Issue of October 18, 2024
eds: Jeremy Bailin, Nicolle Zellner, Sethanne Howard, Hannah Jang-Condell, and Ferah Munshi
[We hope you all are taking care of yourselves and each other. --eds.]
This week's issues:
1. Women Reinventing Science - Part 1
2. Space for Students - Part 1
3. Women are better than men at science job interviews
4. Habitable Worlds Observatory System Technology Demonstrations and Mission Architecture Studies
5. AAS Dependent Care Grants
6. Annoincing S PLUS Science Hunters
7. Development of NASA-DARES 2025: The NASA Decadal Astrobiology Research and Exploration Strategy
8. Vera Rubin: Opening doors to dark matter and women in STEM
9. WGAP Women and girls in astronomy program
10. The Forgotten Women of Astronomy
11. AAS News on Women in Astronomy
12. World Space Week
13. Job Opportunities
14. How to Submit to the AASWOMEN newsletter
15. How to Subscribe or Unsubscribe to the AASWOMEN newsletter
16. 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.
We share with our readers excerpts from The "Reinvention of Science" by Bernard Jones, Vicent MartÃnez and Virginia Trimble, which describes scientists ahoare who helped reinvent science. In honor of "Nobel Prize Week", we excerpted from the chapter about a few women deserving of the Nobel Prize: Marietta Blau, Rosalind Franklin, Lise Meitner, and Jocelyn Bell.
Read more at:
https://womeninastronomy.blogspot.com/2024/10/women-reinventing-science-part-1.html
In our popular Career Profile series, the AAS Committee on the Status of Women in Astronomy has compiled dozens of interviews highlighting the diversity of career trajectories available to astronomers, planetary scientists, and those in related fields. We video-interviewed students in astronomy and astrophysics to highlight their personal and academic career paths.
Read more at:
https://womeninastronomy.blogspot.com/2024/10/space-for-students-part-1.html
By: Chris Woolston
An investigation into academic hiring outcomes for biological-science roles has suggested a surprising trend: women who applied for assistant professor positions in North America were more likely to get job offers than were men.(Ed.Note: This is an article in Nature. It may block non-subscribers, although I got in withojt a subscription.)
Read more at:
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-024-03107-9
By: NASA
DRAFT Textreleased for community comment. When it is solicited, D.19 Habitable Worlds Observatory System Technology Demonstrations and Mission Architecture Studies (HWOTAS) will seek industry-led proposals to carry out (1) system-level critical technology demonstrations for ultra-stable observatories and/or (2) missionarchitecture studies for system-level ultra-stable observatory approaches for the Habitable Worlds Observatory (HWO).
ROSES-2024 Amendment 58 releases DRAFT text for D.19 HWOTAS. This draft text is designated NNH25ZDA003J for SAM release. Comments and questions concerning thisdraft are due by October 23, 2024, to Julie.a.crooke@nasa.gov.
Read more at:
https://solicitation.nasaprs.com/ROSES2024 and https://nspires.nasaprs.com/external/solicitations/summary.do?solId=%7b90F5A9B0-8948-3EBB-C15F-3A89573DB223%7d&path=&method=init
By: AAS
The financial burden of child and adult dependent care affects the Society’s members. The impact can be so great that it often prevents attendance at meetings, especially for early career scientists or those at small institutions with limited funding. The AAS and its Divisions are committed to helping members with dependents attend meetings; therefore, members may apply for subsidized dependentcare services during a meeting, for use either at the meeting location or at home.
Deadline 1 November 2024. Requires AAS login.
Read more at:
https://aas.org/content/childdependent-care-grant-application
By: Zooniverse
Every night, in the quiet Chilean mountains, the T80S telescope takes many pictures of large parts of the sky. We are excited to announce the S-PLUS Science Hunters project, led by a researcher at Atacama University. Join us in the quest of novel astronomical objects, hunting for asteroids, star clusters, multiple galaxy systems, star forming galaxies, exotic objects and all the unknown objects waiting to be revealed.
The S-PLUS collaboration is a Brazilian lead effort to understand several aspects of the universe, from the formation of the first stars, to the evolution of galaxies in different environments, till the identification of Baryonic Acoustic Oscillations. Open your eyes to the beauty of the night sky and help classify and identify extraordinary objects!
Read more at:
https://www.zooniverse.org/projects/cfllopes/splus-science-hunters
By: RFI from NASA
Number: NNH25ZDA002L Release Date: October 8, 2024 Response Date: February 4, 2025
NASA's Science Mission Directorate (SMD) is pleased to announce a Request for Information (RFI) to gather community responses for the development of the forthcoming 2025 NASA Decadal AstrobiologyResearch and Exploration Strategy (NASA-DARES).
Read more At:
https://go.nasa.gov/ABStrategyRFI
By: Carnegie
1965 was a year of opening doors.
The Civil Rights Movement was gaining momentum, with the Voting Rights Act dismantling restrictions that had long kept many Americans from the polls. At the same time, the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission began challenging workplace discrimination, pushing for fairness regardless of race or gender. In a world where doors were starting to open for women around the country, Rubin knocked on ours at just the right time, ready to redefine our understanding of the universe. And Vera Rubin began her remarkable career.
Read more at:
https://carnegiescience.edu/news/vera-rubin-opening-doors-dark-matter-and-women-stem
By:
The North American Regional Office of Astronomy for Development (NA-ROAD) is pleased to announce the selection of 10 astronomy for development projects as part of the 2024 cohort. These projects will receive funding as part of the Women and Girls in Astronomy Program (WGAP). This is the second year that NA-ROAD has offered funding for WGAP projects thanks to generous funding from the Heising-Simons Foundation.
Read more at:
By: Syndey Opera House
If you happan to be in Sydney between 13 March – 20 December 2024 go to the events at the Opera House.
Read mores at:
https://www.sydneyoperahouse.com/schools/digital-creative-learning/forgotten-women-astronomy
by: AAS
This is a list of various current topics concerning women in astronomy.
Read more at:
https://aas.org/subjects/women
By: World Space Week
From 4 October to 10 October World space Week Discisses Climate Change.
Read more at:
https://www.worldspaceweek.org/
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
- faculty job at UVa
https://aas.org/jobregister/ad/effdafa4
- Assistant or Associate Professor in Planetary Science - University of Houston
http://www.uh.edu/nsm/earth-atmospheric/
- Director of Astronomy with The Maria Mitchell Association
https://www.mariamitchell.org/job-opportunities
- nominations to join the ExoPAG Executive Council. Submit by email to
john.p.wisniewski@nasa.gov
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