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Replacing Animal Research
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We're a charity dedicated to a world where no animal suffers for science.
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Replacing Animal Research @replanimalres.bsky.social · Mar 3
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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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.

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Replacement Checklist webinar | Replacing Animal Research
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August 28, 2025 at 1:52 PM
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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 🌍

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We’re going Global, baby! | Replacing Animal Research
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July 21, 2025 at 1:04 PM
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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 👇
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Will it make the boat go faster? | Replacing Animal Research
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July 11, 2025 at 1:58 PM
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🧪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.

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Humane Education: Actions and words | Replacing Animal Research
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July 3, 2025 at 1:11 PM
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Deadlines close for our Innovation Grants scheme tomorrow!
July 3, 2025 at 10:21 AM
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📢 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
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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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June 24, 2025 at 12:42 PM
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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. 🧪
ertrunnell.bsky.social Emily R. Trunnell, Ph.D. @ertrunnell.bsky.social · Jun 20
📢 Must-have tool for researchers, grant reviewers, & IACUC members:

💡 @replanimalres.bsky.social "Replacement Checklist" helps evaluate whether all possible alternatives to animal use in research have been properly considered.

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Why it works 🧵 🧪
Screenshot from linked webpage. The text reads: "Replacement checklist. 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?"
June 20, 2025 at 12:23 PM
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As part of @replanimalres.bsky.social work with Universities, we're running workshops at #FELASA2025 on Developing an Institutional 3Rs Strategy.
Selfie of smilying woman with sunglasses on her head with background of some ancient ruins of the acropolis and a view across Athens. Entrance to a Conference Centre welcoming delegates to FELASA Congress 2025. Lanyard with conference name badge identifying delegate, country of origin and organisation they represent, pictured alongside pocket programme of conference activities.
June 2, 2025 at 6:51 PM
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🧪 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

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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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May 22, 2025 at 11:12 AM
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🧪 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
A glass of water, a pint of guinness and a book entitled Hyperion, written by Dan Simmons, all of which are most welcome to Dr Juliet Dukes when she clocks off from work in Dublin. A placeholder behind a microphone reserving a chair for Dr Juliet Dukes to take part in a panel discussion about alternatives to using animals in scientific research. Happy face of a woman in front of a projected screen welcoming participants to Ireland's National Committee for the Protection of Animals used for Scientific Purposes 3Rs Training event in Dvelopments in Replacement.
May 9, 2025 at 10:16 AM
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🧪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.

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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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May 1, 2025 at 12:35 PM
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Our CEO Celean talks about the importance of supporting and developing a #neurodiverse team in our latest blog

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Many brains make light work | Replacing Animal Research
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April 24, 2025 at 8:53 AM
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👇 This is tomorrow! See you there! Don’t forget to register:
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April 23, 2025 at 12:22 PM
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💡 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."
April 7, 2025 at 5:19 PM
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We've had an amazing couple of week at events @biologists.bsky.social @microbiologysociety.org @replanimalres.bsky.social @humaneresearch.bsky.social @fbmh-uom.bsky.social @uclan.ac.uk @bioclocksuk.bsky.social
Thank you to everyone who participated, we'll be out soon: www.stratech.co.uk/news/events/
April 4, 2025 at 11:57 AM
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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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April 4, 2025 at 9:03 AM
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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!
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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"
April 3, 2025 at 11:52 AM
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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.
April 2, 2025 at 12:29 PM
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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.
March 28, 2025 at 2:01 PM
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#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
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March 27, 2025 at 2:09 PM
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Last chance to pop to our stands at #biologists100 & #BestPracticeinNAMs
Our talented team are waiting to update you in on our latest technologies
Plus enter our competition to take home a Giant Microbe
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March 27, 2025 at 9:38 AM
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Day two of #BestPracticeInNAMs2025 is kicking off!
March 27, 2025 at 9:38 AM
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#BestPracticeInNAMS2025

A fantastic talk by grant holder Dr Hannah Harrison on her work studying breast cancer
March 26, 2025 at 10:56 AM
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Excited to be a part of #BestPracticeinNAMs in York!
We offer 100% truly recombinant #antibodies (no immunisation) synthetic peptide alternatives & synthetic "FBS" options look out for our stand to find out more! #NAMs
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March 26, 2025 at 10:12 AM
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✍ 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 method Preempt 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.
March 24, 2025 at 7:33 PM