NSF Releases Two Important Comment Opportunities, NSB and SBE Advisory Committee Meet
December 16, 2020
NSF RFIs
The National Science Foundation (NSF) recently released a Dear Colleague Letter on Interdisciplinary Frontiers of Understanding the Brain. The Request for Information (RFI) invites responses to the two prompts below. Responses to this RFI will inform …
President Trump Appoints Eight Members to NBES
December 15, 2020
After years of inaction, and one month before his term expires, Donald Trump appointed eight members to the National Board of Education Sciences. NBES provides guidance to the director of the Institute for Education Sciences (IES), the …
NIH Taking Steps to Build a Better System for BESH Registration and Reporting
December 15, 2020
The National Library of Medicine (NLM), the unit at the National Institutes of Health (NIH) that oversees the ClinicalTrials.gov database, hosted a webinar on December 7th to update the research community. NLM staff have conducted an analysis …
NSF Releases Two Dear Colleague Letters, Opportunities for FABBS Scientists
November 12, 2020
Earlier this month, the National Science Foundation (NSF) released a Dear Colleague Letter: Strengthening American Infrastructure (SAI). This is an important opportunity for FABBS members as NSF is particularly interested in proposals that integrate a deep understanding …
FABBS Sponsors NASEM Study and Offers Webinar Series on Data Standards; NIH Releases Final Policy for Data Management
November 5, 2020
FABBS is pleased to lend our support and sponsor a consensus study by the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine (NASEM) on Accelerating Behavioral Science Through Ontology Development and Use. NASEM defines ontologies as systematic classification …
FABBS Cohosted NASEM Event: “Responding to COVID-19: Emerging Insights from Social, Behavioral and Economic Sciences”
October 22, 2020
FABBS cosponsored this National Academies of Sciences event on October 9th, along with the American Academy of Political and Social Sciences, the Consortium of Social Science Associations, and SAGE Publishing. The symposium brought together behavioral and social …
