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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
The clarity of the pledges, the organisations named responsible for their delivery, and expected timescales, all allow us to hold them to account. It's also important to remember how far we've come. 🧪🐭 #Replacement #3Rs #AnimalResearch
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Replacing Animal Research @replanimalres.bsky.social · 19/11/2025
But in many areas it's not that simple. 🤓 There are ambitious goals that require complex cultural, behavioural, and structural changes with the way we do #science within this strategy, not just the easy wins.
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Replacing Animal Research @replanimalres.bsky.social · 19/11/2025
Many areas of regulatory testing have already been replaced, many more are underway and so some may see this as unambitious and easily achieved.
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Replacing Animal Research @replanimalres.bsky.social · 19/11/2025
The focus is largely on replacing animal procedures in regulatory testing, like safety testing new drugs and chemicals, which are actually only a small % of the total carried out each year.
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Replacing Animal Research @replanimalres.bsky.social · 19/11/2025
- Training for #funders and their review panels to ensure that #replacement opportunities are consistently taken in their funding decisions. - Ensure Journal Editors welcome well designed and reported alternative methods without requiring comparison with an animal ‘model’. #3Rs #AnimalResearch
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Replacing Animal Research @replanimalres.bsky.social · 19/11/2025
Other highlights include areas that we have long been calling for 📢: - Improving advice on alternatives for the community - Dedicated training for PhD students in alternative methods
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Replacing Animal Research @replanimalres.bsky.social · 19/11/2025
We're particularly pleased to see significant funding being devoted to the science and technology, including a preclinical translational models hub and a new UK Centre for the development and validation of alternatives. 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 · 19/11/2025
It outlines clear areas of work both within govt across different depts, and through organisations like @nc3rs.bsky.social and via @ukri.org 's Medical Research Council. It also mentions how this will be driven, achieved, and the progress towards each goal measured.
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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 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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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
It's not too late to get your brief project outline submitted to be in with a chance to win our #InnovationGrant #funding! Get your ideas together for proof-of-principle or pilot studies and fill out your preliminary application here: replacinganimalresearch.org.uk/for-scientis...
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Innovation Grant Scheme | Replacing Animal Research
Replacing Animal Research's innovation grant offers pilot project funding for innovative projects focused on alternatives to animal research.
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Replacing Animal Research @replanimalres.bsky.social · 24/06/2025
This is just the first stage of the application process. Those that fit our mission and purpose, are novel and innovative, and advance human relevant science and replacing animal use, will be invited to submit a more detailed application. #Replacement #3Rs #SmallGrants #Grants #Research
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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
Exploring opportunities to replace animal use requires a different kind of thinking. Please get in touch if you need help in the replacement of animals in your field or Institution: hello@replacinganimalresearch.org.uk #Research 🧪
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Replacing Animal Research @replanimalres.bsky.social · 22/05/2025
Being able to find and assess info to help replace #AnimalResearch is essential for for good #science and legal and ethical reasons too. #3Rs #Research
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Replacing Animal Research @replanimalres.bsky.social · 22/05/2025
Other guidance directs users to in vivo literature, encouraging systematic reviews to help find information on animal #replacement approaches. SRs are helpful in other contexts but not for exploring ways of avoiding animal use that might need tech to be adopted and adapted from elsewhere.
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Replacing Animal Research @replanimalres.bsky.social · 22/05/2025
You can also download a detailed guide for advice on terminology, appropriate strategies, and available resources for efficient online searches.
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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 so pleased to be invited to help Ireland's research community better implement the 'R' of #Replacement! If you're a researcher, member of a review panel, #Ethics committee, #AWERB or #AWB and want some support or training in searching for alternatives to #AnimalResearch, please get in touch!
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Replacing Animal Research @replanimalres.bsky.social · 09/05/2025
It was a brilliant day exploring diverse Developments in #Replacement - a fantastic showcase of both emerging technologies, and existing approaches to avoid animal use, including #iPSCs, #AI, #Bioprinting, #organoids (and also partial replacements using animals 'not considered sentient').
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Replacing Animal Research @replanimalres.bsky.social · 09/05/2025
We also used our own #ReplacementChecklist in order to evaluate the extent to which real life case studies may have explored opportuntities for replacement in #AnimalResearch. You can access our Checklist here: replacinganimalresearch.org.uk/resources/re...
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Replacement checklist | Replacing Animal Research
Our replacement checklist helps you identify and assess whether replacements to animal research have been properly explored.
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Replacing Animal Research @replanimalres.bsky.social · 09/05/2025
Our own Research Manager @drdoox.bsky.social also ran a workshop with #EURL #ECVAM's wonderful Annalisa Gastaldello in 'Strategies for Searching Data Repositories', using a demo version of their new #AI driven database (you can see current version here: data.jrc.ec.europa.eu/dataset/b759...)
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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
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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...
Blue and yellow flyer for the webinar, "How to advocate for fair funding and overcome animal methods bias." Hosted by the Coalition to Illuminate and Address Animal Methods Bias (COLAAB). Held on April 24, 2025 at 11 am ET / 5 pm CET. This is a virtual webinar and registration is required.
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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
Now discussing how sometimes collaboration does feel like herding cats (but very enthusiastic, hard-working cats!)
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Replacing Animal Research @replanimalres.bsky.social · 27/03/2025
Now we're hearing from our CEO Celean on behalf of the Alliance for Human Relevant Science discussing the importance of collaboration (and how to get attention in this attention economy!)
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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
Nicola estimates in 2021, over 30,000 animals were used in metabolic research!
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Replacing Animal Research @replanimalres.bsky.social · 27/03/2025
Now we're hearing from Replacing Animal Research Innovation Grant scheme winner Dr Nicola Contessi Negrini!
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Replacing Animal Research @replanimalres.bsky.social · 27/03/2025
This really highlights how vital replacement is to ensure a better future for animals and humans
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Replacing Animal Research @replanimalres.bsky.social · 27/03/2025
Dr Ryan Jones highlighting how 40% of orthopaedic animal studies are never published, 50% of the published animal research is never referenced again!
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Replacing Animal Research @replanimalres.bsky.social · 27/03/2025
We're so thrilled we're able to support incredible researchers like Roger!
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