Friday, December 15, 2017

AASWomen Newsletter for December 15, 2017

AAS Committee on the Status of Women
Issue of December 15, 2017
eds: Nicolle Zellner, Heather Flewelling, Cristina Thomas, and Maria Patterson

This week's issues:
 
1. Meet the CSWA: David Grinspoon
2. Great mentoring is key for the next generation of scientists
3. UK Astronomy & Geophysics: Growing, But Not Very Diverse
4. The First Women in Tech Didn’t Leave — Men Pushed Them Out
5. Women in Science are a Force of Nature
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 of the AASWomen Newsletter

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1. Meet the CSWA: David Grinspoon
From: Patricia Knezek via womeninastronomy.blogspot.com

In our newest series on the Women in Astronomy blog, we'd like to introduce our readers to the Committee on the Status of Women in Astronomy.  David Grinspoon is an astrobiologist, award-winning science communicator, and prize-winning author. He is a Senior Scientist at the Planetary Science Institute and Adjunct Professor of Astrophysical and Planetary Science at the University of Colorado. His research focuses on climate evolution on Earth-like planets and potential conditions for life elsewhere in the universe. He is involved with several interplanetary spacecraft missions for NASA, the European Space Agency and the Japanese Space Agency. In 2013 he was appointed as the inaugural Chair of Astrobiology at the U.S. Library of Congress where he studied the human impact on Earth systems and organized a public symposium on the Longevity of Human Civilization.

Read more at

http://womeninastronomy.blogspot.com/2017/12/meet-cswa-david-grinspoon.html

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2. Great mentoring is key for the next generation of scientists
From: Nicolle Zellner [nzellner_at_albion.edu]

"Calling all researchers: what type of mentoring did you receive during your early career? Were you nurtured in a way that balanced supervision and independence? Were you left to sink or swim, and perhaps rescued by a kindly postdoc? ... Common [characteristics of a good mentor] include a nominee’s absolute commitment to the well-being of individuals in their group, a spirit of generosity in allowing credit, and the ability to adapt their approach to the character of the trainee."

Read more at

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-017-07840-2

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3. UK Astronomy & Geophysics: Growing, But Not Very Diverse
From: Rick Fienberg [rick.fienberg_at_aas.org]

“The UK astronomy and geophysics community is larger than ever, according to the results of the latest demographic survey from the Royal Astronomical Society (RAS), published in the December issue of Astronomy & Geophysics, the RAS in-house journal. But it remains overwhelmingly white, there is only a slow improvement in the proportion of women, and disabled people are starkly under-represented. As the UK approaches Brexit, the new work also notes that 1 in 3 postdoctoral researchers are from elsewhere in the European Union.”

Read more at

http://www.ras.org.uk/news-and-press/3075-ras-demographic-survey-results

See the survey results at

http://www.ras.org.uk/images/stories/DemographicSurvey/2017/demographic_survey_full.pdf

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4. The First Women in Tech Didn’t Leave — Men Pushed Them Out
From: Cristina Thomas [cthomas_at_psi.edu]

by Christopher Mims

“Sexism in the tech industry is as old as the tech industry itself.

Memos from the U.K.’s government archives reveal that, in 1959, an unnamed British female computer programmer was given an assignment to train two men. The memos said the woman had “a good brain and a special flair” for working with computers. Nevertheless, a year later the men became her managers. Since she was a different class of government worker, she had no chance of ever rising to their pay grade.”

Read more at

https://www.wsj.com/articles/the-first-women-in-tech-didnt-leavemen-pushed-them-out-1512907200

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5. Women in Science are a Force of Nature
From: Cristina Thomas [cthomas_at_psi.edu]

by Michael D. Lemonick

“Last fall, the Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics issued five posters featuring five great women who changed science, but whose pivotal roles have long been underplayed in favor of their much more famous male counterparts.

The response was so great—according to Perimeter, the free posters have been downloaded and displayed by schools and other institutions, and shared widely—that the Institute is going to issue a second series, to be released in time for International Women's Day on March 8.

The good news is that you can cast your vote for who should be honored this time around.”

Read more at

https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/voices/women-in-science-are-a-force-of-nature/

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6. Job Opportunities

For those interested in increasing excellence and diversity in their organizations, a list of resources and advice is here: https://cswa.aas.org/diversity.html#howtoincrease

-Outreach Coordinators & Public Engagement Writers, ADNET Systems/NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD
https://sesda.com/careers/ss088-science-writer-and-outreach-coordinator/
https://sesda.com/careers/ss089-science-writer-and-outreach-coordinator/

-Archive Scientist, Space Telescope Science Institute, Baltimore, MD
https://rn11.ultipro.com/SPA1004/JobBoard/JobDetails.aspx?__ID=*050A5B7AF8BE6658

-Analysts & Software Engineers, Space Telescope Science Institute, Baltimore, MD
https://stsci.slideroom.com/#/login/program/40405

-Postdoctoral Research Associate in Time-Domain Astrophysics, University of Bath, Bath, UK
https://jobregister.aas.org/ad/d46199d7

-Postgraduate Research Scholarship - The Role of the Multi-Phase ISM in Star Formation and Black Hole Growth, University of Bath, Bath, UK
https://www.findaphd.com/search/projectdetails.aspx?PJID=93151

-Diversity Mentor Professorships in Astronomy and Physics, Florida International University, Miami, FL
https://chroniclevitae.com/jobs/0000397899-01

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