What is episodic memory?
Perspectives from Philosophy, Psychology and Neuroscience
Organizers: Sen Cheng, Magdalena Sauvage and Markus Werning
Invited speaker gender ratio: 1 Woman : 6 Men (14%)
Estimated* base rate of females in the field: 45%
*Method of estimation: We searched NIH RePORTER with keyword “episodic memory” and counted the ratio of women among the unique researchers in pages 1, 3, 7, 9 and 10 of 10 results pages.
Advances in Motor Learning & Motor Control 2016
Organizers: Maurice Smith and John Krakauer
Total speaker gender ratio: 2 Women : 12 Men (14%)**
Plenary speaker gender ratio: 1 Woman : 2 Men (33%)
Estimated base rate of females in the field: 35%*
*Method of estimation: We searched NIH RePORTER with keyword “motor control” OR “motor learning” and counted the ratio of women among the unique researchers in pages 1, 6, 15, 19 and 20 of 20 results pages.
**Non-plenary speakers were mostly students and post-docs, however the base rate above is calculated for faculty.
7th International Conference on Speech Motor Control
Organizers: Ben Maassen, Hayo Terband, Pascal van Lieshout, Edwin Maas, Aravind Namasivayam, Frits van Brenk
Keynote and invited speaker gender ratio: 2 Women : 13 Men (13%)
Estimated* base rate of females in the field: 37%
*Method of estimation: We searched NIH RePORTER with keywords “speech motor control” and counted the ratio of women among the unique researchers in all results.
European Workshop on Cognitive Neuropsychology 2017
Organizers: Franco Denes and Carlo Semenza
Plenary speaker gender ratio: 0 Women : 2 Men (0%)
Symposia:
Organizers – 0 Women : 4 Men (0%)
Speakers – 3 Women : 9 Men (25%)
Discussants – 1 Woman : 3 Men (25%)
Estimated* base rate of females in the field: 47%
*Method of estimation: We searched NIH RePORTER with keyword “neuropsychology” and counted the ratio of women among the unique researchers in pages 1, 3, 4, 7 and 8 of 8 results pages.
New Frontiers Of Pain Research In The 21st Century
Organizers: Jianguo Gu, Jennifer DeBerry and Jarred Younger
Sponsors: UAB Department of Anesthesiology and Perioperative Medicine, the UAB Department of Psychology and the Comprehensive Neuroscience Center
Speaker gender ratio (incl. keynote speakers): 3 Women : 11 Men (21%)
Keynote speaker gender ratio: 0 Women : 4 Men (0%)
Estimated* base rate of females in the field: 38%
*Method of estimation: Previously established base rate of women in pain research
*Method of estimation: Based on previous BWN estimates
BCBT2016 – Barcelona cognition, brain and technology summer school
Organizers: Paul Verschure, Andreas Engel and Anna Mura
Funded by: EU projects socSMCs
Invited speaker gender ratio: 1 Woman : 17 Men (6%)
Estimated* base rate of females in the field: 24%
*Method of estimation: Previously established base rate of women in neuroscience.
Organizers: Ivo Dinov, Rich Gonzales, George Alter, Franco Pestilli, Olaf Sporns, Andrew Saykin, Dhabaleswar Panda, Khaled Hamidouche, Xiaoyi Lu, Hari Subramoni, Satya Sahoo, Daniel Marcus, and Lei Wang
(this has got to be a record: 13(!) organizers, all(!) of them male)
Funded by: The National Science Foundation, the Midwest Big Data Hub, the Michigan Nutrition Obesity Research Center (MNORC) and others
Invited speaker gender ratio: 0 Woman : 14 Men (0%)
Estimated* base rate of females in the field: 17-20%
*Method of estimation: since the workshop covers a broad array of topics in neuroscience, with an emphasis on computational methods (a “complex/information/dynamical systems” focus and links to mathematics and physics), we used the previously established base rate of women in computational neuroscience.
The Third Annual Symposium on the Undiscovered Claustrum
Organizers: Brian Mathur, David Reser, Jared Smith
Funders: Crick-Jacobs Center, Scientifica, ChiSquare Bioimaging
Invited speaker gender ratio: 0 Women : 7 Men (0%)
Estimated* base rate of females in the field: 20%
*Method of estimation: Undiscovered indeed.. searching NIH RePORTER with the term “claustrum” returned only 8 funded grants since 1992, 5 unique PIs, out of them 1 woman. Even with a relatively understudied area, we would have been surprised if only men have discovered the claustrum so far, given that all of the statistics on BiasWatchNeuro suggest that there are no subfields without women in neuroscience..
[We welcome a better estimate of the base rate in the field, e.g. from the membership of The Society for Claustrum Research]
NIPS Symposium: Recurrent Neural Networks and Other Machines that Learn Algorithms
Organizers: Jürgen Schmidhuber, Sepp Hochreiter, Alex Graves and Rupesh Srivastava
Invited speaker gender ratio: 0 Women : 10 Men (0%)
Estimated* base rate of females in the field: 20%
*Method of estimation: we searched NIH RePORTER with keywords “recurrent” AND “neural” AND “network” and counted the ratio of women among the unique researchers in all 95 results.
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