FABBS works to advocate and promote the behavioral and brain sciences through a wide breadth of activities and avenues of action.
2025 Accomplishments
Snapshot:
- Emerged as a trusted space for information-sharing and support amidst sweeping federal changes
- Held a webinar for over 1,000 researchers whose grants were canceled, providing tips, information, and resources
- Successfully advocated for report language considerate of behavioral and brain sciences
2024 Accomplishments
Snapshot:
- Maintained advocacy efforts with four federal agencies: NSF, NIH, IES, and ARPA-H
- Hosted Friends of NIMH congressional briefing with the Congressional Neuroscience Caucus and Senator Amy Klobuchar (D-MN)
- Finalized a Behavioral Sciences Checklist, developed in consultation with the Office of Behavioral and Social Sciences Research (OBSSR), to guide ARPA-H Program Managers
2023 Accomplishments
Snapshot:
- Launched a new, refreshed website
- Facilitated multiple meetings with NSF leadership as co-chair of the Coalition for National Science Funding (CNSF)
- Successfully advocated for the addition of Developmental and Adolescent Psychology to the science, technology, engineering, or mathematics (STEM) designated degree programs
2022 Accomplishments
Snapshot:
- Passage of CHIPS and Science
- Launched FABBS IDEA Award
- Accomplished an 23 percent increase to the budget of the Office of Behavioral and Social Science Research at NIH
- Inaugural society of ALL4OS
2021 Accomplishments
- Offered a public scholarship webinar series and developed materials and resources
- Invited to engage on ARPA-H
- Expanded S-STEM eligibility to include the behavioral and social sciences
- Launched the Friends of NIMH
- Sponsored NASEM Consensus Study: Accelerating Science through Ontology Development and Use
2020 Accomplishments
- Worked with NLM to examine implications of considering behavioral science clinical trials
- Invited to serve as co chair of Coalition for National Science Funding
- Offered Data Standards for Behavioral and Brain Webinar Series and Access to Scientific Publications
2019 Accomplishments
- Congressional report language encouraged NICHD to invest in behavioral and social sciences
- FABBS Board Members presented to the BRAIN Initiatives
- PIBBS was a PROSE Award Finalist
- Released video series – Cognitive Science in the Real World
