Do you serve on, support, or advise an Animal Research Governance Committee (e.g., AWERB, IACUC, or Animal Welfare Committee) that reviews in vivo research applications? Would you like support to help you check if research protocols are sex-inclusive? Get involved in SIRF-UP 👇

Join me next month to learn how to improve the rigour of your experiments with the EDA! 📅 Wednesday 4 March, 16.00 – 18.00 (GMT) Register here 👇

Want a bit of extra help designing your next in vivo experiment? Join me on 4 March for a demonstration of the @nc3rs.bsky.social Experimental Design Assistant: nc3rs.org.uk/3rs-resource...

Join me next week at #LoveMethods26. I am running a workshop demonstrating the features of the online tool the Experimental Design Assistant including how it can help us clearly describe our experimental plans with collaborators, funders, ethical review bodies and in our publications. 👇

Is your New Year’s Resolution to design more reliable experiments? Join me at my #LoveMethods26 Experimental Design Assistant workshop. You will have time to design your own experiment, with me on hand to answer questions and give you support. Register here: nc3rs.org.uk/events/love-...

Have you registered for #LoveMethods26 yet? Join us from Jan 19-23, 2026 with 19 online workshops and seminars focused on improving method reproducibility and transparency. Check it out: excelscior.uc.pt/love-methods...

Yesterday we were at @kingscollegelondon.bsky.social Faculty of Life Sciences & Medicine to help teach Masters’ students experimental design best practices. The @nc3rs.bsky.social’s Experimental Design Assistant helped students consider key concepts and understand how to implement them in practice.

Looking forward to the @unistrathclyde.bsky.social 3Rs day where I will be helping people design more rigorous experiments with the help of the @nc3rs.bsky.social's Experimental Design Assistant.

The NC3Rs has a strong track record in investing in in vitro models of human disease that replace the use of animals. We have recently partnered with the MRC, Wellcome and Innovate UK on a £15.9M funding call to develop human in vitro models of complex disease. nc3rs.org.uk/news/nc3rs-g...

❗Survey deadline extended: Friday 12 December❗ If you have experience of the monocyte activation test as a replacement for the rabbit pyrogen test, please take 30 minutes to share your insights: nc3rs.org.uk/our-portfoli...

⏳ Pyrogenicity testing survey closing on Thursday 7 November. Please take 30 minutes to share your insights into the monocyte activation test and support our work to drive wider adoption of non-animal approaches in biologics quality control testing. Take the survey: nc3rs.org.uk/our-portfoli...

Looking for a more interactive way to teach experimental design for researchers? Make the @nc3rs.bsky.social's Experimental Design Assistant (EDA) part of your course! For ideas check out how Inserm designed their course, including tips for others wanting to do something similar 👇

Part of an ethical review body? Want more information on key considerations to help improve rigour and reproducibility of animal research? Check out the new chapter in the 4th edition of the IACUC Handbook: ‘Research Reproducibility and the Role of the IACUC’ www.taylorfrancis.com/chapters/oa-...

The @nc3rs.bsky.social's Experimental Design Assistant (EDA) is back online following planned maintenance. Thank you for your patience.

🚨⚠️ The @nc3rs.bsky.social's Experimental Design Assistant will be offline for planned maintenance today (Tuesday 23 September) from 4pm BST. Please ensure your work is saved before 4pm. We apologise for any inconvenience caused and will notify you when the EDA is back online. ⚠️🚨

🚨⚠️The @nc3rs.bsky.social's Experimental Design Assistant (EDA) will be offline for planned maintenance on Tuesday 23 September from 4pm BST. We anticipate it will be back online by the morning of Wednesday 24 September. We apologise for any inconvenience caused.⚠️🚨

Spaces still available for this excellent scientific webinar later this week - register via link below 👇

Join us next week to learn more about misconceptions around sex-inclusive research and how the Sex Inclusive Research Framework can be used by scientists, ethical review bodies and funders: nc3rs.org.uk/events/tackl... 📅 18 September, 15.00 – 16.00 📜 One hour of continuing professional development

Interested in tools to help teach experimental design? Is your institution part of the UKRN Open Research Programme? www.ukrn.org/partner-inst... 👇 Register for the online workshop on how to use, and teach others to use, the Experimental Design Assistant (EDA). Registrations close 17 September. 👇

We are supporting in-person training workshops to promote the use of skin swabbing as a refined approach for genotyping zebrafish. 🐟 Suitable for technical staff and researchers 🤝 Personalised support in small groups 📍 Delivered at your facility (UK only) Find out more: nc3rs.org.uk/training-wor...

The @nc3rs.bsky.social contingent has ARRIVEd in Brazil for #WC13. Yesterday kicked off with the opening ceremony. Today join me in session 118: Ethics in action. I will be highlighting resources to support reduction and how ethical review bodies can use them.

⏳ Registration closing on Thursday 28 August! Interested in driving the uptake and impact of 3Rs models and technologies through cross sector collaborations? Join us and the BBSRC in London on September 12 as we launch our new joint funding initiative. Find out more: nc3rs.org.uk/events/nc3rs...

Now that the 20th International Xenopus conference is over it is time to rest my geeky earrings. I had a great time catching up with people and discussing welfare research priorities. Interested in the amphibian welfare webinars I mentioned? Here’s the link: nc3rs.org.uk/3rs-resource... #IXC25

Having some great conversations about Xenopus welfare at the 20th International Xenopus conference. Also got to wear my Xenopus earrings!! #IXC25

Looking for support to teach experimental design? Join our online workshop with @ukrepro.bsky.social on using the Experimental Design Assistant (EDA) to plan rigorous, reproducible animal studies. 📅 13 November, 10.00 – 16.00 (GMT) ❗ Registration closes: 17 September 👉 nc3rs.org.uk/events/ukrn-...

A recent study showed more than half of publications using animal models of neurological disorders involved pseudoreplication (doi.org/10.1186/s132...). Avoid pseudoreplication - use the EDA to help you identify your experimental unit accurately: eda.nc3rs.org.uk/experimental...

Are you looking for something to help you teach experimental design? Also at a @ukrepro.bsky.social Open Research partner institution (www.ukrn.org/partner-inst...)? Join us and learn how to the EDA can help!

Want a bit of extra help designing your next in vivo experiment? Join me tomorrow for a demonstration of the @nc3rs.bsky.social Experimental Design Assistant: nc3rs.org.uk/3rs-resource...

🎉🥳 Happy Birthday ARRIVE 2.0! 🥳🎉 ARRIVE goes further than reporting guidelines, check out the free resources to help us improve the way we plan, conduct and report animal research! 👇

Ever been frustrated by antibodies not working they way you think they should? This year's 3Rs prize winners 🏆 tested over 600 antibodies leading to 73 inadequately performing antibodies being withdrawn from the market. Find out more on Wednesday 23 July 👇

The Medical Research Council want to know about the impact of their policy on embedding diversity into research design. Survey closes 13 June, don't miss the opportunity to have your say! 👇

The Sex Inclusive Research Framework developed by an expert working group (including members of the NC3Rs team) is available to help researchers and grant reviewers implement the policy in grant proposals: www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Help shape MRC support for researchers and reviewers implementing the requirement to use female and male animals in preclinical research – take their survey: engagementhub.ukri.org/mrc-peg/edd5...

Writing or assessing in vivo study designs? Use the Sex Inclusive Research Framework and supporting guidance to get a “traffic light” indicator of whether a proposal has appropriately considered sex inclusion or is at risk of sex bias www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Interested in improving your experimental design? The @nc3rs.bsky.social Experimental Design Assistant can help you design rigorous experiments. Our next live demonstration is Wednesday 5 March, 4-6pm GMT. nc3rs.org.uk/3rs-resource...

Love Methods Week continues Wednesday with 4 great workshops on reporting guidelines, Quarto, RRIDs (think DOIs for research supplies), and protocol writing advice from editors. Build new skills and take your methods section to the next level. #LoveMethods25 www.bihealth.org/de/aktuell/l...

Want to design more reliable experiments? Join me at my #LoveMethods25 Experimental Design Assistant workshop. After a demonstration of the EDA you will have time to design your own experiment, with me on hand to answer any questions and give you support. Register here: nc3rs.org.uk/events/love-...

Register for our webinar on how thorough planning and transparent recording of in vivo studies using templates like the ARRIVE study plan increases the quality of research data and can support effective harm-benefit analysis. 📅 30 January, 14.00 – 15.00 (GMT) 👉 nc3rs.org.uk/events/arriv...

Involved in animal research and ethical review? Register for the @nc3rs.bsky.social webinar on how templates such as the ARRIVE study plan can support the harm-benefit analysis and boost the scientific rigour of your experiments. Thursday 30 January, 14.00 – 15.00 (GMT). nc3rs.org.uk/events/arriv...

Join me in January and try out the EDA for yourself 👇

The Experimental Design Assistant (EDA) now has over 20,000 users🎉. Want to join them and design more rigorous experiments? Register for an account eda.nc3rs.org.uk

As we celebrate 20 years of the NC3Rs this year, 20,000 scientists are now using the Experimental Design Assistant (EDA) to design more rigorous in vivo studies and improve the reproducibility of animal research. Why not join them? eda.nc3rs.org.uk

Our Experimental Design Assistant tool helps researchers at any level design robust in vivo experiments. We have updated the report generated by the system to include all the methodological information required in the ARRIVE Essential 10 checklist: eda.nc3rs.org.uk/experimental...

The @nc3rs.bsky.social Experimental Design Assistant (EDA) is back online. Thank you for your patience.

The @nc3rs.bsky.social Experimental Design Assistant (EDA) is currently offline for a short period of planned maintenance. We apologise for the inconvenience caused and will notify you when the EDA is back online.

The @nc3rs.bsky.social Experimental Design Assistant (EDA) will be offline tomorrow, Friday 6 December 2024 from 11am GMT for a short period of planned maintenance. We apologise for the inconvenience caused and will notify you when the EDA is back online.