Today I got this email, ostensibly from Keith Yamamoto, who I have interacted with a bit over the years, including in the writing of the NAS "New Biology" report.
So I decided to check out the meeting site. Precision Medicine World Conference. Hosted by Stanford and UCSF and Duke and Others. And also a "manel". Also known as a YAMMM (yet another mostly male meeting). A festival in fact of men. So so so many men listed as speakers. Here is my round up.
Just so sick of meetings like this. Apparently Keith Yamamoto and UCSF and Duke and Stanford and all the Sponsors endorse having a meeting where about 1 in 6 of the speakers are women. No thanks. Not interested. I am sure they can all make a litany of excuses. But I am so tired of hearing them. In the end the only way to get some of these groups to change their practices is to boycott their meetings. And to publicly discuss, with the sponsors and speakers and organizers, why their meeting is not OK.
UPDATE 1 - Some responses and discussion on Twitter
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