Issue of October 21, 2022
eds: Jeremy Bailin, Nicolle Zellner, Alessandra Aloisi, and Sethanne Howard
[We hope you all are taking care of yourselves and each other. --eds.]
This week's issues:
1. Crosspost: Dr. Shannon Curry: If you like learning everyday, run a spacecraft Mission!
2. Game-changing’ gender quotas introduced by Australian research agency
3. Racism: Overcoming science's toxic legacy
4. DPS Kuiper prize awarded to Dr. Bonnie Buratti
5. Banish Imposter Syndrome for good
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.
By Kelsi Singer and Jamie O-Brian
Shannon Curry is a planetary physicist and Assistant Deputy Director at the Space Sciences Laboratory at the University of California, Berkeley. She is involved in many spacecraft missions and concepts, and last year was named as the Principal Investigator of the NASA Mars Scout MAVEN (Mars Atmosphere and Volatile EvolutioN) mission.
Read more at
https://womeninplanetaryscience.wordpress.com/
https://womeninastronomy.blogspot.com/2022/10/crosspost-dr-shannon-curry-if-you-like.html
By Bianca Nogrady
"In an attempt to achieve gender equity, Australia’s leading health and medical research funding organization plans to award half of its research grants for its largest funding programme to women and non-binary applicants, starting next year.
The National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC) announced the move last week. It will apply to researchers at the mid-career and senior level applying for the agency’s investigator grants, which fund research and salaries. Grants will also be fixed at Aus$400,000 (US$252,000) each. Many countries struggle to achieve gender equity in research funding, and the NHRMC will be one of the first to introduce gender quotas at this scale, say researchers.”
Read more at
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-022-03285-
The journal Nature has played a part in creating and sustaining a racist legacy, one in which science has excluded people from historically marginalized groups. In 2020, however, Nature decided to commit to becoming an agent of change and helping to end discriminatory practices and systemic racism. This month, Nature has published a special issue as part of that commitment; it's the first in this journal’s history to be guest-edited.
See the issue at
https://www.nature.com/immersive/d42859-022-00031-8/index.html
By Dr. Theodore Kareta DPS Press Officer
The DPS awards the 2022 Gerard P. Kuiper Prize for outstanding contributions to the field of planetary science to Dr. Bonnie Buratti of NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory at the California Institute of Technology for her distinguished achievements in the understanding of planetary and small body surfaces through photometry,
Read more at
https://dps.aas.org/news/aas-division-planetary-sciences-announces-2022-prize-winners
By Aliana Levine vis AAS videos
Impostor syndrome, where we erroneously believe we will be discovered as a fraud, is a common occurrence — even Nobel Laureates experience this! In our discussion, we will explore techniques to identify and acknowledge this feeling like we are impostors, whether it’s in our studies, work, and other professional spaces, and use our scientific backgrounds to make the true case that we, in fact, DO belong here.
Watch at
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hQwKED7m_4c&t=4s
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#howtoincrease
- - The Adler Planetarium in Chicago - a full-time Astronomer
https://jobregister.aas.org/ad/2c991261
- - Astrophysics Instructor, The Summer Science Program
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