Hey, DC! Hope to see you at my book talk/signing Sunday @ 1 @ @barnesandnoble.com (Georgetown) with the @washingtonpost.com's amazing Andrea Sachs. Bonus: beagles bred for research: Carmel, Oliver, Hazel + Mabel. Come for the beagles, stay for the talk. stores.barnesandnoble.com/event/978006...

A short preview of this evening's live book talk at The Avalon Theatre in Easton, MD, with Talbot Humane and @clf21601.bsky.social. Tickets still available! decadeseven.substack.com/p/an-evening... #booksky, #animalresearch 💙📚

Well done, @jasondearen.com + team! Great article and related documentary on @frontlinepbs.bsky.social. (Contaminated: The Carpet Industry's Toxic Legacy)

Good morning, Toronto! Bring your friends + meet Lizzie and Nimby, former research beagles. See you tonight! #animalresearch, #beagles 📚💙

Lab Dog double-header in Boston! Tonight at Newtonville Books, and tomorrow at Papercuts J.P. Former research beagles will be joining me at both events. Buy your $5 JP tickets here: papercutsjp.com/events/45296... And see you there! 💙📚 newtonvillebooks.com/event/2026-0... #animalresearch #beagles

We have a VIP (and a VIB!) at the @ksjatmit.bsky.social offices today. @melaniedgkaplan.bsky.social is speaking to Knight fellows about her book Lab Dog.

Bundling up and heading north! Thanks for helping spread the word, friends. See you there!

Woohoo, we love a sale! My neighborhood bookstore (and former employer) @capitolhillbooks.bsky.social is discounting its entire website until February 1, including signed copies of Lab Dog. Shippable across North America. Buy one for you + one for a friend. :-) tinyurl.com/LabDog-Signe...

Snowed in? Sign up! Today at 1 Eastern. uic.zoom.us/meeting/regi... #animalresearch, #dogs, #booksky💙📚

Hope to see you at my book event with @elissabfree.bsky.social in Chevy Chase today before the flakes start falling! And register for these three online events, starting Monday.

I'm so excited for this Friday book event at @peoplesbooktakoma.com, with Mike Tidwell, whose writing I've been reading for decades! Fingers and paws crossed the snow will hold off for the weekend. See you there! #animals, #dogs, #animalresearch, #booksky💙📚 peoplesbooktakoma.com/event/lab-dog/

So many book events I’m looking forward to in the coming weeks! On Thursday, join Katie Conlee and me—and some awesome little beagles bred for research—at the Urbana branch of Frederick County Public Libraries. Book sales + signings and beagle time after our talk!

Book-lovers: Time to put down your books and watch some BookTV! My conversation with @npr.org’s @francoordonez.bsky.social at Wonderland Books Bethesda will be aired Sunday At 2 EST on @c-span.bsky.social. Tune in! #books, #dogs, #animalresearch www.c-span.org/event/book-t...

If you haven't yet read Lab Dog, here's an excerpt from @undark.org. It's one of my favorite sections--because it starts with Hammy and his love for vegetables. :-) Then it delves into the complicated ethical choices we make about animal research. Enjoy the read! #animalresearch, #dogs, #booksky 💙📚

Best weekend of books and beagles! Thanks, @barnesandnoble.com Woodbridge + Annapolis and so many beagles who were bred with the intention of being used for research but instead busied themselves inhaling pup cups and greeting shoppers. #animalresearch, #dogs, #booksky📚💙

@barnesandnoble.com double-header this weekend to kick off the new year! Hope to see you at one of these events: Woodbridge, VA on Saturday * Annapolis on Sunday. Come meet some beagles bred for research and pick up a signed copy of Lab Dog! #booksky, #dogs, #animals, #animalresearh💙📚

frappesandfiction.com/2026/01/01/b... Lab Dog by @melaniedgkaplan.bsky.social

A surprise gift at the end of 2025: This review from @jayhancock.bsky.social in @wirobooks.bsky.social. Thank you! 📚💙 #booksky, #animals, #dogs

If you're looking for a podcast about animals, I can't recommend one more than @speciesunite.bsky.social. I've been listening to the lovely and thoughtful @elizabethnovogratz.bsky.social for years and was honored this fall when she invited me on as a guest to chat about Lab Dog! 💙📚 #animals

Stacy Lopresti-Goodman on dogs used for research. "My findings demonstrate that despite some residual fear and anxiety from their early-life experiences, [former lab dogs] can adjust to living in homes, form strong bonds with their caregivers, and make equally good companions as other beagles do."

🎧 Why do we connect so deeply with animals? Listen to this moving clip from our bonus content with @melaniedgkaplan.bsky.social. Join our flock today! All donations TRIPLE MATCHED until 12/31. Even $5 helps keep our podcast going! ourhenhouse.org/support

I talked to @fayeflam.bsky.social, a science journalist and columnist for @bloomberg.com, when she was gathering info for this column--a topic that's obvs important to me. Will dogs follow the in footsteps of chimps, who were phased out of experimentation a decade ago? #dogs, #animalresearch

🎧 NEW EPISODE ALERT! 🎧 Our interview with @melaniedgkaplan.bsky.social about her book "Lab Dog" is out now! A must-listen for anyone who cares about animals AND scientific progress. Listen on your fav podcatcher, watch on our YouTube, or check out ourhenhouse.org/ep884 #AnimalRights #LabDog

The founders of Ashland Creek Press have a new book that digs into the language around animals and offers tips for how to portray them empathically and authentically. The authors were just interviewed on @ourhenhouse.org and they'll be teaching a writing workshop in March. Links in comments!

Ever wonder why beagles are the most common dogs in labs? This Friday on Our Hen House, author @melaniedgkaplan.bsky.social reveals the economic and historical reasons behind this choice. The truth about animal testing is more calculated than you might think. 🐕‍🦺 #AnimalRights #BeagleRescue

Thank you, @americanscientist.org and Barbara Aulicino, for including Lab Dog in your Science Book Gift Guide! 🩶 #booksky, #dogs, #animals, #animalresearch 💙📚

One of my favorite podcast conversations recently was with Cara Santa Maria on Talk Nerdy. We covered many topics, including feeling like an imposter as a journalist, being explicit about biases in research, Cara's dog Killer and of course Hammy. www.carasantamaria.com/podcast/mela...

The weather outside is frightful, but it'll be cozy and fun next Wednesday when I get to chat with Homeward Trails's super Sue Bell and hang with beagles. :- ) Tickets still available! homewardtrailsanimalrescue-bloom.kindful.com/e/book-signing 📚💙 #dogs, #animalresearch, #booksky

Hey DC/MD/VA! Hope you can join me for some of these upcoming events, starting tonight with Mary Hollingsworth at @dcpubliclibrary.bsky.social! #booksky, #dogs, #animalresearch 📚💙

What a lovely surprise to see Lab Dog reviewed in @nature.com, in bibliophile Andrew Robinson’s piece on “five of the best science picks.” Lab Dog, he said, is a “passionate, conflicted book.” I agree!💙📚 #animals, #dogs, #booksky

I'm excited for this conversation with Mary Hollingsworth next week! Mary was former lead counsel for the DOJ on animal welfare enforcement matters, including United States v. Envigo--you can read all about that case in Lab Dog! Join us Wednesday, @dcpubliclibrary.bsky.social, NE branch!

DYK I have a quarterly newsletter? I'll be writing a new one soon, so if you'd like to see that in your in-box and haven't already subscribed, you can do so on my website. The website is also good place to learn about upcoming book events! melaniedgkaplan.com/connect.html

Jeremy Loeb @emptythecages.bsky.social is a former NPR reporter-turned-animal activist podcaster. I really enjoyed our conversation yesterday! Thanks, Jeremy. Have a listen. www.youtube.com/watch?v=ki3D...

Great episode of Alan Alda's Clear + Vivid podcast with @jelaniya.bsky.social, dean of @columbiajournalism.bsky.social You'll hear how AI will disrupt journalism, what "free speech" means under the Trump administration, and how journalism is a public good.

Tune in tonight for a book talk hosted by The D.C. Science Writers Association--I'll be talking about Lab Dog, and Lindsay "Bones" Cordero will be discussing the new kids book she wrote and illustrated about dogs who sniff out truffles--who knew! Register at this link! dcswa.org/event/book-t...

Hammy used to work at @capitolhillbooks.bsky.social with me, and here he is on Nora Simon's sweet illustration! Wherever you are, you can buy a bag with this drawing and buy a signed copy of Lab Dog while you're at it. (Buy at least two books and they'll ship for free!) Links in comments.

Lab Dog came out of years of reporting but also one year, many moons ago, at @columbiajournalism.bsky.social. During that year, I took part in a book seminar taught by the one and only Sam Freedman. Now that I'm an author, Columbia Magazine has interviewed me. How sweet that is!

When I talk about the new ways to conduct research and test drugs without animals, I often talk about the @emulatebio.bsky.social organ chip. Here's a great video on these chips from NASA, which will use the devices aboard Artemis II to study how deep space affects human health.

What a fun weekend! Thanks, @barnesandnoble.com Philly + DC, for hosting me and a bundle of Envigo and former research beagles. And to so many new and old friends who stopped by to say hi and pick up Lab Dog!

Hope to see some of you this weekend at @barnesandnoble.com. Beagles will be joining me! For a list of book events, keep an eye on my website. I'm adding new dates and deets regularly! melaniedgkaplan.com/book.html #dogs, #animals, #booksky💙📚

My first article in @theatlantic.com! The current administration has been surprisingly vocal about reducing the number of animals in research, but we don’t know how many animals are currently living in laboratories. Every animal counts. #animalresearch, #animals

Cathy Alter's questions about Lab Dog in @wirobooks.bsky.social were the best--including who would play me in the movie version. Ha! She writes, "Think Travels with Hammy but with heartbreaking glimpses through laboratory doors." 💙📚 #animalresearch, #dogs, #booksky

E.B. Bartels's book, Good Grief: On Loving Pets, Here and Hereafter, comes out in paperback today! Stay tuned for my Lab Dog event with E.B. in 2026! www.harpercollins.com/products/goo...

What a treat to finally meet author and adventurer Ken Ilgunas as a guest on his new podcast, Out of the Wild. Have a listen! #animals, #dogs, #booksky 💙📚

Beagles give Lab Dog two paws up! #animals, #dogs, #animalresearch, #booksky💙📚

In @virginiagewin.bsky.social's impressive and sobering feature for @nature.com, she talks to 19 scientists @ EPA, NOAA, NIH, NASA and USGS and explains how cutting the science will come at a cost to public health, environmental quality, and US scientific standing.

Such a fun Lab Dog event at @oldtownbooks.bsky.social Saturday! Thanks to the awesome Old Town Books staff, plus the Envigo beagles who showed up to represent those who are still being bred and used for research. 💙📚 #booksky, #animals, #dogs

Terrific piece by Ava Kofman in @newyorker.com about the SC monkeys that ran away last year from Alpha Genesis Inc., one of the largest breeders of primate for research in the country. #animals, #animalrights

@usatoday.com: With the news this week about Ridglan Farms stopping their breeding of beagles to sell for research (see link in comments), I've been thinking a lot about whether the end of dog research is near.💙📚 #Booksky #dogs www.usatoday.com/story/opinio...

Hey DC-VA-MD friends: There are still tickets available for this Saturday morning's Lab Dog event at @oldtownbooks.bsky.social! If tickets sell out, come at 10, after the talk, to pet a beagle, buy a book and say hey.)💙📚 www.oldtownbooks.com/events/36118...