Esther Pearl

Looking for a more interactive way to teach experimental design for researchers? Make the @nc3rs.bsky.social's Experimental Design Assistant (EDA) part of your course! For ideas check out how Inserm designed their course, including tips for others wanting to do something similar 👇

Part of an ethical review body? Want more information on key considerations to help improve rigour and reproducibility of animal research? Check out the new chapter in the 4th edition of the IACUC Handbook: ‘Research Reproducibility and the Role of the IACUC’ www.taylorfrancis.com/chapters/oa-...

The @nc3rs.bsky.social's Experimental Design Assistant (EDA) is back online following planned maintenance. Thank you for your patience.

🚨⚠️ The @nc3rs.bsky.social's Experimental Design Assistant will be offline for planned maintenance today (Tuesday 23 September) from 4pm BST. Please ensure your work is saved before 4pm. We apologise for any inconvenience caused and will notify you when the EDA is back online. ⚠️🚨

🚨⚠️The @nc3rs.bsky.social's Experimental Design Assistant (EDA) will be offline for planned maintenance on Tuesday 23 September from 4pm BST. We anticipate it will be back online by the morning of Wednesday 24 September. We apologise for any inconvenience caused.⚠️🚨

Spaces still available for this excellent scientific webinar later this week - register via link below 👇

A black mouse with a litter of pups in a laboratory cage.

Join us next week to learn more about misconceptions around sex-inclusive research and how the Sex Inclusive Research Framework can be used by scientists, ethical review bodies and funders: nc3rs.org.uk/events/tackl...

📅 18 September, 15.00 – 16.00

📜 One hour of continuing professional development

Interested in tools to help teach experimental design? Is your institution part of the UKRN Open Research Programme? www.ukrn.org/partner-inst...

👇 Register for the online workshop on how to use, and teach others to use, the Experimental Design Assistant (EDA). Registrations close 17 September. 👇

A zebrafish is held in a hand net and swabbed.

We are supporting in-person training workshops to promote the use of skin swabbing as a refined approach for genotyping zebrafish.
🐟 Suitable for technical staff and researchers
🤝 Personalised support in small groups
📍 Delivered at your facility (UK only)

Find out more: nc3rs.org.uk/training-wor...

The @nc3rs.bsky.social contingent has ARRIVEd in Brazil for #WC13. Yesterday kicked off with the opening ceremony. Today join me in session 118: Ethics in action. I will be highlighting resources to support reduction and how ethical review bodies can use them.

Icons representing NC3Rs Networks in oncology, cardiovascular science and new approach methodologies for safety assessment.

⏳ Registration closing on Thursday 28 August!

Interested in driving the uptake and impact of 3Rs models and technologies through cross sector collaborations? Join us and the BBSRC in London on September 12 as we launch our new joint funding initiative.

Find out more: nc3rs.org.uk/events/nc3rs...

Now that the 20th International Xenopus conference is over it is time to rest my geeky earrings. I had a great time catching up with people and discussing welfare research priorities. Interested in the amphibian welfare webinars I mentioned? Here’s the link: nc3rs.org.uk/3rs-resource... #IXC25

Having some great conversations about Xenopus welfare at the 20th International Xenopus conference. Also got to wear my Xenopus earrings!! #IXC25

The @nc3rs.bsky.social stand is all set up at #IXC25. Looking forward to a great meeting!!

The EDA logo next to an experimental design diagram. Text below reads: 'Train the trainer'.

Looking for support to teach experimental design? Join our online workshop with @ukrepro.bsky.social on using the Experimental Design Assistant (EDA) to plan rigorous, reproducible animal studies.

📅 13 November, 10.00 – 16.00 (GMT)
❗ Registration closes: 17 September
👉 nc3rs.org.uk/events/ukrn-...

A recent study showed more than half of publications using animal models of neurological disorders involved pseudoreplication (doi.org/10.1186/s132...). Avoid pseudoreplication - use the EDA to help you identify your experimental unit accurately: eda.nc3rs.org.uk/experimental...

Are you looking for something to help you teach experimental design? Also at a @ukrepro.bsky.social Open Research partner institution (www.ukrn.org/partner-inst...)? Join us and learn how to the EDA can help!

Want a bit of extra help designing your next in vivo experiment? Join me tomorrow for a demonstration of the @nc3rs.bsky.social Experimental Design Assistant: nc3rs.org.uk/3rs-resource...

🎉🥳 Happy Birthday ARRIVE 2.0! 🥳🎉 ARRIVE goes further than reporting guidelines, check out the free resources to help us improve the way we plan, conduct and report animal research! 👇

Ever been frustrated by antibodies not working they way you think they should? This year's 3Rs prize winners 🏆 tested over 600 antibodies leading to 73 inadequately performing antibodies being withdrawn from the market. Find out more on Wednesday 23 July 👇

The Medical Research Council want to know about the impact of their policy on embedding diversity into research design.

Survey closes 13 June, don't miss the opportunity to have your say! 👇

The Sex Inclusive Research Framework to address sex bias in preclinical research proposals - Nature Communications In preclinical research, there is a persistent sex bias where research is conducted with a single sex. Here, the authors present a Sex Inclusive Research Framework that provides a traffic light classi...

The Sex Inclusive Research Framework developed by an expert working group (including members of the NC3Rs team) is available to help researchers and grant reviewers implement the policy in grant proposals: www.nature.com/articles/s41...

MRC Diversity in research design: assessing the impact of the policy on researchers and reviewers

Help shape MRC support for researchers and reviewers implementing the requirement to use female and male animals in preclinical research – take their survey: engagementhub.ukri.org/mrc-peg/edd5...

Use the online tool and receive a report regarding the sex inclusiveness of your research: openinnovation.astrazeneca.com/preclinical-...

Writing or assessing in vivo study designs? Use the Sex Inclusive Research Framework and supporting guidance to get a “traffic light” indicator of whether a proposal has appropriately considered sex inclusion or is at risk of sex bias www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Virtual demonstrations of the Experimental Design Assistant Learn how our online EDA tool can help you plan rigorous experiments.

Interested in improving your experimental design? The @nc3rs.bsky.social Experimental Design Assistant can help you design rigorous experiments. Our next live demonstration is Wednesday 5 March, 4-6pm GMT. nc3rs.org.uk/3rs-resource...

Love Methods Week - Aktuelles - BIH at Charité In dieser Woche werden mehrere Workshops und Seminare rund um das Thema Reproduzierbarkeit von Methoden angeboten. (In Englisch)

Love Methods Week continues Wednesday with 4 great workshops on reporting guidelines, Quarto, RRIDs (think DOIs for research supplies), and protocol writing advice from editors. Build new skills and take your methods section to the next level. #LoveMethods25
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Want to design more reliable experiments? Join me at my #LoveMethods25 Experimental Design Assistant workshop. After a demonstration of the EDA you will have time to design your own experiment, with me on hand to answer any questions and give you support. Register here: nc3rs.org.uk/events/love-...