7th Cambridge Neuroscience Symposium: Artificial and Biological Cognition
Speaker gender ratio: 11 Women : 15 Men (42%)
Estimated* base rate of women in the field: 15%
*Method of estimation: Previously established base rate of women in neurally inspired machine learning based on registration for NIPS 2016.
IGSN / SFB 874 Conference: Molecular and Neural Correlates of Memory and Cognition*
Organizer: Denise Manahan-Vaughan
Speaker gender ratio: 11 Women : 0 Men (100%)
Estimated** base rate of women in the field: 37-52%
*The NeuroNexxt initiative, a platform for female neuroscientists, was launched at this meeting.
**Method of estimation: Previously established base rate of women in cognitive neuroscience.
Organizers: see here
Invited speaker gender ratio: 13 Women : 10 Men (57%)
Estimated* base rate of women in the field: 31%
*Method of estimation: previously established base rate of women faculty in neuroscience.
Maryland Neuroimaging Retreat 2019
13th Annual Canadian Neuroscience Meeting
Organizers: Ruth Slack and Paul Frankland
Sponsors: see here
Total speaker gender ratio: 30 Women : 34 Men (47%)
Invited speaker gender ratio: 2 Women : 5 Men (29%)
Plenary symposia speaker gender ratio: 5 Women : 4 Men (56%)
Parallel symposia speaker gender ratio: 23 Women : 25 Men (48%)
Estimated* base rate of women in the field: 31%
*Method of estimation: previously established base rate of women in neuroscience.
CAJAL Course in Computational Neuroscience 2019
Organizers: Brent Doiron, Maria Geffen, Jakob Macke, Joe Paton
Faculty gender ratio: 7 women : 11 men (39%)
Estimated* base rate of women in the field: 17-20%
*Method of estimation: Previously established base rate of women in computational neuroscience.
Organizers: Luke Chang, Jeremy Manning, Matthijs van der Meer, Courtney Rogers
Sponsors: see here
Faculty gender ratio: 7 women : 10 men (41%)
Estimated* base rate of women in the field: 17-20%
*Method of estimation: Previously established base rate of women in computational neuroscience.
57th Annual Meeting of the American College of Neuropsychopharmacology
Program chairs: See here
Sponsors: American College of Neuropsychopharmacology
Invited speaker gender ratio: 96 women : 103 men (48%)
Estimated* base rate of women in the field: 29%
*Method of estimation: We searched NIH RePORTER with keyword neuropsychopharmacology and then counted the ratio of women among the unique researchers in the 1 page of results using our python script. Search originally performed in January 2019.
Predictive Processing in the Brain
Organizers: Ray Dolan, Georg Keller & Sonja Hofer
Speaker gender ratio: 7 Women : 12 Men (37%)
Estimated* base rate of women in the field: 17-20%
*Method of estimation: Previously established base rate of women in computational neuroscience.
Quantitative Approaches to Naturalistic Behaviors (PDF of Program)
Organizers: Bill Bialek, Stephanie Palmer and Sam Sober
Funder: The Swartz Foundation
Speaker gender ratio: 12 Women : 12 Men (50%)
Estimated* base rate of women in the field: 17-20%
*Method of estimation: Previously established base rate of women in computational neuroscience.
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