey as a child of immigrants who witnessed 9/11 and tried to integrate into white Texas society in every chapter.

Read more at

http://womeninastronomy.blogspot.com/2023/06/crosspost-astrophysicist-hopes-her.html

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4. 60 years ago Valentina Tereshkova launched into space
From: Jeremy Bailin [jbailin_at_ua.edu]

by Ben Evans

The first female cosmonaut flew years before NASA put a man on the Moon and decades before any other country would send a woman into orbit.

Read more at

https://www.astronomy.com/space-exploration/60-years-ago-valentina-tereshkova-launched-into-space/

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5. Remembering Sally Ride — 40 years after she shattered the glass ceiling on the way to space
From: Jeremy Bailin [jbailin_at_ua.edu]

by Jackie Wattles for CNN

It has been 40 years since Sally Ride became the first woman from the United States to travel into outer space. June 18 marks the anniversary of Ride’s ceiling-shattering, six-day mission on the space shuttle Challenger in 1983.

Read more at

https://www.cnn.com/2023/06/18/world/sally-ride-nasa-anniversary-scn/index.html

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6. Study examines women's strategic concealment of LGBTQ+ affinity
From: Nicolle Zellner [nzellner_at_albion.edu]

by Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute

Researchers at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute report on the results of an experiment to determine whether individuals strategically mask signals about their affinity with the LGBTQ+ community in response to anticipated discrimination.

Read more at

https://phys.org/news/2023-06-women-strategic-concealment-lgbtq-affinity.html

Read the peer-reviewed paper at

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0014292123000569

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7. Astronomical Society of the Pacific CEO, Linda Shore, Announces her Retirement
From: Sethanne Howard [sethanneh_at_msn.com]

by Joycelin Craig for the Astronomical Society of the Pacific

San Francisco, California – June 21, 2023 Linda Shore, CEO of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific (ASP) has announced her retirement after 10 years of service.

https://files.constantcontact.com/74ff7d3c301/f5544905-2627-465e-961b-e9c59f1da0fd.pdf

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8. Interviews on unpaid caregiving and academic STEMM
From: Jeffrey Gillis-Davis [j.gillis-davis_at_wustl.edu]

The National Academies of Science, Engineering, and Medicine is examining how to better promote equity for students and professionals in academic science, technology, engineering, and medicine who are also unpaid caregivers of loved ones, including dependent children and adults with serious or chronic illness or disability.

We are looking to engage ~40 individuals in academic STEMM who have caregiving responsibilities outside of work, particularly scientists and professionals of color; those who identify as LGBTQ+, first-gen, or immigrant; those living with disabilities; and those in heavily male-dominated fields (such as physics; computer science; astronomy and astrophysics; and civil, aerospace, electrical, and mechanical engineering). Those selected will be invited to participate in a 1-hour Zoom interview and receive a $75 gift card as a token of thanks.

If you meet these criteria and are interested in being considered for the study, please complete a brief screening form at https://survey.rti.org/se/1/care/. Also, feel free to forward this announcement to anyone you think might meet the criteria and would be interested.

Thanks for your support! Also if you have any questions please reach out to Katie Wullert (KWullert_at_nas.edu) and Jeffrey Gillis-Davis (j.gillis-davis_at_wustl.edu).

Jeff and the NASEM committee on Policies and Practices for Supporting Family Caregivers Working in Science, Engineering, and Medicine

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9. How to Submit to the AASWOMEN newsletter

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11. Access to Past Issues

https://aas.org/comms/cswa/AASWOMEN

Each annual summary includes an index of topics covered.

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