Or in short: ‘SIAA’, is a cornerstone project of the International Year of Astronomy 2009. As said on their website, it provides information to female professional and amateur astronomers, students, and those interested in the gender equality problem in science. And they have some exciting news!
Although maybe I should say: ‘we have some exciting news’. In any case, there is now a web forum online! It has been there for a few days, so we could build things on it, but today we can officially spread the news and invite people to come and have a look. What better way of dealing with the issues than on a forum, where people from all over the world can easily discuss things?!
And I’m part of it! I’ve been interviewed for the Galaxy Zoo blog participating in this, which I announced earlier, but now I’m even more involved. This is the-job-in-the-United-Kingdom-for-which-I-don’t-have-to-move I was talking about in my previous blog. It’s not full-time of course, but a job and a very flexible one. Although I had to sent my curriculum vitae for it, it’s so much fun that it doesn’t feel like a job!
So come and have look, or better yet, say hi – all the guys reading this too! This is our address: forum.sheisanastronomer.org.
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sounds interesting… I will surely go there and take a look!
The official press release is out now too:
http://www.astronomy2009.org/news/updates/487/