The Tree of Life: 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

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.

2 comments:

Unknown12/04/2015 1:55 AM
Hi Jonathan, Love your blog and the YAMMM series in particular. I just got sent an add for a conference in Berlin next year, Innovative Genomics Summit where 12 speakers were announced, all male (women are not innovative as you know). I complained and they promptly added 2 speakers, 1 female and 1 male. I was glad they reacted (although a 1:13 ratio is not good) but I wonder whose complaint they were adressing when the added yet another male speaker. Can send you the ads If you are intrested.
Reg.
Auður

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