Issue of June 27, 2025
eds: Jeremy Bailin, Sethanne Howard, Stella Kafka, Ferah Munshi and Ben Keller
[We hope you all are taking care of yourselves and each other. --eds.]
This week's issues:
1. Women in Astronomy: Space for Students - Part 9: Tatum Umiamaka
2. The Woman Behind the World's Biggest Camera
3. Jan Eldridge—exploding binaries in astronomy and life
4. Save NASA Science
5. The Reason to Continue to Advocate for Science
6. Tell the Senate to Oppose Harmful Budget
7. Job Opportunities
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.
By Libby Fenstermacher
Below is our interview with Tatum Umiamaka, a recent graduate from the University of Hawaii at Manoa with a degree in Astrophysics and Computer Science. This summer and last, she has worked as an intern at the W. M. Keck Observatory. This fall, she’ll be heading to Caltech to start her PhD in Astronomy. Outside of her Astronomical pursuits, Tatum is an artist. She especially enjoys making rugs inspired by Hawaiian quilt patterns and believes that her artistic mind gives her a different and unique perspective.
Read more at
https://womeninastronomy.blogspot.com/2025/06/women-in-astronomy-space-for-students.html
By Molly Glick
"Vera Rubin overcame abundant obstacles to become a leading light in cosmology."
Read more at
https://nautil.us/the-woman-behind-the-worlds-biggest-camera-1219688/
By Anna Doel
"For Pride Month, we are spotlighting a recently posted oral history interview with Jan Eldridge, an astrophysicist at the University of Auckland in New Zealand, who is also a nonbinary woman and an advocate for LGBTQ+ rights, as well as a devoted science-fiction fan."
Read more at
https://www.aip.org/history/oral-history-jan-eldridge
By The Planetary Society
"The Planetary Science Caucus is a bipartisan opportunity for members of Congress to show their support for science-driven exploration, the search for life, and planetary defense. Write and encourage your Representatives to join."
Read more at
https://www.planetary.org/action-center
By AAS
"The advocacy work that the AAS is most suited to is supporting and enabling its diverse and inclusive membership to take action! We are ready and willing to help members present a collective front of support for science; to work with other societies and organizations to push back on proposals that will be detrimental to research, workforce, and science education; to support appeals to the broader public by elevating the discoveries of members and the benefits of this work. "
Read more at
https://aas.org/advocacy/get-involved/action-alerts
By AAUW
"Devastate access to higher education—especially for women, student parents, and students of color—by imposing strict loan caps and slashing financial aid and affordable loan options."
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
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
- Cosmic AI Postdoctoral Fellow in Time Domain Astronomy at NSF NOIRLab
https://aas.org/jobregister/ad/137832e7
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