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The American Astronomical Society has decided to discontinue its press-release-forwarding service by year’s end. Launched more than 30 years ago, the service has become unsustainable.

The American Astronomical Society's peer-reviewed journals remain among the highest-ranked publications in the astronomical sciences according to several key metrics, including impact factor.

President Trump's 22 June proclamation that suspends various entry visas is devastating to many early career scientists, and the sentiment behind the order is deeply unsettling for all of us, writes AAS President Paula Szkody.

The AAS encourages everyone in our community to make a lifelong commitment to action to eradicate anti-Black racism in the astronomical sciences and in academia and research more generally, beginning Wednesday, 10 June.

The 236th AAS meeting will be held jointly with our Laboratory Astrophysics Division (LAD) in Madison, Wisconsin, 30 May - 4 June 2020.

Lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer/questioning, pansexual, asexual, and/or nonbinary women and gender minorities experience a more hostile workplace climate in astronomy and planetary science compared to cisgender, straight women.