Last week UK Govt's Strategy for Replacing #Animals in #Science was published. It's a solid commitment to not only support the development, validation, and uptake of alternative methods, but to eliminate the use of #animals wherever possible. 🧪 www.gov.uk/government/p...

One week on and I'm still slightly 🙃 😊🥰🤓 about the UK Govt's Strategy to Phase Out #AnimalResearch and testing. Been waiting for this for a wee while now. It might not go as far as some might want, but I am grateful this is being done at all. 🙏🐭🧪 #science www.gov.uk/government/n...

Probably in my top ten funniest videos of 2025. Another epic production from @michaelspicer.bsky.social. youtu.be/VmeOXYE_axE?...

Instead of posting a screed regarding my nuanced and conflicted thoughts about the assassination of Charlie Kirk, here's a picture of a long-eared jeroba

🧪Another week, another webinar! This time part of @jhucaat.bsky.social Center for Alternatives (CAAT) 12th Annual #3Rs Symposium. Event starts TODAY, but @replanimalres.bsky.social sky.social #ReplacementChecklist session is: 🕒 3.05 pm UK time. 📅 Thurs 11th Sept www.eventbrite.com/e/12th-annua...

🧪❓ Do you #Review #GrantApplications proposing to use #AnimalResearch? Want to know if the obligation of #Replacement has been met? Watch the @replanimalres.bsky.social webinar #ReplacementChecklist for #Review of projects proposing to use #animals on #YoutTube: youtu.be/2pe_sT66g-c?...

🧪If you are a #reviewer of grant applications that might involve #animalresearch please do join us next week for this free #webinar (04/06/25, 12:00 UK time). Follow link to register: #science #researchgrants #3Rs #Replacement

Join us next week (04/09/25 12:00 BST) for a FREE 30-min session for reviewers of grant applications involving animal use. We’ll provide an easy tool to help ensure all applications have robustly implemented #Replacement in line with #3Rs obligations. replacinganimalresearch.org.uk/resources/re...

Next week (04/09/25 12:00 BST) @replanimalres.bsky.social has a webinar for reviewers of grant applications proposing to use animals. It's a FREE 30-min session for grant reviewers to help ensure #Replacement #3Rs requirements are robustly implemented replacinganimalresearch.org.uk/resources/re...

🚨 Only a few days left to get your #InnovationGrant applications in! CLOSING 4th JULY 2025 🚨 🐭 Replacing #animals and animal-derived materials 💷 £5,000 - £15,000 📅 6 - 24 months #Replacement #3Rs #SmallGrants #Grants #Research 🧪 More info and application forms @replanimalres.bsky.social (🔽 🧵)

"Really? (Song Thrush)" drypoint etching by contemporary printmaker Faith Chevannes #ReframingWomenPrintmakers

While the world watches Israel's war with Iran, Netanyahu's extremist government continues to starve and massacre Palestinians in Gaza. Today, Israeli forces again opened fire on people desperately trying to collect food aid, killing dozens. Over 56,000 have been killed so far.

📢 Our 2025 #InnovationGrant Scheme closes on the 4th July! 📢 🐭 Replacing #animals and animal-derived materials 💷 £5,000 - £15,000 📅 6 - 24 months #Replacement #3Rs #SmallGrants #Grants #Research 🧪 #Science More info: replacinganimalresearch.org.uk/for-scientis...

The right decision. I know it's concerning for many that checks and balances aren't yet in place to protect the vulnerable. Here's hoping they will be. To be able to choose to end suffering early, on our own terms, is far more humane than our current practice. www.theguardian.com/society/2025...

📢 Must-have tool for researchers, grant reviewers, & IACUC members: 💡 @replanimalres.bsky.social "Replacement Checklist" helps evaluate whether all possible alternatives to animal use in research have been properly considered. replacinganimalresearch.org.uk/resources/re... Why it works 🧵 🧪

 ❓️Are you interested in becoming a Trustee? 🐭 5 hours per month (8 working days annually) Please join us? #Trustee #Volunteering www.charityjob.co.uk/volunteer-jo...

As part of @replanimalres.bsky.social work with Universities, we're running workshops at #FELASA2025 on Developing an Institutional 3Rs Strategy.

Sinead O'Connor, 1992 by Jane Bown English photographer who worked for newspapers and was known for her portraits. #WomensArt

🧪 We've revised and rewritten our 'Searching for Alternatives' guidance! We've set out basic principles of #searching to help people find and identify information relevant to their specialism, with a step-by-step example. #Science #3Rs #Replacement replacinganimalresearch.org.uk/resources/se...

🧪 At @replanimalres.bsky.social we've been busy revising our 'Searching for Alternatives' Guidance. Being able to find and assess info to help replace #AnimalResearch is essential for scientific, legal and ethical reasons. #3Rs #Science replacinganimalresearch.org.uk/resources/se...

A fortnight ago @replanimalres.bsky.social sky.social was at @dundee.ac.uk helping folks think about developing a 'Replacment First' 3Rs Strategy. Providing a 'safe space' to talk openly about #Ethics and #Replacement of #AnimalResearch is so important. www.linkedin.com/posts/juliet...

It's #MSAwarenessWeek this week innit. This year's theme is #MSConversations. I wrote a brief thing about the #AnimalResearch done to try and benefit patients like me. But what do we really need? #MS #MultipleSclerosis replacinganimalresearch.org.uk/a-conversati...

This year's @replanimalres.bsky.social #ExperimentalDesign Training School will be at Trinity College Dublin in the 2nd week of June. There's still a chance to register for it! Ideal for #Phd Students, ECRs and established researchers! #Statistics #3Rs #Research #Science 🧪

#NoMowMay has begun! 🌼 The rare chance to help nature by doing nothing.

Tech Bros genetically modify grey wolf to look like dire wolf. #DeextinctionIsNotAThing

Oh this is so sad! @andyentomologist.bsky.social 😭😊

🧪❔ Looking for small #grants to try something new or get data for a larger application? @replanimalres.bsky.social give £5K-£15K for pilot or proof-of-principle to develop techniques to replace #AnimalResearch Apply by 4th July 2025! #Funding #3Rs replacinganimalresearch.org.uk/for-scientis...

once again, "having rizz" is paying homage to rizzo the rat. not many people know this

Mess not wyth Totoro

We have launched a project to determine the environmental sustainability of adopting 3Rs approaches, including assessing the environmental impact of animal facilities and identifying opportunities to reduce carbon emissions: nc3rs.org.uk/our-portfoli...

Well I never! Squirrel of the Day for March 27, 2025 #sqrlpix

Day two of #BestPracticeInNAMs2025 is kicking off!

An emotional day - I can announce I'll be the first director of The Jeremy Coller Centre for Animal Sentience at the LSE, supported by a £4m grant from the Jeremy Coller Foundation. Our mission: to develop better policies, laws and ways of caring for animals. (1/2) www.lse.ac.uk/News/Latest-...

An Umbonia crassicornis tropical thorn bug. Colombia.

I'm sad not be in York for @replanimalres.bsky.social @humaneresearch.bsky.social and @afruk.bsky.social joint #research conference this week. So sorry not to be with my colleagues in celebrating leading practice in #NAMs replacing animals in science. You've all worked so hard. Enjoy it!

The bewildering insanity of game bird farming.

📢 🧪 SCIENCE KLAXON!! Students! Supervisors! You still have 10 days to submit your applications to our Summer Studentship Scheme! Funds available for 6-10 wk projects in #Replacement of #AnimalResearch. Do some cool #science, boost your CV! Look 👀 👇

👀 🧪 10 days left you get your applications in to @replanimalres.bsky.social #SummerStudentship Scheme! Want experience in practical #research to help replace the use #animals in biomedical research? #Students and Supervisors, check this out: #grants #science #funding #3Rs #Ethics

Our organisation has a weekly blog, that the whole team contributes to, so subject matter and tone can differ quite a bit from one week to the next! My fab workmate, Rita, shares some hints and tips about sharing the results of #research in this week's piece....🧪 #publication #science

British artist Mandy Pattullo creates pieces of stitched and pieced textiles using vintage fabrics and embroideries #womensart

🧪 Just two weeks until our conference 'best practice in non-animal research methods', jointly hosted with @humaneresearch.bsky.social & #CentreForHumanSpecificResearch. We'd love to see you there! More info at replacinganimalresearch.org.uk/2025-confere...

Our species is doomed. To all the others we take with us, I am so sorry. 😔

New blog post in which I don't swear, but I really want to swear. Explaining why #de-extinction of #mammoths is just bad science fiction, but unfortunately subjecting animals to pointless #genomeediting is a sad reality. Mammoths aren't coming back. Just leave the mice (and the elephants) alone.

'Otters' in ink by Jackie Morris, artist, author and illustrator who lives and works in a small cottage by the sea in Wales #WomensArt

@adamrutherford.bsky.social explains the scientific and ethical illiteracy of #mammoth "de-extinction" far better than I and also manages to control his rage too. Bonus points for #Bladerunner ref. You deserve an extra biscuit Another vanity project of the uber-rich. (the research, not the biccie)

Scientists conducted the largest, most comprehensive analysis of butterfly total abundance (all individuals, across all species) in the U.S. and found huge declines. 🧪 People should be "very, very concerned," says study author Eliza Grames. www.nationalgeographic.com/animals/arti...

Are you a Uni student with a passion for animal-free science? We offer £350/wk for 6-10 wks, plus £1,000 for research costs. It's an opportunity to boost your CV and make a real difference in the world of science. Summer Studentship Scheme is open til 30/03/25 🧪 #Studentship #STEM #ResearchGrant

Bringing back the mammoth - even if it was possible - is a bad idea, as we discussed with @toriherridge.bsky.social on the @newscientist.com podcast: www.newscientist.com/podcasts/85-...

Just the latest in a series of "things that should not be done". "De-extinction" is scientifically and ethically illiterate. Gene editing existing animals to resemble extinct species imposes pointless burdens on countless animals whose offspring also have no hope of a life in the wild.

Therapist Squirrel of the Day for March 4, 2025 invites you to tell her everything #Sqrlpix