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Issue of March 28, 2025
eds: Jeremy Bailin, Sethanne Howard, Ferah Munshi, Stella Kafka, and Ben Keller
[We hope you all are taking care of yourselves and each other. Sorry for the late newsletter. --eds.]
This week's issues:
1. AAS 246 Call for Abstracts
2. Gender gap in research publishing is improving — slowly
3. NASA Abandons Pledge to Put Women, Astronauts of Color on the Moon
4. How Priyamvada Natarajan got more women access to the Hubble telescope
5. Pioneering scientists who were first female Fellows of the Royal Society commemorated in new documentaries presented by Dame Maggie Aderin-Pocock
6. 2025 TEAM-UP Together Scholarship Program applications open
7. How an 18th-Century Female Physicist Broke Boundaries and Inspired the Generations Who Followed
8. March 25 is Equal Pay Day
9. Seven Women You Need to Pay Attention to in the Realm of AI, Responsibility, and Tech
10. How to Submit to the AASWOMEN newsletter
11. How to Subscribe or Unsubscribe to the AASWOMEN newsletter
12. 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.
Every presentation at the AAS summer and winter meetings is accompanied by an abstract no more than 2,250 characters long that describes the research being presented. Meeting attendees wishing to present — whether via a talk or a poster — must submit a proposed abstract by the 10 April deadline.
Students who wish to enter the Chambliss Student Poster Competition must submit their poster abstracts by the regular abstract deadline.
Read more at
https://aas.org/meetings/aas246/abstracts
By Rachel Williamson
A Nature Index data set shows which countries, institutions and topic areas are making the greatest progress towards gender equity in research.
In terms of research topics, the highest representation of female co-authors in 2024 was in reproductive medicine (53%), paediatrics (50%) and nutrition and dietetics (50%). Classical physics (15%), quantum physics (16%) and condensed matter physics (16%) had some of the lowest percentages of female authorship.
Read more at
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-025-00553-x
NASA has dropped its commitment to land the first woman, the first person of color, and the first non-American astronaut on the Moon through the Artemis program. This move is in response to recent federal executive directives.
Read more at
By Akanksha Mishra
Astrophysicist Priyamvada Natarajan talked about her work in black hole origins, and challenges of being a woman in STEM during her lecture at the India International Centre in Delhi.
Read more at
By The Royal Society
On Monday 24 and Tuesday 25 March, the Royal Society will release two short documentaries to honour Kathleen Lonsdale and Marjory Stephenson, 80 years since they became the first women to be elected to its Fellowship since its founding in 1660.
Space scientist and presenter of BBC’s The Sky at Night Maggie Aderin-Pocock joins astrophysicist Jocelyn Bell Burnell FRS and biochemist Judy Armitage FRS to uncover the legacies of the first two women to become Fellows of the Royal Society.
Read more at
https://royalsociety.org/news/2025/03/marjory-stephenson-kathleen-lonsdale-anniversary/
By TEAM-UP Together
We are pleased to share that the 2025 TEAM-UP Together Scholarship application is open from 3 March to 23 May 2025. Please note that we’ve adjusted our application requirements and other details to ensure we can continue supporting undergraduate students in pursuit of physics and/or astronomy degrees. Please share this opportunity with your networks of eligible future physical scientists!
Read more at
https://www.teamuptogether.org/scholarship
A chance glance at a book in a Bologna bookstore led Paula Findlen to delve into the story of Cristina Roccati, a widely overlooked 18th century physicist and astronomer from Rovigo who was appointed "Prince" of the Accademia dei Concordi.
Read more at
March 25 is Equal Pay Day, marking the reality that women working full-time, year-round are only paid, on average, 83 cents to every dollar paid to men. Some women face even starker inequities that compound over a lifetime.
Read more at
https://www.aauw.org/resources/article/equal-pay-day-calendar/
By AnitaB.org
Every decade we see new tech rise to power, and right now AI is the most talked about in the room. But, with this power comes great responsibility. As AI shapes industries from healthcare to finance to entertainment, the question of how we build, implement, and regulate it is more important than ever. If AI is to truly benefit all of society, it must be developed with fairness, transparency, and accountability at its core.
That’s why we look to those who are leading in the space. These trailblazers aren’t just contributing to the conversation, they’re driving it forward. They’re challenging the status quo, pushing for responsible AI practices, and ensuring that AI serves everyone. Let’s take a look at just a few making a profound impact in the world of AI.
Read more at
https://anitab.org/blog/real-stories/seven-women-leading-ai/
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