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#BWNFridayPost: Black in Neuro

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Link to the website

The Black in Neuro website is an amazing resource aimed at diversifying the neurosciences by building a community that empowers Black scholars and professionals in Neuroscience (and related fields). The website has many great resources, including links to events/seminars, a membership and a membership directory for the BiN community, a list of reports and publications relevant to the mission, and a compilation of Black-led initiatives aimed at improving mentorship and outreach in STEM. Go check out these (and so many other) resources on the website!

Neuroscience 2022

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conference link
November 12-16 2022

Organisers: Society for Neuroscience Program Committee

Total invited speakers gender ratio: 12 Women: 15 Men (44%)
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

#BWNFridayPost: Quantifying hierarchy and dynamics in US faculty hiring and retention

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Link to the paper

Here is a link to a twitter thread by one of the authors

This paper by K. Hunter Wapman, Sam Zhang, Aaron Clauset, & Daniel B. Larremore evaluates the dynamics of various aspects of academia hiring in the US, and the extreme inequalities of this process. In a section of this study, they also find that while there are gains for women’s representation in academia in most subjects, these improvements are mostly a result of demographic turnover and earlier hiring changes. Thus, they suggest, that without further changes long-term gender parity in most fields will likely not be achieved.

They also have numerous other findings, such as that a small set of universities produce most of the US-hired professors, and that there is a higher attrition rate among non-US trained faculty.

Bernstein Conference 2022

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Conference link
September 13-16, 2022

Organisers:
Raoul-Martin Memmesheimer, Christian Machens, Tatjana Tchumachenko, Moritz Helias, Anna Levina, Megan Carey, Brent Doiron, Tatiana Engel, Ann Hermundstad, Christian Leibold, Timothy O’Leary, Srdjan Ostojic, Cristina Savin, Mark van Rossum, Friedemann Zenke

Total speakers/talks gender ratio: 8 Women: 12 Men (40%)
Estimated base rate of women in the field: 26%*
BWN rating: 4, within or at 2 standard deviation above base rate

*Method of estimation: previously established base rate of women in the computational neuroscience field

Neuromatch Conference 2022

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Conference link

September 27-28, 2022

Organisers:
Dan Goodman, Konrad Kordin, Brad Wyble, Titipat Achakulvisut, Chris Rozell, Yiota Poirazi, Megan Peters, Bing Brunton, Anne Urai, Jennifer Bizley, Alberto Antonietti, Jeremy Forest, John Butler

Keynote speakers gender ratio: 2 Women: 2 Men (50%)
Estimated base rate of women in the field: 26%*
BWN rating: 3, within or at 1 standard deviation above base rate

*Method of estimation: previously established base rate of women in the computational neuroscience field