IDEA

March, 2020

• Inferior by Angela Saini
• 'Visibly Invisibly' by Deidre M. Bowen (Presumed Incompetent Chapter 8)

February, 2020

• Debate: Baldwin vs. Buckley.

November, 2019

• Book recommendations from the IDEA Social Justice Library.
• Billionaires & astronomy.
• Presumed Incompetent - The intersections of race and class for women in academia (Chapters 1 & 2).
• Inclusive astronomy 2.

October, 2019

• Graduate school and parents.
• The 'optics' of diversity work.
• Indigenous peoples and astronomy around the world
  • Maunea Kea and modern astronomy.
  • A tale of two observatories.
  • Astronomical observatories and indigenous communities in Chile.

May, 2019

• GRE fails to identify successful PhD students.
• Gender parity in engineering leadership.
• Let's talk EDI in Science: Notes from Dr. Christina Richey's talk.

April, 2019

• Smears and fury in telescope lobbying: A story from New Zealand regarding the Square Kilometre Array.
• Decolonizing the university: Chapter 1.

March, 2019

• Imposter syndrome among female faculty.
• Department mentoring & self-assessment.
• University of Chicago survey lab.
• Department self-assessment rubrics.
• AAS report on diversity & inclusion in graduate education.

February, 2019

• University of Michigan handbook on highlights and best practices for faculty candidates.
• For a Black mathematicisian, what it's like to the be 'Only One'.
• Universal child care.
• CSWA Survey: The secret history of women in coding.
• Reimbursement policies make academia less inclusive.

January, 2019

• AAS task force on diversity and inclusion in graduate education.
• Summary of the Know Your Power Project workshop.
• AAS climate site visits.
• The importance of names in astronomy.
• AI solves gender bias, puts overlooked women scientists in spotlight.
• Racist James Watson.
• Women who win prizes get less money and prestige.
• How to find a mentor at work.

December, 2018

• Three years later: gender differences in the advisor's impact on career choices in astronomy and astrophysics (Ivie, White, & Chu, 2018).
• Graduate school can have terrible effects on people's mental health (TW: anxiety & suicidal ideation).
• $20M lawsuit: University of Arizona underpays women science professors.
• One tenure-track candidate's attempts at negotiations resulted in her loss of the offer entirely.

November, 2018

• Mental health discussion in astronomy & astrophysics: a living document.
• University of Chicago: The Second Assailant (TW: sexual assault & suicide attempts).
• AAS endorsement for removing the Physics GRE from the graduate admissions process.
• Physics GRE requirements for US/Canadian Astronomy & Physics programs.

October, 2018

• Particles for Justice.
• Leaky postdoc pipeline.
• Astropy Code of Conduct.
• Gendering of inanimate objects.
• Letter of solidarity with LGBTQIA+ folks in physics and astronomy.

May, 2018

• Harassment in astronomy and the role of the AAS.
• Bully and harassment in astronomy.
• Redefining impact to help society directly.
• Science and colonialism.
• AAS-CSMA letter against policing of students.
• AAS graduate edcuation task force.
• TMT-GMT joint program initiative.
• Canadian TACs: On gender biases
  • Sex-Disaggregated Systematics in Canadian Time Allocation Committee Telescope Proposal Reviews.
  • Fighting the Gender Gap in Telescope Proposal Success.

April, 2018

• Graduate students and mental health.
• University of Chicago emergency management training.

March, 2018

• Lauren Krauss (TW: sexual harassment).
• Ethnic Diversity Increases Scientific Impact.
• Mental Health and Graduate Students.
• Ghost advising.
• Gender Parity in Low Income Country astronomers.
• NSF New Harassment Reporting policy.
• LGBTQ+ scientists and STEM retention.

February, 2018

• An overview of Black Light.
• NSF Grand conditions update (TW: sexual harassment).
• Steve Bannon speaks at the University of Chicago.

January, 2018

• A Tufts University report and set of guidelines for the classroom.
• Commentary on the Ouch!Oops! method.
• A University of Arizona report on Diversity and Inclusiveness in the classroom.

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