AASWomen Newsletter for April 17, 2020

Image courtesy of Mark Godfrey

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

[We hope you all are taking care of yourselves and each other. --eds.]
This week's issues:

1. Two Body-Problem Series: Navigating the Move

2. Webinar: Exploring the Latest Research on Women in Engineering

3. Vera Rubin Solved the Darkest Mysteries of the Universe

4. Indigenous scientists are connecting culture with science to get kids inspired

5. Six ways to juggle science and childcare from home

6. Risk Without Reward

7. Inequalities faced by women in access to permanent positions in astronomy in France

8. Mental health in physics group

9. Can you help identify unnamed women scientists of the past?

10. The pandemic and the female academic

11. How to Submit to the AASWomen Newsletter

12. How to Subscribe or Unsubscribe to the AASWomen Newsletter

13. Access to Past Issues of the AASWomen Newsletter

Two Body-Problem Series: Navigating the Move

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 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? What are your backgrounds (educational, social, cultural, etc., for context)?

We met in college, in the first few days after freshman orientation. We grew up in different regions of the same US west coast state. We're both white with college-educated parents. Our first interaction was when I asked if he had a car and could drive two friends and me to the store! He kindly agreed, but we wouldn't date for over a year after that. He was two years ahead of me, and majored in engineering; I majored in physics.

AASWomen Newsletter for April 10, 2020

AAS Committee on the Status of Women
Issue of April 10, 2020
eds: JoEllen McBride, Nicolle Zellner, Heather Flewelling, Maria Patterson, and Alessandra Aloisi

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

This week's issues:

1. Cross-post: E. Margaret Burbidge, Astronomer Who Blazed Trails on Earth, Dies at 100

2. Drawing everyday sexism in academia: observations and analysis of a community-based initiative

3. The Stunning Astronomical Beadwork of Native Artist Margaret Nazon

4. What can your PhD supervisor do for you?

5. Being Human In Times Of Disruption, Technology And Innovation: WomenTech Network Announces Global Virtual Conference

6. Arab women in science

7. Job Opportunities

8. How to Submit to the AASWomen Newsletter

9. How to Subscribe or Unsubscribe to the AASWomen Newsletter

10. Access to Past Issues of the AASWomen Newsletter

From item 3

Cross-post: E. Margaret Burbidge, Astronomer Who Blazed Trails on Earth, Dies at 100

By Margaret Fox

E. Margaret Burbidge, an astrophysicist who made pathbreaking findings about the state of the cosmos, not the least of which was discovering precisely what it entailed to succeed as a woman in a male-dominated universe at midcentury, died on Sunday at her home in San Francisco. She was 100.

Her daughter, Sarah Burbidge, said the cause was complications from a fall.

A native of England who worked largely in the United States, Dr. Burbidge built a career that was stellar in both senses. She was considered one of the foremost astronomers in the world, long regarded as a trailblazer for women in the field.

Read more at

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/06/science/space/e-margaret-burbidge-dead.html

Check out our post from her 100th birthday and feel free to share your memories of Dr. Burbidge in the comments below!

https://womeninastronomy.blogspot.com/2019/08/happy-100th-birthday-margaret-burbidge.html

AASWomen Newsletter for April 03, 2020

AAS Committee on the Status of Women
Issue of April 03, 2020
eds: JoEllen McBride, Nicolle Zellner, Heather Flewelling, Maria Patterson, and Alessandra Aloisi

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

Heather Couper, from item 2.
Credit: Hencoup Enterprises/PA

This week's issues:

1. Updated Activities and a Message From the Blogging Team

2. Heather Couper obituary: Astronomer who redefined science on TV

3. AAAS Fellow Ann Finkbeiner Set a New Standard for Writing About Women Scientists

4. Pioneers in Science: Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin

5. How Nancy Grace Roman shaped Hubble

6. Women rival men in scientific research publications and citations

7. Workshop on women of color in tech

8. Leadership to change a culture of sexual harassment

9. Fewer US researchers are disclosing disabilities on NIH grant applications

10. Graduate Studies and Campus Closures

11. How to Submit to the AASWomen Newsletter

12. How to Subscribe or Unsubscribe to the AASWomen Newsletter

13. Access to Past Issues of the AASWomen Newsletter

Updated Activities and a Message From the Blogging Team

We have added more items to our previous blog post: A Message on COVID-19! Check them out at the link below.

https://womeninastronomy.blogspot.com/2020/03/a-message-on-covid-19.html

The blogging team would like to thank all of you for continuing to read the Women in Astronomy Blog. As our team works to find a balance between working from home and taking care of loved ones there may be weeks where you do not hear from us. Please know we are still here working on content, but things may get delayed. Thank you for your understanding and keep an eye out for more posts! Be well!

AASWomen Newsletter for March 27, 2020

AAS Committee on the Status of Women
Issue of March 27, 2020
eds: JoEllen McBride, Nicolle Zellner, Heather Flewelling, Maria Patterson, and Alessandra Aloisi

[We hope you all are taking care of yourselves and each other. Be well --eds.]
This week's issues:

1. A Message on COVID-19

2. 2020 NASA Science Mission Design School Applications Now Due April 13, 2020

3. The Gruber Foundation (TGF) fellowship 2020

4. When girls are the shero of the story

5. US national academy pushes to make grants contingent on gender equity

6. Women’s lives might look very different in the next 3 decades – if we tear down barriers at work

7. Job Opportunities

8. How to Submit to the AASWomen Newsletter

9. How to Subscribe or Unsubscribe to the AASWomen Newsletter

10. Access to Past Issues of the AASWomen Newsletter