[BBC] SUBCONSCIOUS? BIAS Re: [igmm-dm] [igmm-users] Genome Science, Liverpool, 30th August - 1st September 2016

[Yves Moreau]

Dear Prof. van Heyningen,

I personally feel that the tone of these remarks is not appropriate. Even though the organizer was mistaken in his formulation, this is no reason for public shaming and veiled threats. Given that civility is quickly abandoning public discourse, we must strive for kind and respectful interactions.

I apologize to the readers for feeding this thread and I will refrain from commenting further.

Best regards,

Prof. Yves Moreau



> On 26 Jul 2016, at 17:19, VAN HEYNINGEN Veronica <veronica.vanheyningen at igmm.ed.ac.uk> wrote:
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> Dear Organisers
> Looks like an interesting meeting. Why do you send an email advertising it with just eight male speakers highlighted. I looked on the website and there are a number of women speakers too. This attitude is offensive and off-putting for many scientists and people in general. I decided not to tweet about it, but perhaps I should to make you think more carefully next time. You could even make some amends by sending out a new email and pointing out your initial unthinking bias.
> Veronica
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> On 26 Jul 2016, at 08:56, Bert Overduin <Bert.Overduin at ed.ac.uk <mailto:Bert.Overduin at ed.ac.uk>> wrote:
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>> Forwarding on behalf of Mick Watson:
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>> Dear All
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>> I’m delighted to invite you to a conference I help organise every year, Genome Science, with speakers who use the latest genomic technologies to tackle problems from across the life sciences:
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>> Genome Science 2016 http://genomescience.org.uk/ <http://genomescience.org.uk/>, Liverpool, 30th August - 1st September 2016
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>> We have sessions on:
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>> Bioinformatics and Computational genomics
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>> Clinical and translational genomics
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>> Environmental genomics
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>> Developmental biology
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>> Genome engineering and synthetic biology (NEW this year)
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>> Microbial genomics
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>> New Technologies, incl. highlight single cell genomics
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>> Plant and animal genomics
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>> Vendor sessions
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>> Science Communication
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>> Career development/opportunities
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>> Speakers include:
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>> Ed Yong, Science Communicator and author recent book “I contain multitudes” (http://tinyurl.com/zk6qaw3 <http://tinyurl.com/zk6qaw3>)
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>> Dr Kosuke Yusa, Sanger, Genome Engineering
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>> Dr Jack Gilbert, Argonne National Laboratory, Microbiome
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>> Dr Jose Clemente, Mount Sinai
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>> Dr David Aanensen, Sanger, Pathogen Surveillanece
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>> Prof Allan Downie, John Innes, Ash Dieback
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>> Our very own Jeffrey Schoenebeck!
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>> Michael Baym, Harvard, Systems Biology
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>> And many many more!
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>> I look forward to seeing you there!
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>> Cheers
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>> Mick
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