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COST Action - Positive animal welfare (LIFT) @liftcostaction.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Around 40 years ago, David Wood-Gush, Alex Stolba and Ruth Newberry put commercial pigs in a semi-natural environment. Their work has been seminal for the development of animal welfare science. Videos of these experiments are now made available on our YouTube channel www.youtube.com/playlist?lis...

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Edinburgh Pig Park - YouTube

Produced by Alex Stolba, this three-part documentary series (narrated in both English and German) documents the pioneering Edinburgh Pig Park studies, where ...

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COST Action - Positive animal welfare (LIFT) @liftcostaction.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

📰✨ Our Feature Paper of the Month! ✨📰 This month's highlight: "The voice of choice: A scoping review of choice-based animal welfare studies" by Kelli Rust, Isabella Clegg & Eduardo J. Fernandez. 📖 Read more: doi.org/10.1016/j.ap...

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COST Action - Positive animal welfare (LIFT) @liftcostaction.bsky.social · 20/05/2026

📢 We’ve launched a LIFT survey to support the development of Positive Animal Welfare (PAW) indicators for farm animals. We are requesting input from farm managers and farmers’ associations, working with dairy cattle, beef cattle, pigs, layer poultry, broiler poultry, sheep and goats.

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Surveys - LIFT - COST ACTION CA21124

COST Action LIFT 1st Round Stakeholder Consultation (until 31st of July 2026). Positive animal welfare is beyond good physical health and without animal

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COST Action - Positive animal welfare (LIFT) @liftcostaction.bsky.social · 11/05/2026

📰✨ Our Feature Paper of the Month! ✨📰 This month's highlight: "Early-life environmental enrichment promotes positive animal welfare for juvenile Atlantic salmon in aquaculture research" by P. Prentice, M. Chivite Alcalde, P. Císař & S. Rey Planellas. 📖 Read more: doi.org/10.1038/s415...

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Early-life environmental enrichment promotes positive animal welfare for juvenile Atlantic salmon (Salmo salar) in aquaculture research - Scientific Reports

Scientific Reports - Early-life environmental enrichment promotes positive animal welfare for juvenile Atlantic salmon (Salmo salar) in aquaculture research

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COST Action - Positive animal welfare (LIFT) @liftcostaction.bsky.social · 04/05/2026

We are pleased to invite you to the final workshop of the COST Action LIFT – “Lifting Farm Animal Lives: laying the foundations for positive animal welfare” 🐄🐑🐖 📍 Location: Royal Veterinary College 📅 Date: 26 June 2026 🎟️ Attendance is FREE of charge 👉 Register here: event.au.dk/events/cost-...

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COST Action - Positive animal welfare (LIFT) @liftcostaction.bsky.social · 13/04/2026

"📰✨ Our Feature Paper of the Month! ✨📰 This month's highlight: "AI-agent ethics should consider sentient non-human animals" by Borbala Foris & Jean-Loup Rault. 📖 Read more: doi.org/10.1038/d415...

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COST Action - Positive animal welfare (LIFT) @liftcostaction.bsky.social · 02/04/2026

WG4 members met in Warsaw to advance communication efforts: drafting a PAW translation manuscript, planning upcoming social media, reviewing outputs, and developing a children’s book. They also explored “life after LIFT” and the future of the website and channels post–COST Action.

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COST Action - Positive animal welfare (LIFT) @liftcostaction.bsky.social · 24/02/2026

Join us for the 4th Synergy Webinar on Animal Welfare! 🎙 “What can rats teach us about positive animal welfare with a focus on play and tickling?” 👤 With Prof. Alistair Lawrence 📅 25 February 2026 | 13:00 CEST 🔗: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

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COST Action - Positive animal welfare (LIFT) @liftcostaction.bsky.social · 13/02/2026

📰✨ Our Feature Paper of the Month! ✨📰 This month's highlight: "Vocalisations in farm animals: A step towards positive welfare assessment" by Karin Laurijs, Elodie Briefer, Inonge Reimert, and Laura E. Webb. 📖 Read more: doi.org/10.1016/j.ap...

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COST Action - Positive animal welfare (LIFT) @liftcostaction.bsky.social · 10/02/2026

LIFT’s very own podcast ‘Lifting Animals’ Lives’ is finally here! Our first episode with Dr Laura Webb, Assistant Professor at Wageningen University & Vice Chair of the COST Action, is now live. Happy listening! Link to RSS website: rss.com/podcasts/lif... Link to YouTube: youtu.be/pIEGkFBHA0M

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COST Action - Positive animal welfare (LIFT) @liftcostaction.bsky.social · 09/02/2026

The WG3 meeting in Barcelona (Jan 27–28, 2026) was intensive & highly productive: a warm-up, 5 focused work blocks, an invited talk, & 2 roundtables on outputs, manuscripts, deliverables & the #LIFTCostAction final workshop - with 22 attendees, including researchers and stakeholders, being involved.

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COST Action - Positive animal welfare (LIFT) @liftcostaction.bsky.social · 26/01/2026

📰✨ Our Feature Paper of the Month! ✨📰 This month's highlight: "Inducing and measuring positive affective state in domesticated equines: A Delphi consultation" by Loni Loftus, Lucy Asher, and Matthew Leach. 📖 Read more: doi.org/10.1016/j.tv...

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COST Action - Positive animal welfare (LIFT) @liftcostaction.bsky.social · 16/01/2026

🚨 Dairy farmers needed – urgent input requested! 🚨 We urgently need responses from dairy cattle producers for a survey on Positive Animal Welfare (PAW), carried out within our action (WG3). 🔗 Survey links (choose your language) are in the replies!

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COST Action - Positive animal welfare (LIFT) @liftcostaction.bsky.social · 15/12/2025

📰✨ Our Feature Paper of the Month! ✨📰 This month's highlight: "A dynamic concept of animal welfare: The role of appetitive and adverse internal and external factors and the animal’s ability to adapt to them" by S. Arndt, V. Goerlich, and J. van der Staay. 📖 Read more: doi.org/10.3389/fani...

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COST Action - Positive animal welfare (LIFT) @liftcostaction.bsky.social · 13/11/2025

"📰✨ Our Feature Paper of the Month! ✨📰 This month's highlight: "Positive welfare: What does it add to the debate over pig welfare?" by Alistair B. Lawrence, Ruth C. Newberry and Marek Špinka. 📖 Read more: doi.org/10.1016/B978...

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COST Action - Positive animal welfare (LIFT) @liftcostaction.bsky.social · 29/10/2025

📢 Webinar on how gamification can inspire positive change in animal welfare research - happening Nov 3rd. Don’t miss it!

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COST Action - Positive animal welfare (LIFT) @liftcostaction.bsky.social · 14/10/2025

📰✨ Our Feature Paper of the Month! ✨📰 This month's highlight: "Can positive welfare counterbalance negative and can net welfare be assessed?" by Donald M. Broom. 📖 Read more: doi.org/10.3389/fani...

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COST Action - Positive animal welfare (LIFT) @liftcostaction.bsky.social · 09/10/2025

Join us for our next Synergy Webinar on Animal Welfare, by @affect-evo.bsky.social, @liftcostaction.bsky.social & COST IMPROVE! “Animal happiness" with Ass. Prof. Laura Webb. 📅 Date & Time: 15 October 2025 | 16:00 CEST 🔗 Registration link: forms.gle/jxHjULq5UrQ9...

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Drew Altschul @dremalt.bsky.social · 22/09/2025

Recently I spoke about @manyprimates.bsky.social for @liftcostaction.bsky.social about distributed research projects and teams in animal sciences! www.youtube.com/watch?v=UKrA... If you're interested in BTS projects, comparative cognition etc, have a watch

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[Drew Altschul & Bernhard Voelkl] Strategies to optimize cross-institute collaborations

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COST Action - Positive animal welfare (LIFT) @liftcostaction.bsky.social · 23/09/2025

We’d love your input on translating “Positive animal welfare” into local languages — esp. Spanish, Portuguese & Mandarin 🌍 Share your translation here: ec.europa.eu/eusurvey/run...

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COST Action - Positive animal welfare (LIFT) @liftcostaction.bsky.social · 10/09/2025

Another month, another successful meeting! 🐾 On Sept 3–4 in Teramo, WG1 held a workshop on “Fostering good lives for animals: Does Positive Animal Welfare move animal welfare further?”. Huge thanks to @mchincarini.bsky.social & the University of Teramo for hosting us! #LIFTCostAction

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COST Action - Positive animal welfare (LIFT) @liftcostaction.bsky.social · 10/09/2025

📰✨ Our Feature Paper of the Month! ✨📰 This month's highlight: "Positive Welfare in Science and Society: Differences, Similarities and Synergies" by Belinda Vigors, Peter Sandøe, and Alistair Lawrence. 📖 Read more: doi.org/10.3389/fani...

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COST Action - Positive animal welfare (LIFT) @liftcostaction.bsky.social · 04/08/2025

The room is buzzing! 🔊 18 breakout groups (!) are diving into open questions on positive animal welfare - great energy and engagement all around. #LIFTCoastAction

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COST Action - Positive animal welfare (LIFT) @liftcostaction.bsky.social · 04/08/2025

After lunch, we’re now diving into indicators of positive animal welfare and how to translate lab findings into real-world, on-farm settings - bridging science and practice! #LIFTCostAction

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COST Action - Positive animal welfare (LIFT) @liftcostaction.bsky.social · 04/08/2025

Starting the workshop with four amazing overview talks on the conceptual framework of positive animal welfare (PAW) and many key aspects related to PAW - setting the stage for great discussions ahead! 🐾 #LIFTCostAction

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COST Action - Positive animal welfare (LIFT) @liftcostaction.bsky.social · 04/08/2025

🚀 Kicking off the LIFT Satellite Workshop in Utrecht - just ahead of #ISAE2025! Our chair, Margit Bak Jensen, opens the day with a warm welcome and overview of the COST Action. Looking forward to a day of productive discussions and networking!

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COST Action - Positive animal welfare (LIFT) @liftcostaction.bsky.social · 17/07/2025

📰✨ Our Feature Paper of the Month! ✨📰 This month's highlight: "Does Smart Farming Improve or Damage Animal Welfare? Technology and What Animals Want" by Marian Stamp Dawkins. 📖 Read more: doi.org/10.3389/fani...

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COST Action - Positive animal welfare (LIFT) @liftcostaction.bsky.social · 16/06/2025

📰✨ Our Feature Paper of the Month! ✨📰 This month's highlight: "Human-animal interactions and machine-animal interactions in animals under human care: A summary of stakeholder and researcher perceptions and future directions" by Ellen Williams and colleagues. 📖 Read more: doi.org/10.1017/awf....

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COST Action - Positive animal welfare (LIFT) @liftcostaction.bsky.social · 22/05/2025

Join us for the 1st Synergy Webinar on Animal Welfare, by @affect-evo.bsky.social, @liftcostaction.bsky.social & COST IMPROVE! “Adult neurogenesis as a valence marker” w/ Dr. Tom Smulders 📅 28 May 2025 | 🕓 16:00 CET 💻 Zoom (link via registration) 🔗 Registration link: forms.gle/TMK7ao8zPuZ3...

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COST Action - Positive animal welfare (LIFT) @liftcostaction.bsky.social · 13/05/2025

🚨 New publication alert! 📄 Excited to share the results of a LIFT COST Action Short Term Scientific Mission (STSM) — a fantastic collaboration between Slovenia and Italy! www.frontiersin.org/journals/vet...

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COST Action - Positive animal welfare (LIFT) @liftcostaction.bsky.social · 13/05/2025

📰✨ Our Feature Paper of the Month! ✨📰 This month's highlight: "The Power of a Positive Human–Animal Relationship for Animal Welfare" by Jean-Loup Rault and colleagues. 📖 Read more: doi.org/10.3389/fvet...

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Christian Nawroth @goatswhostare.bsky.social · 08/05/2025

What an outstanding workshop we had this week! Two days full of big ideas and constructive discussions - when everyone leaves with a wider horizon, you know it was something special. @liftcostaction.bsky.social

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COST Action - Positive animal welfare (LIFT) @liftcostaction.bsky.social · 09/05/2025

🚨 Webinar Alert! Join us for an online webinar organised by the COST Action IMPROVE on "Ethics, Animal Research & One Health" with Prof. Dr. Yeşim Işıl Ulman. 📅 15 May 2025 | 🕜 13:30 CET | 💻 Zoom 🔗 Register: forms.gle/W37txHD71ZrZ...

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COST Action - Positive animal welfare (LIFT) @liftcostaction.bsky.social · 08/05/2025

🚀 Less than a month since their last event, WG3 held a successful Training School on stakeholder engagement in PAW research—this time in Split, Croatia, hosted by LIFT member Boris Antunović (University of Osijek) on April 14–15. #LIFTCostAction

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Christian Nawroth @goatswhostare.bsky.social · 05/05/2025

Getting hyped for the LIFT (@liftcostaction.bsky.social) workshop kicking off tomorrow in Rostock and at FBN (@fbndummerstorf.bsky.social)! The goats are ready to meet you all 🐐✨

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Christian Nawroth @goatswhostare.bsky.social · 01/05/2025

📢Webinar alert📢 Join our next webinar (co-hosted by @liftcostaction.bsky.social) with Dr Anne-Lise Dauphiné-Morer (Learning Planet Institute) as we explore a new interdisciplinary tool to hypothesize non-human intentions. ⏰ 5 pm CEST (NEW TIME!) 📅 May 5th 🔗 us02web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

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COST Action - Positive animal welfare (LIFT) @liftcostaction.bsky.social · 16/04/2025

📰✨ Our Feature Paper of the Month! ✨📰 This month's highlight: "Towards an integrated concept of animal welfare" by Inonge Reimert and colleagues. 📖 Read more: doi.org/10.1016/j.an...

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COST Action - Positive animal welfare (LIFT) @liftcostaction.bsky.social · 26/03/2025

WG3 had a successful meeting in Antalya (Feb 27-28), hosted by Özkan Elmaz, with twelve LIFT members joining in person to advance WG activities. Topics included the selection of PAW indicators to be consulted, identification of stakeholders, and survey construction. #LIFTCostAction

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COST Action - Positive animal welfare (LIFT) @liftcostaction.bsky.social · 11/02/2025

📰✨ Our Feature Paper of the Month! ✨📰 This month's highlight: "Assessing animal welfare: a triangulation of preference, judgement bias and other candidate welfare indicators" by Elizabeth Paul and colleagues. 📖 Read more: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

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COST Action - Positive animal welfare (LIFT) @liftcostaction.bsky.social · 23/01/2025

Don't miss the opportunity to dive deeper into this important topic - join us for today's seminar to discuss the paper with @jeanlouprault.bsky.social! Be sure to register here: cassyni.com/events/qGM3k...

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COST Action - Positive animal welfare (LIFT) @liftcostaction.bsky.social · 23/01/2025

Excited to share the first paper from our COST Action! 🎉 This PAW definition paper has been a huge collaborative effort that we hope will help shape research directions and inspire scientific progress for the benefit of animals and humans alike. 🐾🌍 royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/...

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A consensus on the definition of positive animal welfare | Biology Letters

The concept of animal welfare is evolving due to progress in our scientific understanding of animal biology and changing societal expectations. Animal welfare science has been primarily concerned with...

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Jean-Loup @jeanlouprault.bsky.social · 17/01/2025

Excited to share our new definition of Positive Animal Welfare at next week live seminar! #PositiveAnimalWelfare #AnimalWelfareScience @LIFTCostAction.bsky.social 📅 Thursday 23rd Jan ⏰ 13h15 CET @RSocPublishing cassyni.com/events/qGM3k...

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COST Action - Positive animal welfare (LIFT) @liftcostaction.bsky.social · 14/01/2025

📰✨ Our Feature Paper of the Month! ✨📰 This month's highlight: "Validating Indicators of Subjective Animal Welfare" by Heather Browning (@zoophilosophy.bsky.social). 📖 Read more: doi.org/10.1017/psa....

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COST Action - Positive animal welfare (LIFT) @liftcostaction.bsky.social · 18/12/2024

📰✨ Our Feature Paper of the Month! ✨📰 This month's highlight: "How STRANGE are your study animals?" by Michael M. Webster & Christian Rutz. 📖 Read more: doi.org/10.1038/d415...

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COST Action - Positive animal welfare (LIFT) @liftcostaction.bsky.social · 29/11/2024

‘LIFT’ is a 4-year EU funded COST Action project which will provide the background for including positive welfare in farm animal welfare assessment. The Action started in November 2022 and will continue to November 2026. Currently, LIFT has more than 200 participants from 38 different countries.

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