The National Academy on Sciences, Engineering, Medicine conducts a two day workshop on Graduate Training in the Social and Behavioral Sciences to help identify educational changes that may be needed in order to better prepare PhD students in the social and behavioral sciences for the job market and scientific challenges of the future.
Find here information: Graduate Training
Please find below new announcements from FABBS with general news, summits and scholar programs.
The Human Ethology Lab at the Department of Experimental Psychology of the Institute of Psychology – University of São Paulo (São Paulo, Brazil) is seeking candidates interested in conducting research on the behavior of monozygotic and dyzigotic twins.
Please find here important funding news for FABBS Member Societies, such as BGA, and Friends:
Follow this link to find information on a Summerschool in Amsterdam about Twin Research and Human Genetics.
Please follow the link to find information on Jacob’s Fellowships.
BGA Executive Committee has co-signed the following NDD (non-defense discretionary) and FABBS open letters. These letters express concerns on scientific budget costs, and the impact that the recent Executive Order on Immigration in the US will have on science and scientific progress including research, training, innovation.
The Translation Neurogenomics Group focuses on genetic association studies of mental health traits, including schizophrenia, substance use disorders and obsessive-compulsive disorders. By researching a wide variety of symptoms that are typical of patients with a particular psychiatric condition, we can use newly developed statistical methods to discover associations between the condition and genetic variants.
For all researchers that work with human subjects from the USA (also in the context of consortia):The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) and fifteen other Federal Departments and Agencies have announced revisions to modernize, strengthen, and make more effective the Federal Policy for the Protection of Human Subjects that was originally promulgated as a Common Rule in 1991.