Matariki Winter School & Symposium on “Sex hormones and the brain”

Organizers: Birgit Derntl and Manfred Hallschmid
Sponsors: Rectorate of the University of Tübingen and Universitätsbund Tübingen e.V
Invited speaker gender ratio: 8 women : 3 men (73%)
Estimated* base rate of females in the field: 53%

*Method of estimation: We searched NIH RePORTER with keyword sex AND hormones AND (brain OR neuro) and then counted the ratio of women among the unique researchers in all 10 pages of results using our python script.

5th Baltic-Nordic School on Neuroinformatics (BNNI 2017)

Faculty gender ratio: 3 women : 6 men (33%)
Estimated* base rate of females in the field: 17%

*Method of estimation: We searched NIH RePORTER with keyword neuroinformatics and then counted the ratio of women among the unique researchers in all 29 results using our python script. This ratio from a small number of results conforms with our previously established base rate of women in computational neuroscience (17-20% at the time of writing.)

6th International Conference on Auditory Cortex (ICAC 2017)

RIKEN Brain Science Institute Seminar Series 2017

Current organizers: Joshua Johansen, Tomomi Shimogori, Hokto Kazama, Taro Toyoizumi, Adrian Moore
Invited speaker gender ratio: 2 Women : 5 Men (29%)
Estimated* base rate of females in the field: 24%

*Method of estimation: previously established base rate of women in neuroscience.
**This seminar series had only 3 female speakers out of over 50 speakers in years prior to 2016 (under different organizers), therefore this is an especially commendable improvement.

Bangor Social Robotics Workshop on The Emerging Social Neuroscience of Human-Robot Interaction

Organizers: Ruud Hortensius and Emily S. Cross
Sponsors: The European Research Council and the Experimental Psychology Society
Invited speaker gender ratio: 6 women : 5 men (55%)
Estimated* base rate of females in the field: 15-52%

*Method of estimation: Previously established base rate of women in cognitive neuroscience (37-52%). There is currently no base rate for the field of social robotics, but we have good reason to believe the cognitive neuroscience base rate is higher. In a previous post for a similar meeting (IEEE RO-MAN workshop on Neuroscience Methods in Human-Robot Interaction) we had found “the proportion of women faculty in CMU’s Robotics Institute is a mere 6.7% (although women make up 15% of the affiliated faculty of the institute and 19% of its postdoctoral fellows).”

Neurowissenschaftliche Nachwuchskonferenz Conference for Junior Neuroscientists (NeNa 2017)

Organizers (see here): Gizem Altan, Melanie Barth, Ian Chong, Helen Ditz, Abhilash Dwarakanath, Renee Hartig, Ann-Christin Kimmig, Harshad Panikkaveettil Ashraf, Michael Paolillo, Katrina Quinn, Florian Sandhäger, Lukas Ziegler
Sponsors: Graduate School of Neural and Behavioural Sciences / International Max Planck Research School Tübingen and the Centre for Integrative Neuroscience (CIN)
Keynote speaker gender ratio: 1 Woman : 1 Man (50%)
Estimated* base rate of women in the field: 24%

*Method of estimation: previously established base rate of women in neuroscience.