FABBS Member Societies:
 
Below are some announcements that may be of interest to your membership (with links for further information). Rather than circulating multiple announcements to you, I will collect these and send them periodically (perhaps once every week or so, noting the urgency with which some need to be sent). This will be in addition to the advocacy updates.
 
 
Cordially,
Paula Skedsvold
Executive Director
Federation of Associations in Behavioral
  & Brain Sciences (FABBS)

Announcements
 
1.     Sequestration Will Deal A Devastating Blow To Medical Research – State-by-State Impact (2/25/2013) 
The Federation of American Societies for Experimental Biology (FASEB) released an updated analysis projecting the state-by-state impact of the sequestration cuts to the National Institutes of Health (NIH). The FASEB analysis shows what the NIH cuts could mean for each state if research grant and contract award budgets were cut by 5.1 percent. These are conservative estimates of the impact. FASEB State-by-State Impact

2.     What You Need To Know About The Sequester (2013)
The White House is collecting personal stories about the impact of budget cuts due to sequester. If individuals have high-impact stories to share about having to lay off junior scientists or other staff, please share them. Also, remember to mention the relevance of the research and why losing the next generation will harm science. Send a copy to the FABBS Executive Director at: pskedsvold@fabbs.org so that we can tell these stories during our Hill visits. Here's the site: Share Your Stories on the Sequester

 

3.     Dear Colleague Letter - Accelerating Integrative Research in Neuroscience and Cognitive Science (AIR-NCS) (3/4/13) 

The National Science Foundation seeks proposals with the potential to transform neuroscience and cognitive science. We invite proposals that accelerate new integrative research across disciplines and across spatial and temporal scales of analysis in cognitive science and neuroscience. Such approaches will enhance our understanding of how the brain regulates the individual's biology, processes complex social and physical cues, and allows organisms to behave in and adapt to changing environments. View Letter

4.     Short-term Mentored Career Enhancement Awards in the Basic Behavioral and Social Sciences:  Cross-Training at the Intersection of Animal Models and Human Investigation (K18) (3/1/13)
This funding opportunity announcement (FOA), issued by the NIH Basic Behavioral & Social Science Opportunity Network (OppNet), invites applications for short-term mentored career enhancement (K18) awards in basic behavioral and social sciences research (b-BSSR).  This funding mechanism will support development of research capability in b-BSSR, with specific emphasis on cross-training and establishing collaborations between researchers with expertise in animal models of basic behavioral and social processes and those studying similar or related processes in human subjects.  Basic research using any non-human species or with human subjects in laboratory- or field-based settings is appropriate for this FOA More Information

5.     Request for Information (RFI): NIDA Dissemination and Implementation Priority Areas (3/1/2013)
The National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA), part of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), seeks comments from a broad range of stakeholders on the research and information needed to support the widespread use of evidence-based drug abuse treatment interventions and practices.  Input is sought from practitioners and administrators serving individuals with substance use disorders, including those working in general medical and primary care; infectious disease (e.g., HIV and HCV); criminal justice; and specialty care substance abuse and mental health settings.  More Information
 6.     Dear Colleague Letter: FY 2013 Career-Life Balance (CLB)-Faculty Early Career Development Program (CAREER) Supplemental Funding Requests (3/11/2013)
Instituted in 2012, NSF’s Career-Life Balance (CLB) Initiative is an ambitious, ten-year initiative that will build on the best of family-friendly practices among individual NSF programs to expand them to activities NSF-wide.  This agency-level approach will help attract, retain, and advance graduate students, postdoctoral students, and early-career researchers in STEM fields. The purpose of this DCL is to announce the continuation of the supplemental funding opportunity initiated in FY 2012 for PIs supported in the CAREER program.  CAREER Principal Investigators (PIs) are invited to submit supplemental funding requests to support additional personnel (e.g., research technicians or equivalent) to sustain research when the PI is on family leave.   More Information  7.  The NIH Director's Biomedical Research Workforce Innovation Award: Broadening Experiences in Scientific Training (BEST) (DP7) (3/4/2013)The purpose of this FOA is to seek, identify and support bold and innovative approaches to braoden graduate and postdoctoral training, such that training programs reflect the range of career options that trainees (regardless of funding source) ultimaely may pursue and that are required for a robust biomedical, behavioral, social and clinical research enterpreise. Collaborations with non-acaemic partners are encouraged to ensure that experts from a broad spectrum of research and research-related careers contribute to coursewoek, rotations, internships or other forms of exposure. More Information