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We're a charity dedicated to a world where no animal suffers for science. replacinganimalresearch.org.uk

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Replacing Animal Research @replanimalres.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
We have 4 places up for grabs for the 2027 #LondonMarathon! Our first ever team raised £7,000 this year to help fund non-animal research. 🥰 💪 Are you up for the challenge to support a future where no animal suffers for #science? 🧪🏃🎽🐭 replacinganimalresearch.org.uk/get-involved...
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Emily R. Trunnell, Ph.D. @ertrunnell.bsky.social · 10/04/2026
💡 @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
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Replacing Animal Research @replanimalres.bsky.social · 17/03/2026
📢 #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...
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Summer Studentships | Replacing Animal Research
The Replacing Animal Research Summert Studentship Programme supports undergraduate research projects relating to the development of animal alternative methods.
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Replacing Animal Research @replanimalres.bsky.social · 19/11/2025
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...
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Replacing animals in science: A strategy to support the development, validation and uptake of alternative methods
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Replacing Animal Research @replanimalres.bsky.social · 28/08/2025
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...
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Replacement Checklist webinar | Replacing Animal Research
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Replacing Animal Research @replanimalres.bsky.social · 21/07/2025
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...
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We’re going Global, baby! | Replacing Animal Research
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Replacing Animal Research @replanimalres.bsky.social · 11/07/2025
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...
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Replacing Animal Research @replanimalres.bsky.social · 03/07/2025
🧪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...
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Replacing Animal Research @replanimalres.bsky.social · 03/07/2025
Deadlines close for our Innovation Grants scheme tomorrow!
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Replacing Animal Research @replanimalres.bsky.social · 24/06/2025
📢 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...
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For scientists | Replacing Animal Research
Replacing Animal Research works to improve scientific efficiency and outcomes by replacing the use of animals in research and testing.
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Replacing Animal Research @replanimalres.bsky.social · 20/06/2025
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. 🧪
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Dr Juliet Dukes @drdoox.bsky.social · 02/06/2025
As part of @replanimalres.bsky.social work with Universities, we're running workshops at #FELASA2025 on Developing an Institutional 3Rs Strategy.
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Replacing Animal Research @replanimalres.bsky.social · 22/05/2025
🧪 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...
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Searching for Alternatives | Replacing Animal Research
How do you find replacements to animal research? Our comprehensive guide supports you through every stage of the journey.
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Replacing Animal Research @replanimalres.bsky.social · 09/05/2025
🧪 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
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Replacing Animal Research @replanimalres.bsky.social · 01/05/2025
🧪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...
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Training School | Replacing Animal Research
Replacing Animal Research’s annual accredited Training School provides training in experimental design and statistics.
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Replacing Animal Research @replanimalres.bsky.social · 24/04/2025
Our CEO Celean talks about the importance of supporting and developing a #neurodiverse team in our latest blog replacinganimalresearch.org.uk/many-brains-...
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Coalition to Illuminate and Address Animal Methods Bias @thecolaab.bsky.social · 23/04/2025
👇 This is tomorrow! See you there! Don’t forget to register: us06web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
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Welcome! You are invited to join a meeting: How to advocate for fair funding and overcome animal methods bias. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email about joining the meeting.
Animal methods bias is a peer review bias characterized by a preference for animal-based research methods or lack of expertise to adequately evaluate nonanimal methods. It can affect the quality or fa...
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Coalition to Illuminate and Address Animal Methods Bias @thecolaab.bsky.social · 07/04/2025
💡 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
"Mitigating Animal Methods Bias in Grant Review. Tip #5. Engage in and promote open science practices.""Engage in and promote open science practices like systemic reviews, data sharing, preregistration, and open access publishing. Confidence in NAMs and other nonanimal methods is still being established. Open science practices foster transparency, rigor, and reproducibility. Over time, this can help boost confidence in NAMs and may address the hesitancy of some reviewers to embrace animal-free methods."
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Replacing Animal Research @replanimalres.bsky.social · 04/04/2025
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 🧪
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Coalition to Illuminate and Address Animal Methods Bias @thecolaab.bsky.social · 03/04/2025
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
Dr. Owen Kavanagh and Celean Camp stand side-by-side in front of a projected screen with the title of the conference, "Best Practice in Non-Animal Research Methods"
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Coalition to Illuminate and Address Animal Methods Bias @thecolaab.bsky.social · 02/04/2025
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...
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NC3Rs @nc3rs.bsky.social · 28/03/2025
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...
Icons representing new approach methodologies to replace animal use for assessing chemical or drug toxicity - a lab flask, a molecule structure on a computer screen and an environmental scene.
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Replacing Animal Research @replanimalres.bsky.social · 27/03/2025
#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/...
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Replacing Animal Research @replanimalres.bsky.social · 27/03/2025
Day two of #BestPracticeInNAMs2025 is kicking off!
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Replacing Animal Research @replanimalres.bsky.social · 26/03/2025
#BestPracticeInNAMS2025 A fantastic talk by grant holder Dr Hannah Harrison on her work studying breast cancer
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Coalition to Illuminate and Address Animal Methods Bias @thecolaab.bsky.social · 24/03/2025
✍ 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
Mitigating Animal Methods Bias in Grant Review, Tip #3: Provide robust justifications for your chosen methodPreempt biased reviews by describing your chosen method’s suitability, advantages over animals, and translational potential. Reviewers who prefer or expect to see animal-based methods will need to be convinced by robust justifications for nonanimal methods, including how it’s better to answer the specific research question than animals and its translational potential to improve human health.
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Replacing Animal Research @replanimalres.bsky.social · 19/03/2025
📢 🧪 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 👀 👇
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Replacing Animal Research @replanimalres.bsky.social · 12/03/2025
🧪 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...
Two women in lab coats are smiling while working in a cell culture lab. Pic also contains text about Replacing Animal Research's Summer Studentship Programme for 2025. It's a chance for Uni students to do 6-10 wk project to replace animals in lab, develop sci-comms skills, gain practical research experience. Deadline is 30th March 2025.
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Replacing Animal Research @replanimalres.bsky.social · 18/03/2025
🧪 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...
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Coalition to Illuminate and Address Animal Methods Bias @thecolaab.bsky.social · 12/03/2025
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...
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NC3Rs @nc3rs.bsky.social · 12/03/2025
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...
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Replacing Animal Research @replanimalres.bsky.social · 12/03/2025
🧪 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...
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Replacing Animal Research @replanimalres.bsky.social · 12/03/2025
🧪 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...
Two women in lab coats are smiling while working in a cell culture lab. Pic also contains text about Replacing Animal Research's Summer Studentship Programme for 2025. It's a chance for Uni students to do 6-10 wk project to replace animals in lab, develop sci-comms skills, gain practical research experience. Deadline is 30th March 2025.
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Replacing Animal Research @replanimalres.bsky.social · 11/03/2025
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...
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NC3Rs @nc3rs.bsky.social · 11/03/2025
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...
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Non-animal approaches across Europe
A webinar series from The Togeth3R Consortium of European 3Rs centres showcasing non-animal methods.
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Replacing Animal Research @replanimalres.bsky.social · 05/03/2025
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...
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Replacing Animal Research @replanimalres.bsky.social · 04/03/2025
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 🧪
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Emily R. Trunnell, Ph.D. @ertrunnell.bsky.social · 04/03/2025
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
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Replacing Animal Research @replanimalres.bsky.social · 04/03/2025
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.
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Replacing Animal Research @replanimalres.bsky.social · 03/03/2025
A date for your diary, all you fans of #organoids!
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Emily R. Trunnell, Ph.D. @ertrunnell.bsky.social · 27/02/2025
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....
Pink gradient background with one organoid illustration on the top left and another on the bottom right. On the top right, the text reads: “[Organoid-on-a-chip] systems offer a scalable, precisely controlled, and ethically sound alternative to in vivo animal models.” On the bottom left the text states: Abilez OJ. Developing advanced organoids: challenges, progress, and outlook. Biotechniques. 2024;76(12):575-580.
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Institute of Molecular Biotechnology @imbavienna.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
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:
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Joana F Neves @nevesjf.bsky.social · 03/03/2025
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-...
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Replacing Animal Research @replanimalres.bsky.social · 03/03/2025
(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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Replacing Animal Research @replanimalres.bsky.social · 03/03/2025
Hi, we're Replacing Animal Research! We're a charity dedicated to a world where no animal suffers for science. We do this through funding research, education, and collaboration. We hope you'll join us on this journey to a better future, for animals and humans.
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