Issue of May 30, 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. Space for Students: Part 9 - Dalila Pisano
2. PWIDE Community Alliance
3. Gender equality in research publishing is a responsibility for everyone
4. Understanding the gender gap in peer review at Nature Portfolio journals
5. ‘Science saved my life’ — and it must save other at-risk scholars
6. Research on Outreach in Chile
7. 2025 Virtual Space Biosciences Training Course: STAR (Spaceflight Technology, Applications, and Research)
8. How to Submit to the AASWOMEN newsletter
9. How to Subscribe or Unsubscribe to the AASWOMEN newsletter
10. 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.
In our popular Career Profile series, the AAS Committee on the Status of Women in Astronomy has compiled dozens of interviews highlighting the diversity of career trajectories available to astronomers, planetary scientists, and those in related fields. In a twist on this series, we video-interviewed students in astronomy and astrophysics to highlight their personal and academic career paths.
Below is our interview with Dalila Pisano, a recent graduate of Aberystwyth University in Wales with a Master’s in Astrophysics. A first-generation college graduate, she found her passion for the sciences at a young age and discovered her path in astronomy and astrophysics in her early teenage years. Dalila is now on the search for a funded PhD program where she can continue her studies researching exoplanets. When not focused on her path amongst the stars, tutoring, or doing outreach, Dalila loves crocheting, embroidery, travelling, reading, and spending time with loved ones.
Read more and watch the video at
https://womeninastronomy.blogspot.com/2025/05/space-for-students-part-9-dalila-pisano.html
The Planetary Workforce Integration, Development, and Empowerment (PWIDE) Community Alliance seeks to make the planetary science community a happy, safe, and supportive environment.
Learn more at
https://workforce.psi.edu/pwideca/
By Nature
In March last year, Nature published a preliminary analysis of the number of men and women submitting manuscripts to the journal over a five-month period. The results, as we wrote in an Editorial at the time, made for sobering reading. Among corresponding authors — who take responsibility for a manuscript as it goes through the publication process — just 17% of those who disclosed their gender identified as women. We pledged to reflect on this and other findings, while continuing to gather data.
Read more at
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-025-01614-x
By Marios Karouzos and Sowmya Swaminathan
We know that supporting gender diversity in research and publishing has the potential to create better research questions, diversify methods and ultimately lead to better research outcomes for all. That’s why we looked deeper into this topic with a new report, Closing the Gender Gap: Peer Review at Nature Portfolio, which examines the current gender data for corresponding authors and reviewers at Nature Portfolio journals. We found that while women are underrepresented as authors and reviewers across the Nature Portfolio, this doesn’t have an impact on editorial and peer-review outcomes. We’re also encouraged to find evidence that efforts to improve gender representation through proactive editorial action and other efforts are working. We share a more detailed look at the results in this blog from Sowmya Swaminathan and Marios Karouzos.
Read more at
Read the full report at
https://www.nature.com/immersive/content/gender-gap-report/index.html
By Encieh Erfani
The global scientific community must do more to offer safety and support to displaced academics and others.
Read more at
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-025-01568-0
My name is Iara Tiago, and I am a Master's Astronomy student at Leiden University, Netherlands. As part of my programme, I am conducting a research study in a collaboration effort between Leiden University and the International Astronomical Union (IAU - OAO) on Astronomy Communication in Chile, from a foreign perspective. My research is being done under the supervision of Kelly Blumenthal and Cintia Durán.
My study aims to explore the perspectives of foreign (non-Chilean) astronomers and/or astronomy communicators when interacting with Chilean communities. My focus is particularly on the Chilean scenario, given the distinct multicultural and international context experienced in the country, considering the foreign organizations and telescopes operating in the Atacama Desert (such as ESO and NRAO).
Participation in this study involves answering a small survey (≤ 5 minutes), and attending an interview of about 45 minutes. If you are a non-Chilean astronomer and/or astronomy communicator that have done or is doing public engagement work in Chile, I would like to invite you to participate in my study. However, if that is not the case, I'd be grateful if you could point me towards potential contacts that fit these criteria.
For any questions, do not hesitate to reply to contact me directly via i.m.guerreiro.tiago@umail.leidenuniv.nl .
NASA invites applications for the 6th cohort of the Spaceflight Technology, Applications, and Research (STAR) virtual training focused on the science and technology behind biological experiments in space.
Read more at
https://go.nasa.gov/ApplySTAR25
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