Women in Science Summit at the California Academy of Sciences #sciwomen16

Collecting together information about the Women in Science summit that was at the California Academy of Sciences 1/28/16.  I was on one of the panels and live Tweeted the event as did an amazing collection of other people.

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Storifies of Tweets by Me

• Women in Science Summit at @calacademy 1/28/16 #SciWomen16 Part 1
• Women in Science Summit at @calacademy 1/28/16 #SciWomen16 Part 2

Some other information and write ups:

• Announcing the 2016 Women in Science Summit 
• Women in Science Summit on January 28 to spotlight diversity

Alberto Roca Storifies

• #SciWomen16 Women in Science Summit: Part 1
• #SciWomen16 Women in Science Summit: Part 2

Should we eliminate all mosquitoes from the planet?

Made a storify based on a discussion about a new Slate article:

Tony Rodriguez Illustration of Me for WiredUK

OK so I have not worn a tie in a very long time and I pretty much don't wear a lab coat too often either but I totally love this:

My illustration of Jonathan Eisen for Wired Magazine's UK edition is now in print. #editorialillustration #digitalillustration #illustration #wiredmagazine #tonyrodriguezillustration

A photo posted by Tony Rodriguez (@tonyrodriguezillustration) on Dec 30, 2015 at 8:50am PST

See the whole story here.

Rule #1: Don't ever emulate @lifesciadvisors - #everydaysexism

Cladistics Journal Drops Science for Dogma

Tandy Warnow at #UCDavis on species trees and gene trees

#YAMMM Alert: NGS Data Analysis & Informatics (Yet Another Mostly Male Meeting)

Just got this email:

Dear Jonathan, 

I hope this email finds you well. I came across your profile while doing some research on the NGS Data Analysis field and I would like to invite you and your team to the “NGS Data Analysis and Informatics Conference, 2016” which will be held on the 18^th and 19^th of February in San Diego, USA which I hope would be of your interest. I am glad to inform one of the conference sponsors (Illumina, Seven Bridges Genomics, and Molecular Health) has helped arrange a complimentary VIP pass for you. We have limited passes which are being offered for you and some other experts in US. 

We are holding these sponsored pass until the end of this week or till these passes are taken, whichever is the earliest. Request you to kindly confirm your participation at the earliest by replying to this email. Attached is the VIP pass.
Our conference link- http://www.mnmconferences.com/ngs-data-analysis-informatics-congress-usa.html 

I would be grateful if you can share the information with your colleagues if you are not the right person to contact. Let me know if you need any further information. 

Kind Regards, Mahvish Anwar Delegate Executive- Markets and Markets Conferences

So, I checked out the meeting and the gender ratio of speakers.  Not good:

4 and 16 were counted at NGS Data Analysis #NGS. Learn more at GenderAvenger Tally

No thanks, not interested in attending, even for free, a YAMMM (Yet Another Mostly Male Meeting).

Notes from Searching for Life meeting Dec 2015 #NewLife15

I helped organize this meeting that happened Dec 16-17 in Pacifica, CA. It was mainly organized by people from DOE-JGI and Global Viral. Officially titled "Exploring Diversity of Life."