Organisers:
Tanenbaum Open Science Institute
Invited speakers gender ratio: 11 Women: 12 Men (48%)
Estimated base rate of women in the field: 32%*
BWN rating: 4 (i.e. at or within 2 standard deviations above base rate)
*Method of estimation: previously established base rate of women scientists in the field of neuroscience.
Craniofacial Neuroscience Virtual Symposium [program link]
Organisers:
Limor Avivi-Arber
Teresa Lever
Kazutaka Takahashi
Invited speakers gender ratio: 3 Women: 5 Men (38%)
Estimated base rate of women in the field: 29%*
BWN rating: 3 (i.e. within or at 1 standard deviation above base rate)
*Method of estimation: calculated by counting the total number of women among the unique PI names in a NIH RePORTER grant search using the keyword “craniofacial neuroscience”.
We have a few links to share with our BWN community in honour of Native American Heritage Month:
APA’s I am Psyched panel discussion featuring Dr. Marigold Linton – the first American Indian to earn a doctorate in psychology – and other prominent Native American psychologists. Watch the video here.
Women of Silicon Valley celebrates Native American folks in STEM and shares the stories of 18 scientists, technologists, and educators. Read the list here.
University of Arizona offers a 10-week summer internship introducing Native American students to biomedical research. Read about the experiences of the program director and the students here.
A free, online Native American Science Curriculum, funded by the National Science Foundation, that aim to bridge Western science perspectives with Indigenous philosophies and knowledge. View the materials here.
Saving the Brain: A Virtual Neuroscience Symposium [link]
Organisers:
Leslie Church (Conference Manager)
Gary Milgram (Conference Director)
Invited speakers gender ratio: 0 Women: 4 Men (0%)
Estimated base rate of women in the field: 32%*
BWN rating: 1 (i.e. at or within 2 standard deviations below base rate)
*Method of estimation: previously established base rate of women in neuroscience
This week’s BWN Friday Post brings you a newly published study by Weigard, Loviska, and Belz that rebukes the claim that women’s hormones causes emotional variance that are difficult to account for in experimental research — which has been a longstanding assumption behind why women are often excluded from research partcipation.
Read the full paper here.
Organisers:
Julian Heng, Nathalie Dehorter, Michael Piper, Kelly Glendining
Invited speakers gender ratio: 2 Women: 2 Men (50%)
Estimated base rate of women in the field: 39%*
BWN rating: 3 (i.e. within or at 1 standard deviation above base rate)
*Method of estimation: established base rate of women in the field of developmental neuroscience.
Canadian Symposium for Computational Neuroscience [link to conference page]
Organisers:
Aaron Gruber
Artur Luczak
Majid Mohajerani
Emma Towlson
Joern Davidsen
Wilten Nicola
Renée Dumas
Adam Luoma
Invited speakers gender ratio: 6 Women: 7 Men (46%)
Estimated base rate of women in the field: 26%*
BWN rating: 4 (i.e. at or within 2 standard deviations above base rate)
*Method of estimation: previously established base rate of women in the field of computational neuroscience.
sobr: 2021 Student Symposium [link to conference page]
Organisers:
Aleksandra Miljevic (Symposium Manager)
Chalystha Lee and Sadia Alvi (Events Team)
Invited speakers gender ratio: 3 Women: 2 Men (60%)
Estimated base rate of women in the field: 32%*
BWN rating: 4 (i.e. within 2 standard deviations above base rate)
*Method of estimation: previously established base rate of women in general field of neuroscience.
This week’s BWN Friday Post brings you a talk from the Center for Positive Organisations where Dolly Chugh, associate professor at NYU and author of The Person You Mean To Be, discusses how we can stand up for equality, diversity, and inclusion, and fight for what we believe in.
Watch the talk online here.
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