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
This week’s BWN Friday Post brings you an article by Eva Amsen, titled “Neuroscientists Want To Make Music Science Studies More Diverse.” In it, she highlights the conversation between this paper and this response, in which the authors discuss how many music science studies focus on the way the brain processes Western music–without considering other musical forms–and do not recruit diverse enough participants (with relation to the type of music they listen to). These papers, as well as Amsen’s article, discuss how that can be changed and why it’s important.
Read the article here.
September 15-17, 2022
Organisers:
Society of Applied Neuroscience
Aristotle University of Thessaloniki
Invited (+ keynote) speakers gender ratio: 2 Women: 4 Men (33%)
Estimated base rate of women in the field: 43%*
BWN rating: 2, within 1 standard deviation below base rate
*Method of estimation: previously established base rate of women in the neuroscience field
This week’s BWN Friday Post brings you a paper by Eleanor Palser, Maia Lazerwitz, and Aikaterini Fotopoulou titled “Gender and geographical disparity in editorial boards of journals in psychology and neuroscience.” They investigated the makeup of the editorial boards of several journals, and found that there is a disproportionate amount of editors from the US compared to other countries, as well as a disproportionate amount of male editors vs female ones.
Read the article here.
Organisers:
Thomas Naselaris, Hendrikje Nienborg, Russ Poldrack, Michael J. Tarr, Megan Peters, Leyla Isik, Gunnar Blohm, Jennifer Lieberman, Leila Wehbe, Julian Jara-Ettinger, Aldo Faisal, Jana Shaich Borg, Judy Fan
Invited (keynote) speakers gender ratio: 6 Women: 7 Men (46%)
Estimated base rate of women in the field: 35%*
BWN rating: 3, i.e. within 1 standard deviation above estimated base rate
*Method of estimation: previously established base rate of women in the fields of computational neuroscience and cognitive neuroscience
Organisers:
Sach Mukherjee, DZNE, Germany
Sachin Ranade, Nature Neuroscience, USA
Stefan Remy, DZNE, Germany
Joachim Schultze, DZNE, Germany
Owain Vaughan, Nature Electronics, UK
Liesbeth Venema, Nature Machine Intelligence, Germany
Natacha Cruz, Nature Research, USA
Hannah Mertens, DZNE, Germany
Invited speakers gender ratio: 8 Women: 9 Men (47%)
Estimated base rate of women in the field: 23.8%*
BWN rating: 5 (i.e. more than 2 stdev above base rate)
*Method of estimation: previously established base rate of women in the fields of neurally inspired machine learning and neural structure and brain modelling
This week’s BWN Friday Post brings you an article by Dr. Pragya Agarwal in Scientific American, titled “What Neuroimaging Can Tell Us about Our Unconscious Biases”
Read the article here.
Organisers:
Catherine Collins, Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine
Rüdiger Klein, Max-Planck Institute of Neurobiology, Germany
Kang Shen, Stanford University
Yimin Zou, University of California San Diego
Invited speakers (and session chairs) gender ratio: 7 Women: 9 Men (44%)
Estimated base rate of women in the field: 33%*
BWN rating: 3 (i.e. 1 standard deviation above base rate)
*Method of estimation: previously established base rate of women in the field of molecular neuroscience
Organisers:
Athena Akrami, Sainsbury Wellcome Centre
Christina Konen, Editor, Neuron
Nikolay Tsanov, Editor, Cell Reports
Rita Gemayel, Editor, Cell Reports
Invited speakers gender ratio: 2 Women: 7 Men (22%)
Estimated base rate of women in the field: 35%*
BWN rating: 2 (i.e. 1 standard deviation below base rate)
*Method of estimation: previously established base rate of women in the fields of molecular and cognitive neuroscience.
This week’s BWN Friday Post brings you a new paper from April Bailey and colleagues on the gender bias even when gender-neutral terms are used, titled: “Based on billions of words on the internet, PEOPLE=MEN“.
Read the paper here.
You can also find a Twitter thread by the lead author, April Bailey, discussing the research here.
https://mobile.twitter.com/BiasWatchNeuro/status/1521915805830578176
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