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The 3R Online Seminar Series “Alternatives to Animal Use in Research and Education: Refine, Reduce & Replace” will take place again this year 🤩

📅 Every Thursday from 16/10 to 11/22 from 3:00 to 4:30 PM

Check the program and find more information via www.vetmed.fu-berlin.de/einrichtunge...

Packs of biological models trump cards ready to be posted, alongside envelopes and NC3Rs stickers.

Excited to send biological models trump cards from the NC3Rs office for the first time! 🎉

Created by @comeflywithjo.bsky.social via our public engagement awards, the game sparks discussion on choosing research models and replacing animal use.

📦 Get your free pack: nc3rs.org.uk/3rs-resource...

Logo of the 20th International Xenopus Conference.

Are you attending the 20th International Xenopus Conference in August? 🐸

Esther Pearl (@drejpearl.bsky.social) will be sharing our work and resources relevant to research involving Xenopus, including improving experimental design and refining husbandry practices: nc3rs.org.uk/events/20th-...

YouTube video by datesand Optimising Enrichment For Larger Species

We are recommending that our learners studying for their
@InstAnimalTech
Level 2 and 3 Diplomas watch this great webinar focusing on Optimising Enrichment For Larger Species youtu.be/1kel8sjIgwE?... via
@YouTube #3Rs

We've signed up to attend this #3Rs award ceremony online. Have you? ❓

Quantifying the welfare impact of air asphyxia in rainbow trout slaughter for policy and practice - Scientific Reports Scientific Reports - Quantifying the welfare impact of air asphyxia in rainbow trout slaughter for policy and practice

🐟😖 Fish suffer intense pain for 10+ mins after catch

New research shows rainbow trout endure up to 22 mins of severe pain when left to suffocate in air. Effective stunning could prevent up to 20 hours of suffering per $1 invested.

🔗 doi.org/10.1038/s415...

#AnimalWelfare #SciComm #Fish 🧪

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Organoids Are Us 2025 Further information about this event including our invited speakers and conference programme are available in the tabs below. If you have any questions, please contact organoids-are-us@crukscotlandinstitute.ac.uk

Join us for Organoids Are Us 2025, a symposium featuring organoids, stem cells, cancer, inflammatory disorders and infectious disease.

📆23 - 26 September 2025

📍Glasgow, Scotland

Early bird registration extended to 18th July. Register below! 👇

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Our HO Accredited training for L/E1 PIL AB Rodent & Rabbit is now ONLINE!
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Do you need training for a Home Office PIL C Licence? Come and learn with us today! Have fun learning about aseptic technique and basic suturing with your practical assessment. Further details from info@learningcurvedevelopment.co.uk www.learningcurvedevelopment.co.uk/courses/

🫀 Leading cardiac scientist Sian Harding joins our new #podcast #LeafingThroughScience 🎙️
From the #BrokenHeartSyndrome 💔 to the heart’s “mini-brain” 🧠 and lab-grown hearts 🧪, this is the heart as you’ve never seen it before!
🎧: rss.com/podcasts/lea...
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If you are based in Edinburgh, Exeter or London, join us in two weeks to meet local NC3Rs-funded scientists advancing the 3Rs.

Get your Pint of Science tickets today! pintofscience.co.uk/sponsor/nc3rs

⏳ Don't miss out! Final spaces available for our half-day Assessors Workshop on 19th May — delivered live online.
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Focused, valuable CPD! #CPD
👉 Reserve your spot today: www.learningcurvedevelopment.co.uk/workshops/as...

A new treatment first found successful in mice has officially shrunk the tumour of a man living with advanced #LiverCancer in half.

Learn more: news.stv.tv/scotland/man...

#AnimalResearch

Did you know … Birds have accents

Did you know birds have accents?

Some birds develop completely new phrases within their songs creating what have been described as “dialects.”

Learn more: www.understandinganimalresearch.org.uk/news/did-you...

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'Let's just study males and keep it simple': How excluding female animals from research held neuroscience back, and could do so again Neuroscience research has only recently begun to prioritize the inclusion of both male and female lab animals in studies. Could we see that shift reverse?

👩‍🔬 'Ignoring female animals in research may hinder neuroscience progress' 🧠
Ever wondered why science sometimes seems a bit...male-oriented? Well... It’s not just you.

www.livescience.com/health/neuro...

#GenderBias #Science

Non-animal approaches across Europe A webinar series from The Togeth3R Consortium of European 3Rs centres showcasing non-animal methods.

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...

International 3Rs Prize open for applications Have you published a paper in the past three years that could have, or is already having, a major 3Rs impact?

If you want to raise awareness of your work on the global stage we encourage you to apply for the 3Rs Prize – an international award for outstanding and original work that has achieved or has the potential for major 3Rs impacts.

Find out more and hear from past winners: nc3rs.org.uk/news/interna...