Issue of June 20, 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. Cross-post: The Current Landscape for Astronomy Public Policy and How You Can Make a Difference
2. 33rd Texas Symposium on Relativistic Astrophysics
3. Honoring fathers and male allies
4. ‘One of the true final frontiers’ — Sally Ride biopic highlights the struggle of gay astronauts
5. CSWA meeting
6. Western standards behind the gender equality paradox
7. Opportunities for youth
8. IAU Projects for women and girls
9. EZScience
10. World Nepal Festival
11. Celebrating Women in Satellite 2025
12. Happy Juneteenth & Black Space Week
13. A Life of Curiosity: Remembering Vera Rubin Through Her Granddaughter’s Eyes
14. How to Submit to the AASWOMEN newsletter
15. How to Subscribe or Unsubscribe to the AASWOMEN newsletter
16. 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.
This cross-post from astrobites describes the AAS Town Hall discussion at the summer 2025 meeting of the AAS.
Read more at:
https://womeninastronomy.blogspot.com/2025/06/the-current-landscape-for-astronomy.html
Arizona State University in Tempe, AZ will host the 33rd Texas Symposium on Relativistic Astrophysics from December 8–12, 2025. This prestigious event brings together leading voices in astrophysics and cosmology. It will be an extraordinary opportunity to engage with cutting-edge research in cosmology, black holes, gravitational waves, high-energy astrophysics, and the fundamental laws of the universe.
Registration and full event details:
https://texassymposium.events.asu.edu
This past Father’s Day, we celebrate not only the fathers, grandfathers, and mentors in our lives - but also the men who have stood shoulder-to-shoulder with women in the fight for equality.
Did you know Frederick Douglass, one of the most influential voices for abolition, was also one of the few men to attend and sign the Declaration of Sentiments at the 1848 Seneca Falls Convention - the first women’s rights convention in the U.S.
The National Women's History Allliance, June 2025 published this article.
Read More At:
https://nationalwomenshistoryalliance.org/
The first US woman to fly in space said little about her personal life in public. A candid film discloses the pressures she endured.
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-025-01887-2
Kim Arcand wrote to update us on how the Vera Rubin event at the summer meeting 2025 of the AAS played out and to thank all of you for your support of this event -- see Kim's link below for photos and summary write-up. Thanks for helping make this come together and for bringing something upliftingto the community!
"I wanted to thank you again for doing the Vera Rubin celebration panel at the AAS last week. I was blown away by the positive feedback afterwards, and have such lovely memories from the event as well. All 200 coins were snapped up! Your help in getting theword out and providing support was greatly appreciated. Here is a brief write up I submitted to the US Treasury, that we'll also be posting on the Chandra blog, and we will be submitting a note to the AAS newsletter as well. Any changes required, please letme know. I've dropped photos for you taken by NASA/CXC/SAO/Scott Wolk (primarily, and the one of the full audience is by NASA/CXC/SAO/April Jubett)."
The Astronomy Magazine article that interviews Tam O'Shaughnessy is also good about this.
Read More At:
https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1zAfZmx6v9ad_Pz6T5MGBGz5ztOame_X8?usp=share_link
Previous research has asserted that women and men in gender-equal countries differ more in their preferences than women and men in less equal countries, for example by making more traditional educational choices. This relationship is known as the gender-equality paradox. However, new research from Uppsala University now shows that it is not possible to draw these conclusions from the data studied.
Read More At: .https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/1087479 Journal article: https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2422247122
This is a compilation of opportunities available mainly from UNICEF.
Read More At:
https://opportunitiesforyouth.org/
The Women and Girls in Astronomy Program (WGAP) 2025 Call for proposal is now Open!! The Women and Girls in Astronomy Program is looking to fund ten projects that use astronomy for development activities to promote, support, and uplift women and girls in the field. Qualifying projects must align with at least one of the NA-ROAD’s five Strategic Goals 1 through 5 , and take place in Canada, United States, the Caribbean, Mexico, or Greenland. Projects are encouraged to approach astronomy from a unique lens, including, but not limited to, scientific, social, technical, cultural, and artistic perspectives.
Read More At:
https://naroad.astro4dev.org/na-road-projects/women-and-girls-astronomy-program/
The history of women in astronomy is fascinating and inspiring— women like Caroline Herschel, Phoebe Waterman Haas and Vera Rubin have been making discoveries and contributions in astronomy for over 200 years. In the latest episode of #EZScience, NASA associate administrator for science Dr. Thomas Zurbuchen and Smithsonian Under Secretary for Science and Research Dr. Ellen Stofan celebrate Women’s History Month and discuss the upcoming Vera C. Rubin Observatory.
Read Mmore At:
https://appel.nasa.gov/knowledge-resource/e-z-science-women-in-astronomy/
NASONEPAL Women in Astronomy. Nepal (WIAN), a special initiative of Nepal and Society (NASO), activity at the Women of the World Nepal Festival 2024, held in Kathmandu, Nepal.
View at: no login required https://www.instagram.com/reel/DDj-JIjyUst/?hl=en
To commemorate International Women’s Day, Via Satellite is celebrating women who have made a difference for the greater satellite and space industry.
Read More At:
https://interactive.satellitetoday.com/via/march-2025/celebrating-women-in-satellite-2025
"I wanted to share with you all the Nature Astronomy - Juneteenth issue on behalf of Black In Astro and in partnership with the African Astronomical Society".
Against a background of threats to science and personal identity, this month we highlight a score of Black astronomers trying to pursue their ambitions without fear, and Black In Astro, an organization supporting predominantly early-career Black people working in the space sciences.
Read More At:
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41550-025-02603-w
The Smithsonian Museum of Women's History has a nice article on Vera Rubin.
Read More At:
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