Friday, March 3, 2023

AASWomen Newsletter for March 3, 2023

 

AAS Committee on the Status of Women
Issue of March 3, 2023
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. Crosspost: Women and Girls in Astronomy project
2. Crosspost: This Astrophysicist Will Make You Believe In Your Dreams All Over Again
3. Women in Astronomy: a comprehensive bibliography
4. Mother–daughter duo work together to find new worlds
5. The annual report of the International Astronomical Union Women in Astronomy (WiA) WG 2022-2023 is out.
6. The true story of 16 women who fought gender discrimination in elite science
7. A gender perspective on the global migration of scholars
8. Meet the woman behind early Landsat images: Dr. Valerie L. Thomas.
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

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


1. Crosspost: Women and Girls in Astronomy project
From: Hannah Jang-Condell via womeninastronomy.blogspot.com

By Suzana Filipecki Martins [suzana.filipecki_at_oao.iau.org]

From 11 February to 8 March 2023, the IAU Office for Astronomy Outreach (OAO) will hold a series of activities to celebrate Women and Girls in Astronomy. This annual project recognises the role of all women in advancing science and encourages youth on and off the gender spectrum to consider careers in the field.

Read more at

https://womeninastronomy.blogspot.com/2023/02/cross-post-women-and-girls-in-astronomy.html

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2. Crosspost: This Astrophysicist Will Make You Believe In Your Dreams All Over Again
From: Nicolle Zellner via womeninastronomy.blogspot.com

By Priyamvada Kowshik

"One of the foremost astrophysicists in the country, Prof Shastri specialises in supermassive black holes at the centre of distant galaxies and the jet streams emerging from them. She is equally passionate about dismantling the patriarchy in science, and the inequities and systemic barriers for women in physics. Shastri wants to build an inclusive physics community, where people of all backgrounds can thrive."

Read more at

http://womeninastronomy.blogspot.com/2023/03/cross-post-this-astrophysicist-will.html

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3. Women in Astronomy: a comprehensive bibliography
From: Sethanne Howard [sethanneh_at_msn.com]

By: Ruth S. Freitag, Library of Congress, Science Refernce Services

She has complied an alphabetical list of women in astronomy as a resource. Each person listed has a reference. There is a method to ask to have additional women entered in the list. However due to staffing shortages at the loc this project will not be updated.

Read more at

https://www.loc.gov/rr/scitech/womenastro/womenastro-intro.html

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4. Mother–daughter duo work together to find new worlds
From: Jeremy Bailin [jbailin_at_ua.edu]

By Sophia Chen

"This week, Nature is highlighting a package of five papers analysing the James Webb Space Telescope’s (JWST’s) observations of WASP-39b, a hot exoplanet with a Saturn-like mass, that Natalie Batalha and her daughter Natasha contributed to as part of the JWST Early Release Science programme.

They both study exoplanets — planets outside our Solar System — using NASA’s JWST, the largest optical telescope in space, which launched in 2021. Natalie, an astronomer at the University of California (UC), Santa Cruz, specializes in observations of faraway light to discover these new worlds. Natasha, an astronomer at NASA Ames Research Center in Mountain View, California, then uses such observations to simulate exoplanet atmospheres to understand the climate and chemical composition. The papers describe the exoplanet’s atmosphere, including its ratio of carbon to oxygen, which offers information about the planet’s formation and potential to host life. Natalie and Natasha talk about what it’s like to work together, and how to make the more than 300 team members feel that their individual contributions matter.”

Read more at

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-023-00580-6

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5. The annual report of the International Astronomical Union Women in Astronomy (WiA) WG 2022-2023 is out.
From: Sethanne Howard [sethanneh_at_msn.com]

By: Mamta Ponmier (Chair of the IAU Committee)

Read more at:

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1qT2apQYRKyfFzxmsPcCoFSMMX984-KTv/view

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6. The true story of 16 women who fought gender discrimination in elite science

By American Medical Association

"New York Times Pulitzer Prize Winning Writer and Author Kate Zernike joins [the AMA Update video podcast] to discuss her new book "The Exceptions," which chronicles the true story of 16 female scientists who fought against gender discrimination as tenured professors at MIT. Her new book details how these exceptional women in science faced discrimination and came together to fight against professional inequities."

See the interview and transcript at

https://www.ama-assn.org/delivering-care/health-equity/true-story-16-women-who-fought-gender-discrimination-elite-science

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7. A gender perspective on the global migration of scholars

By University of Oxford

"International recognition is key to many successful academic careers, but research published today shows female scientific researchers are less internationally mobile than their male counterparts, although the gender gap has shrunk.

Scientists tend to move from one country to another to advance their careers. But researchers from Oxford’s Leverhulme Centre for Demographic Science and the Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research in Germany, have found female researchers continue to be under-represented among internationally mobile researchers. In addition to moving less, female researchers also originate from and move to fewer countries, as well as migrating shorter distances, than their male counterparts."

Read more at

https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/980721

Read the full study at

https://www.ama-assn.org/delivering-care/health-equity

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8. Meet the woman behind early Landsat images: Dr. Valerie L. Thomas.
From: Sethanne Howard [sethanneh_at_msn.com]

By: Yvette Smith, NASA

A self-taught programmer, she managed the development of early Landsat image processing. Her work in the 1970s helped show for the first time that global crop monitoring could be done with Landsat satellite imagery.

Read more at:

https://go.nasa.gov/3ZudDJQ

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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#howtoincrease

- "The High Energy Astrophysics group postdoctoral position at the University of California, San Diego, CA
https://apol-recruit.ucsd.edu/JPF03551/apply

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10. How to Submit to the AASWOMEN newsletter

To submit an item to the AASWOMEN newsletter, including replies to topics, send email to aaswomen_at_lists.aas.org .

All material will be posted unless you tell us otherwise, including your email address.

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Please remember to replace "_at_" in the e-mail address above.

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11. How to Subscribe or Unsubscribe to the AASWOMEN newsletter

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12. Access to Past Issues

https://aas.org/comms/cswa/AASWOMEN

Each annual summary includes an index of topics covered.

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