AASWomen Newsletter for November 1, 2024

AAS Committee on the Status of Women
Issue of November 1, 2024
eds: Jeremy Bailin, Nicolle Zellner, Sethanne Howard, Hannah Jang-Condell, and Ferah Munshi

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

This week's issues:

1. Tips for Writing
2. Call for NSF GFRP Reviewers for Astronomy
3. You can count female physics Nobel laureates on one hand
4. Education Workshops
5. Astronomers Turned Data Scientists
6. Martian Cloud Spotting
7. Apply to Write for Astrobites 2024!
8. Particle physicist Rohini Godbole passes away
9. Cosmic conversagion: Celebrating Wpmen in Astronomy
10. A Civil Servant position (permanent) is to be offered by the Heliophysicsand Planetary Science Branch at NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center
11. December 1st at 11:59pm CET (UTC + 1h) is the deadline for submitting proposals for IAU Symposia to be held during 2026.
12. How to Submit to the AASWOMEN newsletter
13. How to Subscribe or Unsubscribe to the AASWOMEN newsletter
14. 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.

Tips for Writing

Nature recently published some tips and advice for honing skills in the thing we do nearly every day: write. 

Image Credit: awarenessdays.com

Check out the links below to learn how to write more successful grant proposals, more compelling letters of recommendation, better manuscripts (and manuscript reviews), and inspiring personal statements. Got anything to add? Share it in the comments.

• Secrets to writing a winning grant: Experienced scientists reveal how to avoid application pitfalls to submit successful proposals.

• Writing the perfect recommendation letter: Three experienced professors share how they triumph over this time-consuming task while sounding original and unique.

• Sell yourself and your science in a compelling personal statement: Don’t get bogged down in technical details, and balance the professional and the personal.

• How to write a superb literature review: Editors and working scientists with well-cited reviews share their suggestions for tools and techniques.

• How to write a first-class paper: Six experts offer advice on producing a manuscript that will get published and pull in readers

AASWomen Newsletter for October 25, 2024

AAS Committee on the Status of Women
Issue of October 25, 2024
eds: Jeremy Bailin, Nicolle Zellner, Sethanne Howard, and Hannah Jang-Condell

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

This week's issues:

1. Meet your CSWA!
2. Lowell Observatory Welcomes New Executive Director Dr. Amanda Bosh
3. Women stay in science far longer than thought, study of OECD countries suggests
4. Job Opportunities
5. How to Submit to the AASWOMEN newsletter
6. How to Subscribe or Unsubscribe to the AASWOMEN newsletter
7. 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.

Meet Your CSWA!

Since 1979, over 100 people have been members of the CSWA and have worked to to recommend to the AAS Board of Trustees practical measures that can be taken to improve the status of women in astronomy and encourage their entry into this field. The CSWA's Resources page and External page have a plethora of information to help women advance in the field. 

Thank you to the past members of the CSWA and the work you have done for us. Current members are

Name: Jeremy Bailin

Institution: University of Alabama

Specialty Research Area: Galaxy Formation, Globular Clusters

Something Interesting: Former radio DJ

Name: Alessandra Aloisi
Institution: NASA HQ & STScI

Specialty Research Area: resolved stellar populations, star-formation histories and chemistry of the multi-phase ISM in nearby star-forming galaxies

Something Interesting: I speak four languages, including my mother tongue, Italian.

Name: Regina A. Jorgenson
Institution: Maria Mitchell Association, Director of Astronomy

Specialty Research Area: Galaxy Formation and Evolution

Something Interesting: I’m an ethical and compassionate vegan.

                                                       

Name: Stella Kafka

Institution: American Meteorological Society

Specialty Research Area: Variable stars, Cataclysmic Variables

Something Interesting: I have a 4-yo yorkie, called Ruru. I work for him

Name: Dr. Karly Pitman (she/her/hers)

Institution: Chair, AAS CSWA

Specialty Research Area: planetary & ISM dust; radiative transfer & laboratory astrophysics

Something Interesting: I design and sew clothing.

Name: Rayna Rampalli

Institution: Dartmouth College

Specialty Research Area: Galactic Archaeology 

Something Interesting: I swim with the UV Rays master's team in White River Junction, VT  (which is part of the upper valley, or UV, region hence our team name). 

Name: Sukanya Chakrabarti

Institution: UAH

Specialty Research Area: precision measurements to constrain dark matter

Something Interesting: I am starting to do karate again after about 7 years and am currently on my way to a karate camp 😀

Name: Eric Hooper

Institution: University of Wisconsin-Madison
Specialty Research Area: AGN and galaxy connection; radio surveys.

Something Interesting: I've been a downhill skier since my 6th birthday.

We also acknowledge James Keane and Hannah Jang-Condell. Thank you for your service on the CSWA!

AASWOMEN Newsletter for October 18, 2024

 

Beverly T. Lynds with Kate Langin’s telescope.

AAS Committee on the Status of Women
Issue of October 18, 2024
eds: Jeremy Bailin, Nicolle Zellner, Sethanne Howard, Ferah Munshi, and Hannah Jang-Condell

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

This week's issues:

1. Crosspost: Meet 2 Innu women trailblazers in astrophysics and land guardianship
2. A member of the Nobel Committee for Chemistry shares her perspective on how she and others are trying to expand the nomination pool for the famed awards
3. Beverly Lynds, a pioneer for women in astronomy and astrophysics, advanced the study of dust-and-gas clouds in the Milky Way.
4. Apply to speak at NASA’s next ExoPAG Meeting & Receive ExoPAG/AAS Travel Support
5. Call for New IAU Individual and Junior Members for 2025
6. Job Opportunities
7. How to Submit to the AASWOMEN newsletter
8. How to Subscribe or Unsubscribe to the AASWOMEN newsletter
9. 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.

Crosspost: Meet 2 Innu women trailblazers in astrophysics and land guardianship

By Edzi'u Loverin, for CBC News

Rousseau-Nepton (left) at a
Canadian Astronomical Society conference
in Toronto (Photo: CBC).

Laurie Rousseau-Nepton says she wants to understand the very large and the very small, and that's why she became the first Indigenous woman in Canada to earn a PhD in astrophysics. 

Rousseau-Nepton received her PhD in 2017 from Université Laval in Quebec City. She said that at the time she wasn't aware she was the first Indigenous woman in Canada to do that.

But she said she did realize that ancestral knowledge from her community was missing in the study of the stars.

"I made it a quest to find it back, to retrieve that knowledge and reconnect it," Rousseau-Nepton said.

Valérie Courtois, who is also Innu from Mashteuiatsh in Quebec, became the third person to receive the Shackleton Medal, and the first Indigenous person, when she was awarded the prize earlier this year. 

The Shackleton outdoor clothing company launched the medal and £10,000 prize in 2022, awarding it for "courage, determination, ingenuity and leadership" in protecting the world's polar regions.

Read more at

https://www.cbc.ca/news/indigenous/innu-science-women-trailblazers-1.7238537

AASWomen Newsletter for 11 October, 2014

AAS Committee on the Status of Women
Issue of October 18, 2024
eds: Jeremy Bailin, Nicolle Zellner, Sethanne Howard, Hannah Jang-Condell, and Ferah Munshi

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

This week's issues:

1. Women Reinventing Science - Part 1
2. Space for Students - Part 1
3. Women are better than men at science job interviews
4. Habitable Worlds Observatory System Technology Demonstrations and Mission Architecture Studies
5. AAS Dependent Care Grants
6. Annoincing S PLUS Science Hunters
7. Development of NASA-DARES 2025: The NASA Decadal Astrobiology Research and Exploration Strategy
8. Vera Rubin: Opening doors to dark matter and women in STEM
9. WGAP Women and girls in astronomy program
10. The Forgotten Women of Astronomy
11. AAS News on Women in Astronomy
12. World Space Week
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

An online version of this newsletter will be available at http://womeninastronomy.blogspot.com/ at 3:00 PM ET every Friday.