6th MindBrainBody Symposium (MBB 2018)

Keynote speaker gender ratio: 3 Women : 3 Men (50%)
Estimated* base rate of women in the field: 24%

*Method of estimation: previously established base rate of women in neuroscience.

Bernstein Conference 2018

Organizers: Bernstein Center for Computational Neuroscience Göttingen (BCCN Göttingen)
Funded by: German Federal Ministry of Education and Research
Invited speaker gender ratio: 4 Women : 6 Men (40%)
Estimated* base rate of females in the field: 17-18%

*Method of estimation: Since the conference is advertised as “the largest annual Computational Neuroscience Conference in Europe” we used the base rate in the field of computational neuroscience as calculated from attendance at COSYNE 2016.

Neurophysics of Sensory Navigation: Mechanisms, Models and Biomimetic Applications

Organizers: Matthieu Louis, Dima Rinberg, Julie Simpson, and Massimo Vergassola
Key participant gender ratio: 7 women : 11 men (39%)
Estimated* base rate of females in the field: 24%

*Method of estimation: We searched NIH RePORTER with keyword (visual OR olfactory OR thermal OR mechanosensory OR sensory) AND navigation and then counted the ratio of women among the unique researchers in all 102 results found using our python script.

Frontiers in Neurophotonics 2017

Organizers: Mario Méthot, Cédric Lopez, Marie-Noëlle Gouineau
Sponsors: see here
Speaker gender ratio: 9 women : 15 men (38%)
Estimated* base rate of females in the field: 27%

*Method of estimation: We searched NIH RePORTER with keyword neuro AND (“optical imaging” OR photon OR photometry) and then counted the ratio of women among the unique researchers in all 21 pages using our python script.

2018 Spring Brain Conference: Computational Neuroscience of Prediction

Organizers: Peter Dayan, Kerstin Preuschoff
Speaker gender ratio:  11 Women : 11 Men (50%)
Estimated* base rate of females in the field: 37%

*Method of estimation: previously established base rate of women in neuroeconomics.

Matariki Winter School & Symposium on “Sex hormones and the brain”

Organizers: Birgit Derntl and Manfred Hallschmid
Sponsors: Rectorate of the University of Tübingen and Universitätsbund Tübingen e.V
Invited speaker gender ratio: 8 women : 3 men (73%)
Estimated* base rate of females in the field: 53%

*Method of estimation: We searched NIH RePORTER with keyword sex AND hormones AND (brain OR neuro) and then counted the ratio of women among the unique researchers in all 10 pages of results using our python script.

5th Baltic-Nordic School on Neuroinformatics (BNNI 2017)

Faculty gender ratio: 3 women : 6 men (33%)
Estimated* base rate of females in the field: 17%

*Method of estimation: We searched NIH RePORTER with keyword neuroinformatics and then counted the ratio of women among the unique researchers in all 29 results using our python script. This ratio from a small number of results conforms with our previously established base rate of women in computational neuroscience (17-20% at the time of writing.)

Bangor Social Robotics Workshop on The Emerging Social Neuroscience of Human-Robot Interaction

Organizers: Ruud Hortensius and Emily S. Cross
Sponsors: The European Research Council and the Experimental Psychology Society
Invited speaker gender ratio: 6 women : 5 men (55%)
Estimated* base rate of females in the field: 15-52%

*Method of estimation: Previously established base rate of women in cognitive neuroscience (37-52%). There is currently no base rate for the field of social robotics, but we have good reason to believe the cognitive neuroscience base rate is higher. In a previous post for a similar meeting (IEEE RO-MAN workshop on Neuroscience Methods in Human-Robot Interaction) we had found “the proportion of women faculty in CMU’s Robotics Institute is a mere 6.7% (although women make up 15% of the affiliated faculty of the institute and 19% of its postdoctoral fellows).”

IBRO-SIMONS Computational Neuroscience Imbizo (ISi-CNI)

Organizers: Alex Antrobus, Peter Latham, Joseph Raimondo, Tim Vogels
Sponsors: see here
Speaker gender ratio: 4 Women : 10 Men (29%)
Estimated* base rate of females in the field: 17-20%

*Method of estimation: Previously established base rate of women in computational neuroscience.

Workshop on Computational Models for Crossmodal Learning

Organizers: Pablo Barros, German I. Parisi, Doreen Jirak, Bruno Fernandes
Sponsors: DFG and Crossmodal Learning Project
Invited speaker gender ratio: 2 Women : 2 Men (50%)
Estimated* base rate of females in the field: 15%

*Method of estimation: Previously established base rate of women in neurally inspired machine learning. (Based on registration for the annual NIPS conference in 2016.)