💡 @replanimalres.bsky.social has been doing impressive work unpacking assumptions that still shape debates about animal experimentation. Their recent blogs tackle under-discussed questions with thoughtfulness. These & others are worth a read! 🔗s below 👇 #bioethics #animalresearch

📢 #Students and #academic #Supervisors of #Research, you have til March 30th to apply for a #Studentship for this Summer. Take a look and get your applications in😊 📅 6-10 weeks duration 💷 £350 pw stipend 🧪 £1K lab consumables #grants #3rs #funding replacinganimalresearch.org.uk/for-scientis...

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...

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...

We ran a Replacement-focused 3Rs workshop this summer. In fact, demand was so high we ran it twice. Researchers want to replace animals, but need support, tools & culture change. Here's what we learned from 52 countries 🌍 replacinganimalresearch.org.uk/were-going-g...

We have one question that guides everything we do: 👉 “Will it help to further replacement, more than anything else we could be doing now?” This single question helps us stay focused, strategic, and impact-driven. We explain why in our latest blog 👇 replacinganimalresearch.org.uk/will-it-make...

🧪Humane education isn’t just about avoiding dissection. It’s about what we teach students to expect (and accept). In our latest blog, we explore why language, actions, and attitudes all matter in humane education. 🔗 replacinganimalresearch.org.uk/humane-educa...

Deadlines close for our Innovation Grants scheme tomorrow!

📢 If you haven't already submitted a proposal for our 2025 #InnovationGrant Scheme, you still have 10 days! 📢 🐭 Replacing #animals and animal-derived materials 💷 £5K - £15K 📅 6 - 24 months 🧪 #Science replacinganimalresearch.org.uk/for-scientis...

We've recently been rethinking our approach to supporting academics and other scientists and their establishments to replace #AnimalResearch. The #ReplacementChecklist is a new tool, intended to be accessible to all stakeholders making decisions about whether animals are used in #Science. 🧪

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

🧪 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...

🧪 We were invited to Dublin by Ireland's Health Products Regulatory Authority (www.hpra.ie/)'s National Committee for the Protection of Animals Used for Scientific Purposes to present 'How to know if Replacement opportunities have been fully explored'. #HPRA #Science

🧪The next Replacing Animal Research Training School will be held on 11th-13th June 2025 in Dublin, Ireland. Ticket sales close Tuesday 6th May - don't miss out! Why attend? Because responsible research requires better design. replacinganimalresearch.org.uk/for-scientis...

Our CEO Celean talks about the importance of supporting and developing a #neurodiverse team in our latest blog replacinganimalresearch.org.uk/many-brains-...

👇 This is tomorrow! See you there! Don’t forget to register: us06web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

💡 This week’s tips for mitigating #AnimalMethodsBias focus on how you can use #OpenScience practices to improve confidence in #NAMs and address the hesitancy of some reviewers to embrace animal-free methods. 🧪 #peerreview #peerreviewbias #nonanimalresearch #newapproachmethodologies

We've had an amazing couple of week at events @biologists.bsky.social @microbiologysociety.org @replanimalres.bsky.social @humaneresearch.bsky.social @fbmh-uom.bsky.social @uclan.ac.uk @bioclocksuk.bsky.social Thank you to everyone who participated, we'll be out soon: www.stratech.co.uk/news/events/

Our #InnovationGrant Scheme is now open to applications for #smallgrants to replace #AnimalResearch in biomed #Science. We offer £5-£15 for pilot or proof-of-principle projects lasting up to 2 years. Ideal for #ECRs! Take a look or drop us a line? #3Rs #Replacement #NATs #NAMs #Funding 🧪

Last week, Dr. Owen Kavanagh represented the COLAAB at the #BestPracticeInNAMs2025 conference, sharing the latest updates on our efforts to mitigate #AnimalMethodsBias in scientific publishing & funding. Thank you to the organizers! @replanimalres.bsky.social @humaneresearch.bsky.social

Celebrate this year's #WorldDayforAnimalsinLaboratories by joining the COLAAB's first advocacy webinar! We'll share a toolkit & template letter that can help you engage with funding agencies to level the playing field for #NAMs. 🧪 Register here: us06web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

Register for our NAMs Network symposium to connect with developers and end-users of new approach methodologies and join the discussion about reducing the reliance on animals for toxicity testing. 🗓️ Thursday 1 May, 9.30 – 17.00 📍 London, UK 👉 nc3rs.org.uk/events/nc3rs...

#FreeToRead for the next week! An Approach to Setting Vertebrate Animal-use Benchmarks for Agrochemical and GM Crop Testing to Facilitate Future Animal Reduction Efforts journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

Last chance to pop to our stands at #biologists100 & #BestPracticeinNAMs Our talented team are waiting to update you in on our latest technologies Plus enter our competition to take home a Giant Microbe @biologists.bsky.social @replanimalres.bsky.social malres.bsky.social @humaneresearch.bsky.social

Day two of #BestPracticeInNAMs2025 is kicking off!

#BestPracticeInNAMS2025 A fantastic talk by grant holder Dr Hannah Harrison on her work studying breast cancer

Excited to be a part of #BestPracticeinNAMs in York! We offer 100% truly recombinant #antibodies (no immunisation) synthetic peptide alternatives & synthetic "FBS" options look out for our stand to find out more! #NAMs @replanimalres.bsky.social @humaneresearch.bsky.social @replanimalres.bsky.social

✍ This week’s tip for researchers to mitigate #animalmethodsbias is focused on method justification—how can you demonstrate that #nonanimalmethods are the right choice for your research? 🧪 #peerreview #peerreviewbias #methodsuitability

📢 🧪 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 👀 👇

🧪 Quick reminder: deadline is 30/03/25 for our Summer #Studentships to fund Uni students to do 6-10 wk project to replace #AnimalResearch ✍️ develop sci-comms skills 🧪 gain practical research experience 🐭 create a better future for animals and humans replacinganimalresearch.org.uk/for-scientis...

🧪 Did you know we have a weekly blog? As a team, we take it in turns, so the subject matter tends to vary! This week's is by Dr Rita Seabra, Technical Editor for our journal ATLA: Why publication matters in #Science and #Research: replacinganimalresearch.org.uk/why-publicat...

In a new @biorxivpreprint.bsky.social , Drs. @ertrunnell.bsky.social & @katherineroe.bsky.social share the first empirical findings of potential #AnimalMethodsBias in grant review for neuroscience research at NIH. 🧵 🧪 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

We have awarded £1.6M to a team led by Dr Torsten Mayr at PyroScience AT GmbH to improve the robustness and reproducibility of organ-on-a-chip models and overcome barriers to their wider use to replace animals. Learn more about the SensOoChip mega CRACK IT Challenge: nc3rs.org.uk/crackit/news...

🧪 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...

🧪 Quick reminder: deadline is 30/03/25 for our Summer #Studentships to fund Uni students to do 6-10 wk project to replace #AnimalResearch ✍️ develop sci-comms skills 🧪 gain practical research experience 🐭 create a better future for animals and humans replacinganimalresearch.org.uk/for-scientis...

Our Replacement Manager @drdoox.bsky.social finally gets off her chest what the whole #mammoth #de-extinction project from #Colossal really means. #GMelephants #notmammoths #benicetomice #blog #science #ethics 🧪 replacinganimalresearch.org.uk/the-elephant...

We are halfway through The Togeth3R Consortium’s webinar series and 1,600 people from 42 different countries have joined us to hear about non-animal approaches in fields associated with high levels of animal use. Watch the webinar recordings: nc3rs.org.uk/3rs-resource...

Applications open til 30/03/25 for our Summer #Studentships. It's a chance for Uni students to do 6-10 wk project to replace #AnimalResearch ✍️ develop sci-comms skills 🧪 gain practical research experience 🐭 create a better future for animals and humans replacinganimalresearch.org.uk/for-scientis...

A worthy thread of microphysiological research pushing the bound of what complex cell culture and microfluidics can do to accelerate research into #ColorectalCancer #ColorectalCancerAwarenessMonth #organoids #organonachip #oocs #microphysiologicalsystems 🧪

Funders & advocates: Please endorse Research Modernization NOW—a roadmap that strengthens support for these innovative models & reduces reliance on less effective research methods. www.scienceadvancement.org/research-mod... @fightcrc.bsky.social @cacoloncancer.bsky.social @crcequity.bsky.social

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.

A date for your diary, all you fans of #organoids!

This editorial by @oscarabilez.bsky.social covers the different types of #organoids, current challenges, advancements in co-culturing & co-differentiation techniques, & their application potential. 🧪 www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

We are hiring! Join the Knoblich Group as a Research Technician to work on disease modeling in 3D brain organoids. Screening of applications and interviews will start from March 15th, 2025. Apply with the link below:

Looking for an excellent & highly motivated postdoctoral researcher to join our team to develop an exciting project focused on the generation of beneficial Innate Lymphoid Cells #ILC for the treatment of Inflammatory Bowel Disease #IBD using #organoids. Please share! www.kcl.ac.uk/jobs/109186-...

(1/5) ❔ How do #researchers know they’ve fully explored all opportunities to replace animals in their work? ❔ How do #reviewers of grant applications or animal licences know what to look for to be sure that all possibilities to avoid animal use have been taken up? ❔ What questions should they ask?

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