AASWomen Newsletter for July 31, 2020

Dr. Jessica Esquivel, from Item 2

AAS Committee on the Status of Women
Issue of July 31, 2020
eds: Heather Flewelling, Nicolle Zellner, Maria Patterson, Alessandra Aloisi, and Jeremy Bailin

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

This week's issues:

1. Meet Your CSWA, Jeremy Bailin

2. Women in Science: The Intersection of Identity and Profession

3. Equity: a mathematician shares her solution

4. A Personal Interview with Rita Colwell in Advance of Her Book “A Lab of One’s Own”

5. Women in STEM are still far short of workplace equity. COVID-19 risks undoing even these modest gains

6. Despite outperforming men, women undergraduates in science remain undervalued

7. Too many senior white academics still resist recognizing racism

8. Inclusion is our roadmap back to global science dominance

9. "SU(5)" - a new national mentoring program for incoming grad students in physics and astronomy

10. How to Submit to the AASWomen Newsletter

11. How to Subscribe or Unsubscribe to the AASWomen Newsletter

12. Access to Past Issues of the AASWomen Newsletter

Meet Your CSWA, Jeremy Bailin

Jeremy Bailin is an Associate Professor at the University of Alabama. His research involves galaxy formation using computer simulations, observations in the optical and radio, and phenomenological models. He is particularly interested in the outskirts of galaxies — stellar halos, circumgalactic medium, globular clusters, and satellite galaxies. He teaches courses from introductory astronomy to graduate astrophysics, and is involved in astronomy education research.

Jeremy joined the CSWA in 2019, and is particularly interested in how the CSWA’s mission plays out in university education (particularly in mid-range size institutions, where the most undergraduates encounter astronomy), and in LGBT+ issues.

AASWomen Newsletter for July 24, 2020

AAS Committee on the Status of Women
Issue of July 24, 2020
eds: Heather Flewelling, Nicolle Zellner, Maria Patterson, Alessandra
Aloisi, and Jeremy Bailin

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

This week's issues:

Dilhan Eryurt, Google Doodle by Kevin Laughlin

1. CSWA Resources for Astronomers

2. Google doodle celebrates Turkish astrophysicist Dilhan Eryurt

3. Recommendations for Planning Inclusive Astronomy Conferences

4. Help needed: Launch of José Flores Velázquez Memorial Cal-Bridge Scholarship

5. Encouraging news - Covid Vaccine Front-Runner Is Months Ahead of Her Competition

6. The career cost of COVID-19 to female researchers, and how science should respond

7. Women In STEM Careers Could Lose During Covid-19 - 4 Steps To Help

8. A Dozen-Plus Ways You Can Foster Educational Equity

9. Why Women Engineers are Uniquely Qualified to Lead

10. Diversity Style Guides for Journalists

11. Job Opportunities

12. How to Submit to the AASWomen Newsletter

13. How to Subscribe or Unsubscribe to the AASWomen Newsletter

14. Access to Past Issues of the AASWomen Newsletter

CSWA Resources for Astronomers

In order to use our time effectively during the CSWA Meet and Greet panel at the 2020 Summer AAS Meeting, we conducted a survey to see what topics we would discuss. There were 14 concerns about being (or knowing) a woman and/or underrepresented minority in astronomy or planetary science (or another STEM field) that our respondents could choose. The top 10 concerns are listed below. The CSWA wanted to make sure that the community is aware of the resources available to them to approach some of these issues and others. Links to the relevant resource pages or blog posts are provided below if available.

The Fallout from COVID-19 on Astronomy’s Most Vulnerable Groups

Aparna Venkatesan (U. of San Francisco), Ed Bertschinger (MIT), Dara Norman (NOIRLab), Sarah Tuttle (U. of Washington, Seattle), Kelsie Krafton (AAS Bahcall Public Policy Fellow) 

Reaching to the stars
by Ares Nguyen via flickr

This has not been the year any of us envisioned. We are in the midst of a global pandemic that is still raging in many countries, including the U.S. For many of us in academe or higher education, the challenges of an unprecedented spring look likely to continue through most, if not all, of the next academic year. We attempt here to begin a discussion of the enormous and still-increasing fallout from COVID-19 and other national/global crises on astronomy as well as STEM. We began to write this post in mid-May but have had to continuously update it as numerous crises spanning many arenas have emerged.

AASWOMEN Newsletter for July 17, 2020

AAS Committee on the Status of Women
Issue of July 17, 2020
eds: Heather Flewelling, Nicolle Zellner, Maria Patterson,
Alessandra Aloisi, and Jeremy Bailin

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

This week's issues:

1. The Fallout from COVID-19 on Astronomy's Most Vulnerable Groups

2. A Celebration of Margaret Burbidge

3. Virtual Women in STEM event on tap at science center

4. How COVID-19 can bring gender justice

5. How the UAE’s Mars mission is changing life on Earth

6. She’s an Authority on Earth’s Past. Now, Her Focus Is the Planet’s Future.

7. New "Black Lives in Astronomy" Resource Guide and updated "Astronomy of Many Cultures" website

8. Trump administration rescinds rule on foreign students

9. The People of Color in Astronomy Listing You Should Know About

10. Increased representation of women, ethnic groups not enough to overcome biases in STEM

11. Unequal effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on scientists

12. How to Submit to the AASWOMEN newsletter

13. How to Subscribe or Unsubscribe to the AASWOMEN newsletter

14. Access to Past Issues

AASWomen Newsletter for July 10, 2020

AAS Committee on the Status of Women
Issue of July 10, 2020
eds: Heather Flewelling, Nicolle Zellner, Maria Patterson,
Alessandra Aloisi, and Jeremy Bailin

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

From Item 7 - Christa McAuliffe coin

This week's issues:

1. Crosspost: #BlackInAstro from astrobites

2. Crosspost: A Break-up Letter with Astronomy, From a Young Black Woman

3. Meet Central American-Caribbean Astronomy Bridge Program Fellows - Part 3

4. Gender bias kept alive by people who think it’s dead

5. New Update - Maria Mitchell Women of Science Symposium 2020

6. Reports from NASEM

7. Candidate designs reviewed for 'Teacher in Space' Christa McAuliffe coin

8. white supremacy culture

9. Three extraordinary women run the gauntlet of science — a documentary

10. Seeking an ‘exit plan’ for leaving academia amid coronavirus worries

11. As more parents return to the office, some face an impossible choice

12. The Laura Bassi Scholarship

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