Who Asks Questions at Research Talks in the UK Astronomy Community?
This past summer I was on the Local Organising Committee for the UK National Astronomy Meeting, held in Portsmouth. In the run up to that I heard about this interesting project lead by James Davenport, tracking the gender of astronomers who asked questions at the American Astronomical Society meeting in Jan 2014 . I ended up discussing this via a Twitter conversation with Jonathan Pritchard ( @jr_pritchard ) and we decided running the same experiment at NAM would be really interesting. After getting permission from the LOC, RAS and some help from James Davenport setting up the data collection web form we were ready to go. The first ever NAM Hack Day gave the project a kick start and collected some other co-authors. I'm delighted to be able to say that the results it was published in A&G this month ( we plan to get it on the arxiv soon, and for now you can download the pdf here download from the arxiv here). As you'll see we got a great response to the call for data col...