Issue of July 31, 2026
eds: Jeremy Bailin, 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. Women In STEM Podcasts for Summer (or anytime!)
2. Gay Jane Perez brings outer space closer to home
3. When women take up space
4. Australia’s National Science Week 2026 Puts Women In Science And Overlooked Research Centre Stage
5. Scientists bring Comic-Con's first immersive STEAM experience to life
6. Job Opportunities
7. How to Submit to the AASWOMEN newsletter
8. How to Subscribe or Unsubscribe to the AASWOMEN newsletter
9. 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.
Find a new podcast this summer, or revisit some old favorites. Many of the following feature women in STEM and astronomy (with some hosted by women in STEM), including In Her Orbit, Lost Women of Science, Gardeners of the Galaxy, and more.
Read more at
https://womeninastronomy.blogspot.com/2026/07/women-in-stem-podcasts-for-summer-or.html
By Elise Suarez
When Dr. Gay Jane Perez was a kid, she never thought that she would grow up to be a decorated physicist, a postdoctoral fellow at the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), a leader in the space economy, as well as the director general of the Philippine Space Agency (PhilSA).
“Although much, much younger, I did think about being an astronaut. But not so seriously, just in a way that was, ‘Oh! It would be cool to be an astronaut! I want to be an astronaut.’ But what course would you take to be an astronaut? There’s no Filipino astronaut,” she shared. “So it’s just one of those things that will cross your mind but you don’t have a pathway to get it.”
Perez didn’t even attend a science high school. As a student of the Universidad de Santa Isabel in Naga City, she grew up seeing lawyers, accountants, and doctors at career fairs, not scientists. Her school also focused on developing well-rounded leaders, writers, and public speakers.
Read more at
https://www.rappler.com/people/newsmakers/scientist-gay-jane-perez-philippine-space-agency/
By Tira Shubart
"An invisible glue holding the universe together and launching telescopes into orbit: Those ideas came from women who elbowed their way into astronomy." Focusing especially on the contributions of Nancy Grace Roman, Maria Mitchell, and Vera Rubin.
Read more at
https://news-decoder.com/when-women-take-up-space/
By SMBTech
Australia's National Science Week, a festival running from 15 to 23 August and featuring more than 2,500 events and activities, is returning with a program that leans heavily into stories about women in science, gender gaps in knowledge and research areas that have historically been sidelined or overlooked, including work by Dr. Karelle Siellez on kilonova explosions and the gender gap on Wikipedia.
Read more at
and
https://www.scienceweek.net.au/
Scientists at Comic-Con are joining forces to create Mission Control, an immersive STEAM experience and activity space at the Marriott Hotel. STEAM stands for science, technology, engineering, art, and math, and there's no better place to find the intersection of all those fields than Comic-Con. The members of Mission Control "are all part of If/Then, a group that is focused on promoting the next generation of scientists, especially promoting women in science, people of color in science, and getting a new breath of fresh air and creativity in the next group of leadership."
Read more at
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
- Astronomy Lecturer, College of Marin, Marin, CA
https://www.schooljobs.com/careers/collegeofmarin/jobs/340046/astronomy-instructor-part-time-temporary-pool?pagetype=transferJobs
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