Women In Astronomy

Friday, December 6, 2019

AASWomen Newsletter for December 6, 2019

Posted by Nicolle Zellner

AAS Committee on the Status of Women

Issue of December 6, 2019

eds: JoEllen McBride, Nicolle Zellner, Heather Flewelling, Maria Patterson, and Alessandra Aloisi

This week's issues:

1. Career Profiles: Geochemist to Planetary Scientist

2. Meet Your CSWA Intern, Rachel Wexler

3. Cross-post: Tips to Overcome Imposter Syndrome

4. New NASA Postdoctoral Program Policy Helps level Playing Field

5. Conference for Undergraduate Women in Astronomy (CUWiA) at West Virginia University

6. Kavli Summer Program in Astrophysics 2020

7. L'Oréal USA For Women in Science Fellowship

8. The context of diversity

9. At NASA, 2019 was the year of the woman, yet women still are a big minority at the space agency

In Terminator: Dark Fate, Linda Hamilton plays Sarah Connor
as an older woman, a demographic that’s rare in sci-fi novels.
Credit: Kerry Brown/Paramount/Everett Collection

10. Women from ethnic minorities least likely to be offered speaking opportunities at scientific conferences

11. A message for mentors from dissatisfied graduate students

12. Working Scientist podcast: Too many PhDs, too few research positions

13. Working Scientist podcast: It's time to fix the "one size fits all" PhD

14. Space ageing: why sci-fi novels shun the badass older woman

15. Job Opportunities

16. How to Submit to the AASWomen Newsletter

17. How to Subscribe or Unsubscribe to the AASWomen Newsletter

18. Access to Past Issues of the AASWomen Newsletter

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Career Profiles: Geochemist to Planetary Scientist

Posted by Katie Eckert

The AAS Committee on the Status of Women in Astronomy is compiling 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 Dr. Amy Riches, a freelance scientist whose work has the goal of unmasking the magmatic and interior compositions, origins, and evolutionary chapters of asteroids formed over 4.5 billion years ago, as well as Mars and the Earth-Moon system. As a broad-based petrologist and isotope cosmo/geochemist her studies generate coordinated mineral and 'bulk rock' data sets via frontline investigative approaches. The findings arising from these examinations of rocks from space are needed to resolve long-standing controversies concerning the origins of our habitable home world, as well as the search for habitable bodies elsewhere in the cosmos.

As part of her wider contributions to the scientific community, Amy enjoys driving inclusive activities such as scientific meetings and edited volumes that have advocated for and stimulated new multidisciplinary directions of study at international levels. In addition, she has led a number of public talks, articles with international media reaching many millions of readers, online showcases, and interactive outreach activities designed to enhance the engagement of global societies with planetary science themes. You can reach out to Amy at her email ajvriches AT gmail.com and catch up on her work at her website https://amyriches.org.

To access our previous Career Profiles, please go to http://womeninastronomy.blogspot.com/search/label/career%20profiles

AASWomen Newsletter for November 22, 2019

Posted by Maria Patterson

AAS Committee on the Status of Women AAS Committee on the Status of Women
Issue of November 22, 2019
eds: JoEllen McBride, Nicolle Zellner, Heather Flewelling, Maria Patterson, and Alessandra Aloisi

Henrietta Leavitt, from item 3

This week's issues:

1. Kick-off Post for Two-Body Problem Series

2. New Video Interview Series from the Europlanet Early Career and Diversity Committees

3. How Henrietta Swan Leavitt Helped Build a Yardstick to Measure the Universe

4. The Scientist Who First Showed Us The Double Helix: A Personal Look At Rosalind Franklin

5. Supporting Parents and Caregivers in Science, Engineering, and Medicine

6. The Long Road to Getting, and Keeping, More Women in Science

7. Navigating the 'Old Boys' Club' of Science, With a Friend

8. Why I'm not applying for promotion

9. Want more women and minorities in STEM? Address social oppression in the classroom, says new research

10. 5 Ways to Welcome Women to Computer Science

11. The mental health of PhD researchers demands urgent attention

12. Are you guilty of equity offset?

13. Job Opportunities

14. How to Submit to the AASWomen Newsletter

15. How to Subscribe or Unsubscribe to the AASWomen Newsletter

16. Access to Past Issues of the AASWomen Newsletter

AASWomen Newsletter for November 15, 2019

Posted by Alessandra Aloisi

Participants at the 7th Solvay Physics Conference in Brussels, Belgium, in 1933 (from item # 4; Credit: Getty Images)

AAS Committee on the Status of Women AAS Committee on the Status of Women
Issue of November 15, 2019
eds: JoEllen McBride, Nicolle Zellner, Heather Flewelling, Maria Patterson, and Alessandra Aloisi

This week's issues:

1. Cross-post: Increasing gender diversity in the STEM research workforce

2. Math Looks The Same In The Brains Of Boys And Girls, Study Finds

3. Why they stay: These factors keep women in STEM careers

4. Celebrating Two Women In Science - Marie Curie And Lise Meitner

5. It’s tough being small in a big-suit world. We still spacewalked.

6. ‘Equity in Design’ Panel Discussion

7. PhDs: the tortuous truth

8. What the US can learn from women in the Soviet workforce

9. Six female scientists won recognition for their outstanding efforts in pioneering research in scientific development in the region

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

Cross-post: Increasing gender diversity in the STEM research workforce

Posted by Katie Eckert

Women experience substantial, gender-specific barriers that can impede their advancement in research careers...We outline here specific, potentially high-impact policy changes that build upon existing mechanisms for research funding and governance and that can be rapidly implemented to counteract barriers facing women in science. These approaches must be coupled to vigorous and continuous outcomes-based monitoring, so that the most successful strategies can be disseminated and widely implemented. Though our professional focus is primarily academic biomedical research in U.S. institutions, we suggest that some of the approaches that we discuss may be broadly useful across STEM disciplines and outside of academia as well.

Thursday, November 7, 2019

Physics and Astronomy STEM Equality Achievement (SEA) Change Department Awards

Posted by Regina Jorgenson

By Arlene Modeste Knowles and Beth A. Cunningham

Over the last two years, the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) has developed the STEM Equity Achievement (SEA) Change Project which supports systemic, structural institutional transformation around diversity and inclusion in colleges and universities. It does so by encouraging, assisting and recognizing academic institutions that commit to and engage in the difficult work of removing structural barriers to success for women, blacks, Hispanics, Native Americans, people with disabilities, and others who are marginalized in STEM fields. In the SEA Change process, inclusion, and its valuable impacts, are measured by the experiences of students and faculty, as well as by data. The SEA Change Principles can be found here: https://seachange.aaas.org/principles/. Three universities were the first recipients of SEA Change bronze awards in February 2019: Boston University, University of California, Davis, and University of Massachusetts Lowell.

AASWomen Newsletter for November 1, 2019

Posted by Heather Flewelling

AAS Committee on the Status of Women AAS Committee on the Status of Women
Issue of November 01, 2019
eds: JoEllen McBride, Nicolle Zellner, Heather Flewelling, Maria Patterson, and Alessandra Aloisi

This week's issues:

1. Cross-post: Every woman has an 'I Don't' list. And it's about time we shared them.

2. 6 Steps Everyone Can Take To Become An Ally In White, Male-Dominated Workplaces

3. Becoming a parent in graduate school shaped my approach to work–life balance

4. Preventing Harassment in Science: Building a Community of Practice Towards Meaningful Change

5. Nancy Grace Roman and the Dawn of Space Astronomy

6. Women are regularly read and cited less in academia, but not for lack of research, UCI study shows

7. An ongoing conversation on diversity in science

8. November National Geographic Magazine

9. Caroline Herschel Prize Lecture

10. Staying Power: Women in Science on What It Takes to Succeed

11. The Science Of Storytelling: Inspiring The Next Generation Of Female STEM Leaders

12. AstroAmbassadors: Need help finding more applicants for Jan 2020 Ambassadors workshop