I am happy to announce the 3rd edition of the Sex as a Biological Variable (#SABV) biennial Symposium! Following the great success of the 2022 and 2024 symposia at the University of Bern, this year’s event will take place at the University of Zurich on June 23–24.

3R weekend - Rest, Relax, Recharge

Including Sex as a Biological Variable = better data. Scientific rigor begins with study designs that reflect biological reality. Sex influences physiology, disease mechanisms, and responses to interventions. #EUSABV #SABVinAction #ScientificRigor

This week’s Meet the Team interview features Dr. Christina Dalla, Action Vice Chair of the EU-SABV COST Action and Leader of Working Group 4. She reflects on why integrating Sex as a Biological Variable is essential for improving both preclinical and clinical research. @christinadalla.bsky.social

This week’s Meet the Team interview features Dr. Özge Selin Çevik, Assistant Professor at Mersin University and Young Researchers Inclusiveness Advisor. She shares her vision for building a supportive, open, and inclusive research community. @ozgeselincevik.bsky.social

The Young Researchers and Innovators (YRI) community recently held its first meeting, marking the beginning of a supportive and connected research network across Europe. @costprogramme.bsky.social

#FELASA2025 Congress covered by @okalliokoski.bsky.social @nunohfranco.bsky.social and I, hope you find it a useful recap! #AnimalResearch #AnimalWelfare #3Rs www.nature.com/articles/s41...

@cost-teatime.bsky.social has been working to raise awareness on how we monitor lab animals, advancing welfare & research reproducibility with home-cage monitoring. Read the story of an Action that has excelled at building an open knowledge base & empowering ECRs: www.cost.eu/long-read-te...

At the end of our Action, we have compiled a short movie emphasizing major advantages HCM systems offer for animal research and its translatability, and showing some actual videos from the labs. www.youtube.com/watch?v=aOB8pYeDI4U @costprogramme.bsky.social

Join us on September 3rd for Day 2 of the TEATIME Final Conference, featuring expert talks on home-cage monitoring technologies, case studies, a roundtable on the future of automated monitoring, a closing keynote, and a farewell networking reception. #animalresearch #homecage

See you soon in beautiful Helsinki for our final event! #animalresearch #homecage #conference @costprogramme.bsky.social

Nastasia Mirofle (France) completed a TEATIME STSM at the Donders Institute (NL), exploring how the serotonin transporter influences environmental sensitivity and a-sociality. #animalresearch #behavior #grant @costprogramme.bsky.social

We’re proud to have held 4 popular TEATIME Training Schools—thanks to all organizers, speakers, and @costprogramme.bsky.social for the support; manuals are open access on our website, and more training opportunities are coming soon! #animalresearch #homecage #behavior #neuroscience #AnimalWelfare

How could the implementation of the 3Rs be improved? 📽️ Watch this new #nrp79shortvideos to find out more The 3Rs are widely accepted in science and politics. However, in practice, the implementation of 3R methods is sometimes difficult. @unibas.ch www.youtube.com/watch?v=mDjr...

Today and tomorrow, we are hosting the EU Commission's workshop on phasing out animal testing for chemical safety assessment. Send your questions and take part in the discussions via Slido.com - #NAMS25. Link day 1: youtu.be/bJyVsOBKW4s Link day 2: youtu.be/lbeAIepd-iU

We opened #FELASA2025 conference with an insightful session on home-cage monitoring, expertly chaired by @vvoikar.bsky.social. The session featured presentations by Sara Wells @mrcharwell.bsky.social, @phenotyping.bsky.social, @stefanogaburro.bsky.social and others... #behavior #homecage #research

What an incredible #FELASA2025 conference packed with scientific energy and innovation! Outstanding variety of presentations—from thought-provoking lectures to creative and data-rich posters—contributing to the advancement of #animalresearch. @nunohfranco.bsky.social @stefanogaburro.bsky.social

These organisations got on #BOARD25 in Finland. Show your support and share on #BOARD25

The ‪@helsinki.fi‬ joined the Be Open about Animal Research Day. You can join too! Show your support and share on #BOARD25

#3Rs #AnimalResearch #AnimalWelfare - #FELASA2025 conference starting tomorrow in Athens! www.felasa2025.eu

Women make up only 16% of corresponding authors who submit to Nature, a new Springer Nature analysis revealed. This is not enough - there are 30-40% #womeninSTEM We want to change it, through targeted editorial policies & outreach. But change will take everyone! 🧪 www.nature.com/articles/d41...

What a week! I am thrilled to share that I’ve been awarded a highly competitive #COSTAction #CA24168 to launch the first pan-European research network dedicated to promoting and enhancing the current Sex as a Biological Variable #SABV initiative 🤩 www.cost.eu/70-new-cost-...

Our new preprint on OSF: a call to build FAIR repositories for home-cage monitoring data, unlocking the full potential of continuous rodent behavior insights! osf.io/preprints/osf/fsg83_v1 #homecage #animalresearch #behavior #data #OpenScience @costprogramme.bsky.social

Young researchers are important for #COSTactions. 🧑‍🔬 That's why we're focusing today on training them on leadership skills. Starting with presentations by experienced Action leaders Indrek Heinla, Ghazal Etminan and Jitka Cejkova. Thank you for sharing your experiences! @costprogramme.bsky.social

A mini summary of #NeuroFrance2025 highlights 9/10 Besides my poster, it was great to present with @dhuzard.bsky.social the www.thebehaviourforum.org , a @cost-teatime.bsky.social initiative I am very proud of being part of!

Our vision for Precision Omics Initiative Sweden (PROMISE) is now published in Nature Medicine! By boosting data-driven precision omics in Sweden, we can not only empower research but also integrate it with healthcare in a new way, with an impact in 🇸🇪 and 🌎. 🧵: rdcu.be/egmXY

Registration for Part 2 of The Art of Communicating Animal Research webinar is now OPEN! Secure your spot to get the event link. 📅 The program drops soon—stay tuned! 🔗 Register now: har-mrc-ac-uk.zoom.us/meeting/regi... #animalresearch #communication #AI @eara.eu @costprogramme.bsky.social

Get ready! In the second part of our Animal Research Communication webinar, we're unveiling 4 exciting sections to help you make science clear, engaging & impactful! 👀✨ Stay tuned—details coming soon! 🔜🐭💡 #SciComm #AnimalResearch @costprogramme.bsky.social

After 4 years, TEATIME is wrapping up! Join our final #conference to explore lab animal monitoring with experts in biomedicine, #behavior & #data. 🔗 Program & registration: cost-teatime.org/events/the-teatime-journey-shaping-the-future-of-lab-animal-monitoring/ @costprogramme.bsky.social

Thanks to all who contributed to the special issue of Cerebral Cortex honoring my career academic.oup.com/cercor/issue...

The death toll from Russia’s Palm Sunday ballistic missile attack on Sumy is now 32 killed, including 2 children, and 99 people injured, of which 11 are children, according to the state emergency service of Ukraine.

Russia just killed dozens of Ukrainians in a missile strike on Palm Sunday, a day after Trump’s envoy Steve Witkoff met Putin, shook hands and posed for cameras. Witkoff visited an Orthodox Christian cathedral. Today church-goers were targeted. Report w/ @maxseddon.bsky.social on.ft.com/42k2tuc

This is what “partial ceasefire” in the sphere of energy looks like in reality: #Russia may target #Ukraine’s power plants less frequently — but has doubled down on killing Ukrainians, including children. A week ago, it struck Kryvyi Rih; this time, it’s Sumy.

This morning, Russian cruelty struck again, killing men, women and children in the city of Sumy. A barbaric attack, made even more vile as people gathered peacefully to celebrate Palm Sunday.

Once again, there are casualties and injuries from a Russian strike.Children have been killed. Another blow to the psyche of an entire nation living in a constant state of tension& pain —every time our people are killed Today,many are crying,feeling fear,anger,exhaustion.Today, I have no words left

Ukrainian military intelligence has identified the Russian army brigades that launched ballistic missiles at Sumy The strike with 2 Iskander-M ballistic missiles was carried out by Russian forces from the 112th and 448th missile brigades, according to Kyrylo Budanov,head of the Defence Intelligence

Workshop: Systematic reviews of animal studies swiss3rcc.org/events/syste... #animalresearch #reproducibility

Principles statistical analysis in epidemiology are important, if you want to understand the risk and risk factors of diseases (even in the AI-era!). We will have an excellent course with experienced faculty - early June in Tartu: bendixcarstensen.com/SPE/ #RStats #StatsSky

Recent report about trends and prospects related to Estonian science landscape... I'd be glad to connect for collaboration with the University of Tartu.

𝐒𝐞𝐞𝐤𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐚 𝐡𝐨𝐬𝐭 𝐢𝐧𝐬𝐭𝐢𝐭𝐮𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐲𝐨𝐮𝐫 𝐌𝐒𝐂𝐀 𝐏𝐨𝐬𝐭𝐝𝐨𝐜𝐭𝐨𝐫𝐚𝐥 𝐅𝐞𝐥𝐥𝐨𝐰𝐬𝐡𝐢𝐩? Find your research group and join us at the University of Tartu! Check our list of supervisors, application details, and everything else you need to know ut.ee/en/content/postdoctoral-research-university-tartu

I'm working on updating my "Data Detectives" class where students read about research misconduct and mistakes. I have lots of examples of misconduct, but am now looking for examples of popular press just going buck wild and over-interpreting scientific results. What are your fav examples??

Welcome in Blue sky @suzannedickson.bsky.social @eubrain.bsky.social

Game of Hormones and many reasons why pre-clinical #animalresearch must include both males and females, with appropriate design and analysis - great talk by @liisagalea.bsky.social for @cost-teatime.bsky.social recording available now www.youtube.com/watch?v=c6LX...

Europe standing with Ukraine - President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelenskyy and President of the Republic of Finland Alexander Stubb will discuss the topic of Europe Standing with Ukraine at the @helsinki.fi , together with the university students and staff. Live www.youtube.com/live/jJKVCgH...

Hot off the press: my review of Csaba Szabo's book Unreliable; deevybee.blogspot.com/2025/03/book...

Next @cost-teatime.bsky.social webinar will take place on March 13 - @pennzalalab.bsky.social present their work showing that the courtship vocalisations of wild house mice are much more complex and dynamic than has been assumed, and their role in male copulatory success mailchi.mp/878e420349f5...

On March 6 @cost-teatime.bsky.social will host a special webinar to celebrate #WomenInScience #GenderEquality #SABV together with @liisagalea.bsky.social - tireless advocate for women’s health research and for sex and gender-based analyses to improve mental health for all. mailchi.mp/6440d20f8d4a...

In the "Automation, welfare & animal facilities" session, we had nice presentations from Sara Wells, Masa Cater and Srečko Gajovič. #animalresearch @costprogramme.bsky.social #AnimalWelfare #networking #Brussels

Again, working in #collaboration, divided into different working groups, yielded some interesting ideas, which we will take into account when preparing an informational #video about #homecage monitoring for a broader public. @costprogramme.bsky.social #Brussels #GroupWork #networking

And the last session of Day 1 of TEATIME Collaborative working group meeting in #Brussels was about collecting ideas for TEATIME video preparation, by Sabine Holter Koch and David Christensen. #animalresearch #behavior @costprogramme.bsky.social