Equity & Inclusion Journal Club
Equity and Inclusion in Astronomy lunch meetings are aimed to share articles, insights, events, resources and experiences relevant to promoting equity and diversity. This lunch group is set up to be a place to find others that care about these issues, to learn from them, and to establish a community of allies for equality and diversity.
Current topic
Jan 31st 2024
Demographics of the SDSS collaboration
Tanya Urrutia
Previous Topics
Nov 29th 2023
8th International Meeting of Women Physicists
Link to Iris' talk slides (PDF, intranet only)
Iris Traulsen
July 4th 2023
Serendipity, talent and innovation
Andrea_Rapisarda_TVL_Equity_and_Inclusion_Journal Club (PDF)
Andrea_Rapisarda_talk (movie)
Link to the paper "TALENT VERSUS LUCK: THE ROLE OF RANDOMNESS IN SUCCESS AND FAILURE"
Andrea Rapisarda
December 12th 2022
Admission challenges and culture issues for Uni Potsdam Astro-Master Program
Link to the paper "PhD bridge programmes as engines for access, diversity and inclusion"
Martin Wendt
October 10th 2022
Multi-sensory Approaches for Accessible Astronomy
Link to the paper "The Audible Universe"
Chris Harrison
May 16th 2022
The impostor-syndrome
Marie Martig
Resources for PhD students and postdocs, that were discussed during the talk:
https://www.uni-potsdam.de/en/studium/advising-and-services/mental-health-counseling
Members of the executive board for the "Structured Doctoral Research and Training Programme" are: Carsten Denker and Maria-Rosa Cioni
March 14th 2022
Well-being in French Astrophysics
Link to paper "Well-being in French Astrophysics"
Natalie Webb
Well-beingAstronomyAIPtalkMar22_Webb.pdf
December 6th 2021
The OWSD: The Organization for Women in Science in the Developing World
Kleinsy Bonilla
Equity and Inclusion Journal Club_OWSD LAC_KleinsyBonilla.pdf
October 4th 2021
The academic motherload
Davor Krajnović
September 6th 2021
Decolonization in Astronomy
Tana Joseph
Link to Tana's presentation (note: only available on the AIP intranet)
July 12th 2021
The work of the gender equity officer at AIP
Katrin Böhrs
"E&I" Journal Club Presentation - July 12th 2021
June 21st 2021
The new role of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion in the selection of Fellowships and Tenure-Track positions
Roelof de Jong
May 31st 2021
Managing work-life balance during the Covid-19 crisis
Bilge, Alkan & Ağanoğlu - "Managing work-life balance during the Covid-19 crisis"
Ruzin Ağanoğlus Presentation
"E&I" Journal club - 31. Mai 2021
How we nearly found Neptune a decade earlier: equity & inclusion from a UK perspective
Karen Masters
Who Asks Questions at Astronomy Meetings? An Overview of the Gender Questions Project
Sarah Jane Schmidt
Davenport et al. (2014) Studying Gender in Conference Talks – data from the 223rd meeting of the American Astronomical Society
Pritchard et al. (2014) Asking Gender Questions
Examining the Intersection of Gender and Nationality at the AIP
Claude Ernest Mack III
US Tavel Ban – the various statements put out by our professional societies, its affect on Astronomers/Scientists, and solutions that we can implement
Sarah Jane Schmidt
Committee On INclusion in SDSS (COINS)
Sarah Jane Schmidt
Gender Systematics in Telescope Time Allocation at ESO
Maria-Rosa Cioni
F. Patat, The Messenger, September 2016, No. 165, p. 2
Women at the AIP: Evaluation Report
Andrea Kunder
Die Frauenquote / A women's quota
Tanya Urrutia
German introduces a women’s quota of 30% applicable to the supervisory boards of large companies
Gender Bias in Hiring and Proposal Selection
Sarah Jane Schmidt
Moss-Racusin, C. A., Dovidio, J. F., Brescoll, V. L., Graham, M., & Handelsman, J. (2012). Science faculty’s subtle gender biases favor male students. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 109, 16474-16479
Reid, I. Neill, (2014) Gender-Correlated Systematics in HST Proposal Selection. PASP 126 923
Sexual Harassment in the Work Place
Sarah Jane Schmidt
Geoff Marcy Sexually Harassed Students
How to end sexual harassment in astronomy (Dr. Meg Urry)
Unconscious Bias – Gender-Science Implicit Bias test
Andrea Kunder
Dr. Kenzek Unconscious Bias presentation given at IAU 2015
Harvard Project Implicit
Project Implicit Publications
Validity of Project Implicit
Project Implicit on wikipedia
German Implicit Bias Page
The postdoc: The leakiest part of the academic pipeline (for women)
Else Starkenburg