Organisers:
Dan Goodman, Konrad Kording, Brad Wyble, Titipat Achakulvisut, Chris Rozell, Yiota Poirazi, Megan Peters, Bing Brunton, Anne Urai, Jennifer Bizley, Alberto Antonietti, Jeremy Forest
Invited speakers gender ratio: 2 Women: 3 Men (40%)
Estimated base rate of women in the field: 26%*
BWN rating: 3 (i.e. within or at 1 standard deviation above base rate)
*Method of estimation: previously established base rate of women in the field of computational neuroscience.
Craniofacial Neuroscience Virtual Symposium [program link]
Organisers:
Limor Avivi-Arber
Teresa Lever
Kazutaka Takahashi
Invited speakers gender ratio: 3 Women: 5 Men (38%)
Estimated base rate of women in the field: 29%*
BWN rating: 3 (i.e. within or at 1 standard deviation above base rate)
*Method of estimation: calculated by counting the total number of women among the unique PI names in a NIH RePORTER grant search using the keyword “craniofacial neuroscience”.
Organisers:
Julian Heng, Nathalie Dehorter, Michael Piper, Kelly Glendining
Invited speakers gender ratio: 2 Women: 2 Men (50%)
Estimated base rate of women in the field: 39%*
BWN rating: 3 (i.e. within or at 1 standard deviation above base rate)
*Method of estimation: established base rate of women in the field of developmental neuroscience.
Organisers:
Anne-Sophie Dubarry
Clement Francois
Maximilien Chaumon
Deirdre Bolger
Manuel Mercier
Adrien Schramm
Invited speakers gender ratio: 10 Women: 14 Men (42%)
Estimated base rate of women in the field: 34%*
BWN rating: 3 (i.e. within 1 standard deviation above base rate)
*Method of estimation: estimated base rate of women engaging in EEG research.
Organiser: KongFatt Wong-Lin
Invited speakers gender ratio: 5 Women: 13 Men (30%)
Estimated base rate of women in the field: 26%*
BWN rating: 3 (1 standard deviation at or above base rate)
*Method of estimation: previously established base rate of women in the field of computational neuroscience
WorldWideNeuRise Seminar Series: Predictive Processing
Organisers:
Bill Podlaski, Christina Beutfering, Ellen Boven, Gily Ginosar, Joram Keijser, Loreen Hertag, & Lucie Descamps
Invited speaker gender ratio: 4 Women: 4 Men (50%)
Estimated base rate of women in the field: 45%*
BWN rating: 3
*Method of estimation: previously estimated base rate of women in the field of cognitive neuroscience.
The Brain Conference 2021: RNA Mechanisms and Brain Disease
Organisers: Erin Schuman & Giovanna Malluci (Co-Chairs)
Invited speaker ratio: 7 Women: 13 Men (35%)
Estimated base rate of women in the field: 33%*
BWN rating: 3
*Method of estimation: previously established base rate of women in molecular neuroscience.
Spatio-temporal Aspects of Embodied Predictive Processing (ICDL Workshop StEPP’21)
Organisers: Stefan Heinrich, Shingo Murata, Yukie Nagai & Yuichi Yamashita
Invited speaker gender ratio: 1 Woman: 3 Men (25%)
Estimated base rate of women in the field: 20.5%*
BWN rating: 3
*Method of estimation: as the workshop covered multiple topics, a combination of base rates for computational neuroscience and neurally-inspired machine learning was used.
Workshop: Spatial Brain Dynamics
Organizer: Copenhagen Initiative
Sponsor: Lundbeck foundation
Invited speaker gender ratio: 2 Women: 8 Men (20%)
Estimated base rate of women in the field: 13%*
BWN rating: 3
*Method of estimation: We searched NIH RePORTER with keyword neurodynamics, and then counted the ratio of women among the unique researchers using our python script.
WWNeuRise Seminar Series: Naturalistic Behavior
Organizers: Ellen Boven, Christina Buetfering, Lucie Descamps, Gily Ginosar, Loreen Hertäg, Joram Keijser & Bill Podlaski
Invited speaker gender ratio: 4 Women: 4 Men (50%)
Estimated base rate of women in the field: 39%*
BWN rating: 3
*Method of estimation: We searched NIH RePORTER with keywords naturalistic behavior, and then counted the ratio of women among the unique researchers using our python script.
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