Issue of August 28, 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 4
1. Meet Your CSWA, James Keane
2. National Academies Press Resources to Support the Participation and Advancement of Women in STEMM
3. Study reveals gender bias in bird song research and impact of women on science
4. If you want more women in your workforce, here’s how to recruit
5. A Fermi Spirograph and Women's Equality Day
6. Women in Science Wikipedia Edit-a-Thon Helps Close Gaps in Women’s History
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
1. Meet Your CSWA, James Keane
From: Katie Eckert via womeninastronomy.blogspot.com
James Keane is a research scientist at the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory. He is a planetary scientist, studying orbital dynamics, rotational dynamics, and geologic processes on terrestrial and icy worlds across the Solar System utilizing data from NASA's robotic missions (GRAIL, New Horizons, etc.). James is also an avid artist and science communicator, using pen and pencil to communicate complicated scientific ideas.
Read more at
http://womeninastronomy.blogspot.com/2020/08/meet-your-cswa-james-keane.html
Back to top.2. National Academies Press Resources to Support the Participation and Advancement of Women in STEMM
From: Jessica Mink [jmink_at_cfa.harvard.edu]
"Women's Equality Day reminds us that we must continue to drive bias, discrimination, and harassment out of our institutions and society. Despite decades of research, funding, and programs dedicated to increasing the representation of women in science, engineering, technology, mathematics, and medicine, the numbers, particularly in leadership roles, have remained low or stagnant in many fields, especially among women of color. Our reports explore the wide range of structural, cultural, and institutional patterns of bias, discrimination, and inequity that affect women, and the steps that can be taken to increase representation in STEMM."
Read more at
https://mailchi.mp/nas/supporting-the-participation-and-advancement-of-women-in-stemm
https://www.nap.edu/topic/309/behavioral-and-social-sciences/women-and-minorities
Back to top.3. Study reveals gender bias in bird song research and impact of women on science
From: Heather Flewelling [flewelling.heather_at_gmail.com]
"A revolutionary group of scientists has been rethinking for two decades how we understand bird song, with women leading the way. Several of these scientists are from UMBC, and their latest research has revealed findings not just about birds, but about bird researchers."
Read more at
https://phys.org/news/2020-08-reveals-gender-bias-bird-song.html
Back to top.4. If you want more women in your workforce, here’s how to recruit
From: Heather Flewelling [flewelling.heather_at_gmail.com]
By Emma Pierson, Elissa M. Redmiles, Leilani Battle & Jessica Hullman
"Universities and research institutions worldwide agree that diversity in their laboratories and departments is crucial not only for fostering innovation and different perspectives in research, but also for recruiting female candidates and others from marginalized backgrounds."
Read more at
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-020-02489-w
Back to top.5. A Fermi Spirograph and Women's Equality Day
From: Heather Flewelling [flewelling.heather_at_gmail.com]
"What does this Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope Spirograph have in common with Women's Equality Day?
The Fermi mission is run by Project Scientist Dr. Elizabeth Hays, one of many female scientists and leaders at NASA. Hays and her deputy, Dr. Judith Racusin, are astrophysicists in the Astrophysics Science Division of NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland. They provide scientific guidance and interface with scientist, engineers, and the public. Also part of the Fermi team are Mission Director Beth Pumphrey, and the Gamma-ray Burst monitor Principle Investigator, Dr. Colleen Wilson-Hodge."
Read more at
https://www.nasa.gov/image-feature/a-fermi-spirograph-and-womens-equality-day
Back to top.6. Women in Science Wikipedia Edit-a-Thon Helps Close Gaps in Women’s History
From: Heather Flewelling [flewelling.heather_at_gmail.com]
By Carol Stabile
In a 1954 article she wrote for The Parish News—a publication of the Church of the Holy Trinity in Brooklyn, N.Y.—composer, playwright, novelist and activist Shirley Graham Du Bois described why she began writing her era’s young adult novels about historical figures:
“I began this writing because I felt that Negroes were misunderstood, and were not known, and were outside of history. As I went into research, however, I became aware that this was not as narrow a problem as I had thought. It wasn’t only the Negro. I began to realize that as I was trying to widen the horizon of other people, my own horizon was widening.”
Read more at
Back to top.7. Job Opporutunities
For those interested in increasing excellence and diversity in their organizations, a list of resources and advice is here: https://aas.org/comms/cswa/resources/Diversity
- Tenure-track astronomer, Gemini Observatory/NOIRLab. https://jobregister.aas.org/ad/8ad8afa7
Back to top.8. How to Submit to the AASWOMEN newsletter
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Back to top.9. How to Subscribe or Unsubscribe to the AASWOMEN newsletter
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Back to top.10. Access to Past Issues
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