Organisers:
Jill McGaughy, Greg Carr, Rachel Navarra, and Susan Sangha
Invited speakers gender ratio: 0 Women: 3 Men (0%)
Estimated base rate of women in the field: 32%*
BWN rating: 1 (i.e. within 2 standard deviations below base rate)
*Method of estimation: compared against base rate of women in general field of neuroscience.
This week’s BWN Friday Post shines a spotlight BiasWatchIndia. We are happy to see BiasWatchNeuro inspiring similar, but independent, initiatives in other fields and countries.
Led by Vaishnavi Ananthanarayanan and Shruti Muralidhar, the team at BiasWatchIndia aims to document gender representation and combat gender-biased panels in Indian conferences, meetings, and talks in the STEM field.
Organisers:
Anne-Sophie Dubarry
Clement Francois
Maximilien Chaumon
Deirdre Bolger
Manuel Mercier
Adrien Schramm
Invited speakers gender ratio: 10 Women: 14 Men (42%)
Estimated base rate of women in the field: 34%*
BWN rating: 3 (i.e. within 1 standard deviation above base rate)
*Method of estimation: estimated base rate of women engaging in EEG research.
Organiser (Scientific Programme Chair):
Andreas Reif
Invited speakers gender ratio: 2 Women: 5 Men (29%)
Estimated base rate of women in the field: 43%*
BWN rating: 2 (i.e. at or within 1 standard deviation below base rate)
*Method of estimation: previously established base rate of women in the field of neuroscience.
This week’s BWN Friday Post brings you a newly published study by Vásárhelyi, Zakhlebin, Milojević, and Horvát (2021) examining gender imbalances in visibility and dissemination of research:
Our large-scale analyses, encompassing half a million scholars, revealed that female scholars’ work is mentioned less frequently than male scholars’ work in all research areas. (p.1)
Read the full article here.
Reference:
Vásárhelyi, O., Zakhlebin, I., Milojević, S., & Horvát, E. Á. (2021). Gender inequities in the online dissemination of scholars’ work. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 118(39), e2102945118. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2102945118
Human Brains: Conversations (virtual seminars; 30 September 2021 to 14 April 2022)
Organisers:
Jubin Abutalebi, Massimo Cacciari, Ciancarlo Comi, Viviana Kasam, Udo Kittelmann, Andrea Moro, Daniela Perani, Letizia Leocani
Invited speakers gender ratio: 4 Women: 10 Men (29%)
Estimated base rate of women in the field: 43%*
BWN rating: 1 (i.e. 2 standard deviations below base rate)
*Method of estimation: established base rate of women in field of general neuroscience.
Conference on Precision Psychiatry — The Promise of Precision Prediction, Prevention and Treatment in Mental Health (virtual; September 30-October 1, 2021)
Organisers:
Karmel Choi, Lee Cohen, Maurizio Fava, Amy Fitzpatrick, Robbie Mealer, Andy Nierenberg, Matt Nock, Roy Perlis, Jordan Smoller, Sabine Wilhelm
Invited speakers gender ratio: 9 Women: 14 Men (39%)
Estimated base rate of women in the field: 47%*
BWN rating: 2 (i.e. within 1 standard deviation below base rate)
*Method of estimation: base rate of women in field of precision psychiatry.
Riken Center for Brain Science: 2021 Brain Science Training Program
Organisers:
Andrea Benucci and Motomasa Tanaka
Invited speakers gender ratio: 7 Women: 24 Men (23%)
Estimated base rate of women in the field: 32%*
BWN rating: 1 (within 2 standard deviations below base rate)
*Method of estimation: previously established base rate of women faculty members in general neuroscience.
This week’s BWN Friday Post is in honour of Hispanic Heritage Month and showcases Dr. Debbie Guerrero-Given from the Max Planck Florida Institute for Neuroscience.
Read the full story here.
Junior Scientist Workshop on Mechanistic Cognitive Neuroscience
Organisers:
Gabriela Michel, Gowan Tervo, Michael Reiser, Emily Dennis, Josh Dudman, Vanessa Ruta, and Vivek Jayaraman
Invited speakers gender ratio: 3 Women: 4 Men (43%)
Estimated base rate of women in the field: 45%*
BWN rating: 2 (within 1 standard deviation below base rate)
*Method of estimation: previously established base rate of women in cognitive neuroscience.
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