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?

NC3Rs@nc3rs.bsky.social · 2w ago

Three months on from launching SIRF-UP, an @eu-sabv.bsky.social initiative to support ethical review bodies assess sex inclusivity in animal research, a new publication renews our call to get involved, share your experiences and use the Sex Inclusive Research Framework. 👉 doi.org/10.1177/0023...

Three months on from launching SIRF-UP, an @eu-sabv.bsky.social initiative to support ethical review bodies assess sex inclusivity in animal research, a new publication renews our call to get involved, share your experiences and use the Sex Inclusive Research Framework. 👉 doi.org/10.1177/0023...

My IntelliCage protocol has been published in Current Protocols today 🎉 It provides step-by-step instructions for planning and conducting IntelliCage Experiments with #mice. dx.doi.org/10.1002/cpz1... #research #animalresearch

General Instructions for Using the IntelliCage with Mice

The IntelliCage is a home-cage-based radiofrequency identification (RFID) test system for studying learning behavior of group-housed mice. Specifically, the mice must learn where and how to get water....

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Interested in home cage monitoring in rodents? 😃 This book contains a wealth of information on this topic: link.springer.com/book/10.1007...

Our members from different ITC countries have published a paper in Slovenian Veterinary Research on the advantages home-cage systems offer for animal welfare and data reproducibility. A pipeline for choosing the right system also added! slovetres.si/index.php/SV... #behavior #homecage #welfare

We have published a new Current Protocols paper providing practical instructions for using the RFID-based #IntelliCage to study learning #behavior in group-housed mice. currentprotocols.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/... #animalresearch #HomeCageMonitoring @costprogramme.bsky.social #mouse

Check out our new publication: Critical uncertainties in preclinical research: Navigating trust, technology, and ethics. doi.org/10.1016/j.ns... #animalresearch @costprogramme.bsky.social #ethics #NAMs #preclinical

How the integration of #technology, #welfare, and good experimental design can refine research practices and enhance translational relevance? Check out our new book: link.springer.com/book/10.1007... #animalresearch #communication #3Rs @costprogramme.bsky.social

Home Cage Monitoring in Rodents: A Global Effort

An Open Access guide to home cage monitoring, improving 24/7 rodent behavior tracking, animal welfare, and data quality in translational animal research.

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🤝 How We Support You as ReproducibiliTea – Part 2 Curious about joining a journal club but not sure where to start? We’ve got you covered! 📚 Join an existing journal club Many of our ReproducibiliTea journal clubs are held online and warmly welcome new participants from around the world.

The Young Researcher Group within the EU-SABV is hosting an online session to introduce the Behavior Forum. @ozgeselincevik.bsky.social

SIRF-UP is an @eu-sabv.bsky.social COST Action initiative to support ethical review bodies assess sex-inclusivity in animal research. Using female and male animals should be the default to reduce the total number of animals used and produce results that are generalisable to the whole population.

Balma presenting for @thebehaviourforum.bsky.social For recording - available soon in @cost-teatime.bsky.social YouTube channel, read also the paper describing the system , Training Village www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

Balma Serrano Porcar@balmaserrano.bsky.social · 5mo ago

Next week I will present online our work on the Training Village at the Behavior Forum. It is a pleasure to be part of this community! 🗓️Save the date: March 12, 12:30–14:00 CET 🔗Zoom link: helsinki.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

I am very excited to share my first preprint🎉 The pandemic kicked off strongly during the first year of my PhD, and I had to stop the behavioral experiments when mice were starting to understand the task. At the BCB Lab, this showed us that training automation could be a real game changer (🧵1/10)

bioRxivpreprint@biorxivpreprint.bsky.social · 7mo ago

The Training Village: an open platform for continuous testing of rodents in cognitive tasks https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.01.12.698970v1

Next week I will present online our work on the Training Village at the Behavior Forum. It is a pleasure to be part of this community! 🗓️Save the date: March 12, 12:30–14:00 CET 🔗Zoom link: helsinki.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

Do you remember that very night -- the night before the day of all days, four years ago? How many of us didn’t sleep at all. We sat in the dark in silence, in front of our laptops, refreshing news feeds.

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...

The 2025 FELASA Congress in Athens: From Aristotle to AI - Lab Animal

The 16th FELASA Congress took place June 2025 in the cradle of science, Athens. Upon arrival, more than 2,000 professionals from 52 countries were welcomed by “Aristotle the Octopus”, a mascot alludin...

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@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

Home cage monitoring makes animal research more translatable

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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...

NRP 79 – Advancing 3R: How could the implementation of the 3Rs be improved?

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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