FABBS News Highlights: October 27, 2022
Monday, November 28, 2022
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Posted by: Louis Shomette
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Dr. Arati Prabhakar, the newly confirmed Director of the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy, shared the aims of U.S. science and technology in her talk,
‘Achieving America’s Aspirations.’ Dr. Prabhakar identified “three shifts” needed to advance the benefits of science and technology and called out the importance of
the behavioral and social sciences to achieve these ambitious goals. Read more »
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The National Academies of Science, Engineering, and Medicine (NASEM) convened behavioral and social scientists, state and local decision makers, and non-profit organizations that support them to reflect on the effectiveness of the Society Experts Action Network and look ahead for new opportunities. SEAN, with support from the Social, Behavioral and Economic Sciences Directorate at the National Science Foundation, was stood up early in the COVID pandemic.Read more »
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NASEM also hosted the “Endless Frontier Symposium 2022: Research and Higher Education Institutions for the Next 75 Years," bringing together a diverse group of experts to discuss how leading research institutions must optimize their work to meet future complex challenges.Read more »
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The Administration released a national security memorandum intended
to prepare the U.S. to detect, respond to, and mitigate the consequences of the next large-scale viral or biological threat. The memo directs agencies to prioritize
biodefense and pandemic preparedness and provide further research and development of tools that would help expand the country’s early warning systems. Read more »
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FABBS joined sister scientific societies, AAAS, AERA, COPAFS, and COSSA, on community comments
urging the development of sexual orientation and gender identity (SOGI) indicators in response to the OSTP RFI on the Federal Evidence Agenda on LGBTQI+ Equity. The effort was led by Dr. Jon Freeman, Columbia University,
an active FABBS member.
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Congratulations to Dr. Brendan Johns, assistant professor at McGill University, on receiving the FABBS Early Career Impact Award, as nominated by the Society for Computation in Psychology (SCiP). Dr. Johns is pioneering new ways to use large-scale computational modeling to study past experiences related to cognitive processes in language to predict future behavior. His research is focused on uncovering language patterns to understand the role of context in two areas: lexical semantics, the study of word meaning, and lexical organization, how language is organized in the mind. Read more»
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FABBS is delighted to welcome theSociety of Behavioral Medicine
into the FABBS family. SBM is a nonprofit organization composed of researchers, clinicians, educators, industry professionals, and policymakers from more than 20 healthcare
disciplines. They focus on behavioral, psychosocial, environmental, and biomedical theory, knowledge, and interventions relevant to health and disease.
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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.
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