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.

Photo by Damon Lam on Unsplash

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.

Photo by Hunter Wiseley on Unsplash

Weekly Wrap-Up

Happy Friday! This week has had some real lows (#RacistTrump, Suzanne Eaton news, #TMTShutdown), but we must remember that joy is a revolutionary act and the fuel for our activism. Lets get into the joy and don’t forget to send us your great summer reads.

WHAT WE’VE DONE

• Got a High Five from Oprah

• Pointed out that the gender gap and discrimination in STEM is oversimplified and not representative of the range of gender and other identities

• Posted application details for the #Fellowship4theFuture

WHAT WE LIKE

• Follow Friday: Sci-Commers @HanaAyoob, @NikiRust, @priyology ‏and social scientists @robingnelson, @xshinbrot, @meredithgore

• #ProtectMaunaKea and #TMTShutdown

• Love - to spark a movement & lead a revolution to combat climate change

• Resources to engage with anti-oppressive, equity, and social justice work

• Jess Wade is the UK Wikimedian of the year

• #WomenLeadClimate

READING CORNER

• Small Island by Andrea Levy (fiction)

• Survival in Auschwitz by Primo Levi (memoir)

• The Fossil Hunter by Shelley Emling (non-fiction)

IN OUR EARBUDS

• The Stakes, with Kai Wright: “The invention of sexual harassment”

• The Cut: “How to stay sane while saving the country”

• Mothers of Invention: “Fish out of hot water”

• Jane Zelikova on eTown podcast with Justin Towne Earle and Emily Gimble, discussing 500WS origins and mission.

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Weekly Wrap-Up

This weekend, 500 Women Scientists around the world will march for science. We see no conflict in simultaneously marching for science and advocating for women, for marginalized groups, and for equality. Read more about our stance on the March for Science in our latest Medium post. Then catch up on what else we've accomplished this week!

What we've done

• In preparation for the March for Science, we have posters, coloring books, and even snapchat directions - catch up on our MFS resource page. 

• Pods (and some girl scouts) around the world have been making their March signs, share yours with us!

• On Monday, we met Dr. Rana Dajani, she is an amazing leader and we are proud to have her as part of team! 

• If you haven't yet, please donate to our joint fundraiser with the Cairn Project, support girls in science and the outdoors. 

• 500WS in the Huffington Post! 

What we like

• Neil DeGrasse's amazing earth day video. 

• Sign up for this Science-a-Thon organized by the Earth Science Womens Network

• Inspiring real life replication of a New Yorker cover by women surgeons around the world.   

• Polar Bears International