Issue of May 2, 2025
eds: Jeremy Bailin, Sethanne Howard, Ferah Munshi, Stella Kafka, and Ben Keller
[We hope you all are taking care of yourselves and each other. --eds.]
This week's issues:
1. The AAS Advocating on Capitol Hill
2. AAS collecting information about canceled and suspended grants that are impacting our community
3. Newton Lacy Pierce Prize in Astronomy
4. AAS Signs Letter in Support of Higher Education
5. Adapted from National Academy of Sciences: AAS Members Elected to the National Academy of Sciences
6. Announcement from the Solar Physics Division (SPD): Announcing recipients of 2024 Popular Media Awards
7. Celebrating Dr. Vera Rubin at the Rubin Town Hall at the 246 AAS Meeting
8. Applications open for the 2025 Caroline Herschel Prize Lectureship.
9. Galaxy Zoo JWST
10. Engagement Opportunities in NASA STEM 2025 (EONS 2025) – New Notice of Funding Opportunity
11. The Spacecraft That Found Galactic Collisions & Black Holes Is Now Silent Forever
12. How to Submit to the AASWOMEN newsletter
13. How to Subscribe or Unsubscribe to the AASWOMEN newsletter
14. Access to Past Issues
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The AAS is our profession's primary advocate on Capitol Hill, and its (very small) public policy office is working hard to mobilize astronomers to prevent the cuts to the NSF and NASA that are being planned.
Read more at
https://aas.org/posts/news/2025/04/advocate-science-op-eds-help-science-homecoming
Help AAS collect information on cancelled and suspended grants by participating in a survey.
Read more at
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScz7ZVZXsId1t_460zffiYqAOlxLozBshrJPDfQ3ohHfWLiFA/viewform
Nominate a colleague (or yourself) for the Newton Lacy Pierce Prize. Criterion: outstanding achievement, over the past five years, in observational astronomical research based on measurements of radiation from an astronomical object. Deadline: 30 June.
Read more at
Yesterday, AAS President Dara Norman signed a letter calling for constructive engagement and opposing undue government intrusion in American institutes of higher education.
Read more at
https://www.aacu.org/newsroom/a-call-for-constructive-engagement
The National Academy of Sciences has announced the election of 120 new members and 30 international members in recognition of their distinguished and continuing achievements in original research. Several AAS and Division members, including Risa Wechsler and Rosemary Wyse, are among those newly elected.
Read more at
https://aas.org/posts/news/2025/04/aas-members-elected-national-academy-sciences
The AAS Solar Physics Division (SPD) has announced the winners of its 2024 Popular Media Awards: Kathryn Schulz, Ryan French, and Annelia Anderson. These annual awards recognize outstanding efforts to communicate solar physics to the public through journalism, creative media, and student writing.
Read more at
https://aas.org/posts/news/2025/04/solar-physics-division-names-recipients-2024-popular-media-awards
The Rubin Town Hall will be held on June 12 as part of the 246th AAS Meeting (June 8-12 in Anchorage, Alaska) to celebrate Dr. Vera Rubin's legacy.
Read more at
https://womeninastronomy.blogspot.com/2025/05/celebrate-dr-vera-rubin-at-rubin-town.html
The Herschel Society and Royal Astronomical Society are now welcoming applications for the 2025 Caroline Herschel Prize Lectureship.
Read more at
https://www.ras.ac.uk/news-and-press/news/applications-sought-2025-caroline-herschel-lectureship
We are thrilled to announce the launch of the Galaxy Zoo JWST project, with hundreds of thousands of galaxy images from the COSMOS-Web survey taken with NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope (JWST)! We now need your help identifying the shapes of these galaxies by classifying them on Galaxy Zoo.
Read more at
https://www.zooniverse.org/projects/zookeeper/galaxy-zoo
This National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Notice of Funding Opportunity (NOFO) entitled Engagement Opportunities in NASA STEM (EONS) - 2025, solicits proposals for competitive funding opportunities in support of the programs administered by NASA's Office of STEM Engagement (OSTEM)
Read more at
hhttps://tinyurl.com/485dye8f
After 11 years of groundbreaking discoveries, ESA’s Gaia spacecraft has been powered down for good. Launched in 2013, Gaia mapped nearly 2 billion stars, dramatically changing our understanding of the Milky Way’s structure, motion, and history. Even in its final days, Gaia contributed to technology tests for future missions, like ESA’s LISA project for detecting gravitational waves.
Read more at https://www.esa.int/Science_Exploration/Space_Science/Gaia
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