RuCCS/Psychology Computational Neuroscience Conference: Computation, Cognition and the Brain
Organizers: Randy Gallistel, Brian McLaughlin, Dimitri Metaxas, Sara Pixley, and David Vicario
Speaker gender ratio: 3 Women : 11 Men (21%)
Estimated* base rate of women in the field: 17-20%
*Method of estimation: Previously established base rate of women in computational neuroscience.
Organizers: see here
Invited speaker gender ratio: 11 Women : 11 Men (50%)
Estimated* base rate of women in the field: 39%
*Method of estimation: previously established base rate of women in neuroscience.
25th Joint Symposium on Neural Computation
Organizers: Thanos Siapas, Terry Sejnowski, Gert Cauwenberghs, Bartlett Mel, Jeff Krichmar, Tad Blair
Sponsors: see here
Invited speaker gender ratio: 1 Woman : 9 Men (10%)
Estimated* base rate of women in the field: 17-20%
*Method of estimation: Previously established base rate of women in computational neuroscience.
FENS Satellite Meeting on “Receptive Fields: Analysis, Models and Applications”
Sponsors: see here
Keynote speaker gender ratio: 2 Women : 6 Men (25%)
Estimated* base rate of women in the field: 16%
*Method of estimation: We searched NIH RePORTER with keyword Receptive AND Fields and then counted the ratio of women among the unique researchers in all 4 pages of results using our python script.
Methods:
See our January 2018 Journal Watch post for details on methods. Beginning this month, we will also be excluding middle authors from contributed papers with over 100 authors.
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%.
Journal of Neuroscience
Volume 38, Issues 10 through 13
Excluding: This Week in The Journal, Editorial, Correction
First author gender ratio: 32 women : 44 men (42%)
Last/sole author gender ratio: 27 women : 53 men (34%)
Middle author gender ratio: 111 women : 187 men (37%)
All author gender ratio: 170 women : 284 men (37%)
Excluded: 0 last authors, 1 first author and 13 middle authors. 14 in total.
Neuron
Volume 97, Issue 5 and Issue 6
Excluding: Corrections, Obituary, middle authors of “Genome-wide Analyses Identify KIF5A as a Novel ALS Gene”
First author gender ratio: 9 women : 25 men (26%)
Last/sole author gender ratio: 6 women : 32 men (16%)
Middle author gender ratio: 64 women : 115 men (36%)
All author gender ratio: 79 women : 172 men (31%)
Excluded: 0 last authors, 2 first authors and 3 middle authors. 5 in total.
Nature Neuroscience
Volume 21, Issue 3
First author gender ratio: 7 women : 9 men (44%)
Last/sole author gender ratio: 5 women : 15 men (25%)
Middle author gender ratio: 51 women : 61 men (46%)
All author gender ratio: 63 women : 85 men (43%)
Excluded: 0 last authors, 2 first authors and 17 middle authors. 19 in total.
Transylvanian Experimental Neuroscience Summer School 2018
Organizers: Raul Mureşan, Adam Kampff & Florin Albeanu
Funders: see here
Lecturer gender ratio: 3 Women : 21 Men (13%)
Estimated* base rate of women in the field: 32%
*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.
Organizers: Jakob Macke, Bettina Schnell, Johannes Seelig, Marcel Oberlaender
Speaker gender ratio: 6 Women : 12 Men (33%)
Estimated* base rate of women in the field: 32%
*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.
PRNI 2018: 8th International Workshop on Pattern Recognition in Neuroimaging
Organizers: Annabel Chen, Cuntai Guan, Jong-Hwan Lee, Nitish V. Thakor
Sponsors: see here
Keynote speaker gender ratio: 2 Women : 3 Men (40%)
Estimated* base rate of women in the field: 33%
*Method of estimation: We searched NIH RePORTER with keyword Pattern AND recognition AND (neuroimaging OR MRI OR fMRI OR DTI OR EEG) and then counted the ratio of women among the unique researchers in all 5 pages of results using our python script.
Dynamics of learning and computations in neuronal circuits
Organizers: Rainer J. Engelken, Farzad Farkhooi, Jonathan Kadmon, Fred Wolf
Sponsors: Max Planck Institute for Dynamics and Self-Organization (MPI-DS) and Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG)
Speaker gender ratio: 5 women : 10 men (33%)
Estimated* base rate of women in the field: 17-20%
*Method of estimation: Previously established base rate of women in computational neuroscience.
The Cerebellum: Cells, Systems and Behaviour
Organizers: Narender Ramnani, Claire O’Callaghan and Josh Balsters
Sponsor: Guarantors of Brain
Speaker gender ratio: 6 Women : 7 Men (46%)
Estimated* base rate of women in the field: 33%
*Method of estimation: We searched NIH RePORTER with keyword Cerebellum and then counted the ratio of women among the unique researchers in all 28 pages of results using our python script.
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