Issue of April 11, 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. --eds.]
This week's issues:
1. Explore Your Career Options
2. Gendered expectations extend to science communication
3. Blue Origin’s all-female space flight urges women to shoot for the stars – but astronaut memoirs reveal the cost of being exceptional
4. NASA website removes 'First Woman' graphic novel — but here's where you can still find it
5. Where Does Meaning Live in a Sentence? Math Might Tell Us.
6. How to Submit to the AASWOMEN newsletter
7. How to Subscribe or Unsubscribe to the AASWOMEN newsletter
8. 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.
In honor of "Explore Your Career Options Week" (April 6-12, 2025) and in support of our Career Profile series, below we highlight some folks who started out in Astronomy but have since moved on to other career fields. Many of them are willing to answer your questions. Take a look!
Read more at: https://womeninastronomy.blogspot.com/2025/04/explore-your-career-options.html
Communicating complex science in a way that the public can understand is crucial. A new study from the University of Adelaide reveals that in scientific societies, women are shouldering the bulk of this work—often voluntarily—due to societal expectations and a sense of duty.
Read more at: https://phys.org/news/2025-04-gendered-science-communication.html
Find the peer-reviewed study at: https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/10755470251321075
For the first time since Russian cosmonaut Valentina Tereshkova’s solo flight in 1963, a spacecraft will enter orbit with only women aboard. Blue Origin’s all-female space flight crew, which includes popstar Katy Perry, is set to take off this spring.
Through the "First Woman" series, NASA aimed to help inspire a future generation of space enthusiasts deemed the "Artemis Generation," in conjunction with the agency's endeavor to truly land the first woman and first person of color on the moon via the Artemis program. Thanks to the digital library known as the Internet Archive, issues can still be read on the Wayback Machine
Read more at: https://www.yahoo.com/news/nasa-website-removes-first-woman-130000619.html
Growing up, Tai-Danae Bradley(opens a new tab) had no love for math. In 2008, she entered the City College of New York, where she played for the basketball team and hoped to start a career in sports nutrition. She saw her math courses as a curricular hurdle that only geniuses could really excel in. “I’d have rather had all my teeth pulled than do it for a living,” she said.
Read more at: https://www.quantamagazine.org/where-does-meaning-live-in-a-sentence-math-might-tell-us-20250409/
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