Issue of December 5, 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 2025 Holiday Gift Guide
2. Career Profile: Allyson Bieryla and the Astronomy Lab at Harvard University
3. "I encourage women to claim their space in astrophysics and beyond": Debarati Chatterjee’s mission is to make science in India more welcoming towards women.
4. AAS Laboratory Astrophysics Dissertation Prize
5. Interview: Stella Ocker Explores the Space Between the Stars
6. Australian government puts $9.77 million in funding to strengthen women in STEM careers
7. Silencing the other: Women in research and higher education
8. Astrophysics Data Analysis Program solicitation
9. How to Submit to the AASWOMEN newsletter
10. How to Subscribe or Unsubscribe to the AASWOMEN newsletter
11. 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.
Happy Thanksgiving from the CSWA. We hope this holiday weekend is full of family, fun, and gratitude. We are thankful for you.
As we begin the holiday shopping season, Emily Rice with STARtorialist is back with suggestions for gifts for every science fan in your life. STARtorialist is a women-owned shop founded by astronomers Emily Rice and Summer Ash.
Read more at
https://womeninastronomy.blogspot.com/2025/11/the-2025-holiday-gift-guide.html
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, etc. The interviews share advice and lessons learned from individuals on those paths.
This article features Allyson Bieryla, manager of Harvard University’s Astronomy Lab and Telescope and astronomer at the Smithsonian Institute.
Read more at
https://womeninastronomy.blogspot.com/2025/12/career-profile-allyson-bieryla-and.html
Debarati Chatterjee’s mission is to make science in India more welcoming towards women. She spoke to Nature about how she overcame sexual harassment to become an astrophysicist, and why she promotes gender and racial diversity in her field.
Read more at
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-025-03400-1
The AAS Laboratory Astrophysics Division (LAD) is now accepting nominations for the LAD Dissertation Prize.
The prize recognizes an outstanding theoretical or experimental PhD dissertation in laboratory astrophysics completed within the past three calendar years. It includes a cash award, a citation, and an invited lecture at the LAD annual meeting (held with the AAS Summer Meeting). Nominators, letter writers, and candidates do not need to be AAS or LAD members, and self-nominations are welcome.
The nomination deadline is December 31, 11:59 PM EST.
Read more at
https://lad.aas.org/prizes/call_for_nominations
Stella Ocker, a postdoctoral fellow at the Carnegie Observatories, studies the interstellar medium—the gas and dust between stars—and the diffuse ionized material that shapes galaxies like our own. Her research draws on radio signals from many sources, including data from Voyager 1’s Plasma Wave System, which she uses to infer the density of the interstellar gas the spacecraft is now crossing.
In this postdoc spotlight, Ocker talks about her path into science, her work on fast radio bursts, and what Voyager 1’s approach to the one light-day from Earth means for both her research and for humanity.
Read more at
https://carnegiescience.edu/postdoc-spotlight-stella-ocker-explores-space-between-stars
The Australian government has announced Round 5 of the Women in STEM and Entrepreneurship (WiSE) grants will award AU$9.77 million, with applications open to 18 February 2026. Changes this year including extending the project duration, raising the minimum and maximum grant amounts, and increasing support for women at key career transition points.
Read more at
https://www.industry.gov.au/news/977-million-funding-strengthen-women-stem-careers
By Maria Buzogany
"It takes researchers months to gather information and write proposals. For female researchers, their hard work often leads to nothing."
Read more at
https://www.miamistudent.net/article/2025/11/women-in-research-and-higher-education-inequalities
NASA has released the final text for the ROSES D.2 Astrophysics Data Analysis Program (ADAP) call that is due January 30, 2026. ADAP will be using dual-anonymous peer review (DAPR), which has been demonstrated to reduce barriers that have traditionally limited the diversity of NASA research programs.
Read more at
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