Issue of January 30, 2026
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. Sign up & First Meetings for CSWA Cohorts 2026
2. Meg Urry's Full Remarks from CSWA/1400 Degrees Event AAS 247
3. Announcing the 2026 AAS Election Slate, Write-In Nomination Period
4. Sign Up To Be an Expert Media Source
5. ASPIRES project releases detailed demographic study on young people in England’s STEM trajectories
6. Françoise Combes: astrophysics without barriers
7. Asia-Pacific Regional IAU Meeting
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.
At our AAS Phoenix splinter session in January, CSWA kicked off a new networking initiative: the CSWA Cohorts program. This program aims to connect people within and across career stages in astronomy, to facilitate regular networking opportunities beyond the AAS conference week and especially to solve problems and provide support to each other in challenging times and situations. The goal of the CSWA Cohorts program is to establish topical peer groups that will continue these conversations virtually once a month.
We have 51 participants to date and are in the process of contacting groups to set up their first virtual meetings. If you were not able to attend the splinter session at AAS Phoenix, there’s still time to sign up or suggest a group at https://forms.gle/YUQBhEboZjZvvKPJ8
Please feel free to share this information with your networks. CSWA Cohorts are open to women and allies, regardless of gender, career stage, or background.
On January 5, 2026, the CSWA partnered with 1400 Degrees to host a networking and community event at AAS 247. Meg Urry delivered the remarks at the event based on her foreword for Picture an Astronomer. We wanted to publish her remarks here, in full, for those not at the event. Her wisdom, drawn from a long career, and forged through being one of the only women in the room, encourages us to keep supporting all women in astronomy.
Read more at
https://womeninastronomy.blogspot.com/2026/01/meg-urrys-full-remarks-from-cswa1400.html
The Society's Nominating Committee is pleased to announce the slate for the upcoming 2026 AAS election. This is your Society, so please plan to vote. Elected members are expected to represent you and the broader astronomical community.
Read more at
https://aas.org/posts/news/2026/01/announcing-2026-aas-election-slate-write-nomination-period
Would you like to make your voice heard from within the community? Astronomy news stories need a broad set of perspectives. Sign up here to volunteer as a source for reporters on deadline.
Read more at
https://aas.org/form/media-expert-source-signup
This report shares evidence from the ASPIRES research project, a fourteen-year, mixed methods investigation of the factors shaping young people’s trajectories into and away from STEM education, with a particular focus on participation in physics. Key findings include that participation in physics degrees remains heavily male-dominated, with only a slight increase from previous years, and also weighted towards those from more socially privileged communities.
Read the full report at
Françoise Combes, president of the French Académie des Sciences, sat down for an interview about her career and the place of women in science.
Note: The interview is in French. The YouTube auto-translate provides a reasonable translation, and is available by choosing Settings > Subtitles/CC > Auto-translate.
Watch the video interview at
https://www.academie-sciences.fr/en/francoise-combes-astrophysics-without-barriers
Abstract submission for the Asia-Pacific Regional IAU Meeting (APRIM) in Hong Kong, 4th-8th May 2026, is extended to 25th February.
Read more at
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