Recap: Virtual CSWA Meet and Greet @ the 236th AAS Meeting

Drawing on community input from a brief survey, our panel focused on addressing the special challenges our community faces, especially in the era of social distancing and social unrest. Recognizing that women can identify along multiple axes, the CSWA invited representatives from the AAS diversity committee to participate on this panel. Panelists were Dr. Jackie Monkiewicz (Working Group on Accessibility and Disability, WGAD), Dra. Nicole Cabrera Salazar (Committee on the Status of Minorities in Astronomy, CSMA), and Dr. Rolf Danner (Committee for Sexual-Orientation & Gender Minorities on Astronomy, SGMA). Dr. Stella Kafka (CSWA) moderated.

In support of Black Lives Matter, the Meet and Greet started with a moment of silence to reflect on the episodes of social injustice that were occurring at the time of the meeting (early June 2020). Subsequently, posts that highlight the work of Black astronomers were (and will continue to be) cross-posted on the CSWA blog page.

The panel discussions centered around three topics: work-life balance, supporting each other, and making on-line meetings inclusive. What follows are comments from the participants on the panel, including the moderator. A link to the CSWA Resources page is included at the end.

AASWomen Newsletter for August 7, 2020

AAS Committee on the Status of Women

Issue of August 7, 2020

eds: Heather Flewelling, Nicolle Zellner, Maria Patterson, Jeremy Bailey, and Alessandra Aloisi

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

This week's issues:

1. Women in Space Seminar Series Episode 3: Lack of Representation and Systemic Racism in Academia  

2. 51 Pegasi b Fellowship 

3. NASA ExoPAG, SAG22: A Target Star Archive for Exoplanet Science

4. Ben Barres Fellowship

5. ‘It’s like we’re going back 30 years’: how the coronavirus is gutting diversity in science  

6. The pandemic is hitting scientist parents hard, and some solutions may backfire 

7.  Language may undermine women in science and tech

8. The 'female' brain: why damaging myths about women and science keep coming back in new forms

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

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AASWomen Newsletter for July 31, 2020

Dr. Jessica Esquivel, from Item 2

AAS Committee on the Status of Women
Issue of July 31, 2020
eds: Heather Flewelling, Nicolle Zellner, Maria Patterson, Alessandra Aloisi, and Jeremy Bailin

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

This week's issues:

1. Meet Your CSWA, Jeremy Bailin

2. Women in Science: The Intersection of Identity and Profession

3. Equity: a mathematician shares her solution

4. A Personal Interview with Rita Colwell in Advance of Her Book “A Lab of One’s Own”

5. Women in STEM are still far short of workplace equity. COVID-19 risks undoing even these modest gains

6. Despite outperforming men, women undergraduates in science remain undervalued

7. Too many senior white academics still resist recognizing racism

8. Inclusion is our roadmap back to global science dominance

9. "SU(5)" - a new national mentoring program for incoming grad students in physics and astronomy

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

Meet Your CSWA, Jeremy Bailin

Jeremy Bailin is an Associate Professor at the University of Alabama. His research involves galaxy formation using computer simulations, observations in the optical and radio, and phenomenological models. He is particularly interested in the outskirts of galaxies — stellar halos, circumgalactic medium, globular clusters, and satellite galaxies. He teaches courses from introductory astronomy to graduate astrophysics, and is involved in astronomy education research.

Jeremy joined the CSWA in 2019, and is particularly interested in how the CSWA’s mission plays out in university education (particularly in mid-range size institutions, where the most undergraduates encounter astronomy), and in LGBT+ issues.

AASWomen Newsletter for July 24, 2020

AAS Committee on the Status of Women
Issue of July 24, 2020
eds: Heather Flewelling, Nicolle Zellner, Maria Patterson, Alessandra
Aloisi, and Jeremy Bailin

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

This week's issues:

Dilhan Eryurt, Google Doodle by Kevin Laughlin

1. CSWA Resources for Astronomers

2. Google doodle celebrates Turkish astrophysicist Dilhan Eryurt

3. Recommendations for Planning Inclusive Astronomy Conferences

4. Help needed: Launch of José Flores Velázquez Memorial Cal-Bridge Scholarship

5. Encouraging news - Covid Vaccine Front-Runner Is Months Ahead of Her Competition

6. The career cost of COVID-19 to female researchers, and how science should respond

7. Women In STEM Careers Could Lose During Covid-19 - 4 Steps To Help

8. A Dozen-Plus Ways You Can Foster Educational Equity

9. Why Women Engineers are Uniquely Qualified to Lead

10. Diversity Style Guides for Journalists

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 of the AASWomen Newsletter

AASWOMEN Newsletter for July 17, 2020

AAS Committee on the Status of Women
Issue of July 17, 2020
eds: Heather Flewelling, Nicolle Zellner, Maria Patterson,
Alessandra Aloisi, and Jeremy Bailin

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

This week's issues:

1. The Fallout from COVID-19 on Astronomy's Most Vulnerable Groups

2. A Celebration of Margaret Burbidge

3. Virtual Women in STEM event on tap at science center

4. How COVID-19 can bring gender justice

5. How the UAE’s Mars mission is changing life on Earth

6. She’s an Authority on Earth’s Past. Now, Her Focus Is the Planet’s Future.

7. New "Black Lives in Astronomy" Resource Guide and updated "Astronomy of Many Cultures" website

8. Trump administration rescinds rule on foreign students

9. The People of Color in Astronomy Listing You Should Know About

10. Increased representation of women, ethnic groups not enough to overcome biases in STEM

11. Unequal effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on scientists

12. How to Submit to the AASWOMEN newsletter

13. How to Subscribe or Unsubscribe to the AASWOMEN newsletter

14. Access to Past Issues

AASWomen Newsletter for July 10, 2020

AAS Committee on the Status of Women
Issue of July 10, 2020
eds: Heather Flewelling, Nicolle Zellner, Maria Patterson,
Alessandra Aloisi, and Jeremy Bailin

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

From Item 7 - Christa McAuliffe coin

This week's issues:

1. Crosspost: #BlackInAstro from astrobites

2. Crosspost: A Break-up Letter with Astronomy, From a Young Black Woman

3. Meet Central American-Caribbean Astronomy Bridge Program Fellows - Part 3

4. Gender bias kept alive by people who think it’s dead

5. New Update - Maria Mitchell Women of Science Symposium 2020

6. Reports from NASEM

7. Candidate designs reviewed for 'Teacher in Space' Christa McAuliffe coin

8. white supremacy culture

9. Three extraordinary women run the gauntlet of science — a documentary

10. Seeking an ‘exit plan’ for leaving academia amid coronavirus worries

11. As more parents return to the office, some face an impossible choice

12. The Laura Bassi Scholarship

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