conferencelink April 23-26, 2023 Program Committee: Louise Tratt
Plenary speakers gender ratio: 4 Women: 5 Men (44%) Estimated base rate of women in the field: 43%* BWN rating: 3, within 1 standard deviation above base rate
*Method of estimation: previously established base rate of women in the neuroscience field
conferencelink March 22-24, 2023 Program Committee: Dr. Christine Rose, Dr. Mathias Bähr, Dr. Tobias Böckers, Dr. Ansgar Büschges, Dr. Veronica Egger, Dr. Martin Göpfert, Dr. Sonja Grün, Dr. Eckart Gundelfinger, Dr. Ileana Hanganu-Opatz, Dr. Frank Kirchhoff, Dr. Albert Christian Ludolph, Dr. Heidrun Potschka, Dr. Constance Scharff, Sophie Seidenbecher, Dr. Christian Steinhäuser, Dr. Christiane Thiel
Plenary speakers gender ratio: 2 Women: 6 Men (25%) Estimated base rate of women in the field: 43%* BWN rating: 1, within 2 standard deviations below base rate
*Method of estimation: previously established base rate of women in the neuroscience field
conferencelink April 27-29, 2023 Organisers: Society of Biological Psychiatry
Invited speakers gender ratio: 6 Women: 5 Men (55%) Estimated base rate of women in the field: 42%* BWN rating: 3, within 1 standard deviation above base rate
*Method of estimation: previously established base rate of women in the computational psychiatry field
This article is based on this paper, and here is a twitter thread diving deeper into it by one of the authors.
“Why we need female mice in neuroscience research” is an article that dives into the findings of this paper (“Mouse spontaneous behavior reflects individual variation rather than estrous state“) and discusses its findings that female mice have spontaneous behavior that is only “negligibly affected” by hormonal cycles, and actually have less variable spontaneous behavior than male mice. It then goes on to discuss how in neuroscience male mice are traditionally used, and since many of our findings about genes, neural circuits, and behavior are based on mouse research, using only male mice can prevent neuroscience from learning about how these aspects may differ in and impact females.
conferencelink April 06-07, 2023 Organisers: Omar Ait-Ader, Romain Caron, Jérôme Coste, François Berry, P.M. Llorca, J-Jacques Lemaire, Ana Raquel Marques, Anna Sontheimer, CélineTeulière, François Vassal
Invited speakers gender ratio: 0 Women: 14 Men (0%) Estimated base rate of women in the field: 32.5%* BWN rating: 0, more than two standard deviations below base rate
This paper is written by Mytien Nguyen, Sarwat I. Chaudhry, Mayur M. Desai, et al
This paper describes a cross-sectional study investigating the gender, racial, and ethnic diversity of NIH investigators in the last 30 years. This investigation found that, among PI’s receiving 3 or more research grants in this time period, female and Black PIs were significantly underrepresented. Read more about this here!
Invited speakers gender ratio: 2 Women: 2 Men (50%) Estimated base rate of women in the field: 43%* BWN rating: 3, within one standard deviation above base rate
*Method of estimation: previously established base rate of women in the neuroscience field
conferencelink March 11-March 14, 2023 Organisers: Meital Oren-Suissa, Lukas Neukomm, Simon Hippenmeyer
Speaker gender ratio: 14 Women: 10 Men (58%) Estimated base rate of women in the field: 32.5%* BWN rating: 5, more than two standard deviations above base rate
This paper discusses the importance of tenure letters and gives concrete recommendations for how to write tenure letters that are inclusive and anti-racist. Read more about this here!
conferencelink August 20-September 3, 2023 Organisers: Michael A. Buice, Saskia de Vries, Adrienne Fairhall, Shawn Olsen, and Eric Shea-Brown
Faculty gender ratio: 7 Women: 11 Men (39%) Estimated base rate of women in the field: 32.5%* BWN rating: 3, within one standard deviation above base rate