📢 (1/2)Calling all Vets, other named persons and all other 3Rs-dedicated folk with experience of working in, or with, the laboratory animal science community 📢 . @replanimalres.bsky.social are looking for 2-3 #Trustees to strengthen our Board by providing strategic and governance support. 🧪

Despite the fact that 22 Member States have banned force-feeding for foie gras, millions of ducks and geese are still being subjected to this horrible practice in the EU. Why? Because - shockingly - there still isn't an EU-wide ban! 🚨

🔴 There Will Be Another Jason Arday "There will be another Jason Arday. We know this. Because the media knows this. The press isn't free if it lacks the impunity to do what it likes. It's how power protects itself. By declaring it has none" Editorial by Editor in Chief @hardeepmatharu.bsky.social:

There Will Be Another Jason Arday

There is no check to fetter power when unfettered power resides in the check

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Éclipse totale du chat.

So much sense here @andyburnham.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/environment/...

From grey water to cool spaces: 10 climate crisis policies Britain needs right now

Rejecting North Sea drilling licences and protecting nature are just some measures Andy Burnham must implement to ready country

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We need to do something about climate change. There's still time to make a big difference. www.theguardian.com/world/2026/a...

Potatoes ‘boil’ in the ground as record heatwave sweeps across swathes of Asia

South Korean farmers are suffering in record heat, as Hong Kong reports its highest ever temperature and Japan swelters through newly designated ‘cruelly hot’ days

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Please sign too? All of these asks are so basic and obvious. There are many other actions Govt and Industry should be taking, but it's a damn good start.

National Trust@nationaltrust.org.uk · 2mo ago

🧵 Wildfires have burned across the UK, drought has been declared across the whole of Wales and two-thirds of England, while rivers continue to run low...

It's always exciting and slightly discombobulating to be asked by a journo for 'A Quote About A Thing'. But when it turns out to be positive, upbeat, exciting for #science, animals, and human health, aaand they also name drop @replanimalres.bsky.social, it feels good. 😊🧪🐁

Dr Juliet Dukes@drdoox.bsky.social · 2mo ago

‘A mouse can’t tell us what works’: UK scientists to grow miniature human organs for drug testing #Organoids and tissues grown from human cells promise more accurate results, with £20m Cambridge project to create standardised models 🧪 www.theguardian.com/science/2026...

‘A mouse can’t tell us what works’: UK scientists to grow miniature human organs for drug testing #Organoids and tissues grown from human cells promise more accurate results, with £20m Cambridge project to create standardised models 🧪 www.theguardian.com/science/2026...

‘A mouse can’t tell us what works’: UK scientists to grow miniature human organs for drug testing

Organoids and tissues grown from human cells promise more accurate results, with £20m Cambridge project to create standardised models

theguardian.com

"Good morning. Can you spare a few minutes to talk about our Lord and Saviour Godzilla"

This gets to something profound: both positive and negative (null) information are valuable for scientific progress, but our story-telling minds value positive information more, and this carries over to the kind of heroic narratives we tell about scientists.

Randall Munroe@xkcd.com · 3mo ago

Calibration Nobel xkcd.com/3275/

Making my way through these today, and they are already FANTASTIC! Easy to follow interactive reseource taking the user through full experimental process for in vitro studies, from design and model choice through to data analysis and reporting. Well done @nc3rs.bsky.social !! 🧪💪 #science #invitro

NC3Rs@nc3rs.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Today we are pleased to launch the DRIVER recommendations, a new framework designed to improve the quality, reliability and reproducibility of research using in vitro models: nc3rs.org.uk/news/driver-...

Our latest garden bebby is nearly a proper grown up. 🤗 #dragonfly #wildlifepond Southern Hawker? #insects 🐲🪰

Tricky to pick a recurrent theme from Day 2 of #SciFAW100. From failures in transparency to improve #animalwelfate, social licence and public perception, benchmarking across jurisdictions, ethical review, and reproducibility in #Science. Complexity, maybz? Last day today! 🧪🐁🐠🐄🐈🐦🦎

What a first day! - We opened our centenary conference with Symposium 1 - Huge congratulations to Dr Heather Browning, joint recipient of this year's Early Career Researcher Award - Closing the day with drinks & conversation Roll on day 2! 🔗 https://ow.ly/n4i150ZcfRa #SCIFAW100

Huge variety of thought provoking talks from 1st day at #SciFAW100! Blind spots, moral and legal disengagement, the concept of "fruitful doubt", the type of love and care required in #AnimalWelfare thru to using #science to inform policy, and create both behavioural and system change. Day 2 begins!

Poster is up, and I'm presenting it tomorrow (Weds). In the meantime, go have a read, take a copy of @replanimalres.bsky.social #ReplacementChecklist and follow the QR code to more guidance on #Replacement, the 1st and ultimate goal of the #3Rs. #AnimalWelfare begins with #Replacement #SciFAW100

Sophia Hepple starting strong with messages about blind spots in how we treat animals. Giving the *implementation* and *enforcement* of ASPA a thorough shredding gives us an important example of how we can be legally and morally disengaged from our responsibilities for animals in our care #SciFAW100

I'm here in this fabulous building in a v hot London for #SciFAW100 and looking forward to some cracking #science and #ethics. (Also 1st time I've been here since I submitted my PhD 25 yrs ago - A QUARTER OF A CENTURY AGO!!.) @scifaw.bsky.social 🧪🐁🐠🐄🐈🐑🐦🦎

the only character creation sliders that matter #InvertebrateShitposting

Students and Supervisors!Two weeks left to apply for the opportunity to GET PAID to do a biomedical project that also drives #replacement in #AnimalResearch!! 🧪 📆 6-10 week projects 💷 £350 pw stipend 🔬£1000 lab consumables #Science #funding #studentships #3Rs

Replacing Animal Research@replanimalres.bsky.social · 7mo ago

📢 #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...

I've made the error of watching a live update of the POTUS speech in Davros. This has now been lightened a little by the moniker "Golfcart Mugabe".

aidThompsin (live, fridays @ 19:30)@aidthompsin.bsky.social · 9mo ago

Another impressive performance from the strongman's strongman, Golfcart Mugabe.

🥳 What a way to start the year! Totally over the moon that @replanimalres.bsky.social has been shortlisted for @lushprize.bsky.social in the #Training in non-animal research methods category! 🤗 🥰 #lushprize

Lush Prize@lushprize.bsky.social · 9mo ago

Congratulations to all the amazing projects that made it to the Shortlist of the Lush Prize 2026, all working to end animal research & testing & promote human-relevant science: lushprize.org/2026-prize/2...

They used to "laugh and call him names." Now they're all dead

it's more of a comment than a ques

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...

Replacing animals in science: A strategy to support the development, validation and uptake of alternative methods

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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...

Animal testing to be phased out faster as UK unveils roadmap for alternative methods

New plan backs researchers to seize on new and developing opportunities to phase out animal tests with specific commitments for the coming years.

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

Real Support from Actual Racists

YouTube video by Michael Spicer

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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...