Issue of June 13, 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. Budget cuts and canceled grants continue to threaten science and research.
2. New Sydney ferry honours astronomer Ruby Payne-Scott
3. Interview with Joy Bhattacharya
4. Meet the AAS Keynote Speakers: Dr Meredith Hughes
5. Meet the AAS Keynote Speakers: Dr. Susan Clark
6. Silenced Science Stories
7. In `Atmosphere', Taylor Jenkins Reid images the first women astronauts
8. Merit, competition and gender: scientific promotion in public research organisations
9. Grace Hopper Celebration
10. Émilie du Châtelet
11. Job Opportunities
12. How to Submit to the AASWOMEN newsletter
13. How to Subscribe or Unsubscribe to the AASWOMEN newsletter
14. 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.
The budget for the fiscal year hasn’t been set, but uncertainty continues to swirl as the proposed budget cuts will deeply affect NASA, the NSF, and other agencies that lead and support physics and astronomy. Canceled grants and research have already disparately affected scientists from underrepresented groups.
Read more at
https://womeninastronomy.blogspot.com/2025/06/budget-cuts-and-canceled-grants.html
A new Sydney ferry has been named in honour of Ruby Payne-Scott – an Australian pioneer in radio physics and astronomy and outspoken advocate for women’s rights.
Read more at
To celebrate Pride Month this year, Astrobites will be publishing an interview with one transgender astronomer every week highlighting their experiences both in the field of astronomy and as a transgender person in today’s society. This week’s interviewee is Joy Bhattacharya, a final year graduate student at the Ohio State University (OSU)!
Read more at
https://astrobites.org/2025/06/13/joy-bhattacharya-interview/
Meet Dr Meredith Hughes, associate professor of astronomy at Wesleyan University. She leads the Disk Detectives group that studies planet formation by observing the disks of gas and dust around young stars using giant radio telescopes like the Atacama Large Millimeter Array (ALMA).
Read more at
https://astrobites.org/2025/06/09/meet-the-aas-keynote-speakers-meredith-hughes/
"In this series of posts, we sit down with a few of the keynote speakers of the 246th AAS meeting to learn more about them and their research. Today, I had the wonderful opportunity to have a conversation with Dr. Susan Clark, a faculty member at Stanford University. She is the recipient of the Helen B. Warner Prize and will be giving the Helen B. Warner Prize Lecture at the AAS conference on June 9th, 2025 at 11:40 am! Dr. Clark focuses primarily on trying to understand the interstellar material of the galaxy. She will tell us all about this at her lecture “Magnetism and Morphology: Decoding the Interstellar Medium”."
Read more at
https://astrobites.org/2025/06/09/meet-the-aas-keynote-speakers-susan-clark/
Silenced Science Stories profiles scientists impacted by federal firings and budget cuts through an illustrated series of portraits and stories.
Learn more, including how to get involved at
https://silencedsciencestories.com/
On Science Friday, author Taylor Jenkins Reid discusses her novel Atmosphere, whose lead character Joan Goodwin is an astronomer-turned-astronaut.
Read or listen to the interview at
A recent refereed journal article studies how promotion within Spanish universities depends on a number of factors including gender.
Read the article at
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41599-025-05102-5
Grace Hopper Celebration (GHC) is the world’s largest gathering of women in tech, bringing together thousands of women from across the globe to learn, network, and celebrate their achievements. Founded in 1994 by Dr. Anita Borg and Dr. Telle Whitney, GHC was created to honor the legacy of computing pioneer Grace Hopper and to amplify the research, career growth, and impact of women in tech. GHC 25 will be in Chicago on November 4-7, 2025.
Read more at
When women's roles were often confined, Émilie du Châtelet broke 18th-century barriers with profound insights into physics and mathematics. In 1740, she published "Institutions de Physique" (Foundations of Physics). This work wasn't just a summary of existing ideas; it was a thoughtful synthesis of Newtonian and Leibnizian physics, intended to make these complex concepts understandable.
Her most celebrated achievement, however, is arguably her complete French translation of Isaac Newton’s Philosophiæ Naturalis Principia Mathematica. More than a mere translation, it included her own extensive commentary which clarified and expanded upon Newton's revolutionary work for a French audience.
Read more at
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%89milie_du_Ch%C3%A2telet
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
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