No - #FFS - no - I will not speak at your meeting given the lack of diversity of speakers

So a few days ago I got asked to do a paid speaking engagement for a meetingDear Dr. Eisen,I hope this email finds you well!We have a client that's interested in you speaking at their Autoimmune Conference in New York on March 24, 2017. Do you have a standard speaking fee/range that I can report back to my client?  If you're able to confirm your availability as well, that would be great!The audience would be primarily physicians. Your consideration is very much appreciated!Sincerely,Sounded nice - getting paid to go to New York. What could go wrong right?. Then I did some Googling to find out about the meeting. Found it - the Interdisciplinary Autoimmune Summit: http://joinias.com. And, as I do for all meeting invites these days, I looked at their speaker line up. For this years and previous years. And well, I was not impressed.A lot of men. Men men men and men. So I wrote backApologies for the delay.  Was on the traveling science roadshow for a while. My speaker fee depends on whether this is a for profit or non profit event, so I would need more details.  In addition, I usually ask that all speaker fees get donated to my lab rather than paid to me. However, I have another requirement for speaking at a meeting.  The meeting has to have a good representation of diversity for other speakers.  Unfortunately, in looking at the 2016 faculty for this conference http://joinias.com/faculty I am...

Source: The Tree of Life - October 16, 2016 Category: Microbiology Authors: Jonathan Eisen Source Type: blogs