AAS Women for October 25, 2013

AAS Committee on the Status of Women

Issue of October 25, 2013

eds: Michele M. Montgomery, Daryl Haggard, Nick Murphy, & Nicolle Zellner

This week's issues:

1. The Career-Life Beer Hour

2. Unearned Advantage

3. Raising the Bar in Physics Graduate Education   

4. End Harassment

5. Career Profile: Astronomer to Non-Tenure-Track Lecturer

6. Professional development at the 2014 Winter AAS Meeting      

7. Job Opportunities

8. How to Submit to the AASWomen Newsletter

9. How to Subscribe or Unsubscribe to the AASWomen Newsletter

10. Access to Past Issues of the AASWomen Newsletter

AASWomen Newsletter for May 12, 2017

AAS Committee on the Status of Women
Issue of May 12, 2017
eds: Nicolle Zellner, Heather Flewelling, Cristina Thomas, and Maria Patterson

This week's issues:

1. Career Profile: Planetary Geologist: Dr. Justin Filiberto
2. The Limit Does Not Exist: Creative Brainpower And Badass Women In STEM
3. Strategies for Addressing Sexual Harassment in Academic Science, Engineering, and Medicine
4. This Magazine Is For Girls Who Unapologetically Love Science
5. How to Submit to the AASWomen Newsletter
6. How to Subscribe or Unsubscribe to the AASWomen Newsletter
7. Access to Past Issues of the AASWomen Newsletter

AASWomen for September 27, 2013

AAS Committee on the Status of Women
Issue of September 27, 2013
eds: Michele M. Montgomery, Daryl Haggard, Nick Murphy, & Nicolle Zellner

This week's issues:

1. Unconscious Bias: the Studies from Sociology
2. Sexism the Other Way Around
3. Career Profile: Astronomer to Consultant
4. Sara Seager Receives a MacArthur Fellowship
5. Q&A with the Women of the James Webb Space Telescope
6. The “Second Shift” at Work
7. Exhibit: A Secret History of Women in Science
8. Job Opportunities
9. How to Submit to the AASWomen Newsletter
10. How to Subscribe or Unsubscribe to the AASWomen Newsletter
11. Access to Past Issues of the AASWomen Newsletter

AASWomen Newsletter for April 14, 2017

AAS Committee on the Status of Women

Issue of April 14, 2017

eds: Nicolle Zellner, Heather Flewelling, Christina Thomas, and Maria Patterson

This week's issues:

1. Career Profile: Astronomer to Assistant Professor/Head, Astronomy Lab/Curator, Meteorites  

2. Nominate a Worthy Scientist for a Prize from the AAS    

3. Tackling Sexual Harassment in Science: A Long Road Ahead

4. How to Submit to the AASWomen Newsletter

5. How to Subscribe or Unsubscribe to the AASWomen Newsletter

6. Access to Past Issues of the AASWomen Newsletter

AASWOMEN Newsletter for January 1, 2016

AAS Committee on the Status of Women

Issue of January 1, 2016

eds: Daryl Haggard, Nicolle Zellner, Elysse Voyer, Heather Flewelling

This week's issues:

1. Women in Astronomy Events at the 227^th AAS Meeting

2. Seeking Women to be Interviewed at AAS 227

3. Career Profile: Astronomer to High-School STEM Educator    

4. A Remarkable Year

5. The Discovery Program Series: Lucy

6. Why So Few? Unconscious Bias II   

7. Project to Tackle Stereotyping in Subject Choice Launches in Scotland       

8. Calculating Conference Diversity      

9. Job Opportunities

10. How to Submit to the AASWomen Newsletter

11. How to Subscribe or Unsubscribe to the AASWomen Newsletter

12. Access to Past Issues of the AASWomen Newsletter

AASWomen Newsletter for July 07, 2017

AAS Committee on the Status of Women
Issue of July 07, 2017
eds: Nicolle Zellner, Heather Flewelling, Cristina Thomas, and Maria Patterson

This week's issues:

1. Career Profile: Planetary Scientist: Dr. Kelsi Singer

2. The myth about women in science? Bias at work in the study of gender inequality in STEM.

3. Report: In 2015, US institutions awarded most doctorates ever recorded

4. Zonta International Amelia Earhart Fellowships

5. Job Opportunities

6. How to Submit to the AASWomen Newsletter

7. How to Subscribe or Unsubscribe to the AASWomen Newsletter

8. Access to Past Issues of the AASWomen Newsletter

AASWOMEN Newsletter for February 26, 2016

AAS Committee on the Status of Women
Issue of February 26, 2016
eds: Daryl Haggard, Nicolle Zellner, Elysse Voyer, & Heather Flewelling

This week's issues:

1. Unconscious Bias Workshops: Why and Who?

2. Career Profile: Astronomer to Infographics Maker

3. Astronomy in Color Profiles

4. My Favorite News Line Up in One Week

5. Engaging Minority Scholars in Science Should Also Include Addressing Isolation and Mental Wellness

6. It's Time to Abolish Science's Boys Club

7. Ten Simple Rules to Achieve Conference Speaker Gender Balance

8. It's True, Hope Jahren Sure Can Write

9. How to Submit to the AASWOMEN newsletter

10. How to Subscribe or Unsubscribe to the AASWOMEN newsletter

11. Access to Past Issues

AASWomen Newsletter for November 15, 2024

Houma Haidar (center), item 10.

AAS Committee on the Status of Women
Issue of November 15, 2024
eds: Jeremy Bailin, Sethanne Howard, Hannah Jang-Condell, and Ferah Munshi

[We hope you all are taking care of yourselves and each other. --eds.]

This week's issues:

1. Career Profile: From NASA Engineer to Aerospace Consultant: Navigating Unexpected Trajectories
2. Nominations for Caroline Herschel Medal due December 2
3. AAS Historical Astronomy Division seeks blog editor
4. Inclusive Classroom Techniques Workshop
5. IAU WiA-EAS EDI talk by Marieta Valdivia Lefort
6. Five postdoctoral scientists receive 2024 For Women in Science award
7. IUPAP invites nominations for Early Career Prize in History of Physics
8. Why did Earth’s first radio message to alien civilizations leave out half of humanity?
9. National Girls Collaborative Reinvented issue on AI
10. ‘We often forget that women have always been involved in science’
11. Job Opportunities
12. How to Submit to the AASWOMEN newsletter
13. How to Subscribe or Unsubscribe to the AASWOMEN newsletter
14. 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.

AASWomen for June 7, 2013

AAS Committee on the Status of Women
Issue of June 7, 2013
eds. Caroline Simpson, Michele M. Montgomery, Daryl Haggard, and Nick Murphy

This week's issues:

1. Two Years at Lick Observatory

2. Career Profile: From Astronomer to Tenure-Track Faculty

3. 'Women Programmers' and the Gender Bias in Science

4. Postdoc Pay: A Women's Issue

5. Women in Science Wednesday

6. App Camp for Girls

7. How to Submit to the AASWomen Newsletter

8. How to Subscribe or Unsubscribe to the AASWomen Newsletter

9. Access to Past Issues of the AASWomen Newsletter

AASWOMEN Newsletter for September 9, 2022

AAS Committee on the Status of Women

Issue of September 9, 2022

eds: Jeremy Bailin, Nicolle Zellner, Alessandra Aloisi, and Sethanne Howard

[We hope you all are taking care of yourselves and each other. --eds.]

This week's issues:

1. Career Profile: Prioritizing Your Goals and Dreams with Dr. Kelly Korreck

2. 51 Pegasi b Postdoctoral Fellowship

3. Soliciting 2023 ExoExplorer and ExoGuide applications

Image from exoplanets.nasa.gov

4. Sexual harassment plagues Antarctic research  

5. Women STEM Faculty Are Paid Less For Their Research Productivity Than Men, New Study Suggests

6. The trailblazing career of Willie Hobbs Moore

7. Study finds students self-sort in active learning spaces, with potential to push women out

8. Job Opportunities 

9. How to Submit to the AASWomen Newsletter

10. How to Subscribe or Unsubscribe to the AASWomen Newsletter

11. Access to Past Issues of the AASWomen Newsletter

An online version of this newsletter will be available at http://womeninastronomy.blogspot.com/ at 3:00 PM ET every Friday.

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Career Profiles: Astronomer to Associate Director of the NASA Lunar Science Institute

The AAS Committee on the Status of Women in Astronomy and the AAS Employment Committee have compiled dozens of interviews highlighting the diversity of career trajectories available to astronomers. The interviews share advice and lessons learned from individuals on those paths.

Below is our interview with Doris Daou, an astronomer turned Associate Director of the NASA Solar System Exploration Research Virtual Institute. If you have questions, suggestions, advice to share, etc. about this career path, please leave a comment below.

For access to all our Career Profile Project interviews, please visit http://aas.org/jobs/career-profiles. We plan to post a new career profile to this blog every Thursday.

AASWomen for December 20, 2024

AAS Committee on the Status of Women
Issue of December 20, 2024
eds: Jeremy Bailin, Nicolle Zellner, Sethanne Howard, and Hannah Jang-Condell

[We hope you all are taking care of yourselves and each other. --eds.]

This week's issues:

1. CSWA Sessions & Events at AAS National Harbor 2025
2. Explore Employment Committee Resources and Workshops
3. Career Profile: From Science Research to Science Education
4. Neta Bahcall will deliver the Henry Norris Russell Lecture
5. Job Opportunities
6. How to Submit to the AASWOMEN newsletter
7. How to Subscribe or Unsubscribe to the AASWOMEN newsletter
8. 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.

AASWomen Newsletter for September 1, 2023

AAS Committee on the Status of Women
Issue of September 1, 2023
eds: Jeremy Bailin, Nicolle Zellner, Sethanne Howard, and Hannah Jang-Condell

[We hope you all are taking care of yourselves and each other. --eds.]

This week's issues:

1. Career Profile: A Peripatetic Astronomer
2. A history of anti-racism in science

Sethanne Howard with
Leo Goldberg and Senator Goldwater 

3. Women working in Antarctica say they were left to fend for themselves against sexual harassers 
4. Gender disparities limit chances for women PhD students training to be new inventors, says new research 
5. They Remembered the Lost Women of the Manhattan Project So That None of Us Would Forget
6. Invisible women: Gender representation in high school science courses across Australia
7. How to Submit to the AASWomen Newsletter
8. How to Subscribe or Unsubscribe to the AASWomen Newsletter
9. Access to Past Issues of the AASWomen Newsletter

An online version of this newsletter will be available at http://womeninastronomy.blogspot.com/ at 3:00 PM ET every Friday.

AASWomen Newsletter for June 28, 2024

Laurie Rousseau-Nepton, item 3.
Credit CBC

AAS Committee on the Status of Women
Issue of June 28, 2024
eds: Jeremy Bailin, Nicolle Zellner, Sethanne Howard, and Hannah Jang-Condell

[We hope you all are taking care of yourselves and each other. --eds.]

This week's issues:

1. Seeking AASWomen editors, Women In Astronomy blogger-in-chief
2. Career Profile: From Physics Faculty to Director of Undergraduate Advising
3. Meet 2 Innu women trailblazers in astrophysics and land guardianship
4. Astrophysicist Amber Miller New Hewlett Prez
5. Radical women-only hiring policy improves diversity at Dutch university
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.

AASWomen Newsletter for January 24, 2025

AAS Committee on the Status of Women
Issue of January 24, 2025
eds: Jeremy Bailin, Sethanne Howard, and Ferah Munshi

[We hope you all are taking care of yourselves and each other. --eds.]

This week's issues:

1. Career Profile: Have Sextant, Will Travel
2. AAS Election
3. AAS Fellows for 2025
4. AAS 245 Chambliss Student Award Winners
5. Fostering Belonging through our Diversity, Equity and Inclusion initiatives at ICRAR-UWA
6. The Gruber Foundation Fellowship Programme
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.

AASWomen Newsletter for March 31, 2017

AAS Committee on the Status of Women
Issue of March 31, 2017
eds: Nicolle Zellner, Heather Flewelling, Cristina Thomas, and Maria Patterson

This week's issues:

1. Career Profile: Research Administrator to Deputy Principal Investigator

2. National Academies Celebration of the Stories of Women in STEMM

3. What it means to {codelikeagirl}

4. 3 Muslim Women in STEM You Should Know About

5. NASA's Peggy Whitson sets spacewalk record

6. The Way We Teach Math Is Holding Women Back

7. How to Submit to the AASWomen Newsletter

8. How to Subscribe or Unsubscribe to the AASWomen Newsletter

9. Access to Past Issues of the AASWomen Newsletter

AASWomen Newsletter for September 30, 2016

AAS Committee on the Status of Women

Issue of September 30, 2016

eds: Nicolle Zellner, Elysse Voyer, Heather Flewelling, Cristina Thomas, and Maria Patterson

This week's issues:

1. Career Profile: Astronomer to STEM Program Evaluator

2. Grace Potter & NASA Team Up For New Music Video Collaboration

3. L'Oréal USA Announces The 2016 For Women in Science Fellows

4. Hidden Figures: The Untold Story of the Black Women Mathematicians Who Powered Early Space Exploration

5. The Sexist Response to a Science Book Prize

6. Melinda Gates turns her focus to promoting women in tech

7. Job Opportunities

8. How to Submit to the AASWomen Newsletter

9. How to Subscribe or Unsubscribe to the AASWomen Newsletter

10. Access to Past Issues of the AASWomen Newsletter

AASWomen Newsletter for October 4, 2024

Pride flag from NASA imagery, from item 5.
Credit: Rachel Lense

AAS Committee on the Status of Women
Issue of October 4, 2024
eds: Jeremy Bailin, Sethanne Howard, Hannah Jang-Condell, and Ferah Munshi

[We hope you all are taking care of yourselves and each other. --eds.]

This week's issues:

1. Remembering Amber Stuver
2. Career Profile: From Physics Student to Independent Scientist and Business Owner
3. Democratic Merit: What Separates Good from Great in Astronomy?
4. Great Women of Science: First Woman Nobel Laureate in Theoretical Physics, Maria Goeppert Mayer
5. The story of the pride flag made from NASA imagery: Bluesky’s most-liked image
6. Science Mission Directorate's 2025 PI Launchpad Event Dates Announced
7. Education Program Support
8. You can count female physics Nobel laureates on one hand – recent winners have wisdom for young women in the field
9. Women win a fraction of scientific Nobels. Marie Curie offers fixes.
10. Girls STEAM Ahead with NASA: 2024 Resources in Action
11. Job Opportunities
12. How to Submit to the AASWOMEN newsletter
13. How to Subscribe or Unsubscribe to the AASWOMEN newsletter
14. 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.

AASWomen Newsletter for September 21, 2018

AAS Committee on the Status of Women
Issue of September 21, 2018
eds: Nicolle Zellner, Heather Flewelling, Cristina Thomas, Maria Patterson, and JoEllen McBride

This week's issues:

1. Career Profile: Executive Director

2. Exploring how gender figures the identity trajectories of two doctoral students in observational astrophysics

3. AAAS establishes policy whereby Fellow status can be revoked

4. In the aftermath of #MeToo, which names in science should be replaced?

5. Science Walks, Money Talks

6. New analysis suggests women's success in STEM Ph.D. programs has much to do with having female peers, especially in their first year in graduate school

7. Isolated female students more likely to drop out of PhD programmes

8. How female scientists can confront gender bias in the workplace

9. Not One More Generation: Women in Science Take On Sexual Harassment

10. A Gender Scholar's Visit to ESOF 2018: She Came, She Saw, She Ranted

11. Men vs. Women speaking time in conference calls and colloquiums

12. Job Opportunities

13. How to Submit to the AASWomen Newsletter

14. How to Subscribe or Unsubscribe to the AASWomen Newsletter

15. Access to Past Issues of the AASWomen Newsletter

AASWomen Newsletter for January 17, 2020

Vera Rubin in 1965 (Courtesy of the Carnegie Institution for Science)

AAS Committee on the Status of Women
Issue of January 17, 2020
eds: JoEllen McBride, Nicolle Zellner, Heather Flewelling, Maria Patterson, and Alessandra Aloisi

This week's issues:

1. Career Profile: Astronomer to Anthropometry Engineer

2. Women Can Spacewalk. But Can They Cross the Gender Line?

3. Academics must balance privacy and honesty to become great role models

4. An alternative argument for why women leave STEM: Guest post by Karen Morenz

5. Women in leadership positions face more sexual harassment

6. Continued: LSST named Vera C. Rubin Observatory

7. Addressing the Underrepresentation of Women of Color in Tech

8. What the 2010s taught us about women in space

9. The great life of astronomer Caroline Herschel, who catalogued the heavens

10. Registration now open for Women in Data Science Conference on March 2, 2020

11. AGU Bridge Program

12. Aspen 2020 Summer Program

13. Summer 2020 NSF-REU Program at the Maria Mitchell Observatory

14. Job Opportunities

15. How to Submit to the AASWOMEN newsletter

16. How to Subscribe or Unsubscribe to the AASWOMEN newsletter

17. Access to Past Issues of the AASWOMEN newsletter