House Appropriations Committee Approves Increases to NSF Budget and Report Language

On May 22, the full House Appropriations Committee approved the fiscal year 2020 budget for Commerce, Justice, and Science. The final vote was 30 to 22 along partisan lines.

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AGENCY ACTIVITIES

IN HONOR OF

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• Chief of Psychology in the Public Interest  - APA (Posted April 25)
• 2019 Brain Awareness Video Contest (June 13)
• Training Institute for Dissemination and Implementation Research in Health (June 23)
• Building Capacity for Science Communication Partnership Awards (July 1)
• Kavli Civic Science Fellow

Attend

• Association for Psychological Science Annual Convention (May 23-26, Washington, DC)
• Board on Behavioral, Cognitive, and Sensory Sciences (June 5-6, Washington, DC)
• 12th NIH Matilda White Riley Behavioral and Social Sciences Honors (June 6, Bethesda, MD)
• Behavioral Science in Policy & Application Annual Conference (June 14, New York, NY)
• How to Build Relationships with Lawmakers and Why It’s Important (June 26, Webinar)
• APA Technology, Mind, and Society Conference (Oct 3-5, Washington, DC)

Comment

• Proposed Priorities for the Institute of Education Sciences, Request for Comment (May 28)
• Seeking Stakeholder Input on the Need for an NIH Administrative Data Enclave, Request for Information (May 30)
• NIMH Request Input on Incorporating Development and Environment into the NIMH Research Domain Criteria (RDoC) Matrix, Request for Information (June 21)
• Accomplishments in Behavioral and Social Sciences Research, Request for Comment (July 31)

Funding

• NIH: Accelerating the Pace of Child Health Research Using Existing Data from the Adolescent Brain Cognitive Development (ABCD) Study (R21-Clinical Trial Not Allowed) (Open May 16)

Read

• "To meet the ‘Plan S’ open-access mandate, journals mull setting papers free at publication" - Science Magazine
• "A solution to psychology’s reproducibility problem just failed its first test" - Science Magazine
• "The National Institutes of Health (NIH): Background and Congressional Issues" - Congressional Research Service
• Benchmarks 2019: Second Place America? Increasing Challenges to US Scientific Leadership - Task Force on American Innovation
• How Psychosocial Research Can Help the National Institute of Mental Health Achieve Its Grand Challenge to Reduce the Burden of Mental Illnesses and Psychological Disorders -American Psychologist
• Reproducibility and Replicability in Science, Recommends Ways to Improve Transparency and Rigor in Research - NAS Report

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• The Decision Lab
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• Society for Behavioral Neuroendocrinology Annual Meeting (June 19-22, Bloomington, Indiana)
• Society for the Psychological Study of Social Issues Summer Conference (June 21-23, San Diego, California)
• Society of Text and Discourse Annual Meeting (July 9-11, New York, New York)

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