Quantitative Approaches to Naturalistic Behaviors (PDF of Program)
Organizers: Bill Bialek, Stephanie Palmer and Sam Sober
Funder: The Swartz Foundation
Speaker gender ratio: 12 Women : 12 Men (50%)
Estimated* base rate of women in the field: 17-20%
*Method of estimation: Previously established base rate of women in computational neuroscience.
2019 Summer School in Social Neuroscience and Neuroeconomics
Organizers: Gregory Samanez-Larkin, Molly Crockett, Jamil Zaki and Kendra Seaman
Faculty gender ratio: 6 Women : 5 Men (55%)
Estimated* base rate of women in the field: 37-39%
*Method of estimation: previously established base rate of women in neuroeconomics.
OIST Computational Neuroscience Course 2019
Organizers: Erik De Schutter, Kenji Doya, Bernd Kuhn and Jeff Wickens
Lecturer gender ratio: 4 Women : 12 Men (25%)
Estimated* base rate of women in the field: 17-20%
*Method of estimation: Previously established base rate of women in computational neuroscience.
Organizers: Bernstein Center for Computational Neuroscience Göttingen (BCCN Göttingen)
Invited speaker gender ratio: 4 Women : 7 Men (36%)
Estimated* base rate of women in the field: 17-18%
*Method of estimation: Since the conference is advertised as “the largest annual Computational Neuroscience Conference in Europe” we used the base rate in the field of computational neuroscience as calculated from attendance at COSYNE 2016.
Sponsors: see here
Speaker* gender ratio: 4 Women : 4 Men (50%)
Estimated** base rate of women in the field: 32%
*Not including one pseudonymous speaker. Including a ninth speaker as either male or female, we get a ratio of either 44% or 56%.
**Method of estimation: previously established base rate of women in neuroscience.
***At the time of posting, there was an error in our base rate using Society for Neuroscience registration data; this has now been corrected.
31st Annual Barrels Meeting: Barrels XXXI
Methods:
See our January 2018 Journal Watch post for details on methods.
Base rates:
First authors are more likely to be graduate students or postdoctoral fellows. Using our calculations based on registration for the 2017 Annual Meeting of the Society for Neuroscience, 49% of graduate students and postdocs in neuroscience are women.
For last or sole authors we take the base rate to be 32%, the percentage of women faculty at the same meeting. We take the base rate for all authors to be the overall percentage of 43%.
Data:
Journal of Neuroscience
Volume 38, 40 through 44
Excluding: This Week in The Journal, Editorial, Correction
First author gender ratio: 35 women : 48 men (42%)
Last/sole author gender ratio: 30 women : 56 men (35%)
Middle author gender ratio: 156 women : 251 men (38%)
All author gender ratio: 221 women : 355 men (38%)
Excluded: 1 last author, 1 first authors and 14 middle authors. 16 in total.
Neuron
Volume 100, Issue 1 and Issue 2
Excluding: Corrections
First author gender ratio: 12 women : 21 men (36%)
Last/sole author gender ratio: 18 women : 21 men (46%)
Middle author gender ratio: 55 women : 149 men (27%)
All author gender ratio: 85 women : 191 men (31%)
Excluded: 0 last author, 1 first author and 7 middle authors. 8 in total.
Nature Neuroscience
Volume 21, Issue 10
Excluding: Corrections
First author gender ratio: 6 women : 15 men (29%)
Last/sole author gender ratio: 5 women : 17 men (23%)
Middle author gender ratio: 27 women : 73 men (27%)
All author gender ratio: 38 women : 105 men (27%)
Excluded: 0 last authors, 0 first authors and 1 middle author. 1 in total.
The 11th International Conference on Brain Informatics (BI’18)
Organizers: see here
Sponsors: see here
Keynote speaker gender ratio: 0 Women : 4 Men (0%)
Estimated* base rate of women in the field: 17-20%
*Method of estimation: Previously established base rate of women in computational neuroscience.
International Conference on Mathematical Neuroscience 2019
Sponsors: Carlsberg Foundation and Department of Mathematical Sciences, University of Copenhagen
Keynote speaker gender ratio: 1 Woman : 2 Men (33%)
Estimated* base rate of women in the field: 17-20%
*Method of estimation: Previously established base rate of women in computational neuroscience.
Fifth European Summer School on Computational and Mathematical Modeling of Cognition
Sponsors: see here
Faculty and speaker gender ratio: 1 Woman : 10 Men (9%)
Estimated* base rate of women in the field: 34%
*Method of estimation: We searched NIH RePORTER with keyword “cognitive psychology” AND (model OR modelling OR modeling OR mathematical) and then counted the ratio of women among the unique researchers in all 60 results found using our python script. Search originally performed in November 2017.
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