Friday Wrap Up

Welcome to Climate Strike Friday!

“Lightening makes no sound until it strikes”

Martin Luther King Jr.

I hope many of you around the world have been able to get engaged with the #globalclimatestrike and found a way to take action in your communities, cities, states, countries.

WHAT WE’VE DONE

• #WomenLeadClimate

• Looking for our next favorite a t-shirt

• Triple match donation campaign to #FundtheFuture

• Revisited why confronting misogyny in science is both radical and necessary

• Wrote about the intersecting challenges Alaska native artists face

• Highlighted ways to get involved with elections in Canada

• Joining climate strikes and climate week events across the world

  • Its not too late to sign up your pod to join the #ClimateStrikeInitiative

WHAT WE LIKE

• Follow Friday: Green Voices of Color (thanks @MaryHeglar), @jnoisecat, @adriarwatson

• Calling out racism in the environmental and climate movements

• Emily Fischer receiving Macelwane Medal from AGU

• Figuring out what “truth” is in science

READING CORNER

• “Gun Island” - Amitav Gosh

• “Letters to the Earth” - compilation, foreword by Emma Thompson

• “Coming of age at the end of nature” - edited by Julie Dunlap and Susan A. Cohen

IN OUR EARBUDS

• “Drilled” - Critical Frequency

• “The time the United States illegally deported 1 million Mexican Americans” - Retropod

• Song Exploder - pick your favorite song

Don’t hesitate to send us your podcast suggestions and summer reads.

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Weekly Wrap-Up

Another Friday, another week of chaos. Its hard to know where to start, which fire to put out when the whole world is aflame. So we must start with one thing, one action. Action begets action, so lets begin!

WHAT WE’VE DONE

• Raised our voices to push back against misrepresenting science to justify limiting reproductive healthcare access

• Opened #FellowshipForTheFuture applications until September 15th

• 2/3 of the way to #FundTheFuture - help us get to 100%!

• Relaunched our editorial board

• Support the global youth-led climate strikes

  • Sign up your pod to join the #ClimateStrikeInitiative

WHAT WE LIKE

• Follow Friday, podcaster edition: @WomanOfSizePod, @QueerWOCpod, @TheHistoryOf4, and check out this tweet for a full list of recommendations

• A strong case for climate rage

• A sustainable scientist

• The power of optimism

READING CORNER

• “Milkman” by Anna Burns

• “Good and Mad” by Rebecca Trester

• “Exit West” - Mohsin Hamid

IN OUR EARBUDS

• No Place Like Home - “All the Climate Feels”

• Shut Up Dad! - episode 1

• The Vocal Fries - Lal-alapalooza

• Nevertheless She Existed - Are black women magic?

Don’t hesitate to send us your podcast suggestions and summer reads.

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Weekly Wrap-Up

This week’s post written by Jane Zelikova

I got to spend this week imagining a not too distant future of feminist leadership in the climate movement. Surrounded by people I deeply admire, I grappled with the limits of my own imagination - what does the world look like when we fully harness feminist solutions to our biggest problems? What does feminism look like when we elevate the leadership of people who have been pushed to the margins of these movements?

Even with endless Montana big sky over my head and fresh air in my lungs, I realized I have lost my ability to dream, a skill I haven’t had much use for lately, a muscle atrophied by daily tasks, putting out immediate fires, writing another peer reviewed paper, another grant, another job application. A permission to dream is a powerful and scary thing! What does a world look like when women define the metrics of success?  What does assumption of expertise look like when its not given by default to men? Who gets to have big ideas in our society when that default is not freely ceded to men?

This week, I am stretching my imagination, I am re-awakening my dream muscles to help envision and bring about a different world. Please join me! 

WHAT WE’VE DONE

• Shared research on gender equity in medical sciences

• We are joining the global youth-led climate strikes this September

  • Sign up your pod to join the campaign

WHAT WE LIKE

• Follow Friday: @nplhpodcast, @amywestervelt, @binajv, @favianna

• A Fair Fight

• Giraffes that can teach us statistics and R

• A new generation raising their voices for climate action

• Giving new life to old lab equipment

• Valuing the work of women of color

• Shenova Fashion Women in STEM Collection

• Conservation, with a woman’s touch

READING CORNER

• “Bad Blood” by John Carreyrou

• “Lab Girl” by Hope Jahren

• “The Optimist’s Telescope” by Bina Venkataraman

IN OUR EARBUDS

• Warm Regards- “Empowering Women to Chill Out the Planet”

• Where Should We Begin (Esther Perel) - “Motherless Women”

• Every Little Thing - “Don’t underestimate the flamingo”

Don’t hesitate to send us your podcast suggestions and summer reads.

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Take Action Tuesday

Today’s Take Action Tuesday post is brought to you by Jenna Jablonski, member of the DC Pod of 500 Women Scientists and founder of Sister.

How does your STEM identity connect with your political identity?

For National Voter Registration Day in September, Sister is partnering with Science Rising to publish a series of articles showing how individuals in STEM can be political — and that our STEM work can even shape our advocacy work.

We want to share your perspective. How does your STEM identity connect with your political identity (your advocacy work, issues you care about, etc.)? How does this tie in with your personal identity and/or journey in STEM?

If you’re interested in writing, send a pitch by this Friday (8/16) to hello@sisterstem.org. Pitches can be short descriptions of what you plan to write about, or a sample/excerpt from the proposed article. Full articles (about 700-1,000 words) will be due at the end of August. Sister happily provides editorial support along the way.

You can also spread the word by retweeting this tweet or sending anyone who may be interested to sisterstem.org/write.

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Take Action Tuesday

Join the #SciMomJourney Team in celebrating Breastfeeding!

August is breastfeeding month, and August 1-7 is World Breastfeeding week. This year’s theme is “Empower Parents. Enable Breastfeeding.” Black Breastfeeding Week starts August 25th and the theme is “The World is Yours.” 

Social and institutional support is key to enabling breastfeeding for scientist moms. No matter who you are, you can help! Advocate for parent-friendly policies, plan for accommodations at events, ask a breastfeeding coworker how she’s doing. These actions matter! 

We welcome everyone to:

• Celebrate World Breastfeeding week!

• Sign the Pledge to empower parents and enable breastfeeding, now and for the future! You can create an event locally to support breastfeeding. 

• Follow Black Breastfeeding Week on Twitter and Facebook for the latest updates and events.

• Sign up for WABA’s (World Alliance for Breastfeeding Action) email list to find out about all their events that you can participate in during the month of August. 

• Read our op-ed in Scientific American about how to improve scientist-moms’ breastfeeding experiences- Do Science, Pump, Repeat

• Share your SciMomJourney Story. Our survey is on-going! We would love to crunch this data and share our thoughts. We will never share your name, institution or any other information without your permission.  

If you are in a 500WS Pod, you can this sign to show your support for Breastfeeding mothers.