neuroCademy 2-day tDCS workshop
Speaker gender ratio: 0 Women : 2 Men (0%)
Estimated* base rate of females in the field: 34%
*Method of estimation: We searched NIH RePORTER with keyword tDCS OR “transcranial Direct Current” and then counted the ratio of women among the unique researchers in all 65 results.
Transylvanian Experimental Neuroscience Summer School 2017
Organizers: Raul Mureşan, Adam Kampff & Florin Albeanu
Funders: see here
Lecturer gender ratio: 2 Women : 16 Men (11%)
Teaching assistant gender ratio: 4 Women : 15 Men (21%)
Estimated* base rate of females in the field: 24%
*Method of estimation: previously established base rate of women in neuroscience.
Harvard Economics and Psychology Working Group
Organizers: Sam Gershman, David Laibson and Xavier Gabaix
Sponsor: Foundations of Human Behavior Initiative
Speaker gender ratio: 1 Woman : 8 Men (11%)
Estimated* base rate of females in the field: 22-37%
*Method of estimation: previously established base rate of women in neuroeconomics.
Workshop on Brain Dynamics and Neurocontrol Engineering
Organizers: Jr-Shin Li and ShiNung Ching
Sponsors: see here
All invited speakers (incl. plenaries): 1 woman : 13 men (7%)
Plenary speakers: 0 women : 3 men (0%)
Estimated* base rate of females in the field: 18%
*Method of estimation: We searched NIH RePORTER with keyword (“brain dynamics” OR “neural dynamics”) OR neurocontrol and then counted the ratio of women among the unique researchers in all 74 results.
PIRE Workshop/Summer School 2017
Organizers: Gustavo Deco, Maximilian Riesenhuber and Josef Rauschecker
Sponsors: National Science Foundation and the Spanish Ministry of Economy, Industry and Competitiveness
Speaker gender ratio: 3 women : 11 men (21%)
Estimated* base rate of females in the field: 43%
*Method of estimation: We searched NIH RePORTER with keyword (multisensory OR multi-sensory OR cross-modal) and then counted the ratio of women among the unique researchers in all 125 results.
24th Joint Symposium on Neural Computation
Sponsors: Brainchip and Qualcomm
Invited speaker gender ratio: 0 Women : 8 Men (0%)
Estimated* base rate of females in the field: 17-20%
*Method of estimation: Previously established base rate of women in computational neuroscience.
London Computational Psychiatry Course 2017
Speaker gender ratio: 1 Woman : 7 Men (12.5%)
Estimated* base rate of women in the field: 29%
*Method of estimation: previously established base rate of women in computational psychiatry.
Second Heidelberg Neuronal Ensemble Conference (HeiNEC 2)
Speaker gender ratio: 1 woman : 11 men (8%)
Estimated* base rate of females in the field: 27%
*Method of estimation: We searched NIH RePORTER with (neuronal OR neural) AND (ensemble OR ensembles) and then counted the ratio of women among the unique researchers in all 7 pages of results using our python script.
Frontiers in Serotonin Research – Crossing Scales and Boundaries
Organizers: Da-Hui Wang and KongFatt Wong-Lin
Speaker gender ratio: 1 woman : 8 men (11%)
Estimated* base rate of females in the field: 32%
*Method of estimation: We searched NIH RePORTER with keyword serotonin and then counted the ratio of women among the unique researchers in all 28 pages of results using our python script.
Cognitive Improvement: Approaches, Mechanisms and Applications
Speaker gender ratio (incl. keynotes): 10 women : 26 men (28%)
Keynote speaker gender ratio: 1 woman : 5 men (17%)
Estimated* base rate of females in the field: 43%
*Method of estimation: We searched NIH RePORTER with keyword cognitive improvement and then counted the ratio of women among the unique researchers in all 19 pages of results using our python script.
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