<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=us-ascii"></head><body style="overflow-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;"><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=us-ascii"><div style="overflow-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;"><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"><p><span style="caret-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><b><font color="#006d8f">Hello</font></b></span></p><p><font color="#006d8f"><b><span style="caret-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">I am forwarding a note from Juliane Baron, the Exec Director of FABBS - the Federation of Associations for Behavioral and Brain Sciences - one of our advocacy organizations in DC. </span></b></font></p><p><font color="#006d8f"><b><span style="caret-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">The </span><span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;">Social, Behavioral, and Economic Directorate</span><span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;"> (SBE) is the part of NSF most likely to fund our kind of </span><font face="arial, sans-serif">research.</font></b></font></p><p><font color="#006d8f"><b><font face="arial, sans-serif">Best</font></b></font></p><p><font color="#006d8f"><b><font face="arial, sans-serif">Jeremy Wolfe</font></b></font></p><div>======================</div><div dir="ltr"><div><div><font face="arial, sans-serif">Dear Colleagues,</font></div><div><font face="arial, sans-serif"><br></font></div><div><font face="arial, sans-serif">As many of you have no doubt heard, the <a href="https://secure-web.cisco.com/1LVKBwRgX5o0X2HMcMfMo1P1ZYc7R0phJYM33TgJsBimTBo572DkTwmxYaQqgi-IDtx8-3zne7ExSubsjXgCW-8zVaU1Gi7WgTdFzFuv_HBodMXWvglxIhJhaE-0zbaKPPSNGpVyfvGvREb98DEClVn9Lzm3AKd9Z_9n4xQ6usQuYC5vwPI8zsUuItJgTjm-fXGK8lLrxebUXsWAhGzozV7omybr67meD0-u6j_-WD4jdMkAYk0Db-G_4FWsqATtXzO9MRjm5zNqJaUUhi9mLv4nlhB3BGeYUcoXxIwv-EUGvbzczKwEPGcrThpOvvweyJXT5cBaGvid_xOTgu12dxfScERudEeJvYs3jsE05mJI/https%3A%2F%2Fwww.whitehouse.gov%2Fwp-content%2Fuploads%2F2026%2F04%2Fbudget_fy2027.pdf" target="_blank">President's budget request for FY27</a> recommends not only cutting the National Science Foundation (NSF) by nearly 55 percent (page <span class="Q6ibn ng" style="border-style:none;background:none">77),</span> it also zeros out funding for the Social, Behavioral, and Economic Directorate (<a href="https://secure-web.cisco.com/1lji5dGDX0XMpFZyFpYipluFnfa3bvWsITgb18rsIkQBGlm2XPdyCzJ3GK8grbaH2Bpu0fNHijPi404pqmeWaVqACKwhneYz8HtGuJiCCIFvxNZ8iuXX0YTkvgTvJ8GQQSTvAILp-kecEFiu52qJJfTOZC6x-JdOW_7Lc6UyPS-F2zfI49tx1DrC3xjncDFhPkrWeU-PCgljHYeTFVXMMmgf48pCiGjRqmm2hf6KPW3gn8_7ttvtyRvGrDoExljDAjrev2oAuwcT-Dvzid6zFW-63sXtfeQd3OH703adqe296D3oUgjb3e__nBHGD377mWgsxV8YEGs4ePG_JYo4XbLfHfgViZcZoNSWN8lDeo1I/https%3A%2F%2Fwww.whitehouse.gov%2Fwp-content%2Fuploads%2F2026%2F04%2Fnsf_fy2027.pdf" target="_blank">see budget appendix</a>). </font></div><div><font face="arial, sans-serif"><br></font></div><div><font face="arial, sans-serif">We are extremely concerned by reports that NSF plans to move forward with the dismantlement, independent of Congressional deliberations on the annual budget. See <a href="https://secure-web.cisco.com/1_m6mHe0O4HR0yR3h2fZZVNLiYIM3QVzb_8O1_KoagFc4OK6iJAPxJoFO6olPpGE1idF_qflE_wLHm1zGk368TrB-8i_Tcdb17v_zK-xPmW-vONlBHvs4iRFOiaS5vk-TJQBZit86-a_0Y5LCllxmOI0Z1vySSQrMBw8LgsUkKE76YNq4D4qGJE7a45vdt0IyLEd1f1kO3f4HN5-vMmLUDI8Z_FovN7VZ9BEHzFIiiWPnyJHTCUpV1BmTZlX-QAdouDNL2d4Pmqr04vklbwX-v4LhZgSS1cTtnHBCBPRsnmiyrCsPNsLWNplMieWy6vwJ_TidUm5cdTNDk6ZZpn46_u7d7WAV9Mzn73utH5yayfs/https%3A%2F%2Fwww.nature.com%2Farticles%2Fd41586-026-01105-7" target="_blank" style="">Nature</a> article.</font></div><div><div><font face="arial, sans-serif"><br></font></div></div><div><font face="arial, sans-serif">FABBS is in close contact with colleagues at NSF, congressional offices, and the broader scientific and academic communities. This consequential proposal directly contradicts Congressional guidance and is being advanced without a transparent or thoughtful evidence-informed process <span class="Asgive ng" style="border-style:none;background:none">at a time when NSF has no</span> congressionally confirmed director.</font></div><div><font face="arial, sans-serif"><br></font></div><div><font face="arial, sans-serif">Join us on Friday, April 10 @ 1:30 pm ET for an update and guidance on what FABBS and our members can do to protect the NSF investment in our disciplines. <a href="https://secure-web.cisco.com/1PLW-R8-747prmN2va6-Z6w16Y72iKaUnfY2_L0qXj5pKK7z6SFZ4FX33oi96d19KIGkQvEKpZAqrcSjkjgbaOzi2VSAonuV7os6n9VcIogjDFEv5JaGPKvxJMUkeU4jlx6ufk_Fj2WzffJoIiUe6rwCYx7fC9qMccyfkWSpLKlyWaw8o0z571Y7cXQwB_hyTNmB9DZgKdcgZok5Sd2RHK9uNdxLHWTBlukIJQGtDiDODHjs0rkrOQS_XmSwp8fCGRLQ2ENKdE-uUc9wezfMvbQ5GWazgA454zsBIL4uOWgnSkCUDy5OdIYymZMIILaZJ33i1ulxhw0dJRgI800RaPMx3UqdkClMOLp07wjJY1iY/https%3A%2F%2Fus02web.zoom.us%2Fmeeting%2Fregister%2F05jdofr6R_mLrwsbwsfIWA%23%2Fregistration" target="_blank" style="">Registration Link</a>. Please consider sharing this link with your society colleagues and faculty.</font></div><div><font face="arial, sans-serif"><br></font></div><div><font face="arial, sans-serif">Onward,</font></div><div><font face="arial, sans-serif">Juliane</font></div></div><div><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr" style="font-family:Roboto,RobotoDraft,Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:14px"><div dir="ltr"></div></div></div></div></div></div>
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<meta charset="UTF-8"><div>Jeremy M Wolfe, PhD <br>Professor of Ophthalmology & Radiology, <br>Harvard Medical School<br><br>Visual Attention Lab <br>Department of Surgery <br>Brigham & Women's Hospital<br><br>900 Commonwealth Ave<br>3rd Floor<br>Boston, 02215<br><br>Phone: 617-851-1166<br>Fax: 617-768-8816<br><br>Best email: jwolfe@bwh.harvard.edu<br>Backup: jeremywolfe0131@gmail.com<br>URL: search.bwh.harvard.edu<br><br></div>
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