- SfN’s Virtual Conference on Mitigating Implicit Bias — freely available to SfN members until January 2020, so watch it now!
- BiasWatchNeuro in the New York Times and Nature
- Gender Avenger: powered by the idea that if enough of us point out the absence of women to enough people in charge, change will happen, and a new norm will emerge
- NIH reminds conference organizers to watch biases against women etc.
- Anne’s List, a list of female neuroscientists grouped by topic area
- NEURO NEXXT – “A platform for female neuroscientists, initiated by the Collaborative Research Centre 874 (SFB 874) and funded by the Ruhr-Universität Bochum”
- ALBA Network – an initiative which aims to promote equality and diversity in brain sciences and is supported by funding from FENS, IBRO and SfN
- WomenInBrainstim, a list of female researchers in the field of brain stimulation
- Women in Neuroscience repository, a list of female neuroscientists
- DiversifyEEB – “Highlighting ecologists and evolutionary biologists who are women and/or underrepresented minorities.”
- A study of gender disparities in scientific conference programs
- Congrats, you have an all-male panel!
- The problem with science for women: BBC discussion
- Society for Neuroscience guidelines and training on bias
- Society for Neuroscience Increasing Women in Neuroscience toolkits
- Most of us are biased: Nature (2013) article by Jennifer Raymond with a list of actions that we can take to overcome our biases
- Conference diversity distribution calculator (try it!)
- A European website suggests “no more excuses” by providing lists of female researchers in Europe in different fields (~150 in Neuroscience!). All listed were “vetted” by being nominated by their National Academies or similar institutions
- From the Royal Society: A concise animated video explanation of unconscious bias, an article by Uta Frith on the perils of implicit/unconscious bias, and what we can do about it
- Mirages of equality: Progress of women in science at MIT 1971-2009 – An excellent public lecture by Prof. Nancy Hopkins, MIT
- The synapse project whose mission is to encourage young women to enter the field of neuroscience through information and mentorship
- NeuWrite West’s “Inequality in STEM” data dive and blog series
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