September 8, 2022

OSTP Issues New Guidance for Public Access to Federally Funded Research 

The Biden administration issued apress releaseandmemoproviding guidance to federal agencies to make research freely available, without an embargo. Along with the memo, OSTP published an analysis document -“Economic Landscape of Federal Public Access Policy.”FABBS supports the concepts of open science and is actively engaged with the administration to help navigate the complexity of advancing these goals with maintaining the rigor, inclusivity, and sustainability of the scientific infrastructure.Read more »

Congress Returns to DC for Fall Legislative Season

Following a remarkably eventful August, during which Congress passed both the CHIPS and Science Act and the Inflation Reduction Act, members of Congress will be eager to wrap up work on the fiscal year 2023 budget — almost certain to be a continuing resolution—in order to return to their districts to campaign for the November election.Read more »

The mission of the Government Accountability Office (GAO) is to provide Congress, heads of executive agencies, and the public with timely information that can be used to improve government and save taxpayers billions of dollars. FABBS tracks GAO reports relevant to federal agencies funding behavioral and brain research. This past summer, GAO issued three reports of interest to FABBS members.Read more»

FABBS Responds to NINDS RFI to Advance Fundamental Neuroscience

With thanks to several of our societies including Cognitive Science Society, Cognitive Neuroscience Society, and Flux Society,FABBS respondedto questions posed in the NINDSRequest for Information (RFI) on Advancing Research in Fundamental Neuroscience (FN). This RFI sought input from the scientific community regarding the opportunities and obstacles for FN research to accelerate our understanding of the normal development, structure, and function of nervous systems.

Call for Nominations: FABBS IDEA Awards

FABBS is excited to announce the Inclusion, Diversity, Equity, and Accessibility (IDEA) Awards, to recognize distinguished research, professional practice, and activities (such as mentorship), that advance these principles in the behavioral and brain sciences. One IDEA Award will be given for each of the two categories: senior scholar and early to mid-career (within 15 years post-PhD). The deadline to submit nominations is October 15, 2022. Read more on the nomination form »

Attend

• National Advisory Child Health & Human Development (NACHHD) Council(Sep 12-13)
• APA Science Training Sessions(Multiple Sessions, Sept 15 through Oct 11)
• NASEM The Future is Now: Advancing and Sustaining an Equity-Oriented Science(Sep 20)
• NIH BRAIN Initiative: Brain Behavior Quantification and Synchronization (BBQS) Pre-application Information and Technical Assistance Webinar (Sep 22)
• NASEM 2022 Henry and Bryna David Lecture by Dr. Shirley Malcom, Senior Advisor to the CEO and Director of the SEA Change initiative at the American Association for the Advancement of Science - Where Science and Society Meet(Oct 12)
• NICHD 60th Anniversary Symposium: Healthy Pregnancies. Healthy Children. Healthy and Optimal Lives(Oct 17)

Apply and Comment

• NSF Nominations for the 2023 Alan T Waterman Award(Sep 16)
• NSF Call for Deputy Assistant Director, Directorate for Social, Behavioral and Economic Sciences(Closing Sep 30)
• 2023-2024 AAAS Science and Technology Policy Fellowship Application(Nov 1)
• NICHD RFI: Future Research Needs and Infrastructure Support for Newborn Screening Research(Nov 4)

Funding

• WT Grant Foundationand NSF:Improving the Use of Research Evidence-Institutional Challenge Grant(Sep 14);Youth Service Capacity-Building Grants(Sep 14)
• NIDA-REI:Neurocognitive Mechanisms Underlying the Impact of Structural Racism on the Substance Use Trajectory(Nov 14);Research at Minority Serving Institutions on Neurocognitive Mechanisms Underlying the Impact of Structural Racism on the Substance Use Trajectory(Nov 14)
• NIH Brain Initiative:Advanced Postdoctoral Career Transition Award to Promote Diversity(Nov 12);Ruth L. Kirschstein National Research Service Award (NRSA) Individual Postdoctoral Fellowship (Dec 10);Brain Behavior Quantification and Synchronization(Jan 2023)
• NSF:Research Experiences for Undergraduates Sites: Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences(Ongoing)
• Social Science Research Council (SSRC):The Mercury Project: Call for Proposals - Investigating the Impacts of Health Misinformation and Evaluating Interventions to Prevent its Spread(rolling deadline)
• The Network for Emotional Well-being (Funded by NIH):Request for Proposals for Emotional Well-being and Data Analysis Award(Nov 11);Request for Proposals: Connecting Emotional Well-being Interventions to Health Outcomes(TBA)

Share

• Infusing Human Behavior into Epidemiological Models is the Focus of New NSF-supported Research Projects
• NIH OBSSR Director's Voice Blog: Career Opportunities at NIH for Behavioral and Social Scientists: Serving as a Program or Scientific Review Officer
• NICHD Director's Corner: Preventing Gun Violence, the Leading Cause of Childhood Death
• Building equitable access and inclusion for children growing up in the digital age (PIBBS video abstract)
• Impact of Public Health Guidance is Focus of New NSF Partnership with Social Science Research Council

FABBS Resources

• Policy Insights from the Behavioral and Brain Sciences, Vol 9, Issue1
• Public Scholarship Toolkit
• Science Advocacy 101: Realizing the Benefits, Overcoming the Challenges
• Psychology in the Real World FABBS Video Series
• FABBS Teaching Resources-PIBBS Course Compendium

Upcoming Member Society Meetings

• Society for Research in Psychopathology(Philadelphia, Sep 8–11)
• Society for Psychophysiological Research(Vancouver, Sep 28–Oct 2)
• Society of Multivariate Experimental Psychology(California, Oct 12–15)

FABBS News Highlights is a bi-weekly electronic newsletter published by the Federation of Associations in Behavioral and Brain Sciences with the goals of keeping scientists updated on federal budget and policy issues affecting the sciences of mind, brain, and behavior; recognizing the research contributions of leading scientists; and sharing research findings to inform policies and programs.

Editor: Juliane Baron

Contributors:Jaclyn Sadiua

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