AAS Committee on the Status of Women
Issue of June 18, 2021
eds: Heather Flewelling, Nicolle Zellner, Maria Patterson, Jeremy Bailey, and Alessandra Aloisi
[We hope you all are taking care of yourselves and each other. --eds.]
This week's issues:
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| VanguardSTEM + SeRCH Foundation host Hot Science Summer (Item #4) |
2. Women of Arecibo: Dr. Thankful Cromartie
3. Ethics and Authorship in the AAS Journals
4. VanguardSTEM + SeRCH Foundation hosting Hot Science Summer to FUND BIPOC science projects
5. Zonta International awards promising women aerospace researchers with 2021 Amelia Earhart Fellowship
6. Google Doodle celebrates 99th birthday of Italian astrophysicist Margherita Hack
7. Katherine Johnson’s memoir charts her bold trajectory to NASA and beyond
8. A push for a shift in the value system that defines "impact" and "success"
9. Job Opportunities
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
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1. Crosspost: Retroactive Name Changes in Astronomical Publications
From: Macy Huston via astrobites
If you’re active on astronomy Twitter, you’ve probably seen a lot of discussion lately about academic journals’ policies about retroactively changing names on publications. The labor and roadblocks in the process can add a great deal of difficulty to the academic lives of transgender and nonbinary* researchers. Many transgender people change their name from that assigned at birth to one that better fits their gender, but if they do so after having any work published they may face a difficult situation. In some journals, one can retroactively have publications corrected to show their true/chosen name. For other journals, people are left with the choice between either revealing their deadname and outing themselves, or no longer claiming certain past work on their CVs. Additionally, some cisgender astronomers may change their names for reasons such as marriage or religion.
Read more at
http://womeninastronomy.blogspot.com/2021/06/crosspost-retroactive-name-changes-in.html
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2. Women of Arecibo: Dr. Thankful Cromartie
From: Thankful Cromartie via womeninastronomy.blogspot.com
In Spring 2013, I was a third-year undergraduate at an impasse. A couple years prior, I had made the unusual decision to turn my back on Journalism in favor of pursuing a B.S. in Physics (despite my interest in science during high school starting and ending with Contact and Cosmos). Thanks to my wonderful undergraduate advisors (and their yearly program at Green Bank that biased me towards radio-frequency observing), I’d grown extremely fond of astronomy research; however, my lackluster course grades and test scores left me doubting whether I could actually become an astrophysicist. My decision to apply for the NSF Research Experiences for Undergraduates (REU) program at the Arecibo Observatory — and the unimaginably good luck I had in being offered the opportunity — changed the course of my career permanently.
Read more at
http://womeninastronomy.blogspot.com/2021/06/women-of-arecibo-dr-thankful-cromartie.html
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3. Ethics and Authorship in the AAS Journals
From: Jeremy Bailin [jbailin_at_ua.edu]
AAS President Paula Szkody issued a statement regarding the AAS’ policies on denial of authorship privileges. Though those people found in violation of AAS policies on harassment and ethics in general can be denied authorship, that sanction has never been applied by the Society. President Szkody stated that the policy is not necessarily clear and transparent, but that going forward, the AAS Code of Ethics Committee will be working closely with the AAS Publications Committee to establish such a policy.
Read more at
https://aas.org/posts/news/2021/06/ethics-and-authorship-aas-journals
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4. VanguardSTEM + SeRCH Foundation hosting Hot Science Summer to FUND BIPOC science projects
From: Jedidah Isler [hello_at_theserchfoundation.org]
VanguardSTEM, a signature program of The STEM en Route to Change Foundation, Inc, is partnering with Experiment to host Hot Science Summer and give away $50,000! This initiative is designed to provide FUNDING to Black, Indigenous, people of color of all gender identities (and their allies) who are interested in STEM to pursue their science research projects. Right now! No STEM degree is needed and it's your project to conceive and pursue. Just launch a project between June 14-25 and you will be eligible to receive a financial boost! We will have a zoom information session on June 21, 2021 to answer any questions, so email us for more information or follow us on Twitter (https://twitter.com/vanguardstem).
Learn more about the initiative at
Launch a project at
https://experiment.com/grants/tsf2021
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5. Zonta International awards promising women aerospace researchers with 2021 Amelia Earhart Fellowship
From: Nicolle Zellner [nzellner_at_albion.edu]
Congratulations to Astronomy and Planetary Science graduate students Jenny Smith (UC-Santa Barbara), Catalina Flores (Universidad Andrés Bello), Indujaa Ganesh (University of Arizona), Dara Laczniak and Amanda Rudolph (Purdue University), and Lori Willhite (University of Maryland, College Park), all of whom received the prestigious Amelia Earhart Fellowship offered by Zonta International. The fellowship supports graduate student women who are pursuing advanced degrees in fields such as aerospace engineering, aeronautical engineering, planetary science, applied mathematics, astrophysics instrumentation (and more!) all over the world.
Read more at
See the list of 2021 Fellows at
https://www.zonta.org/images/docs/MyZonta/Tools/AwardScholarshipFellowshipTools/AE/2021AEFellows.pdf
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6. Google Doodle celebrates 99th birthday of Italian astrophysicist Margherita Hack
From: Jeremy Bailin [jbailin_at_ua.edu]
On June 12, Google Doodle celebrated the 99th birthday of Margherita Hack, an Italian activist and astrophysicist. Dr. Hack studied Cepheid variable stars and was the first female director of the Trieste Astronomical Observatory.
Read more at
https://www.google.com/doodles/margherita-hacks-99th-birthday
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7. Katherine Johnson’s memoir charts her bold trajectory to NASA and beyond
From: Alessandra Aloisi [aloisi_at_stsci.edu]
By Ainissa Ramirez
When Star Trek first aired in the 1960s, communications officer Uhura (Nichelle Nichols) seemed to be the only Black woman affiliated with space travel. Little did society know that, as mathematicians, Black women such as Katherine Johnson actually made space flight possible. Johnson, who was highlighted in the 2016 blockbuster movie “Hidden Figures”, died last year, aged 101. She left readers a gift. “My Remarkable Journey” is a masterful memoir of a life well lived. Written with her daughters and an award-winning journalist, it captures Johnson’s story against the backdrop of a dramatic century of US history.
Read more at
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-021-01585-9
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8. A push for a shift in the value system that defines "impact" and "success"
From: Nicolle Zellner [nzellner_at_albion.edu]
"Discussions of a broken value system are ubiquitous in science, especially after the COVID-19 pandemic served to expose inequality globally. However, according to the authors of an article publishing 15th June 2021 in the open access journal PLOS Biology, science itself is not "broken," but it was built on deeply-entrenched, systemic sexist and racist values, which perpetuate biases through the continued focus on citation rates and impact factors. ... To write this article, a group of 24 women from across the world came together to explore long-standing problems associated with narrow definitions of success and impact in science."
Read more at
https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2021-06/p-apf060921.php
Read the original study at
https://journals.plos.org/plosbiology/article?id=10.1371/journal.pbio.3001282
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9. Job Opportunities
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
- Postdoctoral fellow, Multi-messenger Astronomy, U-British Columbia/McGill/U-Toronto
https://academicjobsonline.org/ajo/jobs/18783
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