Kisaco Research - sponsoring YAMMMM - yet another mostly male microbiome meeting - again - not their first biased rodeo

Well, sadly, I am not shocked by this. Disappointed, yes. But not shocked. Just got an announcement sent to me for this meeting: Animal Microbiome USA 2019 | Kisaco ResearchHappening next week in Kansas City. Run by Kisaco Research. I have written about their propensity to have meetings where most of the speakers were white men previously. SeeAnother white men's microbiome meeting from Kisaco #YAMMM #manel #STEMDiversityThe White Men's Microbiome Congress #YAMMM #Manel #BoycottPeople from the company claimed they were going to do better in the future. And maybe they have for some meetings. But alas not for this one. By my estimate the speakers are ~ 85% male. 15% female. Grrr. Not good. Not representative of the field. Most likely some sort of implicit or explicit bias going on.   -------- This is from the "Tree of Life Blog" of Jonathan Eisen, an evolutionary biologist and Open Access advocate at the University of California, Davis. For short updates, follow me on Twitter. --------
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