STEM Diversity

Diversity in science is an important issue for many reasons.  I am collecting here my own writing on the topic as well as some other posts and articles of interest.

Here are some posts of mine about this topic:

• Conferences w/ poor gender ratios
• February 26, 2019 A conference where all the speakers are women - happening this week #YAMMM #manels #STEMDiversity #GenderBias
• November 29, 2018 YAMMMM: Yet Another Mostly Male Microbiome Meeting - Gut Microbiota for Health World Summit 2019
• March 19, 2018 YAMMMM: Yet another mostly male microbiome meeting - Microbiome Therapeutics Europe Meeting
• March 15, 2018 YAMMMM - Yet another mostly male microbiome meeting - 2018 Translational Microbiome Conference
• March 9, 2018 Frustrated by YAMMMMs: Yet another mostly male microbiome meeting
• October 30, 2017 YAMMM alert: Yet another mostly male meeting - Frontiers in Microscopy at Janelia Farm
• July 24, 2017 Another white men's microbiome meeting from Kisaco #YAMMM #manel #STEMDiversity
• A gloomy day at the #UCDavis Genome Center Halloween Symposium - a model for a #manel #yammm
• October 17, 2016. No - #FFS - no - I will not speak at your meeting given the lack of diversity of speakers
• October 6, 2016. The White Men's Microbiome Congress #YAMMM #Manel #Boycott
• September 13, 2016. No thanks Precision Medicine #PMWC2017 - I don't want to go to your $&*@(#@( #manel #yammm #biased meeting
• September 3, 2016. Congratulations SynbioBeta #SBBSF16 - you are having a #YAMMMy #manel  
• April 21, 2016. UC Davis Storer Lecture series - since 1963 87% of speakers are male
• April 13, 2016. A #YAMMMY #manel brought to you by #UCSF #QB3 "Medical Devices Reimagined"
• March 30, 2016. If you want to go to a #manel or a #YAMMM check out Cold Spring Harbor Asia meetings - where men get to speak about stuff
• January 14, 2016: Rule #1: Don't ever emulate @lifesciadvisors - #everydaysexism
• January 14, 2016: #YAMMM Alert: NGS Data Analysis & Informatics (Yet Another Mostly Male Meeting)
• Dec 2, 2015: Next-Gen Immunology: Yet Another Mostly Male Meeting #YAMMM (hosted by @WeizmannScience sponsored by EMBO)
• Nov 8, 2015: BigDat 2016 where men (and only men) will teach you about big data #YAOMM
• Oct 13, 2015: Genome Engineering #GESB16 in Gent - for Men Only #YAMMM
• July 15, 2015: Medical Informatics World Conference - bringing you men, men and more men
• July 3, 2015: Yet another mostly male meeting (YAMMM) from Cold Spring Harbor
• July 2, 2015: Kudos to California Academy of Sciences for Responding (Well) to Gender Bias Issue at Meeting They Are Hosting
• June 26, 2015. Cold Spring Harbor presents the men's only view on the evolution of sequencing
• June 5, 2015. Guest post on Yet Another Mostly Male Meeting (YAMMM) - Programming for Biology
• May 13, 2015 Time to boycott Oxford Global meetings due to blatant sexism
• May 11, 2015. Cell Symposia have a problem with gender balance of speakers
• April 1, 2015. Four simple tools to promote gender balance at conferences - guest post from Julie Pfeiffer @jkpfeiff
• March 29, 2015 Calling attention to meetings with skewed speaker gender ratios, even when it hurts, part 2
• March 25, 2015. Calling attention to poor speaker gender ratio - even when it hurts
• March 5, 2015 Today's YAMMM - The British Society for Plant Pathology
• February 25, 2015: Today's all male genomics meeting brought to you by Oxford Nanopores
• February 19, 2014: Oxford Global Sequencing Meetings: Where MEN Tell You About Sequencing #YAMMM
• February 9, 2015: Another "Yet another mostly male meeting (YAMMM)" from BGI
• December 18, 2014: Great idea from Nicole King - Lists of Women Speakers - more examples wanted
• November 21, 2014: Repeated, extremely biased ratio of M:F at meetings from SFB 680 "Evolutionary Innovations" group #YAMMM
• October 27, 2014: Some suggestions for having diverse speakers at meetings
• October 24, 2014. Apparently, the National Academy of Sciences thinks only one sex is qualified to talk about alternatives to sex #YAMMM
• Sept. 29 2014: Personalized Medicine World Conference 2015: 55 speakers 7 of which are women #YAMMM #StemWomen
• Sept. 24, 2014: #YAMMM Alert: Drug Discovery and Therapy World Congress, a meeting made for @realDonaldTrump & other men
• Sept. 19, 2014: Don't forget to positively highlight meetings w/ "good" gender ratio of presenters
• Sept. 19, 2014: A distasteful & disgraceful "Are there limits to evolution?" meeting at the University of Cambridge #YAMMM
• Sept. 11, 2014: Kudos to Tedmed for the gender ratio of speakers for this year's event
• Sept. 09, 2104 International Symposium on Subsurface Microbiology - where men tell us about deep things
• Sept. 07, 2014: Story behind the paper: Bonnie Baxter on "A tale of salt and gender" #STEMWomen #Halophiles
• August 30, 2014: A tale of salt and gender: participation of women in halophile research
• August 29, 2014: Kudos to Dr. Roizen's Personalized, Preventive, & Integrative Medicine "Focus on Women's Health" Conference #NoMoreYAMMMs
• August 25, 2014: The Agricultural Bioscience International Conference #ABIC2014 run by @ABICFoundation: where you can hear lots of talks by men #YAMMM
• August 21, 2014: No Ovaries? Well this Ovarian Club Conference is For You (YAMMMs for everyone)
• August 21, 2014: Today's YAMMM (Yet another mostly male meeting): pharma-nutrition #PN2015
• August 15, 2014: Today's YAMMM (Yet Another Mostly Male Meeting) Brought to You by CIFAR & NAS
• July 21, 2014: Turning down an endowed lectureship because their gender ratio is too skewed towards males #WomenInSTEM
• May 22, 2014: Quick Post - Interview of me is up on the Story Exchange re: #WomenInSTEM especially at conferences
• May 02, 2014: What to do when you realize the meeting you are speaking at is a YAMMM (yet another mostly male meeting)?
• April 25, 2014: Today's wondering - why are so few of the speakers at "UC Drought Summit" women?
• April 16, 2014: Global Engage Plant Genomics Meeting - Bring Your Y Chromosome Because they Don't Take XX - Calling for a Boycott of this Group
• March 03, 2014: Another Mostly Male Meeting from UCSD- should be called "Food and Fuel for the 19th Century"
• January 26, 2014: Kudos to the DOE-JGI for organizing a genomics meeting w/ a good gender ratio - no kudos to BGI - yet again.
• August 22, 2013: YAMMGM - yet another mostly male genomics meeting (series): Plant Genomic Congresses by Global Engage
• August 1, 2013: Perhaps this meeting should be renamed "Of Microbiomes and Men" .... 
• July 28, 2013: Another genomics meeting featuring men men men and men: International Forum on "Genomics, Innovation and economic growth" 
• May 14, 2013: ICG Europe starts w/ "Omics & the future of man" & sticks to men the rest of the time
• May 10, 2013: YAMMGM: Yet another mostly male genomics meeting #2: Beyond the Genome 2013
• April 24, 2013: YAMMGM: Yet another mostly male genomics meeting
• September 22, 2012: Lake Arrowhead Microbial Genomes Meeting 2012 Speaker Gender Ratio #LAMG12
• November 23, 2012: A scientific study of gender bias in scientific conferences: new #PLoS One paper from #UCDavis
• September 11, 2012: Q-Bio conference in Hawaii, bring your surfboard & your Y chromosome b/c they don't take a XX
• August 29, 2012: Winner of the "genome conference speakers should be male" award ...
• August 24, 2012: "Genomics: the Power and the Promise" meeting - could be called "Men Studying Genomics" instead
• May 29, 2012: Diversity (of speakers, participants) at meetings: do something about it
• January 27, 2012: A conference where the speakers are all women?
• Other diversity related topics:
• March 19, 2018 Science Magazine publishes "opinion" piece targeting a specific student w/ sexist "critique" and then won't publicly discuss what happened or what they will do about it..
• February 03, 2018 FEBS Letters Blames Society and History for their Sexist Meeting ... #Boycott
• July 7, 2016. Agilent - where men are thought leaders
• April 21, 2016 American Academy of Arts and Sciences - where men choose men to be cheered
• January 30, 2016. Women in Science Summit at the California Academy of Sciences #sciwomen16 ...
• January 16, 2016. Rule #1: Don't ever emulate @lifesciadvisors #everydaysexism-.
• Oct 15, 2015: Wrap up of #WiSTEMspotlight: How Men Can BE Allies for Women in STEM: Bridging the Gender Gap.
• July 28, 2015: YAMMA - Yet Another Mostly Male Award - AAAS Public Engagement Award
• October 31, 2014: The flawed and offensive logic of "Academic Science Isn’t Sexist" in the @nytimes 
• August 14, 2014: An important read: Emma Pierson on gender and authorship position in science
• May 21, 2014: May 23 at #UCDavis - Wikipedia editathon about women in science and academia
• May 21, 2014 Not protesting this commencement address: Nancy Hopkins at BU on Gender Bias in STEM
• March 20, 2014 is Sexxing up your scientific journal OK? The Journal of Proteomics seems to think so
• Feb 16, 2014: STEM Women: How Men Can Help, w/ Professor Jonathan Eisen (hey, that's me)
• Jan 27, 2014: Some readings on Gender Disparities in Scientific Publishing
• March 11, 2013: Special issue on Women in Science (the field) in Nature (the journal) (articles appear to be freely available too)
• January 18, 2013: Crosspost from PLOS Biologue: Working to increase diversity of PLOS Biology Academic Editors and Advisory Board members
• December 1, 2012: Drexel Executive Leadership in Academic Technology and Engineering program fellowships
• Overselling genomics (and men) award #3 - Newsweek Magazine
• Draft post cleanup #19: Spam and biased spam at that
• UC Davis ADVANCE
• ADVANCE Blog Notes: Interesting article by Mary Ann Mason at Slate.Com "In the Ivory Tower, Men Only"
• ADVANCE Reading of the Day: Sylvia Earle, Women in Japan and the Gulf, Spaceflight 
• Re-reading this on "Why women leave academia and why universities should be worried"
• ADVANCE Journal Club: Developing Graduate Students of Color for the Professoriate in STEM 
• The Tree of Life: Trying to sort out all the STEM and STEM related 
• Symposium on ADVANCEing STEM Faculty at #UCDavis 4/25 1-4 PM
• The Tree of Life: Storified tweets from the #UCDavisADVANCE ...

Diversity and Inclusion Policies for Meetings

 ⚡️ “Diversity and Inclusion Policies for Conferences” 

Pycon Diversity Statement

Discover Cookbook

Other posts and articles of interest

• Diversity matters in planning journalism conferences by Steve Buttry
• show me the policy | cubist crystal by Jenny Martin
• Stop Agreeing To Be On All-Male Panels — Just Stop - Emily Peck the Huff Post.
• Increasing Diversity at Your Conference
• Promoting Gender Diversity at Conferences
• Encourage speaker diversity at synthetic biology conferences from Synberc 
• 6 Steps for Planning a Diverse Conference by Jessica Fleuti 
• White male lineup at medical meeting sparks 'public shaming' in STAT
• STEM Women: How Men Can Help, with Professor Jonathan Eisen ...
• Discussion of speaker diversity triggered by a #manel (Storify)
• Speaker gender balance at Society for the Neurobiology of Language conferences 2009–2015
• Countering gender bias at conferences Carrie Arnold in Science
• Ten Simple Rules to Achieve Conference Speaker Gender Balance by Jenny Martin 
• How to Add More Women Speakers to Your Meetings by Michelle Russell in PCMA Convene
• Welcoming Women at STEM Conferences – and Beyond - the StoryExchange 
• To Get More Female Conference Speakers - GenomeWeb
• Female Scientists Turn to Data to Fight Lack of Representation on Panels NY Times
• How likely is an all-male speakers list, statistically speaking? A mathematician weighs in.
• Don’t call me Karen, Cheryl, Nancy, Reshma, Cornelia, Caryn, Sharon, … call me “Doctor.”
• Why diversity and inclusion at conferences matter by REBECCA HAACKER, EMILY JACK-SCOTT, DEB MORRISON26 FEBRUARY 2020

Some references to Posts from this site:

• Where are the women speakers in the sciences? By Laura Booth.