AAS Committee on the Status of Women
Issue of November 22, 2024
eds: Jeremy Bailin, Nicolle Zellner, Sethanne Howard, Ferah Munshi, and Hannah Jang-Condell
[We hope you all are taking care of yourselves and each other. –eds.]
This week’s issues:
1. Crosspost: How can I break into industry if my CV keeps disappearing into a black hole?
2. Space for Students – Part 2
3. Why we need more pride in physics
4. Space Warps is back!
5. IAU PhD Prize
6. 6th Shaw-IAU Workshop Wrap up!
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
An online version of this newsletter will be available at http://womeninastronomy.blogspot.com/ at 3:00 PM ET every Friday.
1. Crosspost: How can I break into industry if my CV keeps disappearing into a black hole?
From: Nicolle Zellner via womeninastronomy.blogspot.com
By Miles Lizak
“I’m a postdoc reaching the end of my second two-year contract at a European university. I want to transfer from academia to industry so that I can find some stability and a better work–life balance. I’ve been looking for a research project-management or data-analysis position … But I keep receiving impersonal, early-stage rejections (or no response at all) even for positions for which I was sure I had a chance. I’m worried that my CV is getting filtered out by scanning software because of my lack of industry experience, and that it never even gets to a real person.”
Read more at
https://womeninastronomy.blogspot.com/2024/11/natl-career-development-month-part-2.html
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2. Space for Students – Part 2
From Libby Fenstermacher via womeninastronomy.blogspot.com
By Libby Fenstermacher
“Below is our interview with Latika Joshi, a senior undergraduate Physics and Astronomy major at Mt. Holyoke College in Massachusetts, as of Fall 2024. Latika found her path to the stars after being inspired at the age of nine by the movie Interstellar.”
Read more at
https://womeninastronomy.blogspot.com/2024/11/space-for-students-part-2.html
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3. Why we need more pride in physics
From: Jeremy Bailin [jbailin_at_ua.edu]
By Artemis Peck and Wendy Sadler
“Ask the average person in the street to describe a physicist and they will probably outline an eccentric older man with grey wiry hair wearing a lab coat or tweed jacket with elbow patches and a pair of glasses. While some members of the physics community do look like that – and there’s nothing wrong with it if they do – it’s certainly not representative of the whole.”
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4. Space Warps is back!
From: Sethann Howard [sethannh_at_msn.edu]
By the Zooniverse Team
Find the needles in a haystack – spot the elusive hidden distant galaxies using the power of gravitational lensing in exquisite new Euclid data!
Read more at
https://www.zooniverse.org/projects/aprajita/space-warps-esa-euclid?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=SWEuclid19Nov2024
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5. IAU PhD Prize
From: Sethann Howard [sethannh_at_msn.edu]
By Edward Gomez
The IAU is inviting applications for its 2024 PhD Prize, an award that celebrates the outstanding accomplishments made globally by PhD researchers in astrophysics. The deadline for applications is 15 December 2024.
Read more at
https://www.iau.org/news/announcements/detail/ann24026/
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6. 6th Shaw-IAU Workshop Wrap up!
From: Sethann Howard [sethannh_at_msn.edu]
By Gwen Sanderson
The fully virtual 6th Shaw-IAU Workshop took place 12 – 15 November 2024. The Shaw-IAU workshops focus on astronomy education for primary and secondary schools, covering topics that teachers, practitioners and NAECs find useful for their contexts. This year’s workshop featured two special topics: an exploration of the first two years of the James Webb Space Telescope and the crucial aspect of evaluation in educational contexts.
Read more at
https://astro4edu.org/news/Hs214b5/
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7. Job Opportunities
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
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
– Visiting Assistant Professor at Smith College
http://apply.interfolio.com/159386
– Instructor of Physics- University of North Florida
https://unf.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com/unfjobs/job/Jacksonville-FL/Instructor-of-Physics_JR101082
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8. How to Submit to the AASWOMEN newsletter
To submit an item to the AASWOMEN newsletter, including replies to topics, send email to aaswomen_at_lists.aas.org .
All material will be posted unless you tell us otherwise, including your email address.
When submitting a job posting for inclusion in the newsletter, please include a one-line description and a link to the full job posting.
Please remember to replace “_at_” in the e-mail address above.
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9. How to Subscribe or Unsubscribe to the AASWOMEN newsletter
Join AAS Women List through the online portal:
To Subscribe, go to https://aas.simplelists.com, and in the “Subscribe” area, add in your name, email address, select “The AASWomen Weekly Newsletter”, and click subscribe. You will be sent an email with a link to click to confirm subscription.
To unsubscribe from AAS Women by email:
Go to https://aas.simplelists.com, in the “My account and unsubscriptions”, type your email address. You will receive an email with a link to access your account, from there you can click the unsubscribe link for this mailing list.
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10. Access to Past Issues
https://aas.org/comms/cswa/AASWOMEN
Each annual summary includes an index of topics covered.
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