October 18 – 21, 2023
Organizing Committee: Timothy Behrens, Alla Karpova
Speakers gender ratio: 15 women, 19 men (44%)
Estimated base rate of women in the field: 52%*
BWN rating: 2, within 1 standard deviation below base rate
*Method of estimation: previously established base rate of women in the cognitive neuroscience field
August 6 – 11, 2023
Organizing Committee: Roy V. Sillitoe, Daniela Popa, Alanna Watt, Samuel S. Wang
Speakers gender ratio: 26 women, 27 men (58%)
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
January 14 – 17, 2024
Organizing Committee: Diana Bautista, Rebecca Seal, Ishmail Abdus-Saboor
Speakers gender ratio: 11 women, 8 men (58%)
Estimated base rate of women in the field: 43%*
BWN rating: 4, within 2 standard deviations above base rate
*Method of estimation: previously established base rate of women in the neuroscience field
September 18 – 21, 2023
Organizing Committee: Corinne Benakis, Arthur Liesz, Adam Denes
Speakers gender ratio: 9 women, 14 men (39%)
Estimated base rate of women in the field: 50%*
BWN rating: 2, within 1 standard deviation above base rate
*Method of estimation: previously established base rate of women in the neuroscience field
October 24 – 27, 2023
Organizing Committee: Albino Oliveira-Maia, Marta Moita, Zachary Mainen
Speakers gender ratio: 8 women, 9 men (47%)
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
October 3 – 7, 2023
Organizing Committee: C. Andrew Frank, Avital Rodal
Speakers gender ratio: 5 women, 6 men (45%)
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
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July 22, 2023
Organizing Committee: Davide Momi, Joana Cabral, John David Griffiths
Speakers gender ratio: 4 women, 4 men (50%)
Estimated base rate of women in the field: 32.5%*
BWN rating: 4, within 2 standard deviations above base rate
*Method of estimation: previously established base rate of women in the neural structure and brain modelling field
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September 21-23, 2023
Organizing Committee: John Rothwell, Charlotte Stagg, Sven Bestmann, Jacinta O’Shea, Paul Taylor, Helen Nuttall, Lennart Verhagen, Camilla Nord, Ines Violante, Michael Banissy
Confirmed featured and special lectures gender ratio: 7 women, 6 men (54%)
Estimated base rate of women in the field: 44%*
BWN rating: 3, within 1 standard deviation above base rate
*Method of estimation: previously established base rate of women in the brain stimulation field
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November 11-15, 2023
Organizing Committee: Society for Neuroscience
Confirmed featured and special lectures gender ratio: 14 women, 10 men (58%)
Estimated base rate of women in the field: 43%*
BWN rating: 4, within 2 standard deviations above base rate
*Method of estimation: previously established base rate of women in the neuroscience field
** We will update these numbers if/as more speakers are confirmed
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September 26 – September 29, 2023
Organizing Committee: Bernstein Network
Keynote and invited speakers gender ratio: 5 women, 5 men (50%)
Estimated base rate of women in the field: 26%*
BWN rating: 4, within 2 standard deviations above base rate
*Method of estimation: previously established base rate of women in the computational neuroscience field
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