AASWomen Newsletter for February 07, 2020

The Golden Record cover shown with its extraterrestrial instructions. Credit: NASA/JPL

AAS Committee on the Status of Women
Issue of February 07, 2020
eds: JoEllen McBride, Nicolle Zellner, Heather Flewelling, Maria Patterson, and Alessandra Aloisi

This week's issues:

1. Share Your Best CSWA Memories!

2. NASA Headquarters Summer Internships

3. Task force recommends US$50-million fund to bring African Americans into physics and astronomy

4. Amazon Prime's 'Troop Zero' shows inspiring effect of Voyager's 'Golden Record' on kids

5. NASA Astrophysics Virtual Town Hall: Dual-Anonymous Peer Review for Astrophysics General Observer / General Investigator Programs

6. Equal Representation in Scientific Honors Starts with Nominations

7. Cancel cuts to Graduate Research Fellowships

8. Record-breaking NASA astronaut Christina Koch is returning to Earth after nearly a year in space

9. She discovered how to measure the universe. Then the men got all the acclaim.

10. NASEM: Supporting the Black Student Experience

11. People will not trust unkind science

12. Job Opportunities

13. How to Submit to the AASWomen Newsletter

14. How to Subscribe or Unsubscribe to the AASWomen Newsletter

15. Access to Past Issues of the AASWomen Newsletter

Share Your Best CSWA Memories!

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2019 marked the 40th anniversary of the Committee on the Status of Women in Astronomy. For 40 years, this Committee has been making recommendations to AAS leadership on ways to improve the astronomical community so that all women (people who identify as female, including trans women, genderqueer women, and non-binary people who are significantly female-identified) are welcome and encouraged to pursue astronomy. We have submitted white papers in decadal surveys, endorsed four Women in Astronomy conferences, and shared the perspectives of astronomers whose experiences in the field differ from the status quo on our Women in Astronomy blog among other things.

To celebrate, we asked attendees of our Meet and Greet at the 235th Meeting of the American Astronomical Society to briefly share their favorite CSWA memories. We now want to extend that offer to the rest of the astronomy community. Read the memories below and feel free to add your own in the comments!

Thank you all for a wonderful 40 years and here’s to 40 more!

What are your best CSWA memories?

“Women in Astronomy IV in 2017 was an excellent meeting!”
Anonymous

“First status of women in astronomy meeting at STScI and the CSWA receptions at AAS meetings.”
Jennifer Wiseman, Goddard Space Flight Center

“The Women in Astronomy blog has been a weekly part of my life since graduate school, consistently enriching it.”
Amanda Moffett, University of North Georgia

“The newsletter and blog are really appreciated.”
Duilia de Mello, Catholic University of America

AASWomen Newsletter for January 31, 2020

Former NASA astronaut Nicole Stott stars in Olay’s Super Bowl commercial alongside Lilly Singh and Busy Philipps. Credit: Olay

AAS Committee on the Status of Women
Issue of January 31, 2020
eds: JoEllen McBride, Nicolle Zellner, Heather Flewelling, Maria Patterson, and Alessandra Aloisi

This week's issues:

1. Two-Body Problem Series: Playing the Long Game

2. Former NASA astronaut to star in STEM Super Bowl commercial

3. The heroines of STEM: Ten women in science you should know

4. Unprecedented study finds NZ universities paying woman academics $400,000 less than men

5. Understanding Our Environment Requires an Indigenous Worldview

6. Stress, anxiety, harassment: huge survey reveals pressures of scientists’ working lives

7. How employers can avoid ‘occupational sorting’ by women

8. It’s All About STEM Women: Arianne Hunter and the Privilege of Dreams

9. Life in the Balance

10. US National Academies launches search for evidence-based programmes to support scientist parents

11. 3 Things You Should Know About the Gender Pay Gap

12. How Women Can Successfully Navigate Male-Dominated Fields

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 of the AASWOMEN newsletter

Two-Body Problem Series: Playing the Long Game

By Anonymous

Credit: Tod Strohmayer (GSFC), CXC, NASA
Illustration: Dana Berry (CXC)

This entry in the two-body problem series is an account of one person’s experience navigating the academic track with their partner. For context, the people in the relationship are white, cisgender, and heterosexual. If you would like to contribute your own story to this series, please contact us at wia-blog at lists.aas.org.

When did you and your partner meet?

We met in college. We both knew that we wanted to apply to graduate school and pursue academic careers (he's in engineering and I'm in astronomy).

AASWomen Newsletter for January 24, 2020

AAS Committee on the Status of Women
Issue of January 24, 2020
eds: JoEllen McBride, Nicolle Zellner, Heather Flewelling, Maria Patterson, and Alessandra Aloisi

The Sensoria 1 crew, from item 3 (Image credit: SENSORIA Program)

This week's issues:

1. Call for Information: Publication Policy and General Codes of Conduct for Consortia and Mission Teams

2. Hester Pulter's 17th-century Spaceflight of Imagination

3. The first all-woman Mars analog crew just 'returned to Earth' in Hawaii

4. Scientific Meetings for All

5. Want more women in leadership roles? Recognize their accomplishments

6. NextProf Science 2020 Opportunity at the University of Michigan

7. From Pixel to Cosmology in the 2020s

8. Job Opportunities

9. How to Submit to the AASWomen Newsletter

10. How to Subscribe or Unsubscribe to the AASWomen Newsletter

11. Access to Past Issues of the AASWomen Newsletter

Call for Information: Publication Policy and General Codes of Conduct for Consortia and Mission Teams

By Randall Smith

Credit: NASA

The AAS “Ethics Process” task force is pulling together some ‘best practice’ documents for consortia and mission teams in regards to Publication Policy and general Codes of Conduct.

In some cases - e.g. Codes of Conduct - there are a number of good examples out there, especially from the Physics world. However, Publication Policies are an area that each group seems to address as ad-hoc; while there are some examples from Physics (e.g. the CERN LHC teams have very detailed policies), those don’t necessarily work for astronomers. The topics that we would expect might be in a publication policy (which might be called a code of conduct, ‘rules of the road’, or a memorandum of understanding) might include:

AASWomen Newsletter for January 17, 2020

Vera Rubin in 1965 (Courtesy of the Carnegie Institution for Science)

AAS Committee on the Status of Women
Issue of January 17, 2020
eds: JoEllen McBride, Nicolle Zellner, Heather Flewelling, Maria Patterson, and Alessandra Aloisi

This week's issues:

1. Career Profile: Astronomer to Anthropometry Engineer

2. Women Can Spacewalk. But Can They Cross the Gender Line?

3. Academics must balance privacy and honesty to become great role models

4. An alternative argument for why women leave STEM: Guest post by Karen Morenz

5. Women in leadership positions face more sexual harassment

6. Continued: LSST named Vera C. Rubin Observatory

7. Addressing the Underrepresentation of Women of Color in Tech

8. What the 2010s taught us about women in space

9. The great life of astronomer Caroline Herschel, who catalogued the heavens

10. Registration now open for Women in Data Science Conference on March 2, 2020

11. AGU Bridge Program

12. Aspen 2020 Summer Program

13. Summer 2020 NSF-REU Program at the Maria Mitchell Observatory

14. Job Opportunities

15. How to Submit to the AASWOMEN newsletter

16. How to Subscribe or Unsubscribe to the AASWOMEN newsletter

17. Access to Past Issues of the AASWOMEN newsletter