Organiser: KongFatt Wong-Lin
Invited speakers gender ratio: 5 Women: 13 Men (30%)
Estimated base rate of women in the field: 26%*
BWN rating: 3 (1 standard deviation at or above base rate)
*Method of estimation: previously established base rate of women in the field of computational neuroscience
This week’s BWN Friday Post brings you a Nature article by Clare Watson, discussing gender bias in top science awards.
Read the full article here.
BWN also tracks the percentage of women scientists who are awarded neuroscience awards. You can view the visualisation here (2021 release will be posted soon).
BI2021: The 14th International Conference on Brain Informatics
Organisers (Chairs):
Mufti Mahmud
M Shamim Kaiser
Stefano Vassanelli
Qionghai Dai
Ning Zhong
Yang Yang
Invited speakers gender ratio: 0 Women: 8 Men (0%)
Estimated base rate of women in the field: 26%*
BWN rating: 1
*Method of estimation: previously established base rate of women in computational neuroscience field
WorldWideNeuRise Seminar Series: Predictive Processing
Organisers:
Bill Podlaski, Christina Beutfering, Ellen Boven, Gily Ginosar, Joram Keijser, Loreen Hertag, & Lucie Descamps
Invited speaker gender ratio: 4 Women: 4 Men (50%)
Estimated base rate of women in the field: 45%*
BWN rating: 3
*Method of estimation: previously estimated base rate of women in the field of cognitive neuroscience.
This week’s BWN Friday Post highlights 6 short talks from the 2021 APS Virtual Convention on the topic of combating stereotypes and bias, given by students and early-career researchers.
Read (or watch) more here.
Human Brain Project Summit 2021: Scientific Conference on Brain Research
Organisers (Program committee members):
Pawel Swieboda, Katrin Amunts, Lars Kluver, Jan Bjaalie, France Nivelle, Sabine Ruland, Patricia Carvajal, Lisa Otten, Roman Volchenkov
Invited speaker gender ratio: 17 Women: 27 Men (39%)
Estimated base rate of women in the field: 43%
BWN rating: 2
*Method of estimation: previously established base rate of women in the field of neuroscience.
This week’s BWN Friday Post brings you a Nature article by Alice Popejoy about the problems of having participants self-identify race and ethnicity using checkboxes.
Read the article here.
Organisers: Dan Nicolau & Ruairidh Battleday (Symposium Chairs)
Invited speaker gender ratio: 0 Women: 4 Men (0%)
Estimated base rate of women in the field: 25%*
BWN rating: 1
*Method of estimation: previously established base rate of women in the field of computational neuroscience.
The Brain Conference 2021: RNA Mechanisms and Brain Disease
Organisers: Erin Schuman & Giovanna Malluci (Co-Chairs)
Invited speaker ratio: 7 Women: 13 Men (35%)
Estimated base rate of women in the field: 33%*
BWN rating: 3
*Method of estimation: previously established base rate of women in molecular neuroscience.
This week, we bring you an article by Tiziana Metitieri and Sonia Mele who takes us through time; from the stories of pioneer women neuroscientists, to outlining the initiatives that are in place to raise awareness of existing gender bias, to highlighting the work that still needs to be done.
Read the full article here.
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