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AWIS
You're invited to our upcoming What's Next webinar on Wednesday, February 16 from 1-2 p.m. ET featuring Dr. Korie Grayson, biomedical engineer, chemical engineering researcher, and a diversity advocate in STEM. Learn how we can increase the representation of underrepresented groups in STEM and emphasize that "This is what a scientist looks like!" Dr. Grayson will explain to you how to overcome obstacles such as unconscious bias, stereotype threat, and imposter syndrome to help you succeed.
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AWIS
"Getting your first post-academia job takes time," writes Dr. Joanne Kamens, AWIS Director and Interim Executive Director at the Gloria Cordes Larson Center for Women and Business at Bentley University. Her advice? Start preparing "at least one year before you anticipate wanting a job." Find out what steps to take first in this new post on the Nucleus.
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AWIS
"Research and disability advocacy can and do coexist." Syreeta Nolan, a past AWIS webinar panelist, writes about her experience as a disability justice advocate in science for AWIS Magazine. As co-founder of Disabled in Higher Education on Twitter, founder of Justice, Advocacy and Disability Education (JADE), and board member of Health Advocate X, she explains why advocacy work should be viewed as a strength, not a weakness.
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.HOT HEADLINES
The Lily
After a Boise State professor suggested that male students should be prioritized for STEM, medicine and law, Boise State student Ally Orr started a crowdfunded scholarship to support women entering those fields. Meredith Gibson, interim chief executive at AWIS commented on the challenges women in STEM fields still face, despite increasing representation. "More concerning is that women leave the STEM workforce at twice the rate of men," she said.
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National Postdoctoral Association
The National Postdoctoral Association (NPA) is hosting a historic 20th Annual Conference, April 1-2, 2022, in downtown Chicago, along with a virtual conference option on April 28-29. Network with postdocs, graduate students, faculty members, and industry representatives. The conference is an outstanding opportunity to connect with individuals from across the nation, whether you are looking to meet others in your field, expand personal networks, or recruit new hires. Early bird rates expire January 28, 2022.
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The Jerusalem Post
NASA astronaut Jessica Meir is a candidate to be the first woman to land on the Moon as part of the Artemis lunar mission, which would see the first woman, Jew and Swedish citizen to step foot on the lunar surface, and the first person to do so since Eugene Cernan on December 12, 1972.
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CNN
Teenage aviator Zara Rutherford has become the youngest woman to fly around the world solo. Rutherford has been supporting two charities on her trip: Girls Who Code, which helps young women entering computer science, and Dreams Soar, a nonprofit founded by Waiz, that supports women and girls entering STEM fields. She hopes that her high-profile journey will encourage more young girls and women to consider a career in aviation.
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Nature
Accusations of sexual harassment and assault are rocking the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute, a renowned center for ecological research based on an island in the Panama Canal, after complaints from more than a dozen women. The issue escalated last month when 49 scientists co-signed a letter to U.S. President Joe Biden's administration that called for sweeping changes at the STRI, which is part of the prestigious US-based Smithsonian Institution, to address a long history of alleged mistreatment.
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Peer review is a critical element of ACS Publications’ journals
program; we are committed to exploring new ways of conducting peer
review to better serve our community and demonstrate our commitment
to open science. Learn more about the transparent peer review
pilot launched with ACS Central Science and The Journal of Physical
Chemistry Letters.
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.WOMEN ADVOCATING for INCLUSIVITY
TIME
Three hundred and sixty-four days after she lost her job as a co-lead of Google's ethical artificial intelligence team, Timnit Gebru is nestled into a couch at an Airbnb rental in Boston, about to embark on a new phase in her career.
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MSNBC
For years, Dr. Jaya Iyer, a past AWIS webinar speaker, could only find space-themed clothing in the boys' section of stores. "I thought there must be others who feel the same way," she said. In May 2015, she officially unveiled her gender-neutral clothing and accessories line called Svaha USA to the world. Her company has since grown to six full-time employees.
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BBC
When Cynthia Chapple, another past AWIS webinar speaker, was asked to help out with a photograph of a research professor and his staff, she assumed that she would be the one taking the photo. But it turned out that the image was going to be used by the professor for a grant application. "This was an example of 'Photoshop' diversity, when Black women are used for photo opportunities," she explains.
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.DIVERSITY in SCIENCE & MEDICINE
Nature
Lisa Loseto is a research scientist at Fisheries and Oceans Canada, a federal government department whose regional offices include one in Winnipeg, where she is based. Some of Northern Canada's Indigenous people have shaped her research into how beluga whales interact with their environments, and have taught her to rethink her own part in the scientific method. As co-editor-in-chief of the journal Arctic Science since 2017, she is looking at ways to increase Indigenous representation in scientific publishing, including the editorial and peer-review processes.
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Grist
Jessica Hernandez, a Maya Ch'orti and Binnizá-Zapotec environmental scientist, chronicles the Mayan Ich Eq community's fight to protect the bees and their people in her new book, Fresh Banana Leaves: Healing Indigenous Landscapes Through Indigenous Science. But the book isn't just a how-to on fixing the conservation field, or relatedly, the climate crisis. It was also an opportunity for Hernandez to uplift stories that are often silenced or ignored.
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Harvard Business Review
Women make up more than one-third of all physicians in the United States and are the growing majority among medical students. However, a large amount of anecdotal evidence and one small-sample study indicate that a significant proportion of female physicians either no longer work full-time or are considering cutting back.
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Fortune
As companies hustle to meet their technology talent needs, they're also tasked with the imperative to diversify these teams. This imperative has started attracting board and C-suite attention due to its increasing relevance to workforce strategy, digital transformation, and social responsibility.
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.WOMEN in TECH
Inc.
As a woman and immigrant in tech, DE&I is top-of-mind in Shama Hyder's own endeavors. Her company is women-led, and her team is both multicultural and multinational. "And honestly, I find that executives don't have to be convinced that diversity, equity, and inclusion are good ideas — that's not the challenge," she writes. "Instead, it's how to ensure that equal representation actually happens."
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Forbes
Arab-Americans are at the forefront of realizing technology's most significant potential, providing positive changes to America and the Arab World. However, like many other hyphenated "x-Americans," their capacity to accommodate two distinct worlds can be exhausting, primarily as perceptions sway with every negative news story feeding us a "them" versus a "us" mentality.
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