For anyone who missed our digital workshop earlier this year, here's a brief summary! Coorganised with Love Hansell and @simonlohse.bsky.social 🙌 #animalexperimentation #animalresearch #3Rs doi.org/10.14573/alt...
Nico Müller
@nicodmueller.bsky.social
🐾 Animal rights | 🐭 Animal experimentation ethics | ☝️ Kantian ethics | 📚 I post about books I'm reading & engage in shameless self-promotion Philosopher at University of Basel🇨🇭| https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0866-8235
"This article argues that the law’s ignorance of the harm of killing leads to its trivialization in practice and, consequently, undermines the ethical legitimacy of deadly animal research projects." #animalresearch #3rs #animalethics doi.org/10.1007/s11019-026-10382-y
Very happy to announce that our article "Animals and Human Rights" is now out in Philosophy Compass. It was wonderful working on this with my friend and colleague Dr. Valérie G. Topf! Check it out here: compass.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
‘While alternatives have a role to play in decreasing reliance on animal models, the very notion of an alternative implies that they react to a research agenda set by work that relies on animal models.’ Nico Müller @nicodmueller.bsky.social ⬇️
Emily R. Trunnell, Ph.D.@ertrunnell.bsky.social · 4mo agoReplacement changes what tools are available. Displacement changes how science is done. @nicodmueller.bsky.social's revisit of “Lane‑Petter’s Pipeline” provides the wider lens we need to modernize and humanize biomedical research. 🧵 #bioethics #paradigmchange #scipol #metasci #philsci
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Replacement changes what tools are available. Displacement changes how science is done. @nicodmueller.bsky.social's revisit of “Lane‑Petter’s Pipeline” provides the wider lens we need to modernize and humanize biomedical research. 🧵 #bioethics #paradigmchange #scipol #metasci #philsci
The "journos worrying about anthropomorphization" saga continues. Just gave a short phone interview to 🇨🇭 public radio about the whale stranded in 🇩🇪. Like clockwork, the first substantive question was: do people anthropomorphize the whale? I tried another answer this time.
Nico Müller@nicodmueller.bsky.social · 2y agoI also low key want to give every journo that worries about anthropomorphization a slap with this book, which argues very convincingly that people often _dehumanize_ animals too. But sure, let's only worry that we might accidentally give animals too much consideration...
🚨 New paper by myself and @tristankatz.bsky.social 🚨 "Harm-Benefit Analysis for Animal Experiments Is Not Utilitarian" It's commonly claimed that HBA – used in the licensing of animal studies – is utilitarian. We say this vastly oversells the framework. #animalexperimentation #animalresearch #3Rs
🚨 New paper by myself and @tristankatz.bsky.social 🚨 "Harm-Benefit Analysis for Animal Experiments Is Not Utilitarian" It's commonly claimed that HBA – used in the licensing of animal studies – is utilitarian. We say this vastly oversells the framework. #animalexperimentation #animalresearch #3Rs
🤓 Mandatory reading on #animalexperimentation #reproducibility #3Rs by @simonlohse.bsky.social link.springer.com/article/10.1...
Reproducibility, questionable research practices and ethico-epistemic trade-offs in animal-based biomedicine - European Journal for Philosophy of Science
European Journal for Philosophy of Science - I discuss reproducibility issues in animal-based research in biomedicine and scrutinise the notion that the causes of non-reproducible results are, by...
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Last chance to register! Really looking forward to this workshop on Thursday/Friday this week. 🐭📉🧫
Coalition to Illuminate and Address Animal Methods Bias@thecolaab.bsky.social · 5mo agoMarch 19–20! Radboud Uni & @unibas.ch are hosting a workshop on the "Transition Beyond Animal Experimentation.” 🗣️ The COLAAB’s Dr. Krebs of @pcrm.org will speak about #AnimalMethodsBias as a barrier to this transition, including the latest evidence & bias mitigation strategies from our group.
NEW ISSUE from Politics and the Life Sciences - Volume 45 - Issue 1 - Spring 2026 - https://cup.org/4re3eQa Inc papers by @davinphoenix.bsky.social, @cailinmeister.bsky.social, @ac-lopez.bsky.social, @davidakaye.bsky.social, @nicodmueller.bsky.social, @laurennross.bsky.social & more
📣 Upcoming Online Workshop, 19–20 March 2026 *Understanding Challenges and Opportunities for the Transition Beyond #AnimalExperimentation in Research and Safety Testing: What‘s New? What‘s Next?* Register by 17 March: tinyurl.com/nam-workshop #NAM #animalethics #philsci #animalstudies #STS
🚨 New paper out today 🚨 The message is simple: As we replace some animal experiments with alternatives, new animal experiments are also being innovated. If our policy goal is inflicting less harm on animals in science, replacement won’t be enough. We also need a shift in model innovation. 🐭📉
Lane-Petter’s Pipeline: Why reliably decreasing animal research takes more than replacements
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🚨 New paper out today 🚨 The message is simple: As we replace some animal experiments with alternatives, new animal experiments are also being innovated. If our policy goal is inflicting less harm on animals in science, replacement won’t be enough. We also need a shift in model innovation. 🐭📉
Lane-Petter’s Pipeline: Why reliably decreasing animal research takes more than replacements
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onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... In a new paper in Pacific Philosophical Quarterly, Eze Paez and I introduce “sentientist political liberalism,” an attempt to reconcile the ideas of society as a system of cooperation and public justification with taking animals seriously.
Sentientist Political Liberalism
This paper introduces sentientist political liberalism. Elaborating on the fundamental ideas in John Rawls's political liberalism, we propose that the scheme of fair social cooperation among persons ...
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Had a good time at yesterday's Swiss Animal Protection meeting! 👍 I talked about why I think phase-out planning for animal experimentation is a good idea, if it's done well. 🐭📉 It was also great to meet Love Hansell again. Check out his work, if you haven't yet: doi.org/10.25453/pla...
📣❗New article out now! rdcu.be/eSSNa I explain how to do "nonideal animal research ethics" – it involves spelling out ethical goals first, then mapping ethical pathways to get there. I think we should do this more often because…
On the latest episode of Knowing Animals, I speak to Doris Schneeberger about her 2024 Palgrave book Envisioning a Better Future for Nonhuman Animals: Towards Future Animal Rights Declarations. The episode is available free below or in all the usual places. knowinganimals.libsyn.com/episode-243-...
It's pretty encouraging to read this in Nature! 🐭📉 I'd just add that (a) NAMs shouldn't be reduced to mere "alternatives" to animal models (just like chickpeas aren't just meat replacements); (b) bottom-up acceptance of NAMs is part of the solution, but some top-down strategy is needed too.
Alternatives to animal testing are the future — it’s time that journals, funders and scientists embrace them
Biomedical research techniques that don’t involve the use of animals are gaining momentum, but those using innovative approaches still face resistance from some quarters.
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Surprising no one, the 🇨🇭 Federal Council today recommended rejecting yet another popular initiative aiming to ban #AnimalExperimentation. 🐭🧪❌ In my view, these initiatives foster the wrong kind of discussion – a crude Pro vs Con. What we need is a debate about the How of moving forward.
Le Conseil fédéral recommande de rejeter l’initiative populaire fédérale «Oui à un avenir sans expérimentation animale»
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In this new paper, Pandora Pound draws on Bourdieu to analyze #AnimalResearch in terms of fields, habitus, and different kinds of capital. Worth a read!
A sociological perspective on the challenges of displacing animal research within academia: the contribution of Bourdieu
The use of non-animal, new approach methodologies (NAMs) is increasing but there has been no associated decrease in animal use. Reasons may include th…
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Animals constantly give off information – what if there was a disease that forced humans to listen and understand? People would love it, if this book has it right. And society might collapse. A really, really fun read! #BookSky #AnimalRights
📉🐭 New numbers out today: 🇨🇭 reports the lowest annual use of animals in #AnimalExperimentation since records began in 1983. A fortunate development for sure, but there's no guarantee it'll continue. Thoughts in 🧵
📉🐭 New numbers out today: 🇨🇭 reports the lowest annual use of animals in #AnimalExperimentation since records began in 1983. A fortunate development for sure, but there's no guarantee it'll continue. Thoughts in 🧵
A missed opportunity: The 🇨🇭 Council of States just voted *not* to pursue a parliamentary initiative for a phase-out plan for animal experiments. This means the bill is off the table. But there's always next time…! 🐭📉
Having a great time at the European Animal Rights Law Conference – that's me there in the picture! 😎 I talked about phase-out planning for research that harms animals: Why it's not just the #3Rs, why it's different from a ban, and how politically promising the demand is. Great discussion too!
Cambridge Centre for Animal Rights Law@animalrightslaw.bsky.social · 11mo agoOur European Animal Rights Law Conference 2025 has begun! 🎉 Today, we heard presentations from our distinguished speakers on the following block subjects: 1️⃣ Taking stock of current animal rights bills 2️⃣ Challenges before and after enactment (1/2)
My paper ‘Animal Rights, Moral Motivation, and the Experience of Wonder’ onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... has just been published at @the-joap.bsky.social In it, I argue for fostering a sense of wonder at individual nonhuman animals, & for making this the basis of a reverence-based respect.
Animal Rights, Moral Motivation, and the Experience of Wonder
Despite being strong, arguments for animal rights often fail to motivate. One reason for this is that rights are associated with concepts, such as respect, that are difficult to apply to nonhuman ani...
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