Issue of February 13, 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. Virginia Trimble, Memory Keeper of Modern Astronomy
2. Highlighting Stories of Black Women In Science This Month
3. Alice Shapley Wins 2026 Dannie Heineman Prize for Astrophysics
4. Call for HAD Osterbrock Book Prize Nominations
5. Call for AAS Prize Committee Volunteers
6. 72 Women Scientists Joining the Eiffel Tower in 2026
7. UCL astrophysicist and chemist honoured in Blavatnik Awards
8. NSF Seeks Reviewers for Undergraduate STEM Education Program
9. Gemini Planet Imager call for membership
10. AAS Journal publication fee support
11. How to Submit to the AASWOMEN newsletter
12. How to Subscribe or Unsubscribe to the AASWOMEN newsletter
13. 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.
Astronomer Virginia Trimble has called herself a magpie who likes shiny things. And for nearly 60 years, she found them across the universe: the Crab Nebula, white dwarfs, and binary stars.
Read more at: https://skyandtelescope.org/astronomy-resources/famous-astronomers/virginia-trimble-memory-keeper-of-modern-astronomy/
As we celebrate Black History Month this February, we've gathered stories and interviews of Black women in science. Read on in the post at the CSWA blog!
Read more at: https://womeninastronomy.blogspot.com/2026/02/highlighting-stories-of-black-women-in.html
The Heineman Foundation, AIP, and the American Astronomical Society are pleased to announce Alice Shapley as the winner of the 2026 Dannie Heineman Prize for Astrophysics. Shapley was selected for her “landmark observational campaigns and creative techniques that redefined the forefront of the field of galaxy formation and evolution
Read more at: https://www.aip.org/aip/alice-shapley-wins-2026-heineman-astrophysics-prize
The AAS Historical Astronomy Division (HAD) invites nominations for the 2027 Donald E. Osterbrock Book Prize for Historical Astronomy. Nomination deadline: 1 March 2026. HAD awards the Donald E. Osterbrock Book Prize biennially to the author(s) of a book judged to advance the field of the history of astronomy or to bring history of astronomy to light. Books copyrighted in the years from five years before the award year through two years before the award year will be eligible for this award.
Read more at: https://aas.org/posts/news/2026/02/call-had-osterbrock-book-prize-nominations
Much of the work the AAS does on behalf of the astronomical sciences community is accomplished by volunteer members. We depend on you! There are many ways to help out. We are always looking for engaged members to serve on committees, task forces, and working groups.
Read more at: https://aas.org/posts/news/2026/02/call-aas-prize-committee-volunteers
In 2026, women will finally be engraved on the Eiffel Tower for the first time. 72 women scientists are set to have their names added to the first floor of the monument, placing them at the same level of visibility as the scientists already inscribed there.
Read more at: https://www.salutfromparis.com/72-women-scientists-eiffel-tower/ and https://www.toureiffel.paris/en/news/works/72-names-women-science-proposals-revealed
The awards recognise scientific advances by UK researchers across life sciences, chemical sciences, and physical sciences and engineering. Dr Pinilla, a finalist in the physical sciences and engineering category, investigates how planets form from discs of dust and gas around young stars.
Read more at: https://www.ucl.ac.uk/news/2026/feb/ucl-astrophysicist-and-chemist-honoured-blavatnik-awards
NSF's STEM Education directorate seeks volunteers to review for the Improving Undergraduate STEM Education (IUSE) program. This is a great opportunity particularly for early career faculty interested in innovative ways to teach astronomy to undergraduates and learning more about how NSF reviews proposals. We're looking for folks with expertise across all fields of science supported by NSF, but particularly in Physics and Astronomy.
Read more at: https://nsfevaluation.gov1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_4ISmS4Abt7QTbx4
The Gemini Planet Imager Executive Committee would like to draw the community’s attention to our brief survey for all members of the community and our open call for membership in the Gemini Planet Imager 2.0 (GPI 2.0) science campaign team. GPI 2.0 is a next-generation high-contrast near-IR instrument soon to be delivered to Gemini North observatory. GPI 2.0 was designed for demographics and characterization of exoplanets and circumstellar disks, and will also enable cutting-edge discoveries in other areas of high-contrast astrophysics, including asteroids/Solar System science, evolved stars, active galactic nuclei, and more.
Read more at: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScPAB8OFOCw3zEZlyOzpE2AgWF4JRzjBGVID6WxxoUX6unyKQ/viewform?usp=header and https://docs.google.com/document/d/1UaWwznWAuKE7FP_StV8xjayKv7KkPe7Py8eTB6KjaDI/edit?usp=sharing
The AAS runs some of the main journals in our discipline, namely the ApJ, AJ, and PSJ families. These journals, while open access and affordable compared to other journals, are not free. To help offset costs, the AAS offers two main ways to obtain financial support for publication in the journals. The first is a member discount, in which AAS members can get a 15% discount on one publication every year. The second is by accessing the publication support fund, which is available to all authors following a brief application. Please utilize these funds if publication costs are an obstacle to your publishing in the journals.
Read more at: https://aas.org/join/author-discountsaa and https://journals.aas.org/support
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